Sentences with phrase «than a miracle for»

It's no less than a miracle for an organisation to grow to an extend Indicoin has, in such a short span.

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Aren't we all just points of light and energy that are cosmically interconnected to each other through the miracle of space and time, with LinkedIn nothing more than a vehicle for enabling those connections?

On Friday, April 19, Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) hosted its 16th Annual Caring Classic corporate charity golf tournament, raising a net donation of more than $ 170,000 for Greater Orlando Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals across the U.S. and Canada that treat more than 10 million kids a year.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals was founded in 1983 and since then has raised more than $ 5 billion for 170 children's hospitals across the United States and Canada.

«Our company and associates have been giving back to our local communities for more than 30 years through Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

My students at Peking University, for example, are extremely supportive and think very differently about what I do, and I think I have convinced them that as future policymakers, especially in finance and central banking, rather than join the hype that has always accompanied every growth miracle it is their responsibility to be focus on risks and on all the ways things can go wrong.

When the totality of facts are taken into account, «miracles» turn out to be nothing more than believers who are desperate for some sign of my existence ignoring the downside of a set of facts, focusing solely on the upside and calling the quarantined «good» a miracle from me or one of the other sky - fairies.

Historian Will Durant, who was an atheist or at least an agnostic, wrote that for the life of Jesus to have been invented if He didn't exist would be a bigger miracle than any attributed to him.

Most patristic and medieval writers preferred to talk about miracles and miracle workers rather than charismatic gifts for a number of reasons such as the dominant gift list being Isaiah 11, not 1 Corinthians 12 and Jerome's translating charismata as «graces» (gratiae).

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

The «natural» is more than enough miracle for me.

Language and logic are no less a miracle than God separating light from darkness or dividing the Red Sea for His people to walk through on dry land.

They want some big splashy teaching, like for instance — a course in miracles, rather than putting into practice in very practical ways with the people around them what the Isaiah says God requires (i.e. — love, patience, prayer, meditation, hopefulness, justice, etc).

Those who believe that miracles are refuted by modern science may view them symbolically rather than literally, saying, for example, that the stilling of the storm (Mark 4:35 - 41) shows that God is with the believer in the storms of life.

All things considered together, Christ's miracles were intended to reveal that He was a prophet of God, and more than a prophet, He was the Messiah, and not the Messiah the Jews were looking for — one coming in judgment — but a tender and loving Messiah wanting to draw all men unto Himself.

Where in the religions today can you say that these has happened other than for false miracles?

but what about for the past 2000 years where we have literally seen NO miracles other than some people claiming their headache went away because they prayed to St. Thomas or what have you.

Steve Cooper explains why the evidence for Jesus, including his miracles, is actually stronger than ever

With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy at work for the dispersal of evil forces and the total renewal of human life; and that this was nothing less than the creative energy of the living God.

The miracle of Christmas means more for the church than Sunday school programs and choir cantatas; it points to the essence of how we are the church in the world.

Brown concludes the show by urging his audience to look to themselves rather than God for the ultimate example of a miracle.

And sometimes a simple mayonnaise is sufficient when Miracle Whip is more than we should ask for.

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

Nature is not the composition of law - like patterns occurring independently of God, and thus, miracles are not cases of when God intervenes, but when He acts differently than usual for His redemptive purposes.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

The reason those of us who keep looking for miracles, signs and wonders are called adulterous is because we want a god other than the one we already have.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

For the truth of his word he offers no evidence whatever, neither in his miracles, the significance of which is not to accredit his words (for he expressly repudiates attestation through miracles (Mark 8:11, 12)-RRB-, nor in his personal qualities, which apparently aroused in his contemporaries antagonism rather than faiFor the truth of his word he offers no evidence whatever, neither in his miracles, the significance of which is not to accredit his words (for he expressly repudiates attestation through miracles (Mark 8:11, 12)-RRB-, nor in his personal qualities, which apparently aroused in his contemporaries antagonism rather than faifor he expressly repudiates attestation through miracles (Mark 8:11, 12)-RRB-, nor in his personal qualities, which apparently aroused in his contemporaries antagonism rather than faith.

