Sentences with phrase «under a bushel»

The church people then might become like the «city upon the hill» that can not be hidden... instead of the «candle light under the bushel basket».
By then Gore had been an environmental activist for a long time, but kept that yet unpopular issue hidden under a bushel during his campaign, on misguided advice from his strategists.
Or again, putting a lamp under a bushel certainly reduces the chance of having it blown out, but the price for such protection is darkness.
She covered a number of important topics, including unwritten rules, lifelong networking, making your way in your own way, and not hiding your light under a bushel basket.
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If ANYTHING, please watch the last minute and a half of the video... oh my gosh Savy was KILLING ME!!!!! I've decided I can't hide her talents under a bushel anymore and you'll be seeing more of that little firecracker on my channel!
God can use anyone to sing His praises or give a message to us, even a Donkey, so if you are hiding your faith under a bushel you got some serious problems.
We Catholics haven't been hiding this belief under a bushel.
And make it easy for them to get in touch — have prominent links back to your main site on any content you're spreading around, and don't hide your contact info under a bushel.
No worries, he won't be hiding his light completely under a bushel, since he'll still be writing for Dr. Digipol and techPresident.
But while the Golf GTE is an impressive vehicle, it hides its technology and performance under a bushel, with little to differentiate it from the other GT models in the Golf range.
Because it just covers the iPad's screen, the Smart Cover doesn't hide the iPad 2's light weight and thin design under a bushel; the downside, of course, is that the back of your tablet goes unprotected, leaving it vulnerable to scratches.
Why hide your light under a bushel if you have the documentation to prove that you build better than the rest?
For a start, it seems unlikely to hide its achievements under a bushel.
Hiding your light under a bushel by using vague language undermines your chances at shining.
If you use a hide under a bushel strategy, you won't be the first one called.
Point being, fundamentalists drawing «exceptionalist» lines that are narrow vs liberal Christians making them a bit wider, exceptionalism is the something I don't want hiding under a bushel — let the world see it.
Many churches hide their lights under the bushel of poor publicity.
They have come out from under the bushel, into the mainstream, to inspire Christianity worldwide with the spirit of Pentecost.
After the interpretation of this parable, Mark and Luke have the saying used by Matthew in the Sermon on the Mount about putting a lamp under a bushel or a bed (Mt 5:15; Mk 4:21; Lk 8:16), followed by the statement, «For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light» (Mk 4:22; Lk 8:17).
It shouldn't hide its light under a bushel basket.
So if she doesn't have children, why stay at home and hide her talents under a bushel?
It's that old adage of hiding your light under a bushel basket — and just having your book «available» on Barnes & Noble or other retail sites in NO WAY implies any level of awareness.
This systemic usurpation of Jesus complete headship and right to His people, by a worldwide cabal of homo lupus is the backbone of the culture that hides the light under the bushel and shrouds the city on the hill, so that the world remains in darkness.
Hide that under a bushel?
To the extent that crazy people are able to hide their craziness «under a bushel», the proximate result is that you and I would never even be aware of it.
It's not do your own thing, hide it under a bushel, never talk about it.
«puts it in a cellar or under a bushel
Our insights are too important to be hid under a bushel, or complacently kept for our own people.
The next saying (v 15) points out that to do so would defeat the purpose for which they were chosen: «Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.»
While his may not be a household name — we historians work with lights under bushels — he has written several works of considerable influence and inspired the regard and affection that attracted a host of us to the seminary's observance of this rite of passage.
Talent like yours can't be hidden under a bushel
It means that you don't keep your light under a bushel.
Mark and Luke also have the declaration that everything hidden will be made known in connection with the saying about putting a lamp under a bushel (Mk 4:21 - 25; Lk 8:: 16 - l8).
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Didn't someone have something to say about keeping your light under a bushel?
Then, as though continuing the same discourse, Luke quotes the saying about putting a lamp under a bushel and the one about the eye as the lamp of the body, which Matthew has used in the Sermon on the Mount (Lk 11:33 - 36; Mt 5:15; 6:22 - 23).
5:15) not to hide one's light under a bushel.
Moltmann: If there is such an international Pentecostal movement with its own organizational structure, then this organization should not hide its light under a bushel, as the New Testament puts it.
Matthew 5:15 «Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.»
Pity that so many conservative theists can't recall that the internet is also largely a recording medium and things can't magically be hidden «under a bushel» when convenient.
So in the spirit of not hiding our lights under bushels and all of that, here we are!
Nicholas Oyoo, you are hiding your light under a bushel.
Inadequate promotion is a painfully common problem in the online world — rarely can you hide your light under a bushel and expect your site to shine.
Our party has a great tradition of social reform but we have sometimes hid our light under a bushel and allowed Labour to claim a monopoly of the moral high ground.
Has DC ruled out tax cuts and conceded the tax and spending debate to New Labour, is he a shy tax cutter who is hiding his Thatcherite light under a bushel, or is he Michael Howard with a nice face and nicer language who will promise nice tax cuts?
People like Lord Oakeshott, who has always found it difficult to hide his light under a bushel, they might be out there speculating but the fact of the matter is I see no appetite in the party for another leadership election.
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