Sentences with phrase «life passages with»

The author also wrote for the Wall Street Journal, which described him as a «best - selling author with a rare gift for writing about love, loss, and other life passages with humor and empathy.»

Instead, it lays bare one more life passage with the uncompromising honesty that is a hallmark of Smith's work and Art's virtue.

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The Amerasians who had been so despised in Vietnam had a passport — their faces — to a new life, and because they could bring family members with them, they were showered with gifts, money and attention by Vietnamese seeking free passage to America.

It's not the original intent of the passage, though again, it does seem reasonable to me that all of us should live with an awareness of how we might be placing unnecessary stumbling blocks in our brothers» and sisters» lives.

It is like saying there is not smoke with out fire, like sighting a droppings and trail of foot prints you would realize that a camel and passenger passed the desert then the seeing of the greatness of the mountains and passages through them, the seas great waves the skies it helps to realize the existence of super power «GOD» above all... any way it is like the verses written in the Quran «GOD «Allah speaking about how he had created earth to man by the mountains, seas and rain from skies which brings life to earth..

In «With Her» Milosz speaks of hearing a passage from Scripture during Mass at St. Mary Magdalen in Berkeley: «A reading this Sunday from the Book of Wisdom / About how God has not made death / And does not rejoice in the annihilation of the living.»

If we discovered a lost matriarchal society tomorrow, I think the proper interpretation of the passage for them would be to have wives be head of their husbands the way Christ is head of the church, because that is the situation (the not ideal situation of power and control and hierarchy and distinction) that they have to live with (at that moment).

When later scholars read Augustine they sought writings that dealt with theological topics or the spiritual life, singling out passages that were particularly applicable to their own lives and times.

Nor should it have been a surprise that the Court, having successfully claimed for itself the authority to write a «living Constitution» based on penumbras and emanations, should assume the roles of National Metaphysician and National Nanny (as it did in Casey, with its famous «mystery of life» passage and its hectoring injunction to a fractious populace to fall into line behind the Court's abortion jurisprudence).

The Gospel passage itself ends with the affirmation that John has written his Gospel «that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.»

The scriptures are rich with stories of new or renewed life, In the passages for this Sunday, we encounter several people who were «as good as dead» — one was dead — but with whom God was not yet finished.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

The Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to the priests of the world, starting with a passage from St. John: «For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

Though I have been a student of Scripture all my l life, I have always had difficulty with the violent passages in the Bible, and how to reconcile them with the loving portrait of Jesus in the Gospels.

Our interpretation of the statement that «Life is a passage from physical order to pure mental originality» (PR 164) is that the initiatives within the dominant nexus of occasions are canalized in the supportive nexus by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal mentality may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.

bootyfunk your and idiot because that passage in mathew 10 its a parrable he is trying to get people to realize that God needs to be the most important thing your life because with him you would not be period so to say that Jesus Christ the son of God is promoting volience is ridiculous, it tares me up that people like you take bit's and peices of the bible and make sound like you want it to if your going to read the Christian hand book then read it all do nt take stuff out of contence just to suit your life style your truly and always be a devoute Christian

When our conclusions regarding regarding troubling passages in the NT contradict the clear, positive statements out of the mouth of Jesus in John 3:16, 18, 5:24, and elsewhere, regarding eternal life being a simple matter of faith we need to keep seeking until our understanding of those passages agrees with that He said.

The moment of passage into the spiritual realm is not something that can be observed with research in the fields of physics and chemistry — although we can nevertheless discern, through experimental research, a series of very valuable signs of what is specifically human life.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

First, with the passage of time the apostolic tradition, which had been the sum and substance of (the Apostles») teaching on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, became broadened to include extra-biblical, oral teaching which was supposed to have come from the Apostles.

As Lasch has observed elsewhere in his critique of Sheehy's book, negotiating the crises and «passages» of one's life simply by shedding old selves, not panicking, and taking on new interests denies the human need to grow to maturity through continuity with one's old selves and the people of the past.

Part of the appeal of Whitehead's metaphysics lies in this, that through his conception of pulses of experience as the ultimate facts, he invests the passage of time with life and motion, with pathos, and with a majesty rivaled in no other philosophy of change, and in few eternalistic ones.

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

If anyone were to read the whole of Lewis's writings with an eye only to discover what biblical passage he most often cites, one would find, I suspect, that it would be «he that loseth his life shall save it.»

That the choice of Jesus in John 15:16 is to service and not to eternal life is seen by comparing this text with the passages that actually describe the even where Jesus chose His apostles.

Both find human life and the temporal world of becoming plagued by an ultimate evil that is deeply involved with the nature of time — in particular, with the essential passage of time and the temporal dimension of the past.

