Sentences with phrase «woman as a servant»

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Finally, when men of God will have been reduced to nothing but the love of and for God, women, who are the image of Christs bride / wife, will be appreciated by us as the Christ like servants they have always been.

Yet mindful of Thomas à Kempis's words that it is better to be a devoted servant of God than somebody who can discourse wisely, I was delighted to learn the revealing information that the former parish priest of four US parishes has as heroes inspiring men and women of God: Simone Weil, Edith Stein (St Teresa of the Cross), Dorothy Day, Blessed John XXIII, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and St Margaret Mary Alacoque.

-- «If the man rejects the servant woman as his wife, she is to be given her freedom (redeemed / bought back).

I Peter 3:1 - Likewise (as servants are being subject to their masters, and as Christ is subject to God) the women are being subject to the / their men, and this also that if any men are being stubborn toward the word, through this behavior of the women they should / may be won (out of their stubbornness) without having to say a word (to them)...

Does this mean that Jesus saw women only as servants and slaves?

Until we challenge the status of women as men's servants and subordinates at home and at work, assault, harassment and abuse will continue.

As «servants of the servants» they often suffered overwhelmingly demeaning moments at the hands of white women and their sexually abusive husbands.

As psychologist Naomi Weisstein declares: «Women's liberation is part of a movement toward a just and humane society, a society in which no human being will be forced into a servant role.

As churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathAs churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas men to guide congregations along those paths.

2, he describes himself as «an early feminist,» who believed that «a woman's rightful place was as a world leader, not servant or helpmate.»

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

Jacob's wealth, to give the most important example, consists in proliferating flocks and herds, male and female servants, as well as women and children.

Too much about Catholicism I could no longer tolerate — pedophile priests, and a refusal by the hierarchy to recognize women as anything but servants top my list.

We who sincerely desire to build up the culture of life, who seek to welcome children as the supreme blessing of marriage, we who worship God as the source of all life and declare ourselves to be his servants, we are not in the business of inviting pregnant women to cry on our shoulders.

Despite technological advances and slowly evolving parenting styles that accommodate them, modern women are often as confined in their homes with their young children as the servants, wet nurses or nannies of the last century were.

The state chairman of CAN, Rev. Akpen Leva, expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance, saying the association had ordered a sit - at - home protest for all private organisations, including artisans, market women, commercial drivers and others, except civil servants, as the seven - day praying and fasting commenced on Monday.

In that movie, Bela Lugosi plays an evil sorcerer who promises to turn a woman into a zombie so that her spurned lover can control her forever, presumably as a mindless sex servant.

As an always - on - the - go woman of God, wife, small business owner, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, community servant, and more, I am pretty no - nonsense, quickly discerning what I like and dislike when it comes to clothing choices.

Their subordinate ranks as a woman and a lowborn servant, respectively, should inspire sympathy, but their self pity is so thorough and one - note that their distress is no more compelling or resonant than a pair of dogs noisily licking their wounds.

While many of these proud black women might have toiled as lowly domestic servants during the week, they would invariably arrive decked out on Sunday.

The Wandering Soap Opera presents a succession of archetypes, of actors playing characters who essentially look exactly as you'd expect them to: the flighty ingénue, the nobly vampish middle - aged romantic heroine, the grey - templed older roué, assorted raffish bohemians, harassed civil servant types... I didn't recognize anyone in the cast, although somewhere in there is Francisco Reyes, who can currently be seen as the ill - fated older lover in Sebastián Lelio's Oscar - nominated A Fantastic Woman.

Dido begins to question the regressive social conventions, the strict formalities, and her place in the aristocracy as a woman of mixed race («How may I be too high in rank to dine with the servants and too low in rank to dine with my family?»).

The Door, set in modern postwar Hungary, is the story of the relationship between a writer, Magda, and the woman, Emerence, whom she hires as her servant to cook and clean and care for her and her husband.

The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention of ever seeing her again.

With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.

As a teenager, Australian Kent went on an exchange to Iceland and discovered the story of Agnes, a servant woman who was executed for murder in the 1820s — the last person, in fact, to be executed in Iceland.

In the first game, women existed largely as victims, servants, and sex workers, who communicated to the player that the misogyny and patriarchy they lived under was bad, but by failing to resist or challenge it, they also reinforced the idea that it was inevitable.

She creates prints, paintings, videos that exalt the beauty of black women and place them centre stage, for once, given Western art has historically largely ignored them or denigrated them as servants to the white Olympias.