Sentences with phrase «willing than angels»

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Chances are friends and family will be more patient and forgiving than angel funds or investors.

On the other hand, only the richest angel investor will be able to provide more than a few hundred thousand dollars, if that.

I asked if he's doing better than other angel investors, and he said: «We have a much different model — we have a larger volume most angels can't match, and we are also willing to do follow on [investments.]

«With angel investors and venture capitalists, they generally accept that some investments are not going to do well, but they also know the ones that do very, very well will more than compensate,» says Janet Bannister, partner of Real Ventures, a Montreal - based venture fund that invests in early - stage businesses.

This is where angels can be so much better than VCs: they're willing to listen, can act quickly, there's less pressure to be a «me - too» investor, they don't mind contrarian stances, and there are no LPs, fund lifetime or thesis mandates they're beholden to.

The concept of promoting a business and offering rewards for those who are willing to provide you with a little financial investment can be a lot easier to accomplish than to pitch your business to banks or investment angels.

More often than not, even if your business seems like a fantastic opportunity to one of the Members that attends the informal pitching session, they will still want to spend a few months mentoring your company before agreeing to be your official Sponsor at a Cambridge Angels dinner event.

Next week, I will be joining more than 700 of my colleagues at the largest gathering of angel investors in the world.

More than any other store, including the Christian book store, this one seemed to promote, even unconsciously, the good will toward all people that the angels promised on that first Christmas.

Do you think that I can not appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

We are inevitably reminded of Jesus in Gethsemane: «Do you think that I can not appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?»

That child's dance is nothing less than the eternal dance of divine Wisdom before God's throne, the dance of David and the angels and saints before his glory; it is the true face of creation, which God came to restore and which he will not suffer to see corruption..

Utah will go into a stupor as they realize their prayers didn't work and their god and angels don't help and America would rather have a guy the mormons wouldn't let in the building 40 years ago than have the corporate raider in magic undies.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

The spirit of darkness can disguise himself as an angel of light but he will give himself away by a cloven hoof - excitement andcompulsion rather than peace and tranquillity».

This is attested by a number of Jesus» sayings: «Do you think that I can not appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Or perhaps, as some exegetes have argued, Jesus is suggesting a more eschatological success: Simon and his mates will pull the nets for the great apocalyptic catch, they will sit to cull the bad from the good, they will be like the angels or the courtiers of God's kingdom rather than part of the teeming masses to be judged.

A scholar whose work I admire contributed an eloquent expostulation invoking the Holy Innocents, praising our glorious privilege (not shared by the angels) of bearing scars like those of Christ, and advancing the venerable homiletic conceit that our salvation from sin will result in a greater good than could have evolved from an innocence untouched by death.

Or do you think that I can not now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?

Jesus recalled Jacob's vision to Nathaniel, telling him, «You shall see greater things than these... You will see heaven thrown open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man» (Jn 1:50 - 51).

«Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men, and that is just what they did except there were so many of them that there was a fair amount of crowding and jockeying for position, with the result that one particular angel, a girl about nine years old who was smaller than most of them, ended up so far out on the fringes of things that not even by craning her neck and standing on tiptoe could she see what was going on.

Despite spending two fewer years with the Angels than he spent playing in Canada, he'll be the first player to wear an Angels hat on his plaque in Cooperstown.

50,345 Miles the Seattle Mariners will have traveled by the end of the regular season, 6,000 more than the second - most - itinerant club, the Anaheim Angels.

The Play Gym in so many ways feels like it was created by angels who totally get it — new moms need unbiased, developmentally appropriate guidance and they want it to come in a package their kids will love and play with for more than two seconds.

Can't believe it's les than a month till I'll be wearing all my summer clothes again when I'm heading for the city of angels to visit Maria!

Parents will likely find their sexually active lifestyles concerning too, making these angels more fit for a devilish dish than a heavenly host.

Whilst the plot concerns events of titanic proportions — Langdon out to stop the spread of a virus that will annihilate a good portion of the Earth's population — the film feels even more contained than Angels & Demons.

I'll give the man this: he's moved faster to undermine an existing technology for the benefit of his own company than General Motors did when it sabotaged Los Angeles's public transit Red Line for the benefit of the bus fleet they wanted to sell the City of Angels.

But don't go faster than your angels can fly... Before finding your female dog and her mate, you need to properly study your dog breed and design a clear set of guidelines that will define your breeding program.

she's 14 years rescued off the streets at 10 years escapee from new Rochelle ny humane society pound part shepherd part lab angel from heaven got on great with my two bassets acted like a nurse maid to young children an seem to obey a young childs commands right off than an adult; well the genetic disease has settled in rear hind leg going to visit the vet today aware of outcome but will try to keep her she seems not to be in any discomfort an eats well.

His food, housing, and medical needs will be met for life by special angels as our volunteers continue to prove to him that our calling of rescue and love are even stronger than the call of the wild.

The excursions take place in more than 20 different shore dive and boat dive sites where you'll have the chance to see everything from barracuda, octopus and cuttlefish to turtles, angel sharks and rays.

Appealing to the better angels of their nature will get you no more than a tiny, very dedicated group of people taking action.

If Salby's paper stands, then it will make discussion of whether volcanoes emit more or less CO2 than humans to be an irrelevant detail akin to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

You can find all of Disrupt Africa's coverage here, but major takeaways include that African angel investors should «hunt in packs», investors should focus on «gazelles» rather than «unicorns», and that African startup ecosystems will not be built overnight.