Sentences with phrase «rather pointed remarks»

In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear injunction to store up treasure not on earth but only in heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both God and Mammon, his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning against dissipation), and so on.

Not exact matches

But if she ever reaches a point where she wants to accomplish more than the fame of a few snide remarks, she may find it rather difficult.

Hartshorne remarks that while «many theological and philosophical doctrines» of the traditional kind have asserted that «being divine means precisely, and above all, being wholly immune to suffering in any and every sense», yet in his judgement the insight of faith in Jesus as the Christ would rather point logically to the truth that «there must be suffering in God».

Melanie Philips, in The Daily Mail, pointed to the way in which «as so often, [the BBC] has given undue airtime to extremists, thus lending credence to the false impression of the Pope's remarks», and she criticised the way the BBC had claimed that the Pope had «apologised», rather than simply expressing regret for the misinterpretation of his comments, «thus helping Islamic extremists believe that the forces of intimidation had cowed the Pontiff and scored a notable victory in the war against Western civilisation».

The purpose of these remarks is not to discredit the story of the finding of the empty sepulcher (although it can not be denied that serious doubt is cast on it), but rather to point out that the primitive evidence for the resurrection was the actual presence of Jesus.

So the thrust of my remarks was lost by focusing upon Newman rather than on the positive point, which envisions a Christian university open to a deeper sense of wisdom than Newman's.

I do not wish to say that email services without encryption should automatically be deemed secure, I rather suggest that they should not automatically be discounted from a confidentiality assessment point of view... And I know I'm (just) slightly related to cloud computing, but my remarks would apply, I think...