How about praying for government that acknowledges and tries to solve problems rather than burying their heads in the sand and praying for miracles?

For more than two hours he seemed to dance around such questions as the virgin birth and Jesus» miracles.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Don't think for a minute that your little «medical miracle» was anything other than chance that you happened to heal faster than normal.

As whatever -2012-has-in-store-for-us approaches what options remain for them, other than to Occupy and hope for a miracle?

Yet some either deny a concept of God based on a human like diety... without logically understanding it has to be something more than that... or worse only see a chaotic uncaring universe..., without understanding the complexity of the infinite miracles, defined by science alone, not to mention the influence of noy yet known to science, occurences... that have occurred for billions of years to end up in their creation and also supporting their every day survival.

The ark could not have contained more than a very small proportion of the animal life on the globe, to say nothing of the food needed for them, nor could eight people have attended to their wants, nor apart from a constant miracle could the very different conditions they required in order to live at all have been supplied.

For some conservatives, bracing themselves on the night of the election, the evening offered nothing less than a miracle unfolding.

But this word is harder to speak, more difficult to formulate, more implicating for his being, more binding for his life, than any great act, even a miracle, could ever be.

When there is a momentary break in the course of these disasters, when abundance is known, when peace timidly establishes itself, when justice reigns for a span, then it is fitting, unless we are men of too little faith, that we should marvel and give thanks for so great a miracle, realizing that no less than the love and faithfulness of the Lord has been needed in order that there might be this privileged instant.

He came, amid the festival which Geneva is dedicating to the memory and the art of Mozart, to declare in his delightful French his lifelong passion for the composer whose work has been termed by some, less careful theologically than Barth, a true miracle.

They'll all tell you that cures have occurred that simply can not be accounted for in any other way than by prayer and miracles.

It is an indication of the degree of holiness assigned to these saints that their miracles are described by the Arabic word which in Muslim dogmatics is used only for miracles performed by God's messengers, rather than by the word customarily used to refer to the miracles of saints.

The largest Nation in existence at its time Rome, the very same that put him to the cross later Bowed to him... Thousands witnessed his Miracles and converted on the spot... and this is all recorded historically... unlike many religions around the globe, this was witnessed and recorded... yet you refuse to believe it... But you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and believe what a scientist postulated... a theory that requires as much if not more faith to believe in than Any religion... A theory that if you believe... you must throw out the natural laws of Physics...... But you call me stupid for believing in God... Wow... My bad i guess i should believe in Magical particles that always existed that randomly exploded and caused everything to exist....

All I know is that it worked for me, and many times I see more of God and more miracles in the rooms of AA than in most churches.

«People expect and hope for a miracle that will make them feel and look their best,» says Bonnie Taub - Dix, MA, RD, CDN, founder of Better Than Dieting.

showed hubby recipe... and told him it was for supper... discovered out of lasagna noodles and ricotta... got creative and used tortilla rounds and cottage cheese... now making them tonight with all «the right stuff»... the first batch disappeared in less than a day... and that is a miracle at my house... love this!

This miracle food, first invented in Korea as a health food, is nothing more than regular garlic, heated at low temperature for about a month in controlled humidity, then dried for another 40 days or so.

Since 1983, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals ® have raised more than $ 5 billion for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments to kids across the U.S. and Canada...

IHOP ® is on a mission to raise $ 2.7 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and other local charities with its National Pancake Day celebration, set for Tuesday, February 28, and they are making it easier than ever for their guests to participate with an online giving option and a month - long bounce - back balloon sales offer.

If by some miracle, wenger does sign a WC striker, his more than likely waiting for something else to drop before he nabs his man, similar to the Ozil signing, which was pending on Bales move to Madrid, before they sold him to Arsenal.