Sentences with phrase «of old truths»

According to such opinions, science develops by the addition of new truths to the stock of old truths, or the increasing approximation of theories to the truth, and in the odd case, the correction of past errors.

So many of the old truths we learned from our parents and grandparents stand the test of time, and to me - it looks like Dvorak's apt analogy does the same.

Seldom has there been a more savage demonstration of the old truth that, when it comes to elections, perception matters more than reality.

It has fantastic ability to soothe digestive upset, which is due to the high concentration of the naturally occurring menthol, is probably one of the oldest truths in the world of medicine.

Not exact matches

There's a lot of truth in the old saying about dressing for the job you want, not the one you have.

The old saw that «you can't manage what you can't measure» is surely a vast over generalization, but one that contains a kernel of truth.

Within the white void of «The Construct,» Morpheus shows him the truth on an old - fashioned television.

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In the business world, the company In the business world, the company in decline tacitly forgets that ongoing success depends on humble self - awareness, good old fashioned hard work, and close attention paid to the principles of integrity and truth.

However, this does not imply some of the more ridiculous tenets of creationism (such as man walking with dinosaurs or the world being 6000 years old) should be objectively viewed as truth when all evidence points to evolution as fact.

He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

There is truth, and then there is Christian truth, being that version of things that can be forced to kinda, sorta make some sense with a particular rendering of scripture mixed with old - fashioned bigotry and chauvinism.

In their final moments of greatest truth, THEY are deciding what is important to THEM, and it is family, not your old fashioned preaching church or your bible or your bible god.

According to the Old Testament, he and his angels used to walk the Earth and had to actually see something in person to know the truth of it.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Yes Chritianity has become less attractive from old to young searching for The Truth but rejecting it when it appears to not embrace our modern ideas of truth, even suggesting there are many trTruth but rejecting it when it appears to not embrace our modern ideas of truth, even suggesting there are many trtruth, even suggesting there are many truths.

When the ten - year - old sister of a seven - year - old boy dances in front of him chanting, «I know something you don't know,» truth has clearly become a pawn, a currency for gaining power.

She had a way of saying old orthodox truths in fresh ways.

The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.

God is not something to play with; the old saying that he has a sense of humor is just that a saying and has no truth.

corruption of truth absolute by hindu Pharisees, pagan self centered, follower of hindu filthy pig ism by corrupted Torah, known as Greek Torah, translated and commented by Ben Asheer in 250 AD in Yiddish, secularist, self centered language, also known as Old Testament, part of book of Mithra ism labeled as Bible.

In terms of forming our own thoughts, we are not the ones running to a book of iron age (or older) stories for «truth»

So likewise the «existential» truth of Eternal Recurrence shatters the power of the old order of history, transforming transcendence into immanence, and thereby making eternity incarnate in every Now.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

A father who welcomes home his prodigal son must be careful lest in his old age he become a Lear, easy prey to the flatteries of a Goneril or Regan, blind to the devotion of a Cordelia and unable until almost too late to find healing for his fantasies in her fidelity to the truth.

This is an old truth: Drawing strength from that great «democracy of the dead» has always been essential for the Church's vitality.

There might be some truth in the old gibe of pie - in - the - sky if we found all Christians doing absolutely nothing to better the world, on the grounds that they have Heaven to look forward to; and all the atheists working like mad to relieve every form of human distress, since this life is all that we have!

[c] 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

A twenty - five year old Newsletter meditation for the First Sunday of Advent, Esher Parish, Surrey, originally entitled «The Truth Does Matter.»

Of course, it is often difficult to decide whether, despite a man's good will, his efforts to understand better the gospel and the doctrine of the Church have really caused him to depart from the truth) or whether a traditionalist sold on the old formulae only thinks sOf course, it is often difficult to decide whether, despite a man's good will, his efforts to understand better the gospel and the doctrine of the Church have really caused him to depart from the truth) or whether a traditionalist sold on the old formulae only thinks sof the Church have really caused him to depart from the truth) or whether a traditionalist sold on the old formulae only thinks so.

Tell us the truth when you think that our old ways of doing things need to change, and though we may push back, the conversation will force us to examine why we do what we do and perhaps inspire something even greater.

Future generations will again pose the question of truth as an element of society, hence the old question of the ecclesiality of Christian truth is still a new question.

For the Church can not change into something or other at will, arbitrarily, but only into a new presence of its old reality, into the presence and future of its past, of the Gospel, of the grace and truth of God himself.

Growth in truth can not be the addition of new, discrepant beliefs to old ones.

But the concept of fulfillment also entails a «retrospective reinterpretation of Israel's traditions» that directs the reader back to the Old Testament; thus, the truth of the Gospels also becomes the basis for understanding Scripture.

Nietzsche, the quixotic champion of the old standards, thought jesting Pilate's «What is truth?»

He must really risk mutual discussion with the world, must take for granted that he will not only teach but learn thereby, that the whole truth is always richer and more mysterious than what he has already explicitly grasped, that between the real truth of yesterday, today and tomorrow there exists a deeper hidden agreement than is realized either by insensitive innovators or diehard defenders of the old at any price.

Like that of the prophets of old, this was an overt act designed to drive home the truth of the whole matter: a king bent on war rode a horse, but one seeking peace rode an ass.

It tells the truth of difference and conflict between Old testament and New Testament accounts.

wow what a way to make lots of money in one night.lol People should read the true inscriptions that are thousands of years old which tells the truth,» the seven tablets of creation» western christianity is a JOKE and a bunch of lies.

Futhermore, not everything that is worrying conservative Catholics after the Council is only the imagination of old - fashioned people who confuse traditional customs with ever - valid truths.

Post-metaphysical historicists win, when they do, not by out - arguing their opponents, but by out - narrating them, by telling a story with sufficient verve and inventiveness that others also want to tell versions of it, and in doing so to abandon their older stories» in this case, the stories about truth and realism.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

I am all in favor of having correct theology and being able to defend what we believe, but we must never forget the age - old truth that for most people, our life is the only theology book they will ever read.

Surely it is one of the sharpest ironies of this particular divine comedy that by telling the truth in such a way, he will come in later years to be thought of as a forger of old paintings — a counterfeiter of truth.

Glenn, it is not the Old Testament writers but our poor perception of Yahweh, Yahushua himself said Yahweh and I are one, do you suppose he is not telling the truth, Yahweh forbid.

Meanwhile, I'll side with people who done the hard research to find the truth instead of surrendering my intellect to a 5,000 year old text about middle eastern sheep herders.

However, as we get older, that labeling process becomes somehow, corrupted — leading to all sorts of bad things, bad thinking and false truths.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Which I think is fine, of course, but no need to use the old Christian standard of «peace in my heart» for a measure of truth.