Sentences with phrase «only saw a vision»

The disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration not only saw a vision; they also heard God's voice coming out of the cloud, saying, «This is my child, my Chosen; listen to him.»

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In the quest for freedom owning your own business sounds like an excellent solution, but only if you plan for the future and see the long term vision.
Another vision of democracy; however, sees it not only in terms of its result (private freedoms) but in terms of its foundation upon the virtues known in the classic tradition as «republican» or «civic» virtues.
Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of men are blind to: the constant presence of the Creator.
The Jews, therefore, outgrew the original narrowness of their tribal ideas of God, not only, as we saw in the last chapter, because of a new extensiveness of vision in the direction of an international faith, but also because of a new intensiveness of experience in the direction of an individual faith.
Furthermore, when Christianity is seen in this perspective it can only suffer in comparison with Oriental mysticism, for in this form it never reaches the purity, the depth, or the consistency of the Oriental vision.
Ann B said: «I can see where a group of Christians will meet together and their only vision / mission is to do what they do... meet together.
Be it with the vision of the eye or of the mind, we can only see things from the particular perspective we happen to occupy There is, for us, no Archimedean fulcrum outside the spatiotemporal historicity of place and era for pivoting the lever of thought.
One can therefore read Sullivan's theory as a subset of Whitehead's ontology or conversely see it as a concretization of what is only implicitly stated in Whiteheads vision.
I can see where a group of Christians will meet together and their only vision / mission is to do what they do... meet together.
The end of this journey is the beatific vision — to see God and to rest in God — and that vision is granted only to those who are perfected, to the pure in heart.
Our own predominantly romantic, humanities - oriented vision prevents us from seeing the depth of Nazi romanticism; we take it for granted that the Nazis were basically «machines,» when that is only half the story.
But we shall not really «see» the Kingdom of God in these everyday miracles of nature and human life unless we look and look again, and not only look, but mark the spot at which the vision came to us, that we may know where it will repay us to make further explorations.164
Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of...
I must say only what the Lord says»............... the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty,»
The issue of whether or not Christ possessed the visio beatifica, in his own words, is whether Jesus by this vision «saw not only the essence of God but also all that was, is or will be, in any way whatever, done, thought, or said by all, at any time» (p. 5).
He gets closest to tying down the «richness» of vision to which he frequently appeals by using Lewis» famous epitaph: «I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else» (p. 65).
I see things like vision and purpose - drivenness as accretions that are not only unnecessary, but hindrances to church community life that can be stripped away easily, quickly and beneficially.
A strong case can be made for the view that the original resurrection appearances were in the nature of visions, and that the physical resuscitation accounts were developed for the purpose of convincing the doubtful, who thought the disciples had only seen a ghost.
What we then see is a flood of sympathetic forces, spreading from the heart of the system, which transforms the whole nature of the phenomenon: sympathy in the first place (an act of quasi-adoration) on the part of all the elements gathered together for the general impulse that carries them along; and also the sympathy (this time fraternal) of each separate element for all that is most unique and incommunicable in each of the co-elements with which it converges in the unity, not only of a single act of vision but of a single living subject.
Further, how can the artist focus the optics of insight so that others not only see, but see themselves within the vision, so that the world the artist creates becomes the world of the reader?
Approaches that perceive persons only through the upper lens of the bifocals (which enables one to see the strengths and positive potentials in everyone) sabotage their own effectiveness by their incomplete vision of human beings.
Its real basis was a new vision of Protestant Christianity, which saw, as Barth put it in 1933, that «many roads lead back to Rome» and that Protestantism will fulfill its calling only when it at last «bids farewell to each and every form of natural theology.
For there is only One whose presence and grace and clarity of vision can help us see and perceive those around us as our neighbors in God's global village.
On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.
Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.
Luther's distinction between law and gospel seems to express this view, as does the vision of the twentieth «century Polish mystic St. Faustina Kowalska, which portrays a wrathful God the Father holding back from the application of terrible justice only because He sees man through the wounds of His Son.
Vico's fantasia abhors partial vision, and the great mathematician and astronomer Henri Poincare is on his side when he observes in his Last Essays that in questions of ethics science alone can not suffice because it «can see only one part of man, or, if you prefer, it sees everything but it sees everything from the same angle.»
From the religious perception of Dostoevsky as seen through his religious vision and the eyes of his characters Dmitry, Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov, William Hamilton concludes that we ought not trust ourselves to claim that we have Dostoevsky's final secret, for we may find it possible to receive only part of Dostoevsky's religious vision today.
Since only the pure in heart can see God, this person needs to complete the sanctification process before they can enter the Beatific Vision.
The world has visions of sugar plums dancing in its head and the church sees only angry Jews standing by the fence, wailing toward heaven: We Americans are doing better, better and better.
