Sentences with phrase «leaving presents for»

He was known for leaving presents for the children in his village, and for caring for the poor and unfortunate.

Which is why Santa is figured to look the way he is, as a man, and why it isn't Jesus popping down your chimney leaving presents for you.

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

Not exact matches

My last week in Ireland before I left for America all the way to the present.

Canadian Business marketing columnist Bruce Philp said it best: «We still show up for work in the morning to make something people want, present it to those people and sell it to them at a price that leaves everybody satisfied.

Although Us Weekly confirmed TMZ's report that Thompson was present for the birth, its sources also claimed that he is not going to try to stop Kardashian from leaving Ohio.

You arrive and are greeted by a polite, friendly hostess, seated at an immaculately set table, presented with menus and specials for the night and left in peace to enjoy a scrumptious meal.

«After considering the other options that I have been presented with for post-gubernatorial employment, I declined their request to do additional shows,» Christie said in a statement, adding, «I made that clear to them prior to leaving for my family vacation two weeks ago.»

For example, if the market declines enough to clear the overbought, and overbullish components of present conditions, or if yields decline sufficiently to remove the present upward pressures we observe, and provided that market internals do not deteriorate notably, we would be left with a strenuously overvalued market, but with favorable market action and no negative syndromes.

To sum up, we are very concerned by the Sarao case for the facts that it presented and for the questions that it has left unanswered.

Work flexibility is important to me because I have 2 small children and I really want them to feel like I am «there» for them, whether it be physically or being able to leave my job behind and just «be» in the present with them.

With the March 29th tabling of the budget, this does not leave a lot of time for the private sector economists to update their forecasts, present their results to Finance and for Finance to incorporate these results in the budget.

Against this backdrop, Governing Council decided to leave our key policy interest rate unchanged, as we judged that the balance of risks at present are still within the zone for which the current policy setting remains appropriate.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist

The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and holiness.

When the Prophet was dying, and knew that he would not be present to give such advice, he told the people that they would not go astray so long as they held to the two guides he was leaving for them — the Qur» an, the Book of God, and the example of his own way of life, the Sunnah.

It could be that the future is never reached, in which case the present ceases to be and hence leaves no basis for talk.

By 1870 there were only 278,000 Indians left in the entire nation, yet they presented a problem for both nation and Churches.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

Professor Steve Odin's «A Metaphysics of Cumulative Penetration: Process Theory and Hua - yen Buddhism» (PS 11:65 - 82), is a highly stimulating and challenging essay not only for Whiteheadian and Buddhist studies, but also for its comparative value.1 He has presented a searching analysis of Whiteheadian metaphysics of cumulative penetration, but his treatment of Buddhism in general and Hua - yen in particular in terms of that metaphysics leaves much to be desired, thereby marring the comparative nature of the whole essay.

He clearly instructed his Apostles that it was better for him to leave this world so he could then be present with all men and women who would receive him as the Spirit of Truth.

Jesus said: «no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30).

He wishes to internationalize the holy places in Jerusalem, which leaves me shaking my head in dismay (such an intervention would lead to a chaos of injustice and violence that would make the present Intifada war against the Jews seem like a picnic and would have dire consequences for the holy places themselves» so far still untouched).

It would seem that if there is a sensori - motor present then if memory ceased we would be left in Russell's «solipsism - of - the - moment», but not in instantaneity.4 But a graver difficulty arises with this passage, for it seems that we have here a surreptitious renewal of the mathematical notion of time.

We had the first baptism of slave converts in the Velloor school; between fifty and sixty were present, and (from) the numerous candidates for baptism nineteen were admitted into the visible Church of Christ... Their hearty responses and decided, brief and pointed answers as to motives... -LCB- and -RCB- strictly consistent Christian conduct for many months past,... left no doubts on our minds that many of these, I hope all, were already members of the invisible Church of Christ.36

Whitehead found that the antecedent world lays some causal constraints upon present actualities while leaving some room for freedom and self - creativity.

«I think the reason lies in the fact that this present globalized economy leaves masses of people uprooted and abandoned on the periphery of ever growing large cities, where they are engaged in a desperate struggle for daily survival.

