Sentences with phrase «who stood»

«My hope is that people can begin to see the goodness of God particularly because it was a Christian who stood up.»

The traditional lists of early Roman bishops indicate, according to Eno, that «the collective leadership counted among their number men who stood out from the crowd; people perhaps who frequently exercised a de facto leadership but without being monarchical bishops.»

Catholics who pay so much respect to Mary, the Mother of God (Theotokos) and honor so many female saints (eg, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Clare) not to mention those saints who stood up to Popes in a spirt of FAITHFULNESS (eg, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Brigid of Sweden, etc).

Or would you instead be among those who stood faithfully at His side and wept for Him as He bled and died?

The senior MP, who stood for the Conservative leadership last year, admitted to The Mail on Sunday that he had said «some pretty outrageous things» to the woman after meeting her, and that the messages «basically amount to unfaithfulness».

Three Cheers to this young lad who stood by for what he believed in.

Thus far in this part of our discussion I have been trying to show that Paul's thinking about the work of Christ is predominantly eschatological: In virtue of an obedience which man, who stood simply in the succession of Adam, could not give, and of a victory which man could not win, the human situation has been radically transformed.

He was not like Nero a man of sudden rages; he was rather a cold - blooded, calculating eliminator of all who stood in his way.

Look what He (Jesus) said about the Jewish hierarchy and their pursuit of biblical knowledge at the expensive of loving their people and not even recognizing Him who stood in front of them, who demonstrated He was the....

I believe that a sober and instructed criticism of the Gospels justifies the belief that in their central and dominant tradition they represent the testimony of those who stood nearest to the facts, and whose life and outlook had been moulded by them.

Rt Rev Kay Goldsworthy will lead the West Australian division, replacing Roger Herft who stood down from the top job after admitting he let down survivors of child sexual abuse during Royal Commission hearings last year.

But we shall not get anywhere in trying to understand Jesus unless we are willing to see him as a man who stood within the course of history.

Yet there were, even in early times, and increasingly with the passing of the centuries, men who stood aloof and condemned the thing for the depravity that it was.

Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king.

Who stood idly by while our leaders ordered our troops into Iraq and Afghanistan?

There were a few leaders, like Dr. Theophilus, who stood up for the masses of Christians, but they lost out, and now the poor Christians were paying for that mistake.

they have attempted to turned the love and grace of God into a lie... I saw many people who stood in sadness looking at the terrible words they painted on that SUV..

And in the House of Commons he quickly became respected on all sides as a principled man who stood up for his deeply held beliefs rather than blindly following the dog whistle of party politics.

Or, like the woman who stood before Solomon, called for the sword that divides Christ's church?

He went to it, and the stormy wind blew in so that the tall tallow candles flickered and he could hardly see a venerable old man who stood muffled up in the rain.

And the Crusaders mercilessly slaughtered thousands upon thousands of those who stood in their way of regional domination, all by order of the Christian popes.

It was Ezra who stood for so long before the audience of the people, reading the book of God's law to them from early morning until midday.

Mesas means in the middle; and a mesites was a middleman, who stood between two people who were estranged and drew them together again.

Just out of curiosity... if Bin Laden has gone to hell, where are the rest of us Americans going who stood by and watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqs were killed over the last eight years, as well as numerous Afganies I'm sure.

The fact is that while he had a hatred for Jews and killed them, and a hatred for Catholic Priest who stood against him and killed them too,... does it matter the «why» there were dead bodies?

to Peace: since you know the spiritual way of the bible and know that you're not supposed to really murder people, would you mind telling Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, the guy who stood behind the crusades, King Ferdinand of spain who started the Inquisition, MNCA in india and all the other people who murder in the name of jesus, cause they seemed to have missed it...

The difference is that the proposition changes its truth - value because of a change in something else, something other than itself — namely, the person who stood up.

He who stood against king and court in defense of religious liberty, and saw his mother spend thirteen weeks in prison for refusing to pay a church tax.

10:11); He rained down fire from heaven and burned up the enemy soldiers who came to get Elijah (2 King 1:9 - 15); He killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers who were attacking Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:35); He blinded the false prophet Bar - Jesus, who stood against the teaching of Paul (Acts 13:9 - 11).

But the only ones who stood at the threshold were the gatekeepers, so I take them to be synonymous.

He who stood against the intolerance of another religious establishment of another day, bent as surely as this one on stopping the free flow of religious communication.

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

«When the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, «Truly, this man was the Son of God!»»

The experiment at Finkenwalde produced a host of pastors who stood firm in their purpose to minister in any way possible.

A loving father and faithful husband, patron of the arts and friend of the poor, Cromwell not only defends the indefensible, and even legitimates it, by drafting new laws, he also, in his sweet time, takes definitive revenge on his enemies: those who stood in judgment on his patrons, Cardinal Wolsey and the king, and those who underestimated himself, the lowborn blacksmith's son.

More was a man who stood by his principles in an issue unworthy of martyrdom, while Bonhoeffer stood to the death for a purpose worthy of giving one's life — to rid a country of tyranny.

I'm thankful, however, for those in my family and church who stood by me, listened, and believed in me, and very practically and prayerfully helped to guide me through this season.

But if this were the case, then the point of the parable must have been comparatively obvious and simple to grasp, that is, to and for men who stood in the situation of the hearers of Jesus.

Peter was the inventor, Paul was the guy who stood in front of the media.

As criticism mounted, he blamed «Jewish and Communist propaganda,» but the leading opponent of the Berlin games was Judge Jeremiah Mahoney, an Irish Catholic, who stood in solidarity with his Jewish brethren, and was anything but a Communist.

Is your church more like Ahab (who stood by while Jezebel murdered Naboth) or Elijah?

Thanks to those of you who stood with us,» ERLC president Russell Moore tweeted after the change was announced.

Yeah, then he turned right around an d told the Hebrew chillun to slaughter everyone who stood in the way of their conquest of Canaan.

But i know that God will revive my faith, just like he did with lazarus who stood up out of the death and the valley of dry bones in ezechiel 37.

Some commentators think that the words with which John records Jesus» death, «He bowed his head and gave up his spirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologically.

The significance for me in such instances, was that I was given the opportunity to forgive my abusers, the observers who stood by and did nothing, and yes, even myself.

It takes me back to those who stood when it meant losing a lot.

At the beginning of the post-Soviet period, Russia was like a girl without a dowry who stood ready to marry the rich West on any terms.

On the other hand, «property rights» enters into the institutional experience of Parliament only in respect to its meaning for people who stood to gain or lose voting rights and control of boroughs and counties.

Just this week, Congressmen who stood to gain from having Boeing and RR build these (useless) engines in their districts rammed through funding... FOR a PLANE ROBERT GATES HAS REPEATEDLY SAID HE DOES N'T WANT AND CA N'T USE!