Sentences with phrase «living on a knife edge»

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For Karl Barth man always appears to remain on the knife edge between the love of God and the abyss of damnation.24 Reinhold Niebuhr holds that we are redeemed from sin in principle, but whether we are redeemed in fact is not made clear.25 Christ, he says, is our hope, not our possession.26 And again he suggests that only in the moment of prayer can man really love God and his neighbor with the love which Christ has shown to us.27 Emil Brunner comes closer to positive affirmation of the new life of the man to whom the love of God has come with power.

«The really amazing thing is not that life on Earth is balanced on a knife - edge, but that the entire universe is balanced on a knife - edge, and would be total chaos if any of the natural «constants» were off even slightly.

Harvey Brooks suggests that living with technology is like climbing a mountain which narrows to a knife - edge as the top is reached.27 Each step takes us higher, but the precipices on either side become steeper.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

Conversely, the electoral division you live in might be on a knife edge, giving disproportionate weight to the small number of votes that can tip the balance.

«These are very dry areas already, and people who are marginal farmers depending on rain - fed agriculture or pastoralists are kind of living on the knife's edge of survival already,» Busby said.

From a bent nail posing as Chekov's Gun to damning and life - saving «rockets», Krasinski proves himself a maestro of suspense behind the camera, holding hostage audiences breathless and on knife's edge from damn near the very first frame, finding room for fine - tuned familial drama and smuggling in a touching coming - of - age subplot along the way.

Sean Baker delivers a child's - eye view of lives on a knife - edge.

THE VERDICT: Poverty and poetry, delinquency and deluxe wonder... this child's - eye view of lives on a knife - edge is terrific.

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Pots and pans are on life support — bottoms bulging, handles bent or missing — and not one of my low - end, neglected knives retains enough of an edge to worry a ripe tomato.

Handling leans towards a real life model but is curious in its execution; a very steep learning curve means that these races are performed on a knife edge.

Larry Bamburg's BurlsHoovesandShells on an Acrylic Rake features a stack of burls taken from redwood, maple, oak and other species of trees that exist on a knife - edge: the gap between failure and success, as with life, is determined by the eternal battle between will and chance.

And this planet is the only one we know of that can support homo sapien life on some of it's surface some of the time, and even then we're on a climactic knife - edge.

Your marriage, everything you love and treasure, everything you have worked your life for, everything that's familiar to you... it's all on a knife - edge.