Out of that fullness God draws new possibilities, for us to be sure, but also for God because God is in relation to us and wants that relationship to be as satisfying as reality allows.
Speech analysis is a fascinating field because it confirms an ancient biblical proverb, «
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.»
This is supported by a saying of Jesus,
that out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
He is at the same time the revelation of the Father, fullof grace and truth «He came to
us out of the fullness of time contained in the mystery of God, and it was to this mystery that he returned after «he had moved among us»» (Romano Guardini: The Lord.
But she also knows that
out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks, and if I said «a wife is like that», some really negative opinion about wives in general and her in particular was being uncovered and that therefore we had some serious talking to do.
Sometimes, then, we are content to read the story simply for what it adds
out of the fullness of her experience and her memory to our penetration into the entity of that ancient people.
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Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
Not exact matches
Either way, you face a risk, the risk
of error or the risk
of missing
out on the
fullness of truth.
And though we can conceive
of experiences in
out life that would be unprecedented in their
fullness of both happiness and individuality — having a firstborn son, winning American Idol, curing cancer — we've developed a very mature (sometimes premature) resignation to the ultimate transience
of these experiences.
Instead, we should be illuminating what is good, loving without conditions, forming relationships and living
out the
fullness of grace and truth.
In fact, to embrace and live
out the
fullness of the Catholic teaching is to embrace a life
of consistency.
I note that in the Bible God lets man reach the
fullness of character before he pulls the carpet
out and that character can be good or bad.
By this revelation then, the deepest truth about God and thesalvation
of man shines
out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator and the
fullness of all revelation.
For the unfinished present to attain its
fullness in the future, it is not only reasonable that it believe and hope, but it must
of necessity, as the very law
of its being, hope and believe; otherwise despair which takes the drive and soul
out of the struggle will take over.
In response to those who would discredit Christianity by pointing to the sins and failures
of Christendom, we have pointed
out that no people or nation has ever embodied Christianity in its
fullness and purity.
The love
of a man and a woman, lived
out in the power
of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament
of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery
of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the
fullness of the eternal wedding.»
Eschatological existence is an attainable ideal because «the
fullness of time has come» and God has sent his Son «that he might deliver us
out of this present evil world.
A man is most truly «helped» when women are walking in the
fullness of her anointing and gifts and intelligence and strength, not when she reduces herself
out of a misguided attempt at righteousness.
Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion
of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck
out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part
of life, as part
of holiness, as part even
of God.
The gifts poed
out on the church by the ascended Christ have as their final goal that «we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge
of the Son
of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure
of the
fullness of Christ» (vs. 13, NIV).
Surely we should talk in terms
of intensity
of divine Activity and
fullness of human response, not in terms
of «above» and «below,» «in» and «
out,» «entrance,» and the like — these are mythological terms, and for our own day they are outworn rather than significantly evocative mythological terms.
Rather, at this time in history when many Jews are recognizing Jesus as their messiah, the Church should make room for them, remember her own Jewish heritage, and reach
out in friendship to all Jews in hope
of the messiah's «recognition by «all Israel»» and the day when «the people
of God [will] achieve «the measure
of the stature
of the
fullness of Christ»» (CCC 674, Eph.
When there is this complete unity, singleness,
fullness of experiencing in the relationship, then it acquires the «
out -
of - this - world» quality which therapists have remarked upon, a sort
of trance - like feeling in the relationship from which both client and therapist emerge at the end
of the hour, as if from a deep well or tunnel.
In prayer to each
of them he pours
out the
fullness of his devotion to God.
Print it
out for the fridge, for the kids, for your family gratitude journal — and take the dare to live in
fullness of joy — right where you are!
As petition rises
out of need or sin, in our first prayer it comes first; but it may fall into a subordinate place when, at the end and height
of our worship, we are filled with the
fullness of God.
But the only thing that each
of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write
out of the very
fullness of human experience about the very
fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses
of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.
