Sentences with phrase «about the goodness of»

never another world about «god» I'd love to read about the goodness of humans to each other, love, life, laugh..

My children are among the gaggle of kids who wave flags in the front corner of the school gym, off to the side, while we sing about the goodness of God at the top of our lungs and close our eyes and chase toddlers across the back of the gym.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church itself includes precisely this quotation (CCC 1015) giving explicit reference to Tertullian's De Ressurectione Mortuorum as witness to the Church's optimism about the goodness of body.

Every sermon at church was either about the goodness of marriage or the sinfulness of homosexuality.

It is their «principle of life», something much more profound than can be indicated by talk about their goodness of life and their concern for righteousness, truth, and the other virtues.

But there was no question about the goodness of Jesus Christ.

You seek to bring disunity and false teaching into the church by spreading lies and satanic teachings about the goodness of humanity and God's love for every person.

Note that verse one about the goodness of a man not touching a woman is probably a quote from what the Corinthians wrote Paul: he is responding to that statement.

I have the following words in gold print, penned by Emmanuel T Simbomana, in a picture frame in my living room to remind me all the time about the goodness of God — «Oh how the grace of God amazes me!»

And this seems like a silly one perhaps — women in bikinis, good gracious — but it was really a challenge about my body and how I view my body, about shame and freedom, about the goodness of our bodies before God, pushing back against my own prejudices and cultural conditionings.

So just as the «not good» in Genesis 2 matches the silence about the goodness of creation on day two in Genesis 1, I think we should be looking for the moment in Genesis 2 that matches that culminating «very good» in Genesis 1.

By assuming themselves a life of evangelical poverty, combined with orthodox preaching about the goodness of creation and the human body, the Dominicans undercut the preaching of the Cathari.

An understanding of the characteristics that make for intrinsic value is an absolute prerequisite for any judgment about the goodness of conduct, for right conduct must be directed toward the realization of high values.

Not exact matches

Chris Lester, CEO of Chief, a Washington, D.C. - based brand strategy, technology and communications agency, suggests asking yourself whether you can say, «Thank goodness this person is here» about each of your employees.

Changing the landscape Everything about Benevity, from our suite of technology products to our passionate client service, is driven by our shared value mission to make Goodness matter more for companies, charities and communities.

Let's hand - hold them through how to make that work for their lead generation and customer loyalty goals instead of getting them worked up about whether that's honest - to - goodness content marketing or a highway to failure.

Thank goodness I had educated myself about all of this and had already heard about what happens to those teaser rates in a few years.

When God put the Ark out there for everyone to see and you to read about you should have noticed the goodness of God that provided a way for all that reject God.

Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.God speak of these thing occurring in our day.

For another thing, thank goodness there are people like him to teach other people how to tell the rest of us what we're supposed to be thinking and feeling and talking about when our time comes.

@ Steven: the same sorts of arguments were made about the inherent goodness of man in the late 19th & early 20th century.

But for goodness sakes what part of these passages do Howard Camping and other misguided people not understand: Matt 24:36 and Mark 13:22: NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THAT DAY OR HOUR NOT EVEN THE ANGELS OR THE SON (Jesus himself).

Process theologians openly admit that their God, while totally committed to goodness, truth, and beauty, can not bring about the perfection of these values unilaterally.

Presumably then the Holy Spirit whispers in the hearts of all mankind about this knowledge, goodness, and love.

By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and grace, and acceptance of God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like that!

Some of the reasons they are naive about human goodness.

Beyond that, it was learning more about God's justice, that contrast between darkness and light, and how to properly interpret God's sovereignty and Bible verses that command us to give thanks or reveal God's promises of bringing goodness out of evil.

Thus the black / white thinking you mention will require ever more proof from the outsider and will inevitably conclude that there is nothing at all, not one thing, that any of them can do about any of it because the outsider refuses to offer real honest - to - goodness evidence.

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

It accepts selfishness as a fact of life; it doesn't require any illusions about the innate goodness of people.

Then there arises the problem known as theodicy, the question of how to justify the goodness of God when God either directly brings about evil or at least appears to permit evil to exist.

It is not something that can be overcome just by thinking enlightened thoughts about the goodness and beauty of the human body.

They can and should be ridiculed for making insulting claims about men and their motivations, for relying on preposterous unacknowledged motivations and for denying the power of goodness.

The injustice of the situation was troublesome enough, but when my friends insisted that Zarmina went to hell because she was a Muslim, I began wrestling with some serious questions about heaven, hell, predestination, free will, God's goodness, and religious pluralism.

To capture a robust sense of moral purpose, contemporary notions about self - fulfillment must be discarded along with romantic notions about inherent goodness.

Abraham learns that one must come to care about the righteousness or wickedness of the world, and not only about one's own kin and one's own goodness and its rewards.

For almost two full seasons, the main characters were striving to make it to the Good Place, but their strivings were rooted in a legalism that kept them in a self - centered mode of thinking: This journey toward goodness is about me and my reward.

To speak about God is to speak of the eternal Goodness, in the phrase from the Theologica Germanica, which Luther loved so much.

When my father died, shortly after I was ordained a priest, I discovered that I had many more questions than answers and that some very safe assumptions about the goodness and permanence of life had been shattered.

Do you not recognise that in the scriptures the concepts about the character of God grow in truth beauty and goodness as the generations pass.

Perplexed and disturbed about a horrifying evil in his own life or the life of some one close to him, the believer may find it hard to trust God, may come to question God's goodness or his concern, may even come to rebel against God.

Dionysius did comment at one point about something he called «the omnipotent goodness of the Divine weakness,» 11 but he did not elaborate on the implications of this insight.

It means to center our lives upon his good news about the kingdom among us, about who is really well - off and who is not, and about true goodness of heart and how it expresses itself in action.

Only recovering ampler horizons of truth about God, humanity, and the goodness of creation can set us free and renew a culture of life and love.

«One way of showing how serious we are about the world - the real world, the world in which we live and breathe and sweat and die, is to have good toilet facilities, for goodness sake.

A rumor is in the air about a fresh new goodness there, but it remains part of our Devil World.

The show is about the Doctor and his companions and their adventures in time and space, sure, but really at the core, it's a story about hope and goodness, life and the sacredness of our stories.

To further compound how lacking in goodness, some Christians are, Baptist minister Huckabee stated that congregations should arm themselves in the event this happens again, which is about as far from the teachings of Jesus that I can imagine.

Some philosophers cling to «qualia», the latest make of sense - data, but the current orthodoxy, thank goodness, is realism about the material world.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.