Sentences with phrase «of rich young man»

She takes a dalliance into acting that doesn't pan out and when the courting of a rich young man takes a turn for the potentially criminal, Mildred is finally pissed off enough to throw her out of the house.

We are all, at least some of the time, in the situation of the rich young man; we have more than we need, certainly more than others who are destitute and desperate.

If we take this story of the Rich Young Man as our paradigm, it yields this: We must be prepared at any moment to share what we have, even to the last penny, with others who are in need.

Nevertheless, the import of the narrative of the Rich Young Man seems clear enough: Jesus calls those who would follow him to be prepared to dispose of their worldly goods and possessions if they become a hindrance to discipleship.

«Sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor» was surely said for the spiritual benefit of the rich young man, with an eye to what he might learn by doing it, rather than for the benefit of the poor (for whom it would have been a drop in the ocean).

The account of the rich young man (Matt.

I'm sorry, but you remind me in a way of the rich young man who came to Christ and asked what he must do to be saved.

The story of the Rich Young Man tells us that we must be prepared at any moment to share what we have, even to the last penny, with others who are in need.

I am just thinking of the rich young man, the woman of Samaria, Peter's mother - in - law — to name but a few.

Not exact matches

The son of pharmaceutical tycoon Leslie Dan — once one of Canada's richest men — the younger Dan was stuffing envelopes for Novopharm, the family's generic drug empire, by the time he was five.

Nassef Sawiris, Naguib's youngest brother and the richest man in Egypt, is the biggest shareholder and chief executive officer of fertilizer producer OCI NV.

As if that's not enough, consider what Jesus said to the rich young ruler, and consider the story of the rich man and Lazarus.

In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear injunction to store up treasure not on earth but only in heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both God and Mammon, his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning against dissipation), and so on.

As a commentary on the plight of the rich young ruler who can not bring himself to sell all he has, give the money to the poor, and follow Christ, it leaves little room for doubt that Christ is not merely rebuking one wealthy man for a lack of proper spiritual commitment, but is saying something very disquieting about wealth as such.

«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

It seemed that every time she opened a Bible, whether at a friend's house or in the public library, it was to the words of Christ to the rich young man: Arise, go, sell what you possess, give it to the poor and follow Me (Mk 10:21).

Jesus» conversation with the rich young man presents two versions of the material life: the first is the young man's life of wealth and status.

Perhaps the first lesson for us as «rich young men» is to realize the empty promise of our consumption.

The traditional description of this man is a composite one; «rich» is from Mark 10:22, «young» from Matthew 19:20, and «ruler» from Luke 18:18.

I think he is right, and this approach is a richer and more useful one than the angry - young - man line that is taken by an emerging group of commentators who are more keen to denounce something from the 1960s than to seek to build and inspire.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

In case that rich young man whom Christ encountered on the road had sold all his goods and given to the poor, we should extol him, as we do all that is great, though without labor we would not understand him — and yet he would not have become an Abraham, in spite of the fact that he offered his best.

In his conversation with Bill, the man quoted from the Gospel story of Jesus and the rich young man as a rationale for his actions.

Besides, as David Hill gently reminds us (p. 283), in commenting on the story of Jesus and the rich young man, «Poverty is not a rule of universal application.»

Such is the teaching of Jesus» encounter with the rich young man.

And this speech ought by no means to have been indifferent to the aforesaid rich young man, for in case he gave away his goods because he was tired of them, his resignation was not much to boast of.

But in the Synoptic gospels we learn that when the rich, young, man rejected Jesus» advice, Jesus observed: «How difficult it is for those having wealth to enter the kingdom of God: (cf. Mark 10:17 - 23).

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, «I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth, that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, «I have made Abram rich,» except only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.»

It's not religion itself it's difference that we fight over, nation states, color of skin, rich and poor, fat and skinny, man and women, old and young, etc. etc. fighting and death over all these issues.

They were not «sinners» in the conventional sense: the call to discipleship, Jesus» table - fellowship with sinners, the «conversion» of Zaccheus; the woman who anointed Jesus» feet (Luke 7:36 - 50): Jesus» healing of the sick: Jesus» acceptance of children, the shepherds, and the wise men who were present at Jesus» birth; the centurion of Capemaum; the rich young ruler; the Eunuch (Acts 8), and Cornelius; Nathaniel, Joseph of Arimathea and the women at the tomb.

Witty and intelligent Tyrion is the youngest son of Tywin Lannister, the richest and most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms (the fictional Game of Thrones realm).

Ask yourself why Ferguson was happy to allow the likes of David Beckham, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Jaap Stam and Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the club, when seemingly their intentions to do so were not motivated by greed, yet a young upstart tells the club «I want an obscene wage like the players at Man City, if you don't give it to me then I am off» and for some reason rather than choosing to cash in on a player who appears to not know the meaning of the word «loyalty» (just ask Everton supporters), instead hands the player the biggest deal in the club's rich history.

According to their former manager, the young target man would not have had such a rich vein of form, had Sherwood not allowed him to go out on loan last season.

It's the first month of 2011 and Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world, is throwing Telmex money behind a young Mexican driver.

This foundation leads to a rich academic high school experience that supports young men and women in realizing their full potential as students, as people, as members of the human community.

The writer narrates how he had to sleep with a corpse in the same room and how his mother had to die because of poverty, how young men became rich in his family yet lost everything overnight; which was what the «family altar» said concerning his family.

Saudi Arabia's leadership has pulled off its boldest move yet to consolidate power around its young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, arresting 11 senior princes, one of the country's richest men and scores of former ministers in what it billed as a corruption purge.

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