Sentences with phrase «told by»

Yes, in the old Testament there were specific battles where the Israelites were told by God to kill their enemies.

I'm also told by your agenda that I can not have an opinion on a woman's right choose [death — abortion] because I'm not a woman.

Moody's racial woes, as told by these students and faculty members, are about a historically conservative Bible college struggling to embrace equality and pluralism.

Maybe more to do with constantly being told by a group of people, some good and some bad, that they are bound for hell.

They were told by Jesus, «Do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.»

apparently you have not heard of some bakery and a photopgrapher who was told by the courts they had to do service to these people

Nadine Daniel, who advises the Bishop of Liverpool on interfaith issues says, «I have been told by many of our Iranians, «I was not a good Muslim».»

To borrow a metaphor from Paul, a biography of a marriage as told by the wife.

You're just whining because you've been told by Limbaugh and Beck that this is a bad thing for you.

They can only repeat what they've been told by churches and its leaders.

I have been told by the religious people that is different..

Repeatedly Hauerwas and his students have been told by church members that they are drawn to a vision of discipleship at odds with a world bent on violence, but that they need some more accessible materials, if not an outright plan of action.

This needs to be carefully noted, lest one experience in the world of the spirit what befell the traveler who asked if the road on which he was journeying went to London, and was told by the Englishman that it did; in spite of which he failed to reach London, because the Englishman had omitted to mention that he needed to turn about, since he was proceeding in the opposite direction.

Tales told by many different people.

Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they brag about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

The most important moral to be drawn from our history as told by Rorty and Vattimo is that metaphysical ways of thinking and talking, wedded as they are to the vocabulary of truth and realism, are dangerous and better refused.

We are also told by insiders that the vulgarization strategy is not working, which is a modest consolation.

When I first went to India I was told by Father Murray Rogers, who founded a Christian ashram near Bareilly, that the external dialogue has to be accompanied by an internal dialogue.

Thanks for trying, Roger, but if Jesus (who is God) was not told by his Father (who is God) the exact date of his own return, I think we should be content with the vague word «generation» and assume it means our own.

(So draw your own conclusions, regardless of what you are ever told by another human being — because that human being could be saying things that aren't true or real or even SANE.

In the meantime, Mike and Michelle, (who are Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they urge Joe and Jane to abstain from the aforementioned drinking of alcohol and having sex), go straight to heaven, where they are told by Jesus (the church pastor) that they are finally home for eternity.

The story must be told by the life of the Church, and by the Eucharist which is the source and summit of the life of the Church, and therefore of the world.

I was told by Anne this is a rant.

This is how you really know the resurrection is a lie told by early Christians to cover up the fact that the Son of God blew it and got his butt executed.

For years I was told by Christian apologists that postmodernism was evil and that it represented an enormous threat to Christianity.

I was once told by someone in a position to know, «You haven't a lazy bone in your body.»

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

These are only Sadhana (ways) but real Sadhana is him only (Krishna) as told by him in 18th adhyaya in Bhagawadgita!

Today, the common man is being told by many secularizers that our age is a post-Christian age in the sense that we no longer believe in the metaphysical.

God is a Guardian to true believers who do as told by the messengers and scriptures.

The story of Hitler's Christianity is the funniest ever told by atheists.

The story of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus is told by Luke in three places in the Acts of the Apostles — in chapters nine, twenty two and twenty six.

Joe reported to his superiors and testified to a grand jury about what he was told by some random dude.

I think dismissing this from that verse is where the «theological peril» lies because it strips one more piece of majesty away from God's Word which is masterful in its forethought and in the pictures and shadows we're told by Paul that it contains.

Dante's innovative but risky technique was to trust us, his readers, with the responsibility for seizing upon the details in the narratives told by these sympathetic sinners in order to condemn them on the evidence that issues from their own mouths.

St Peter was told by Jesus Christ that he was to be the «Rock» (Matthew 16.

We'll see more parties enlisting courts in the unfolding coercion, by deploying the perfectly tailored concept of dignitary harm: the pain of being told by others that your choices are immoral.

Acts 26: 9 - 20; Philippians 3: 3 - 14 The story of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus is told by Luke in three places in the Acts of the Apostles — in chapters nine, twenty two and twenty six.

It was being told by people in the Christian publishing industry that I shouldn't be writing a book about womanhood anyway because I'm not a mother.

Don Schenk is correct to disbelieve stories» told by presidents or others» of Jerusalem's streets running with blood to knee level after the Crusader conquest of 1099.

I was told by some of the women involved that he was bullying them.

For me it was when I was told this by my father who wanted me to forgo the surgery to remove my cancer tumor because if I had faith, I would know God had already removed it.

Labeling is often an effective way for bullies to implant doubts, to discount the truth that is told by others, to reinforce denial in the hearts and minds of their own followers.

God could literally negate any lie told by satan if he wanted to, and NO ONE would then have to be cast into any lake.

Michael; Most people worship a so called god because they were told by their parents that myths were truths.

He was told by the police dispatcher not to follow.

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

Sorry to learn that you were thrown under the bus — I was told by numerous sources that Doug instructed you to scrub the website.

The story of Jesus coming - out event as told by John demonstrates his spiritual flexibility.

St Peter was told by Jesus Christ that he was to be the «Rock» (Matthew 16; this is what the name «Peter» means, his original name was Simon) on which he would build his Church.