Sentences with phrase «higher than the priest»

When attending Hindu ceremonies in Bali, never walk in front of people who are praying, and never sit higher than the priest or the offerings.

Not exact matches

And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher than the world average, and higher than in any other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5

The debate was wound up by the high priest Caiaphas, who stated the case bluntly as he saw it: «It is more to your interest that one man should die for the people than that the whole nation should be destroyed.»

It became a model for Protestant states, where generally the prince, rather than a priest, was head of the church, and at the highest level directed its affairs.

The religious vocation of priest or monk or nun was viewed as having a higher spiritual sanctity than ordinary labor, the contemplative being ranked above the active life.

Jesus ascends as a priest after the order of Melchizedek, a king who takes a throne higher than Solomon's.

The truth is every group from policemen to teachers to coaches has a higher percentage of peds than priests.

... the rate of abuse by Catholic priests is not higher than... national estimates.

He was neither patriarch nor archbishop, and it is not always easy for those who direct the affairs of assemblies involving high ecclesiastical dignitaries to estimate adequately the services of those who have been the prophets rather than the high priests of such a movement.

The priesthood was concerned with people's «souls», and nothing could be of a higher or more wonderful stature than the priest.

As at his arrest and interrogation before the high priest, so again at this Roman trial, Jesus displayed his divine nature more authoritative and in command of himself than Roman judge.

Opinion - formers, those who take their politics more seriously, will not buy that Miliband is suddenly the high priest of a broad church, any more than they think putting the economy at the centre of the manifesto will make them buy the idea that Labour is now serious about fiscal probity.

Furthermore, getting to Deveraux proves easier said than done, since he is protected by an army of rogue Universal Soldiers in his capacity as high priest of the Unisol Church of Eventualism.

Once there, they and a rival group of explorers — who are in the hunt for some buried treasure — end up uncovering something more than they bargained for: the awakened mummy of the ancient High - priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), who is determined to bring himself and his lost love back to full life.

Read McIntyre's response — it is a far more honest assessment than that offered by the high priests of climate science.

It is important to them to have a science - approved stamp to their dogma (Western techno - civilisation has hurt mother Gaia, and it is really time that we repent from our sins and go back to a «natural» way of life (that will be extensively described by their prefered high priest, usually involving actions ranked more from symbolic value than effectiveness in reducing CO2.

The best the high priests of AGW theory can come up with is about 90 % (ie less than 1 / 100th as certain.