Sentences with phrase «upon a rock»

The wise man builds his house upon the rock, and the rains came down and the floods rose up, and the house on the rock stood firm.

Our values, the values of solidarity, of advocacy for the poor and disadvantaged, of fighting against inequality and privilege, are built upon the rock of the trade unions.

We cut through the career clutter so that every word and phrase is based upon rock solid, branded value to fill industry / employer needs.

He is like a man who built a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon a rock.

Keep going and you'll stumble upon rock pools the size of swimming pools with incredible sea life!

Then when the flood came, the stream broke upon that house but could not shake it, because it was founded upon a rock.

It is precisely because Parliamentary sovereignty, as it has evolved, looks only to executive policy as the fulcrum of constitutional change that ideas — however good and however brave — will be dashed upon the rocks of executive insouciance unless they resonate with what the executive sees as being in its self - interest.

Upon arrival they do not find King Kong but, alas, someone far smaller and less photogenic, mercenary Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), whose goons lord it over a gang of poor souls unfortunate enough to have been dashed upon the rocks there.

When Peter is the one who recognized Jesus as the messiah, Jesus told Peter he was blessed because only His Father in Heaven could have revealed it to him, not a flesh and blood person, so Jesus told Peter He was going to build His Church upon this rock [Peter] and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

Some seeds fall upon rock and are scorched by the sun.

He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure (Psalms 40:1 - 2).

Great Grey Wolf Sif stands upon a rock Clutching the Greatsword of Artorias in his mouth.

Psalm 27:5 For in the time of troubleHe shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

In the darkness there are sounds of the ladle being dipped into the pail, then water being poured upon the rocks.

«There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; the way of a man with a maid» (30:18).

But we see in Luke 6:48 that the foundation is laid upon the rock.

This is part of the reason my Songbook focuses upon Rock, without being it's champion.

(Cept Life here upon a rock)

Look for birds of prey circling overhead and the occasional bobcat perched upon the rocks.

Attacks are based upon the Earth, Fire, and Water elements which naturally lean upon a Rock, Paper, Scissors relationship.

The composition conjures the sirens in Homer's «Odyssey,» whose hypnotic songs and beauty lured sailors to their death upon the rocks.

Made after a florid painting by Paul Jourdy, Prometheus Chained Upon the Rock (1842), the lithograph exaggerates the technical quirks of its model into what Julia Langbein, co-curator of the exhibition with Tobias Czudej, dubs a «high - class dick joke».

Her eyes centered upon the rock and her mind wrestled with its suggestive shape.

The auction record for a work by George Russell was set in 2007, when his landscape painting, entitled Young Girls Sitting Upon Rocks with a Harbour and Headlands in the Distance, was sold at Whytes, Dublin, for $ 60,000.

He and I were talking about Jesus» parable about building your house upon a rock, thus giving a solid foundation, when he asked an innocent question that had deep connotations: «What about weathering?»

Like its logo signifies, Prudential has been built upon a rock solid foundation.

[48] He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock.

God, in His grace, has taken us out of the miry clay, and placed our feet upon a rock - Himself.

«Yahweh said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock: and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by: and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back; but my face shall not be seen.»

I've stumbled upon a rock that stumbled upon me.

Dashed upon rocks, the snake's food for the victorious bird.

I did my finals at Alexandra Palace and while the pigeons took aim at my tax paper, I was commenting on IRC v Ramsay (then between the Court of Appeal and the Lords), leading to the seminal decision of the House of Lords in 1981 in relation to tax avoidance schemes and upon the rocks of which many a tax avoidance scheme has since been wrecked (see [1982] AC 300, [1981] 1 All ER 865).

«Upon this rock...» and don't ever forget it, so - called Prophet.

The catholic church has «interpreted» the «upon this rock» scripture to brainwash and control it's followers.

Don't Distort, Why don't you give your explanation of «upon this rock»?

Christ step up the Catholic Church when he said in Matthew 16 «Thou art Peter (which means «rock» in aramaic) and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it».

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it,» (Matt.

To this day, «Upon that Rock» we do show our faith and love for Jesus.

The catholic church has told you that their interpretation of scripture means that «upon this rock» means the catholic church.