How dare she, a lowly woman think god wants her to be a rabbi, created from a mere rib.
Should a bottle of memory pills appear on your nightstand one day, a heap of credit will go to Tully and Kandel, with an assist from two of God's lowliest creatures: the fruit fly and the sea slug.
2. My early years were spent in Fettes's lowly cattle shed from where God summoned me to Oxford.
The Gospels speak of practices like uplifting the lowly, welcoming the outcast, and making God's house a place of prayer for all peoples as part of what it means to work for the good of that body.
The psalmist shows astonishment at the power of humans, which he characterizes as little less than the celestial creatures: Why should God have elevated such lowly creatures to such heights of power?
I believe that this, translated out of economese, is basically the sentiment from All Things Bright and Beautiful: The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly, And ordered their estate.
It melded nicely with "The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly and ordered their estate" – the motto of the Bullingdon club, perhaps.
Particularly revealing is a lament from Macmillan in 1952 that, "in deference to modern political thought" (or what would now be called "political correctness"), his local church had omitted the third verse of "All things bright and beautiful": "The rich man in his castle / The poor man at his gate / God made them high or lowly / And ordered their estate".
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One of the Puritans' favorite words, it conveys the generosity and wisdom of their God while at the same time admonishing lowly mortals to suck it up and accept God's will even if one had a bone to pick with the magistrates of Massachusetts Bay.
We think the humble, lowly, meek, poor, powerless, etc. are the ones dearest to God's heart and most likely to live by God's purposes.
