Sentences with phrase «than your possession of»

In my belief that a large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, I have loaded the lectures with concrete examples, and I have chosen these among the extremer expressions of the religious temperament.

Instead, the gospel proposes a worldview in which men and women are the children of God, and where human growth and development is a far more important goal than the possession of any power or thing.

We know that there are factors other than the possession of healthy personalities which help prevent some people from becoming alcoholics.

The best kind is that associated with realty, rather than some possession of worth — like jewelry or a car.

If you pay them enough, then they get to buy something more pleasurable even than smoking, and you get something more pleasurable than your possession of what you paid them - a smoke - free atmosphere.

[F] ar more important modern sources of economic advancement than the possession of land are the possession of productively useful skills, technology and capital of the kind in demand in the mainstream Australian economy.91

- Anthony Trollope «There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.»

Not exact matches

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

The «Maz» that Hamill references is none other than Maz Kanata, the wise alien Han Solo, Rey, and Finn visit in the film who is in possession of Luke's lightsaber.

The New York Giants» decision to bench Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders is being met with harsh criticism, and no critic is louder or in possession of a larger megaphone than long - time New York sports talk radio host Mike Francesa.

While these persons and entities may labor under the belief that their actions are entrepreneurial rather than criminal, the fact remains that they are in willful possession of stolen property.

If they do choose to resell them, the portable format will make it easier for them than others who accidently found themselves in possession of a Banksy.

A Strayer survey recently found that 90 percent of Americans define success as more about happiness than power, possessions, or prestige.

A study by Strayer University found that 90 % of Americans believe happiness is a bigger indicator of success than power, possessions, or prestige.

The incident comes less than a week after the rapper was stopped in Sweden on suspicion of drug use and possession.

The media / realtors say the condo market is still hot but there are a lot of speculators in that market, and they are taking possessions of condos they thought would be easy flips with mortgage rates of 6 % or in some case more than 9 % — when rates are low.

If they could do so profitably, these private intermediaries would, by making their substitutes more attractive than base money itself, collectively gain possession of every dollar of base money in existence.

This is a man with more wealth than one could possibly conceptualize who is the first to wisely caution against the possessiveness of possessions («Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner»), with a simple and excellent work ethic that we can learn from and be humbled by.

So if we are going by the right of first possession then it belongs to the Palestinian people as much, if not more, than the Jews.

Much common and statutory law has been erected over the centuries on the possibility that some of your family may love you less than they love your possessions.

«The possession of criteria» is not «more important than truth,» he wrote.

In fact, Jesus had more to say about the the dangers of greed, love of possessions, and the lack of compassion for the the «poor» and the «least of these» than he did about any other single subject in christian scripture.

We no longer believe disease is caused by evil spirits, that seizures are the result of demonic possession, or than lightning is caused by Thor's hammer.

But taking off one's shoes upon arriving at an American dinner party would be a demonstration of disrespect, while an American host who asks guests to remove their shoes in order to preserve the cleanliness of the carpet is disrespectful to the guests, by showing more honor to his possessions than to them.

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

So while I personally wouldn't categorically state that possession does or doesn't exist, my experience tells me that people who behave in these ways are more in need of a specially - trained mental health professional than they are in need of a specially - trained priest.

He did not require Zacchaeus to give up more than half of his possessions to the poor.

In my opinion, the Catholics have a clearer more in - depth understanding of demonic possession than protestants I speculate, as it seems that they have put forth a concerted effort to research it, manage it and even consult divine knowledge concerning the practice of exorcism.

It was the soul of his entire race that had shuddered within him: an obscure memory of a first sudden awakening in the midst of beasts stronger, better - armed than he; a sad echo of the long struggle to tame the corn and to master the fire; a rancorous dread of the maleficent forces of nature, a lust for knowledge and possession... A moment ago, in the sweetness of the first contact, he had instinctively longed to lose himself in the warm wind which enfolded him.

In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.

In order to take possession of mc, my God, you who are so much more remote in your immensity and so much deeper in the intimacy of your indwelling than all things else, you take to yourself and unite together the immensity of the world and the intimate depths of my being: and I am conscious of bearing deep within me all the strain and struggle of the universe.

The translation «deliverance» has usually been chosen rather than «salvation,» in accordance with the emphasis of the crisis theologians that Christian salvation is not a possession.)

It's effects are a lot less than cigarettes and the penalty for possession of it is so great that you would think find a joint is tantamount to hiding c4.

Indeed, the natural environment is thought of more as part of the community than as a possession.

The only change is to identify «the culture» as being in the possession of those outside rather than those inside, and to adjust strategy accordingly.

Forty - five years after I directed The Exorcist, there's more acceptance of the possibility of possession than there was when I made the film.»

The landowner does not seem to have acquired his wealth unfairly or dishonestly; nevertheless, because he held on to more possessions than he needed, because he possessed wealth without regard to the covenant community, he was declared a fool in the sight of God.

I bet many young ministers preparing sermons on these texts are more embarrassed by the word about the kingdom of heaven than they are by those promising possession of the land.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Accordingly, the inevitable historicity of all human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not be more than the characteristic possession of a transient and temporary era in the history of a particular culture.

But more than this, when we consider the «deliverance» ministry of Jesus in liberating people from demon possession, it is important to recognize what Jesus was, and was not, doing.

Isn't that like someone who doesn't understand rocket science assuming that rockets fly by magic, or people ignorant of modern medicine believing that illnesses come from demonic possession rather than germs?

Rather than remaining in a fluid relationship based on listening, word, memory, choice, and response, the woman sees a possible way to take possession and to dominate at the level of this reality that she recognizes as the only stable one.

You want answers to life's aggravating questions yourself, and you are obviously not yet in possession of those; I can't help but wonder whether or not this article was written precisely to provoke those you see as your opponents, simply to challenge them to give you something higher (you are the one who is searching, it seems)- than you have received through your own beliefs.

He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

You're not seeing me asking if you give up all of your riches just because Jesus said that it was more difficult for one having many possessions to get into heaven than for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle.

31: 33) will be recognized as nothing less than the hope that this experience known first by the prophets should in time become the possession of every faithful soul.

I did not hear, or have forgotten, the continued course of his life, but the final result was, that he more than recovered his lost possessions, and died an inveterate miser, worth # 60,000.»

Yet the churches in the Thirteen Colonies displayed much greater vitality than those in any other of the overseas possessions of Europe.