How To Use Disciple In A Sentence

Spencer was a social philosopher and a disciple of Lamarck.
When we steadfastly dedicate ourselves to the path of mentor and disciple, we can boundlessly manifest the wisdom and power that is inherent in our life.
In old Mauritania, now Marocco,384 the Moors proper are notable sodomites; Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of their sanctity for such licence: in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home “that horrid boy.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
How do you help people make these connections between outreach and service and personal discipleship? Christianity Today
As soon as Christ was alone with his disciples he gave them a description of those desolations which is recorded in the following chapter, and is so plain, and made such an impression on the Sermons on Various Important Subjects

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He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
After the Buddha attained enlightenment, his disciples took refuge in him and from him.
Ray posits that this miracle is an object lesson for the disciples.
The intramural squabbling and partisan agendas of the past thirty-five years have often inhibited the discerning engagement with the culture that is imperative for a community of disciples called to be salt and light.
We can believe in the resurrection as a fact because eleven out of the twelve disciples died as martyrs testifying to the resurrection and deity of Christ.
At length returning home, he obtained of Ængus, king of Munster, a grant of the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that the island was called Arran of the Saints. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Countless disciples have begun to discover their new identity as Christians through the same process.
Firstly, Christ and his disciples healed people physically as an attestation that Christ was indeed the promised Messiah.
He started with 78 followers and disciples, but the numbers increased by the day.
She entertained the notion that her art might consist of a fine balance of painting and sculpture; that one disciple could inform and feed into the other. Times, Sunday Times
1When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said good-by and set out for Macedonia.
(Interestingly, fava beans are widely known as a major trigger substance, leading to the oft-used colloquial name of favism for the disorder and the intriguing historical speculation that "favism has been known to exist since antiquity; the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was said to have warned his disciples against the dangers of eating fava beans.") Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of
From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys.
The yogi, or disciple, who has by these means overcome the obscurations of his lower nature sufficiently, enters into the condition termed samadhi, "and comes face to face with facts which no instinct or reason can ever know. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
Our aim is evangelism and the nurture of young disciples. Working with Teenagers
Despite taking only one disciple, he had many admirers and touched many lives.
The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
Three Stages and the idea of a hierarchy of the sci - ences; the worship of natural science and of technol - ogy; the commitment to a physiological view of the mind; the subjection of the historical process to laws of human nature; the interweaving and interdepend - ence of scientific and historical method; the increas - ingly emphatic view of themselves in messianic terms, and the development of a full-blown religion to replace orthodox Christianity, complete with disciples — all these and other teachings were common to the two men. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
If we used Messiah, the Disciples, and the first followers of the risen Savior as our examples we may find ourselves ashamed at our actual lack of "Christlikeness". Latest Articles
One of the most profoundly beautiful reggae songs ever made, Fisherman bathes the daily grind in a spiritual light, naming its titular anglers after four of the disciples (dubbed Fishers of Men by Jesus), though it's not known whether the original apostles also stopped off to see the local collie man. Expecting Rain
No where in the Scriptures is it recorded that the Christ used the term ‘Christians’ for His disciples.
A group of monks, led by scholar Yang Fei, defend their temple against the renegade disciple, Shi, a traitor who collaborates with Manchu rulers.
Jesus also gave His disciples authority over unclean spirits.
Thus, as potential tantric disciples, we need the strength of character and emotional stability to remain sober-headed despite anything our tantric masters may say or do. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship �� 7 Establishing a Relationship with a Spiritual Teacher
Frankly, Shankly was the Liverpool manager who signed Keegan in 1971 for £35,000 from Scunthorpe, a legendary figure whose greatness it would be folly to contest before his one-time disciple. The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan
An ideal disciple is this beloved one. Christianity Today
Then, training up a band of disciples, he sent them forth proclaiming the new irenicon. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
Yet if the Beat poets, their heroes and disciples provided this boho hobo with a point of departure, her music has been shaped by her travels in the 21st century.
After the Ascension the disciples, according to their Lord's instruction, prayed together in the upstairs room where they were staying.
After that He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.
+ Paucapalea, perhaps the first disciple of Gratian, whence, it is said, the name "palea" given to the additions to the "Decretum The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
At times he seemed to be in a colloquy with his disciples, though sadly their questions were inaudible to us.
The composer began as a Schoenberg disciple and produced a lovely piano concerto in the dodecaphonic style.
