Sentences with phrase «god for sustenance»

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In the end, Yahweh was no longer a tribal god in the old sense of caring solely for the social group; he was a personal god as well, in the sense of caring for and bringing interior sustenance to individuals, one by one.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

The world adds nothing to the being of God, and so nothing need be sacrificed for His glory or sustenance.

It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of way.

And whether downcast or lighthearted, we ought to thank God for such great blessings as homes, friends, health, enough to eat and to wear, freedom, the beauty of the world and its nourishing sustenance, the chance to work and to play and to enjoy many things.

God has taken full initiative to provide sustenance sufficient for this life and the next.

We have to tend the creation, use it for our own sustenance and flourishing, but we also have to respect it in itself as a manifestation of God's creative energy and cooperate with God in bringing out the full splendor of the created order as reflecting the glory of the Creator.

When you are in need of food and daily sustenance, trust God to provide for your needs as He has done in the past.

The film surely rightly points out that this very speculative idea that our universe is just one of a very large number just makes the cosmos bigger, without thereby removing the apparent need for the sustenance of God.

In his proclamation, Obama called all Americans to pray for, among other things, the men and women in the military, to ask God for «sustenance and guidance,» and to pray for those affected by natural disasters.

According to the Qur» an, God made provisions for the sustenance and growth of countless varieties of creatures from microorganisms to the largest animals.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

By our culture and tradition, the king rules on behalf of the gods and is therefore accountable not just to men but to the gods as well for good governance and sustenance of the legacies of the past 50 kings before you.

He said kingship appointment is not an ordinary one but being permitted by yoruba culture and tradition as the king rules on behalf of the gods and is therefore accountable not just to men but to the gods as well for good governance and sustenance of the legacies of his ancestors.