Sentences with phrase «voice in the wilderness with»

It was a tiny, tiny, voice in the wilderness with no seeming support from the Church's teaching.

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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.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

Voices in the wilderness are never popular with mob rule or power hungry leaders.

Gioia is an articulate and passionate lone voice in the wilderness who would reignite the Catholic imagination with a vigorous Catholic literature placed high on a hill.

Yes, no one knows the date as the scriptures say, but with all the evil going on in the church today is this not a voice in the wilderness for the church to turn from her evil ways?

You are not Jesus and if someone responds to you with offence it could in principle be that you are being a «voice in the wilderness» or, with all due respect, an arsehole, just as you have described the leader in my last church that I have talked about.

I'm bored with being a voice crying in the wilderness which is why I don't repeat my well - known opinions all that often.

Nancy Holt Film and Video October 16 at 4:00 Introduced by DeeDee Halleck Video activist and filmmaker DeeDee Halleck collaborated with Nancy Holt as editor on several of her films, including Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the making of Holt's major site - specific sculptural work in the northwest Utah desert; and Pine Barrens (1975), a film that evokes «a barren wilderness in south - central New Jersey... (with) the voices of the local people, the «Pineys,»»..

Climate activists responded to that lonely voice in the wilderness by filing more than 200 complaints with Ofcom.

Myrrh, did you ever ask yourself why Johnson, LaTour, and our own Doug Cotton are content to remain trol — er, voices in the wilderness, when they could revolutionize physics, claim wealth and fame, and silence their critics with one comparatively simple experiment?

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