In this brand of discipleship, serious study is not separated from practical experience-both are seen as catalyzing growth through continual dialogue with one another.
He's too original to be a mere imitator, too irreverent for a disciple.
But to deify Orwell, as many disciples were inclined to do, does him an injustice.
In his old age people began to build chapels for his dead body, driving him to ask one of his disciples to bury him in secret. Times, Sunday Times
Then my disciples pour from the trees, ragged and footsore.
The repressive measures of the government drive the disciples of the new philosophy to conspirative methods. Anarchism and Other Essays
WHEN WE THINK of the apostles—those stalwart disciples of Jesus—the word waiter usually does not immediately come to mind. Saints & Scoundrels of the Bible
On this reading, the disciples at Emmaus did not meet a physically reanimated Jesus of Nazareth, but discovered that the simple things Jesus had taught them remained active and sustaining in their lives despite his brutal execution.
The apostle encourages the disciples (to whom he writes) in these dangerous times, in this hour of seducers; he encourages them in the assurance of their stability in this day of apostasy: But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
His most fervent supporters occasionally sound like disciples rather than supporters.
Such questions as the disciples put to Christ, we should put to ourselves, in communing with our own hearts upon our beds; Why were we so dull and careless at such a time? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
How do you help people make these connections between outreach and service and personal discipleship? Christianity Today
To the unrefined or under-bred person, the visiting-card is but a trifling and insignificant piece of paper; but to the cultured disciple of social law it conveys a subtle and unmistakable intelligence.
In Christian mythology, the resurrected Christ meets two disciples at Emmaus, but it is only at supper that they finally recognise him.
He did not regard his formal studies to be a happy experience, but remained a life-long disciple of self-culture.
Newman, were struggling into day; himself a disciple of the suspected school of German criticism; known to entertain views at variance with the majority of his church brethren on all the semipolitical questions of the day; an advocate for the admission of Roman Catholics to Parliament, for the reform of the Liturgy and enlargement of the Church, so as to embrace dissenters; the distrust with which he was regarded by all who did not know him may be imagined. Rides on Railways
Lara kissed the earth as he had done in 1994 when first achieving such glory and embraced his faithful disciple Ridley Jacobs who, like Simon of Cyrene, had stayed with him and the air was filled with jollification.
In his old age people began to build chapels for his dead body, driving him to ask one of his disciples to bury him in secret. Times, Sunday Times
His father was Catholic; his mother was a member of the Disciples of Christ and Reagan was raised in the denomination. Gerald Ford, 93
The writings of Buddhist disciples portray Siddhrtha Gautama as a fruitarian. The Fruit Hunters
As he concluded, there was verified the saying of Christ to His disciples when leaving them and going to heaven: ” “Super aegros imponent manus et bene habebunt Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda
Whiston's openness in this regard is likely one of the reasons Newton eventually broke with his quondam disciple.
Nay, by these things He signified, that the uncandid soul is not even thereby persuaded; and He made it plain that His disciples too were blamed by them without cause.
Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears. Osho
And we, his children, simply by being his disciples and spreading the word, had became the first generation of kids to validate and popularize a comedy genius.
Note, Though Christ's disciples be brought into wants and straits, through their own carelessness and incogitancy, yet he encourages them to trust in him for relief. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
From Tmolus, the sacred mound, comes the exotic god of Bacchanalia with we disciples gathered round!
Desert_, p. 550.] [Footnote 272: Disciples of Seedy ben Isa, whose sanctuary is at Fas, and who possess the art of fascinating serpents.] [Footnote 273: N.B. This is a misinterpretation of the Arabic words here used, which, literally translated, signify, _God alone, is great! An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
If Jesus related His Passion in this way, it would certainly explain how the disciples picked up that practice!
When He sent His disciples out He told them to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said: Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
How important is discipleship in the Christian life?
And, tomorrow, rest assured the disciple will be trying to put one over on his master. The Sun
I'm a disciple to people who challenge adversity and turn it into an asset. The Sun
The communal nature of this endeavor is based in baptism, because all who are baptized belong to Christ and are committed to follow him as disciples.
The disciples were gratified at this plain avouchment, and exclaimed: Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
We shall be fulfilled with his visible theophany in holy contemplations, and it shall shine round about us with radiant beams of glory just as of old it once shone round the disciples at the divine Transfiguration.
