Sentences with phrase «accomplishing a purpose there»

God is accomplishing a purpose there, although there is no reason to assume that there is an inevitable, almost automatic, progress going on.

Not exact matches

If there is a God then it must be assumed God knows how to accomplish His purpose.

But there is great salvation in proclaiming that God in Christ has accomplished the purpose for which man was made, and through which his weakness and failure, his sin and shame, are overcome.

For as rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall be my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

The latter asserts at best a cyclical return of history upon itself, it is claimed, while for the former there is a goal, «a good time coming,» in which the purpose of creation will be accomplished.

They believed that since there was no other elect people in the world, that God would never judge them, would never send his wrath upon them, because if He did, He would not be able to accomplish His purposes in the world.

Prayer meetings can be good and wonderful, but sometimes there are pitfalls to prayer meetings which prohibit the prayer meeting from actually accomplishing the purposes of prayer.

If God is really actively engaged with and in the world, adapting the divine intention to it, taking into the divine life what occurs there, and hence seriously affected by it quite as much as sustaining it creatively and working within it to accomplish an enduring purpose, then indeed God must be understood in a fashion that is most suitably symbolized by what we know of relationship at the human level — granted, of course, that we say this with an O altitudo, to use Sir Thomas Browne's phrase.

And in accomplishing the divine purpose, there is complete respect for, and a valuing and employment of, the creation's own dignity and freedom, its responsibility for decisions, and its capacity to act as a genuine cause in the total advance.

If not, is there some other symbolic ritual that might accomplish the same purpose as baptism, but which is more universally recognized?

If there is a God He would be big enough to accomplish His purpose anyway He sees fit.

What I realize 10 years later is that it will take a life time to accomplish this purpose and there is something to learn and accomplish in each season.

«Power can not accomplish more than a succession of random impacts on the environment, unless there is some relatively fixed goal or purpose by which the application of power can be guided and directed» (NC 110).

In so doing, these agents will not only fulfil their own possibility; they will also bring enrichment to the divine life — not that God will become any more God than before, but that by virtue of the divine receptivity of what is accomplished in the creation there will be further opportunities for more adequate and complete expression of the divine intention or purpose which is at work in the whole enterprise.

In all that the Gospels tell us about the crucifixion there is a notable lack of anything about the divine purpose of Jesus» death and what it accomplished.

They had a clear sense of purpose and they were «out there» accomplishing a specific mission.

There are certainly more and less efficient ways for your body to accomplish any particular purpose, and those things certainly matter at elite levels of competition, but it's easy to over-emphasize the differences and ignore the broad domains where pretty sizable differences in application really just don't matter all that much for most people, most of the time.

Many of us will head out to accomplish a lot in little time and need to move quickly with purpose to check off names on the list... too bad there are no Christmas elves to really help us do this!

To name just a few: The learning environment needs to be one in which students feel respected and safe to take risks; kids need to feel that their learning has a purpose and that the curriculum is relevant to their lives; and students need feedback on their progress — they need to know what they're trying to accomplish, where they are in relation to the goal, and what they need to do in order to get there.

Finally, there is a religion - neutral way for the state to accomplish its purposes.

«Its purpose is to reduce injuries from dog bites, but there is no municipality or state where it's enacted where they've been able to show that it's accomplished this.»

Finally, there was no evidence that the practice was necessary to accomplish a legitimate work - related purpose.

So now, I trust that the words I have out there in the world will accomplish His purpose.