Sentences with phrase «god centeredness»

This God centeredness is the sine qua non of good theology, for, without it, it is impossible to think our thoughts after God, which is what defines good theology.

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As much as most of us hate to admit in our own self - centeredness, God is still in control.

The leader must be ready to take considerable heat along the way, but the God - centeredness of the leaders vision will prevail.

He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our human responsibilities and enduring our human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.

To thank God for his bountiful provision for our needs with no thought of the many who suffer is a form of self - centeredness contrary to the mood of true prayer.

I liked the idea that a spiritual life, a God - centered life, could provide the antidote to the «me - centeredness» and the consumer orientation that define our culture and threaten our environment.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

What was important was a conviction that was deeply in accordance with the God - centeredness of Christian faith and that could be maintained without special pleading or the use of highly suspect argument.

If Barth recalls theology to a radical God - centeredness, Tillich rediscovers its correlative and existential character.

Sin, as self - centeredness with regard to both God and other persons, is man's most persistent evil.

No works of love are Christian unless they are God - centered, but no God - centeredness is truly Christian unless one is impelled by it to attitudes and to works of love toward one's fellow men.

When God gives us a new Spirit in Jesus Christ, he also saves us from the power and pain of self - centeredness, from the fear - ridden, «natural» self.

It is the breaking of the shell of self - centeredness and the free commitment of the self to the power and the goodness of God.

Sin, then, is self - love and self - centeredness with regard to both God and other persons — all persons with whom our lives either have or ought to have connection.

Without denying this objective immortality, David Griffin has examined the possibility of subjective survival more positively, 4 and John Cobb has speculated about the possible interpenetration of such souls in the hereafter in ways that overcome their possible self - centeredness.5 Marjorie Suchocki has also explored ways in which we may live on in God which are quite different from these conceptions of the immortality of the soul.6

Men and women through the ages have also spoken of a reorientation of one's life in which, at least partially, anxiety and internal conflict can be replaced by an inner unity and sense of direction; self - defensiveness and pretense by the ability to look at oneself honestly; self - centeredness and alienation from other people by a new capacity for genuine concern; and guilt and insecurity by a sense of God's forgiveness and acceptance.

Human spirituality can be either true or false - either related to the ultimate meaning and fulfillment of life revealed in Christ or simply created by people in their self - centeredness and rejection of God, and therefore idolatrous.

It is the confident statement about the intentions of God that all might be one in Christ, that love and justice will dominate political decisions, that all persons will be liberated from the bondage of sin, seif - centeredness, racial pride, arrogance, and despair.

I agree with the latter group because I take seriously the theo - centrism or «God - centeredness» of that faith and the obvious fact of human finitude.

the power to give, the power to love, the paradoxical power of «weakness»... God's power is thus much greater than the compelling force of a tyrant who makes others submit against their will... his power is sufficient to transform a willful person from self - centeredness to love, without destroying or even violating the tender plant of freedom.61

He used his powers to make a god of himself, to pretend perfection and fulfillment in the face of his self - centeredness and disbelief.

At least it warns us against the wrong kind confidence on the matter, and it prevents us from succumbing too easily to that odd variety of self - centeredness, in the worst sense, which demands «immortality» because it is determined to play «dog in the manger» in God's universe.

Tawney said that the man who «seeks God apart from his brethren is likely not to find God, but rather the devil, whose face will bear a surprising resemblance to his own» That is, unless we broaden our perspective and correct our idiosyncrasies by sharing with our human brethren, we are in peril of conceiving God simply as ourselves writ large, with all our peculiarities, self - centeredness, and imperfection.

Our self - centeredness alienates us from God.

From his prison cell Bonhoeffer reflected on life's centeredness in God, which allows for its concomitant diversity.

This home centeredness focus is a gift of God and it is not contingent upon having a husband and or being a mother.