How To Use Exhortation In A Sentence
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The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years.
Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
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I have found among my old papers a kind of congratulation and exhortation which I made to myself on dying at an age when I had the courage to meet death with serenity, without having experienced any great evils, either of body or mind.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
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To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations.
Times, Sunday Times
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3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
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Will his rebellion be accompanied by patriotic exhortations - the kind which we associate with the freedom struggle that followed?
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Within a fortnight of the President's exhortation to agricultural scientists, farmers dumped cartloads of tomato on the streets.
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But these exhortations have changed little at the grass-roots level.
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Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
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Despite the exhortations of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
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Consumers have repeatedly ignored exhortations to buy British and the like in favour of global products.
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He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile.
Literary Companion
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Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service and devotion.
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To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why the incoming President's advance exhortation in favor of the decision?
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O pr£clar. ts infana do6lrin. i exhortationes, qti£ dum inftnicnti populo pl.t. tde hitndtunttir, ac tantum no applaudunt, fimtd etia ejficiunt, yt ohfitnatius furere pero-itt!
Ioannis Calvini Opuscula omnia in unum volumen collecta : Quibus accessit libellus nuc primùm editus, De aeterna Dei praedestinatione, adversus Albertù Pighium Campensem, & Georgium Siculum. Locorum sacrae Scripturae in his opusculis obiter interpreta
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To be fair, this exhortation is not simply an invitation to be greedy.
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My counter-intuitive feeling is that the constant exhortations of the need for leaders does not come from ordinary Australians but from certain elites.
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You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
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He deals more in exhortations, because those intent on useless questions needed chiefly to be recalled to the study of a holy, moral life; for nothing so effectually allays men's wandering curiosity, as the being brought to recognize those duties in which they ought to exercise themselves" [Calvin]. speak -- without restraint: contrast Tit 1: 11, "mouths ... stopped." doctrine -- "instruction" or "teaching.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And you will accomplish it aright if, wherever you come, you soon collect to you the inhabitants of the place and reveal to them the word of exhortation, and at the same time, as if the leader of a heavenly troop, set an example of living, along with all who come with you.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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It must not be exhortation, sermon, or good intentions.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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Concepts of fire and damnation have given way to more sanguine personal exhortations to love, service, and devotion.
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What began as a careless exhortation has blossomed into something I am proud to be a part of, and I hope this redresses some sort of karmic imbalance I no doubt incurred in my youth.
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He accompany me, however, not lose one moment in continuing his exhortation.
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The book is essentially an exhortation to religious tolerance.
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To get this project moving, central government needs to heed his exhortations.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the first sign of a wrinkle, all the fuss about aging and antiaging products made instant sense, and I found myself wishing I had listened to my mother's exhortations to slather on sunblock.
Pore Man
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We may gather from the rich abundance of motives which the Apostle suggests before he comes to present his exhortation, that he suspected the existence of some tendencies in the opposite direction in Philippi, and possibly the same conclusion may be drawn from the exuberance of the exhortation itself, and from its preceding the dehortation which follows.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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Sometimes his exhortations resemble those of a student union leader in a denim jacket and a loudhailer.
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But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
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But if the clause be rendered in the second manner, then the sixteenth verse contains an exhortation in these words: "Walk in the Spirit;" and a consectary subjoined to the exhortation in these words: "And ye shall not fulfill the desires or lusts of the flesh.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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Then the two verses before it with wonderful antithetical parallelism, and the two verses after it with the exhortation to persevere.
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Some were crying, some laughing aloud some groaning and howling and some holding forth in fancied exhortations.
The Hidden Hand
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It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
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To this exhortation, which seemed intended for her sole behoof, the lady answered by an inclination of her head, more humble than Captain
A Legend of Montrose
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He must ignore the exhortations to comment under those circumstances and if the media tears him apart, he must let them.
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The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
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Most have been part of the discussion for a long time, and it is hard to remain upbeat about recommendations that don't go beyond vague exhortations to improve things.
Laurel Corona: Kids Serve Too: Watch out for the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Edwards also applies this truth to unbelievers with solemn warnings and exhortations.
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Bishop's girnel or storehouse, keeping back the rioters by his exhortations, is a curious illustration of this point.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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However, we made up for it now by an outburst of indignation and resentment, especially violent on my part; whereupon, the sage Allie turned my own moral lecture, so lately delivered, upon myself, recalling my exhortations to the effect that we should be patient and forgiving with one so sorely afflicted as Matty Blair.
Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
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Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth.
God's Plan with Men
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Because they want to cannibalize the unknown; to leave the chemicals, the furniture and, yes, the shrew behind; to make their way hi ho into the brush, whose weeds and lianas remain empty of the exhortations of Jesus Christ, whose roots and trunks have never felt the sappy coagulant candle-wax, whose steam rises solely from the exhalation of leaf and beast and man, and never from the bang of the Stanley engine.
