Sentences with phrase «own obscure way»

The testimony that he brings appears all the more significant because prophetic intuitions are all the more striking when they pass through slumbering or stubborn prophets who perceive only in an obscure way what they convey to us.

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Exorcizing the concept «God» from the system leaves me in a stance very similar to that of Paul van Buren, who holds that the essence of Christianity is an ethical message about how to live a life and that «God» talk is a dated, misleading, unhelpful, obscure way of saying what Christianity wants to say about what it is to be a man and to live a moral life.

In the words of Allen Tate: «The abstraction of the modern mind has obscured their way into the natural order.

These practical advantages should not obscure the way in which the spirit of love may inform non-violent strategies.

This separatist concept helps to obscure the way in which the oppression of women is structurally integrated with that of class and race.

I was one of Wenger's most die hard supporters and always did my best to explain away his apparent stupidity and obscure ways when managing our club.

Equal at the top on points and still finding some obscure way to whinge.

And I will say this (I don't doubt that other medical professionals told her this as well, though maybe in a kinder more obscure way): a diagnosis of HIE with seizures and an abnormal MRI is NOT a «normal, healthy baby».

Unfortunately, the book also fell very short in terms of readability, as it referenced the first book in very obscure ways that left the reader wondering what had happened in book one.

It does mean that finding new gear is less of an event like in the game's more medieval cousins, where a new ring or sword would not only bring interesting and obscure ways to play but would also contain in - world lore that would help progress the story.

I think political correctness has done a lot to obscure the ways in which people are much more diverse in their interests than we give them credit for.

This is a very obscure way to use language.

Be that as it may, in their own obscure way, in their GRL article, A&W actually purported to present a new results, which they applied in their CC article — the bolded sentence above:

I think my point was (in an admittedly obscure way) that sometimes climate scientists try to read WAY to much into their anlalysis of uncertain data.

Presumably the executor did that, and there are no co-signed accounts or anything like that, so your mother isn't responsible for these debts in some obscure way.

Not exact matches

«It's a shame that the coffee price issue obscured the real story here for so many people, but, once again, this kind of «one - way» data point thinking led investors astray... when it was actually quite strong,» said the «Mad Money» host.

Ultimately, the goal, he says, should be to «create intuitive graphical representations of the underlying data» in ways that allow non-data scientists «to explore it without having to sit at a terminal and type in a bunch of obscure commands.»

Until October 2009, Harmon worked full - time at another job while spending his nights exploring new ways of selling the obscure tongue brush.

Yet this obscures the reality that, already by late 1914, all belligerents were stuck in a war that was supposed to have ended soon, according to optimists across Europe, but inconveniently had not, leaving the armies jammed in a conflict that generals and politicians could see no easy way out of.

I also appreciate how developer Whirlscape doesn't go out of its way to obscure the app's privacy settings.

The inner Milky Way is a tough place to spot these pulsating stars because it's packed with interstellar dust, which obscures these stars and their light.

It wears on the body in all sorts of other ways, both obvious and obscure.

You can even hear it in the in - store music choices, usually well - known songs remixed by obscure artists — another way to embrace pop while trying to maintain an indie edge.

If the teacher wasn't in close proximity, what would stop the teacher's bullets from hitting other students who might be in the way and obscured by gunsmoke?

You will not cover, obscure, block, or in any way interfere with any advertisements and / or safety features (e.g., report abuse button) on the Website or the Platform; and

It's maddening that they are saying privacy is the reason they've obscured it when it's clearly a way to monopolize Search retargeting and / or turn Google Webmaster Tools into a paid product.

I love the whole discussion and arguing cases with bright people, or reviewing an obscure company, or the best way to play that macro thematic on demand in that country.

The bump stock — a previously obscure gun accessory that became infamous last year when a shooter in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire at helpless concertgoers — is on its way to being banned in Maryland.

I'm fine, by the way, with broadening the agenda, so long as we don't forget and obscure those life and family issues.

Perhaps the best way to judge an individual is by the walk they walk... rather than obscure doctrines that many laymen aren't even aware of.

To suggest that evangelical Protestantism points the way to «classical spirituality» is to blithely disregard fifteen centuries of authentic «classical Christian spirituality» and obscure the desperately needed benefits of this rich tradition from evangelical view.

and they tend to gloss over cultural elements to these texts in ways that obscure their true meaning.

It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with other revealed religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and particular» serve more to obscure than reveal the truth.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

7 We are applying the law of continuity here, according to which «nothing could ever burst forth as final across the different thresholds successively traversed by evolution (however critical they be) which has not already existed in an obscure and primordial way» (The Phenomenon of Man, p. 71).

The doctrine of the Trinity is often formulated in ways that obscure the unity of God.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Sha'ul tells them in regard to their being SetApart from evil that they were to receive and expect this, because YAHWEH was working it in them, this work many believers pass right by as obscure, «Now YAHWEH our ABBA, and our Master YAHSHUA, may they direct our way to you and may our Master increase and overflow your love, one to another, to all people also, even as we love you.

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

Yet they are not meeting in such a way as to give rise to a definite new conception but only so as to obscure the definite outlines of each traditional idea.

Oddly enough, Augustine was writing about the mysteries found within the book of Genesis, when he said, «in matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

They obscure the fact that modern governments can not avoid influencing families, directly and indirectly, in countless ways.

But pastors should realize that they and their members may think about Christian faith in ways that obscure whole realms of experience.

«In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

The confession that God is infinitely above human thoughts and speech, that he guides us without our comprehending his ways, that the fact that human beings are an enigma to themselves even obscures the clarity that God communicates to them — this confession belongs to the idea of revelation.

Otherwise, the Bible becomes the prisoner of what was once believed to be scientifically true: «In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received.

Just how this might occur in the divine nature remains incredibly obscure — God's ways are in many respects not our ways.