Sentences with phrase «lay hold of us»

«We lay hold of the full import of a work of art only as we go through in our own vital processes the processes the artist went through in producing...

As Peter Schjeldahl comments about Wegman's painted world, «This is the cosmos of the serious child, who daydreams to lay hold of a reality conceived to be stable and ultimately accessible.»

Because to lay hold of this deeper, richer joy, we're going to have to let go of what we thought we knew to discover what God wants to give us.

Revelation does not oppress the human intellect but illuminates it so as to be able to lay hold of transcendent Truth, which it naturally seeks but can only supernaturally attain.

This was in fact clear early in the history of philosophy, whence mental acting was termed «conceiving,» from concipere, to take hold or lay hold of, to take to oneself, to take in, take, receive.

-- that plot's twist, in stories of both congregations and poor societies, seeks the potential of a group to adapt its nature to meet new circumstances and reflects a struggle to lay hold of the skills and resources that enable transformation?

Primitive Christianity experienced Jesus as a unique action of God, creating a situation in which man has an unique opportunity to lay hold of eschatological existence.

Therefore it must turn from this feeling and lay hold of and retain the deep spiritual yes under and above the no with a firm faith in God's Word, as this poor woman does, and say God is right in his judgment which he visits upon us; then we have triumphed and caught Christ in his own words.

How do the churches and how do persons lay hold of the obvious opportunities which God is giving in this time of ecumenical awakening and openness?

It is easy to see that this sort of self - denial does not lay hold of God or the God - relationship, but remains on the worldly plane of a relationship between men.

These values they may have if they will turn to the Christian faith, if they will repent and lay hold of the sources of spiritual power that Christianity offers.

And it is sad to observe how its power swells, how it reaches out seeking always to lay hold of ever - younger victims so that childhood or youth are scarcely allowed the quiet and the retirement in which the Eternal may unfold a divine growth.

It seeks, rather, to lay hold of us in our openness to it: «It wants to be evaluated in its relation to what is said in it when this has been spoken to us and made itself intelligible to us.»

In theological school, the task of education is to enable the students to lay hold of the resources of the just - described professional identity and to overcome any major impediments that prevent them from assuming this identity with courage and dignity.

If I find the son of the King, I shall lay hold of him and crucify him with a cruel death.

They presuppose that human faith can lay hold of the divine and claim to have an infallible bridge between heaven and earth.

Hence it is the task of modern historiography to grasp such acts of intention, such commitments, such meaning, such self - actualization; and it is the task of modern biography to lay hold of the selfhood which is therein revealed.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

But it still means that I have to get up every day and lay a hold of God, lay a hold of His Word, stir up that gift of faith that's on the inside of me and I've got to fight the fight of faith just like everybody else.

But thinking heart is different than soul or spirit, that heart is that in us that allows us to lay hold of things and by which we set our whole being on something.

The story of the nun, Dame Morel, in the reform of Port Royal, who was ready to give up all of her luxuries but one — all but the key to her little private garden — is the story of men everywhere whom Kierkegaard sought to lay hold of in these Edifying Addresses.

For commitment to the Good is a whole - souled decision, and a man can not by the craft and the flattery of his tongue lay hold of God while his heart is far away.

Then comes the most painful thought: if God withdrew from me, cut me loose, left me to my own devices, I would be as an animal, unable to worship, incapable of the joy and the sorrow known by those who daily lay hold of the One who has already laid hold of them.

(1 Timothy 6: 12 - 16) Again showing a difference between eternal life and immortality, and the the encouragement is to lay hold of eternal life as opposed to laying hold of immortality.

But instead, he lays hold of Fuchs» concept of Jesus» conduct as God's goodness in action, and comes to the conclusion that Jesus» message is after all grace, i.e. «after all a hidden or secret Christian preaching»: «Such calls for decision as Matt.

V) to get the actual work under way by laying hold of the central problem in terms of which the detailed research upon individual problems will gain its relevance.

The psychological violence all countries employ is absolutely the worst of violences, because it lays hold of the whole man, and, without his knowing it, gelds him.

«Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of God's willingness.»

Or if at the outset a man does the opposite, and he is then so fortunate as to have the judgment of the crowd express itself to the contrary, then he can be fairly certain that he has laid hold of the right thing.

And it was in this sense that Marx, advocating a dialectical rather than a simplistic materialism, stressed that «ideas become a material force once they have laid hold of the masses» (AD 74).

13Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,... fighting the good fight and willfully sinning are two different things!

Selfhood results from implicit or explicit commitment to a kind of existence, and is to be understood only in terms of that commitment, i.e by laying hold of the understanding of existence in terms of which the self is constituted.

This process of healing can best be effected, writes Buber, «through the psycho - synthetic appearance of a whole, unified soul, which lays hold of the shattered soul, agitates it on all sides, and hastens the event of crystallization.»

On the contrary, it is what it is only as something that constantly grows up and is laid hold of anew.

Finding laying hold of life after sinning calls for much faith.

Don't ever want to stop until the reality is laid hold of by faith.

Note how completely the mythology is eliminated: «The kingdom of God comes by coming to the individual, by entering into his soul and laying hold of it.»

I was going to my work after breakfast one morning, thinking as usual of her and of my misery, when, just as if some outside power laid hold of me, I found myself turning round and almost running to my room, where I immediately got out all the relics of her which I possessed, including some hair, all her notes and letters, and ambrotypes on glass.

An event lays hold of one of the possibilities which the ambit of the actual world leaves open.

And just when you think you've laid hold of Him, He will slip out of your grasp.

They are the avenues by which the principle of order and novelty lays hold of our consciousness so as to move it toward a deeper and more explicit sensitivity to value.

Often there seems to be a sense of otherness, confrontation and encounter, or of being grasped and laid hold of.

The king has laid hold of the prophet, and the latter replies with a prophetic word of comfort.

I found myself more and more at odds with the W.C.C.'s way of laying hold of and looking at problems.

As a matter of fact, no statement on intermarriage was at any time put before the council, but a sudden cautiousness laid hold of some of the white members at the point where the proposed report said:

The Poet of Tolstoy Park is a moving and irresistible story, a guidebook of the mind and spirit that lays hold of the heart.

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That section laid out that a change in accounting rules now required Alphabet to include the change in value of any shares it owned in private companies, such as Uber, in its profits even if just held onto to its stake and didn't buy or sell any more shares.

Osry advises clients to hold quarterly family meetings to hash out what she describes as a «family constitution» — a kind of mission statement that lays out high - level values and principles, but also articulates protocols governing the distribution of dividends among shareholders and employment rules for family members.

Scientists say such an achievement could be crucial to the goal laid out in last year's Paris Agreement of holding global temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F) by 2100.

It currently has a population of four and holds the Guinness World Record for «the smallest area to lay claim to nation status.»