Sentences with phrase «tablets of stone as»

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God's laws are no longer written on tablets of stones, or ink of paper, but written in our Spirits, as imprints of laws, or conscience.

As John Paul II put it at Sinai in 2000, the moral code of a liberated people, those Ten Commandments, were written on the human heart before they were engraved on tablets of stone.

One of his trademark black turtlenecks peeks through his biblical robe, as Jobs displays an iPad instead of the twin stone tablets of Exodus.

The last thing Paul would want is for people to respond to his ethical advice as a new law engraved on tablets of stone.

The Jewish scriptures tell how Moses communed with God on the top of Mount Sinai, and returned with the tablets of stone on which were inscribed the Ten Commandments, which have served for more than three thou sand years as the basic moral code of the Judeo - Christian civilization.

We act as if there are stone tablets of facts up on a mountain somewhere.

Clegg said: «The mid-term review is not another great tablet of stone, as per the original coalition agreement.

And Supreme Court's decisions shouldn't be considered only in the most flattering of terms, or accepted as uncritically as if they had been handed down graven on tablets of stone at Mount Sinai.

This is applicable to any search for a relationship, but in the case of Russian women you must follow this rule as if it was inscribed on stone tablets handed down from Heaven.

The seven pillars of character that hang from pretty banners in the hallway just don't have the same resonance as the image of Moses coming down from the mountain with the ten commandments that God had just etched in stone tablets.

For instance, the tablets used by the ancient Egyptians suffered from poor mobility as they were too heavy to be carried around, made of a solid block of stone as they are while tablet from the Mayan civilization is depicted to have a self destruct feature built into it that won't exist post 2012.

The hardware bit of the tablet is yet to be set in stone as things are still being worked out.

Even in Japan, the stone tablets were ignored mostly, and even they were not old enough to record the even larger tsunamis of the past, as many of them were washed away by the recent one.

Secondary commentators like a Monbiot or a McKibben suffer even wider ranges of horrors in their dreams, horrors which they rush to share with the rest of us as if they were prophets with tablets of stone in their arms.