Ambitious
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The style of Haggai is consonant with his messages: pathetic in exhortation, vehement in reproofs, elevated in contemplating the glorious future.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The whole piece is a moral exhortation, {parainesis}, and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition.
Letters
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Master's vineyard, she could slip on her bonnet and shawl and just run into the preaching service close by, and gather strength and encouragement from the earnest prayers and humble exhortations of those men whom God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
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But repeated exhortations to stop reading in your bedroom, go outside and not be so anti-social do have an impact, particularly when you can see the logic behind them.
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The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
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The whole of the damnatory clause in the exhortation, from the word "unworthily" to "sundry kinds of death," is expunged.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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Note the form of the exhortation, 'exercise thyself _towards_ godliness,' which involves the same thought as is expressed in Paul's other utterance of irrepressible aspiration and effort, 'Not as if I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after,' or as he had just said, 'press towards the mark,' in continual approximation to the ideal.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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The constant topic of his exhortations was the necessity of parish schools.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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It ends with an exhortation for better communication from all to help establish interdisciplinary collaboration for the ultimate benefit of patients.
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Distant exhortation will have least effect where action is most needed.
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Clarity appears in those self-directed exhortations of the novelist to elucidate Raskolnikov's motive for murder.
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Addison always insisted that they said, "Dew-lip, Dew-lip; bill it, bill it, bill it;" -- the whole song being an exhortation of the robin to his mate whose name was _Dew-lip_, to get up and _bill it_ for worms.
When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine
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There is no exhortation to work by force of resolution, but through and by the inworking of God.
Power From On High
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This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader.
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Exhortation, and dehortation is counsel, accompanied with signs in him that giveth it of vehement desire to have it followed; or, to say it more briefly, counsel vehemently pressed.
Leviathan
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The sayings are in the form of proverbs, parables, aphorisms, and exhortations.
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Which assertions, in spite of all qualifications of them, leave it unapprehensible what place can reasonably he left for addressing exhortations to the will, when it is not at all in its power to proceed to the performance of the thing to which it is exhorted, but solely in the power of him that exhorts.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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His hands were slimed in blood as well, tracing signs on the door as he muttered prayers and exhortations.
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Such exhortations are the railings of hypocrites who selfishly skewer non-believers with the power they all-the-time possess.
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You can almost hear, watching their avidly gleeful faces, the exhortations of the stage manager to look more joyful.
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She might simply never have been there at all, never crooked her fingers in midair when we made love, never called exhortations against my neck, never uttered hoarse cries for the light to be switched on … Finally I couldn't stand it and walked through the drizzle to the pub.
The Vatican Rip
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Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.
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Since a seagull never speaks back to the council flock, Jonathan's voice was raised in exhortation: Irresponsibility, my brothers?
The End of the Work Ethic
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It could serve as an exhortation to fully immerse oneself in worthy subjects, to learn and allow others to learn.
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Spurred by government exhortations to get fit, reduce congestion and save the environment, commuters are abandoning car for two wheels as never before.
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That which is suited to the carrying on of men in the state and condition whereunto they are called, according to the mind of God, as also to prevail with them to whom the word doth come to enter into the state of obedience and walking with God; and this is usually branched into three general heads, of promises, exhortations, and threatenings.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Footage from TheCall San Diego, taken November 1, 2008 by video documentarist Michael W. Wilson [author of Silhouette City] shows Engle and his disciples exhorting a Qualcomm stadium crowd to acts of Christian martyrdom against legalized abortion: rhetoric that serve as thinly veiled exhortation towards violent acts of terrorism against abortion clinics and abortion providers.
Bruce Wilson: Anti-Gay Marriage Pro-Prop 8 Leader Called For Antiabortion Martyrs
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The primary virtue that Princeton tried to instill, in exhortation after exhortation, was courage.
The Organization Kid
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Technically, Hemingway offered Dietrich a dehortation, a rarely used but quite proper English term compared to an exhortation, which attempts to persuade people to do something, a dehortation is an attempt to dissuade people from a course of action.
'Neverisms': 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS)
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It’s that time of year — the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the Jewish calendar — when my inbox gets filled with exhortations from the philo-semites of the evangelical world who believe these holidays foretell the time when we Jews will be blinded by the light at Armageddon and become followers of Jesus.
09 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
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Once, Englishmen took Henry V's exhortations to martial self-sacrifice as inspiring.
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The book is essentially an exhortation to religious tolerance.
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If God doth immediately and irresistibly incline or move the wills of the saints to do the things which accompany perseverance, the said exhortations can be no means of effecting this perseverance; for the will, being physically and irresistibly acted and drawn by God to do such and such things, needeth no addition of moral means, such as exhortations are (if they be any), in order hereunto.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The exhortation is ironical, as in Jer 46: 4, 9. 15. thy valiant men -- manuscripts, the Septuagint, and Vulgate read,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The young man, wearing a tweed jacket, pink shirt, green baseball cap, khaki trousers, tan trainers and a glaikit expression, seemed to think his loud exhortations were very clever indeed.
