Sentences with phrase «affairs of the world»

The man of faith is released from self - preoccupation, on the religious level; as well as on other levels, to identify with his neighbour in the day - to - day affairs of the world, the place m which he knows God and enjoys life.

Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out - gamble, out - drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her.

In his previous role, Darren Bailey was responsible for the global regulation and legislative affairs of World Rugby and oversaw the legal aspects of five Rugby World Cups, including the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai — the first time the World Cup had been hosted in the Middle East.

In making these observations, I must stress that I am not dismissing them; they represent serious concerns that reflect a perceptive appreciation of what can all too easily happen through uncritical immersion in the affairs of the world.

To paraphrase Jesus» comment, people who are concerned only with the affairs of this world often show more ingenuity in seeking their ends than religious people do in trying to accomplish God's will.

33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world — how he can please his wife — 34 and his interests are divided.

Bonhoeffer, thus, responds to Marx that faith in the transcendent God is not a fleeing away from the affairs of this world, on the contrary it is taking full responsibility of the reality of this world.

Then when the water hits the ground and spreads, this is the Spirit, the application of the Mystery, the assimilation of the Mystery, into the affairs of the world and humanity.

We are not always aware of this presence, and what prayer does is to lift the veil interposed by preoccupation with self and the affairs of the world.

- Ben Franklin «In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it.»

When this happens, the aggressively masculine stance and the dislike of women's having their part and place in the affairs of the world — and in religious communities, the refusal to give women a full share in the communities» life and in their ordained ministry — are taken to be supported by the cosmic order and hence given a divine force in human affairs.

To be oriented towards the second coming does not mean that we despise the world or run away from the affairs of this world or separate ourselves from the rest of humanity.

But just like Christians worship son of God, mother of son of God, Angels, Muslim allow worship to the prophet who could talk to God, many Hindus also pray to Devata (there is no direct english word for it, but consider them as ministry of God to run the affairs of the world and ruling the heaven).

One was the classical idea of the perfection of God, which held that since God was perfect God must be unchangeable (and therefore unaffected in any real sense by the affairs of this world).

The Catholic Church rightly saw that the demands of Jesus were unreasonable and inappropriate for the ordinary man who must support a family and carry on the affairs of the world.

This God is also alongside the creation too, disclosed by act in the affairs of the world; here is what I like to name the divine concomitance.

Bonhoeffer's thesis responds to Marx that faith in the transcendent God is not a fleeing away from the affairs of the world.

Here, attention to the potentially unchecked capacity of God the All - Powerful to direct the affairs of the world reached its conceptual zenith.

Finally, if hope is to open us fully to the promise of the future, it also becomes active in the affairs of the world and human history.

But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world — how she can please her husband.

But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world - how he can please his wife — and his interests are divided.

This newer approach, from the side of philosophy, has its intimate connection with Christian religious insight, as we shall see in a minute; what is important at this point is that a God like this, related to his creation and open to its «affect» upon him, is a God to whom we can indeed pray, since he is a personal and personalizing agent whose specific quality is participation in the affairs of the world and in the situation of his human children.

Bonhoeffer is not speaking of a metaphysical concept of God but the God who is interested in the affairs of the world, not a God of metaphysical scheme but the God of history, of society, of the future — all in the concrete sense of God's way for mankind in Jesus Christ.

But as for the church in its secular vocation, as for its concern for justice and freedom, as for its witness to the judgment and grace of Christ in the affairs of the world, we may well question such a church exists in most American communities today.

So you believe that god does not intervene in the affairs of the world?

For the Lib Dem leader, failure at Suez enshrined the British view that «our primary interests in the affairs of the world are served by us maintaining an allegiance to the United States».

At the end of Black Panther, T'Challa made the decision for Wakanda to become a more active participant in the affairs of the world.

A gifted young historian whom critics are already likening to Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman draws on a wealth of fresh research and writes colorfully and penetratingly about the fascinating Georgiana, whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.

Jared had a mental disability because of cerebral palsy, and although he was able to look after himself so far as his personal needs were concerned, he was unable to manage the affairs of the world with any confidence or competence.