Sentences with phrase «more than a symbol»

The God we worship is much more than a symbol.

For those who view this as merely a sign of Christianity - over the years the symbol of a white cross has come to mean much more than a symbol of Christianity.

What is lost is the idea that the symbols are ever more than symbols.

But I have a feeling that baptism is more than a symbol, but a means of grace.

Darwin doesn't really have anything to do with geology, and he isn't anything more than a symbol of evolutionary theory, either... so it doesn't matter if he was motivated by personal issues.

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.

But unfortunately, they are little more than a symbol.

The abs are much more than a symbol for how lean and muscular you are, they are essential for performance and stability.

For Hannes Jaenicke, tough - guy actor and animal welfare campaigner, polar bears are more than a symbol of global warming and shrinking Arctic ice.

Nestled among the colossal skyscrapers, inspirational Statue of Liberty and scenic Central Park of New York, the station built in 1913 has remained more than a symbol of a bygone age before flight became fashionable.

We, too, have then to see how the scholarly book, at least, is no more than a symbol of knowledge worked out, with great care, in some detail.

I fear, however, that in many cases because of the chasm between the common law and native title rights, the latter, when recognised, will amount to little more than symbols.

Not exact matches

Social customer service company Conversocial partnered with New York University on research that found that more than one - third of all tweets to companies were about customer service issues, but that only three percent incorporated the company's Twitter username with the @ symbol.

The ING Direct lion was a logo that could stand on its own, but Aceto says Tangerine was more interested in finding the right name than in designing a new, complex symbol.

Further, there is no single approving agency and more than 500 trademarked «kosher» symbols used by different regulating bodies around the world, each with slightly different standards.

The stock last traded up more than 7.5 percent from its pricing, listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol «TRVG.»

Its high price and lack of IT - friendly ports make it hard to see it as much more than a status symbol, but a good laptop is a good laptop all the same.

The U.S. beauty business, the symbol of P&G's renaissance under Lafley and the source of more than a third of earnings, stagnated.

The Unicode standard defines a unique number for every letter, symbol, or glyph in more than 30 written languages, and it's still growing.

Among Canadians who would be affected by a restriction on religious clothing and symbols, more say they would fight the ban than accommodate it.

Backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the rule, believed the first of its kind nationally, requires restaurants to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning symbol next to any menu item with more than 2,300 milligrams (0.08 ounce) of sodium

They have become symbols more important than the products they originally symbolized, drawing people to a business without a clear holiday connection.

Velkopopovický: Family of beers from the Czech Republic that has been exported to more than 30 countries, and whose symbol is a goat.

PIMCO Total Return ETF switched ticker symbols from TRXT to BOND on the NYSE Arca in April and has a gross expense ratio of 0.55 %, which is notably cheaper than the 0.85 % charged for the more established PIMCO Total Return A (PTTAX), according to Rosenbluth.

The best known of these companies is Greenlight Capital Re, which has more than $ 2 billion of assets which are managed by David Einhorn and is publicly traded on NASDAQ (symbol — GLRE).

But Sullivan is more interested in marriage as a symbol than as an institution.

Even if the symbol for some is nothing more than a torture and execution device.

Just because there were (likely) more «Christians» than followers of other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol in a more prominent fashion than those of the religions of any other person that died in that event.

«More than a mosque... more than any other symbol it is the Quran that symbolizes the word of God for a Muslim.&raMore than a mosque... more than any other symbol it is the Quran that symbolizes the word of God for a Muslim.&ramore than any other symbol it is the Quran that symbolizes the word of God for a Muslim.»

These findings embody more than numbers — they also are a symbol of the American spirit.

Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging symbols.

The East African nation, which with 36 million Orthodox Christians make it the world's second - largest Orthodox population are also more likely than Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe to wear religious symbols (93 per cent vs 64 per cent), to say they believe in God with absolute certainty (89 per cent vs 56 per cent), and to tithe (57 per cent vs 14 per cent).

It was more than a personal symbol, however.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

Even if I'm right about something, without love, I become nothing more than an annoying, clanging symbol (1 Corinthians 13:1).

«the simple suggestion that Jesus appears to be the supreme symbol furnished to us by history of the notion of a God genuinely and literally sympathetic (incomparably more literally than any man ever is), receiving into his own experience the suffering as well as the joys of the world.»

The yellow ribbons of the Iran hostage crisis of more than twenty years ago» too often a symbol of self - pity and maudlin sentimentality» were suddenly displaced by the flag.

The Christian symbols that speak to those realities of negation — cross, apocalyptic, sin, the demonic, the radically incomprehensible, the hidden and revealed God — strike home to me today far more than they ever did before.

Clothes can say as much as, and even more than, a symbol; although of course either can become worn by those with little understanding of what they say, other than «fashionable.»

Ever since, 1984 has been more than just a date; it has been a symbol.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

In view of the fact that Parliament more than George III was tyrannizing over the Americans it is remarkable that it was George who became the very symbol and incarnation of the restraint the Americans were overthrowing.

But Premack's findings concerning Sarah's abilities to conserve quantity, to reason analogically and to attribute object qualities to abstract symbols, does establish that primates are capable of more abstraction than Whitehead believed to be the case.

More than once in my life, they've served as a symbol for things to come.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

Metaphor, which serves as a medium that provides insight into Jesus» parabolic language, is a comparison based on everyday objects or experiences.108 In the words of Wilder,»... a true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign, it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers.

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

i guess they are more worried about a symbol, than what that symbol stands for.

It seems to me, then, that even though Tillich's theory of symbols dwells on religious uses, and his theological method starts from existential questions, his formal discussion of God is more strongly indebted to idealist philosophy than to either religious experience or the biblical tradition.