Sentences with phrase «bestow all»

This begs the question: why would God, who supposedly loves all of his creation, not bestow the gift of faith to all, so that all may be saved?

Our love is the one thing God does not possess, unless we choose to bestow it.

(a) that bishops can bestow ordination for the diaconate only on married men, and it is implicit, following 1 Timothy 3:1 - 5, that bishops should be married; (b) that those who voluntarily choose not to marry, must live in a monastry in purity and continence; (c) that a bishop can not oppose the wish of an unmarried priest to marry, or if a priest is widowed, to marry again.

An eternal object is supposed to bestow or withhold a specific, precise form of definiteness, but how can this be if every eternal object drags along with it, so to speak, the whole choir of eternal objects in virtue of the fact that its relationships to other eternal objects are internal relations?

They open up the possibility for God to be related to the creation, and in this instance at the level of human existence, in the light of the new occasion, by the responsiveness of God to that event and by his employment of that event to bestow upon his human children still further «graces and mercies».

The ordinary pleasures of life give us just an inkling of what true pleasure must be, and Lewis is a master at using them to depict the happiness God will one day bestow on those who love him.

For example, many people treat the possibility of rehabilitation behind prison walls with the same skeptical indifference that even devout Catholics now bestow upon purgatory: We can't even fathom how moral change happens, if at all, in either place, so we leave its remote possibility up to God.

The superject undeniably has being, but it was not at all clear how it could bestow any being upon its own antecedent concrescence.

Leah, may you experience all the blessings the LORD can bestow: HIS Son!

If god does exist and does bestow the act of freewill and is also bound to never, never interfere with that freewill (except for the exceptions in the bible, like basically forcing the pharoh to hold the jews as slaves even after a number of plagues), his omnipotent nature is underminded that he can't even have the power to force anyone to act the way he wants.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, [a] 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion — to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

Religiously, the power of God who is ever waiting to bestow his strength on those who will receive it finds a channel.

All of this is found there because God Himself is present and active there and has chosen to bestow it there.

Maybe you should communicate to him telepathically and ask him to bestow you with more intelligence.

The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

Now the coin placed in the hand of the poor man was believed to fund a heavenly treasury that would bestow blessing on the charitable soul in the years to come.

In addition to connoting a measure of independent judgment or decision as well as flexibility, it means, in this context, freedom to have relations, freedom to avail one's self of the grace and power which relationships can bestow.

They may be inclined toward moral conceit in which they «rate themselves above others on whom they bestow earthly goods.

Yet it is more than a stamp; it is a burden laid upon him which makes him wholly acceptable, vulnerable, disponible, and yet withdraws him to the task of «giving his flesh for the life of the world»: almost in the moment when an outburst of popular devotion would bestow upon him the splendor of kingship, a kingship of popular acclaim which he refused without seeming even to consider attempting to manage it.

This time around, the preacher has reportedly decided to bestow his blessing on Perry's campaign.

That's the greatest wealth that parents can bestow, and right now we're particularly grateful for it.

So expensive was that call that the waggish prayers of some modern Jews can thank the Lord of the Universe for the inestimable privilege of being chosen as Jews and then move on to ask him to «bestow on us a greater honor yet.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

Yes, God exerts His right to be gracious and compassionate to whom He wants, but He is not talking about determining people's eternal destinies; He is talking His right to bestow blessings and favor upon certain people for certain reasons.

In Jesus, God asks us for forgiveness, so that we, in Jesus, might both bestow forgiveness to God and receive forgiveness from God.

We are made male and female, man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen as an autonomous human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow upon it.

Does it have its reality only in being remembered, that is, does the present act of remembering bestow reality upon it?

The rabbis had gathered to ask God to bestow blessings upon their troubled land.

I said: What's funny, is that believers bestow upon their god, the attributes of being omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

Mothers and fathers learn that in struggling with the demands of nurturing their children they develop a love that seeks the good of those children, not simply the good that parents alone can bestow.

Epicurus taught the idea that pleasure of the individual was the sole good in life, though he also believed in the existence of gods, whom they felt did not create the universe, nor inflict punishment or bestow blessings, but that they were disinterested in what man was doing.

But when it comes to Shawn's greatest memory of his lengthy career (1984 - 2010), the wrestler would rather talk about the moment he committed his life to Christ than bask in any glory his fans would bestow upon him.

What's funny, is that believers bestow upon their god, the attributes of being omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

[1] Conscious of the immense horizon which their faith opened before them, Christians invoked Jesus as the true sun «whose rays bestow life».

The final message here is that people seek to return to love by reaching out to those who loved them or those who they wished loved them and that they reach out in death to either ask for forgiveness or bestow forgiveness for wrongs done to them.

It says with the faith of a mustard seed God can heal all things, if he chooses, but God does nt always choose to bestow upon us what we want.

We will take care only to the extent that, as cantor, we sing the songs that bestow meaning upon the universe and our place in it.

Only Jesus Christ can bestow that honor.

He foresees «the far longer and richer lives that a friendly superintelligence could bestow.»

But almost every other foreign policy responsibility, McDougall shows, lies in a no - man's - land between the various branches of government: No mention is made of a power to recognize or de-recognize foreign regimes, terminate treaties as opposed to make them, make peace as opposed to war, declare neutrality in the wars of others, annex or cede territory, bestow or deny foreign aid, impose sanctions, regulate immigration and the status of aliens...

You would think that God would bestow this information on Christians decades, nay, centuries before the scientific discovery is made.

Then I continued to try and find the truth (wherever it took me) and I've since become an agnostic atheist who believes that people like Jesus and Sidhartha (or at least, the people who wrote the stories about them) had true wisdom to bestow.

by christian doctrine, we do not render ourselves sinful, it was one of those bizarre arbitrary decisions by god to bestow hereditary sin.

Still, given his expansive media platform — in addition to his reality - show franchise, Mr. Trump was a frequent guest on Fox News — and a fortune that he could theoretically bestow upon a campaign, Mr. Trump was drawing presidential candidates seeking his support to his Fifth Avenue high - rise.

Because if everyone was using these bots, the trading edge they bestow would be eliminated due to arbing and other opportunities being eliminated.

American Airlines, which also employs the communication union's members, similarly decided to bestow a $ 1,000 bonus.

Other select partnerships Munich Re has announced since the start of last year include Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Mobileye in mobility, Bosch in industrials, and Bestow and Tictrac in life insurance distribution and health engagement.

If we're being generous, we could round it up to a cool $ 50 billion, but since he is a billionaire (48 times over), we don't feel the need to bestow that particular charity.

The hollowing out of the middle could be further accentuated by automation.8 Moreover, the polarizing effect of technology on income distribution could be heightened by a winner - takes - all effect — this comes from the market power that new technologies can often bestow on their inventors.