It must reluctantly be confessed that one of the most fascinatingly vital of them all, Alexandre Dumas, is one of the exceptions, born improvisator as he was; yet immense research, it needs hardly be said, went to the making of his enormous library of romance -- even though, it be allowed, that much of that work was done for him by his "disciples. Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure
Warner Brothers Records is eying a deal with the Gospel Gangstas, and funk bassist Bootsy Collins worked on the latest album by the Disciples of Christ. Rhymes Of Redemption
Disciple wishes to dedicate all merits to all sentient beings.
He saw himself as the guru and his students as disciples.
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’
It was a befitting gift to a great mentor by an equally grateful disciple.
Always a disciple of hearty and strenuous living, he suggested more than casually his own famous character - the intrepid warrior, adventurer, and seizer of thrones, Conan the Cimmerian. The Conan Chronicles
Relationships such as the ones between parents and children, and lords and subjects were often homologized with that of a lama and disciple. Kuensel Newspaper
Now a certain kingling who lived near, learning that one of the disciples of the man of God had come thither, sent him flesh and ale by a servant. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
So far, Bakker has dropped some hints about his new thriller, Disciple of the Dog, and a forthcoming 'CanLit' book, Light, Time and Gravity, but I daresay some news on The White-Luck Warrior, the second Aspect-Emperor novel, will also be forthcoming. Archive 2010-06-01
Le drame, l'épopée savante, l'élégie attestent aujourd'hui encore la puissance et la souplesse de ce magnifique génie; seul entre les disciples de Sarasvatî [the goddess of eloquence], il a eu le bonheur de produire un chef-d'oeuvre vraiment classique, où l'Inde s'admire et où l'humanité se reconnaît. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
The Commandment and the Paraclete are yoked together with a resulting emphasis on discipleship as bearing true witness to Christ.
Benedict XVI continued, saying that from the cross, Jesus sees his Mother and the beloved apostle, a very important individual, but more important he is a prefiguration of all loved people, all the disciples and especially all priests. Liturgy
Followers bring born-agains into the fold (including diva disciple Sylvester).
A long time ago, in the Charismatic Church I belonged to, there was a big split - 1/2 the church went into 'discipleship' and the other half stayed where they were. Cerulean Sanctum
But neither hath the Lord Christ left his disciples in this uncertainty which the case supposeth, nor will accept of that indifferency which is in the remedy suggested. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
On a Sabbath Jesus and His disciples were walking through a field.
These primary mystics recruit disciples and attempt to teach them how to replicate their theophany.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault. Mark 7.
His pianistic influence on Thelonious Monk, Abdullah Ibrahim and Stan Tracey, to name only three of scores of disciples, is evident throughout Piano in the Foreground.
Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears. Osho
Further, disciples in second adulthood may regress and degenerate to earlier stages of behavior, such as intensely competing to outachieve junior practitioners and emotionally distancing themselves from any commitment to offer them help. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship �� 17 Generational and Life Cycle Issues
Her accentuation of the disciples' spiritual lethargy is all the more striking because she praises her female readers for displaying watchfulness, the very virtue that the disciples lack.
In a letter to a disciple, Sri Aurobindo wrote that "the very first step in getting out of the ignorance is to accept the fact that this outer consciousness is not one's soul, not oneself, not the real person, but only a temporary formation on the surface .... the outer personality is the person only in the sense of the Latin word persona which meant originally a mask. One Cosmos
At the Passover meal Jesus shared with his disciples this night, the pure unleavened bread was broken into quarter portions, and one portion, called the afikomen, was hidden away in a cloth and laid aside. Maundy Thursday: Mass and Priesthood
When the disciples do answer, their voices are shrill and defensive. Christianity Today
The entire kingdom is ruled by the clergy, with the closest devotee or disciple of Set having the single most influential hand throughout the Stygian territory.
In a move that drew scant attention -- unlike the selection of Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation -- Barack Obama has chosed Sharon Watkins, head of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ, to deliver the sermon at a national prayer service the day after the inauguration. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
In ecstasy, the disciples prepared a huge feast, the guru ate heartily and the ashrama was once again a happy home for sadhus.
She is one of the proud descendants of a galaxy of disciples who emulated the 'mudra' or signature of Sadguru Thiyagaraja Swamigal. The Hindu - Front Page
Without hesitation, the master blocked the attack with the lid of the pot and sloshed the disciple with the hot soup.