Congregations which encourage this kind
of thinking and are prepared to be guided by its outcome have a
fullness of Christian reality that is lacking to those that operate
out of conventions and customs.
«That's all I look forward to; just to be given Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday doing nothing but talking about the saviour who died, rose again and wants people to be restored with one another and with God,
out of whom we find life in all its
fullness.»
So the love which was worked
out in human terms in the life
of the Man
of Nazareth was a love which knew mortality in its
fullness,
of body and
of soul.
In Baltimore on October 8, 1995, Pope John Paul touched on this point in his homily: «Sometimes, witnessing to Christ will mean drawing
out of a culture the full meaning
of its noblest intentions, a
fullness that is revealed in Christ.
Though few in numbers, there are now families - even in secular Britain - who live
out the
fullness of the Church's teaching and who are compelling witnesses to the beauty
of our faith.
when as a people the iniquity has reached the
fullness of time, destruction will come and He is righteous and just in doing so because they refused the olive branch he has held
out.
Rather, it is sufficient to say that special revelation makes explicit the
fullness of God's love which is always already poured
out into the world.
The council's constitution on revelation implies that the
fullness of the divine self - disclosure occurs only in Christ: «The deepest truth about God and the salvation
of man shines
out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator and the
fullness of all revelation (mediator simul et plenitudo totius revelationis).»
In the
fullness of time, they will reach their culmination in the divinity and humanity
of Christ, united in the divine person
of God the Son, which shines
out on Mount Tabor.
Jesus actually did both, and the apostle Paul later reminded the Church that Christ must be preached in all his
fullness, both «in season and
out of season».
I can answer nothing save this, that on entering that church I was in darkness altogether, and on coming
out of it I saw the
fullness of the light.
It is a subject that requires searching into to find
out, but, when realized, gives one so much more true and lively a sense
of the
fullness of the Godhead, and its work in us and to us, than when only thinking
of the Spirit in its effect on us.»
In a world where the marginalized and the drop
outs of affluent society search desperately for comfort and identity in drugs or esoteric cults, how imperative it is to announce that he has come so that all may have life and may have it in all
fullness (John 10: 10)!
The problem with Hegel's thought is that the
fullness of life,
of conflict,
of culture,
out of which the imaginative representations
of the will come, is progressively swallowed up until only the concept survives.
However, one day she had had enough, one day she cried
out to God from the
fullness of her heart.
But she or he does approach that
fullness through communion with other persons and creatures, each
of whom in their relations with God and with others fill
out aspects that would be lacking for any one individual.
This involves a causality which Holloway calls physical and perfective: physical, because it is Christ, God made man, who acts directly through the material elements
of the sacraments; perfective, because this is the
fullness of God's one work in creation, which creation finds a special fruition when matter calls
out for spirit and the two are joined in one unity which we call «man».
In the
fullness of time they appeared
out of their own societies and some were ready to respond to the call.
Because evangelicals tend to subordinate discursive truth to evangelical truth, limiting inquiry by the creation
of discursive orthodoxies to match their evangelical ones, dissipating the tension and traducing the complementarity which reside within the
fullness of truth, they appear to have disabled themselves for the kind
of free university inquiry
out of which, historically, has come the growth
of knowledge and culture.
(Reden, Rede 10) This sense
of awe, however, is related not only to the
fullness of religious forms, ideas, and experiences, which Schleiermacher described as «having developed
out of the eternally provident bosom
of the universe.»
I think that a lot
of times we, as Christians trying to discover the
fullness of the burgeoning new face
of the Church, put too much pressure on ourselves to «get» something
out of every service, every song, every sermon.
Jesus died in order to save us from perishing when this material world perishes at the coming
of the
fullness of the church, but His death did not make us spiritually perfect, only working
out our own salvation as Paul says, will do that.)
A more global awareness
of human - rights violations is calling people everywhere to speak
out against injustice and to work to assure that every person has
fullness of life.