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It involves rules and precepts - the do's and don'ts of life with others - as well as explicit instructions, exhortations, and training.
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It was "sung, chanted, recited, and used in exhortation and prayer on the eve of battle.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
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Their ears do not hear our exhortation to dedication.
Christianity Today
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To overcome these obstacles requires more than good intentions, sermons, and exhortations.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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So their brand name is nothing less than an imperative exhortation to those struggling with their conscience to simply give in to it: go ahead!
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The term prophesy, in this instance, must be restricted to the use of psalmody, because exposition or exhortation in public was not permitted to the women, who were not allowed to speak or even to ask a question in a place of worship.
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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Delivering a series of exhortations, he'll turn a garden party into political group therapy.
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Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away unperceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the exhortations of her father.
Chapter 12
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The Bishop's girnel was kept the first night by the labours of John Knox, who by exhortation removed such as would violentlie have made irruption.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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An exhortation to praise God, who, by the gracious and faithful exercise of His power in goodness to the needy, is alone worthy of implicit trust.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Peter confirms his exhortation, 1Pe 3: 9, by Ps 34: 12-16. refrain -- curb, literally, "cause to cease"; implying that our natural inclination and custom is to speak evil.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The topics addressed are swearing, falling from God, an exhortation against the fear of death, obedience to earthly rulers, adultery and unchastity, and contention and brawling.
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Foreign funds alone are clearly not enough, nor are exhortations to reform.
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The average of our two estimates of exhortation expenditure elasticities of supply is 0.235.
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Her plucky exhortation that ‘with the help of God and some intestinal fortitude, many can change their lives, if they choose to do so’ made me want to wrap my bootstraps around her little neck.
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Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and the dysfunctions of teabaggers, birthers and deathers exacerbated by the irresponsible exhortations of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are costing them their viability.
Think Progress » Tea Partiers Get Their News From Fox And Are More Likely To Justify Violence Against The Government
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Under such conditions, God and his exhortations are therefore superfluous, and the task before the ethical philosopher is to determine why God (or anyone else) would be constrained to consider particular actions right or wrong.
A Telic View of the Universe
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The exhortation is sustained by the assurance of God's essential rectitude in that providential government which provides perpetual blessings for the good, and perpetual misery for the wicked.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The reviewer is still articulating their standards, still even expressing them as an exhortation to follow certain protocols in writing Alternate History.
Archive 2009-06-01
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One does not take away that choice by permitting, encouraging or preventing the exhortation of the citizen to litigate or not to litigate.
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Despite the exhortations of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
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Through the closed window in the chambers, the rhythmic exhortations of the protesters could be heard.
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Applying primarily to Timothy as a minister (compare 2Pe 1: 21), just as the term was used of Moses (De 33: 1), Samuel (1Sa 9: 6), Elijah, and Elisha; but, as the exhortation is as to duties incumbent also on all Christians, the term applies secondarily to him (so 2Ti 3: 17) as a
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The constant exhortations to protect animals and save the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
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From whence may be inferred, first, that exhortation and dehortation is directed to the good of him that giveth the counsel, not of him that asketh it, which is contrary to the duty of a counsellor; who, by the definition of counsel, ought to regard, not his own benefit, but his whom he adviseth.
Leviathan
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Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.
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Nor do I mean to withdraw it, though the present state of your affairs, and what for some time past I have painfully observed of your precipitance, oblige me to add partial counsel to standing precept, and exhortation to advice.
Camilla
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To you our discourse is addressed, and for you our exhortation is intended.
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This latter exhortation is followed up in Am 5: 4, 6, 8, 14, 15. 13.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And through it all he had the quick memory of his mother's companionship, he could recall her rueful looks whenever the eager inaccurate ways, in which he reflected certain ineradicable tendencies of her own, had lost him a school advantage; he could remember her exhortations, with the dash in them of humorous self-reproach which made them so stirring to the child's affection; and he could realise their old far-off life at Murewell, the joys and the worries of it, and see her now gossiping with the village folk, now wearing herself impetuously to death in their service, and now roaming with him over the Surrey heaths in search of all the dirty delectable things in which a boy-naturalist delights.
Robert Elsmere
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What he needed more than anything, though, was an early goal, to persuade the crowd that their exhortations were worth it.
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One does not take away that choice by permitting, encouraging or preventing the exhortation of the citizen to litigate or not to litigate.
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Pulchre's bell_, the great bell of St. Sepulchre's Holborn, close to Newgate, always begins to toll a little before the hour of execution, under the bequest of Richard Dove, who directed that an exhortation should be made to "... prisoners that are within, Who for wickedness and sin are appointed to die, Give ear unto this passing bell.
