Sentences with phrase «more life passage»

Instead, it lays bare one more life passage with the uncompromising honesty that is a hallmark of Smith's work and Art's virtue.

Not exact matches

«Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages — the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity — are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.»

«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

I definitely refrain at this stage from using the word «time,» since the measurable time of science and of civilized life generally merely exhibits some aspects of the more fundamental fact of the passage of nature.

One person said that if Christians would be honest (and stop cherrypicking their favorite passages to live by while ignoring the difficult ones), they would come to the conclusion that God is nothing more than a giant hand that gives and takes away.

While all things, inanimate and animate alike, share in temporal passage, living things make it more evident.

I am shocked by the Christian teachings that instruct people specifically «how» to study God's Word in the «right» way — «how much time to spend» praying and studying the Bible — «how» to come to the «right» interpretation of each Scripture verse / passage (guided by them — tying the hands of God and Jesus» Holy Spirit, and ignoring that God's Word is living and active...)-- insistence that increased Bible study, prayer and intersession, by their sheer weight, automatically make us closer to being better Christians — closer to perfection and more pleasing to our Lord and Savior.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

The epistles and pastoral letters give more direct attention to family life in the short passages known as «a household rule.»

I view the above passage, then, as an attempt by Mill to produce a criterion of valuable experience (and of a valuable life) which is both broader and more subtle than Bentham's concepts of pleasure and pain.

Maybe not for every pastor who is out there, as many are not getting paid very well at all, but there are many more who are living quite well, and are using misused and abused passages from Scripture to justify their lifestyle, and to guilt more and more needy people into giving sacrificially from their income.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

This operation, which is the very operation of life, consists in the gradual passage from the less realized to the more realized, from the intensive to the extensive, from a reciprocal implication of parts to their juxtaposition.

In a passage which deserves a great deal of attention in our country, more than two centuries after it was written, he said: «The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.

There is no more profound transition in the life of a woman than her passage into motherhood.

One of the more prevalent chronic illnesses in the United States, CRS has been known to cause significant quality of life detriments to affected patients, who often can not breathe or sleep easily due to obstructed nasal and sinus passages.

Although acne is practically a rite of passage — more than 80 % of Americans suffer from the skin condition, which can cause pimples, cysts, and red, inflamed skin, at some point in their lives — it's not entirely understood.

November 1, 2014 • Millennials are more likely to live with the person they're dating than previous generations were — it's practically a rite of passage.

«testing...» is based on a passage from the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the battlefield commemorating the more than 51,000 soldiers that lost their lives during the three days of battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

This resource includes a unit on the plant life cycle with an interactive notebook, KWL, reading passages, vocabulary, comprehension, real life pictures of all stages, compare and contrast, sequencing, coloring pages and more.

All units come with reading passages with opportunities to engage readers with «turn and talk», interactive notebooks for life cycle stages and unit vocabulary, reading comprehension, compare and contrast with Venn Diagrams, coloring pages, sequencing, and more.

As more people's lives are intertwined with the passage of time, Nelson's Seneca Village becomes reminiscent of Edgar Lee Masters» Spoon River.

More than 235,000 books have been added to the Kindle Store in just the last seven months, including New York Times Best Sellers «The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,» «The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks» and «The Passage.»

The same study revealed higher lung cancer rates in short to medium length nosed dogs who live with smokers (like boxers and bulldogs) because their shorter nasal passages allow the carcinogenic particles to reach the lungs more easily.

Such a law is not only necessary, reasonable and an effective means of saving lives, its passage would also bring Florida's sheltering procedures more in line with the humane, progressive values of the American public.

When you gather with family and friends tocelebrate life's milestones and passages, you want a setting that will enhance the purpose of the event and make it more enjoyable and memorable.

When you gather with family and friends to celebrate life's milestones and passages, you want a setting that will enhance the purpose of the event and make it more enjoyable and memorable.

I finally had to endure one of the more unpleasant rights of passage anyone living in the tropics must face.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY The larger of this gallery's two spaces has been dimmed to screen four moving - image works by the Ohio - born artist Kevin Jerome Everson, whose laconic films explore the quotidian passages of African - American life and, more recently, the everyday consequences of the Midwest's economic downturn.

It is more about the quick passage from life to death than the slow eternity of art.

The show draws inspiration from a passage from Plutarch's Life of Alexander, so beginning: «I write not histories but lives: the showiest deeds do not always delineate virtue and vice, but often a trivial action, a quip or a prank, will reveal more of character than the fiercest slaughters, or greatest parades, or sieges of cities.

Sea ice is melting, which is opening up the Northwest Passage and other routes to shipping, and as the tundra also warms, the Arctic becomes more accessible to development and human population growth, which will affect the people who already live there, particularly indigenous populations.

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