Sentences with phrase «abiding presence of»

Laaser takes the «higher power» rhetoric of 12 - step programs and makes Biblical references to grace (to overcome the feelings of despair and shame that accompany addiction) and the abiding presence of God as a companion in the journey.

It's as if Lynch has captured the constant vigilance and abiding presence of his professional life as a funeral director in his written words.

In conclusion, Fr Pacwa's book should provoke any priest to ponder what it is he is doing in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, and it should be a great help to the laity in understanding the abiding presence of Our Lord in the action of the Mass and in Eucharistic adoration.

The Spirit comes from God and is the abiding presence of Christ.

A life in which the abiding love of your ABBA, and the abiding presence of your Saviour YAHSHUA, and the joy of the Separate Spirit, can keep you, and make you glad and strong.

The mere presence of the Church, which for all the faults of her members remains the abiding presence of Christ in the world, reminds the secular world of something it would rather forget.

It has been suggested (and the idea has merit) that, at the moment our sins were placed on Jesus» shoulders, God's spirit left because He could not abide the presence of sin.

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One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.

Abiding with Christ, or remaining with Him, is a prominent theme in John 14 - 17, and the first letter of John, and in both contexts it seems that to abide with Christ simply means to always be aware of His presence.

You ascended to the firmament, O prophet Moses; you captured captives, you taught the words of Torah, you gave gifts to the sons of men, and even the stubborn who are converted turn in repentance, [and] the glorious presence of the Lord God abides upon them.

What more can we ask for than an abiding awareness of the presence of Christ in our lives, and a growing capacity to abide with others?

The minimal claim of process thought is that «by reason of the relativity of all things» each actual entity is preserved everlastingly in the divine experience.154 «God is immortal,» Hartshorne writes, «and whatever becomes an element in the life of God is therefore imperishable... I think the idea of omniscience implies that we have such an abiding presence in the mind of God.

The Church is also the Body of Christ enjoying his abiding presence through the ages, as well as the guidance of the Holy Spirit who continues to remind us of all Jesus did and taught, as Jesus himself promised.

To enter the kingdom as a follower of Christ is to find through the Holy Spirit wisdom, strength, and guidance for living; comfort in sorrow; hope in adversity; outreach in service to others; and an abiding sense of the forgiving and sustaining presence of God.

Sunrise to sunrise I will seek Your face Drawn by the Spirit To the promise of Your grace My heart has found in You A hope that will abide Here in Your presence Forever satisfied

In particular he determined that the half of his congregation who see God as more absent than present in the world, would need help in thinking about God's presence if his preaching to them about God's abiding care for the oppressed were to mean anything.

Praying according to God's will is not difficult, if we learn to pray Scripture and abide with Christ by being aware of His constant presence.

The opaqueness is in our understanding of the earth, not in the earth's structure which expresses an abiding numinous presence.

He said, «we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming [literal: abiding presence] of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majest» It happened.

So, as the Biblical records present the picture, Yahweh, whether in his proper person or by deputy in an angelic representative, traveled with his nomadic devotees, and of his abiding presence the Ark was the visible symbol and vehicle.

We believe the place of persons at the heart of mission to be an abiding reality; We also wish to affirm the validity of the missionary presence as essential to our understanding of the universality of the church.

It is in the context of Christ's incarnation, Christ's teachings, Christ's life, Christ's death, Christ's resurrection, and Christ's abiding presence in the Eucharist, in our love for one another and in least of these that we process everything — from marriage to gender to economics to Scripture itself.

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And it was an abiding curiosity about 3D that must account for the massive turnout, far more than any particular love for the Lewis Carroll story (which is borderline unrecognisable here, anyway), though the presence of the globally huge Johnny Depp didn't hurt, either.

«The abiding appeal of art,» he announces in the Renoir book, «springs from the presence in it of the characteristics which lend interest and poignancy to life itself: movement, contrast, rhythm, symmetry, coherence of parts, unity of form and meaning, and individuality of purpose.»

Having said that, the importance of exposing a registrant to ethics courses may not be to miraculously transform same into a moral, honest, ethics abiding person from a position of immoral behaviours which serve to undermine an ethical viewpoint and an honest value system, but rather, it may serve to reveal just who the immoral, unethical, dishonest types inherently are by their very uncomfortable presence within the confines of an in - class ethics class.

The deal ultimately fell apart over negotiation terms, but Butler was satisfied that she'd made her client more aware of a seller's responsibility to abide by the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits inequitable treatment in the sale, rental, and financing of homes based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and the presence of children.