Summer Light is a moving tribute to the enduring power of love and an exhilarating testament to the magic
always at work in the world for those with the courage to see it.
Therefore Joseph's flight from Potiphar's wife is more than a moral example, it is Joseph's first acknowledgement that he sees
God at work in the world of cause and effect.
Most of the religions and many of the philosophies of the world have had a Supreme Being as their center, and God has been variously thought of as the Highest Good, or the Unmoved Mover, or the First Cause, or the Absolute in whom all contradictions are reconciled, or an impersonal cosmic force or
process at work in the world, or the personification and projection outward of man's own high impulses.
Meanwhile, Radagast (Sylvester McCoy), another wizard with a fondness for nature, has good reason to believe there is a deeper
evil at work in the world in the form of a magician working dark deeds in the forest.
If we truly believe in the Trinity, then we know that God the Father and the Holy Spirit are
also at work in the world, and that the breath of God is free to «blow where it wishes.»
Here the thinker is led to the conclusion that the only adequate explanatory principle of the creation is an energy which is patient, tender, participant,
ceaselessly at work in the world, enhanced by that world's happenings as they provide new ranges of possible ways of adjustment, and moving always towards greater good in every nook and cranny.
What is more, this «Wisdom» or «Word» was the divine agency by which God was
actively at work in the world, in creation as well as in redemption.
An event occurs that could not have been performed by any of the natural
agents at work in the world: for example, a man at the point of death is restored in a moment to perfect health.
We're going to go ahead and offer mercy to one another, even if it is viewed as «soft» or «cowardly» or «dangerous»... We're going to trust that Jesus is
actually at work in this world like He said, and when he promised that «His kindness leads us to repentance,» we're just going to believe Him.
And thirdly, Meadows says, «It lifted the morale and enthusiasm of the younger generation in the UK churches who, at last, had vivid examples of God
at work in the world beyond the Church and in their own culture».
(For a description of many forms of witness by both clergy and laity see the chapter entitled «The
Gospel at Work in the World,» in Volume II of the Amsterdam Series, The Church's Witness to God's Design).
Lord God of our Fathers; God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ: Open our eyes to see your
hand at work in the world about us.
Katja, so fierce and finely drawn, becomes of figure of ambiguity — a woman who may surrender to hate, or perhaps a woman who sees
hatred at work in the world, and wonders if she wants to be a part of that world any longer.
Jaume Plensa is the subject of the most recent Brilliant Ideas, a video series produced by Bloomberg news that examines «the most exciting and acclaimed
artists at work in the world today.»
Tolkien's dragons and orcs and wargs serve as reminders that there are dark
forces at work in the world, powers so sinister that no one can fully withstand them.
The story of Joseph, all the stories of the Bible are not just stories in a book of virtues, they are stories of people who see
God at work in their worlds, who see that they need God desperately.
God is the living Creator,
still at work in his world, and that means that the Protestantism of the future will be something new, and, given the pattern of God's creativity, something better.
God as Spirit is the divine presence and
power at work in the world, both saving it here and now and luring it forward toward consummation.
I'd go for a statement more along the lines of «There are no
beings at work in this world that can do things that are impossible in this world.»