Hospital chaplains have even nicknamed the ducklings the 12 disciples.
In tantra guru-yoga, disciples need to see their mentors as Buddhas on all three levels - shravaka sutra, bodhisattva sutra, and highest tantra. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship �� 11 Seeing a Mentor as a Buddha
This Superior had been a disciple of the starets Ambrose, who was a disciple of Makarius, who was a disciple of the starets Leonid, who was a disciple of Paussy Velichkovsky. Father Sergius
It may be noted that this kind of discipleship, which, as we have already seen, was attempted by Palladius, was a recognized thing among the Egyptian hermits. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The disciples, whose minds were occupied with their lack of provisions, the moment they heard the word leaven, thought of bread, concluded it must be because of its absence that he spoke of leaven, and imagined perhaps a warning against some danger of defilement from Unspoken Sermons Second Series
As we seek to become disciples of Jesus Christ, we should never forget that the word disciple is directly related to the word discipline. Happiness Is … Simple Steps to a Life of Joy
We recently covered the application of Jugendstil (sometimes also called Sezession) style motifs to church vestments, but the style's most permanent monuments lie in its architecture, in the work of men such as Otto Wagner and his colleagues and disciples, as well as his sometime collaborator, the decorative artist Koloman Moser. Otto Wagner and His School
He had with him at that time all twelve of his disciples.
Here, I. Christ warns his disciples to take heed of hypocrisy, and of cowardice in professing Christianity and preaching the gospel, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
The literature's first mention of compulsive buying was in the early 1900s by two of Freud's disciples, Eugene Bleuler and Emil Kraepelin, who coined the term oniomania - from the Greek root "onios," which means for sale - to refer to those obsessed with making purchases. NYT > Global Home
He was then the head of a quiet ashrama near the seashore there, and was chiefly occupied in the spiritual training of a group of youthful disciples. Autobiography of a Yogi
Then Drona, desirous of humiliating king Drupada, called together his disciples and addressed them, 'Ye sinless ones, it behoveth you, after you have been accomplished in arms, to give me as preceptorial fee something that I cherish in my heart.' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
As Christ said to his disciples, there are certain types of devils that can only be chased by fasting, sacrifice, and prayer.
But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter.
Bush doesn't go to the competition which has been decorated as monkeys as well as apes for centuries. my HS biology teacher who was the clever disciple of expansion caused people tend to hold in expansion as he looked really most similar to an ape-man. Archive 2009-12-01
As he concluded, there was verified the saying of Christ to His disciples when leaving them and going to heaven: -- "Super aegros imponent manus et bene habebunt" [Mark Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore
Since 1976, when Einstein on the Beach, written with the composer Philip Glass, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Wilson has acquired a reputation as an all-around showman, a hip, Texan Wagner who produces enormous, expensive 'intermedia' spectacles in Europe and is followed by swooning disciples and donors. Lovely to Look At
He loses not a moment in 'constraining' His disciples to go away to the other side, as if in haste to remove the last hindrance to something that He had been longing to get to. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
Paradoxical, the spectacle of this disciple of Kojève, fed on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and on the prosopopeia of the Idea, reproaching others for their excessive idealism. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
It is this callous indifference to human life on the part of the ‘disciples’ that he is alerting us to.
This is the kind of discipleship which the Master demands. Personal Friendships of Jesus
However, he taught superior disciples the tantras in the form of a king or in the aspect of various meditational deities.
The Beatitudes and other teachings in which Jesus exhorts his disciples to put all their trust in God have a special meaning in this context (Neyrey).
Well our teaching on work has to grow out of our teaching on discipleship. Christianity Today
The answer to that question lies in the literal meaning of the word discipline, which is “to create a disciple.” Parenting by the Book
An outstanding teacher, he has many disciples in the country and abroad.
Something earth-shaking must have transformed the despairing disciples.
Christ taught his disciples to pray that their sins would be forgiven, but he himself never prayed such a prayer.
