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Buechner's introduction to Whistling in the Dark identifies the book with many of the themes that run throughout his work. Concerning the title of the volume, the author writes that "Faith is a kind of whistling in the dark [...] an attempt to keep the spirits up while peering through the shadows for some glimmer of Meaning". [3]
"Supernatural words are manifestations of God's thought which are heard either by the exterior senses or by the interior senses or immediately by the intellect." [2] An example of the first is Gabriel's appearance to Zachary described in Luke 1:10-20. The latter two more properly fall under interior locutions.
Saint Remigius: "The meaning therefore is, What I say to you in darkness, that is, among the unbelieving Jews, that speak ye in the light, that is, preach it to the believing; what ye hear in the ear, that is, what I say unto you secretly, that preach ye upon the housetops, that is, openly before all men. It is a common phrase, To speak in one ...
Psalm 44 is the 44th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us".In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and generally in its Latin translations, this psalm is Psalm 43.
In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation [1] are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God).
In the Abrahamic religions, the voice of God is a communication from God to human beings through sound with no known physical source. In rabbinic Judaism, such a voice was known as a bat kol ( Hebrew : בַּת קוֹל baṯ qōl , literally "daughter of voice"), and was a "heavenly or divine voice which proclaims God's will or judgment". [ 1 ]
What is the "we listen and we don't judge" trend? Couples tell us if it led to any breakthroughs and a psychologist says if it's healthy.
Whistling, particularly after dark, is not advised, because whistling is believed to attract evil spirits. Wind chimes should not be hung, as they sound similar to the ringing of souls, the sound of which lures ghosts. Attendees of a Taiwanese opera show should not sit in the front row, because the first row is reserved for spirits.