Sentences with phrase «upon passage in»

«As rising water levels continue to threaten the safety and livelihoods of thousands of New Yorkers, we must intervene and provide resources to support these communities,» said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, upon passage in the Assembly.

So it is that the Church, building upon some passages in Scripture, pictures a state of preparation short of Heaven, where our gold is to be refined, our dross consumed.

Not exact matches

Love is the answer in any situation and upon that we can agree even if we disagree on the causality, genetics, and fancy theological words and scripture passages we can cite back and forth.

In a passage worth pondering, Whitehead explains that the self - creative contribution of the freedom of each actual entity consists precisely in the subjective emphasis it lays upon the factors which are given it, including its own purposes and subjective aiIn a passage worth pondering, Whitehead explains that the self - creative contribution of the freedom of each actual entity consists precisely in the subjective emphasis it lays upon the factors which are given it, including its own purposes and subjective aiin the subjective emphasis it lays upon the factors which are given it, including its own purposes and subjective aim:

Luke adds that he was «filled with the power of the Spirit» when he returned to Galilee, and that when he read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth he began with the passage that said, «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor» (Luke 4:14 - 18).

(Though many believe His reference to some eunuchs being born this way was an acknowledgement of such a condition without condemnation) And the 6 or 7 typical clobber passages in the bible, upon careful examination, fail to address what we presently understand as sexual orientation at all.

So in order to really get somewhere in theological debate, the two sides must agree to discuss one passage at a time, and stick to it, camp upon it, walk around it, and work through it.

In the previous discussions of the Qur» an we have seen that it contains many specific passages calling upon the people to follow its teachings and be guided by its legislation.

and Ezekiel in one of his most splendid passages deliberately played on the word's double meaning as he pictured the spiritual resuscitation of his dead nation: «Thus saith the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.»

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

Our interpretation of the statement that «Life is a passage from physical order to pure mental originality» (PR 164) is that the initiatives within the dominant nexus of occasions are canalized in the supportive nexus by way of threads of inheritance, so that personal mentality may combine originality of response with an adequate order upon which it depends.

When, in the course of his remarks, he intimated that some parts of the Scripture were more truth - containing than others and admonished his hearers to feed their souls upon the best of the spiritual food, James interrupted the Master, asking: «Would you be good enough, Master, to suggest to us how we may choose the better passages from the Scriptures for our personal edification?»

(Please re-read John 6 at this point for the passage that Clive brings up, upon which this issue turns in the New Testament)

But if there is a state in which the soul finds a solid enough base to rest itself on entirely and to gather its whole being into, without needing to recall the past or encroach upon the future; in which time is nothing for it; in which the present lasts forever without, however, making its duration noticed and without any trace of time's passage; without any other sentiment... except that of our existence, and having this sentiment alone fill it completely; as long as this state lasts, he who finds himself in it can call himself happy... with a sufficient, perfect, and full happiness which leaves the soul no emptiness it might feel a need to fill....

Its effect upon one who takes it seriously is well expressed by Paul, in a passage where he has defined the meaning of the Christian life precisely in terms of the Gospel, as sharing Christ's sufferings, being conformed to His death, and experiencing the power of His resurrection.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

Usually it will pay the student to look up such passages in their Old Testament context, for they will be found often to throw unexpected light upon the meaning of New Testament ideas.

Rather than omit such expression, one may well draw upon his memory of passages in the Bible, or repeat the words of a familiar hymn.

In fact, I love the difficult passages in Scripture now, because it is they which cause me to rely upon God more than eveIn fact, I love the difficult passages in Scripture now, because it is they which cause me to rely upon God more than evein Scripture now, because it is they which cause me to rely upon God more than ever.

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

The passage is suggestive of that other in which the majesty of Hermon looks down upon the springtime beauty of the northern plain:

My own faith in him and loyalty to him as the Lord Jesus Christ is in no way dependent on these apocalyptic Son - of - man passages; it hinges upon all that he was and did and said during what we know of his earthly ministry and his continuing presence as the living Christ.

While reflecting on why the people dynamic which one encounters in small groups has such power, I came upon a moving passage from Loren Eiseley.

Wesley frequently preached a sermon on Matthew 18, the passage in which Jesus describes the steps to take upon discovering a brother's sin.

Mohammed's successors, the caliphs, quoted passages like these to inspire Muslim armies as they advanced out of Arabia, imposing Islam by the sword upon a peacefully unsuspecting Middle East and North Africa, as I described in the previous chapter.

