(n.) The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
(3) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
(4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(5) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
(6) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
(7) Recalling the triumphant welcome into Jerusalem, Francis said Jesus "awakened so many hopes in the heart, above all among humble, simple, poor, forgotten people, those who don't matter in the eyes of the world".
(8) I turned to Hillcoat, happier than I'd ever seen him in the economy seat beside me: "Jesus Christ, John, how much did we drink?
(9) The eminent historian Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University and a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, has jumped to Gove's defence, attacking the "pomposity" of the curriculum's detractors.
(10) 62 min Spain make a double substitution: Jesus Navas replaces the superfluous Sergio Busquets, and Fernando Torres replaces the disappointing David Silva.
(11) It just sort of clicked, because to me it was my version of gospel, but it wasn't about Jesus.
(12) Tracy is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and was dean of students and principal of Holy Names Academy in Seattle from 1975 to 1995, according to Eastside Catholic’s website, which also credits her for serving as the National Catholic Educational Association’s director of advancement services, providing "consulting services to hundreds of schools across the nation".
(13) And Jesus Christ, we don’t know about him – it seems as if he may have just been a Jewish radical, so if I had to pick one… heheheheh!” He cackles like a crazy.
(14) The student, Madinah Javed, 19, read from the book of Maryam, which tells the story of Jesus’s birth.
(15) He is a second Jesus for us, a second father for Filipinos,” she said.
(16) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(17) Vatican officials appear to have been flummoxed after Pope Francis was presented with a communist crucifix depicting Jesus nailed to a hammer and sickle by Bolivia’s president Evo Morales.
(18) As one of his secular peers in the House of Lords puts it: "Justin sees Jesus everywhere."
(19) Jesus, it's like Save The Last Dance never happened.
(20) Give generosity to those who seek to form opinion and discernment to those who vote, that our nation may prosper and that with all the peoples of Europe we may work for peace and the common good; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Prophet
Definition:
(n.) One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.
(n.) One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.
(n.) An interpreter; a spokesman.
(n.) A mantis.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(2) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(3) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(4) And it was inevitable that Arabic character should precede over the character of the muhajireen, for the language of the Qur’an is Arabic, and the prophetic hadiths [sayings] are in Arabic and the customs of Islamic society were Arabic in great part, and in view of the nature of the local society of the peoples of Syria it was inevitable that Arabic character should be cultivated in the language and religious culture in the muhajireen and laying aside the foreign identity that bears in its hidden nature hostility to Islam, its culture and its roots.
(5) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(6) And the Prophet (peace be upon him) was considered the master of the global Islamic message; it was necessary for him to be acquainted with what was happening around him in the neighbouring states, and knowing their latest affairs and thus inviting them to Islam.
(7) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
(8) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(9) A prophetic anti-Cosby exchange makes the show all the more relevant.
(10) In a landmark speech in Cairo three years ago, Obama promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between his country and the Islamic world, but that relationship is now at its lowest point since the start of the Arab spring as a result of a YouTube video clip made by an Egyptian American insulting the prophet Mohamed.
(11) Despite what is often said, mostly by those who haven't read it, the book does not take direct aim at Islam or its prophet.
(12) Vilks, 68, outraged many Muslims in 2007 after he depicted the prophet Muhammad’s head on the body of a dog.
(13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
(14) In the packed cafe area at the top of Libération’s offices, where the surviving members of Charlie Hebdo have been working since Friday, editor-in-chief Gérard Biard held up the new edition of the magazine, which features a picture of the prophet Muhammad crying below the words “All is forgiven”.
(15) Younger persons can facilitate such growth for themselves and their elders by helping the aging to function as "prophets" for the younger.
(16) The prophets of doom will undeniably be proved right in the long run unless their basic assumptions are nullified by concrete acts, and soon.
(17) Also, it’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexuality; it wasn’t until some years after his death that Muslims began discussing what a suitable punishment might be.
(18) Prenatal care consisted of consultation with a prophet, wearing amulets, using herbal concoctions for bathing and drinking, and injections of herbal power to keep evil spirits away and guarantee safe delivery.
(19) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(20) Taking as a starting point the American painter Alice Neel’s prophetic 1936 painting, Nazis Murder Jews , which depicts a Communist party torchlight parade through the streets of New York City, it collects new and recent pieces that address in different ways our own disorienting political moment.