Sentences with phrase «mysterious ways as»

Our minds tend to work in mysterious ways as a default, right?

Not exact matches

«In some kind of weird way,» he writes, «I thought of it as my «I Walk the Line,» a song I'd always considered to be up there at the top, one of the most mysterious and revolutionary of all time, a song that makes an attack on your most vulnerable spots....

That's the best you can do and stop saying everything good that happens is because of god while excusing everything bad that happens as «He works in mysterious ways.»

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

Hoping for a nice vig from FEMA as well, so let Jeebus work in his mysterious ways, at least until I can cash the check.

Here he contends that just as Chuang - tzu tried to perceive the nature of reality from the perspective of fish or butterfly, so, too, should Christians seek to transcend the boundaries of history, religion and culture to develop deeper contacts with the mysterious ways in which God operates.

Sure, you can use the line that he moves in mysterious ways, he has a plan and all that, but look at those actions for yourself for a moment, forget that its even god doing them, would you deem those as good or bad actions?

they just don't try to reason about their belief... that's why they come up with saying such as «god works in mysterious ways» and so on.

(ii) the frailties of their religious leaders as they scurry for excuses — «god won't be tested», «god moves in mysterious ways,» «perhaps the people have been healed spiritually», etc; and

(ii) the frailties of their religious leaders as they scurry for excuses — «god won't be tested», «god moves in mysterious ways,» «perhaps the people have been healed spiritually», etc;

Christianity is more, not less, vibrantly Christian as a result of coming to understand more fully the mysterious and loving ways of God in His dealings also with non-Christians.

I believe that there is an important place for choice when it comes to belief, but I suspect to a mysterious and significant degree that much is ultimately determined for each one of us, though not necessarily in such as way that could be rendered permanent, though for many I suspect this might very well be the case.

Niebuhr (in a rather inexact way) wanted the concept of the devil to act as a symbol of the mysterious offer presented to man to take the alternative to God's established order of human existence.

Reviewing the exegetical search of the early writers involves, then, for those of us who have come into the inheritance of these traditions, the responsibility not only to interact with these inherited traditions, but also to interpret these in the context of the «extratextual hermeneutics that is slowly emerging as a distinctive Asian contribution to theological methodology [which] seeks to transcend the textual, historical, and religious boundaries of Christian tradition and cultivate a deeper contact with the mysterious ways in which people of all religious persuasions have defined and appropriated humanity and divinity.»

However as I look at this picture I do feel the pain behind it and so I pray that in some wonderful mysterious way this lifts part of your burdern (sorry for the mixed metaphors.)

In the most archetypal of these tests, Harry has to use his magic skills to swim all the way across the bottom of the mysterious lake as part of a contest with other schools of wizardry.

The answers usually proffered for what we see as basic logical flaws in Christianity — «you have been blinded by your lack of faith» «God moves in mysterious ways» «God is outside the Universe» or «our minds are too small to understand the greatness of God» are never satisfying to us.

Suddenly, or perhaps not so suddenly as we might have imagined, all kinds of people in all kinds of ways began an honest search for a new sense of the transcendent, the mysterious, the holy.

These bishops are convinced that they can bring people the gospel of life in some mysterious, inner way, even as their words and actions tell the world that the choice of death should occasion «dialogue,» not a clear statement of moral truth.

When we look at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;

But, like Don Briel himself, we commend our prayers, as we commend him, to the mysterious and inscrutable ways of divine Providence.

People accept God as an absolute ruler who can get away with drowning millions of people because «he works in mysterious ways.»

Any way you look at it, this is a mysterious world, but of all the ways in which the mystery can be stated none seems to me so improbable, so irrational, as to say there is no God, no Mind or Purpose in the universe, and all that is beautiful and right here is the accidental result of physical atoms going it blind.

He is directing affairs in some mysterious way such that men and nations retain their freedom and boast only of their own designs, yet through the chaos of a world in flames as well as through the drab days of common times when vested wrong seems invincible, God is bringing to pass his purposes.

In a way as undeniable as it was mysterious, Hyung Goo was more whole when he died than he had been at any other time in his life.

