Sentences with phrase «which stands»

It is hard to believe that you of all bloggers, trying to promote organic and local produce and vegetarian or even vegan lifestyle which stands for living more sustainably, so consistently ignore the impact long distance travel (with multiple people!)

The spicy products are his BHM brand, which stands for «Bloody Hot, Mate!»

In sum, it is an efficacy which stands opposed to that of the world.

His value to other men is in what he has seen» [Dial 266] Whitehead also recognized that the philosopher's vision is affected by the historic community in which he stands.

As we contemplate the work which Christ has laid upon his church, we who are met here on the Mount of Olives, in sight of Calvary, would take up for ourselves and summon those from whom we come, and to whom we return, to take up with us the cross of Christ, and all that for which it stands, and to go forth into the world to live in the fellowship of his sufferings and by the power of his resurrection.

Bronco Nagurski, a hall of famer (which stands for official canonization), had the honor of tossing the coin at the center of the playing field to signify the start of the game.

But in verses 24 - 26 there is incorporated a very ancient prescription concerning altars, which reflects simple tastes and which stands through all the years of ancient Israel's life as a vigorous reminder of her earliest days as a Covenant People.

... is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something that is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.9

For the first time in Exodus, but by no means the last, we hear the note which stands in contrast to the redeeming God who, at least by inference, must be related in concern to all men.

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

But it must be finally the new covenant which stands as the last word.

In the process of identifying itself with the chain of entities in which it stands, an occasion finds itself identifying more with some entities than with others.

Sometimes the larger identity of an entity in the series in which it stands comes into conflict with the smaller identity of an entity with itself or with some particular entity or entities in the strand.

From the foot of the cross her maternity is extended to all believers, who gather around her in Pentecost's upper room, which stands at the wellspring of the Church.

No, the fact remains that the Christian today who chooses the orthodox image of Christ is making a wager in which he stands to forfeit all the life and energy of a world that is totally alien to the Church ’s

To conceptualize the object merely as that which stands in opposition to me — to my sensation — I must conceive of it as opposed to sensation in a respect that is both basic to sensation and yet has nothing to do with sensory qualities.

5: 43 - 48) and in the answer to the question about the chief commandment as the requirement of love of neighbor which stands next to the love of God.

As we have seen, Rollins» approach to theology emphasizes the priority of love, «not as something which stands opposed to knowledge of God, or even as simply more important than knowledge of God, but more radically still as knowledge of God.»

We begin to see that if history has a meaning there must be a transcendant ethical principle which stands above the relativities and wreckage of history.

The word man, whether spoken or written, has no intrinsic relationship to that which it stands for.

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

My students are mostly Jewish and Christian, since the relationship between these two traditions is the center of my work, but we have given much thought to the relation of our traditions to the others, especially to Islam, which stands in a special relationship to ours for both historical and theological reasons.

And most fearsome of all stands a curious beast compounded of parts of a hippopotamus, a lion, and a crocodile, the latter furnishing the mouth, which stands with fearful jaws open, ready to receive the hearts which do not weigh out properly against justice.

It expresses in an objective language the sense that man has of his dependence on that which stands at the limit and at the origin of his world.

That wonderful, deep, unbroken fellowship with God which stands out in the Gospels as the root - principle of his life is the perfect expression of faith, which trusts absolutely, but which does not know what all the answers will be.

It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The expression which stands in the ancZeitschrift, I [1945], pp., 105ff, seeks to explicate the expression «resurrection of the flesh» both from the point of view of biblical theology and the history of dogma).

However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the epochal theory of time, which stands as a great modification of Whitehead's event ontology.

Thus it would appear that the new understanding of existence is rendered possible only by an act which stands in the background — i.e. Christ.

Which stands for «Christmas and Easter Only.»

Hence the theme of the second Conference of Life and Work at Oxford in 1937 was Church, Community and State.9 The one fact, which stands out so prominently in the report of the Conference, is the central place given to the church.

Paul Tillich had a term for that which stands at the very opposite of Christian grace and love.

The entire experience of the peoples of America has created and nurtured a world view which stands over against the world view of the Bible in sharpest possible opposition.

The will of God begins to be fulfilled, they believe, as an ever increasing number of people identify themselves with the church by becoming its sworn members, thus entering a social group which stands and fights for the assertion of Christian love in all phases of life.

There is a limit which stands not only at the end of human life as death, but which is built into the structure of human life by virtue of its creaturely character.

It seems to represent the desire to avert the eyes from the cross which stands in the present as in the past, and to turn attention away from ourselves to some other culprits whose sins the innocent must hear.

It becomes Gegenstand, not Objekt; that which stands over against us as resistance, opposition, and tension, as opposed to the passive recipient of a scrutinizing, active subject.

We can talk to modern man about the crisis in which he stands in rebellion against God only after the question of mythology has been solved.

I believe that this vision stands in the tradition of biblical religion with its future - orientation toward a perfected community, an ideal destiny which never fully comes to pass but which stands as a powerful lure generating faith, love, and hope.

The eleventh - century Hindu theologian Ramanuja defined a body as any substance or actuality «which a sentient soul is capable of controlling and supporting for its own purposes, and which stands to that soul in an entirely subordinate relation.»

«I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, with LIBERTY, and JUSTICE FOR ALL.»

«Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.»

If there be a place for the assumption of the moral risks of compromise in the way of love, there is also place for renunciation which involves radical attack on everything which stands in the way of the new order which God wills.

Now we see why the Kingdom of God is a symbol for an order which stands beyond this existential order.

His life ends on the cross which stands at the edge of history showing man what his spirit ought to be, at the same time that it discloses what man as man can not be.

We must so clarify our interpretation of what is presented to us in experience that we can begin to trace, however inadequately, the outlines of that which stands «beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things.

But it may be asserted in general terms that whereas prophecy foretells a definite future which has its foundation in the present, apocalyptic directs its anticipation solely and simply to the future — to a new world - period which stands sharply contrasted with the present.

The Greek text which stands behind the King James Bible is demonstrably inferior in certain places.

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial subjects: Gandhi was arriving in South Africa after completing his studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years in the future.

Umberto Eco's maxim, «Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos», which stands as the closure of his novel, The Name of the Rose, (28) is as valid a starting point as any other.