Sentences with phrase «of ordinary places»

This is the real America; behind - the - scenes portraits documenting the untold story of ordinary places in everyday (well, night) small town USA, void of any people.

Her cunning attention to quotidian details imprint upon the viewer the unmistakable ambiance of ordinary places.

It is dangerous to pile up examples of persons who have made of an ordinary place or a run - of - the - mill office an opportunity for extraordinary service to God and to humanity.

Not exact matches

But the idea of a central place where ordinary citizens can submit news has been overtaken by the social web — that's effectively the way millions of people already use Twitter, for example.

While 77.5 % of folks in ordinary places pitched in, only 35 % of luxury clients did the same.

The headset already can be used to control most ordinary functions in common software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, by taking the place of a mouse — the cursor simply follows your gaze, and you can think your way into triggering the equivalent of a left or right mouse click.

Announce a placing of up to 65,918,810 new fully paid ordinary shares of the Company representing up to 10 per cent.

Two things are certain about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — confusion reigns, and along much of the pipeline it falls to ordinary people to protect what is important to the places they care about.

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.

By: Simone Liedtke Updated 2 hours 57 minutes ago Aim - listed Ncondezi Energy has raised # 950 000, before expenses, through a conditional placing of 15.2 - million ordinary shares at a price of 6.25 p apiece.

Silver lining: by virtue of having renters in place before the local market went further south (when hospital closed), we were able to take a substantial ordinary loss on last year's tax return.

Capital gains and dividends are taxed as ordinary income with a 40 percent exclusion, leading to effective rates of 6, 15, and 21 percent before counting the 3.8 surtax currently in place.

He died east of Brest, deep in the woodlands of Huelgoat, a place that had been a frequent retreat when he was a child and where his imagination had first begun to float free from its moorings in ordinary life.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Consider the obituary column in your local newspaper — not the obituary of anyone famous but just an ordinary obituary of an ordinary person from an ordinary place.

Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in church or at home, whether at ordinary services in church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place where we happen to be as human beings.

They forgot that they were all creatures of God, who chose to seek welcome in the midst of an unsettled country, to build a dwelling place with the lives of ordinary people, to make whole the earth by seeding it with heaven.

People of all times and places have reported states of consciousness that transcend ordinary experience, in which past and future disappear into a constant «now.»

But if he should begin to display his hobby in ordinary social gatherings, or to imagine that his knowing the works of Emily Dickinson entitled him to some measure of respect not accorded to those who had gotten no further than page three of The Sun, then it was time to put him in his place as a social outcast.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

In the first place, by no means all the functioning of the unconscious is «mental» in any ordinary sense.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I didn't need this weird demarcation between «sacred work» and «secular work» — rather all of my life, seen and unseen, celebrated and uncelebrated, radical and utterly ordinary — all of it was a place to meet with God and to be transformed.

Next to this first type of primary charismatic, there is a derivative type: those who by some contact, possibly long and close, with the «friend of God» have acquired charisma, which places them in a category different from that of an ordinary member of the community: the apostles, companions, and first disciples of the great charismatics can be listed here.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

All the elements were in place for one of those larger than ordinary mortals» performances, but the gambit seems to have fallen flat.

Grahame, We too have found that we can be the church, the body of Christ, in the most ordinary circumstances and the most ordinary places.

The sermon is uninspiring, the congregation is asleep, but suddenly the poet catches a glimpse of something beyond the ordinary, flat experience of worship in a «place [in which] the Good News... dropped down some black hole.»

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

In an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real world.

Then Jesus challenges the ordinary behavior of the guests, who are scrambling for a better place around the table.

It is not an attempt to usurp the place of our ordinary ways of discovering, and so it does not compete nor conflict with reason or science.

The subliminal region, whatever else it may be, is at any rate a place now admitted by psychologists to exist for the accumulation of vestiges of sensible experience [whether inattentively or attentively registered], and for their elaboration according to ordinary psychological or logical laws into results that end by attaining such a «tension» that they may at times enter consciousness with something like a burst.

A few hundred yards from the house at Tyniecka 10, stands the Royal Castle of Wawel» a much less ordinary looking place.

The philosophically instructed reader will notice that I have all along been placing myself at the ordinary dualistic point of view of natural science and of common sense.

Aristotle lays out the difficulties that the ordinary understanding places in the way of his conception: the actualization of the cause of the process seems to be distinct from that of the object of the process, for the one is an effecting, the other a being effected.

It seems puzzling and out of the ordinary to us because it exactly traverses the ordinary conception according to which a bodily thing is only actual in its own place.

And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

This is no ordinary argument for the existence of God, though it could easily enough be taken as such by some readers, especially because of its unabashed references to the God of Abraham and Moses and its well - placed quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures.

Nor can he take his place as just one patriarch among several (primus inter pares) because «He is endowed with the primacy of ordinary power over all the churches» (Christus Dominus, 2).

Personally, I'm in favor of abolishing the corporate income tax entirely and restoring the old «Millionaire's» tax brackets that were in place prior to Kennedy, then Ford, then Reagan cutting taxes left and right, coupled with the treatment of investment income as ordinary income in the tax codes.

Instruction is given to children of distinguished families by a teacher — called a guru — who visits them at their home; children from ordinary families of the common people go to the guru's home or to a place of worship.

Since Whitehead is here accustomed to placing cognition — and by extension, perception — within the wider bodily context, it is not surprising that he should suspect a wider ambiance within which our ordinary understanding of perception takes place, a wider ambiance which deserves analysis in our theory.

In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary context.

Because the ordinary Spaniards of that period of time were mostly illiterate and came from the medieval world which was so rich in imagery and the native world of the Americas communicated mainly through an image - language, it was much more at the level of the image - word than of the alphabetic spoken word that the new synthesis of Iberian Catholicism and the native religions took place and continues to take place today.

Every time a person can see, even if only ironically and ambiguously, the events of his or her social and personal life illuminated by some aspect of the life and death of Jesus, then parabolic understanding is taking place, the ordinary is seen in a new context.

In the first place, Whitehead takes an evolutionary view of experience, reminding us that our ordinary, waking consciousness was once highly extraordinary among our primate ancestors.

Which is a super awesome feat because there's so much good nutrition packed in there in the place of ordinary cheese — including fiber, protein, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, etc..

The sacred is not in the sky, the place of transcendent, abstract principle, but rather is based on this earth, in the ordinary dwelling places of our lives, in our gardens and kitchens and bedrooms.

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