Sentences with phrase «hands me a book by»

tyra marieza - A lot of my experience with self published books is what you just mentioned; someone hands me a book by a local author.

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For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

Frankly, we're intrigued and can't wait to get our hands on one, but that sentiment is tempered by venerable consumer product review house Consumer Reports, which already is taking a pass on recommending the new Surface Book because of problems with the original version.

«One could describe it as if Ikea grabs you by the hand and consciously guides you through the store in order to make you buy as much as possible,» Johan Stenebo, a 20 - year veteran of Ikea, wrote in his 2009 book, The Truth About Ikea.

On the other hand, some of the most popular Android categories are personalization, entertainment and books and reference, based on a survey by AppBrain.

In an era of low interest rates, yield traps play into the hands of financial cheats who can cook the books by inventing revenue, altering expenses and creating assets.

And its imported Italian marble with hand - painted frescoes option, which costs three to five times the standard ghostwriting fee, is ForbesBooks; that's a new Advantage imprint whose books are promoted by Forbes Media.

Every month you'll receive 3 - 4 book suggestions — chosen by hand from more than 1,000 books.

This book takes you by the hand as if you had your own coach leading you personally through each section.

The book takes you by the hand as if I was coaching you personally through each section.

On February 9, 2015, London - based private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners, headed by financier Guy Hands, ripped up the fundraising rule book for private equity.

all you religous crazies that are quoting things from the bible are nuts... its a book written by man who said that it was thru the hand of god... lol, this makes me laugh..

The National Council of Training and Leadership (NCTL), a body which deals with professional misconduct by teachers, heard how Wrigley treated Pupil A as a «teacher's pet», allowing the girl to collect spelling sheets and hand out books.

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

Mrs. Bush spoke glowingly of how Fu had helped secure a notebook with the book of Revelation hand copied by Chinese prisoners for the Freedom Collection at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

I hope you will consider getting your hands on a copy of our book club selection for the month of May — The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Their response to the book seems to be similar to what happens when observers at a chess match become obsessed by the details of the hand - carved chess pieces instead of by the game.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Throughout the book, he seems a somewhat ineffectual person, murmuring «For his mercy endureth forever» from time to time while being circled by the villains and thieves who wish to get their hands on the sacred vessel.

Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller ISI Books, 400 pages, $ 27.95 Harry S Truman famously asked for a «one - handed economist»» an adviser who would offer straightforward advice, without listing endless considerations while saying, «on the....

All meaning and purpose that might have been is wiped away with the closing of a book by the hands of God.

Even if those little copper books that have been in the news lately turn out to have something inscribed by the hand of Paul or Peter or John that warns the church to have no buildings, I doubt most groups would leave their buildings.

Theocracy is based on studies of an old book or two written by philosophers and politicians in addition to stories handed down over generations with no real physical evidence to analyze.

On the other hand, Christian faith is often; defended by repeated assertions that «the Bible says...» without any attempt to recover the historical situation in which the books of the Bible were written or to get beneath the surface to find out what God really is saying through it.

Although this book was composed by men, its unity reveals the hand of the Almighty.

I am struck by the symbolic power of the book in his hands» it is red and flimsy and flops weakly in his grasp.

A SIMILAR BOOK by a more mature hand is Daniel Taylor's In Search of Sacred Places.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

Near the end of the book, he explores the puzzle of a virtuoso violinist who loses her abilities to dementia, highlighting on the one hand his reluctance to view the loss of the abilities due to dementia as a loss of dignity, and to view her as more «dignified» than a janitor by virtue of her virtuosic abilities.

If you ask why this particular collection of just these sixty - six books (or eighty, if you count the Apocrypha), and no others, form the unity which is the Bible, the only answer is that these have been handed down by the Church as its «Scriptures».

«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.»

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

This book itself (without the benefit of a printing press) from its inception was written by hand over and over again (no room for the person doing the writing to inject change and / or misprint something).

On the other hand, renderings of traditional church designs by contemporary classicists including Matthew Enquist, Dino Marcantonio, and Duncan Stroik make for an encouraging conclusion to this informative and eminently readable book.

Sorry, but I won't take marching orders from some guy who is reading from a book that was held in the power of corrupt men tanslated numerous times by the method of hand written copies.

o An added note: As per R.B. Stewart in his introduction to the recent book, The Resurrection of Jesus, Crossan and Wright in Dialogue, o p. 4 o «Reimarus (1774 - 1778) posits that Jesus became sidetracked by embracing a political position, sought to force God's hand and that he died alone deserted by his disciples.

The Book of Revelation, on the other hand, produced by a community suffering persecution, took a less sanguine view of civil authority.

Thus if our theory of revelation - value were to affirm that any book, to possess it, must have been composed automatically or not by the free caprice of the writer, or that it must exhibit no scientific and historic errors and express no local or personal passions, the Bible would probably fare ill at our hands.

For example, in the book of Deuteronomy, any woman who violently grabs a man by the crotch is to have her hand cut off.

Scholars do not agree, for instance, as to whether the Book of Ephesians was written by Paul as traditionally supposed or by some other hand.

By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development of the content of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.

... but since you seem to think that God gets angry, and when I look to see how American Christians (that is, Fox News Christians) treat the least of these, my bretheren, then maybe... MAYBE... I'll change my mind about Christians... or I might just stick to that goats - on - the - left - hand story in that Book written by that guy who claims to be Matthew...

But on the other hand I think we must pay serious attention to warnings such as that recently uttered by Mr. Fairfield Osborn, in his book Our Plundered Planet.

Acknowledging that Darwin's book «was thought by many to have an injurious bearing on the argument from design,» Cooke's idea was to bypass biology entirely, thereby eluding the grasp of Darwin's invisible hand.

Excuse me righteous - in - Christ, you commented that you «have friends and family that are Catholics and believe that they can pray to Mary and other idols that were hand made by men... see the book of Isaiah, it teaches about idolatry.»

I have friends and family that are Catholics and believe that they can pray to Mary and other idols that were hand made by men... see the book of Isaiah, it teaches about idolatry.

An added note: As per R.B. Stewart in his introduction to the recent book, The Resurrection of Jesus, Crossan and Wright in Dialogue, p. 4 «Reimarus (1774 - 1778) posits that Jesus became sidetracked by embracing a political position, sought to force God's hand and that he died alone deserted by his disciples.

People are convinced that they must take everything in the Bible literally, when what the Bible is, is a book written by man's hand... a flawed hand.