Sentences with phrase «wise men with»

«Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of venerable American institutions, replacing the so - called wise men with a radical new data - driven order.

That would explain god sending the three wise men with gifts.

In his youth he astounded wise men with his wisdom.

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

He was a wise man with lots of grant money.

My father was a wise man with a tremendous appetite for life, an insatiable curiosity about how the world works, and a great aptitude for teaching.

Not exact matches

Consult with wise men.

I was hoping it was a larger scene with three wise men, but it looks like she has successfully dodged any controversy over the truth and accurate depiction of the myth.

The first century historian, Josephus wrote about him and expressed «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

In Matthew, there's no manger story and Jesus was born in his «house» in Bethlehem with «wise men» present instead of «shepherds.»

They include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.

I once spent hours with a wise man who was attempting to get me to see and understand the difference between these two things.

The wise man makes peace with One stronger than himself.

You are faced with the really strange fact (attested in the Bible) that a woman who supposedly had a virgin birth of the Son of God and was visited by the three wise men did not believe that Jesus was divine.

If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

Though later wise men from the East come to Herod's palace to pay homage to the newborn «king,» they find him in the only place consistent with the rest of the biblical tradition: among the lowest of the low.

If it did nothing else but keep alive in the world the disturbing and revolutionary notion that humble service is better than strutting power, wise men would support and foster the church with all the strength at their command.

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.

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.

I remember sitting with a very wise man during a heated scriptural discussion.

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.

Jesus was not born in Bethlehem at least the one we are familiar with (Professor Bruce Chilton in his Rabbi Jesus) and there were no angels, no slaughter of the innocents by Herod, no visiting wise men and no escape to Egypt.

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.»

Festive cards usually depict a serene tableau set in a stable complete with shepherds, wise men and baby Jesus with a halo.

IDK why ppl constantly try to logically argue and reason with a religious person... as a wise man once said, «If you could reason with a religious person, there would be no religious people.»

It makes him a wiser, and more compassionate man, with balanced approach to living a Christian life in the job we will elect him, once again, to do for us.

Having failed to end up with the cool girl, the womanizer goes back to womanizing, a sadder but wiser man.

Herod fears that this infant the wise men are calling God will replace objective reason and order with subjective visions and social chaos.

When such a conquering optimist as Goethe can express himself in this wise, how must it be with less successful men?

The wise man is satisfied with the more modest but much more definite term contentment.

But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumbline can not sound its depth, and that our eagle eye can not see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass's colt; and with solemn exclamation, «I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.»

The Bethlehem story with the manger, star, and wise men is a myth so that Old Testament prophecy could be shown to be «fulfilled», and Jesus could be from the line of David which he was not.

A truly wise man would seek to make peace with God while he has the chance.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works... I mean real good works... not holy day keeping, sermon - hearing... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

in America the man is innocent until you can prove with out a reasonable doubt other wise.

It will be far wiser and truer to the nature of man to allow the essentials of the content of faith to «sink in» so that human culture itself becomes imbued with the truth of Revelation.

«Along with the sound of wise men and shepherds, of the angels and all the heavenly host praising God and singing,» writes Morse, «there is this other sound — the sound of «a voice heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.»»

It will be apparent how the writer scoffs, not alone at the prophets with their bold claim of direct knowledge of the unseen, but at the priests, who proclaimed proficiency in holy things, and at the wise men, also, with their confidence in intelligence and «wisdom.»

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.

As always, thank you David, for being the good and wise man that you are, and sharing your heart with the world.

They knew how to surrounded themselves with able and wise men.

One, shows Joseph and Marry traveling through the rubble of a war zone; one shows the wise men looking up to a plane dropping a bomb instead of the Christmas star; one, shows the manger with one of the walls blown off.

Last November, the organization went up with a billboard immediately before the New Jersey entrance to the Lincoln tunnel that showed the three wise men heading to Bethlehem and stated «You KNOW it's a Myth.

He may be the smartest man alive, with an understanding of the tangible, but that does not equate to being the wisest man alive.

They believe he was a good man or a good teacher or someone with some wise counsel.

this is a account from Josephus Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

In November 2010, weeks before Christmas, American Atheists placed a billboard at the New Jersey entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel that showed the three wise men heading to Bethlehem with the message «You KNOW it's a Myth.

I sought out regular times of meeting with other older, wiser, godly men for direction and discipleship.

I began to wonder how wise could these leaders be if they knew they had a problem but didn't talk about it with the other men in the church, the men they trust?