I wish it told us about how God is the farmer who sold all He had to buy a field with a single
pearl in it.
As I knelt before the stone table, covered with an intricate lace cloth, and gazed at the mother - of -
pearl icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa and the huge gold tabernacle — while Fr.
The climate of anxiety is the cost of doing business, discomfort the state of mind in which the oyster brings forth
the pearl..
He announced the kingdom of God as something worth everything else,
a pearl beyond price, a welcome beyond anything we could deserve, a feast beyond our wildest desires.
These self appointed prophets are unfortunately influenced by something other than God with the result that you will find yourself casting
pearl before swine.
So harmoniously adapted and arranged that the Supreme Transcendent might seem to be engendered wholly of their immanence, the energies and substances of the world concentrated and purified themselves in the stem of Jesse, composing of their distilled and accumulated riches the sparkling jewel of Matter,
the pearl of the Cosmos and its link with the personal, incarnate Absolute: the blessed Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother of all things, the true Demeter.
Had you lived about 2,500 years ago, an educated Greek, Egyptian or Babylonian could have told you the Earth is round (and fixed in its firmament much like
a pearl in an oyster).
In that moment, I remembered a passage from an old favourite book of mine, Anne's House of Dreams, when the heroine receives a ring with
a pearl instead of the traditional diamond for her engagement.
She was totally dependent — and that's what Jesus pulls out of her story like
a pearl of great price.
He was so sure that you were our Margaret,
our pearl.
I regard liberal democracy as
a pearl of great price.
Instead, the darkness of night gives birth to the coral polyp and sea cucumber, to «the barnacle and his child
the pearl oyster.»
Like David, I toss
pearl all the time.
We would do well to linger over this fact for a moment, because it is the black
pearl of intolerance that no liberal exegesis will ever fully digest.»
«Hardly any churches (preachers) know what the gospel is» Is that
a pearl, Steve?
It is
the pearl of great price, for which the wise merchant gladly exchanges all his other possessions.
Isaiah sees the lion lying down with the lamb and the author of Revelation envisions streets of gold and gates of
pearl.
On the other, it is
the pearl of great price: «it is for this reason that the Church has always defended the superiority of this charism to that of marriage.»
Yes, and now, since you are the be-all-end-all of the universe, all of our attention is focused on you and we're waiting the next big
pearl of wisdom to issue forth from your keyboard.
It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless
pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.
Within that grandiose machine - in - motion which I visualize, what becomes of
that pearl beyond price, our personal being?
These are the most precious things in all creation: the priceless
pearl.
plz leave people alone im a phd of the o'ccult i am a follower of aleister crowley i've read the bible & the koran & i remember that ur god of the so called bible said judge not 4 2 judge is 2 be judge leave islam alone just because of 9/11 99 % of americans can not get over the past most people r still carryin on over
pearl harber & that was 69 yr's ago get over this ur so called christans need 2 do what ur jesus said 4give 4giveness is the way 2 hevan there r nuts in all religons but most people r in hell 4 judgeing others that ur lord - god is the 1 who judges so let him do his job & do what jesus said turn the other check his job is 2 lead ur life as he did 4giveness islam is a great peaceful religion true islam is peaceful loving & 4giveness is the greast america grow up
Its coming is a task set before us, to be prayed for, to be worked for, to be sought with the eagerness with which one sells all that he has in order to buy a treasure hidden in a field or
a pearl of great price.
Psssst, yo, jeebus - freak, they also prevent the spread of disease, or was little
pearl of wisdom not in your home school curriculum?
Or can a pig ever be made to appreciate a fine
pearl necklace?
I think of the mollusk that lets the coffined
pearl, blind eye white as albumen» grow.
Disagreeing with the critics ofliberal democracy, he declares, «I regard liberal democracy as
a pearl of great price.»
The abandoned baby on the street, the stranger at the door, even our own husband or wife or child, is a diamond, and in receiving and treasuring these diamonds we are receiving the «
pearl of great price» that was once hidden on earth as a destitute child of uncertain parentage.
The Kingdom is that great
pearl that when you find it, you sell everything else off — even your right answers — just to hold it in your hand, roll it around your teeth for the joy of the clicking sound it makes, falling into place.
Margaret means «
pearl» or bringer of light and gift of God.
There is no such thing as a dreadful price for the «
pearl» in question.
It is now, each moment, that we miss
the pearl of great price.
The late Dr. Joseph Haroutunian, professor of theology at McCormick Seminary and later at the University of Chicago, dropped
this pearl in class one day: «Our bodies precede our spirits and our spirits must catch up with our bodies,» referring to those who move geographically from one place to another.
Counting the cost is precisely what the persons with
the pearl and the hidden treasure did.
Those that say it's worthless are merely swine who wouldn't know what to do with
a pearl if it hit them in the head.
The ministry points the way to
the pearl of great price.
Twin is thy spiritual power; nor one thy power, nor one thy name:... Blessed art thou, O Thrice - Blessed city, thou hast acquired,
this pearl, none greater doth India yield; Blessed art thou, worthy to possess the priceless gem.
Not every word out of your mouth is
a pearl.
was that knit one
pearl two or the other way around?
Seen
pearl harbor survivors tear up over dead friends
13:44),
the pearl of great price (Matt.
It is not something that one has once and for all — like a book on a shelf,
a pearl in a drawer, a diploma on a wall or a license in a wallet.
We find there the parables of the sower, of weeds growing in the wheat until the harvest, of the mustard seed, of the leaven, of the treasure hid in a field, of
the pearl of great value, of the dragnet taking in all kinds of fish, of the householder bringing out of his treasure what is new and what is old.
Nearly every morning, no matter the season, it is mantled in clouds, sometimes so heavily that it disappears altogether behind opaque walls of
pearl - gray mist.
He sold the merchandise, he bought the one
pearl for himself.
It is the wheat growing in the midst of weeds, the yeast working its magic in the dough,
the pearl germinating in a sepulchral shell.
The Kingdom is that great
pearl that when you find it, you sell everything else off - even your right answers - just to hold it in your hand, roll it around your teeth for the joy of the clicking sound it makes, falling into place.
He is the priceless
pearl the merchant was looking for (v. 45).
The parables of the treasure found in a field and the precious
pearl go together and have the same meaning: the kingdom of heaven is worth the sacrifice of everything else a man may have.