Sentences with phrase «wise men on»

It IS prosthelytizing when you put the three wise men on a sign & tell people to try something else than their religion.

How about the Gospels don't indicate that Jesus was presented the gifts from the wise men on his birthday (most likely around 1 - 2 yrs old).

Even Solomon, considered in his day as the wisest man on earth, acknowledged the need for God to help the builders of the house.

Not exact matches

As a wise man named Homer once said, «The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!»

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

I heard a wise man once say that he would rather live his life in peace knowing God on earth, only to find out there is no God, than to live a life of not believing, only to find out that He is and they are condemned forever.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

As a wise man said in a video posted on this blog (not sure which article) faith is pretending to know what you do not know.

Jesus was not born in Bethlehem at least the one we are familiar with and there were no pretty wingie thingies singing from on high, no slaughter of the innocents by Herod, no visiting wise men and no escape to Egypt.

Three wise men with gifts they purchased on Amazon, while riding Segways.

My point wasn't to make out that she was doing anything wrong, but that in some circumstances it making be wise to be careful what we do in ministry one on one between men and women with caring and protection for each other.

Hindus believe god revealed truths to wise men who passed them on for thousands of years through a rich oral tradition.

Jesus goes on to remind the disciples that there have been many prophets and wise men (prophets and kings, Luke says) who desired to see what the disciples are seeing and to hear what they are hearing, but did not have that privilege.

So Jeremiah's companions in disaster asked him to pray that «God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do» (Jeremiah 42:3) With God conceived as infinitely wise and good, reasonable prayer must be conceived not as a means of forcing on God the bidding of man, but as a means of releasing through man the purpose of God.

It is well to be chary about branding the prayers of another as hypocrisy, for «man looketh on the outward appearance» and only God is wise enough to judge fully any man's heart.

24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

If I remember correctly, I particularly enjoyed the end of the song, which somewhat graphically described what happened to the wise man's foil — the foolish man — who built his house on the sand.

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

«Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who builds his house on the rock.

He calls on the wisest men of the country to discuss what they should do about Vashti's conduct.

No man [should] be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor [should he] be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor... otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief... All men [should] be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and... the same [should] in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

On the other hand, it does praise Solomon as the wisest of men and he had over a THOUSAND wives and concubines.

John Buckeridge on the perspective of a wise old man Titled The Ambassadors, the large oil on oak in London's national gallery features two wealthy, educated...

It is very likely that Herod's attack and the family fleeing happened when Jesus was closer to 2 years old (since Herod seeks to slay all the children under 2 years of age based on the accounts of the wise men).

Once had a very wise man say to me while deeply imbedded in religion «if you continue on this path you will become someone you hate».

For example, he says, «The purpose is not primarily to «inquire,» but to meet: the «wise men» are all the people you bump into, particularly if they're on heroin and state benefits» (p. 141).

Yea, I will «wise up» as you say and read up on the man in the belly of a whale.

7:24 «Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

The song is not real clear on why the wise man was wise.

Some who recognize that it is not enough to have a Bible sitting on your shelf — or several Bible's — believe that the difference between the wise and foolish man is that the wise man has Bible knowledge, whereas the foolish man is basically ignorant and illiterate of the Bible.

The wise man builds his house upon the rock, and the rains came down and the floods rose up, and the house on the rock stood firm.

Yet on almost every page of the Bible is the record of human sin and rebellion, and the need of divine forgiveness and saving help because man is not good enough or wise enough or strong enough to save himself.

In Proverbs 6:21 - 23, we are told by the wisest man who ever lived, that the good life comes from taking the truth of the Bible and binding it on our heart, tying it around our neck, think about it when we walk, when we sleep, when we wake up.

On the same day Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural a man from Wisconsin wrote, «An all «wise Providence will end the strife and misery, as soon as the purpose for which it was ordained is accomplished.»

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

I mused on the text: The wise men took new steps in faithfulness when they saw a new star.

... Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Many wise and faithful men and women have passed on important truths to us.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

The wise man built his house upon the rock, the foolish man built his house upon the sand, and the rain came down, the rain came down and floods came up and the house on the rock stood firm, and the house on the sand went splat!

In various ways wise men and women have shown their conviction, based on their own experience and observation, that the stuff of which humans are made is good stuff and that human potentiality remains a good potentiality.

There the dead will inflict punishment on the wicked ones, and shall cause the choicest of offerings to be made to the temples, and he shall be as a wise man, praying to Re when he speaks.

Various accounts of the Egyptian Book of the Dead state that Horus was a god before he became a man, and that when he was born of the virgin Isis on December 25 in a cave, his birth was announced by a star in the East to three wise men, after which he was carried -LSB-...]

As a very wise man I once knew said «We always think the things other people spend their money on are foolish, but that the things we spend our money on are necessities».

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including the virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

«An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.»

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Ho.rus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

Is it too far fetched to infer from the reference to shepherds and wise men in the first few pages of SMW that he did not begin serious work on his lectures until the winter vacation, in an atmosphere of Christmas preparations?

In contrast, the wise man sets his house on a rock foundation which enables it to withstand all calamities.