Sentences with phrase «like sheep in»

It's oddly peaceful to bed down with about twenty strangers on a communal mat like sheep in the meadow.

The problem is that people can be very much like sheep in that they need to be corralled before they do what they're supposed to do — and Virgin Atlantic didn't have any lines or guide ropes marking out where everyone should stand.

Like sheep in a meadow, the pump and CGM require the good diabetic shepherd to pay ceaseless attention.

The harm done to our Club by the insidious media and the treacherous fans that follow like sheep in there wake, should never be underestimated.

Not exact matches

Milk products like yogurt and cheese, whether from cows, goats or sheep, are rich in calcium.

Blacks like sheep mindlessly sheep follow in pursuit of their white sheperd not knowing the cliff is ahead.

I remember my Catholic grade school years and feeling the same way, like what if I didn't like hanging out with those people in robes and their sheep and those clouds... Fortunately I was able to see through the whole scam at about 8 years old.

Many of the extreme ones are in positions of power, because there's usually a correlation between lack of morals, and religious zealotry, and the less extreme but not in power just follow along like sheep because that's what they are taught to do.

It would neither hard nor impossible for terrorists to cloth like Jew, like a wolf in a sheep clothing.

In the beginning of deconstructing my Christianity, I naturally felt like a black sheep.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

I suspect Moses felt like this while he was tending sheep for 40 years in the desert.

Christ himself said that the «wheat and the weeds» wood grow together, he also warned that wold like men in sheeps clothing would infiltrate the Church and terrorize it.

We are living in the end times of all these sheep herder religions, now, go back to church and wave your hands like a zombie worshipper...

This article though sounds an awful lot more like a sales pitch for their books now that they are here in the US and have a huge gullible crop of sheep to fleece.

These movements are even more brutal since speculators tend to act like sheep, all react together, at the same time, and heading in the same direction.

Just like the protestant preachers with their $ 20 million $ churchs that stand as monuments to themselves while not a mile away people starve everyday and live in cardboard boxes and the dumb sheep keep giving to these conmen.

The Bible predicts that a wolf like this will appear in sheep's clothing and will in fact be the anti-Christ.

Like the shepherd protecting the sheep in the pen by laying himself down as the door so wolves have to go though the shepherd to get to the sheep, so also any sin that gets to us has to go through God, because He is our shield.

U.S. forces, like wolves in sheep's clothing, pull teeth and build roads during training exercises that equip repressive indigenous troops while providing U.S. soldiers with experience that would be vital during a future U.S. invasion of Central America.

They wouldn't want the sheep to stray, so they use fear tactics like this to keep you in line and believing under false pretenses.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

Paradoxically, the pursuit is necessary because even as we, like helpless sheep, long for God's companionship, we run from God in dread of his lordship.

But Jesus said, «I send you out like sheep among wolves,» not hiding you in the barn in safety.

Wolves in sheeps clothing is a difficult concept — wolves acting like anti-Christ is much easier to explain to my friends.

Like a wolf in sheep's clothing, this story is about hate, and it's cover is love.

Here we have seven loaves instead of five, 4,000 instead of 5,000, compassion because of the people's hunger here, compassion because they are like sheep without a shepherd in the earlier narrative.

(Question: Is the home - bound brother like the nine coins safely gathered in a known location or like the ninety - nine sheep left in the wilderness?)

Fences to keep people in this group, keep people out of that group, seclude and exclude us, like a bunch of brainless sheep that need to be herded around through different pen's till all our wool has been fleeced.

Nobody will even know who Tebow is in a few years after everyone realizes he is just a 3rd rate football player that will never amount to anything other than pandering to the sheep that eat up all the religious hopla just like they do when it's spewed from the scam artists on TV who end up getting caught with trannys and smoking meth.

Until then, I choose to believe in what I see, feel, and experience and will shape my life based on morals and ethics which I create for myself and not act like a sheep.

And if He's called you to all of it, then put in the necessary development time to learn all three languages, and be glad it's only that, and not chasing sheep through the deserts of Midian until you're 80, like Moses did for his preparation.

It was He in fact who said He was sending us out like sheep amongst the wolves.

The first is from the well - known passage in Isaiah 11: 6 - 9: «The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them... the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

In John's story of the good shepherd, Jesus is portrayed as the good shepherd because when the wolf comes he does not flee like a hireling, but because the sheep are his own he lays down his life for his sheep.

A passage I particularly like is John 10, in which Jesus proclaims that he is the door of the sheep.

Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern culture knows that the familial structure we see represented in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives living together in clans, with women working long hours «outside of the home» in the fields, tending sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..

You seem like someone who is interested in these kind of word studies so maybe you know if this is accurate or not: Someone else pointed out to me that the word for «punishment» in the sheep / goat passage is a Greek word that has more of a correction / discipline / child - training / restorative / purifying focus than «punishment» does in English.

And the worst part is that the church is neglecting believers (like Christian Latinos and the persecuted church) and those are the people we are commanded biblically to care for — «Feed MY sheep» — not people who have, OVER and OVER AGAIN seen the goodness of Christianity and have still rejected Christ in favor of a religion that has declared Jihad against the very people who are helping them.

The religion in the U.S. is catholic, Sun - day, Saturn - day, moon - day, buildings with obelisk, «sex» on top of so called holy buildings where many people go to hear what one man has to say three time a week while they are kept dumb like sheep being led to slaughter.

I know it is hard after a life of being in a society of sheep it is hard to understand like SOCIETY.

In one place and time when the voice in your head tells you to hogtie your son on a rock and butcher him like a sheep you are held up as a hero of faith for the ageIn one place and time when the voice in your head tells you to hogtie your son on a rock and butcher him like a sheep you are held up as a hero of faith for the agein your head tells you to hogtie your son on a rock and butcher him like a sheep you are held up as a hero of faith for the ages.

If people want to «man up» or «woman up» for that matter, stop sitting in the pews every week like stupid sheep and stop allowing some nitwit (who's probably got his own closetful of skeletons) to tell you how to live your life or raise your children.

For, after all, there were some who did not go like sheep, there were a handful who did attempt to flee from the camps, and there were many thousands who left Germany in time.

Demanding that people wallow in ignorance and worse, telling them that they are SHEEP, well... it's like lambs to the slaughter.

One thing I would ask you to reconsider is your statement about Christianity not allowing thinking, or as you said, «This is probably why there is not one passage in the Bible in support of intelligence and healthy skepticism, but literally hundreds in support of blind acceptance and blatant, sheep - like gullibility.»

Jesus was right in looking at us like sheep.

«All like sheep have gone astray,» we cry, and the people in unison say, «You really stepped on our toes today, preacher.»

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

When I try to describe the spirit - filled life of living loved, I resort to metaphors and stories: I'll stumble through the words of John 15 about life in the vine or say phrases like «live and move and have our being» and sometimes I talk about Isaiah or maybe shepherds and sheep who know His voice, but usually I am left saying «it's like this...» and then I am only bearing witness to the Spirit's movement in my own life and the Love who transforms me.