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To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.
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ask and me
I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
I'll bet he wouldn't be pleased if a rumdum like me were to ask his daughter for a date -- I mean, after I'm out of the hospital, a month or so from now ''.
One thing alone I ask of you, holy Fathers, permit me to live in silence in these forests, near the bones of 17 of my brethren now dead.
" I asked whether the Japanese would become Christians if I went with him to this country, and he replied that they would not do so immediately, but would first ask me many questions and see what I knew.
Assessing himself, Robinson said, " I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me ... all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
" and I thought they would ask me to do a walk-on, the way it came: " Would you come be part of the show?
To the northwest of the living room are the laundry room, garage, dining room, smoking room, drawing room, housekeeper's quarters, and kitchen ; a popular command allows players in the living room to push others into the kitchen and ask them to " fetch me a cup of tea "; since players can prevent themselves from being moved in such a fashion, this command is more often used on new users, who may have difficulty finding their way back to the Living Room.
I am not ashamed to talk to them and ask them to explain their actions and they, out of kindness, answer me.
He explained that " I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of a man " and reasoned " I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.
Tarantino has been quoted as saying, " When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ' no, I went to films.
Saving Private Ryan made me aware of some issues raised by the cinema of war that I was unable to ask on my own.
ask and believe
Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.
Jean-José Puig describes how Massoud often led prayers before a meal or at times asked his fellow Muslims to lead the prayer but also did not hesitate to ask a Christian friend Jean-José Puig or the Jewish Princeton University Professor Michael Barry: " Jean-José, we believe in the same God.
But it is righteousness to believe in God and the Last Day, And the Angels, and the Books, and the Messengers ; To spend of your substance, out of love for Him, For your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves ; To be steadfast in prayer And give in charity ; To fulfill the contracts which you have made ; And to be firm and patient, in pain and adversity And throughout all periods of panic.
* Preferential option for the poor and vulnerable: Catholics believe Jesus taught that on the Day of Judgement God will ask what each person did to help the poor and needy: " Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.
Checking their bird book, they believe this to be the Great Northern Loon ; however, this has not previously been seen to nest in northern Scotland, and so they ask for help from an ornithologist.
The Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo ( PRIO ), Kristian Berg Harpviken, said, " I don't believe that one consciously excludes candidates because the leader of the committee also is the leader of the Council of Europe, but just the fact that one can ask the question weakens the image of the Nobel Committee as an independent committee, and that is a problem.
While liberals believe that, on sexual matters, " the Pope can teach whatever he wants ... but whether or not he should be listened to is very much an open question ", the stance of certain traditionalists on the reform of the Mass liturgy and contemporary teachings on ecumenism and religious liberty amounts to the view that, on these issues, " faithful Catholics are always free to resist Pope's folly .... As theories of religious dissent go, Catholic liberals couldn't ask for anything more.
* We believe that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, according to Acts 2: 4 is given to believers who ask for it.
Pope Clement VI, Letter Super Quibusdam ( to Consolator the Catholicos of Armenia ), September 20, 1351: " In the second place, we ask whether you and the Armenians obedient to you believe that no man of the wayfarers outside of the faith of this Church, and outside the obedience of the Pope of Rome, can finally be saved … In the ninth place, if you have believed and do believe that all who have raised themselves against the faith of the Roman Church and have died in final impenitence have been damned and have descended to the eternal punishments of hell.
In practical terms, it may be necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, an apology, or even just ask for forgiveness, in order for the wronged person to believe himself able to forgive.
And to those who would say that our actions in Iraq or Afghanistan have only worsened the threats against us, or to the Spanish who believe their involvement in Iraq resulted in the train bombings in Madrid, I ask: Why us on September 11, 2001?
" This has led many to believe that Prufrock is on his way to an afternoon tea, in which he is preparing to ask this " overwhelming question ".
* Episode 42: Ed bets Mike ten bucks to go up to a patron in the Goat and ask for his autograph, pretending to believe the patron ` s Kenny Rogers.
Wozniak had to ask HP for permission because he worked for them, but they did so because they did not believe that it was marketable.
" He also states at this point that, " One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States is that the policy of our government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.
In his words: " One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.
In the " appearance-reality ", or " Smarties " task, experimenters ask children what they believe to be the contents of a box that looks as though it holds a candy called " Smarties.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark implies that they did not believe in John, so that if they answer from heaven people will ask why they did not believe John.
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