Sentences with phrase «more than sheep»

If all people took that position in all issues of government, we'd be nothing more than sheep in a totalitarian regime.

In money terms, Utah's horses mean more than sheep, swine and turkeys and are beginning to rival our dairy industry.

Don't bring back the thumbs up / down, please — it fosters the herd mentality, and I for one want to be more than a sheep — trying to get thumbs up by the majority like a pathetic tool.

Not exact matches

The cost to Western Australian farmers of a ban on live sheep exports could be more than 10 times previous estimates, as much as $ 150 million, according to a report released today.

And, to date, the venture capitalists — a depressingly «me - too» crowd of sheep and fashionable followers if ever there was one — have been more than happy to pile on and be energetic enablers of this idiocy.

Especially those that think they are enlightened but are really not much more than a different type of social sheep.

More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep.

if the Christian god had all the omnipotence his followers proclaimed, he would have designed our brains more like sheep or lemmings, rather than giving us smart inquisitive minds that look for proof... and then not give us any proof.

«More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep,» Obama said at the tree lighting ceremony, a longstanding White House tradition.

It is written that God would rather have lost one of His sheep and found it again, then to never have lost Him at all, Meaning It is very easy in this world now more than ever to lose sight of God and your faith, we all sin even the most devote christian, But coming back to our faith and our christian ways after losing it is something that brings God joy..

18.13, and the vivid touch about the shepherd carrying the sheep, while completely realistic, is the kind of thing that is more readily accounted for as an addition than as an omission.

Having tired himself out, he said to the sheep: «I love thee more than ninety - nine.»»

Jesus was nothing more than the sacrifices the Jews did with their unblemished sheep when they wished to speak with God.

Do the leaders of the sheep need to command salaries more than double those of the entire households they supposedly serve?

If more than one sheep is shown, it must be clear that pastoral concern for the flock is not exercised merely on a mass basis.

No sheep can be sillier and more pathetic than we as we cry for Somebody Up There to save us from our sins within and our foes without, while at the same time frantically fleeing from the loving but demanding yoke of Christ.

There is a continuum from one kind of research to the next (which is why people became even more nervous when they heard that monkeys had been cloned, since monkeys are presumably closer to humans than are sheep).

«Of how much more value is a man than a sheep!

Apparently, these people thought that the American populace were no more than mindless sheep who would fall into line one R vs W became law.

But isn't it odd to think that you may be no more free at your propensity than those poor little sheep at theirs?

In Luke 15:1 - 10, then, the two points are made: the shepherd leaves the ninety - nine sheep to seek out the lost one, and rejoices when it is found; the woman drops everything else to seek out the one lost coin (the coin mentioned is probably a Greek drachma, literally worth sixteen cents, but in actual purchasing power many times more than that), and rejoices with her friends when it is found.

Is it just me, or is there more than a little bit of tension in the way we deal with biblical and ecclesial images of sheep and shepherds, pastors and flocks?

When Jesus found the sheep, he said to the sheep, «I love you more than the 99!»

High school is short but life is long and having belief in your principles and capacity for rational thought are going to mean a lot more in the long run than being popular with the vapid sheep you are currently surrounded by.

You can keep sheep if you're a nomadic herder, but if you settle down and become a pastoralist, planting grain and fruit trees, etc., it becomes much more difficult to follow a nomadic God... Is there something in here about being ready to be followers, rather than settlers?

Similar rumours circulate in Australia and particularly New Zealand (there are more sheep in NZ than people...)

The lost sheep and the lost coin are more than the prized possessions of their owners; they are also parts of a whole.

«We also take more seriously the right of the small sheep - owners in big forests to continue to live «where they belong» on a traditional level as ecologically on a higher level than their urban critics» («Encouraging» 54).

You seem like someone who is interested in these kind of word studies so maybe you know if this is accurate or not: Someone else pointed out to me that the word for «punishment» in the sheep / goat passage is a Greek word that has more of a correction / discipline / child - training / restorative / purifying focus than «punishment» does in English.

The point Jesus is making is that the Pharisees and Scribes cared far more about literally lost sheep — literal lost animals, than they cared about human souls that were lost.

The absolute maximum any of these Christians could have been saved is seven years, but since the 144,000 really don't get sent out until half way through the tribulation, most of these sheep had probably not been saved more than three and half years.

Unlike any other shepherd, even those who owned sheep, he loved every one of his sheep more than he loved himself.

We know that no one knew more about medicine and the source of sickness than iron age sheep mounters

Jesus tries to ignore her; his disciples urge him to send her away; and when the itinerant rabbi finally speaks his mind — in response to them more than to her — it is with a bit of received wisdom that no one would hold against him: «I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.»

If it is true that there is more heavenly rejoicing over the lost sheep that is found than over the sheep that have not strayed, God's embrace shows one important sense in which the history that began with the eating of forbidden fruit in the Garden and that will end in the heavenly city is a good one.

The fact that this is not the least bit of a curiosity to you and that you rush to judgement by slandering him shows that you are thinking more like a sheep than a scientists.

AS IN THE BEGINNING man created god in his own image, and as a sign of the times, woman were treated no more important than his property, camels, sheep, goats and donkeys.

Principles before personalities: If a leader behaves like a spoiled entitled brat, or if a leader favors some of the sheep more than the others, I watch closely.

They are, in reality, no more truly one than individual sheep in a flock are, or a pair of Siamese twins.13 Since every substance is one, and every extended object is many, no substance is extended.

When a young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock, rather than come around her in love and support, with promises to protect and provide, we more often than not cast her out like a sheep among wolves.

Also, goat, sheep and A2 cows produce milk with more A2 beta - casein proteins than A1 beta - casein proteins.

If you want dairy made from happy grass - eating cows and sheep and goats, you're going to need to spend a little more than you would on dairy from animals fed on industrial corn.

Norwegian environmental group The Future in Our Hands (FOH) applauded the move, noting that, over the course of a lifetime, a Norweigan adult eats on average more than 1,200 animals, including 1,147 chickens, 22 sheep, 6 cows and 3 deer.

Among the properties that are being advertised this spring is the 8560 - hectares Warren - district sheep holding Raby Station — home to the famous Raby Merino Stud — being sold by the Qatar Investment Authority's Hassad Food which could fetch more than $ 20 million as part of an $ 80 million sell - down of properties in its Australian portfolio.

We represent beef, sheep, cereal and fruit and vegetable farmers too, and their plight is more serious than ours.

He said beef prices were more volatile than those for crossbred sheep, which produced both wool and lamb meat.

«Meat may be delicious, but the way cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are reared uses lots of fossil fuels and creates lots of CO2 — more than the car industry.

«Lamb» is the term for a sheep under one year old (also known as spring lamb); «hogget» (also called yearling lamb) is more than one year old, while «mutton» is two or more years old.

This 10.5 ounce container priced at $ 6.49 means you will have more than enough to satisfy your cheesy needs and you can rest easy knowing it's made with sheep's milk.

More than 650,000 Australian sheep have been exported to Qatar in the past 12 months, the majority of which would have been killed in this abattoir.