Sentences with phrase «peculiar person»

In addition, I will further assume that if you don't think that State A is more likely to have higher performing students than State B you are a really difficult and very peculiar person.

Incidents like these may well play into the peculiar person the adult Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) grew up to become.

Walking back to his car after leaving a frat party early, Brad (Ben Schnetzer) gets approached by a peculiar person asking for a ride.

If you want to meet someone special or attract attention of a peculiar person, then you should open yourself to the world around you.

Consequently, you need to be a very peculiar person, if you want to meet Christian people and maybe marry one of them.

As we pray and sing together, may we learn to see ourselves as part of a holy counterculture, a peculiar people who are pursuing different values than those of the empire around us.

We must embrace being the peculiar people we are.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

It is a peculiar people with a distinctive mind - set and behavior pattern.

In addition to a «royal priesthood» and a «holy nation,» the King James Bible speaks of Christians in 1 Peter 2:9 as a «peculiar people.»

Yet we understand the Hebrew doctrine of «the peculiar people» in terms not of its identity but of its distinctive feature, and this is not far to seek.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

Whatever hypercriticism may say of the arrogance of the dogma of the divine choice and the peculiar people, it can not be denied that at this point we touch solid reality.

The place of foreign nations in Hebrew thought is the counterpart of the doctrine of the peculiar people.

The sense of being what Churches of Christ historian David E. Harrell has called «a peculiar people» has often lapsed into intolerant exclusivism.

Tara Livesay is a mom seven unique and peculiar people, and wife to one of the world's very kindest men.

a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

KJV 1Pe 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Since the first Christian communities these «priestly» activities have nourished the spiritual identity of Christians as a peculiar people.

The Church is to be a peculiar people, an assembly of believers called out following The Way.

«This story is a great example of how, inthe course of carrying out your duties, you end up with peculiar people in youroffices.Some four years into office, aconstituent in his mid to late fifties arrived at my Winchester surgery.

Clarke says that in his day there would have been a rush of «rather peculiar people» hoping to make a speech.

The Peculiar Treasure is all about having the courage to be the peculiar people that God has called us to be.

They were marginal groups, peculiar people, people set apart from the world: the Shakers and the Ephrata community, the communes of Oneida and Amana, the followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

-- «Some very peculiar people live in Bushwick» - group exhibit - screening of selected films.

Not exact matches

When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.

Early this week, Lululemon Athletica found itself in the news for a very peculiar reason: a news outlet questioned if apparel maker's longest - serving board member was an actual person.

When the concept of emotional intelligence was introduced to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.

When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 % of the time.

His people, on this evening, were a peculiar lot: regulars, newcomers and, at present, the world's most important porn star — with her presidential ties and a reported six - figure reason not to confirm them — traveling for now without a proper assistant.

Amy Mandelker has drawn attention to the term «reverse perspective» as used by Russian Orthodox theologians to describe the unusual dimensions of icon paintings, with the gaze of the viewer drawn to the level of earthly events and yet given a peculiar perspective, as from a heavenly seat, so that people and objects do not have their expected everyday appearance.

There is no theory of God, just a peculiar hope of some people that there is something about the Universe that knows they are here and cares about them.

In the first place, we must return to the peculiar situation in which Mascall finds himself in claiming rational necessity for a position that most rational people reject.

The church has lost some of its power to hold people in that peculiar bond of fellowship which is forged by communal repetition.

The capacities needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in fact also bring with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.

That's the thing: midtown partially aside, Manhattan is a collection of neighborhoods, and, peculiar as it seems to non — New Yorkers, those so inclined can know in their neighborhood an experience of community available to relatively few people elsewhere in the nation.

Biblical metaphysics deals with persons, that peculiar mix of body and mind and soul that relates so intriguingly both to matter and to Spirit.

Propositions — which are not Entities in the primary sense — appear also to satisfy the characteristic, supposedly peculiar to Entities, of admitting contrary qualities, since the proposition that someone is sitting passes from true to false when the person stands up.

If the members I know personally are representative, they are good people afflicted with a peculiar blindness.

A few of the writers and prophets of the Old Testament noticed something very peculiar about God's actions toward those people who cursed Him.

The notion of Israel as a chosen people elected by Yahweh for special reasons and for a particular purpose is by no means peculiar to the classical prophets.

In itself it meant no more than a person «anointed,» or consecrated, to an office of special solemnity; but always it was an office bound up with the peculiar status of Israel as God's own people.

The Jews who formed the dominant part of its population were a peculiar and a stubborn people.

Again, this understanding as such, although far from universal among ancient peoples, was not peculiar to Israel.

In consequence, that class of person who were recognized as learned in the Law, and made it their business to expound it, acquired a position of peculiar influence and prestige.

The combination of the understanding of the individual as the one addressed by God, and thereby placed in decision, and the awareness of the inwardness of the decision joined in producing that peculiar kind of responsible, self - conscious individuality which justifies the term «person.»

It is not necessary for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which bread and wine, eaten and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.

Those who reflect insufficiently find it peculiar that people suffer the oppression of this kind of sovereign with docility and patience, that they do not open their eyes to the vices and excesses of the clergymen who degrade them, and that they endure from a head that is shorn what they wold not suffer from a head crowned with laurels.

Notice the peculiar dynamics of a new association with an institution, whereby a person encounters a whole new configuration of her or his personal past.