Sentences with phrase «little their word meant»

It was a bit of a shock to me how irresponsible some of the tenants I rented to in the beginning could be and how little their word meant to them, and it took some adjusting to get used to.

Not exact matches

Without just one little word — a — the meaning of the entire phrase becomes the exact opposite.

This word means respect, but possibly a little more.

«Development» and «evolution» — words of such importance to us — would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was — their city, their fields, their herds, their plows — had always been.»

«Or you get correlations between sets of words that mean very little.»

And in fact it's interesting you mention that because that wasn't just a personal perception that I had about what a good salesperson does — it's a little bit of trivia here, but the word «selling» is actually derived from the word «sillus» (no idea how to spell, Google didn't help, sorry), which means «to serve».

There is that ugly word again «scam», it seems like it is used a little too easily lately; it's almost like it maybe means something differently these days.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

It means little when you don't acknowledge the rest of the words.

Non-Catholic Christians charge that Peter is not the «rock» because the Greek word used for «rock» in this verse means a little pebble.

Words have very little intrinsic meaning, there's nothing inherently bad about the sounds «fuh» and «k» put together.

@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will be three judgements against sin and its author, Satan.The first was the Flood, the second at the war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years when the evil one is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word when the books of judgement are opened.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

We have a few good phrases we say in our house a lot, little catchphrases or sentences that carry a lot of meaning in just a few words.

I agree that precept upon precept and line upon line is just what it means that God wants us to teach and preach his word just like that line upon line and precept upon precept explaining what the scriptures means so that people can understand and giving them a little hear and there because you might give them more than they can comprehend.

«I love you» would mean very little if there were no gesture, no sign, no action of love that «embodies» the words.

The writer of this article takes the words used in the Bible a little deeper, and explains that what people read when they read it isn't always what was meant in the original language.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

Like most non-believers, or superstitious believers for that matter — little or no understanding of the meaning of the word «theology».

One can not gain even a little acquaintance with the early church — which means, one can not do even a little reading in the New Testament — without recognizing not only the importance of what the word «Christ» stands for in its life, but also the richness and manifoldness of this same reality.

He is the head of the church; «Christian» being a word that originally meant «little Christ» and would only make sense for his followers.

The words of bigots and naysayers mean very little to a man of faith like him - its like rain on a windshield - we got wipers for that @ssholes.

The word «Christian» literally means «little Christ,» how does someone who acquires fame by bashing the belief of others (he may be a scholar but as the author noted, most people have only heard of him because of his uncouth mannerisms) come anywhere close to Jesus?

Our Lords words mean little to them, simply watch them at the alters, communion in the hand, on and on.

One little recognized factor in the usual formulations of Christology is a certain assumption about the meaning of the word man.

That word, «raca,» basically means «idiot,» and when I think of all the times I've muttered that word under my breath in response to folks with whom I disagree, it's a little convicting.

Here we pause to make a little clearer what we mean by the word «Jesus» in this Easter message of exaltation.

(2) Pablum Just in case some readers skip over words they don't know a miss something in the cartoon: Pablum means «something bland, mushy, unappetizing, or infantile, and thus (paradoxically) with little worthwhile content.»

And since the Old Testament word for angel, as that of the New Testament, means also messenger, it is a legitimate suspicion that these narratives preserve reminiscences of the growing significance of the prophetic movement, which comes into clear focus just a little later in First Samuel.

The word Christian means... little - Christ.

Anyone with a little bit of sense understands that in the context of Matthew 27:42, the word «save» does not mean escape from hell and entrance into heaven, or receiving eternal life.

Actually the words taken alone, that is, apart from the rest of the teaching of Jesus, mean little more than this Oriental attitude.

Neither shall we rightly understand Christ if we play down the deity and imply that when we call Him divine we mean little more by the word than does the young man who uses this word for the lady of his affections.

Learn to use little words in a big way; they say what you mean.

do we mean christian as someone trying to be a little christ as the word means?

When you don't know what you mean, use BIG words... That often fools little people.»

If you go to a German dictionary and just open at random, you may well see several German words which have a little square bracket saying «N.S.,» meaning National Socialist or Nazi.

In his Introduction to the subsequent definitive draft of the Psalms in German, Luther expounded their method again and threw out a challenge: «We praised the principle of at times retaining the words quite literally, and at other times rendering only the meaning... if my critics are so tremendously learned and want to display their skill, I wish they would take that single and very common little Hebrew word, chen, and give me a good translation of it.

’10 Elsewhere he identifies the evolutionary thought which he opposes as «a basic acceptance of technical rationality».11 He speaks of Wolfhart Pannenberg's «extremely valuable attempt to develop a universally historical hermeneutics», complaining only that his «anticipation of a total meaning in history as... too little interrupted or irritated by what is described in the apocalyptic tradition as a universal catastrophe, in other words, the reign of the Antichrist».12 Metz is more open to an Overview than some of his statements imply.

We use words, spout phrases and refer to concepts that mean something to those familiar with Christianity, but carry little meaning for those who do not share our beliefs.

* I am indebted to Terry Eagleton for the use of this word «pointless ``, although he uses it in reference to life in his wonderful little book, The Meaning of Life.

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

Also Christians say the words, «Love God with all your being» They show how little they mean to do what these words say when they insist that we should not have to accept our mortality and should, like God, have an infinite future.2

Often, when people use these words today, it means little more than «hope.»

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

The heirlooms are great with a little salt but the larger ones sliced on a tomato sandwich or BLT brings back memories of summers with Grandma which gives the word Heirloom another meaning all its own!!!

The word means «little sparrows.»

The word tapa means little cover or lid, and bartenders there would put a tapa over glasses of wine to keep out dust and prevent little fruit flies from diving into the drink.

One thing he did say was that he would like to stay in London but his words in Spanish reported by the Chilean website El Grafico are a little confusing because he uses the term «un equipo» which means «a team» or «one team» so the football media are taking it that Alexis means that he wants to play for a team that will be winners and that has a winning mentality, so they take that along with the reports that Conte wants to sign him and hey presto!

Ahh but TMJW have you not listened to a single word Thomas has given for the Swansea defeat?It was raining quite hard.I know because I was there.I got a little bit wet as I walked back to my car after the game and recall thinking I'm so glad I'm not a professional footballer that earns millions of pounds a year as it would mean I would get a bit wet and cold every now and then when it rained.