Newman, filled with enthusiasm at God's list of perfections, continues the passage which I began to quote to you by a couple of pages of a rhetoric so magnificent that I can hardly refrain from adding them, in spite of the inroad they would make upon our time.

One problem with this passage is that although Cobb clearly asserts that persons who respond to Jesus are able to share in the «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» which he opens up for them, nowhere does he expand upon what might constitute the criteria for a response sufficiently satisfactory to assure participation for these persons within the structure of existence introduced by Jesus.

[Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., 1940], lays a powerful emphasis upon the concrete character of revelation and contains any number of passages in which that idea is presented with extraordinary brilliancy of conception and style.

Other passages in the New Testament seem to indicate that the Spirit regenerates, indwells, baptizes, and seals a person immediately upon their belief in Jesus for eternal life.

No passage in the nine letters of Paul is more open to suspicion than this one, and it is precarious to base any argument upon it.

In due course, after the passage of further thousands or even millions of years, it can, and it must, super-centrate itself in the bosom of a Mankind totally reflexive upon itselIn due course, after the passage of further thousands or even millions of years, it can, and it must, super-centrate itself in the bosom of a Mankind totally reflexive upon itselin the bosom of a Mankind totally reflexive upon itself.

Even the passages (Mark 2:10, 28) which used to be interpreted of «Christ's human nature» or «man in general» are now recognized to belong with the others referring to «the Son of Man upon earth» prior to his death and glorification.

It has been suggested that what the passage means is that Christ through the Spirit preached to the men of Noah's time in Noah's time when they were still alive and sinning upon this earth.

He hinges this analogy upon an amusing passage in Deut.

In this passage there is emphasis is placed, by Paul, upon the salvation that Christ brings to humanity.

It is never made very clear what went into this decision; but we can reflect upon it in the light of a passage in Works of Love:

The passage from Process 93 is neglected even more: it is mentioned only three times in the books listed above (An Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics 9, 48, and A Key to Process and Reality 160), and barely commented upon.

It may be readily seen that Lango's interpretation leans heavily upon a consistent usage of «realization» in these passages that is taken as univocally synonymous for «ingression,» along with the further assumption that ingression is a doctrine that only deals with the admission of eternal objects into actuality in some one given way.

Malachi 3:8 - 10 is by far the most preached - upon passage on tithing in the entire Bible.

Sherburne uses it in conjunction with another passage excerpted from Process and Reality «The primordial nature is conceptual, the consequent nature is the weaving of God's physical feelings upon his primordial concepts» (345).

Cohen finds such laughter in the passage in Genesis where Abraham and Sarah laugh upon learning that Sarah at age 90 will bear a child (to be named Isaac, «he laughs»).

The stock passages quoted in favor of this (John 3:18; 5:24; 12:47, etc.) derive their meaning from the fact that the judgment of God is actually coming upon the world and its ruler in the future.

But based upon a plethora of New Testament passages, Christians have also recognized that there IS indeed also a technical usage of the term «the gospel» that came into effect after Christ's resurrection that refers not to good news in general, nor to the general revelation of God given through the Old and New testaments, but to the specific message that must be preached to the lost and must be believed by the lost to receive eternal life.

In a powerful passage he explains this further: «And if it is acknowledged that to see God through God and not through finite relations is supreme beatitude, then there must be some relation bearing upon the divine Essence to make it intelligible.

Upon reading the whole chapter i see where the law in that particular passage is coming from.

The Passage on Bodily Efficacity is embedded in one section of «Strains» (IV.4.2 K), which insists upon the «withness of the body» as «an ever - present, though elusive, element in our perceptions of presentational immediacy» (PR 312/474).

The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.

[PM] No, Actually the Bible has many, many passages on concepts upon which Christian therapy is based: truth, love, compassion, confession and even the use of medications — balm in the Old Testament, medicinal wine for Timothy's stomach problems in the New Testament.

At this point the characteristic concerns of apocalyptic come to the fore and Enoch / Son of man reveals «the treasures that are hidden», namely, the way in which through him the wicked shall be destroyed, and the passage moves on to concentrate upon the coming destruction of the wicked.

The cognition of the nature of the world and of the metaphysical significance of one's own self in it; the knowledge about the mission; the «Yes» to destiny; the sacrificial thought; and the last struggle and hesitation are clearly portrayed in that passage from Luke's Gospel: «I am come to cast a fire upon the earth; would that it were already kindled.