Sentences with phrase «struck by»

I nod, struck by how poorly that name seems to suit either of us.

(Hopefully, when you were reading and were struck by the truth of it, you didn't just let it trickle over the surface of your mind.

Many times while reading Oracles one is struck by a particularly supple turn of phrase or a seemingly innocuous observation, disarmingly charming but laden with profound wisdom.

In a recent discussion with a group of seminary students, I was struck by the apparent confusion over the nature of ordination among young persons about to enter professional ministry.

Or perhaps you're struck by the amount of human trafficking in the world and want to do something.

The theme, often struck by Reinhold Niebuhr, that a proximate cause becomes demonic when it claims ultimate significance, is one which Harrington picks up with enthusiasm.

PJS: Before talking about the contents of the Reader, I have to say that I was struck by something you mentioned in the introduction: how terrible the readily accessible translations of many of these documents are.

Hume's claim that logical and real possibility are distinguished only by a habit of the mind (we are not in the habit of seeing billiard balls vanish when struck by other billiard balls, so we do not think that is a «real» possibility) is not universally accepted.

I think Zeus would be opposed to lumps of coal, as they tend to ignite when struck by lightening bolts.

Any visitor to a Faith conference is immediately struck by the number of young priests and deacons in attendance.

I just finished the chapter on hell, and I am still struck by how crazy this can seem.

As I reread the Goen corpus I was struck by the way this classic theme of unity in tension with multiplicity had occupied Goen's life work.

Mr Gabbitas said he had been immediately struck by the way the tragedy touched the nation, praising the «almost immediate spontaneous, visceral response of people wishing to help».

As I mentioned in my post, «2016 and the Risk of Birth,» in revisiting Madeleine L'Engle's Genesis Trilogy, I've been struck by how forthcoming the author is about her own fears around raising children during the Cold War.

One is struck by how many leaders in the progressivist «reform» of the society later left the Jesuits.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

When I did, I was excited by its riches and struck by the many parallels with the approach that I was by then calling Growth Counseling.

As I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly «infected» by «conceptual contaminants» — comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles — that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted disease.

On the one hand, one is struck by the copious borrowing of Hindu story lines, mythological characters, and themes.

Now, I'm struck by the importance of caring for our world as an act of worship in reverence to our creator.

Like this tree struck by lightning, forever damaging its life, I can now see that much of what I have believed has only deepened my own pre-existent self - deprecation.

We are usually struck by the fierce and bloodthirsty character of Jehu, and this is clear enough.

As before, the question of such survival is left open, but a new note is struck by the reference to the everlasting nature of God, which is his consequent nature as the weaving of his temporal physical feelings of actualities upon his nontemporal conceptualizations of all pure possibilities (PR 524).

You'll probably get struck by lightening or die of a drug overdose.

For example, I was struck by a provocative comment he made in a 1981 autobiographical book, By Way of Response.

When one reflects on Boethius» formula for the eternity of God, quoted with approval by Aquinas, 28 «the simultaneously whole and perfect possession of interminable life,» one may well be struck by its affinity to the Whiteheadian concept of an infinite concresence.

Centuries ago the wise men of India were struck by the enslaving and inescapable character of the environment in which human activities are conducted.

I'm struck by the wisdom of the image — the inner dress being fundamental, like the heart, while the outer clothing, charity, comes from a heart that knows it needs God in order to do anything good.

I was struck by Spencer Perkins's comment, which appears in More Than Equals, that he wouldn't have bothered with racial reconciliation if he weren't a Christian.

I recall being struck by a line from Herodotus; he said something like, «The only people who practice circumcision are the Egyptians and those who LEARNED IT FROM THEM.»

I'm, struck by how many houses of worship have come down in earthquakes, often killing those praying inside.

I was struck by the fact that new clergy within new paradigm churches are almost always first identified within the ranks of active laypeople within the congregation.

I am struck by the symbolic power of the book in his hands» it is red and flimsy and flops weakly in his grasp.

But readers of Last Temptation and fans of Superstar are struck by how attractive Magdalene is despite her detractors, even when, as in Kazantzakis's case, they are her creators.

If Mays is correct, one must be struck by the paucity of Whitehead's ideas and the variety of his remarks.

More important, I was struck by the prevailing assumption in UN leadership that it had, by moral right, replaced nation - states as the legitimate governor of the world.

You have yet to explain why places like Kansas are struck by tornadoes and why Missouri is flooded on a regular basis, you nincompoop.

The room looks out over the hills toward Nabi - Saleb, and I was struck by the vast emotional space that separates Raymonda Tawil, here in her comfortable Palestinian living room, from Schomit Abramowitz living out her religious dedication in the Taggart fort a few miles away.

I was struck by the degree to which stillness can look, to me, like intellectual disability.

We are struck by an obvious difference between primeval and patriarchal stories: they differ in quality — they are not of the same literary stuff.

Similar themes are struck by Maria Harris, who sees imagination at the very heart of religious education (TRI).

One only has to follow the conversations on MennoLink, a collection of online Mennonite discussion groups, to be struck by the number of Mennonites who are resolutely and articulately nonviolent, and who are critical of America's past and present foreign policy.

In surveying the horizon for contemporary educational reflections on narrative methodology, one is first struck by the relative absence of such reflections.

Here's the thing: at the moment, I was struck by my impression that leaders in the world had more integrity than «leaders» in the church.

Still, as I visit seminary campuses and talk to my friends who teach at them, I'm struck by how often and how much, except at a few top institutions, the educational process gets stretched and bent these days.

We are struck by admiration and affection.

Anyone who reads through Father Jaki's vast tome, or even takes in just a few pages of it, will immediately be struck by Newman's consistently used term for the Catholic Church: «the one, true fold» (or slight variants thereof).

Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.

«Since coming to this conclusion,» he added, «I have twice been struck by lightning and once forced to engage in a long conversation with a theatrical agent.»

In comparing the UUA to other denominations, one is struck by the significant roles, paid as well as volunteer, assumed by the laity.