Sentences with phrase «land of a»

However, my skin color trumped all of my other superficial qualities in the land of first impressions.

I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, «Seek me in chaos.»

There was a land of great beauty and promise, flowing with milk and honey.

I suspect that Eric Blair (George Orwell's real name) is probably crying his eye's out knowing that Big Brother is alive and well and living in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

We believe that Mary conceived the child by the Holy Spirit, as is made clear in the Book of Mormon: «And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God» (Alma 7:10).

2 Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Naaman's wife.

Welcome to America the land of the Jesusfreaks.

They spoke of their home as «the land of morning calm».

While charity may start at home, it must never end there, especially in this country of ours that we call the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The Iranians sure do, the root of the word Iran is «Aryan» as in «land of the Aryan tribes.»

«And Amaziah said to Amos, «O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there...» «The verb «prophesy» is the common denominative form (probably from nabi») Clearly, it is the appropriate function of the seer to act the part of the prophet.

Principally, the destruction of both temples in Jerusalem, and subsequent exiles from the land of Israel.

The charges against King George were sometimes moderated by reference to the book of Esther: The hapless king was manipulated by Haman - like advisors who turned him against the children of the land of the Virgin.

Those four steps help us get rid of those alcoholic lenses that were before our eyes — the ones that caused us to see not the decent, kindly folk about us but grotesque and distorted figures — demons in a land of nightmare.

In 2:19 - 23, Matthew describes how after the death of Herod the Great, Joseph brought Mary and Jesus back from Egypt to the land of Israel.

First there is a little girl from the land of Israel who is a slave at Damascus in the household of Naaman.

Pope Francis has called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, «beginning with the beloved and long - suffering land of Syria» and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by «hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism».

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them through the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearer.

The word of the Lord came to me again: «What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, «The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge»?

For those who have crossed into the Promised Land of Canada, the trouble continues.

«There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.»

I am told that I do the same thing, even after ten years of living in New England, the land of understatement.

The «small proprietors, artisans, tradesmen, and farmers» of the petty - bourgeois world were the least likely «to mistake the promised land of progress for the true and only heaven.»

Eight years ago, according to an orthodox Jewish settler quoted by Amos Oz in his book, In the Land of Israe1 (Fontana, 1983), There were, in all of Samaria [the northern half of the West Bank], from Afula down to Jerusalem, exactly fifteen Jewish settlers.».

4 So Naaman went in and told his lord, «Thus and so spoke the maiden from the land of Israel.»

In young adulthood, Cain kills Abel and runs off to «the land of Nod» (Gen 4:16).

To complete this picture of Judaism at the time of Jesus, it is important to remember that many Jews lived in the Diaspora, outside the land of Palestine.

Here is a group that can reverse the process and serve as a doorway to the land of the living.

Jeremiah 23:23 There was a land of great beauty and promise, flowing with milk and honey.

9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband to them, saith the Lord.

From the link to «Lost and found: Missing in Rishikesh, India, the «Land of Gods,»» above: [«They become delusional and, in extreme cases, disappear - often during quests for enlightenment.»

«The Lord which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt» is also «the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob.»

In the name of Jesus Christ, I want to stand up and walk into the land of the resurrected.

As David Novak puts it, «In this age of secularism both Christians and Jews must learn how to sing the song of the Lord God of Israel in the new exile (galut) in the strange land of contemporary society.

The one on Gossip, wwjd hypocrites and the land of milk and honey not greed and money were right on, anyway if you get a chance listen to the guy you might be as glad as I am that I took the time.

house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they...

Unbelief is what stops a person entering the promise land of rest.

When that conflict ends, Namaan is left with increased grandeur and the booty of war, including «a young girl captive from the land of Israel.»

That just isn't true, The Perfect Mother only exists in the land of unicorns.

He was probably a Gaul, since that is part of Galatia - known as «the land of the Gauls — ie WHITE.

So Newtown's grief is not its alone: «All across this land of ours, we have wept with you.»

The mother took shelter at United Church a day before she was supposed to return to her native land of Peru.

For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.

America is the daughter of Babylon & the most high GodAHAYAH will make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant (Jeremiah 51:29 & St. Matthew 24:15) * Daniel 2:49 but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

For when they leave the land of avoiding misdeeds, the land of «you shall not,» the land of commandments, to enter the land of holy living, the land «you shall,» the disciples are in a different kind of theater.

A vital church family, beamed down by the effect of God's Word as a sort of fifth column in that land of cool exteriors and quiet despair.

America is a land of liberty, where we build laws for the common good.

This radiance had led them from the East to the land of Judah.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.