But those who cannot understand sacramentarianism may dismiss it far too easily, for though there be here danger of a mechanical formulism, the sacraments themselves may become part of a spiritual discipline through which the lives of men and women are so profoundly changed as in the most clear case of conversion, manifesting often a spiritual beauty not to be found in any other conception of Christian discipleship. Modern Religious Cults and Movements
The secret initiation is the gnosis of bliss and emptiness that arises from the disciple savouring the bodhichitta, the wisdom-gnosis initiation is the experience of connate joy that arises from the disciple and consort themselves engaging in union. Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Some of you are "old disciples;" have a great abhorrency of sin; you think it impossible you should ever be seduced so and so; but, "Let him (whoever he be) that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Of Temptation
The most exalted initiation is also called "the fourth initiation" or "the word initiation" The previous great wisdom-gnosis initiation empowers the disciple to achieve the eleventh bodhisattva stage. Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The Doric qualities of his work are becoming recognized also, and he is being read, as he has always been read by his true disciples -- so not inappropriately to name those who have come under his graver spell -- not merely as a _prosateur_ of purple patches, or a sophist of honeyed counsels tragically easy to misapply, but as an artist of the interpretative imagination of rare insight and magic, a writer of deep humanity as well as aesthetic beauty, and the teacher of Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
It is easier for a couple to perform together when the husband is the teacher and the wife is the disciple.
It is that danger which Paul is thinking of when he tells the elders that by 'labouring' they 'ought to support the weak'; for by _weak_ he means not the poor, but those imperfect disciples who might be repelled or made to stumble by the sight of greed in an elder. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
The only difference between the application of the same term to Christ and the disciples is, as applied to Christ, that it means only to "consecrate"; whereas, in application to the disciples, it means to consecrate with the additional idea of previous sanctification, since nothing but what is holy can be presented as an offering. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Our aim is evangelism and the nurture of young disciples. Working with Teenagers
The second forceful exposition of the way of Jesus, the so-called Passion prediction at 9: 33, is also not understood by the disciples.
He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
After being taken aback by the shoddy reception the superstar gets when he returns to his hometown after being on the receiving end of all sorts of hosannas on the road, his disciples get a little miffed.
Living in retreats in secluded areas they have silently and unceasingly guided the evolution of humanity through the work of their disciples.
His disciples coalesce around him as he lurches towards the inevitable.
[4125] For this is the end of the human race inheriting God; that as in the beginning, by means of our first [parents], we were all brought into bondage, by being made subject to death; so at last, by means of the New Man, all who from the beginning [were His] disciples, having been cleansed and washed from things pertaining to death, should come to the life of God. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
How are we 'formed' in that particular kind of discipleship that is episcopal ministry? Archbishop Sets Out Thinking on Lambeth Conference 2008
United together in anticipation of the gift promised by the Lord, the apostles and disciples experienced a theophany, or visitation by God. Pentecost Sunday: The Church made manifest
Another way of discovering if you making converts or disciples is to evaluate whether those you lead to faith in Jesus Christ endure to the end. Sunday Reflection: 5 Common Great Commission Myths
He who desires properly to appreciate the profound wisdom of the institution of which he is the disciple, must not be content, with uninquiring credulity, to accept all the traditions that are imparted to him as veritable histories; nor yet, with unphilosophic incredulity, to reject them in a mass, as fabulous inventions. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
This is a rather odd endeavour for someone who neither believes in nor practises the Vedic religion, nor has ever shown any respect for its great ancient or modern teachers, much less sought to be a disciple in any Vedic tradition or lineage.
In this brand of discipleship, serious study is not separated from practical experience-both are seen as catalyzing growth through continual dialogue with one another.
Think of Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, His disciples tarried and fell asleep.
From there, Sweden's Tallest Man On Earth, a Dylan disciple playing solo acoustic guitar to a massive crowd, bled into an unexpected barn-burner from Oxford's Foals, who channeled Robert Smith through a dancier punk-funk prism. Marc Ruxin: Coachella: Music, Culture and... Phones
Hence if a man preach or do something similar by the authority of his superiors, he does not rise above the degree of "discipleship" or "subjection," which is competent to religious. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
But the scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’
Noro gave religious sermons wearing only his underpants and told his disciples they would be taught "Kamasutra" sex techniques to use in the afterlife, former follower Eko was quoted as saying by news website Okezone. Planet Atheism
The disciples, by their participation in that First Eucharistic Celebration, proclaim loyalty to Jesus as Messiah and king.
Truly it points to Jesus as pontifex, mediator, broker, and priest uniting both God and the disciples.
All disciples of cinematic perversion know too well the delights of suffering in the face of intense pleasure.