But if there is a state in which the soul finds a solid enough base to rest itself on entirely and to gather its whole being into, without needing to recall the past or encroach upon the future; in which time is nothing for it; in which the present lasts forever without, however, making its duration noticed and without any trace of time's passage; without any other sentiment... except that of our existence, and having this sentiment alone fill it completely; as long as this state lasts, he who finds himself in it can call himself happy... with a sufficient, perfect, and full happiness which leaves the soul no emptiness it might feel a need to fill....

Of those who do present themselves for the sacrament, most receive only the bread, with feelings ranging from deep resentment at being left out to mild rejection.

It is present as the content of all scripture (it does not matter where scripture is opened under Luther's left hand) and it is the (pictorially literal) undergirding for the sacraments depicted in the surmounting triptych.

And that is just the choice that Jesus presents to all who would be his disciples — to leave the broad and well - traveled way for the difficult and narrow way of costly obedience.

You are present in the neem leaves used for driving out women's afflictions.

He who sent me is present with me, and has not left me alone, for I always do what is acceptable to him... The word you hear is not mine; it is the word of the Father who sent me.»

We bought the parenting books of course, and we can turn to friends and family for help and advice, but when things get especially hairy, I often find myself conjuring the wisdom of mommy bloggers, past and present, whose words guide me the way a local gives an out - of - towner directions: «Turn left at the big red barn.

In this so called present his enemies think they have prevailed against God with their sins but God for the time being has let this occur for their are times in the world when the harvest is left alone but when the harvest is full he shall say to his angles the harvest is full pick the harvest and pull the weeds and throw the weeds into the fire.

Actual entities in the world are far from perfect, and their present and immediate future prospects may leave much to be desired hence «the best for that impasse» may not be great; indeed, it may be chaff and it may get burnt.

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist:: I read this book on a plane and I totally cried in seat 30A.

Let it be acknowledged then that Josephus is not a first - class historian; but the failure to recognize the validity of his facts, especially in that part of his work which lay largely within his own experience and recollection, and the truth of his interpretations, as far as they go — he is never exhaustive — is surely responsible for the neglect of his writings by too many interpreters of the New Testament at the present time, and for the rise of theories which leave not only Josephus but likewise the New Testament out of the reckoning.

But in the present policy of globalisation and liberalization the function of the state is only to make the climate safe for the market and withdraw almost completely from the realm of economic goals, leaving the market alone to determine them.

In the play Ephigenia had leave to weep, really she ought to have been allowed like Jephtha's daughter two months for weeping, not in solitude but at her father's feet, allowed to employ her art «which is but tears,» and to twine about his knees instead of presenting the olive branch of the suppliant.

The dialectical consequences in the story of Abraham are expressed here in the form of problemata in order to see what a tremendous paradox faith is, for this story presents the paradox which gives Isaac back to Abraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there where thinking leaves off.

But to me it seems the timing of it - when we have a divided population more influenced by the ever - present, privately owned media rather than education - leaves the door is wide open for a crisis.

Others deny that there is any work left for the present generation to do; they believe that any problems are just imaginary and any wounds self - inflicted.

The best thing he can do is to carry on the work left unfinished, or do some useful work for others that otherwise would have been done in love for the person no longer present.

Scientific method can verify only those hypotheses for which there is a sufficient amount of data available from the records left by the past (such as fossils in evolutionary theory) or observable in the present.

Similarly, the person who by death leaves this world is not harmed, for a new life is gained, infinitely superior to the present one.

We may reasonably predict that the present hopes of the left for more revenues from the rich, in order to fund the additional billion dollars of social programs promised in their agenda, are unlikely to be satisfied.

In the context of Hindu communalism's fascist potential, Christians present a counter model In their «reaching out to secular, liberal and Left formations for joint initiative.

The way in which this offer was made was as unfair as its contents: after Israel refused to negotiate seriously on these or any of the other complex «permanent status» issues for nine years, Ehud Barak presented a take - it - or - leave - it offer at Camp David.