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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It's an imperative and ornate exhortation to lay open your nerves and unabashedly, unapologetically feel.
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Censored bloggers often say their posts have been "harmonized" - a term directly derived from President Hu Jintao's regular exhortations for Chinese citizens to create a harmonious society.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
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The ultimate purpose of the poem is not to list the queen's virtues but to praise them; the exhortation in the opening ‘Praisd be’ is further emphasized by insistent anaphora and repeated trochees in the first seven lines.
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It is more than probable, though only a conjecture, that Dryden might be made the subject of those private exhortations, which in that reign were called closeting; and, predisposed as he was, he could hardly be supposed capable of resisting the royal eloquence.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
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Over the stone fireplace, a large oil painting of Madhubuti, back when he was Don L. Lee sporting a thick Afro and dashiki, recalls the righteous exhortations of his first books of poetry, Think Black and Black Pride.
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This text belongs to the well-established genre in ancient philosophy of protreptic or exhortational literature.
Elias
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An exhortation to young people to begin betimes to be religious and not to put it off to old age (ver. 1), enforced with arguments taken from the calamities of old age (ver. 1-5) and the great change that death will make upon us, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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For all anyone knows, al-Qaida's gloating in its murderous glossy magazine, Inspire, and Niall Ferguson's talk of a caliphate are just as otiose as Blair's jawdropping exhortation, given his legacy of mayhem, for the west to show "the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief we can achieve them".
Women are often the losers when the west weighs in | Catherine Bennett
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This is not a time for blithe exhortations and mindless sloganeering, nor hubris, nor sarcastic dismissals of the opinions of the other side, all of which is found in the poetry of both camps.
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Mr Vajpayee's exhortation to his partymen to keep the NDA intact might also have an impact on the conclave when it arrived at the 10-point conclusions.
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Totos ego tredecim annos, quibus functus sum ministerio, sive in sacramentis, sive in aliis sacris celebrandis, exhortationibus aut precibus quae extant in Agendâ nostrâ, _nunquam usus sum_.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
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There runs through the most of these exhortations an arrangement in triplets -- three sister Graces linked together hand-in-hand as it were -- and my text presents an example of that threefoldness in grouping.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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We were hoping for a counterintuitive answer to this one - you know, some rah-rah exhortation that you shouldn't let a slow economy dull your ambitions.
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Yep, that's "renounce," people, just like Gandhi's exhortation that we "have nothing to do with power.
Sander Hicks: The Anarchist Jesus of the First Gospel
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He speaks to them as believers, as disconsolate, dejected believers, quickening their faith by exhortations; and gives them this promise as a solid foundation of peace and composedness of spirit, which he exhorted them unto.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Secondly, that the use of exhortation and dehortation lieth only where a man is to speak to a multitude, because when the speech is addressed to one, he may interrupt him and examine his reasons more rigorously than can be done in a multitude; which are too many to enter into dispute and dialogue with him that speaketh indifferently to them all at once.
Leviathan
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As for exhortation, he argues that in practice, religion is not a legitimate source of morality.
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That story is more interesting than the civic exhortations the daily papers reported, right?
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It will take more than exhortation to persuade him or his successors to do otherwise.
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Or it may be meant of the public reading of the scriptures; he must read and exhort, that is, read and expound, read and press what he read upon them; he must expound it both by way of exhortation and by way of doctrine; he must teach them both what to do and what to believe.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Each mate is responsible for driving his rowing crew faster; Stubbs manages this with odd, sermon-like exhortations.
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My exhortation is for both the radicals and conservatives.
Christianity Today
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Each claims to be more cutting edge than the last, and yet each seems to be cut-and-pasted from the exhortations that preceded it.
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The seven exhortations of this pirate ` s code ascend in precedence.
I, Pirate …
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His importunate exercises in prayer and exhortation, should they be all noted, would fill many pages; but I have noted his soliloquy in the above lines, as that through which we may take the most immediate view of the soul's exercises, when under the convictive operations of God's spirit.
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
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Stock options and corporate bonuses are no more fundamental to the achievement of scientific advance than were Soviet medals and patriotic exhortations.
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Without imperial authority to reinforce its moral precepts, it increasingly relied on high-minded exhortation.
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Mobilization or exhortations by clergy seem not to be a major factor in explaining good neighborliness.
American Grace
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With great simplicity and godly sincerity: Our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile, v. 3.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The book is essentially an exhortation to religious tolerance.
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The constant exhortations to protect animals and save the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
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This text belongs to the well-established genre in ancient philosophy of protreptic or exhortational literature.
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Foreign funds alone are clearly not enough, nor are exhortations to reform.
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Despite the exhortations of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