The bible passage is clearly telling the believer to overcome fear, with faith, when IN fear; there is no mention of encouraging someone to live WITH fwith faith, when IN fear; there is no mention of encouraging someone to live WITH fWITH fear.

However, lots of people struggle with various passages in the Bible which seem to indicate that a person can lose their eternal life by being blotted out of the book of life.

With this profusion of evidence, with the passages consistent with Jesus» primary message and too many of them to be likely to be due to false reporting, I do not hesitate to regard entrance into the kingdom as a present fact in the life of the Christian, provided the requirements of entrance and life in the kingdom are With this profusion of evidence, with the passages consistent with Jesus» primary message and too many of them to be likely to be due to false reporting, I do not hesitate to regard entrance into the kingdom as a present fact in the life of the Christian, provided the requirements of entrance and life in the kingdom are with the passages consistent with Jesus» primary message and too many of them to be likely to be due to false reporting, I do not hesitate to regard entrance into the kingdom as a present fact in the life of the Christian, provided the requirements of entrance and life in the kingdom are with Jesus» primary message and too many of them to be likely to be due to false reporting, I do not hesitate to regard entrance into the kingdom as a present fact in the life of the Christian, provided the requirements of entrance and life in the kingdom are met.

With such metaphors in John as the «bread of life» and «vine and branches,» these passages lack the narrative quality which would make them parables.

When we take the entire Bible to define marriage (instead of just a few obscure passages, marriage is defined as «The union between a man and a woman for their entire life, with absolutely no sexual activity or thoughts outside of this union forever.»

Do the phrases «after two days» and «on the third day» have any such association in this passage from Hosea, where, to describe the hoped for restoration of Israel, they are used in conjunction with the three verbs, «restore to life», «raise to life», and «live» which form the basic vocabulary of resurrection?

In certain passages, chaos is symbolized as a sea dragon with whom the Creator is engaged in a life - or - death struggle.

In a delightful passage in Orthodoxy Chesterton insists that even if life does proceed with a predictable pattern, that does not mean that God is not active as a creator:

This model of the corporate life inherent in a passage of Scripture features obvious parallels with the model of a present proclamation event.

But soon it was realized — partly as a result of the remembrance of Jesus» own utter humility and denial of self, particularly as associated with his awful suffering and his uncomplaining acceptance of it as the will of God; partly under the influence of a fresh reading of the Suffering Servant passages in Isaiah; (commented on earlier) and, not least, as a consequence of the community's own experience of the forgiveness of sins — soon, I say, it was realized that the whole significance of Jesus» earthly life culminated in his death.

The spotlight now shifts and the people themselves are entering the plot of the scriptural passage, joining with the characters and living their story.

The pre-existent glory is brought into connection with the remembered facts of Jesus» life in such passages as those quoted in the preceding paragraph, of which II Corinthians 8:9 is typical: «Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor.

The letters of Paul contain not a single passage which associates any of the glory of the risen Son of God with the historical life of Jesus.

As a parent, I read the passage with even wider eyes — imagine being asked to sacrifice your child, the beloved gift that you have waited for all of your life.

Citing New Testament passages that instruct wives to submit to their husbands, Pearl advocates a system in which godly wives live as complete subordinates to their husbands, with no «equal rights.»

The matter in which there might be spiritual progress in time on a time span extending over many generations of life on earth is... the opportunity open to souls by way of the learning that comes through suffering, for getting into closer communication with God during their brief passage through this world.

I've committed a year of my life to exploring and wrestling with every passage of Scripture that deals with women, painstakingly wading through commentary after commentary, struggling to figure out how to apply these passages to my life!

You can only imagine the way it must have haunted them for the rest of their lives as they looked back on how they had actually sat there with him, eating and drinking and talking; and through their various accounts of it, including the above passage from John, and through all the paintings of it, like the great, half - mined da Vinci fresco in Milan, and through 2,000 years of the church's reenactment of it in the Eucharist, it has come to haunt us too.

My proposal is to read the Whiteheadian account of processive - relational activity that is the dynamic thrust of the life process as identical with the general abstract structure described in the work of Arnold Van Gennep and Victor Turner on rites of passage.

These cultures tend to be ones that, on the one hand, will sacrifice other things to maintain a unified view of the world, and that, on the other hand, maintain important rites of passage by which human life is tied in with the recurring cycles that make the world one.

In this I am relying on a key passage in Dr. Johnson's essay on Milton in his Lives of the Poets, where he links Milton's politics and Puritan contempt for bishops with a notably intolerant personality:

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