Sentences with phrase «poor widows of»

There is in big grocery and convenient - liquor stores lines filled with these poor widows of which legitimate customers who have valid returns fuming in line over poor widows self inflicted gambling bug.

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Even the Apostles set up a plan for making sure the poor and widows were taken care of fairly and not purposefully or accidentally ignored.

It was Christ who encouraged the fair treatment of women... God who commands us not to neglect the poor and to feed orphans and widows... God who insisted that field owners leave part of the crop behind to be picked up by hungry gleaners... God who said men should not take advantage of one another by charging interest... Christ who attacked the Pharisees for their rigid thinking and superiority complex toward Samaritans... How are my values inconsistent with the teachings and actions of God?

I am reminded of what Jesus said about the purest form of religion being taking care of the most vulnerable of society with widows and orphans and to keep from being polluted by evil, in this case the love of money over meeting the needs of the poor.

They all shared what they had equally, gave to those who had none, took care of the widows, the orphans and the poor.

My reading of the Gospels shows that status can be obtained by giving and praying in secret; power comes to the quiet servant; and god's approval is upon those that work among the wounded, poor, widows, orphans, hungry, thirsty, sick, prisoners, homeless, and unclothed.

Maybe then we can do what Gungor pushed for in his original post, to be a people who don't just «believe» in God, but through our faith do what He has commanded us to do: take care of the poor, the widow, the hungry and the needy.

We must take care of the widows, orphans, the fatherless, and the poor and needy.

In that sense, the church institution may still succeed if they change their emphasis from attendance and building projects, being «in the spot light» and hating other people's «sins», and avoidance of the locally wounded, downtown poor, the widows among us, the children of single mothers, and so forth.

I can't remember the last time I saw or heard a Christian talking about feeding the poor or helping widows with the same amount of fervor that they discuss the 2nd Amendment.

Even so, Christ wants us, like the poor widow in the gospel, to contribute our tokens as a sacrificial offering for the redemption of our souls.

With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.

Unfortunately, Jesus» focus is on how we treat «the least of these»; «the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed»; and «our enemies».

But the Bible bears witness to another God, a God who hears the cries of the poor and defends the orphans, widows and immigrants.

It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but sacrificial offering of a poor widow.

Christian does not equal Republican; frankly social liberals are more in line with the Gospel in regard to social equality and treatment of the poor and widowed.

Oh God of the widow and orphan, the poor and distressed, bring forth your justice, for only you can perfectly judge, recompense and reunite this riven family of humanity.

He understood that to truly change culture, we must ensure that the «least of these» among us (the poor, the sick, the widow, the orphan and our «enemies») are treated with dignity, respect and love.

The Bible itself is lucid on the sin of Sodom: pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48 - 49); hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach / Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man's property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12).

Helping widows, orphans, poor, etc., is required of believers in Christ.

As for the widow's mite, we have praised her devotion a zillion times, but none of us really wants a whole congregation full of generously self - sacrificing poor people, do we?

Collections for poor saints (widows, orphans, crippled etc.) 1Co 16:1 - 2 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

At this point I was the equivalent of a poor widow with an ill orphaned child.These people knew exactly what they were doing, but the people they went to church with wouldn't know.

The money should be used for the kinds of things Jesus talks about — helping the orphans, widows, poor and needy.

Writing in the Sunday Times, he said: «In the Bible, the hardest - pressed of all poor people were summarised as «widows and orphans» for they were the group most at risk and with least support.

The prophets call for repentance and urge a program of justice and equity that will demonstrate concern for the poor, the needy, the oppressed, the widow and the orphan (Isa.

The poor widow, on the other hand, though she only gave two mites, gave 100 % of what she had, and left with nothing.

They observed the rich giving large amounts of money, and then saw a poor widow giving two mites.

The Christian community of Didascalia was aware of the needs of the poor and the imprisoned, the orphaned and the widows.

In my own church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local homes in disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemned.

The tithe was to take care of the widows and orphans and the poor and needy fellow Jews - their relatives.

It does this first by having the patience amid the injustice and violence of this world to care for the widow, the poor, and the orphan... it is our conviction that unless we take the time for such care neither we nor the world can know what justice looks like.

They will follow in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets: feeding the poor, caring for widows and orphans, attacking economic systems that produce injustice.

Soul injustice, such as murder, exploitation of the poor, orphans, widows and foreigners.

Ruth goes to glean in the field of Boaz, claiming the patrimony of the poor, which is her right as an alien and a widow.

ACT Founder and Director Dr Kunle Onabolu told Premier they «provide education for children of widows and orphans in Africa, but also to empower widows who are poor in rural African community, to provide them with counselling, training and business skills so they generate income sustainably.»

The word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

He pronounces woe upon those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room (5:8); and upon those who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of Yahweh's people of their right, who make widows their spoil and orphans their prey (10:1 - 2).

Love your husband, love your babies, love the poor, love the orphans, love the widows, love the powerful, love the broken and the hurting, love your friends, love yourself, love your enemies, come to love the whole world in the fullness of God, in the full expression of the woman that he has created you to be, just that, no more, but certainly no less.

The widow, the lame, the outsider, the poor and the rejected seem to always be the focal point of his encounters and ministry activity.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

To work with the leaders of other nations, and as their hearts are touched, the poor, the oppressed, the widows, and the youth of their country will be impacted in a positive manner.

If an unjust judge can be importuned into responding to a poor widow, how much more can you trust the God who reaches Out to you in the word of forgiveness.

Jesus is not condemning the rich people for being wealthy, or for giving out of their wealth, nor is he praising the poor widow for giving her last two mites.

The Jewish religious system and political scene had become corrupt, full of power - hungry priests and religious leaders who stole from the poor and the widows to make themselves rich so they could bribe political officials for special privileges and positions.

of an Eastern judge whose judgements are responsive to bribery and a poor widow whose persistence in importunity wins the day for her.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

Just like the widow who gave all she had — a hundredth part of a penny — the poor produce all the wealth that is sucked up by the rich.

ALL GLORY TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN Do you want me to be mute when they slaughter my people, the widowed, the abandoned, the poor and the hapless?The hurt they inflict on my people, how can a father bear his children being killed and left for dead?Therefore, to reinstate love on Earth, hope and my life to sustain my creations, I'm pushed by the unrepentant nature of my creations.