Sentences with phrase «mysterious ways of»

The cryptocurrency has shown mysterious ways of rising and has proven again and again that it goes far beyond economic analysis.

Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.

Masson, an ardent animal advocate who has already investigated the emotional lives and mysterious ways of cats, dogs and elephants (The...

However, a glimpse of other girls practicing hip - hop dance moves in another part of the building entirely beguiles Toni, and she joins up and dives in, learning in the process not just different physical skills but the mysterious ways of adolescent girlhood.

Don't take your eyes off the cookie jar, these fun little cookies have a mysterious way of vanishing into thin air!

«This guy had a mysterious way of brainwashing people, and I just kind of clammed up about it for many years.

Make sure you have extras on hand — hats do have a mysterious way of disappearing when you're not looking.

Although they are isolated from the outside world, therein lie many factors which threaten their mysterious way of life.According to the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), a government organization aimed at preserving the rights of the indigenous, researchers first became aware of the possible existence of an uncontacted tribe after finding several small gaps in the forest while reviewing satellite imagery of the Javari Valley in the western Amazon, near Brazil's border with Peru.

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«It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time - honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.»

Campbell, at $ 12 million in sales, has come a long way from the mysterious stacks of prospects that Colby first faced; the company has recently been coming within 10 % of its annual sales target.

A six - way Democratic primary for a Pennsylvania congressional district is about to become a battle of the super PACs, with a mysterious «centrist» organization attacking two of the candidates and billionaire Tom Steyer going in to beat a third candidate.

@David Johnson: It's a sad coincidence made more sickening by people using it to justify the greatness of god and his mysterious ways.

But, once you drink the kool aid and buy into the myth, you just have to answer every inconsistency with a nauseating «God moves in mysterious ways» «God is sovereign» or «we can not understand the mind of God» etc..

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of science» or «evolution moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

«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....

i mean, seriously, ALL believers of god readily admit that «god moves in mysterious ways... and we can't possibly comprehend god's actions».

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.»

Any behavior can be ascribed to this alleged unchanging nature when combined with the convenient explanation of mysterious ways, unknown plan, and the other horn of the dilemma, i.e. whatever the deity does is invariably good because it is the deity acting.

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».

I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and God in love peace justice and human dignity.

Now, in the name of trying to have an intelligent, open, and honest conversation, please don't respond back with the standard, «well, god works in mysterious way», or needing to «have faith».

There is nothing to distinguish «god's mysterious ways» from the randomness and uncertainty inherent in the flux of life.

god sure works in mysterious ways... what a great creator and savior of all humanity.

The Enlightenment's distrust of miracle and mystery has in many ways overcome the Reformation's insistence on God's use of the sacraments in his own mysterious way to fulfill his purposes.

For Holloway this flows from the fact that «in a mysterious way, God has united himself to every man» -LCB- Gaudium et Spes 22), and this unity is also a visible, social reality in the Body of Christ which is the Church.

I would say that the ways of man are far more mysterious than any god's.

There is a limit to what we can do with ourselves on our own (Pelagius gave too much of the job to us and not enough to God, according to the fifth - century Council of Carthage that declared him heretical), but in general humans are called to actively participate in the mysterious enterprise of being changed by way of grace into Christlike beings.

The people in the West, whose achievements witnessed to the favor of God, are, Ahmad thought, really Muslims in some mysterious way.

Nevertheless, what an extraordinary testimony to the world about the importance of praying to the one true God and to the wonderful and mysterious way he responds in reassurance and love to those prayers.

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.

It's all part of His divine plan, He works in mysterious ways, It's not our place to question it.

Our obligation is to image heaven by working to build a home here that not only points to, but in some mysterious way is already part of, the greater home to be realized in the fullness of time.

Neither does it refer to any supernatural power or transcendent being allegedly directing the course of history in some mysterious way.

(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

God: Well, I kill thousands of small children all over the planet every day, and if I say I am «moving in mysterious ways,» for some reason people stop asking questions and go back to worshipping me.

(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;

When the whims of nature did not seem to fit the picture of god, we had a ready - made excuse — he was «moving in mysterious ways.»

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.

In some mysterious way, each vocation to ministry, whether baptism or ordination, is a calling out or a setting aside of the person for a special sensitivity to the intentionality of God in the world.

Hence a mysterious but genuine part of the divine agency in the world (of which more will be said later in this chapter) is the way in which the error, the maladjustment, the refusal to move forward, the «evil» in the world, precisely because (and precisely in the degree that) it enters into the divine concern, can become the occasion for new possibilities of good.

Both saw that some human pain and torment are punitive, that some trouble is disciplinary was taken for granted, that in one way or another the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory, that the whole experience of suffering remained mysterious, but that the climactic element in the New Testament's contribution to the understanding of suffering is to be found in its treatment of vicarious self - sacrifice.

In his view, and that of the predominant «physicalist» philosophy of mind school, our physical behaviour is the product, in the natural way of things, of purely physical processes in the brain rather than of some mysterious soul.

and of course monkey - in - the - middle is just the nannybot, saying «It's okay that we don't understand it all, God's ways are mysterious, just have faith».

We can not tell in what mysterious ways, hidden from us but nonetheless effectual, the act of baptism can produce a difference in personal response to the responsibilities and privileges of life in the world.

Now, before this turns into a self - righteous rant, I should note that I too am guilty of defaulting to «God's mysterious ways» when backed into a corner, and there is a degree to which this should be expected within a faith community.

DO NOT be an apologist or accept the explanation «your mind is too small to understand the greatness of God,» «God is outside the Universe» or «God moves in mysterious ways» when you come upon logical inconsistencies in your belief.

The ascription of messianic honors to Jesus by the early church, although it does not need to be so explained, and can not in any case be adequately so explained, can nevertheless be more easily explained, if it was remembered that Jesus gave evidence of knowing himself to be in some unique and mysterious way related to the coming crisis of judgment and salvation.

Or is this yet another «god / jc / sky dufus works in mysterious ways...» line of bull crap?