But of course the religious justify the inconsistancy as «God has His reasons» or «God works in mysterious ways we can not comprehend.»

Nearly 160 years ago the makers of TANDUAY ASIAN RUM discovered a way to capture the essence of the mysterious East, creating a spirit as intriguing in its silky smoothness and elegant taste as the land of its birth.

Tapping the same London pipeline that produced former Blue Devils forward Luol Deng, he signed Eric Boateng, a 6» 10», 250 - pound center who was discovered on his way home from soccer practice four and a half years ago by a mysterious talent - spotter known only as Fat Freddy.

In some ways Kokusai Green remains as mysterious as Okubo.

And if, as they grow up, they are shaped or influenced in some mysterious way by their births, I hope it will be part of what makes their life textured in a rich and positive way and that the over-arching thing that they take with them is a deep knowing that they were each welcomed with immense love from their parents — certainly more love than I ever thought I had inside me.

They interpreted it as the debris left behind when particles of dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other in the centre of the Milky Way.

The discovery offers a rare glimpse into a mysterious stage of the learning process, and it may one day provide scientists with a new way to treat memory impairments, such as those caused by dementia.

Just as his earlier work paved the way to harnessing the smallest subatomic forces, the general theory opened up an understanding of the largest of all things, from the formative Big Bang of the universe to its mysterious black holes.

When a material, such as WSe2 or MoSe2, gets thinned down to dimensions nearing the electron's wavelength, the material's properties begin to change in inexplicable, unpredictable, and mysterious ways.

Mysterious dark matter is responsible for our existence in the Milky Way galaxy, as revealed in this video for a new show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium

In summary, methane serves as the glue that holds Titan together in some mysterious ways.

Known as much for its complexity as its vital role in regulating cellular and organismal growth, the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway has seemingly been acting in mysterious ways.

ALMA also targets mysterious astronomical objects such as a starburst galaxy (supposed to have occurred 12 billion years ago, and undergoing an explosively high rate of star formation, several hundreds of times higher than the Milky Way), which is thought to have significant impact on the evolution of the universe.

Total darkness in mysterious of ways... Yet a light is shine on the outfit as being beautiful and alluring.

As a guideline the objective of discreet online internet dating services is offering mysterious, discreet and safe ways for not single men and some women to find a key dating.

In the drug war, there are no rules — and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways.

Little is known about why he's reacting this way, due to the mysterious nature of the mission he's returned from; venturing into Area X (or «the shimmer», as it's more frequently referred to), an area of land that he is so far the only person to have returned from, after countless expeditions there.

We first meet Lena, whose scientific speciality is the study of cancerous cells and the genetic information they contain, as she's being interrogated by men wearing biohazard suits about an experience she's just been through, a mysterious trip to an indescribable place where time itself moved in mysterious ways.

Watching Hanna, it's easy to see why there was so much buzz around Seth Lochhead and David Farr's screenplay in the few years before the film went into production; the story of the mysterious young warrior is structured in a way that immediately draws the viewer in, and keeps us constantly guessing as the details of her enigmatic past steadily come into... read more

Players can go on new adventures and experience non-stop action as they run, jump and battle their way through the rugged landscape of mythical and mysterious Scotland.

The rest of the main cast from Laura Dern's steely performance as Renata Klein to Shailene Woodley's mysterious Jane Chapman and Zoe Kravitz's ethereal Bonnie Carlson seemed so well cast and well acted in a way that depicts both that the actresses were well - cast in their roles and that they seemed really enjoy the material that they were given.

The story begins when Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

The plane, as it turns out, is carrying a mysterious cargo, which is the way in which this strain of vampirism will spread throughout New York City, and ultimately the world.

That's where Frank the Bastard finds itself, since despite having a mysterious title and a mysterious premise (a young woman confronts her past when she returns to the creepy commune she grew up in), the movie just spins its wheels as it looks for the dullest way to finally admit the pitiful details of its mystery plot.

Mysterious events surround two travelers as they make their way across a remote American landscape.