Sentences with phrase «more than the possessions»

My visits spent praying with him, reading Romans and helping him understand who he is and what he had done matter more than the possessions I have accumulated.

Roseville, CA About Blog At American Pacific Mortgage, ownership is more than possession.

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J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

A Strayer survey recently found that 90 percent of Americans define success as more about happiness than power, possessions, or prestige.

The media / realtors say the condo market is still hot but there are a lot of speculators in that market, and they are taking possessions of condos they thought would be easy flips with mortgage rates of 6 % or in some case more than 9 % — when rates are low.

If they could do so profitably, these private intermediaries would, by making their substitutes more attractive than base money itself, collectively gain possession of every dollar of base money in existence.

This is a man with more wealth than one could possibly conceptualize who is the first to wisely caution against the possessiveness of possessions («Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner»), with a simple and excellent work ethic that we can learn from and be humbled by.

Character is so much more importatnt than looks or possessions!

So if we are going by the right of first possession then it belongs to the Palestinian people as much, if not more, than the Jews.

«The possession of criteria» is not «more important than truth,» he wrote.

In fact, Jesus had more to say about the the dangers of greed, love of possessions, and the lack of compassion for the the «poor» and the «least of these» than he did about any other single subject in christian scripture.

People who believe themselves to be possessed are probably actually experiencing what they believe to be a possession however — demons and the devil are no more «REAL» than the easter bunny.

But taking off one's shoes upon arriving at an American dinner party would be a demonstration of disrespect, while an American host who asks guests to remove their shoes in order to preserve the cleanliness of the carpet is disrespectful to the guests, by showing more honor to his possessions than to them.

So while I personally wouldn't categorically state that possession does or doesn't exist, my experience tells me that people who behave in these ways are more in need of a specially - trained mental health professional than they are in need of a specially - trained priest.

He did not require Zacchaeus to give up more than half of his possessions to the poor.

In my opinion, the Catholics have a clearer more in - depth understanding of demonic possession than protestants I speculate, as it seems that they have put forth a concerted effort to research it, manage it and even consult divine knowledge concerning the practice of exorcism.

If Jesus meant only that we should have more possessions or even more «life expectancy,» then John 10:10 is no more remarkable than an advertisement for any commodity whatever.

When Muhammad received revelation, it sounds more like demon possession than anything I see in the biblical scriptures, in fact, Muhammad was suicidal, and thought he was demon possessed, but His wife convinced him otherwise.

In order to take possession of mc, my God, you who are so much more remote in your immensity and so much deeper in the intimacy of your indwelling than all things else, you take to yourself and unite together the immensity of the world and the intimate depths of my being: and I am conscious of bearing deep within me all the strain and struggle of the universe.

There's the report that «Whites and blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rates; on average, however, blacks are 3.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for possession,» and that «blacks are more than 10 times as likely as whites to go to prison for drug offenses.»

Indeed, the natural environment is thought of more as part of the community than as a possession.

This illuminating outlook on the Scriptures ought somehow to be made a more available possession than it is for the general reader.

Forty - five years after I directed The Exorcist, there's more acceptance of the possibility of possession than there was when I made the film.»

The landowner does not seem to have acquired his wealth unfairly or dishonestly; nevertheless, because he held on to more possessions than he needed, because he possessed wealth without regard to the covenant community, he was declared a fool in the sight of God.

To that end, he wants fewer possessions; for, as Cicero put it, «can anything be more absurd in the traveler than to increase his luggage as he nears his journey's end?»

Believer or not, I would think that you wouldn't want a scientist to start using god in their explanations any more than you would want your mechanic to invoke demon possession for your car problems.

I bet many young ministers preparing sermons on these texts are more embarrassed by the word about the kingdom of heaven than they are by those promising possession of the land.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Accordingly, the inevitable historicity of all human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not be more than the characteristic possession of a transient and temporary era in the history of a particular culture.

But more than this, when we consider the «deliverance» ministry of Jesus in liberating people from demon possession, it is important to recognize what Jesus was, and was not, doing.

Instead, the gospel proposes a worldview in which men and women are the children of God, and where human growth and development is a far more important goal than the possession of any power or thing.

You're not seeing me asking if you give up all of your riches just because Jesus said that it was more difficult for one having many possessions to get into heaven than for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle.

I did not hear, or have forgotten, the continued course of his life, but the final result was, that he more than recovered his lost possessions, and died an inveterate miser, worth # 60,000.»

City officials have voted to ban possession of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.

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

In addition, the church must convince its members that personal happiness consists of more than material possessions.

One problem with the idea is that if I've got the money or possessions, that means someone who needs it more than I do does not have these things.

We muslims don't call our women: Bitches, hores... and the majority of muslim women actually have the choice to choose to wear the veil (if you go to a Catholic church women are asked to wear the veil... nuns are fully covered... even Marry the mother of Jesus used to cover and that is because these women know they are diamonds and you have to really deserve her to be able to see more and that is only gonna be her husband, and parents... If you have a precious and very expensive diamond in your possession don't tell me you would leave it outside of your house but you would leave your trash outside of your house... same thing with women especially and by the way this apply to men as well in Islam... A woman actually is the queen of her household, and when they are so aware of their status within her community, as more like a mother, she is committed to her husband, kids and parents exclusively... she is busy taking care of her loved ones and enjoys it and happy so why you ask her to show you her cleavage if she doesn't think you deserve her... Muslim women are not any different than all women, they only like to wear the veil and not show their beauty to you... what?

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules.

You had 70 % possession and did nothing with the ball — that is more time wasting than taking a few seconds longer to take a throw in / goal kick

82» — Real Madrid is focused much more on possession than threatening goal now that it has a three - goal lead.

These are the players who lose possession more than any other players in Arsenal team

«On the night, Bayern had more possession than us.

He was sacked three times and could only move Clemson more than 35 yards downfield once in five possessions.

He kept all of his possessions in his car, and found himself robbed more than once.

Possession football is still obviously our main goal, but we've been looking deadly on the counter, playing much more direct, and seem a lot more willing to cross and loft balls into space than recent seasons.

at the start of this season, we were playing a different type of game: we were letting the other teams have more possession and we were winning more often than we are now.

But more than this, also evident was a lack of options available to the Arsenal players when in possession, having to settle for square passes to teammates occupying the same space.

We are more focused on defending than we have been in a few years, especially the midfielders tracking back and the fullbacks sitting deeper, but it has come at the cost of some of the possession game.

If Arsenal allow opposition teams a good foothold in the game as they seems to always do nowadays and continue to play with less than 50 % possession, they will have to score at least 3 goals or more per game to win matches.