Sentences with phrase «like priests»

Of course, I may be reading my own opinion into this, but I think he's referring to the fact that some climate scientists and environmental advocates sound like priests worshipping mother nature and bemoaning our sinfulness and arrogance in the face of nature for which we need to atone.

Those authors work very close to their audience and are available, conversant with the crowd, «serving the community» like priests in a parish.

If we have to take so much on faith, aren't we behaving more like priests than like scientists?

Millions will pour into churches, but how many will be just like the priests and scribes of Matthew 2 who wouldn't travel 2 miles to see Jesus?

Like the priests in Pharaoh's courts, traditional theology had assumed the burden of re-defining the god concept in order to satisfy material wants and self interests, the wants of body and the greed for power and wealth.

You make it sound like all priests were molesters.

Yeah True... shove up the steak just like the priests were doing it to little boys in the name of the Jesus...

And like the priests and Levites, moderns often reject the messenger.

that we sit in a building for two hours and many congregants never know each other on a venerable and honest level, but instead we keep the show going like the priests did in the old covenant temple after the veil was torn.

For a long time in Western history clergymen, like the priests of ancient Egypt, were the only learned group and hence represented the mystery and power of learning.

Nuns are just like priests or any other human.

This guy sounds like the priests who taught me in Catholic High School.

Your defense is like a priest who got caught, and vigorously in his own insanity tries to justify it in his own demented way.

sounds like a priest that was discharged.

To the outside world and even to some Catholics (like the priest writing this article), pope Francis appears to be changing the church.

Although I'm a somewhat spotty attender of church, I really like our priest because he does preach against greed, the wars, and about our duty (both as individuals and as a nation) to care for those who are in need, the sick, the very young and the very old.

For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

ME:... You sound like my priest, and alright what is so wrong with my beliefs?

If, in the latter case, these followers begin to become a more traditional congregation, then there is a «routinization» and the prophet becomes more like a priest or gives way to a priest.

ou make it sound like a priest can go to confession, turn around and molest again, and confess, and still have «authority» to forgive.

Last, whether you agree with abortion or not, your not paying the money to care for these unwanted children, you are no where when their being abused and beaten and go hungry, nope you sit behind a computer screen and judge people kinda like priest do when they are molesting some kid and hiding it.

For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels» (Isaiah 61:10).

Things like the priest scandals are CLEAR indications of what happens when we look the other way and consider freedom to believe in something more important than basic human rights.

So strong had been my Midwestern conditioning against football that I made my way into the stadium like a priest entering a bordello, yet I soon discovered that in the East things were different.

Like the priest here says: «You can not doubt the existence of Hell; you live in it.»

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

The infection is transferred through blood, and if someone does become infected, he must be killed within 20 seconds, or else he will become an enraged zombie like the priest.

It's entirely possible to create a party of tiny gods and goddesses if you feel like putting the time in, though most players would be wise to stick to sensible combinations like priest / warrior or mage / priest for their first run through the game.

Like a priest & young boys, all a farmer ever sees (& can't resist) are virgin fields just waiting to get ploughed... That can prove an expensive proposition.

Each class has its own specific ability, like the priest being able to heal party members or the wizards spread attack.

The story IS ridiculous, but Black Ops 3 allows you to pull the battery out of a robot's chest like the priest in Temple Of Doom, so I can let that go for now.

Nitsch: You saw those yellow paintings with a robe like a priest's robe?

Alleged Christian Steve Fielding voted, not merely to pass by the other side like the priest and the Levite, but to join the thieves who beat and rob the needy stranger.

You sound like a priest!

According to the article, Landis, a lifelong painter and former gallery owner, has gone to great lengths — including dressing up like a priest — to donate pieces of important artwork from his collection to U.S. museums.

Bereavement training may also focus on pastoral counseling, services offered to members of a religious organization through a religious officiant like a priest.

Like the priest who gets new perspectives from his fellow bus riders, many businesses look to bring in fresh thinking from outside their industry.

Not exact matches

The central thesis of CEO - Speak is no more shocking than the discovery that politicians like to give speeches, sports stars talk in clichés and priests tend to sermonize.

«It's kind of like getting sex education advice from your priest.»

«This is like confessing my guilt to a priest,» Muscat says.

The metaphorical Baptists include leading economic advisors like Kenneth Rogoff (recently labeled by one Indian writer «the high priest of demonetisation») and Larry Summers.

«Father Cutie» can now rejoin the RCC as a married priest just like many Episcopalian priests and bishops are doing these days.

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

We have already had the experience of religion... The Inquisition... The Salem witch trials... The forced conversion off native peoples throughtout the Americas to the christian faith... oh and the priests who like to play with alter boys...

their chest to indicate that they do not expect communion but would like a blessing, which a priest

Like, with lots of priests?

«I am sending you (apostles / priests) out like sheep among wolves.

I keep coming across wonderful paradoxes like these «What I am sick of is those who continue to deny that priests should have due process, accuse and broad brush all priests» «Sounds like you go to a Church.

Tell that to the Catholic bishops and priests who are living in luxury like kings and abusing children.

«Unfortunately, (Catholic) priests are forced to choose between something that is very good - like your love for God and the church - and something that is also very good - which is the love of your partner, your wife,» he said.