Sentences with phrase «yoked as»

We know how important it is to be equally yoked as Christians and we maintain a safe and Biblical environment for fellow believers.

«Unequally Yoked: A geeky atheist picks fights with her Catholic boyfriend,» now she's given in for love and become equally yoked as a Catholic.

From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable; for he will never feel himself sufficiently dominated by the powers of the earth and the skies to be brought under God's yoke as completely as he would wish.

He wore a yoke as a sign that Judah should accept the overlordship of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 27).

You're probably familiar with the concept of a yoke as a piece of heavy wood or metal used to steer two oxen in the same direction while they are plowing.

The pattern offers three different versions of back yoke; a standard shirt yoke as mine is, a blocked yoke, and a pretty cutaway style.

The overall dark, eerie atmosphere also serves to accentuate the realization that one's identity can be as much a yoke as a release - whether that identity is forged by external circumstances or simply, by blood.

Not exact matches

But if that path is taken the actions needed to reduce the one trillion dollar budget deficit will become as much a yoke around its economy as the PIGS deficits are on their economies.

As Athanasius, when the world awoke to find itself ensconced in heresy, so we whose world must wear a harsher yoke are called to Athanasian constancy.

1 Timothy 6:1 - 5 (NRSV) Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.

Under foreign oppression it was natural to feel, as the Zealots did, that only by rebellion could the Roman yoke be cast off; but many of the Jews must have agreed with the Pharisee that an attempt to take matters into their own hands would be both impious and futile.

The attentive reader remembers how Elisha kissed his folks goodbye, slaughtered his yoke of oxen, and not only followed Elijah but stuck to him like a burr: «As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.&raquAs the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.&raquas you yourself live, I will not leave you.»

Yoked to the memory of the Holocaust - that is what he writes - and he goes on as follows: «Whether we like it or not, the statute of limitations is running out on the Holocaust.»

Hindu nationalists see that empire as a cruel foreign yoke that sullied the unique and heroic character of Indian identity and culture.

Would not such a man be double - minded if you saw him in his dreams, when in sleep he has cast off the yoke of fear, when all is as he would really have it be, and he is as he really is, as he would be upon waking if fear did not exist?

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»

In the former passage, a surrogate of the love - commandment functions as the eschatological criterion of salvation; at 11:25 - 30 the human insensitivity of the pharisaic attitude is implicitly contrasted with the «easy yoke.»

At 11:25 - 30, Jesus promises «rest» to those who take up his «yoke» — i.e., the Torah as he presents it.

No sheep can be sillier and more pathetic than we as we cry for Somebody Up There to save us from our sins within and our foes without, while at the same time frantically fleeing from the loving but demanding yoke of Christ.

According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the forms of nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him by the Logos»; in other words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right self - governance» versus a liberation from the yoke of that nature.

the law of Christ, in contrast to the pharisaic precepts, leads to «rest,» it can be called chrestos [«easy»] even though it is more difficult in terms of content; and, insofar as the «yoke» provides even now the anapausis [«rest»], it is termed «light,» even though its demands are heavier.

First, we recognize, as the Jerusalem elders did, that salvation comes not by the yoke of tradition, itself hard enough to bear (Acts 15:10), but through the grace of the Lord Jesus.

1) As a means of removing the children of Israel from a state of bondage to a state of freedom (such as when Gideon delivered the Israelites from under the yoke of the MidianitesAs a means of removing the children of Israel from a state of bondage to a state of freedom (such as when Gideon delivered the Israelites from under the yoke of the Midianitesas when Gideon delivered the Israelites from under the yoke of the Midianites).

These stories may be read as examples of the new and lighter «yoke» described in verse 29 above.

and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them [Hos.

In 2Corinthians 6, when Paul says that we are not to be yoked together with unbelievers, can we not see that as a principle or command that we are to consider as a guide in our relationships.?

6:4 - 5) was regarded as taking upon oneself the yoke of the kingdom.

But for religion, in its strong and fully developed manifestations, the service of the highest never is felt as a yoke.

As G.K.Chesterton noted, those who ridicule the whole idea of vows often seem to imagine that they are some kind of yoke imposed on reluctant lovers by the devil.

Many black women are falling apart physically and psychologically, as she recounts in her book Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (Wipf and Stock).

Morality pure and simple accepts the law of the whole which it finds reigning, so far as to acknowledge and obey it, but it may obey it with the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke.

Then, as now, it was not easy to know what freedom from the yoke of the law means for Christians.

I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, And I bent down to them and fed them.

A different reason, too, for the literary philosemitism of Ulysses: Leopold Bloom's bumbling personality casts him as the butt of jokes and disdain, but he's also the means for yoking the story of Odysseus with the story of Europe's Jews; a person and a people hounded by the powerful.

As for Hezekiab, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and tooAs for Hezekiab, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and tooas well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and tooas the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and took.

Idolatry kills the spirit into darkness, the cultural world is hooked into pride as a yoke for untruths.

As a passenger in a good vessel with a good pilot need give himself no farther concern, but may go to sleep in peace, because the pilot has charge over all, and «watches for him»; so a religious person who lives under the yoke of obedience goes to heaven as if while sleeping, that is, while leaning entirely on the conduct of his Superiors, who are the pilots of his vessel, and keep watch for him continuallAs a passenger in a good vessel with a good pilot need give himself no farther concern, but may go to sleep in peace, because the pilot has charge over all, and «watches for him»; so a religious person who lives under the yoke of obedience goes to heaven as if while sleeping, that is, while leaning entirely on the conduct of his Superiors, who are the pilots of his vessel, and keep watch for him continuallas if while sleeping, that is, while leaning entirely on the conduct of his Superiors, who are the pilots of his vessel, and keep watch for him continually.

The term «yoga» (from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means «yoke» or «to unite,» as in uniting the body, mind and spirit) was first used in Hindu texts in the fifth century BC.

They wouldn't cop out to hiring a little girl who suggested «Unequally Yoked: A geeky atheist picks fights with her Catholic boyfriend» as her approach or anything.

Sennacherib boasts, «As to Hezekiah, the Jew, he did not submit to my yoke; I laid siege to forty - six of his strong cities, walled forts, and to countless small villages in their vicinity, and conquered them... «10 No pride remained in Jerusalem.

Some have suggested that here that Jesus is suggesting the religious suffer in the torments of the constructs of the mind that they have fashioned and given as burden and yoke to others.

In church the gospel passages gave hope and reassurance: «Come to me all you who are burdened and I will give you rest... My yoke is light»; «I was thirsty and you gave me drink... In so far as you did this to one of the least of these my brothers you did it to me... Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.»

Christ did not come as the glorious liberating general that the Israelites expected their Messiah to be; the superman that would come to release them from the yoke of the Roman Empire.

I can just imagine the yumminess that the egg brings to it as well, as the yoke mixes in with it all — ahhh!

So if Walsh, in the few years he has left, were to receive the mantle of icon, he would cast it off as if it were a yoke.

As I have noted before, governing is tougher than obstructing and now your party bears the yoke of governing.

It's not helpful to Rice that Meg Whitman, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in California, also had a roughly twenty - year gap of missed votes, which Dems on the West Coast are pounding her over on a weekly basis (this actually strikes me as one of the ways the story will be kept alive, and I will be surprised if someone doesn't do an attack on the DA yoking her to Whitman).

The compromise would have yoked the Dream Act — which provides tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — to the tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarships as well as public school programs.