Sentences with phrase «just as trees»

I believe that houses have spirits, just as trees do, water, the earth that we walk on.

It seems only right that the work ascended just as trees to either side first showed their buds.

One quiet afternoon in the fall of 2014, just as the trees were changing from green to gold, Tabetha Boyajian visited our astronomy department at Pennsylvania State University to share an unusual discovery.

The symbolism is that just as trees give life to the tribe through fruit and wood for their fires, so when a person dies, they give their life back to the tree.

Personally we should expect persecution when we are following Jesus and walking by the spirit Jesus said that as he was persecuted so will we.It may not be to the same extent that other believers in foreign countries who are losing there lives for there faith.But persecution for righteousness is necessary for us to grow in our faith just as a tree that is buffeted by winds grows stronger roots.You could call these tests or trails or tribulations or persecutions of a type.What ever comes our way we know that all things work for good to those who love the Lord.brentnz

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Scientists often study otoliths because they grow in layers that can reveal the age of a fish just as tree rings mark the age of a tree.

Measurements of 13C / 12C on corals and sponges — whose carbonate shells reflect the ocean chemistry just as tree rings record the atmospheric chemistry — show that this decline began about the same time as in the atmosphere; that is, when human CO2 production began to accelerate in earnest.

In fact, sunspots are just an indicator of something else that is going on with the sun, just as tree rings are an indicator that something is going on with the local climate.

Not exact matches

Some organizations set up phone trees, but it's just as easy to send out a mass email to inform your employees of your decisions whether to close or stay open.

Money trees may not be real, but high - quality dividend stocks can be just as good.

And just this week, we saw some of that progress frustratingly recede as a tree fell on a crucial power line, knocking out power to 840,000 people.

The Minister could just as easily have retabled the March 2011 Budget and saved a lot of trees in the process.

About a third shopped at big box stores, such as Wal - Mart or Home Depot; just over a quarter bought directly from farms, and just under a quarter purchased trees at retail lots.

First, he would have to have existed, then be reborn as a human, then killed as a human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry humans he just made.

But as far as I'm concerned I just made an argument based on the premise of invisible yellow howling mute amphibian tree monkeys, so this isn't a line of debate I plan to carry on too long.

The artist Niggle has spent his entire life seeking to create the perfect tree — just as Tolkien worked from 1917 until his death in 1973 on his twelve - volume but still uncompleted legendarium of Middle - earth.

Just as «a tree in autumn drops its leaves without pain or regret,» so too, noted von Balthasar, the tree of culture is now being stripped of its leaves:

The tree of knowledge of good and evil has taken you from God just as it does with anyone looks away from God.

I hope «your theology» is always going through transformation just as an acorn transforms into a a great oak tree.

I'd be just as likely to take you on a walk up the mountainside near our house, under the canopy of the trees, so you could listen to the water running in the dozens of creeks dancing down waterfalls of stones, the water bright and cold and clear, heading for the Fraser River, moving towards the fullness of complete ocean.

He could just as easily have made the tree bear fruit as He did to either and die.

And I finally got around to reading The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone, which was just as shattering and powerful and informative as I'd been told.

Oddly, of course, this leaves the modern materialist unable to deny that insects, trees, or prokaryotes may also respond «appropriately,» and therefore be just as «objectively conscious» (which is only to say «observably awake») as we are ourselves.

Just as in that seed there were together (simul) invisibly all the things which would in time develop into the tree, so the world itself is to be thought to have had together — since God created all things together — all the things which were made in it and with it when the day was made, not only the heavens with the sun and the moon and the constellations... and the earth and the abysses... but also those things which the water and the earth produced potentially and causally, before they should rise in the course of time in the way we now know them, through those operations which God carries on even until now.8

Just as I feel the presence of an ache in my stomach, and the ache thereby becomes part of me, so when I feel the presence of rocks, trees, hills, and rivers, they too become part of me.

Trees and rocks are just as much a part of the human self as are other human beings.

