Christopher isn't rebelling against anything too remarkable.
He wasn't rebelling against authority the way Austin did... He just said he wasn't going to be disrespected...
And I'm
not rebelling against my parents either.
I don't rebel against any gods any more than I rebel against Sauron.
Those who set themselves up as the true repositories of the «spirit of the Council» are
not rebelling against theological incoherencies, and they won't be re-integrated if a more satisfactory system is proposed, since its presuppositions - if it is orthodox - are ultimately the same.
Only do
not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; the protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us.
The reason of Jefferson and Paine and of what Henry May calls the Moderate Enlightenment that informed the Constitution did
not rebel against the providential order, but at most rejected the received ways of understanding that order» tradition, authority, revelation, scripture» in favor of trusting in fresh human intellect.
If you will fear the Lord and serve him and hearken to his voice and
not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, it will be well; but if you will not... [12:14 f.]
Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do
not rebel against him, for he will pardon your transgression; for my name is in him» (Exod.
From wiki: «Maccoby argued that the real Jesus was
not a rebel against the Jewish law, but instead a Jewish Messianic claimant whose life and teaching were within the mainstream of first - century Judaism.
«I am now convinced that adolescents do
not rebel against parents.
Kids won't rebel against their own ideas.
Constitutionally, they can
not rebel against policies in the governing party's manifesto and they can
not rebel against financial bills.
By the 60 - minute mark, he's worn out his welcome, and you're left wondering why his oversized minions haven't rebelled against him, given him a swirlie and hung him from a flagpole.
1 «At Black Mountain College everyone was always rebelling, both in their lives and in their work, and it struck me at the time that it was only Cy and I who were
not rebelling against the history of art.
Willem de Kooning's vehement gestural abstraction had been exiled to art limbo, as had the work of Joan and others who sought to extend its painterliness,
not rebel against it.
Not exact matches
Lyne: I was actively
rebelling against them for a period, but it was also that I just didn't want the life that I saw a lot of people back in my neighborhood leading.
But at the same time, the seemingly endless economic doldrums (the flicker of optimism from this week's jobs numbers notwithstanding), the rise of the Occupy movement, and the general sense that young people are being particular battered by coming of age in a monster recession, suggests that while the»90s and naughts didn't offer much to
rebel against, the current decade certainly does.
They know the value
not only of structure but also of
rebelling against it.
The White House and State Department have seized on the attacks to condemn
not only the
rebels but their Iranian supporters, underscoring the administration's increasing hard line
against Tehran.
The training won't begin until March, but Hodges said it will teach the Ukrainians how to better defend themselves
against «Russian and
rebel artillery and rockets.»
It wouldn't have taken long before the starving slaves and their starving owners would have
rebelled against their fledgling country's government, descending the entire South into utter chaos and ruin.
And it has its most accurate analogue in the historical realization that we are
not premoderns: we can
not cease to be moderns by
rebelling against modernity.
Often the new grandees portray themselves as
rebels against the old notion that law is
not a business.
When the Nazis force the population of Warsaw into a ghetto the Jews
rebelled and fought back
against overwhelming opposition but they didn't give up.
We must
not make a decision based on our hope that we can still go to heaven even when we purposefully and blatantly
rebel against God.
Their problem is that they don't like what they know about God and believe that they can
rebel against God and win (this is where their beliefs are wrong).
Such matters can
not only be disrupting in themselves, but when
rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.
And this is true
not only of physical violence — the violence of the soldier who kills, the policeman who bludgeons, the
rebel who commits arson, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor
against his workers, of the «haves»
against the «have -
nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our own societies and those of the Third World; the violence done through powerful corporations which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself.
If the Imam does
not comply with the Sunnah it is the moral and religious obligation of a Muslim to
rebel against his authority.
«Man
rebels against death and knows that as one who is fallen under it he is
not in his authenticity».
What did the Lord do to the people who
rebelled against Moses, when the people said, «Does the Lord
not speak through us also?»
Some feminists hypothesize that if fathers shared the details of child rearing with mothers, sons would
not need to
rebel so strongly
against their mothers, and a healthier transition would be possible.
And this isn't necessary because He is angry at us, but because we have
rebelled against Him.
God is perfect... adam and eve were
not tempted by God, but by evil and out of free will chose to
rebel against their Father / Creator....
years pass and in so many millions of years pass the bible does
not say just how many years past but it was the first earth age when Lucifer
rebelled against God and took 1/3 of the children of God with him.
Man
rebels against this relation: «he wills and wills
not to translate the heavenly truth into earthly reality.»
Is there
not reason for Man, become aware of the direction in which Life is taking him, to
rebel at last; to go on strike
against a blind course of evolution which may
not, in any event, betoken any real progress?
«Farmers
rebelled against the rich; Chinese rose
against the Mongols, the south invaded the north under the anti-Mongol slogan, These barbarians are created to obey and
not to command a civilized nation.»
Notwithstanding, in the mean while they fight in spirit
against the flesh, lest they should fulfill the lusts thereof; and although they feel the flesh to rage and
rebel, and themselves also do fan sometimes into sin through infirmity, yet are they
not discouraged, nor think therefore that their state and kind of life, and the works which are done according to their calling, displease God; but they raise up themselves by faith.»
One suspects that Scorsese's insistence on leaving it in suggests that either the artist in him
rebelled against being told what he could or could
not do, or some satanic impulse hinted that without that slight movement under the bedcovers, none of the publicity generated by fundamentalist protest would have come about.
But these are
not seen as gods, so we have difficulty understanding cultures that
rebel against secularity and continue to maintain religious justification for their violence.
And who could say with certainty that some other person was
not an inquiring and deeply concerned atheist but one
rebelling against God in deadly guilt?
He loved the legalist in me as He loved the
rebel who, honestly, didn't want to
rebel against God, but
against a disease - causing religious system with its spiritual abuse and
against those who once abused me sexually.
The doctrine that only the human nature of Jesus and
not the divine nature suffered on the cross is a Catholic dogma
against which the inward spirit of Protestant thought
rebels.
In the last analysis Job protests,
not his suffering, but an order of existence in which he is unable by his own devices to maintain his life in security and to achieve its fulfillment.17 It is his role
against which he
rebels.
I am
not sure why Satan and his angels ever thought they could defeat God by
rebelling against him, but we must believe that they know God at least as well — if
not better — than we do, and so the lack of understanding must be ours.
In the same way, when I nation
rebels against God, it is
not uncommon for God to go to war
against that nation itself and
not just
against a few rebellious individuals.
But it's also
not a story that could have been told without the portraying the faith of these
rebels against the rebellion.
The entrance of the Egyptian army into the path through the Red Sea demonstrates that if a group of people persists in
rebelling against God, there comes a time when
not even God can hold back the consequences of such rebellion.