Sentence examples for biblical expressions from inspiring English sources

Thus he uses rabbinic as well as biblical expressions, follows the syntax of the Arabic, and coins new terms, based on the model of the Arabic.

3.08pm GMT Kathleen Playle of Chelmsford says that she does not think the expression "enough waiting" is a Biblical expression.

But to use an old Biblical expression, they are a law unto themselves.

Though comparatively low (1,929 feet [588 m]), it dominates the level landscape around it, leading to the biblical expression "like Tabor among the mountains" (Jeremiah 46:18).

Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, through the dignity of near-Biblical expression, elevated sordid nationalism to a shimmering ideal of popular government; and it resonated because it said what a lot of people already felt.

As Tasmania's natives languish in forced settlements where density and European contagions like tuberculosis hasten their demise, Christian missionaries bent on the primitives' biblical salvation make the expression "killing with kindness" discomfitingly literal.

We should uphold the biblical connection between sexual expression and covenantal love wherever possible.

I was taught that the conservative Mennonite community -- with its anachronistic dress code -- is the truest expression of biblical values.

But in the second, American phase of his long career he turned out a prodigious body of sculpture that in its passionate expression of feeling, biblical themes and rounded Baroque forms was profoundly different from his cool, elegant Cubist accomplishments.

I guess it is really an expression of the biblical statements that the truth will make you free!

Author's Note 07/15/16: Some comments indicate I am unaware that the Biblical passage and recitation is about the expression of humility.