My question is this... If you are going to go in and share in what may seem lovely sentimentalities and veer away from
the DIVINE eternal truth of God, why go in as a chaplain - a minister - just go in as a social worker or a volunteer.
Not exact matches
To avoid that conclusion, Aquinas defended an
eternal law and thus drew a tight connection between
divine decisions and
eternal truths.
Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the
divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the
eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great
truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.
Correspondingly, I know that my being depends on
Eternal Being; that my
truth is a dim reflection of the
divine light that shines within, and that my loving is God's love present in the heart.
Through this gift to certain men He continues His one task which consists in «the teaching and fulfilling in
divine truth and
divine love with a
divine authority, and in the feeding and nourishing unto
Eternal Life of the whole personality of a man, in body and in soul» [14].
He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and
divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some
eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.