Sentences with phrase «very character as»

However, when God gives a person a name, it actually represents the person's very character as only God can foresee.

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«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

As counterintuitive as it may seem, in prison, character and respect are two very important traits to possesAs counterintuitive as it may seem, in prison, character and respect are two very important traits to possesas it may seem, in prison, character and respect are two very important traits to possess.

Character assassination is part of rejecting reality as a basis for action, but it has a life of its own and is very old.

If, as many Christians, Jews and even Muslims believe, they are carved on stone by the very finger of God, and no other writings of such character were commited to stone by Him, then it follows that these Commandments are to be permanent and binding, not temporary.

however it wasn; t perfect, there was quite a lot of filler in this 12 episode season which I could have done without, characters which were really interesting and important in the last seasons are just not as much right now and can be quite annoying, breaking the flow of the emotionally heavy scenes in that very episode.

Finally, you aren't even discussing your particular God character per se, you use a far more sweeping term, «Supernatural being», which would sweep in the very creatures and beings which you claim are as mythological — therefore, ironically, you confirm the analogy in the very same paragraph where you attempt to discredit it.

This procedure has been very effective in helping us shape our church character and build our ethos and hone our practises as well as curtail our expenses to focus on and meet only the requirements of these eight basic building blocks.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

As a result, Sherman - Palladino, the six - year showrunner and head writer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, chooses to do what very few television storytellers do with their characters: She allows nature to take its course.

Thanos was the only character who undergoes a significant transformation in this movie, really developing as a character and experiencing a very twisted sense of tragedy.

Huckabee: Thanos was the only character who undergoes a significant transformation in this movie, really developing as a character and experiencing a very twisted sense of tragedy.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

As one of his characters (the scientist and exnun Mary Malone) says, «The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.»

The collection as a whole covers a very wide range of material — historical, religious, cultural — indeed, it is almost encyclopedic in character.

The possibility of radically different behavior due to completely novel characters or circumstances is taken into account by the very fact that any predictions about the future are regarded as at best probable.

This limitation is by no means evident in terms of the ontological principle as we know it from Process and Reality, but it was very real in terms of the ontological principle Whitehead was then working with: «That every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason in the character of some actual entity whose objectification is one of the components entering into the particular instance in question» (EWM 323f).

The very character of the book defies the effort to categorize it as a classic, since it does not articulate an elegant position but rather provides a close reading of Luke.

A.: Such practices and the full impact of their revelation and realization would indeed be a very great blow to our character and our quality as a people.

«She has, or at least all her favorite characters have, a hearty relish for what would now be regarded as very modest pleasures.

As the poetic parallelism makes clear, the character of Yahweh's compassion is the hesed character — the steady, enduring strength of fidelity, devotion, and commitment which partakes of the quality of grace precisely because it is more than the convention of covenant can appropriately command, because it is greater than the relationship which first produced it, and because it is able, in breaking out of the relationship, to recreate the very relationship in transformed dimensions.

Thirty or more years ago, a professor who publicly announced that he thinks homosexual relations are dandy would have been viewed as a very suspect character.

Among the rough and ready tests of character, this seems a very good one, not infallible but close to it, accounting for the occasional hard day, bad headache, annoying companions: «The way people treat restaurant staff is, I think, a kind of poker tell, revealing a person's character in as long as it takes to say: «I'll have the sea bass».»

The nation took on a character which we are to envisage as a very moderate expression of the high concepts put forth by the three accepted exponents of the way of the Lord; or perhaps it is better said that hee nation trailed far behind such ideals.

And all the transcendental properties of each and every existent can only be known as necessarily belonging to every being, in an analogous and hierarchical manner, because they are implicitly affirmed in every act of cognition as necessarily belonging to every possible object of knowledge by reason of the very character of a knowing subject.

At the very threshold of Christian character stands belief in God as that faith comes to us through Jesus Christ.

