Sentences with phrase «not as deserted»

They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

But in Eastern Orthodoxy, the separation from those called «to the desert» and we who live «in the world» is not as wide as it might seem.

A theologically based concept of reconciliation favors a restorative rationale for punishment, one that does not dispense with desert but that construes the purpose of punishment as repairing ruptures in right relationship.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

Just as one can not know how many grains of sand are in the Sahara desert, one can not definitely know that God does not exist.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.

If many, many people are deserting the institutional church as Jeremy Myers claims, perhaps this is not disobedience to a command but a latter day reformation driven by none other than the Holy Spirit.

Religion does not explain, as in prove, a first cause either — it merely carries on unfounded desert dweller mumbo jumbo.

Of those Christian ascetics, what can be said of the desert fathers, such as Abba Daniel who fought not to sleep in order to keep vigil through the night in prayer, or Abba Macarius and his resolution of silence and strict solitude, or Abba Benjamin's radical fasting?

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: «Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.

As I wrote in a book on this entire problem, published in 1997 and entitled The Roman Option, «I do not believe that the ecclesial entity that Forward in Faith has created is intended, even by them, as a permanent structure: it is a provisional solution, a desert encampment.&raquAs I wrote in a book on this entire problem, published in 1997 and entitled The Roman Option, «I do not believe that the ecclesial entity that Forward in Faith has created is intended, even by them, as a permanent structure: it is a provisional solution, a desert encampment.&raquas a permanent structure: it is a provisional solution, a desert encampment.»

So, too, the life of faith is a life of emptiness and darkness in the desert where one's truth and certainty as food for the journey are not a verifiable and present truth but a promise, just as the manna was a promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.

It was the weak link as you follow the chosen ones through their entire journey in building a relationship with God — doubt God; in the Desert, in the promised land then finally «this Jesus can not be the Messiah».

Which would be handy for anyone, but particularly for people stranded in the desert, who will not only be drinking water made from bug technology, but will, in all likelihood, be eating bugs as well.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»

It's not exactly cheery viewing, as most of the animation involves deforestation, drying rivers and retreating glaciers, but you also see the irrigation of deserts in the Middle East and just the onward march of humanity in general.

There are too many people, as in the southward - moving Sahara Desert, who are now starving, and many others are so undernourished as to be not far from the edge of starvation.

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

I can not admit that I am wrong just as I can not admit that I am not thirsty in the desert or that i do not hunger when I have nothing to eat.

It is an acknowledgement that a desert of ignorance exists in the midst of every oasis of understanding... This (approach) is not then some temporary place of uncertainty on the way to spiritual maturity, but rather is something that operates within faith as a type of heat - inducing friction that prevents our liquid images of the divine from cooling and solidifying into idolatrous form.»

But we must not begin to think that because the law worked for Moses and the Israelites 3500 years ago as they wandered around a desert that it will work for us today.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

While not failing to strike these same notes of righteousness, judgment, and repentance, it differed as widely from John's message as his manner of life differed from that of the austere prophet, who lived alone in the desert, was clothed in camel's hair, and «came neither eating nor drinking.»

Paying careful attention, we see how one desert is not the same as another, how different trees flourish under specific conditions, how some cultures speak with animals as spirit - friends.

Here we find not only our earliest creation story (that of the first chapter of Genesis, as we shall note presently, came much later) and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden for their disobedience, but also the doings of the patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph in Egypt, Moses leading his people through the desert, Joshua leading them in their rugged attempts to gain a foothold in Canaan.

Jesus» temptation in the desert is not so much about the devil luring Jesus into this or that sin but about portraying Jesus as the Son, who had to be like us «in all things» (Heb.

Where the Pope insists that we must embrace the highest truths of our own regime, FT wonders whether we would not be better off deserting it as illegitimate.

«Tempting God is disbelief in God, not belief in Him,» he said, citing an incident in the Old Testament in which Moses slapped his staff against a rock to provide water in the desert rather than speak to the rock as God had commanded.

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

The 26 million or so blacks (the census is not terribly accurate about them, just as the American census is not very accurate about the Hispanic population) are tribally fragmented over a vast, mostly desert landscape.

Why should we then not be allowed, as even the desert fathers were, to borrow meditative exercises that centuries of pre-Christian practice have left us?

And even if archeologists did find some artifacts in the desert, they would not automatically as - sume it is the corroboration of the exodus, because the Jews had with them Egyptian objects.

All the arguments that the Jews had with Moses as they were traveling in the desert — none of them were about that the account of the giving of the Torah wasn't true.

Those who describe Stephen as the first martyr for the cause of Jesus and the in - breaking kingdom of God should not forget this forerunner from the desert whose actions echo those of Nathan and the prophets of Israel, and whose death foreshadows the death of truth incarnate and love crucified.

One of the most unforgettable for me is the passage in Douglas Coupland's Life After God, where three twenty - somethings go to spend time in the desert near Las Vegas simply to tell each other stories, because they have come to realise that it is not healthy «to live life as an isolated succession of cool moments.»

It is as though one can not go to Bethlehem, to Jerusalem or to Nazareth without passing through the desert where John is preaching.

What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well seem, except that with the turn of the earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.

I was afraid it would look as if I had deserted the battle array...» He bewails the state of the Church, and then speaks in detail of his constipation: «The Lord has struck me hard in the hind quarters... My stools were so hard that I was sweating with effort... Yesterday on the fourth day I went once, but I did not sleep all night.»

Its interesting account of the poiesiso f Christian life (pages 61 - 68) does not focus on the challenging but rewarding hard work of reviving authentic Christian Culture as service - and - challenge to the contemporary «cultural desert».

Although, I have not used gelatine in years, I do remember a desert from child hood — loaded with that frozen petro chemical whip cream that we all loved as kids.

Not surprisingly, he asked me to make one for his office as a New Year's desert.

South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.

As a Georgia transplant out in the Tucson desert, I can tell you in no uncertain terms that unless you've had a peach that was tree - ripened, you ain't had a decent peach.

Also works with quince, cored but not peeled, cut in quarters then cut quarters in half, vanilla bean chopped, sugar - quince is sour if not accustomed to it - to taste but not too much is is semi savoury, a splash of balsamic, and then vodka, sprig of lemon thyme; bake in gratin dish until soft and caramelised at edges.Good as desert or with game.

Not only do our outdoor pizza ovens excel at making pizza, they equally perform as the ideal outdoor wood oven for cooking meats, vegetables, breads, and deserts.

I had a kettle on constantly, our hot water heated as we went about our day and I baked Steve a sticky date pudding for his birthday desert... what's not to love about a wood burning stove:).