Sentences with phrase «other beggars»

That song and dance is a complete and utter deception — it's manifestly untrue — and the other beggars know it, but that knowledge somehow never manages to remove their nagging self - doubt, does it?

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An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market.

That is natural, all beggars teach that others should give.»

I'm sure pseudo-Christians can rationalize away the parable of the wealthy man and the beggar and other Christian teachings, to protect their wallets, but they'll find it harder to fool Christ.

Any time people draw superficial lines to keep others away, they separate themselves from the Messiah who welcomed lepers, kids, beggars, prostitutes and thieves.

He said, «It's about us grabbing each other by the hand and saying, «Hey brother, I'm a beggar too!

Can you receive goodness without wanting to point every other fellow beggar on the road to the source of that goodness?

Throughout Atlas Shrugged, Dagny and other characters are shown giving money to street beggars without a second thought.

So when we talk about selling what we possess and giving to the poor, we are talking about a daily possibility — unless, of course, we take up the beggar's bowl like the holy men of India and live day by day from what others will give us.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

Their life would be morally discrete from the life of other men, and there is no saying, in the absence of positive experience of an authentic kind — for there are few active examples in our scriptures, and the Buddhistic examples are legendary, --(As where the future Buddha, incarnated as a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar — having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with him.)

If in the course of an ordinary day we are not struck in the face or accosted by beggars or taken to court or hit up for a loan, there are plenty of other demands on our time for faithful living!

When considering other stories told in the Gospel it's safe to assume those who were beggars were often outcasts, just as they are treated today.

Our situation now is like that of the beggar: the other cures have failed.

if love always gives when there's no reward shown let us be beggars and paupers and servants at best laboring always so that others might rest that the sweet name of Jesus our tongues might confess

Jesus was more concerned for the beggars, theives, prostitutes and other sinners then he was with anyone else.

Refusing to talk turkey with other clubs beggars belief when the players concerned had refused to sign contract extensions and Arsenal had rejected the prospect of possibly making # 150m in transfer sales for the turbulent trio this summer with the risk of losing all that dosh the following summer 2018, when they could walk away on frees».

One of the leading explanations would have beggared the imaginations of even the most inventive medieval mapmakers: Primordial collisions between the young Earth and other protoplanets forced mantle material into the core, providing the heat that kick - started Earth's geodynamo.

During each trial, a human «beggar» repeatedly approached two other people holding bowls of aromatic sausages.

Armitage is a commanding presence, and helps us see why others would follow this beggar prince on his outlandish journey.

... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»

It really beggars be, key that this is announced in the same week that the government is increasing funds for free schools and decreasing to all others!

The detail improvements to the GTS provide it with a poise and cornering ability that beggars belief, few sports sedans can match it let alone other SUVs.

The beggar, a double amputee from a war injury, is described as beyond the point of caring what great cause inspired that, or any other, war.

Beggar's canyon is a race mission where you have to try to beat three other pilots.

Lot 30, Philip Guston's Beggar's Joys, a pink and red AbEx canvas from 1954 — 55, represented the paradoxes of the current art market more succinctly than any other work in the sale.

German - born Buttner's work is typical of the Turner Prize's newfound humility - her signature pieces are nine simple, line - drawn, black - and - white woodcuts of beggars, while her other work shows a fascination with the lowly and mundane.

While this appears highly exploitative, the beggar in the video, and many other of Sierra's participants are willing victims and paid at least as much as the local average wage.

Perhaps somewhere a «B» movie script writer and a failed Enquirer reporter are somewhere in a lonely writers garret producing the scripts which these fellows are dutifully reading and acting out... any other explanation beggars the imagination.

In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

Thus, it beggars the imagination to devise a rational set of filing fees around the objective of getting the «right» disputes to court and shuttling the others around it.

This beggars belief as much as choosing a foreigner on the basis that only other Establishment types, who naturally know the people under suspicion, are capable of doing the job.