Sentences with phrase «voice crying in the wilderness of»

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Although there are parts of the encyclical that are difficult to understand from our modern American perspective (and I say that with the greatest affection), I believe the encyclical speaks as a voice crying in the wilderness, holding out the truth to those who have the power to incarnate it in the world through their policies and actions.

I believe in the voices crying in the wilderness, prophesying with their lives about the Kingdom of God.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

In the Fourth Gospel John the Baptist himself says, «1 am the voice of one crying in the wilderness» (1:23In the Fourth Gospel John the Baptist himself says, «1 am the voice of one crying in the wilderness» (1:23in the wilderness» (1:23).

The text assigned for the fourth Sunday was John the Baptist's quintessential call to repentance: «I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness.»

Jim Wallis of the Sojourners community is no longer a voice crying in the wilderness when it comes to questioning the Republican monopoly on biblical values.

The mission of the pastor is to help the congregation find that stream and thus to be the voice crying out in the wilderness.

The lonely prophets of Christian unity whose voices have cried in the wilderness of our sectarian complacency for many decades now began to be heeded.

He fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy of a voice crying in the wilderness on behalf of God and God's righteousness (Isa.

To be sure, he does here baptize in water, he is identified as the voice crying in the wilderness, and he speaks of one the thong of whose sandal he is not worthy to untie.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: «Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.

Contemporary organised demand for constitutional reform traces back to the late 1970s, yet even before then, isolated intellectuals — «a voice crying in the wilderness» — had tried to make an issue out of a written constitution for Britain that would include a Bill of Rights.

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Given the time I had and in wading through literally reams of paper and data, I have also attempted to present the case for diversion but may just be another voice crying out in the wilderness since there seems to be no true interest in diverting materials from the landfill waste stream.