That last thing man needs to rid of for good
As long as the US is supporting boots on the ground in other nations,
the last thing those men and women want to hear is «sorry, no more financial support for your job.»
Besides, having soft and jiggly flesh on the chest is
the last thing any man wants - they look great on women, but not so much on men.
The last thing any man wants is to end up with a deteriorated hip or spine that completely limits their range of motion later in life.
Serving in the Army, Navy, Marines, or any other branch of armed services is very admirable, and
the last thing these men and women should be worrying about is how to find a date or partner.
The last thing a man accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour needs is for the world to remember the infantile manner in which he has written about these matters.
Not exact matches
Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the
last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2
men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.God speak of these
thing occurring in our day.
On my death bed, the
last thing I want to hear about is the «
man in the sky».
Man may be more lost in our age, but God — who sustains all
things at all times, who knows the secrets of every heart, and who will have the
last, fair word at the judgment of each soul — is always close.
The
last thing a proud and vain
man wants to do is acknowledge that someone or something is greater than himself.
And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one
thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the
last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say:
Man, what have I to do with thee?
Islam calls mankind to believe that Muhammad is the
last of all prophets and apostles, as is made clear in the Qur» an, «Muhammad is not the father of any
man among you, but he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets; and Allah is Aware of all
things» (Surah XXXIII, 40).
These
last two terms mean basically the same
thing: that to marry creates a real legal relationship, with specific rights and obligations between a woman and a
man: in relation to each other, to society, and to God.
As to your
last paragraph, how do you know exactly that there are such
things as «objective morals» name one
thing that you believe
man couldn't have come up with for themselves if god wasn't around to hand it out.
If it's a non-issue, then why did Paul write to Timothy warning him that in the
last days
men would become lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, along with some other
things, but people ignore this warning for what it really is, which is a sign post for the end - times.
What feeling, knowledge, or will a
man has, depends in the
last resort upon what imagination he has, that is to say, upon how these
things are reflected, i.e. it depends upon imagination.
He who through whom all
things were made (cf. Jn 1, 2), and in whom all
things are sustained, began to draw his
last and dearest creation -
man - into the very life of the godhead.
As the day wanes, may Thou give to the old
man a renewed remembrance of his first resolution, that the first may be like the
last, the
last like the first, in possession of a life that has willed only one
thing.
And it is the truth which traditional talk about the
last things has served to emphasize, however uncomfortable it may be and however
men may have sought to evade it.
If in the Old Testament, in Judaism, and in the New Testament, the unworldly takes the form of a future hope, of eschata — «
last things» in the traditional sense — that is only one among other possible conceptions of
man's relation to the unworldly, though no doubt it enshrines a genuine insight into human existence, namely that from a human perspective the eschaton can only be future.
A few people pushed back on me
last week for thinking that the Doctor pushed Half - Face
Man out of that freaky skin balloon
thing — after all, isn't he non-violent?
It is an attempt to sketch briefly, mostly by way of suggestion, what significance may be discovered, for
men and women living today, in the traditional scheme of the «
last things» — death, judgement, heaven, and hell.
Likewise in matters of the so - called «
last things,» which have to do with God's action as Redeemer,
men have traditionally been asked to assent to assertions that any cultivated mind today is bound to find incredible.
She is so secular — and one of my favorite passages in the fountainhead is near the
last paragraph, where Roark and Dominique rise above the crappy buildings, and the CHURCHES, to get up into the clear sky - her point being — that religion is just one more
thing that needs to be transcended for
man to succeed.
A
man walked out much later into something awful every
thing reminding him of some other
thing and this each
last thing and that private
last other equally laden with freight of dread And yet the dread was not a common or garden type
And yet few
things are more certain than that the church will never find it possible to reject or replace the more important terms with which the
last two lectures have abounded — terms like the creation and the fall of
man and the coming and the dying of the Son of God.
You could say that it is very disrespectful to the
men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how
things works over the
last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.
Jesus is the
last thing on that
man's mind!
In other words, the talk about the
last things is not only, if it is at all, talk about something that happens in an imagined future state, once we have died the death which each
man must die.
What did the
last things mean to
men and women who accepted the scheme quite literally or with this or that reservation or re-interpretation?
Peter Altenberg, a major figure in Vienna's café society at the beginning of the
last century, wrote: «There are only two
things that can destroy a healthy
man: love trouble, ambition and financial catastrophe.
Examining the state of
things, I find the Nietzschean prophecy of the
last man far more salient.
With AIDS spiraling out of control in the ghettos the
last thing Blacks need is to encourage activities that spread the disease, particularly to Black women who are tricked by
men posing as straight but living in sin with other
men and depositing their deadly AIDS virus into the bodies of innocent, unsuspecting women and hapless
men.
If I was a gay
man living in America the
last thing I would want to do is go to a Morman church every Sunday, why would I torture my soul that way when my true faith is with God not a church.
This
man has spent the
last 49 years of his life as a physical vegetable in a chair unable to do even the most basic
things.
Maybe it's just a mental
thing... which reminds me of the elderly
man I saw
last week wandering down the street wearing a white helmet, oversized parka, big boots and boxers.
And a fifth reason is that the portrayal of «the
last things» in these terms, indeed the emphasis on some destiny for
man out of this world which makes what goes on in this world merely preparatory for heaven or a way of avoiding hell, is thought by a great many people to entail a neglect of their duty here and now to live in Christian love and to find in that their deepest satisfaction, whatever may await them when this life is ended.
Three issues ago, and then again in the
last issue, he's devoted «The Back Page» to persuading us that most modern
men and women, even the faithful among us, find it hard to think of nature as morally purposeful, and therefore won't be persuaded by arguments that draw upon a robust notion of what
things are for.
As the apostolic Church it is the function of the Christian community to proclaim to the great human societies, with all the persuasiveness and imagination at its disposal, with all the skill it has in becoming all
things to all
men, that the center and heart of all
things, the first and
last Being, is utter good.
The traditional scheme of the
last things will no longer serve us, I have said; yet that scheme did confront
men with the Christian faith and it did make them face «reality» with honesty and humility.
For just as the myth of the creation of the world is significant in its existential confrontation of
man with his dependence and with the equal dependence of the world, so the talk about the
last things is essentially a matter of existential import, if I may be permitted that odd combination of words.
They may have been few in number but they offered sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a
man but one
thing: the
last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any circumstances, to choose one's own way.»
A
man can wish to slink away from many
things in life, and he may even succeed, so that life's favored one can say in the
last moment, «I slipped away from all the cares under which other
men suffered.»
Kathleen I do feel the need to point out that in the
last chapter of Revelations it says «For I testify unto every
man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any
man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any
man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the
things which are written in this book.»
Notice, though, that in the symbolism of the
Last Things, the resurrection does not occur until «the end,» when all
men will be raised together.
We believe that every
last man woman child and beast, and some cruciferous vegetables, are beholden to Pantu Baba for all good
things in this life, no matter how meager, which includes, but is not limited to, functioning bile ducts.
Man may be more lost in our age, but God is never far — He who sustains all
things at all times, who knows the secrets of every heart, and who will have the
last, fair word at the judgement of each soul.
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every
man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18 forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these
last times for you, (AKJV).
(This point had been noted several times in the English language discussion, e.g. H. B. Sharman, Son of
Man and Kingdom of God, New York: Harper & Bros., 1943; H. A. Guy, The New Testament Doctrine of the
Last Things, London: Oxford University Press, 1948.
But,
man, I tell you what... it just seems like by the time I get home from work, having dinner, and spending time with the family, the
last thing I feel like doing is sitting in front of the computer writing a blog post.