Sentences with phrase «old wisdom of»

Just like anything else, the age - old wisdom of «you get what you pay for» applies.

The Pendletons decided to go with the age - old wisdom of neutralizing the space.

Know your strong points, and forget the age - old wisdom of, «Turn your weaknesses into strengths.»

Yet, sadly, immigration conceptually is still tied to the age — old wisdom of «you must work at an office.»

Then again, there is that old wisdom of «If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...», which is sometimes followed by ``... then your don't fully comprehend the situation».

The age - old wisdom of Beginner's Mind pairs well with the learning commandment to «know thy audience».

The western world is awakening to the age - old wisdom of thousand - year - old treatments for everything from stubbed toes to indigestion and more.

The age - old wisdom of this medicine is embraced in Eastern culture, but we miss out on it here in the West.

Perhaps that age - old wisdom of «heavier is better» has been wrong all this time.

I am so thankful for websites & podcasts like this that challenge the old wisdom of the «experts.»

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«It takes a village,» may be incredibly old wisdom, but it's still true despite the fact that very few of us actually live in villages.

Nowadays, the average 65 - year old can look forward to about 21 more years of a healthy life, and members of this demographic segment are taking full advantage of this time in their lives, applying their wisdom and experience toward new ventures and ideas.

«People always ask, How does [Zuckerberg] have the wisdom of someone 20 years older?»

Living beside one of Canada's oldest centres of wisdom seems to have rubbed off on the residents of this classy neighbourhood: two - thirds visited an art gallery or museum in the last year.

The best graduation speeches last the test of time, offering wisdom and insight that is just as helpful to a 21 - year - old as to someone at the peak of their career.

BuzzFeed has become the envy of the media world for its seemingly magical ability to engineer stories and ads that are shared widely — whether it's a dress that looks to be either white and gold or blue and black, an investigation into taxpayer - funded «ghost schools» in Afghanistan, or an older cat imparting wisdom to a kitten on behalf of Purina.

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

Science would trace back the genetic origin of the hemp and leather and tell you exactly where those materials came from, how old they are, and the merits of its current nutritional content and the wisdom of eating it or not.

Reverse mentoring connects older leaders with younger teachers, opening a path for enhancing the elder's practical relevance while the young draw from the wisdom and integrity of those who have been sustained by principle relevance for many years.

Old Testament Prophecy: «And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him — the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.»

We then think that the parent with experience or age has wisdom — but I have known many older people who clearly have gained little wisdom — as they have remained int he parent / child way of pereiving self and the world.

It may have looked like a fool's day, but the Risen Wisdom of the World, the Hope of Humanity, the Saviour of the Suffering, and the Messiah of the Masses, He buys back the busted, and takes back the abandoned, and all the walking dead comeback to new life, because the old world and ways have died in the night, and it is now --

«We named Sophia after Woman Wisdom, the feminine personification of God found in the Old Testament, particularly in Proverbs.

A chronology of early Old Testament writings with emphasis on the prophets and their interpretation of history; also: the call of Abraham; the post-exilic period; «Wisdom literature;» Apocalypses; the inconclusiveness of the Old Testament.

Yes, Zimmerman stupidly chose the absolute worst of his many options there; but, while we can't expect a 17 year - old to have extra wisdom, Trayvon had other options too.

Faith communities are rediscovering the theology of hospitality As congregations change, many have been forced to reclaim this wisdom as old as Abraham.

The Spirit had some connection to Sophia, the spirit of wisdom in the Old Testament, and to the creative aspect of God, as seen in Genesis 1 and sections of Ezekiel.

And yet, as often happens, Jesus» advice is also based on common sense — the sort of down - to - earth, practical wisdom that is dispensed today by people like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and that fills the Old Testament book of Proverbs.

We have people who are probably physically older, likely have been walking in the faith longer, and have demonstrated a certain amount of wisdom.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

12:30) Wiser was the queen of Sheba, who of old came to Solomon to hear his wisdom; wiser were the Ninevites, who repented at the preaching of the prophet Jonah — wiser than the fools of this generation, who do not understand what is happening before their eyes.

Wisdom is the opposite of being self - absorbed, but old people can, like King Lear, be narcissistic.

Romans, not written by Jesus, but by Paul who drew upon the Old Testament Wisdom of Solomon, to add a list of of reproaches not voiced by Jesus in His quest to free men from suffering.

As if God in all His infinite wisdom and wonder could be purely explained and rationalized out by a group of old men.

Students agree to attend weekly for a year, during which they study either the entire Bible (Disciple I), Genesis, Exodus, Luke and Acts (II), the prophets and Paul (III), or the wisdom and historical books of the Old Testament and the Johannine literature (IV).

Advocates of a new public philosophy for black Americans, men like Clarence Thomas, are drawing on an old wisdom, well suited for our times.

Mankind was younger back then and we are much older now (mankind at least) and we've gain at least some wisdom not only that but serpation of church and state.

Credit it to wisdom, age or laziness — or a dash of all three: my old compulsion to be certain has yielded to an unembarrassed modesty about many details of human life.

That old copy of the RSV could never contain the wisdom that can be packed into notes on a computer Bible.

But since Mary and Joseph were devout Jews, and Jesus quotes so often from the Old Testament, we can surmise that he grew up an eager, thoughtful boy, saturated in the wisdom of the Jewish Scriptures.

In the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha God's wisdom is often personified and speaks in the first person (e.g., Prov 1:20 - 33; 8; Sir 24).

And there is much wisdom in Paul's other message of assurance which is basic to the subject of this chapter: «Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.»

This is the wisdom of the old stag: that we must learn to live alone, and that in death «we are all alone.»

All of this is taught in the Word of God in both the Old and New Testaments» (Wisdom for Living [Victor, 1984], pp. 131, 102).

He suggests that there may be wisdom in the old «practice of giving our house a name.»

quantum mechanics or principles explains the spokiness of reality that the devil or satan.or miracles can even exist in our lives, beause the wisdom of God is beyond our comprehension, He is 12,700,000,000 billion years old compared to our less than 100 years.

At worst the effort to exercise this authority becomes a servile representation of old forms, a religious antiquarianism; at its best, however, such communal authority speaks in contemporary language and to contemporary needs out of the long experience and painfully gathered wisdom of the Christian centuries.

(besides, a wisdom - seeker as a woman makes plenty of sense seeing that is how wisdom is portrayed as a woman - character in multiple religious literature, including but not limited to the Old Testament...)

We been given in the Whole heavenly scriptures including Quran stories that when are read or recited they are supposed to inspire us from it's wisdom of the old, reading those stories is like feeding our senses for knowing which becomes to be known as man's common senses.

Here we are again in the atmosphere of the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, the atmosphere of wise counsel for daily living.