Sentences with phrase «many perplexities»

Another answer to the perplexity surrounding rejected funding came from a revelation in the study about owners» understanding of credit issues.

The first reaction is typically one of perplexity, confusion and bewilderment all mixed into one as they try to imagine how jumping out of planes and blowing things up gets stale, but it does.

Let me begin by noting my early perplexity (to put it mildly) regarding the Obama - Kmiec....

Kumail lets the comedic spirit guide him through life, and just as it guides him through the perplexities of dating, so the spirit of comedy can guide him toward faith.

As one believer explained, «To turn again to the cares, perplexities, and dangers of life, in full view of jeering and reviling unbelievers who scoffed as never before, was a terrible trial of faith and patience.

The cares and dangers of life were no longer minimized by the second coming looming large on the horizon and the perplexities that had been simplified by their clear and immediate end came crowding back in.

But Whitehead upholds such perplexities by his conviction that recognition of a thing as a composite and also as a unity are required modes of understanding, that these two modes are reciprocal, that they presuppose each other, and that the perspective emphasizing the composite exhibits an outcome and the perspective emphasizing the unity exhibits a causal factor (MT 63).

To the German people, stunned by the war and the consequences of defeat, their former optimism shattered and spent, shuddering to contemplate the debt - darkened years of the future, Barth in the phase of his dreadful insight into the futility of all search for security must seem a veritable Jeremiah, and his teaching an evilly perfect rationalization of their indigence and perplexity.

Unless the church slips beneath the surface of history, it will contend with perplexities.

Dr. Cobb lends processes theological concepts to those who systematize the teaching of the Bible, to those who consider contemporary thought as normative and access the Bible in that context, to those who give simplistic traditional understanding of the Bible, and to those searching the perplexities and mysteries of quantum thought.

The addition of just that one word would banish some of our perplexity.

Every writer wrestles with this perplexity.

I do not mean to suggest that a conceptual shift of this kind quickly resolves all the perplexities and mysteries of quantum thought.

In perplexity, Sam goes to his pastor, who tells him to listen for the voice a second time.

The disciples meant well; but disappointment, perplexity, confusion, and sheer physical exhaustion were too much for them; they could not keep their eyes open.

«My point is that any summary conclusion jumping from our conviction of the existence of such an order of nature to the easy assumption that there is an ultimate reality which, in some unexplained way, is to be appealed to for the removal of the perplexity, constitutes the great refusal of rationality to assert its rights.»

But as with nephesh, so with its Greek rendering, the word ranges up into higher meanings which leave English translators in perplexity.

He wrote, «Jeremiah, throughout all his doubts and difficulties, was able to be carried forward by the secret assurance that this business was not his business but God's business, and this alone supported him under the most pressing perplexities and loneliness.»

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from prison shortly before his death, addressed his godson, Dietrich Bethge, on the occasion of the infant's baptism, which he could not witness: «Music, as your parents understand and practice it, will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground - base of joy alive in you.

By this — worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities.

In any perplexity about how to respond to this or that, his many friends would at the drop of a hat telephone him for counsel.

The Old Testament, however, as we shall see, clearly reveals the inner perplexity and the outward conflict involved as religious thought and practice moved from primitive shrines toward the idea of Jesus: «Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father....

It is not that some are all right and others are all wrong: all are bound to seek in honest perplexity.

In fact, Wesley was confused by the experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential conversions in church history.

By this event they are enabled, even compelled, radically to redefine their notion of his sovereign power as it affects their lives; but if they are allowed in that place to glimpse the ultimate secret of his ways, this would seem in part at least to be because there he made, in the person of his Son, their perplexity and their pain his own.

For two thousand years, how to respond to this call has been a source of deep perplexity and tension for those who would follow Jesus.

After a few minutes on Google, my confusion gave way to fascination, and after a few seconds with the song, my fascination gave way to utter perplexity.

Whatever may be said about the assurance and certainties of faith, it is no stranger to perplexity and conflict.

Discussions of time frequently echo Augustine's perplexity: he knew perfectly well what time was until someone asked him what it was.

Negative arousals make people out to be less positive therefore the dumbing down of the species becomes the pragmatic venues of damning perplexity's dissonances.

Israel becoming a nation again Israel will be in possession of Jerusalem when Israel is surrounded by armies no time is near Earthquakes Seas roaring nations in distress with perplexity wars and terrorism days of Noah and lot the generation at the end 2 Timothy 3:1 - 5, 7 «Difficult Times Will Come» 1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

My perplexity leads me to try to understand the difference between us that leads Sherburne to find the irrevocable extensiveness of an actual entity sufficient reason to suppose that regional inclusion is impossible.

The evidence that perplexity and vagueness continue to afflict thought about the ministry is to be found today in the theological schools and among ministers themselves.

At about the age of fifty, Tolstoy relates that he began to have moments of perplexity, of what he calls arrest, as if he knew not «how to live,» or what to do.

Some schools and some pastors are highly conscious of the problem; others are in a more difficult state because they have not realized the source of their perplexities.

The fact that we can die, that we can be ill at all, is what perplexes us; the fact that we now for a moment live and are well is irrelevant to that perplexity.

Of course no minister ought to claim that he has the complete answer to this ancient and most persistent perplexity of the human spirit.

Whereas Wesley came to his theology chiefly out of his study of the Bible and his personal experience, Whitehead was a mathematical physicist trying to make coherent sense of deep perplexities created by new discoveries in the early part of this century.

There was good reason for their perplexity, for the theological view of man is always bound up with natural and social views of man and what had happened was that old views of nature and society had changed radically.

Covenant and Commitments is scholarly in substance, accessible in style, and always wise in its engagement with the everyday perplexities of living Christianly in the world.

In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of history.

At the risk of oversimplification, the interlocutors argue for God's temporal as well as eternal justice, while Job expresses perplexity over their claim for his temporal justice.

In 1850, in In Memoriam, Tennyson expressed perplexity about the ancient earth and evolution, before On the Origin of Species was published in 1859: «Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?»

In the Lenten Gospel readings the church will make its progress by means of a series of dialogues — on temptation (with the devil), on perplexity (Nicodemus), on longing for what is real (the Samaritan woman), and on the true identity of Jesus (the man formerly blind).

ROBERT E. LEE: «In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.»

We are left therefore with the perplexity which we must examine in this chapter.

We turn eagerly to learn the secret of that leap of faith which gains assurance of God and through which a man becomes a disciple of the Christ who is contemporary with every age.28 Just here the perplexities begin.

By this - worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities.

By this - worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities.

Here, and in the perplexity and anger at Jewish rejection of the apostolic mission, is the germinating seed of Christian anti-Semitism.