Sentences with phrase «as chastisement»

even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — well, yes, often I guess this is so — but not always I think.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

Shame became ineffectual, I thought, because a person in the stocks could just lose himself or herself in the anonymous crowd as soon as the chastisement was over.

Not exact matches

He says up front that the second man was in need of «love and forgiveness,» not «chastisement and the fear of hell» (as was the case with the first man).

The preferred Eastern Orthodox understanding of hell, one with profound patristic pedigrees, defines hell as something self - imposed, a condition of the soul that freely refuses to open itself in love to God and neighbor, and that thereby seals itself against the deifying love of God, thereby experiencing divine glory as an external chastisement.

Alvarado cites the example of German Calvinist political theorist Johannes Althusius, who defined the discipline of morals as «the inquisition into and chastisement of those morals and luxuries that are not prevented or punished by laws, but which corrupt the souls of subjects or squander their goods unproductively.»

«If He has promised to strengthen with patience those who suffer chastisement for their sins, how much less will God be found wanting to... those whom God employs on so worthy a mission as being witnesses to God's truth.

David Hart has noted that there is a long theological tradition, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, that «makes no distinction, essentially, between the fire of hell and the light of God's glory, and that interprets damnation as the soul's resistance to the beauty of God's glory, its refusal to open itself before the divine love, which causes divine love to seem an exterior chastisement» (The Beauty of the Infinite, 399).

In this sense, however, a natural event or thing can serve as readily as an institutional event or structure as a catalyst for a person's conversion or chastisement.

Should we receive it as beloved but wayward children receive parental chastisement?

As Suffering Servant, «the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

There is, therefore, no reward for such among you as do this, except disgrace in the present life; and on the Day of Judgment they shall be driven to a most severe chastisement; and surely, Allah is not unmindful of what you do.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

First, as the idea of God was heightened into nobler meanings, nothing for which he was responsible could be conceived as aimless and, therefore, the suffering which he brought on men and nations could readily be thought of, not as retribution merely, but as purposeful discipline and chastisement.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

As regards vicarious suffering, cf. Is 53:4 - 6, «Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows... But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed... the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.»

This sign is a guarantee that there is a limit to the power of man and to the exploitation of man, as there is a limit to the chastisement of God.

The law in England, Wales and Northern Ireland currently allows what's described as «reasonable chastisement».

The thing is, even domestic violence used to have euphemisms such as «reasonable smacking of wives» and «necessary chastisement» in order to make them more palatable.

This can manifest as self - blame, chastisement, and the stories of «not being good enough.»

Despite the chastisements, Alexander said he was rooting for King and hoped the public would be as supportive of the law at the end of this year as it was last December.

Reading their thoughts we would recognize self chastisement such as «Oh, this is ridiculous feeling like this over a Cocker Spaniel» or «I can't believe loosing a cat would wreck my entire life!»

The court also stated earlier in Stiles v. Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia, (1989), 38 B.C.L.R. (2d) 307 (C.A.) at p. 311 that special costs should not be awarded unless there is some form of reprehensible conduct, «either in the circumstances giving rise to the cause of action, or in the proceeding, which make such costs desirable as a form of chastisement.

«Special costs, formerly referred to as solicitor - client costs, may be appropriately awarded when there is some reprehensible conduct in the proceedings that makes such costs desirable as a form of chastisement.