Sentences with phrase «strange person because»

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John would sometimes do or say strange things that he could get away with saying because people thought he was crazy.

They skip telling their friends about their latest project or business because they think strangers will care more than the people closest to them.

«My suggestions to young filmmakers would be to embrace and trust your strange and unusual ideas, and to not be afraid of disagreeing with others and stepping on people's toes, because that will inevitably happen every day you have to make executive decisions.»

Two people who were about the last people who would see strange ethereal presences told me privately about their experiences, and were rather eager that I not repeat the story because they knew other people would think they were nuts.

I'm not saying that our existence isn't already strange enough, that God couldn't exist, I just think it's offense to not allow people to mourn because we have to be conditioned into saying that senseless deaths are the necessary catalyst, to bring communities together in the praise of God.

@ Jillienne «Stand YOUR own ground, don't expect people to forsake God by telling them how «impossible» it is for a man to be swallowed by a fish, an argument that really bears no weight actually, because frankly, if you believe that Dinosaurs once roamed the earth (a proven fact) there is nothing wrong with believing a man could have been swallowed by a giant whale... it's really not that strange..»

But for a person who feels, perhaps, a closeness with his God, why would they want to tamper (question) with that just because some stranger asks them to.

«Time» is something humans created to quantifying the passing of events, because we need it to understand the world around us (or at least most of us do; there are people with strange mental conditions that are fully functioning but have no concept of time).

This is very strange to me because in the ministry it was wall to wall people 24/7.

So, people allow themselves to say nasty words towards a stranger because you care?

This humor was strange because the people who wrote are belittling the killings of 30 people worldwide.

Back in 2008 when I reached out to the Emergent people to help because one of there own had gone off the deep end the strangest thing happened.

As logical as it seems to stay away from teachings that cause such debilitating fear (so much so that the thirteen - year - old me created escape plans for the inevitable AntiChrist Army that would march down our street to shoot me after the rest of my family had successfully been raptured), it would be even less logical to believe that God would create a group of strange people created to be forever distanced from Jesus because we can't know Him in the right way.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

We are to act as if Christ is in other people, even the stranger whom we believe we have reason to fear, the prisoner whose acts we find reprehensible, the sick we'd rather condemn because we're convinced that their lifestyle contributed to their illness, the hungry who should have been able to fend for themselves.

Jeremy, I am living in Hong Kong and I wonder if anyone from my city will read this post since most of them are not good in English.Even they are good in English, they probably won't help a stranger over the internet.It is because there are already many scam cases happen in my city and face book as well.Many people are afraid of that already.Anyway, I think if anybody has nay good information, I am willing to listen and I am looking for more prayer support as well.Thank you for your reply and may God bless you more everyday.

It was even more strange because in my first attempt at this, there was about three students for every actual person.

Did Christ heal people with sole intention of getting them into the flock or because, even though they were strangers, he loved them as much as his blood relatives, best friends and himself and his instinct was to end their suffering?

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

These young people can say to their parents, «See, we're not strange because we care about these things.

Unfortunately, because of the superficiality of many pre-marital relationships, the major interpersonal reorientation required by marriage must begin with a person who is essentially a stranger.

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

Maybe one reason that some people seem to have strange biblical interpretations is because they haven't spent enough time handling the real thing.

The Incarnation survived the Roman Empire, not because it was common but because it was strange, not because it was forced on people but because it captivated people.

It is strange because the more alert and aware of the world he becomes, the more he is learning to empathise with other people's emotions.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

«Because serpent handling is not a practice that occurs in the mainstream, people tend to look at it as anomalous and strange,» said Williamson.

«It's really not strange that God would use a football coach to reach people like this,» he says, «because he's always used laypeople.

Boston is aggressively Catholic largely because it is aggressively Irish, and it is aggressively Irish because its people have not quite overcome their sense of being strangers in a hostile land.

Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.

Weather is something people mostly agree with each other — and people love to agree with someone;)-- and you can talk about it with nearly anybody you meet, because it isn't something too private or too weird to talk about with strangers.

«It was all really strange because he later explained he thought I only existed on the internet and was not a real person.»

I wanted to ask him if he was the first person who was ever be late for something, mostly because he is 20 years old, and in the same situation at his age most people are sleeping in beds without box springs, destroying microwaves by accidentally leaving forks in them while heating water for ramen, and discovering that things in your house stop working when you don't send strangers in businesses money in the form of checks.

If anything I'm always super aware of how a pregnant woman's body is being invaded constantly, not only by family members but by total strangers, and it makes me feel protective of the expectant moms - to - be because I know when I was pregnant I despised people touching me or my stomach.

Because my work is based on strange but true stories, it's a good way to engage people and start chatting.

You do not have to worry about interacting with strangers because the forums are open to the worldwide audience and you can meet people all over the globe through joining this forum.

She told CBS 8, «I was nauseated because I've never seen just a bunch of nude people walking around holding hands, strange people that I don't know.»

I like to share these stories on the show because I feel there's a lot of, we share a lot of stuff about you know people not supporting breastfeed but there are people out there that truly do want to help and they may even be complete strangers which is the case in this article here.

I would say be brave, don't worry too much because less people will notice than you think and feed your child as and when they need it and take no notice of rude strangers — don't let them put you off because your baby takes priority and you have every right to feed your baby.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

I feel a little strange making this post public because I am actually a very private person and this is a very intimate topic!

At any rate, not that I would ever stop night - nursing my baby simply because other people might think me strange for continuing to do this, but I'm curious if more women are like me and choose to do this — or if I really am in an extremely small minority of women who plan to let all aspects of breastfeeding take their natural course with their little ones, including night feedings for as long as my son desires.

How about women who are uncomfortable and nervous because people like you suggest that the only other alternative to hiding amongst feces is to «catch hell» from strangers?

Also, I feel uncomfortable with my kid's name on the outside of their backpack, because I don't want a «stranger danger» person able to walk up and call my kid by their first name.

Yet a parent is more likely to be reported to authorities for letting their kid walk to the park by themselves than for driving them there, because people mistakenly believe that stranger abduction is more common than it is and because they are comfortable with driving and don't see it as immoral.

I love being a nursing mom, now that my son is getting older people look at me strange because I am nursing still.

We have often criticized people getting milk from strangers online because there is a possibility of someone with some undetected health problem or infection that could be passed through breast milk.

This strange convention is used because most people can't be 100 percent sure of their dates of conception, and this method at least provides a standard starting point.

If that is the case then it is strange because I have studied psychology and I know how mad people behave so for somebody to behave like this and then people say that this is a crazy or mad person, I have my doubts.