Sentences with phrase «upon hearing the words»

While a lot of people tend to tremble upon hearing the word, it seems that the regulatory concerns are clearing up.

It was upon hearing these words:

Upon hearing the words of the Torah read aloud, Josiah tears his robes in repentance and summons a prophet, for he sees how far Israel has strayed from God's ways.

Upon hearing the words of the Torah read aloud, Josiah tore his robes in repentance and summoned a prophet, for he saw how far Israel had strayed from God's ways.

A lot of people, who upon hearing the word mincemeat... well, their first reaction is a prolonged and rather extended look of dismay.

For non-Americans like me who, upon hearing the word «turtle», think not of confectionary but the creature upon which Discworld rests, Christopher Elbow describes this treat as «perfectly roasted pecans and soft caramel encased in premium dark chocolate... [topped] off with Grey Sea Salt from France.

What's the first food item that comes to mind upon hearing the words «fast food»?

Upon hearing the words butternut squash mac and cheese you may find it a little off - putting.

As a physician entering a yoga studio for the first time more than 10 years ago, I will never forget my confusion upon hearing the words,...

(Also, anyone else immediately think about this game from college upon hearing the word «snood»?

Upon hearing the word strategy, grids and tactics may come to mind.

So upon hearing these words, I had to analyze what the heck I'd done.

That's why Pat Curry tried to outsmart her Australian shepherd, who became overwhelmed with joy upon hearing the word «bank,» where she always was bestowed with treats from the drive - through teller.

Upon hearing the word «heel» the dog should automatically come to the owner's side in anticipation for the treat which is given right when he gets there.

Most Aussies eavesdrop on a family argument four houses away, yet become selectively deaf upon hearing words like «stop that», «come here» and «be quiet».

If you're like me, the first thing you may wonder upon hearing the words «inflatable safety booster» are, is any booster that's «inflatable» actually safe for road use?

The 2016 Mercedes - Benz GLE Coupe probably isn't what you'd imagine upon hearing the word «coupe».

Not exact matches

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

They heard the Word of God spoken here by angels, and they immediately acted upon it.

«Those who believed that Pope Francis's pastoral revolution presaged a doctrinal change in terms of marriage and family heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing his latest words.»

I agree that precept upon precept and line upon line is just what it means that God wants us to teach and preach his word just like that line upon line and precept upon precept explaining what the scriptures means so that people can understand and giving them a little hear and there because you might give them more than they can comprehend.

30 When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes — now he was passing by upon the wall — and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body — 31 and he said, «May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.»

Those who believed that Pope Francis» pastoral revolution presaged a doctrinal change in terms of marriage and family heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing his latest words.

And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.

Although no explicit feedback arrangement is shown in the image, the authority of the minister's interpretation of the Word depends upon his dedication and competence and is not above question by those who hear.

The follower of Jesus is under orders, no less binding because they are not spelled out in detail; he is «the man who hears these words of mine and acts upon them.»

This dramatic rescue - operation starts with a visit to the Most Blessed Virgin, Mary, who said, upon hearing the news that she had been chosen to be the Mother of God, «Let it be to me, according to Your Word» and then later, when she visited her cousin Elizabeth, she said, «My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.»

The second soil represents those who heard, received, and believed the Word, and initially began to act upon it, but then temptation to sin caused them to go back to their old way of living.

But if we just go away without hearing, understanding, believing, or acting upon the truth of the Word of God, this means that the devil is stealing the Word from you heart.

God says that a famine will come upon the land; not a famine of food, but a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord.

Since the inductive method places so much responsibility upon the ear of the hearer, does not this imply that the Word is the Word only when it is heard?

Perhaps this attention upon the primacy of the spoken word has prepared us to hear the word of Jesus in this regard.

The answer must undoubtedly be that Jesus himself had brought home to the hearts of those who really heard his words that God stood ready to receive not simply the righteous — there was none righteous — but the penitent, those who acknowledged the absolute righteousness of God, felt the awful force of its demands upon them, realized how far short they fell of it, and with humble and contrite hearts sought his forgiveness and help.

No words were spoken to me; my soul seemed to see my Saviour in the spirit, and from that hour to this, nearly nine years now, there has never been in my life one doubt that the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father both worked upon me that afternoon in July, both differently, and both in the most perfect love conceivable, and I rejoiced there and then in a conversion so astounding that the whole village heard of it in less than twenty - four hours.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned, upon each particular occasion, to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: And upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

To believe you ONLY hear the «Word of God» (whatever you mean by that) in the church is crippling, emotionally stunted, enslaving, abusive, and downright false when heaped upon the head of others.

They are, however, a fair summary of the truth upon which the existence of the church rests, the word the church has to speak that will not be spoken if the church does not speak it, the word that contemporary people, despite all of the attractions and distractions thrown up by contemporary culture, still long to hear.

On Ash Wednesday, as the people come up to receive the ashes, they hear the words: «Polvo eres The ashes of the beginning of Lent are a curious and mysterious religious expression of the Mexican tradition which finds its full socio - religious meaning when coupled with the Holy Water which is blessed during the Easter Vigil — when, through God's power, justice triumphed over injustice in the resurrection of the innocent victim from the death inflicted upon him by the unjust «justice» of this world.

The prophets, for example, called upon their listeners to hear the «word of the Lord.»

Am on your side on that I all my life felt that GOD Allah was on my side in Good time and at the worst times, which makes me feel things would have been worse and deadly if it wasn't for GOD mercy whom I call upon in good and bad times... we ought to be spiritually sensitive to realize signs from GOD whether it was a sight or a over heard word or a dream... when ever feeling tight chested just pray thanking, glorifying GOD asking for pardon of our sins... Am sure many had remembered and prayed well at the moments of the Irene hurricane... towards which it contributed to it to slow down or go... although it is true that not any lives were lost thanks to GOD but many billions of US Dollars financially lost at hard economical times which means maybe to say that «Individuals are not being blamed but rather it is their governing system is...?!!

... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»

Of Charles Gore it is recorded that almost the last words heard from his lips were «transcendent glory: «58 perhaps the theologian's unconscious mind turned to familiar topics, or perhaps the lover of God looked at last upon the face of Him in whom he had so long hoped and believed.

The words that no Tottenham fan wanted to hear, uttered by their star player Gareth Bale upon his unveiling as a Real Madrid player following his then record - breaking # 85 million move to Real Madrid on September 1st, 2013.

In the last several years, we have heard those words over and over from mothers, fathers, and guardians who have stumbled upon our online cloth diaper store.

I couldn't condense my reaction to one word, and I can't publish the two words I shouted upon hearing this, but I'm amazed by Apple's hubris.

Browse the pages of this subreddit and you just might stumble upon an English word you've never heard before.

While the brother isn't watching, the stranger simultaneously seduces Leontine with words so sweet that her heart breaks upon hearing them.

We played the word - association game with the singer - actor, who said the first thing that came to her mind upon hearing the titles of plays and musicals in which she has starred.

Upon hearing sacred words from the Lord, she attempts to play Abraham and sacrifice her son for the greater good.