Sentences with phrase «only called upon»

Oftentimes we are only called upon to assist when a claim has already been filed in court against our client.

We've been sidelined and only called upon to «sign - off» on compliance paperwork when it suits a district's purpose.

Beyond this one biennial meeting, county committee members are generally only called upon when there is a vacancy.

Not exact matches

In addition, the banks themselves became more cautious and less willing to lend to each other, both because of the uncertainty surrounding the exposure of each institution to these problems, which is only now being slowly revealed, and because each institution was unsure the extent to which the lines of credit they had provided were going to be called upon.

Today's Evangelicals leaders need to get back to being preachers of the word like they were called upon to do and leave the judging to the ONLY ONE who has the authority to sit at the right hand of God.

It was the translation of the Aramaic word, «Kepha» (Cephas), into the Greek language that caused the confusion among some who look upon Peter as not being called «rock», but only a «pebble».

In other words, mainstream political science has insisted upon the logical independence of fact and value, such that only propositions about facts can be properly called true or false, and the study of political facts is «value - neutral» or «value - free.»

His wrath was only visited upon those who stubbornly refused to hear his voice and heed his call; those who continued in their ways of violence, oppression and wickedness.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

The kind of theology I will be engaged in here, by no means the only kind, could be called heuristic theology; in analogy with some similar activities in the sciences, it «plays» with possibilities in order to find out, to discover, new fruitful ways to interpret the universe.6 In the case of an heuristic theology focused on cosmology, the discovery would be oriented toward «remythologizing» creation as dependent upon God.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

Only a peace, it is perfectly clear, which will allow, express and correspond to what I have called the vital in - folding of Mankind upon itself.

I mean, if god wants him to live he wouldn't have given him cancer in the first place but lets just say he contr.acted can.cer on his own but was called upon god to do these good dee.ds but needed more time, now what if the only way he could survi.ve was from stem cell res.earch?

There is not to be only one ruler upon the throne from the seed of David, there is to be a number that can not be counted as of the sands, this will be the Branch, the arm of YHWH, and it is called YHWH «transliteration» (Lord) Our Righteousness, prophesied in Jeremiah 33:14 - 22.

Such distinctions are necessary — not only because to call upon the state to love» is self - contradictory, insofar as the state's actions are rooted in power and not voluntarism, but because the claims of love are rooted in sectarian acknowledgment as opposed to universal norms of justice.

«As Christians we remember of course how our Lord called upon us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute, but for those confronted with such hatred and oppression I can only begin to imagine how incredibly hard it must be to follow Christ's example.»

It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.

As to the atheist your being at such the advanced stage in spiritual development you are ripe in time for turning the senses inward / thus knowing one's true self I can only repeat your at further state in your spiritual development you believing meditation the next port of call upon your human journey leading to enlightenment.

Erik Erikson's description of Luther captures several elements in the lives of the «more unique»: «An individual is called upon (called by whom only the theologians claim to know, and by what only bad psychologists) to lift his individual patienthood to the level of a universal one and to try to solve for all what he could not solve for himself alone» (Young Man Luther [Norton, 1958] p. 67).

The original message of Jesus, as was the case with all other Prophets, such as Abraham, Moses and Muhammad (peace be upon all of them), was to call the people to worship the ONE TRUE GOD ONLY.

Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.

The accounts of the «calling» of disciples are bald, and less informative than we might wish, but it stands firm that Jesus called upon certain persons to cut loose from home, family and livelihood and commit themselves to an insecure and precarious existence — and all for the sake of a cause which they only dimly understood — and that they responded.

Kirk saw the so «called «Straussian» interpretation of the Declaration, with its emphasis upon the inherent equality of all men, as not only unhistorical but as necessarily tending toward egalitarian ideology, and he consequently worked to downplay the Declaration's significance.

God gave man not only the gift of being but also, de Lubac maintains, «upon this being he has given me, God has imprinted a supernatural finality; he has made to be heard within my nature a call to see him.»

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

For it is only upon the vision of each person as called to enter into communion with God and others that certain supports and freedoms which allow and enable Man's response accrue to him - i.e. «rights».

I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of man, that who so ever believes that Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but all of the sins of mankind upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?

Finality is probably an unfortunate word to use, but whatever term is chosen, what has just been said is the only kind of finality or decisiveness or speciality that we are called upon to defend.

This perspective is primarily concerned to eliminate nonsensical statements, or at least to distinguish between nonsense (non-verifiable) and sense (verifiable) Under the pressure of this demand by logical positivists, those who speak and write in the field of religion have not only felt called upon to clear up the fuzzy and meaningless jargon that often characterizes their field, but many have relinquished all terms that refer to the non-verifiable.

For if we, as I indicated before, still had moral and emotional capital to draw on from that other, that earlier, call it Judeo - Christian (a usage I am not crazy about) world, our children had only our reserves of «Why not» and «So what» to depend upon.

Only if we know who he is will we be able to know when we can rely on him — and (for the same reason) when we can better call upon others.

And that righteousness was interpreted, in such great figures as Jeremiah, Hosea, and the two or three men whose oracles have been put together in the Old Testament book we call Isaiah, as resting back upon and expressing the divine chesed — the faithful loving - mercy of Jahweh not only for his own people but for all the peoples of the earth.

For him to say the Lord was calling him for a presidential run tells me that he not only relies upon faith for inner strength but he will also rely upon it to run this country.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

(In what follows, I am not attempting a «doctrine of the Sacraments», but only calling attention to certain aspects of them which bear upon our present subject.)

Hence all human traditions, which are called ecclesiastical commandments, are binding upon us only in so far as they are based on and commanded by God's Word.»

Moses is subsequently called upon to be not only premier - commander, but prophet - minister - priest as well, and so here another role is foreshadowed.

It seems to me that what is needed is not only a reform of literary teaching but a recognition that what Pope Benedict calls the «Hermeneutic of Continuity» be refocused upon our schools - for if not here, where?

Moses is subsequently to be called upon to play the role not only of premier - president - commander, but of prophet - minister - priest as well.

Only when Jacob, on his deathbed, is called upon to bless his grandsons Ephraim and Menasheh in the 24th generation is

And these children are the same people who as adults will be called upon to make enormous sacrifices to support China's growing ranks of the elderly — for not only is China graying, it is doing it faster than any population in history.

They see it almost as an insult, because they know about the millions of so - called christians in America who judge others by political affiliation, by income, by race, who only help people who are similar to themselves, who only befriend non-christians when it helps them or if they see an opportunity to convert, etc. - in short, the millions upon millions of Americans who call themselves christians yet do not even attempt to follow the teachings of Jesus.

Yet this same God sacrificed John Coffey, who tried only to do good in his blind way, as savagely as any Old Testament prophet ever sacrificed a defenseless lamb, as Abraham would have sacrificed his own son if actually called upon to do so....

Once upon a summer, there was only one drink called iced coffee.

The brilliant Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky is now in his 8th season at Arsenal, and has always performed brilliantly when called upon to play for the first team, but due to various injuries and Arsene Wenger's choices our Little Mozart has only averaged 20 starts a season in all competitions, and another 10 per year as substitute.

His only job is to train hard, and to play hard when called upon.

Schalke will be hoping to prevent such a scoreline, but can call upon star striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar as he only serves a domestic ban.

The problem is, that when Wilshere did come back to the Arsenal first team, he not only proved that he could handle two games every week when called upon, he was also one of our best players on the field.

And when the opponents apply full - court pressure, Bolin is often called upon to weave the ball upcourt, a move most Iowa girls only dream of.