Sentences with phrase «than tears of»

What at first appears as the aftermath of a tragedy is actually a wedding photo — tears of joy rather than tears of pain.

Not exact matches

Having seen the interior of the new X-Class, it's one that's definitely geared more toward surviving wear and tear than the cosseting leather - lined cocoons we are used to seeing in Mercedes» passenger cars.

When love exists among the members of a group, they are more likely to pull together than to tear one another apart.

Bitcoin has been on another tear of late, nudging a record of $ 1,300 per unit — more than an ounce of gold.

In the long run, that will win you more public approval than an ocean of CEO crocodile tears.

It might be tempting for some of us not to cry any tears for overprivileged colleges, run by wealthy administrators to serve the children of the affluent, which waste vast sums of money to prove how much better they are than everybody else.

Yes, that's crisis - torn Somalia, although the gains seem to have more to do with expatriates sending gobs of money home than anything fundamental in the domestic economy, and are a repeat of the shilling's 2013 performance against its foreign - exchange peers.)

This was the case even as the price of the yellow metal was on a tear, rising from $ 270 in 2001 to more than $ 830 an ounce by the end of 2007.

The market started off the year as it ended 2017, on a tear higher, then the brief crash in early February, which led to a nice calm recovery during the remainder of the month just to run into what I'm calling «Whipsaw March» with the market jumping higher and lower by more than 1 % nearly every other day.

Of course there's no commute easier than from your kitchen to your home office, but besides ease, think of all the money you're saving on gas, car wear and tear, upkeep, etcOf course there's no commute easier than from your kitchen to your home office, but besides ease, think of all the money you're saving on gas, car wear and tear, upkeep, etcof all the money you're saving on gas, car wear and tear, upkeep, etc..

The stock is on a tear since last year, gaining more than 50 percent since the beginning of November.

When there's a need in the course of such obstruction for government servants, whether Democratic or Republican, to be «verbally abused» and «reduced to tears,» that's of course not Barry's role, no more than it was back in his Cook County days.

That horrific tragedy brought tears to my eyes... Other than this, all I can say to the Jewish Community in Borough Park (Brooklyn), NY is L'Shanah Tovah, although, I realize I am a couple of weeks early.

Similarly, when this tent of our mortal lives is torn down in death, God has made for us a temple far more splendorous than this mortal body could ever be.

But how can you deny the significance of a 4 inch veil being torn at the time of Jesus» death?!?! Surely, you will respond trying to refute this or nitpick at the details (as if that takes away from the miracle that it was), but in doing so please note that there is significantly more evidence to support this event than there is to refute it.

Rather than working to tearing down this wall and making the world a better place, American society and the media continually shore up this separation between «faith» and reason, hence the comparitively sorry state of science and research in our country today.

I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

«The tears of one child, one innocent child... that is bigger than all the universe together.

More than half (54 %) of the 1.3 million refugees applying for asylum in Europe in 2015 came from the war - torn, Muslim - majority countries of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

More than 8,500 terrorist attacks killed nearly 15,500 people last year as violence tore through Africa, Asia and the Middle East, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say: Man, what have I to do with thee?

28 Samuel said, «The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel away from you today, and he will give it to someone who is better than you.

The problem «emergers» may run into is that, while deconstructing is a valuable and important part of bringing about reform and making the Church better, tearing down is always easier than building up.

Going back to the history of crucifixion, I do agree with the author that the nails were actually driven through the wrist rather than the palms because driving the nails through the wrist made it harder to tear lose.

And each time, I peered into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in prayer.

Well find some more ammo in your tear ducts, friend, because this story is gonna move you more than Han going down into the pit of carbonite.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

It just seems to me that as a writer / researcher who clearly knows better, it is really your job to attack, debunk and tear these assinine arguments about Obama's religious convictions to pieces rather than giving them some kind of legitimacy.

I would try to gently point out that I had 32 more years of experience in the word than she, & shed a tear for the trials I knew she soon would face... beginning the journey to become less certain of WHAT I know & fare more certain of WHO I know.

Henry is torn between the emerging parties, insisting on the one hand that he is closer to Lindsell than to Fuller Seminary (where he once taught) but on the other hand scrambling in a number of interviews, articles and reviews to counteract the book's threat to the evangelical unity to which he has given so much of himself.

Zeus's bloody tears, then, may be a pictorial representation of solidarity with his human son but they can never be more than merely symbolic.

Knives, forks, and spoons permit greater finesse in the handling of food than is possible by tearing, grasping, or sucking.

The city has promised that all of the more than two dozen homes on the initial list will be torn down by the beginning of 2011.

Mary's tears and Thomas» doubts are parallel; in both parts, the problem of touching Jesus is raised; in the first part, Mary's tears are less important than the faith of the beloved disciple; in the second, Thomas» doubt is less important than the commission of the disciples.

The women of Jerusalem have more reason for tears than they realize, he says.

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

They will not commit the suicide of the Jewish soul by succumbing to the despair that follows when the Holocaust becomes our central point of reference rather than something the Torah teaches that God Himself will conquer, when he «will destroy death forever, and will wipe away tears from every face» (Isaiah 25:8).

Less than one hundred years later, Jewish children were torn from the arms of their parents and murdered in the Holocaust.

Ivan, like the old man, «rejects the world and wishes to tear it from the hands of God, since he made it badly, with the pretension of organizing it differently and in a superior manner than its original author.»

A little more than a year later, I remembered those people and their silent tears as I wandered round a Moscow at last liberated from the Communist tyranny that had demanded the allegiance of everyone since 1917, a Moscow from which the tanks, defeated mainly by popular scorn for a rotten, drunken, washed - up junta of secret policemen and hacks, had withdrawn.

I've read the bible more than 5 times and never heard jesus preach hate, the closest he got was when he tore the tables apart in the temple when they were selling trinkets (like the stuff schueller sells) and they turned the house of GOD into a rummage sale instead of healing and feeding the poor, disabled, elderly and so on... God says you will know a man by his works, so if your preacher sounds alot like hitler you may want to change church's, that is if you care about your soul!

«Nothing expresses more unequivocally the profound failure of [theologies that separate the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history] than their deeply anguished, joyless, and cheerless tone: torn between knowing and believing, they are no longer able to see anything, nor can they be convincing in any visible way.»

This is little more than tearing something down with no intention of rebuilding.

Rather than renew, redeem and restore, we tear down and create mounds of ruin.

We tend to project our own sensitivity here, said this friend, who went on to tell me (to my surprise) that when a crab tears away the claw of another crab, as I had reported to him, the probability is that what the latter feels is more like a twinge than like the anguish that the tearing away of a limb would cause in us.

Who I am is of no concern and my name, Philip, draws much attention from those who troll these waters and lurk for me and focus on me rather than these truths I have learned over decades of earnest and tear - filled pleas for God to show me what this world is all about.

People too often talk about Jesus aside from his words, about his compassion towards all, while they fail to wrestle with some of his steepest moral teachings: «Whoever divorces his wife... and marries another, commits adultery; Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart; If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; I have come to bring not peace but the sword; Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mt 19:9, 5:28, 5:30, 10:14, 10:37).

listening, watching, shaking my head with more tears of grief than joy (some of that are my own tragedies).

I thought the characters were flat and unattractive, the story ho - hum, and the premise churlish and clumsy (i.e. the whole point is to tear down the belief system of others rather than put something positive forward as an alternative).

But the focus is on building up the body of Christ rather than tearing her down.