Sentences with phrase «poor men»

The Emperor, he said, would be willing to consider making a distinction between the harmless and the harmful, of Luther's writings, but Luther was only doing what every heretic always did, the Waldensians, the Beghards, the Poor Men of Lyons, etc.; they all turned to Scripture, and they all wished it to be interpreted in their sense.

The other most widely spread movement branded by the Catholic Church as heretical was that of the Waldenses — also known as the Poor Men of Lyons and as the Poor in Spirit.

Traditionally the practice of rich men with the land and money to support a large family, polygamy is now practiced by middle - class and poor men, said Isabel Phiri, a theology professor at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa.

Is t the story of intellectuals and administrators like Ellacuria, or of poor men and women like Elba and Celina Ramos, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Women were oppressed by all classes, but again, probably most of all by poor men.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

«Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did to - day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.

Rich men are fine, poor men are fine, so long as they are decent human beings.

If you're one of those shaving traditionalists who scoffs at the idea of those poor men who still use cheap cartridge razors or worse still, even cheaper disposables, you can probably stop reading right now as we can assume you already know all there is to know about straight and safety razors.

The battle moved from TV to social media with Hannity calling Kimmel «Creepy Kimmel» and «Harvey Weinstein Jr,» and tweeted, «You're a poor man's (Stephen) Colbert.»

The MAN needs to go out and earn the money... for women, it's easier to find a man with money first, then to get a poor man and somehow make him make money.

Gold has centuries old association with wealth while silver is considered the «poor man's gold.»

Continuing on my quest to fill in the missing chapters listed on Poor Man's Mosaic, I recently finished reading «Chapter

One question that might recur in the mind of the average poor man might be; «Why do the rich get richer and the poor do get poorer?

This poor man could not even draw stick figures in the sand and apparently could not be trusted with anything so as to draw.

Can't imagine what that poor man goes through on a daily basis.

The poor man who looks for oppertunity to give to others in need, (time, talent, money, etc.) rarely has no one to help him when he is down, and often finds some willing to help him up, at least a little.

According to you, the same «God» that causes that poor man to suffer a horrible disease also causes the Pope (who I do think is a decent guy) to stroll out of his gilded palace to show «compassion.»

Words do not tell the story adequately... Love has it's own language... and we have seen it in this poor man and the Pope.

Deuteronomy 15:7 - 8 If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.

In this way they can supply any poor man with the food he needs.»

E.g., The poor man who receives $ 10,000 benefits far more than the rich man who receives the same amount.

The poor man, too, must by a deliberate act of the will affirm his class identity and consciously assume the class struggle before he will be able to realize his revolutionary potential.

The implication is clear, that he alone is truly God who frees the poor man from his oppressor.

A rich man with many sheep stole a poor man's one beloved ewe lamb to serve as the main course of a banquet for a guest.

Insofar as God can evoke in the poor man an intelligent love for his class brothers, he will achieve an intensity of experience otherwise not possible, as he enjoys by anticipation his role in the creation of a new, non-exploitative wealth.

This is a story of an anonymous rich man and of a poor man whom Jesus bothers to name, the only named person in all of Jesus» parables.

We're meant to think of this as a repeated, even habitual, encounter between rich man and poor man.

It was ruled that a poor man could marry a woman with a dowry of teaching her a chapter of the Qur» an.

We moderns have rediscovered that Jesus was the poor man par excellence, that he came for the poor, that it is to the poor that he promised the Kingdom, that the poor man on earth in fact represents Jesus Christ; and we remember that the parable in Matthew 25 (on the judgment of nations) is the central text of the revelation.

Brown delighted this reviewer with his appreciation of the Psalter and would delight any right - minded Calvinist with his appreciation of Karl Barth's statement in Church Dogmatics IV, 2: as a poor man, writes Barth, Christ «shares as such the strange destiny which falls on God in His people and the world — to be the One who is ignored and forgotten and despised and discounted by men.

The first consequence is a generalization: the «poor man» is replaced by «poor people.»

For example, he declares that St. Thomas's assertion that the poor man was justified in stealing must now be more widely applied to classes and nations: «The proletarian nations have a claim on the goods of the rich nation next door.»

It might seem strange the people can simultaneously hold both ideas mentioned above; namely, that the poor man represents Jesus Christ on earth, and therefore all the right is on his side, and he is the only one who must be considered; but at the same time, that poverty is a scandal, and we must do our best to get rid of this scandal and to put the poor into a «normal» situation; that is, put an end to poverty.

But mind, I am not saying that the Christian should not feel concern for the poor man who is his neighbor and whose neighbor he is.

«So the poor man is happier!»

The Christian theme of «the poor man» now serves the Christian as a supplementary justification for this collective approach.

It even plays the role of what Paul Nizan calls «watchdog»; that is, to the extent that it calms passions or preaches patience or permits the poor man to bear his poverty or holds up the light of hope, to that extent it becomes a party to injustice, inhibits revolt against it and supports evil.

When a traveler came by and a local rich man wanted to display his conspicuous consumption but was too stingy to take something from his own store, he seized the ewe from the poor man and offered it to the traveler.

The poor man may be clinging (with a wisdom he himself by no means understands) to that which is his life.

20 «And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, 21and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

This show is like a poor man's Lost, in that it has characters I care about trapped in a mystery I barely understand (so help me if you start bashing Lost).

22 «Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

«You shall not change your judgment according to whether your brother is rich or poor» (Leviticus 19:15), and expressly, «You shall not be partial to a poor man in his suit» (Exodus 23:3).

But he then asks the philosopher whether he would loan money to someone who brought along a poor man to stand surety.

The poor man had nothing of his own except one little ewe lamb that he had reared himself.

Gregory's approach to pastoral care of the rich has exceptional subtlety, hinging importantly upon the biblical paradigms of Nathan before David and of David's care for Saul.34 When pastors come before the wealthy as spiritual guides, they do well to remember what Nathan did in the case of the poor man whom the rich man had abused.

Because this is the logic of the whole revelation of God's action — in Abraham the disinherited wanderer, in Moses the stutterer, in David the weakling, in Jesus the Poor Man.

Thus you give alms to the poor man so that he can console himself, but treacherously you have a further consolation for yourself.

Poor, poor man.