Sentences with phrase «people recite»

When people recite traditional wedding vows, it's the latter part of this classic phrase that tends to get all of the attention: «in good times and bad.»

I hear people recite this like it's gospel all the time.

Watching people recite his lyrics back to him as he was saying them.

But where with the advent of 31st December 1981, a sizeable section of the people recite a litany of ills and perpetual relive them, it can not, with the best will in the world, be classified as an ideal scenario for a public celebration, nor can its baleful antecedents escape judicial notice.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

When you speak of faith you apparently picture a church with a congregation of people reciting a creed.

A «backward digit span» test is a case in point: Person A recites a string of numbers, like 3, 6, 10, and person B has to respond with the same string, only in reverse order: 10, 6, 3.

Not exact matches

Granted, as the son of a fireman who wouldn't let me light my own candles until I was college - aged, the idea of random people on the internet now having the ability to expel two - foot flames on a whim is enough to make me subconsciously recite my family's emergency escape plan.

That troublesome phrase — especially when recited by politician after politician — tells victims, their loved ones, the attackers, and the American people that gun violence is out of the government's control.

Charles pumped up the cold masses with battle cry - style enthusiasm, and recited the questions people brought forward to him for Trudeau.

Just invent a poem, and recite some words and pretend that you speak to people who have died.

People of all ages in every country in the world can recite the entire book exactly the way it is written without even looking at it.

Reciting that line — because that's what's «supposed» to happen — doesn't mean the person has actually been forgiven by those they have wronged.

This is fascinating — I think a lot of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense — reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.

As many people as possible are given the honor of an aliyah (reciting a blessing over the Torah reading); in fact, even children are called for an aliyah blessing on Simchat Torah.

Only then can we hope to know those wonderful grace - filled moments; times when through prayer and song, listening to and reciting the familiar words of grace and the stories of redemption, our hearts soar; times when we are caught up in the stream of love — when we sing praise to God with all our hearts and minds and souls and strength — which flows from us to God through the ministry of Christ and his people and which we return to God with prayer and praise.

These, Charlie's, and many other similar cases I could recite, involving profoundly ill people of all ages, are examples of what is known in the bioethics trade as «futile care» or «medical futility» — or, as I call it, futile - care theory.

Important people laid wreaths at the cenotaph and someone recited «In Flander's Fields» — I think most of us have it memorized still from elementary school.

Now the people lived in the land of the dreaded enemy, reciting litanies of lamentation while ghouls goaded them on with «Sing us some of those songs of Zion, miserable losers!

Note how you jump to verse 8 when you recite the verse, leaving out the key point at verse 6: «If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, «Let us go and serve other gods,» which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers...» Here the person is not entering into a debate but rather asking you to go and serve other gods — that is when when God is saying watch out.

CNN: My Take: Obama's Newtown remarks show presidents as pastors in chief Stephen Prothero, an author and Boston University religion scholar, says President Barack Obama was «a pastor among pastors» as he recited scripture and inspirational quotes to comfort the people of Newtown at Sunday's interfaith memorial service.

It seems twisted to me that in refusing to recite the pledge in public places, I can be judged by people who clearly have much less knowledge than I regarding the history of the pledge.

Then the person consulted a Bible dictionary and began to find out who these people were and what they meant to the audiences that heard the passage recited.

They were, the same people, except for the old ones who had died and the babies who had been born since my day, and they sang the same songs and recited the same litany of prayers.

There is a hadith which has God saying, «when someone recites or reads the Qur» an, that person is, as it were, entering into conversation with Me and I into conversation with him or her.»

People learn to recite great portions of it.

The Scripture either refers to him in the third person or addresses him directly — O Prophet, O Messenger, We reveal to thee, We send thee, do this, recite this; such is the language of the Qur» an.

For thirteen years there he used regularly to recite some of the verses of the Qur» an, patiently, kindly, and with great tolerance, and he invited the people to do good to one another and to worship God if they wished to realize happiness.

These speeches so impressed the people that they used to recite them and gathered them in the book called Nahdj al - Balagha which is highly respected among the Shi`a and next to the Qur» an is important for every Muslim.

Then Allah revealed the following Surah «al - Tawhid» to the Holy Prophet so that he could recite it to the people:

Characteristic is the development of apologies; that is, prayers reciting the unworthiness of celebrant and people rather than proclaiming God's actions.

A better practice than memorizing and reciting the creeds might be taking people out into the community to love and serve others.

Ahhhh - show me one person in the last 50 years that recited Bible verses, or yelled out «Jesus is great» before they KILLED... as do freakin MUSLIMS for their allah!

Nonetheless, the mindset that led the original ICEL «translators» to interpret «Mysterium Fidei» ■ in terms of a theological narrative to be recited, rather than as an acclamation addressed to a living person, does touch on some deeper theological and philosophical issues which have wider relevance and more far reaching implications.

If I had to choose between a Bible expert who could recite large chunks of Scripture from the Greek and Hebrew yet who did not show love toward his neighbor, and someone who barely knew anything about Scripture but who did show love to his neighbor, I will choose the second person every day of the week.

But when a worship service is dominated by long, spoken pastoral prayers, and long, recited in unison confessions, and readings, and all that, with maybe two or three inaccessible hymns thrown in, I mean it's no wonder people have better things to do on Sunday morning.

They are not [all] the same; among the People of the Scripture is a community standing [in obedience], reciting the verses of Allah during periods of the night and prostrating [in prayer].

They remember and recite that word in community, as did the people of God when they first entered the land promised to them.

Here a people redeemed only yesterday out of slavery had acknowledged the Lord as the Shatterer of their own tight little prison, and had entered into a Covenant with him, accepting his commitment to them and reciting their own vows of faithfulness.

«Write this... and recite it» (vs. 14) refers specifically to Israel's victory over a hostile people, the Amalekites.

What person would disapprove of reciting Bible verses?

Really, Reality, don't you think that people who are on this discussion board would know enough to be able to either recite or at least research and provide correct answers to your arguments convoluted to avoid the truth?

He claimed to receive divine inspiration in the form of words and is recorded to have recited them to his people.

To this same mountain Moses brought Israel where she — a people redeemed only yesterday out of slavery — acknowledged Yahweh as the Shatterer of her own tight little prison, and entered a covenant with him, accepting his commitment to her and reciting her own vows of faithfulness.

In the Eastern Apostolic Constitutions the communal voice in the election of a bishop has been reduced to the thrice - iterated consent of the people and presbytery to receive a synodally chosen bishop as their ruler (archon).9 In the Testament of Our Lord, l0 the formality is reduced to the thrice - recited «He is worthy!»

And when our boy was about 1 — it was our party trick to recite various Boynton books where ever we were — people stopped asking us out (just kidding!).

do you recite them to people like an old tupac lyric?

He said: «Iain Duncan Smith perhaps the last person you would expect to know this, was talking about a message for Diane Abbott and began reciting Eminem lyrics»

«Today, in this city and in this state, history takes an important step forward by allowing every person to participate,» he said, before having the couple, who've been together for 14 years, exchange their rings and recite their vows.

She could recite her words to Naomi off by heart «whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.»