Sentences with phrase «like beatitudes»

Nursing homes like Beatitudes are, unfortunately, the exception, not the rule.

Champions of various viewpoints often draw upon particular texts, like the Beatitudes or Romans 13.

Not exact matches

Even a broken life can sing the beauty of the genuine beatitudes and it resonates within me standing there, sings like the gospel truth, like a rising to the notes of Noah's song --

Jesus» «preferential option for the poor» reverberates like a basso continuo throughout St. Luke's Gospel (take the Magnificat and the Beatitudes as two memorable examples).

Lent is this living more of the beatitudes — to bless more of this broken world with the indestructible, upside down beauty that's formed like the heart of Christ.

Predictions of coming reward and punishment, like the present beatitudes and woes, represent the alternatives of salvation or lostness involved in one's present situation.

For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?

The ink from the Beatitudes could rub off on even the likes of me, becoming the form and shape of what runs through the veins.

Nevertheless Dachau and Buchenwald are always there — obscene shapes lurking on the pages of history, deep rivers of suffering flowing beneath the surface like the stream of Beatitude.

We in the church need a spirit like that of John Wesley who, in a sermon on the Beatitudes described the man of love as a «citizen of the world.»

Like taking to heart especially the Beatitudes:

The Beatitudes sneak up on us like that.

Is G. K. Chesterton right when he says that «all human beings, without any exception whatever, were specially made, were shaped and pointed like shining arrows, for the end of hitting the mark of Beatitude»?

The careful reader will notice that the Beatitudes are in the third person, generic and impersonal like proverbs, until verse 11, at which point Jesus says, «Blessed are you.»

Serious moviegoers will be swayed by its many Being There - like similarities as Kline's engaging personality and good - natured beatitudes are a perfect bromide for the nation's ills.