Sentence examples for come take up from inspiring English sources

'One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me (the Rock)' " (Mark 10 21) " (Mark 10 21) Take your opportunity to invite someone to church and mentor them in Christ (be a good friend, as a Christian)... if you know what you believe, and so you are serving Jesus, God and the Spirit.

It was not until February, he said, that he decided the time had come to take up arms again.

It was at this point I realised the time had come to take up something marginally less compromising.

Tentatively, avidly or kicking and screaming, nearly two billion of us have come to take up residence on the Internet, and we've adjusted to its idiosyncratic ways.

The time has come to take up arms (teaspoon, butter knife), in order to defend one of these islands' most sacred rites, the cream tea.

Muhammad Ali will continue to inspire generations to come to take up the fight against prejudice, injustice and discrimination.

When the conductor came to take up his ticket, the American buttonholed him.

I remember first meeting her soon after she came to take up her appointment at Somerville college, Oxford.

So Jenny comes to take up residence in the Ark and Lizzie finds herself drawn into Mrs. Pleasant's machinations.

"Once those negative thoughts start coming, they take up quite a bit of momentum," she says.

Legislation was introduced to limit wages and to prevent the consumption of luxury goods by the lower classes, with prosecutions coming to take up most of the legal system's energy and time.