Sentences with phrase «texts say»

The «command and control» style works when the team is in crisis and needs direction (or so the management texts say).

Emails and texts say a lot.

Typically though, most texts say to do the opposite.

Texts say that the current of energy ending in the left nostril is cooling, like the moon; it is associated with the cognitive senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing), with the latent power of consciousness, and with refueling and replenishment.

Traditional texts say that Bhujangasana increases body heat, destroys disease, and awakens Kundalini.

The Tantric texts say that this is the energy center where you begin to realize your humanity and the potential for your existence.

The yogic texts say that a practitioner of pranayama develops a slim body.

The texts say they are «guilty» of performing animal experiments; Corsini is said to «have tortured and killed animals for more than 30 years.»

Yoga texts say that we have forgotten our true identity.

«Our texts say not a word about what it means to be a good person or to serve God's will in these extraordinary situations,» concludes critic Ruth Schwartz Cowan in her book Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening (Harvard University Press).

By contrast the second kind of argument mounted under the banner of process hermeneutics supports a claim that such - and - such a tenet of process theology is «Biblical theology» in the sense of being compatible with what some Biblical texts say on a theological topic.

These texts say that we as individuals have responsibility not only to our neighbors but to our social structures, but they do not spell out what that might mean in specific cases.

While holding on to our different beliefs about theology, we can still find common ground in what our sacred texts say about caring for the poor.

When the text says something normal but is juxtaposed with a ridiculous picture that has nothing to do with the text, the outcome is often comedic.

In the next two days, Carter would send Roy multiple texts saying he «just had to do it» and spoke to him by phone before texting another friend that Roy had gotten out of the car because he got scared and she «told him to get back in.»

Gervais noted that the small text said the map did not actually display coverage.

That's what the text says.

The full text says, «In his days hall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures.»

Pick one thing the lectionary text says to you, or to your congregation as you judge it, and say that.

I mean, for cryin out loud, the text says that they saw him (Jesus) raise the dead, and yet they did not believe.»

Therefore, when the text says that Noah was «perfect in his generations» (Gen 6:9), this is not a reference to the morality of Noah, but to the fact that Noah's bloodline had not been polluted by the sons of God.

The text says that Christ is the church's «Savior,» but (thankfully) I have never heard a husband claim he could step into that role for his wife!

And regarding John 20:31, even this text says that life is the result of believing.

Our understanding of the text is not necessarily what the text says.

But neither does the text say marriage is like Christ leading and the church following.

Again, while many Christmas carols and stories seem to indicate that Joseph and Mary entered Bethlehem late at night while she is in the middle of birth pains, and he frantically knocks on doors seeking a place to stay, the text says nothing like this.

The text says that Paul «continued his message until midnight» (20:7) and «Paul continued speaking» (20:9).

The text says nothing at all about sacrifice or atonement.

Let us return to what our Gospel text says about such family matters.

The text says this:

This is not actually what the Hebrew text says.

«If we try to turn into modern cosmology, we are making the text say something that it never said.

In that case, a second argument would need to be mounted to show that the exegesis really supports the generalizations made about what the text says.

In I Samuel 13:1, for example, the Hebrew text says literally, «Saul was a year old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years over Israel.»

The text says not a word about Abraham's reaction, but we can try to imagine what went through his mind.

That is partly why the text says that God scrambled human communication (Genesis 11:6).

So when the text says that God opened her heart, I take this to mean that God helped her see the truth of what Paul was proclaiming, that the Hebrew Scriptures which she learned and followed pointed to Jesus Christ, and that the Hebrew God which she worshipped appeared in the flesh in Jesus Christ.

The man from Nazareth looks at the man in the tree, way above the common folk and even above Jesus himself (for the text says Jesus needed to look up to see him), and orders him to come down immediately: Zakxaie.

The text says that she and her household were baptized.

The only reason I bring this up, is because I am convinced that this is what happened to Lydia, and this is what it means when the text says God opened her heart.

All I can say here is that such a hypothesis regarding the New Testament, which makes such nonsense of its soteriology (a man who merely reveals God can not save us in the way the text says he can and does) and which goes against the prima facie sense of such texts as Philippians 2:6 - 9 and John 20:28, can not long succeed whatever luminaries put their names to it.

This history is at best only a clue to what the text says; the text is not supposed to be used as a clue to this history, for then the text would only be indirectly related to the meaning of the Christian faith.

To put this into perspective it is like someone denying number theory and stating that 2 +2 does not equal 4 because their «holy» text says something different.

The text says nothing of the sort.

No man is an infallible interpreter of Scripture, stating simply what the text says.

Just as the text says more than its author knows, so its author may be living Out of that reality to which the text points.

Actually, I have studied Greek specifically Koine Greek and know exactly what the original text says..

In all this activity, which owing to the investigator and his subject matter is rarely brought to a conclusion, scientific theology must adhere faithfully to the text and to what the text says.

But we are faced just like the literary critic with figuring out what the text says, of constructing a reading of it.

«They (the Alexandrians), indeed, turn everything backward,» writes Theodore, «since they wish to make no distinction between what the text says (historical) and dreams in the night.»