Sentences with phrase «toward heaven»

But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven - only you.

When he finally humbles himself and raises his eyes toward heaven his sanity is returned and he praises the Lord.

The after - life is reached across a bridge of orange flowers and is a fantastically drawn conception of terraced and cantilevered structures rising toward heaven in candy box colors.

I am a hopeful wreck with hands toward heaven.

Most track presidents in this country roll their eyeballs toward heaven at the smallest hint that they, like their clients, might enjoy throwing a bob down the drain now and then.

Even so, as Augustine would advise, while living on earth we should direct our eyes sometimes toward heaven.

The world has visions of sugar plums dancing in its head and the church sees only angry Jews standing by the fence, wailing toward heaven: We Americans are doing better, better and better.

And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11.

Then He brought him outside and said, «Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.»

Now onto Acts 1:10 - 11: «And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

A third, «It is all one, whether a man does much or little, if only he turns his heart toward heaven (that is, toward God).»

Here is what the Scriptures actually record in Genesis 15:5 — 6: And he brought him outside and said, «Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.»

Speaking symbolically, it is as though the counselor must respect a person's right to go to hell before he can be an instrument in helping him move toward heaven.

A man may still be able at the last instant to concentrate his whole soul in a single glance toward that heaven from which cometh every good gift, and his glance will be intelligible to himself and also to Him whom it seeks as a sign that he nevertheless remained true to his love.

«A vast horde of souls were rumbling toward heaven.

Then he lifted his eyes toward heaven and recognized the Angel whom he had seen at Mount Hira.

At the same time it was predicted that the ungrateful town of Mecca would at first endure an awful misery which would bring some of the people from incredulity to an attraction of their souls toward heaven, then it would have prosperity which would make them forget God, and finally Mecca would suffer a humiliating defeat in the first battle (Surah XLIV, 9 - 16).

Seems to me they become like the Pharisee who thanks God for his position rather than admit they are like the tax collector who has a hard time raising his head toward heaven.

Every instinct urged him to turn back toward heaven, but to his angel guide he said:

when most of America hadn't: the kitschy well - meaning illustrations on the endpapers of the Watch - tower books from the Jazz Age and the Depression: a Mexican family all in sombreros, an African family in embroidered A-line robes, a clean - cut white family, a Chinese family in their conical straw hats, all the families standing together, their faces raised toward heaven, where a pale, bearded Jesus rides down on a horse.

Luther's insight that * sin * is not «man turned down toward the earth rather than up toward heaven» as the Catholic scholasticss taught; but was «man curved in upon himself» was an insight that has been confirmed by contemporary psychology in its teaching on narcissistic egoism.

Situated on a prominent street corner in a prosperous part of town, Holy Communion has white columns and a graceful spire that point seekers toward heaven, and a genteel brick exterior and clear glass windows that represent a different southern tradition, one of measured and rational faith.

Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them....

I've shaken my fist toward heaven more than once in agony.

And, since he is a pilgrim on this earth, it commands him to tend always toward heaven.

It was as if, unable to reach toward heaven on my own, the confident voices of those around me raised my own voice like a marionette doll, awkward, but vaguely human.

Smallpox is a judgment of God, the vaccination is a challenge toward heaven.»

Our Father had promised Abraham, Gen 15:5 «Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.

The speaker in Frost's poem yearns, as he says, «Toward heaven.»

But what is the job of a chaplain for the dying if not to turn their hearts and souls toward heaven?

The cover of Silence is Easy shows a man lifting his arms toward the heavens while others stand unmoved around him.

Surprisingly, Maine makes little of these scenes: Noe (the author uses the spellings employed in a pre-King James translation) is portrayed in the opening sentence as glancing «toward the heavens, something he does a lot these days,» but aside from the implication that he may be looking for further divine clarification and not just the promised rains, we don't see him musing much.

Then he set his end down and looked at me, nodded toward the heavens and said, «He's been there, that's all there is to say, God's been there.»

The temple did not soar toward the heavens or dwarf the beholder into insignificance.

The spray that holds our hair in place and keeps our underarms dry releases chemicals that rise up toward the heavens.

All of the above phenomenology is oriented toward the heavens.

Statues of Alexander the Great, like this fourth - century B.C. likeness, sometimes depict their imperial subject with his head tilted slightly upward, toward the heavens.

A look at the legacy of Galileo Galilei, 400 years after the Italian astronomer turned his spyglass toward the heavens

Ever since Galileo turned his first telescope toward the heavens 400 years ago and found evidence that planets orbited the sun and not the earth, advances in telescope technology have allowed us to expand our horizons and learn our place in the universe.

Amateur and professional astrophotographers aim their telescopes and cameras toward the heavens to capture vivid, breathtaking shots of everything from nearby stellar neighbors to nebula too far to comprehend.

In her painting, Quentin had pointed with one hand toward the heavens.

Tectonic plates collided, sending rocks jutting toward the heavens.

levels don't contain a lot of places to get to with the newfound ability to leap upwards toward the heavens, so mostly you'll jump up to the occasional bit of scaffolding or over a car.

As the vine ascends toward the heavens, you'll encounter even more floating rocks, some of which are more like suspended islands complete with plant and animal life, caves, and even waterfalls.

In the megalopolises of the world, the skyscrapers impose upon the world a confidence that yawns toward the heavens, and Hong Kong photographer Andy Yeung captures big cities in all their stunning glory.

It was captivating to see flames reaching toward the heavens.

That's how long radio astronomer Frank D. Drake pointed the 26 - meter telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) research facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, toward the heavens, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

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More than anything else, I pray that you come to know Him, as I have, for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

This possibility points us toward a greater crisis that stems from a world plunging itself into a secularized darkness, a world that has lost its anchor in transcendent values — a world, in short, that has forgotten how it once longed for heaven.

I have turned my face toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, as one by nature upright, and I am not of the idolaters» (Surab VI, 80).