Perhaps it is a quality reserved for creators, but the longer I spend with something I have made, the more my vision narrows, focusing only on the flaws until they are the only aspects I can see.
In that both Joker and Bird not only have incredible court vision It's their ability to «anticipate» the action, the see «opportunity» before anyone else Its's like a 6th sense and few have it
2) No leaders across the pitch: Özil for all the money is no leader but a technically gifted player who can split a defense with an exquisite vision and pass, Sanchez for all the dribbles as the potential but is not there yet, Cazorla will never be in the conversation, Mertesacker is not fit to be one anymore, Coquelin for all the good he has done is too tender and inexperience, Giroud no WC player to assume the role... the only one who can seriously be a leader is Wilshere but unfortunately until he becomes consistent and set the tone with his talent and passion... 3) Mertesacker is a shell of himself and it would be an embarrassment to see him continue to play in his current form, get Gabriel out just for the sake of showing anybody in this team that there's no place for under performers: we paid good money to get him so play him!
wilshere only runs without ball if he initiates the attack, doesn't have the vision to see the hole in the box to run in for a tap in.
I would like to tell arsenal fan that the transfer window is not arsenal's problem.Let explain what is in my mind.We need to reinforce our team but we need to think in the future that most of the high class players are going to refuse signing for arsenal fc because of Mr Wenger's philosophy.It looks like arsenal becomes cemetery of players.How many players came in and left because of performance, became good players out of arsenal.We need to accept all of the transformation Mr wenger brings in arsenal but now it does not work.Why??? because lack of tactics, strategies and pretending best players for Mr wenger mind but in reality those players do not get standard of best player.Mr wenger wants to prove everybody that he is wright that players who are calling by wenger are best.I means Mr wenger is the only one can see all matter in good position or bad.He is wrong by thinking this way.He does not like criticism.he is the mind of arsenal.Everything he can say or defend is wright.Think about morrinho comments about arsenal!!!! Why he likes to be arsenal coach!!!! One thing I want to say about arsenal players, I think everybody watch arsenal games.We have got short mind players who play two good games and the rest shameless.They are working hard in the training ground for catching Mr wenger's mind to let them play; what is behind their (players) mind to be the most regular players.Those players have no vision even ambition; they are never becoming high class and their carriers are going to finish in arsenal after arsenal we are going to see them playing for championship.They do not care to become legend as Ian wright, Vierra, Berckam, piress, Henry... What is the big behind their mind to use wenger name to be selected in national team.They are not able to face different leagues in the world.
The only players I've seen with his vision the last 10 years are Inesta and Giggs and they both were playing for the «best» team with the best players.
The issue is that because of his energy coupled with his fantastic vision and usual calmness in front of goal, AW sees the need to fit him into the squad, with Ozil and Cazorla being irreplaceable right now, right wing is the only position where no - one has nailed down their place, where brings me to my point of writing.
Well, apparently Galatasaray is set to make a move for Flamini for # 2.8 m... I see things being done only that they are gradual... & Benitez apparently committed to help arsenal complete the Benzema move as he has said the frenchman does not fit into his vision of the new Real madrid he's about to build & he wants to make a move for Reus which means he could cash - in on the french striker....
to be fair to arteta he has been made a scapegoat cos he is not a dm but been forced to play that role due to wengers failure to bring in a top quality dm he would offer us a lot more in his natural position that he played for everton he has good vision and passing ability and could chip in with some goals he has been wasted at arsenal and never got to see the real qualities he possesses and only one person to blame the manger!
They're are a rare breed of players who can break the opposition down from deep with one genius long pass that no else can see until it's too late, Pirlo, Xavi and Alonso are the only other guys that come to mind when talking of such game changing passes, Xhaka can become one too but he has to develop the same sort of vision, these players don't run much with the ball, the ball does the running for them and delivered to the right address.
Like Ozil, Mkhitaryan has excellent vision, seeing not only the current state of play but how things are likely to play out.
It may only be pre-season, but Can's lovely slide - rule through ball to Raheem Sterling prior to the forward's disallowed goal in New York was excellent vision and execution — more of this may be required as the season goes on but Can has clearly demonstrated that he has this kind of pass in his locker, it's just that more of it needs to be seen.
Only now, a year later, with extensive work in the transfer market, are we seeing his vision come to fruition.
Newborns at this phase have vision limitation and can only see things close to eye line.
Your baby's nursery is a vision - or would be if only you could see it!
In fact, the baby can only see 20 cm to 30 cm as his or her vision range.
Sometimes the only way to get another parent to see your vision is to allow him to see it in action.
Her vision will be fuzzy at first and she'll fix on things that are about eight to 15 inches from her eyes, though in the first month she'll only be able to see clearly to about 12 inches.
They only manage to see shades of black, white and grey, because proper color vision comes in only 2 months post birth.
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