Sentences with phrase «in a strange land in»

Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts play a married couple, who along with their three sons, find themselves lost in a strange land in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

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By the time we landed the next morning in Italy, I was genuinely disappointed to have to deplane, a strange feeling I'd never experienced in my years of frequent travel.

«My faith teaches,» he said, fighting back tears, «that if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him but rather love him as yourself.»

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., is archbishop of Philadelphia and author of Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World.

«When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

To the religinuts: If by god, you mean the force behind the big bang then most atheist believe in god and we can have a discussion... if you mean that you join dead jesus» fan club and follow his club rules, (which were written by... strangers) you go to disney land in the sky forever....

As Archbishop Chaput observes in his Erasmus Lecture published in this issue («Strangers in a Strange Land»), the public reality of marriage gives its redefinition powerful «sign value.»

In an age such as ours in which the old theistic idols have died or have been broken, it might be more than important that such pioneers as Schweitzer have had the insight and courage to accept the challenge to take the next steps toward the light and show us, in deed as well as in thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.&raquIn an age such as ours in which the old theistic idols have died or have been broken, it might be more than important that such pioneers as Schweitzer have had the insight and courage to accept the challenge to take the next steps toward the light and show us, in deed as well as in thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.&raquin which the old theistic idols have died or have been broken, it might be more than important that such pioneers as Schweitzer have had the insight and courage to accept the challenge to take the next steps toward the light and show us, in deed as well as in thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.&raquin deed as well as in thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.&raquin thought, how to «sing the Lord's song in a strange land.&raquin a strange land.»

When I was young, Heinlein's «Stranger in a Strange Land» resonated deeply with me.

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.

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Your country is desolate; Your cities are burned with fire; Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

It mistreats no stranger merely because he is a stranger in a strange land, nor the infidel because of his infidelity, nor the enemy because of his enmity; nor is a near relative given special treatment in Islamic law because of his relationship, nor is a friend shown partiality for his friendship, nor is a Muslim treated leniently because of his adherence to Islam.

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(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Isolated in their own land, they have been a small colony of troublesome strangers in the midst of a numerous and dominating people....

Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.

When Abram next impatiently demands proof that he will indeed inherit the promised land, God enacts the awe - inspiring covenant - between - the - sacrificial - pieces and, in the eerie darkness, gives Abram some bad news: not he but only his seed will inherit the land, and then only after they have suffered four hundred years of slavery as strangers in a strange land.

From this fact arose all sorts of legal provisions — prohibitions against removing one's neighbor's landmark (there were no surveyors with compasses in those days or recorded deeds of landholdings), injunctions to bring the first fruits of the land as a gift to God, provisions for observing the harvest festivals, ordinances as to slaves and «the stranger within the gates.»

Religiously, it meant that the faithful among them, though lamenting their absence from Zion, discovered that they could worship God in a strange land.

Or is it a blip on the screen of history, born of the Progressive era among minorities in a strange land, institutionalized in the New Deal, and now left in the dust by the neoconservative revolution?

9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

But one can sing in a strange land only so long before one begins to doubt the appropriateness of the tune.

So one «sings the Lord's song in a strange land,» but one is not called upon to sing a solo.

Conservatives might just have to get used to the fact that media domination will prevent their message from getting out effectively and have to learn how to live as strangers in a strange land.

Most faiths are minority faiths, held by only a small portion of the culture in which they are located, and to proclaim them is usually a case of «singing the Lord's song in a strange land» (Psalm 137), whether «the Lord» is the one described by Mark or by Marx.

After God instructs the Israelites to mercilessly slaughter all the strangers that they encounter (Dt.7: 2, 16), he tells them to «love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.»

That strange land in which hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as keynoter Peter Gomes said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations long past.»

@Bill I find great wisdom and consolation in Stranger In A Strange Land, but I don't the Man From Mars is reain Stranger In A Strange Land, but I don't the Man From Mars is reaIn A Strange Land, but I don't the Man From Mars is real.

... But they dwell in Greek or barbarian cities according to each man «slot has been cast, and follow the customs of the land in clothing and food, and other matters of daily life, yet the conditions of citizenship they exhibit is wonderful, and admittedly strange.

They are sojourners, aliens in a strange land; their task is that of demythologizing and debunking all ideological idolatry (whether Marxism or capitalism, liberal democracy or conservatism).46.

They have convinced us that we are strangers in a foreign land to which we do not really belong.

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The church exists as a sojourner, an alien in a strange and godless land.

In the latter connection he cites Deuteronomy 10, «You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt,» and Exodus 22, «You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.&raquIn the latter connection he cites Deuteronomy 10, «You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt,» and Exodus 22, «You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.&raquin the land of Egypt,» and Exodus 22, «You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.&raquin the land of Egypt.»

My all time favorite of his is An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land:.

It has always been about the adventure of being a Jew exiled in a strange land.

Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.»

And in the distant empire of Usa there is a strange custom that takes place once per year among the barbarians of that land, which occurs in the following manner.

Singer's problem is how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a STRANGE god, whom he shall acknowledge [and] increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall DIVIDE the land for gain.»

On immigration, the Bible tells us to show care and respect for «strangers in the land» (Deuteronomy 10:19).

The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur.

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It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

budgie, Robert Heinlein was often guilty of making finely - reasoned arguments for stuff he thought was dead wrong, and people mistake STARSHIP TROOPERS or STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND for his own personal beliefs.

How shall we sing the Lord's song, in a strange land?