As to the third postulate, that of the existence of God, we respect its character as postulate, that is, as a theoretical proposition dependent on a practical exigency, if we tie it very directly to the first through the second: if the postulate of immortality deploys the temporal - existential dimension of freedom, the postulate of the existence of God manifests existential freedom as the philosophical equivalent of the gifAs to the third postulate, that of the existence of God, we respect its character as postulate, that is, as a theoretical proposition dependent on a practical exigency, if we tie it very directly to the first through the second: if the postulate of immortality deploys the temporal - existential dimension of freedom, the postulate of the existence of God manifests existential freedom as the philosophical equivalent of the gifas postulate, that is, as a theoretical proposition dependent on a practical exigency, if we tie it very directly to the first through the second: if the postulate of immortality deploys the temporal - existential dimension of freedom, the postulate of the existence of God manifests existential freedom as the philosophical equivalent of the gifas a theoretical proposition dependent on a practical exigency, if we tie it very directly to the first through the second: if the postulate of immortality deploys the temporal - existential dimension of freedom, the postulate of the existence of God manifests existential freedom as the philosophical equivalent of the gifas the philosophical equivalent of the gift.

The first couple of books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more about the story and the characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.

, but the author of Luke - Acts (a half - century or more later) thinks of it as having occurred after the ascension and as being therefore of a very different, a more» heavenly,» character.]

This highly conservative Calvinist argues that because biblical interpretation «deals with a book that is unique in the realm of literature, viz. with the Bible as the inspired Word of God,» we must develop a sacred interpretative science of a «very special character (page 11).

Thus, the twofold character of Christianity as ethical religion is reflected in the very structure of these documents.

An implicit metaphysic is just as real as an explicit one, but its very implicit character hides metaphysical problems.

These are qualities of Yahweh revealed as at once the character and demand of the very God upon whom the whole cultus centers.

And as we will see, the notion of divine personal power takes on a very particular character in the context of the Mosaic covenant.

What we know of ourselves is not, as usually put, a mysterious substratum with an enormous and very doubtfully remembered life history, decorated with transient qualities but getting its character from some simple attribute which it always carries around with it.

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

But what exists are individual instances, concrete, definite; that is, each individual relational acting has a very specific definiteness or character whereby it is that uniquely determinate, individual act, and distinguishable as such.

«Really, what he's doing is very much in character,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, who has served as a Vatican spokesman during the papal transition.

Against this widely prevailing understanding of the «creation faith» we suspect that in Yahwistic circles the very term «creation» may have been a dirty word and that the development and discussion of Israel's creation faith was suppressed as part of the long, anguished struggle against religious syncretism and the loss of the distinctly moral - ethical - historical character of the Yahweh faith.

As it is, the very cosmopolitan editors, with condescending reference to the proletariat and the Midwest, view him simply as Good Old Gus, «a New York character,» «a genuine American tale.&raquAs it is, the very cosmopolitan editors, with condescending reference to the proletariat and the Midwest, view him simply as Good Old Gus, «a New York character,» «a genuine American tale.&raquas Good Old Gus, «a New York character,» «a genuine American tale.»

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

In this way, according to the very same manner as their secular contemporaries, the Church Fathers came to apply the term persona to the characters portrayed in the sacred texts of Christianity.

In a very perceptive, but as yet unpublished, paper devoted to evaluation and to evaluating those who evaluate, Paul Weiss has called attention to the highly practical character of the theoretical work of logical analysis, thereby helping to verify Whitehead's famous dictum that the paradox is now fully resolved which states that our most abstract concepts are our best and most useful instruments with which to come to understand concrete matters of fact and practical affairs.

The very mention of «Christ» or «Jesus» as the main character of the message of salvation raises the question, «who is He?»

Prophet Muhammad, a revolutionary character, who fought wars, ran a city as a mayor, had many wives and children, lived a very remarkable life as a self proclaimed Prophet.

It is important as revealing also the character of the people, of government to some extent, of their ancient religion, and very revealing indeed as to their moral ideals.

... 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?»

As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis spoke frequently of the missionary character of the Church» mission, that is, not as a particular work of a certain group of people within the Church, but as the very nature of the Church as the presence of Christ in the worlAs Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis spoke frequently of the missionary character of the Church» mission, that is, not as a particular work of a certain group of people within the Church, but as the very nature of the Church as the presence of Christ in the worlas a particular work of a certain group of people within the Church, but as the very nature of the Church as the presence of Christ in the worlas the very nature of the Church as the presence of Christ in the worlas the presence of Christ in the world.