And therefore it is that the time of his preaching is often by himself called the regeneration, which is not properly a kingdom, and thereby a warrant to deny obedience to the magistrates that then were; for he commanded to obey those that sat then in Moses 'chair, and to pay tribute to Caesar; but only an earnest of the kingdom of God that was to come to those to whom God had given the grace to be his disciples and to believe in him; for which cause the godly are said to be already in the kingdom of grace, as naturalized in that heavenly kingdom. Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
He inspired a school of devoted disciples. The Times Literary Supplement
And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.
When we turn to the Gospel we encounter the disciples trying to understand the mission of our Lord.
The new objects were dismissed by Descartes' disciples, who felt certain that this infidel mathematician and his ungodly ‘discoveries’ could be explained away.
While your disciples are journalists and blaspheming healers mine are seers and political strategists.
After Apollonius has recognized a lion as a reincarnation of Egypt's last pharaoh Amasis, he sets out in the company of ten disciples for the Ethiopian gymnosophists.
If you visit me as a farmer, it must be as a condisciple: for I am but a learner; an eager one indeed, but yet desperate, being too old now to learn a new art. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
I am a disciple of the school of knocks. Times, Sunday Times
The disciples did not understand him as referring to their doctrine, because the word leaven was not often used among the Barnes New Testament Notes
In his old age people began to build chapels for his dead body, driving him to ask one of his disciples to bury him in secret. Times, Sunday Times
The second thing to consider is the very nature of the discipleship yoked upon God's people in Christ.
I felt the demands, I knew I was a sinner, I knew well the discipleship was a challenge and a burden-although a sweet one. Te Deum laudamus!
Buddha said, ‘Indra, all of the great arhats among my disciples cannot decipher the meaning of this.’
Now he and the inner circle of disciples ascend the mountain.
Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears. Osho
Kierkegaard's models were Abraham on the day he was asked to sacrifice Isaac and Jesus' disciples: tormented by uncertainty, unmoored from any of society's ethical anchors, staking their life on fabulous improbabilities.
But not one of Jesus's early disciples who believed that they had met Jesus after the resurrection ever recanted.
In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, mandalas are created for rituals of initiation in which a highly qualified teacher grants permission to advanced disciples to engage in the tantric meditation practices.
In fact when I first entered the infant school playgound in the 1930s the phrase was in regular currency then, both in the children's lexicon and indeed that of the teachers in their occasional ripostes to the cheekier of the urchins wot I was dragged up wiv, so you can't pin that on either Antonio or his disciples (much as I would like you to). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Consider, too, that, were we now to act on our desire for a common celebration of the Eucharist, that would be the end of ecumenism, of the quest for the unity that Christ intends for his disciples.
It is a great encouragement to us, in commending the disciples to the Lord, that we can say, "It is he in whom they believed; we commit to him those who have committed themselves to him, and who know they have believed in one who is able to keep what they and we have committed to him against that day," 2 Tim. i. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
He is satisfied with his disciples' loyalty.
But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The teacher or the master shows the way, and it's up to the disciple or the student to find.
His disciple Van Helmont described it as radiating within and around a person like a luminous sphere.
It is not Jesus' Resurrection that counts but the way in which the disciples experienced the significance of Jesus' Resurrection.
Nietzsche began as a disciple of Schopenhauer, but later rejected his pessimism and quietism.
Having never been happy myself, I am not a disciple of eudemonism; but I see life as struggle and change; and though I do not know what it means, I know thought will not be at rest, that hopes will not cease, and that dreams of liberty will fascinate the minds of future Lincolns and Children of the Market Place
He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
What you do have is the undeniable fact that those appearances did something to those disciples. Christianity Today
Thus the doctrine of the Assumption fleshes out the real point of Mariology, which is to "punctualize" in a real person what it is to be a disciple of Christ, and thus to facilitate our growth in that discipline. Archive 2007-08-01
Indeed, the real disciple would abandon all fleshly desires and follow Christ as a priest or a religious.
The Investiganti fought the Aristotelian philosophers, Galenic physicians, and just about every other form of traditional learning they could attack, bringing their disciples under strong suspicion of atheism between 1688 and 1697.
The disciples are shattered, downcast, scattered and leaderless - and these people then establish a church which 'conquers' the known world. Only love can believe
Their pride, anger, and hypercritical attitude made them far more unclean than the disciples.
The poem's thought about the aetiology of war, its main theme, is based on Christ's reproach of the Pharisees, who had upbraided the disciples for not washing their hands before eating.

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