Sentences with phrase «most beautiful passages»

Among its most beautiful passages are those in praise of wisdom in chapters 3, 4, and 8, and its graphic picture of a model wife in 31:1 - 31.

One of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament is that in which Paul sends Onesimus back to Philemon — not emancipated in the legal sense, but «no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother,... both in the flesh and in the Lord» (v. 16).

Not exact matches

Because most of the Bible is prophecy and does not know it yet, if you do some clever pattern matching between events that have actually happened and passages that look like they are talking about those events, you can end up a neat mosaic of beautiful (even though they look disjointed) passages of fulfilled and not - yet - fulfilled prophecies.

3:10; 4:17, R.S.V.) In one of the most poignantly beautiful passages in the Gospels, Jesus, directly after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, wept over the city because his countrymen were failing to see «the things which belong unto peace,» and gave a terrible warning of impending disasters «because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.»

Some of Isaiah's recorded oracles must be ranked with the most beautiful and majestic passages in the world's literature.

Or as Darwin put it in a famous passage: «[W] hilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.»

«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»

Ford's penchant for broad comedy is at its worst here, but at the same time, he also manages some of his most beautiful lyrical passages.

This day is the longest but also the most impressive and beautiful due to the number of archaeological sites and the lush Andean flora and fauna that we will appreciate during our passage through the cloud forest.

With a chic open - air design and an outlook over the beautiful Whitsunday passage, Tides Restaurant and Bar affords one of Airlie Beach's most stunning views.

Board our custom built whale watching boats and we will guide you through the passages and around the islands that are teeming with wildlife in one of the most beautiful locations on British Columbia's coast.

Travelling on Rocky Mountaineer's First Passage to the West rail journey between Vancouver, British Columbia and Banff, Alberta, guests will journey through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world including the Canadian Rocky Mountains, a recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site.