Just as the flash that appears has as its meaning the thunder with which it is associated, so the word «tree» has as its meaning the visual, olfactory, and tactual experiences of trees.

What comes out of your mouth shows what kind of heart you have, just as what fruit comes off a tree shows what kind of tree it is.

The parable of the mustard seed in verses 30 - 32 has two points: (1) just as the tiny mustard seed can grow (in the Mediterranean area) into a fairly tall tree, so the humble start of the kingdom of God does not preclude a victorious ending; (2) the kingdom is now present, and all nations and peoples («birds of the air» was a phrase used by the rabbis to mean all people, including Gentiles) may now partake of it.

«Black Christians believed that just knowing that Jesus went through an experience of suffering in a manner similar to theirs gave them faith that God was with them, even in suffering on lynching trees just as God was present with Jesus in suffering on the cross.»

You will realize that, had you been born in Afghanistan, you would be every bit as certain that Allah is the true God, and if you were born to an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest, you would be just as certain that the tree gods were true.

Just as a full and lush tree does not necessarily produce the best fruit, so also a person who looks flowery and behaves like they are spiritually rich, may in fact be the worst trees to gather fruit from.

Just as Adam and Eve bought the deception at the tree in garden you bought the deception in the garden God has placed you.

As insular as communities get, the modern - day Sephardic Jew will have a lot of non-Sephardic, European ancestors in their family tree, just based on geographAs insular as communities get, the modern - day Sephardic Jew will have a lot of non-Sephardic, European ancestors in their family tree, just based on geographas communities get, the modern - day Sephardic Jew will have a lot of non-Sephardic, European ancestors in their family tree, just based on geography.

The deed is just the visible manifestation of his evil, just as the bad fruit is the visible proof of a bad tree.

We are keenly sensitive to the problems of childhood; we have thoroughly learned the proverb that just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined; we feel confident that if we can give a boy a good beginning we can insure him against a bad ending.

Perhaps we shall find that just as the continued vitality and fruitfulness of the tree depends on the nourishment it receives from its roots, so the new world depends more than is realized on the nourishment it receives from its cultural roots.

Primarily, it is a synonym for externally related: the absolute is the term of a perceptual relation that denotes total unaffectedness by the relation, just as the number three or the Form of the Good or the tree in the quad are unmoved by my conceiving or perceiving them (DR 67 - 74).

this is just my own personal theory, but I suspect the reason Jesus cursed the fig tree that He did, was because he was probably tired, and hungry to the point of low blood sugar or hypoglycemia, and it made Him irritable... naturally, He was walking around in a body like ours, as it is said, like us in every way but sin... everybody tries to read something woowoo theological into it but maybe He was just tired and hungry, and irritability is a symptom for a number of conditions, but especially blood glucose or migraine issues... maybe He had migraines... I get those myself... just my theory, so the two Bible scholars that keep coming on here shouldn't shoot bible verses at me... just sayin... Good «toon, David

There were two trees in that Garden just as there are two accounts of Genesis two sons Cain and Able just as there were two sons of Abraham and the list goes on until you find two criminals hanging by Jesus.

Just as male and female were split into duality, so they chose duality through the «Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil» (read: they chose to become flesh on the material plane in the «solid earth» that we live in currently), in order to come to this plane to «work back» to the original divine androgyny originally intended.

As we have just seen, the historian of religions proceeds no differently when, for example, he studies the symbolism of the World Tree.

Just as Jesus redeems us, so also, Jesus has redeemed the Christmas tree.

As they focus on the bee, the apple trees I was just looking at dissolve into a blur.

My parents agreed these might be just too pretty to eat, so I hung a few on the tree as decoration.

It would be just as yum with a few rosemary «trees» or a simple piped border and a dusting of powdered sugar.

As usual, all the birds have eaten all the cherries off the tree, just before they turned red!

Sue I love your writing — groaning fruit trees, lemon on steroids — just as colorful as your gorgeous photos.

The lemons are just fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will be making more as the divine tree is giving forth another crop right now.