Sentences with phrase «lepers for»

And in truth, is it possible to ever have a Twilight on your hands if you go the self - route, long considered the last bastion of rejects and unpolished literary lepers for whom the gates of Random House heaven have already closed?

If you think about your own probable reaction, it is hard to blame the lepers for scattering to the wind and leaving the past behind them like a bad dream.

Not exact matches

But it was for a team that nobody wanted to be part of, a team that, frankly, was the leper colony.

so here we have a deception from the writer of this article and he is a clergy and he says that the word leper is a term used generally for illness in that time.

(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure like that of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.

I suspect she knew instinctively, the way women know these things, that a man who dines at a leper's house, who allows a woman to touch him with her hair, who rebukes Pharisees and befriends prostitutes, would not survive for long in the world in which she lived.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

The leper goes to get more strawberry shortcake for the lame.

John Bradburne — the saintly ascetic murdered in 1979 while caring for lepers in Rhodesia — was also the most prolific poet in the English language.

Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper, 4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

I didn't ask you how many Homes for the Dying and leper shelters she established, Those were cots on the ground, with few medical personnel and little medicine.

He knows the gospel of God for the leper.

She soon opened a home for lepers in Shanti Nagar.

The unfortunate result was that 90 percent of the lepers missed the second, more important gift Jesus had planned for them.

Jesus healed the lepers, gave sight to the blind, healed the paralized, exorcised demons from possesed men, brought back Lazarus from the dead, JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND BROUGHT BACK HUNDREDS OF OLD TESTMENT PEOPLE WHO HAD DIED WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH... YES PEOPLE CAME BACK WITH JESUS AND WALKED ALL OVER JERUSALEM... THE GRAVES OPENED UP AND PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THEM... AND THE WORLD SAW IT.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

Too much drama and politics in the church for a modern day leper like me.

In Isaiah 64:6, it says that from God's viewpoint, we are like one who has become unclean (that's the word for lepers), and all of our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

It lies close enough to us even though they wish to keep away from any such unfortunate ones and to avoid all sober reminders not alone from the careless judgment of the storyteller's art, but also from the church and from the edifying insight that must certainly know that the Holy Scriptures have almost a predilection for the halt and the lame, the blind and the lepers.

She saw Jesus in the most lowly, she heard him speak through the begging leper at the train station «help me, feed me...», an actual call for work and action, not a feeling or experience mainly or simply.

This was contrary to God's democracy in which God became the outcast, woman, tax collector, leper and gentile in order to demonstrate God's love for all.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

When we believe in Jesus for everlasting life, He gives it to us and promises that we will never become lepers again.

Saint Marianne Cope, as she will soon be known, may be best remembered for her work with patients suffering from Hansen's disease — or lepers, as they were called at the time.

When I was in India several years ago for a mission trip, many lepers would walk the streets and beg.

Sometimes a leper would be cutting vegetables for supper, and would accidentally cut off a finger and not even know it because they had no feeling.

And if given a glimpse of how much we have been forgiven, we will show it by our love for Christ — like the woman in chapter 7 — like the leper here in Luke 17.

The despised lepers standing at a distance and calling out to God for pity is just like the despised tax collector standing at a distance and calling out to God for mercy.

His focus during this time was on teaching and training them, so this event was just as much for their benefit as it was for the 10 lepers.

More broadly, the Pope's embrace recalls images of Jesus» healing of lepers, again a blanket term for a variety of skin diseases common in first - century Judea and Galilee.

The tenth leper's faithful, untainted gratitude for God's mercy is humbling to see.

Your cancer walks into the room before you do and people who know better still flinch — as they did before lepers, who were made to live outside the community, who had to beg for survival.

This article provides 6 tips for praying like a leper.

I suspect she knew instinctively, the way that women know these things, that a man who dines at a leper's house, who allows a woman to touch him with her hair, who rebukes Pharisees and befriends prostitutes, would not survive for long in the world in which she lived.»

So let us then patiently and carefully explore what imperative there might be for us in Jesus» call to the Twelve to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and cast out demons.

For example, Matthew 8:4 describes an incident when Jesus healed a leper, and told him to «go show yourself to the priest, and present the offering that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.&raqFor example, Matthew 8:4 describes an incident when Jesus healed a leper, and told him to «go show yourself to the priest, and present the offering that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.&raqfor a testimony to them.»

Jesus could have been blaspheming, his exorcisms could be collusion with evil forces, and what his opponents, no doubt, regarded as the indiscriminate nature of both the forgiveness (including tax collectors and sinners) and the healings (Samaritan leper) could be an argument against these aspects of his ministry, but for faith both are a manifestation of the kingly activity of God.

Before it is killed though it walks on water, turns water into wine, heals lepers and makes a zombie out of a man named Lazarus (funny that there is only one source docu.ment for these spectacular events).

So here Jesus is, on his way to Jerusalem to meet his end at the cross, and ten lepers call out to him, using his name and asking for mercy.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

This is the presence of God, this is the holy moment, the cathedral, the great moment of surrender and selflessness happening not in the leper colony of India but for me in my own living room in Canada, the breaking of bread and daily manna of communion through a messy home with messy people, learning to love and take joy even when the toast is getting cold.

For example, the lepers were forced to live separated from the community and humiliatingly forced to warn others of their uncleanliness when they were in public places.

«Christians,» they said, «must re-think the usual position that has turned homosexuals into modern day lepers» and «homosexual acts should be judged in each individual instance by whether the participants were expressing genuine love or simply «using» each other for selfish purposes (New York Times 20 November 1967 p. 1).

The Islamic universities were all eventually closed down for being un-Islamic; China never had religious people looking after lepers and homeless; Atheist regimes were murderous and totalitarian.

Mostly they came, I think, because, he loved them and could tell them so, yes, even those vast, milling throngs; there was a touch, a sense, a spirit moving in, across, among those mobs of eager people, told them here at last they had a man who was concerned not for himself, who was not out to get himself elected, but who cared for every single one of them, and tottering old dames, lepers, whores, soldiers, robbers; I've seen them all transformed by seeing him.

Imagine, for a minute, Mother Teresa saying that to a dying leper in her arms.Different times call for differnt measures.

When word came after his first week there that members of the Italian press were coming to see him, he fled seven miles by bicycle into the woods, to Pope John's Garden, a leper colony run by the sisters of St. Charles Borromeo and one that, Benvenuti says, even many doctors and priests avoided for fear of contracting leprosy.

She lives in this uber - urban world where mamas compare organic snacks and clothing for their kids and choosing not to breastfeed would turn her into a leper with the other yoga moms.

For a time, the disease was considered hereditary, because relatives of lepers are more likely than others to catch the disease.