It is
required of the preacher that he so master as positively to reenact this creative process whereby the witness was originally uttered that in his witness to it the epic be not lost in the episodes, the fullness forgotten in the fragments.
Furthermore, it is a well - known fact that the early Christians were pacifists, partly because military duty was not
required of them by the Roman state but also because of an implicit sense of the incompatibility of war with the gospel of love.5
In this vast web of our common life words are seized and shaped to the expressions
required of them.
«And they that wasted us,
required of us mirth, saying, Sing to us one of the Songs of Sion.
Again this is a corollary of the generosity and completeness of the self - donation that is
required of the spouses.
When those who do not have the actual knowledge of God do what is
required of them for salvation, that is accept by faith they too have been saved.
The practice of philosophy itself, Nietzsche posited, is virtually inimical to the practices
required of family life, to say nothing of family creation or leadership.
There is no doubt that the life
required of a follower of Islam is planned so that it takes a man to that end.
Austerity programs similar to those imposed on third - world countries by the International Monetary Fund may soon be
required of the United States.
... You as well as I knew well enough what was there
required of you, but you shrank back (to your own destruction), do you remember that!
In this way, social cooperation among human beings brings about the cohesion, and therein the unity,
required of a society by interrelating the personal experience of individuals in such a way so as to emotionally bond those individuals together.
So his blood is now
required of us.»
But his concern for the law persisted in his summons to distinguish between the external obedience required by it and the inner fidelity to a higher law
required of a life reborn by the love and mercy of God.
They are not binding for all time, but are provisional definitions of the type of behavior
required of Christians at a given period and in given circumstances.
It is not
required of Christian love to bear all things when evil ought to be resisted, or to believe all things when false ideas, beliefs, or rumors are circulated.
If I were so perfect in these moments, or had the resources and the perfect state of grace... I would be leading you by hand by hand by hand to the Gates of Eden, so that you could see for yourselves what is
required of you, rather than my trying to explain... that lovely idea I'd like to see Earth transform into.
And two: These are the linguistic ways that I show I believe what is
required of me,» Leonard says.
They have been called counsels of perfection, applicable to monks and nuns, but not
required of Christians living out in the real world.
The baptism is not the ritual bath that was
required of every heathen converted to Judaism, and of every Jew who had become unclean by contact with something heathen.
I did it because it I was told it was
required of me.
Essentially what is
required of us is God - centered living based on faith and love.
In the case of a civilized society, the principles of «order» and «genetic propagation» are no less fundamental as regards its status as an existent thing than are those same principles
required of a Society per se.
I don't think any more is really
required of us.
«For there they that carried us away captive
required of us a song; and they that wasted us
required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.»
It can not of itself generate the duties
required of procreative behavior, and therefore to call it marriageable is Orwellian double - speak.
What is
required of us to bear witness to that faith?
Faced with this absolute prohibition against all representation, the attitude
required of the Jew, but also of the Christian, is an iconoclastic attitude.
Christianity «had partaken of the fruits of slavery in the Roman Empire for centuries, and later did nothing to prevent the slave trade of Christians».32
It required of the small farmer to transfer the title to his land and his independence to its growing power.
The funny thing is that some of the sections of this part of the movie fit very well into prophecy about the End Times, the Mark of the Beast, and the coming Antichrist, especially the parts at the end about the RFID chip and the National Identification Card (which he said will be
required of all US citizens in May 2008).
Leaving aside the mandated programme of studies
required of seminarians worldwide by the Holy See, I want to focus briefly on the human formation programme now in place at Good Shepherd Seminary, Sydney, Australia.
But the opposition grows louder and louder, and the courage
required of statesmen to stand becomes costlier by the week.
In Nineteen Eighty - Four, George Orwell imagined a world in which the public manifestation of rage was not only common, it was actually
required of all citizens.
So it wasn't until I was in university and forced to take classes in the humanities — which should be
required of every human in my opinion now — that I began to learn about art history and the progression of creativity in our world.
Although regular prayer and an annual fast is
required of Muslims, the Qur» an says:
But the impartial love
required of him must be a love of which he was capable in the free exercise of his will.
Over the years, Social Security benefits have increased, as have the contributions
required of workers.
Idi Amin
required some of the condemned to perform sexual acts of his own devising before they were pounded to...
For the Pharisee, the individual man was free to do or not to do what God
required of him.
It is
required of Christians in every generation.
Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experience of suffering is
required of your brotherhood throughout the world.
At no time have the Church and the churches not
required of candidates for the ministry that they be first of all men of Christian conviction, however such conviction and its guarantees were interpreted.
Many branches of Reform Judaism hold that Jewish law should be interpreted as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is
required of all Jews.»
The saying about salt means at least that to render the service
required of them Jesus» disciples must be morally and spiritually qualified.
The purposes of the Law were brought to an end by the coming of our Life giver, who offered himself in place of the sacrifices in the Law, and was led like a lamb to the slaughter in place of the lamb of propitiation... He gave his blood for all mankind, so that the blood of animals should not be
required of us.
We perfect this defence apparatus from generation to generation until we can assure ourselves that the world is there to be experienced and used as we like but that nothing is directed at us, nothing
required of us.
Both sides in this debate argue away from the assumption that a rather rich education, and a pretty fair amount of experience in the world, would be
required of anyone who might plausibly be designated author of the Shakespeare corpus.
Certainly fundamental changes would be
required of the churches if they were to do this: we would have to put truth before comfort; we would have to listen to the losers, the jobless, the homeless, the unsuccessful, the ostracized; we would have to leave the sanctuary and enter the marketplace, and learn through participation how to contemplate the human condition as Jesus did: with compassion.
Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress
required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).
Early this year, the House reauthorized funding for welfare as Bush had originally proposed, raising to 40 hours weekly the amount of work or training
required of recipients.
This limitation of both the extent and duration of the bond that ought to link people in a sexual relation has the effect of making such relations increasingly unstable and at the same time of trimming the virtues
required of the agents involved in them.