Sentences with phrase «mixture of»

Religion in the history of mankind has most often been a product of human fear, and religious practices have usually been a mixture of good and bad.

A civilized society is at least something greater than a simple mixture of homogenized persons.

Always where the faith has won wide acceptance it has been through a mixture of motives.

It is a mixture of the two types.

In 1953, Stanley L. Miller, a collaborator of Harold C. Urey at the University of Chicago, prepared a mixture of methane, ammonia, and water vapor in simulation of the primitive atmosphere postulated for the earth.

Our community is made up of a diverse mixture of regular people.

There is, secondly, the puzzling fact of ambiguity, the interpenetrating mixture of virtues and vices.

However, leaders in the early church would often combine practices of believers from various backgrounds (early Christians were a mixture of former Jews and pagans).

Using a mixture of suggestion, «cold reading», hypnosis and plain old trickery, Brown has the ability to make people believe in God, miracles and the power of prayer faster than you can say «prestidigitation» (look it up).

If only more pastors and teachers would look up the Greek words before they expound on a passage and confuse us with their mixture of grace and law!

In real life we often use a mixture of the two, where conditional is (broadly) for strangers and unconditional for friends.

Michael Hannon's essay was the most volatile mixture of truth and hokum I have read in a long time.

The mixture of eros and agape deserves much closer examination.

In a social context where the default position of most people is a crude mixture of utilitarianism and relativism, we need to reiterate the intrinsic wrongfulness of certain actions (e.g. killing the innocent), and the intrinsic goodness of other actions (consensual sexual intimacy in marriage).

With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation.

Any mixture of categories of language can be dangerous, and yet some mixing is essential if one is to gain insight into religious meanings.

My brother's addiction is a horrible mixture of choices and biology, but those choices are his own and are not a reflection on my parents or myself, and especially not my abilities as a youth worker.

Those attentive to the One who has come in begin to see the extraordinary mixture of the strength of the protagonist and the weakness of the Presence.

Mahayana is supposed to be completely unoriginal and dependent; it is a mixture of Hinduism and Buddhism — possibly an unfortunate mixture, to be understood and interpreted only as a degeneration of the original teaching of the Buddha.

In Descartes» works, God always remains respected and honoured, while man is always described as a creature of God, composed of a mysterious mixture of substances.

«Reconciliation is a mixture of event which gives momentum and patient work which brings a change of heart deep down and is almost unknown in our world today, even in places which have achieved some kind of peace... We have to be willing to spend years at this.»

The mixture of religion, power and money in our world is appalling.

A man becomes an individual «I,» rather than a peculiar mixture of universal forces or principles, only as he inwardly transcends both emotion and reason, accepting responsibility for the outcome of the struggle between them.

People are dressed in a mixture of colorful Indian attire and customary Western clothing.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey — award - winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as «lucid, compelling, and beautifully written» (Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth)-- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

Our congregration from our pastor on down is a wonderful mixture of races, ethnicities, and socio economic classes.

He also reflected about the mixture of self - seeking and self - giving in man's selfhood and gave as well a critical survey of idealist and realist political theories.

He has recognized their native virtues (the touching affection of a father for his scapegrace son, or the devotion of a shepherd to his flock), but also the odd mixture of human motives.

And it is the simple want of that intention to please God, Law points out, that explains why «you see such a mixture of sin and folly in the lives even of the better sort of people.»

A shocking, accidental death generates confusion and a mixture of powerful, upsetting emotions.

It may be said that this mixture of political morality and theology extends through all the actions of the Americans, a tincture of gravity and profound conviction.91

Considering the proofs for the existence of a god are based almost exclusively on pure logic, or a mixture of logic and science, your statement is a bit laughable.

The marriage is ecstatically happy at times, excruciatingly painful at others, a mixture of good and bad in between....

Here there is a mixture of religious and political motivations and the assumption that the security of the Indian nation lies primarily on Hindus on the border, because others are supposed to have extra-territorial loyalties.

There was a mixture of surprise, pity, respect and definitely confusion.

We first interviewed the Bible scholar in 2009 while he was still the Bishop of Durham, a role which he looks back on with a mixture of gladness and regret.

Only through becoming as creation of new presents, i.e., new items in a partly new total past which is adequately preserved for all the future, in God, can there be the mixture of contingency and conditional necessity (necessary conditions but no fully necessary consequences) which is reality.

But, given the unsustainability of pure democracy, it's not surprising that by the Eighties we had the bourgeois bohemian mixture of oligarchy and democracy, with bourgeois trumping bohemian at every turn.

As we see it functioning, it is a mixture of idealism and expediency with a great many bureaucratic and even some totalitarian elements corrupting its purity.

The mixture of humility with courage is a powerful force...

Quran says «Peace is best solution than fight» Another place quran states «Those who kill are not amongst us» My prophet says «One who kills his ANGER and forgives is the bravest» And FYI: Quran is not mixture of any book.

In 1975 when the Vatican issued its «Guidelines and Suggestions» for contacts between the church and the Jewish people, the document was greeted by Jewish leaders with a mixture of delight and distress: delight at the change of outlook it reflected, and distress that it still contained references to the church's «divine mission» and «witness.»

Stop trying to make my GOD a mixture of gods!!!

«Intent» in this sense is sometimes called «animal faith» (though sometimes he uses this expression to refer to those beliefs, arising from a mixture of intuition and intent, which an agent practically engaged with the world around him can not honestly deny that he holds for true).

A mother is a curious mixture of patience, kindness, tolerance, understanding, discipline, industry, purity, and love.

It's not entirely a what you know / do versus who you know / do; it's a mixture of the both..

About two - thirds of the deans indicated that their schools adhere to either theistic evolution, progressive creation or a mixture of the two — all suggesting an ancient universe.

For me, and I hope many others, the last word in Ancient Greece on this topic was given by Epicurus and his talk about a mixture of chance and necessity, and the bits of free «swerve» in the movements of atoms.

Peirce had a mixture of good and not at all good in both his marriages.

The AMiA church I attend is an interesting mixture of liturgy and charismatic gifts.