Sentences with phrase «bestowing life»

After spending a day with Dreams and the people who made it in Guildford, England, I've come to think of it as a god game, though not in the traditional, micromanagement sense: it's about creating things, then bestowing life upon them and sending them out into the world.

[27] The Easter chant, «Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down Death by death, and bestowing life to those in the tombs» also bears witness to this.

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

The Torah is not an objective law independent of man's actual relationship to God: it bestows life only on those who receive it in association with its Giver, and for His sake.

God desires nothing of us save that we allow Him to bestow life upon us, not merely this life that ends with death, but His life, that knows no death.

He had bestowed life on her brother.

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It is bestowed by others — people whose opinions, actions and lives have been positively changed because of your message or solutions.

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

He redeems us from our brokenness, delivers us from the evil one, and bestows upon us Eternal Life.

He makes our hearts His humble thrones, giving us life and salvation Where two or there should seek His face, He comes and dwells with them in grace blessings upon them bestowing.

Why is it god, as opposed to simply a biochemical / hormonal phenomenon that bestows an evolutionary advantage in living beings, since it ensures protection of one's own genes?

So the loving God and loving Jesus condemn Hawking forever because he spent his life trying to understand the universe that they created, using the unique mind that they bestowed upon him, a mind that he used in the way it was designed to be used.

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.

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.

It is the overarching meta purpose as in the purpose of human existence as opposed to an individual self created self bestowed purpose of life (such as caring for ones family) that I was musing about.

What is objectionable is the implicit metaphysics that bestows the status of «reality» only on atoms, subatomic particles and molecules but not on comprehensive wholes endowed with life and consciousness.

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.

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

As someone who travels and has a relative on whom birthright Iranian citizenship was bestowed (causing some practical difficulties) I find this important to know, and as a person living in the world that has a growing Islamic population, I think tracking these activities is important.

But for Luke, this Jesus was a new and greater Elijah, who like the Old Testament prototype would be «received up» literally into heaven; then, in stark contrast to the Elijah prototype, who bestowed his enormous but still human spirit on Elisha, this Jesus would bestow his infinite spirit upon the church, giving it life for all ages.

Each life has divinely bestowed value and purpose, so like Mordecai addressing Esther, we can say to each other, «Who knows whether it was for such a time as this that you were brought into the kingdom?»

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.

Sikhs have worn turbans since 1699, when the last living Sikh guru bestowed a unique Sikh identity based on five articles of faith.

III 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him And bestowed on him the name which is above every name, 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, (in heaven and on earth and under the earth) 11 And every tongue confess: JESUS CHRIST IS LORD (to the glory of God the Father).3 Although no facts from Jesus» life are reported, his humiliation is emphasized as the indispensable presupposition of his exaltation.

(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.

The Spirit convicts us of our imperfections, and demonstrates the power of God to bestow a new life in which imperfection is not removed, but where the great good of love is fulfilled in a new and humble community.

Perhaps the best gift that children bestow on their parents is the opportunity to reengage with the world, to relive life.

... Because of the boundlessness of your love, you opened your womb, pouring forth your own inner life, giving birth to the world, and bestowing on it life like your own... [Flames of the Spirit, edited by Ruth C. Duck (Pilgrim, 1985), p. 971.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Bestow upon it a royal title such as «just,» and the sin isn't made right, exactly, but it becomes understandable, acceptable even, especially when it is understood as something that occurs in that space cordoned off from the rest of life.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

Jesus Christ came to show us eternal life and to bestow it upon us.

We do not have eternal life to bestow.

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.

We will now bestow upon the merman a human consciousness and suppose that the fact of his being a merman indicates a human preexistence in the consequences of which his life is entangled.

The book is not primarily or formally philosophy; it is preaching — the earnest endeavor to present Christ, and the «eternal life «he came to bestow, to the mind and conscience of a world thinking in Hellenistic terms.

«He that believeth hath eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life»; (John 5:24) «This is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception of immortal life as a present gift, inhering in the quality of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic of the Fourth Gospel.

The Eucharist is by ecumenical consensus the corporate act in which «the community of God's people is manifested,» and it is of crucial importance that the identity - defining rite of the Christian community is precisely a rite of remembrance, an act in which the many are united in a common turning in the Spirit to one in particular, to the Palestinian Jew Jesus, through whose life and in whose person the salvation of the God of Israel is confessed to have been conclusively bestowed on humankind.

But they do not know that God wants to bestow something upon us much greater than life.

The meaning of all the Commandments is not to destroy that which God has so wondrously bestowed upon you — this life which is holy because it is God's gift; God's commandments are given to protect life from gross infringement, like a wall thrown about a glorious garden.

For the measure that Christ comes to bestow on us is not our measure but His; it is the fullness of God's own life and this is an abundance which excels and surpasses any fulfilment of ourselves that we could ever possibly imagine.

Christ directly acts in and through the material elements so as to bestow on the personality of the recipient the gift of His own life.

In the rosary she takes us with her from the advent of the Annunciation, through the life, death and resurrection of Christ, to the contemplation of the glory which Christ bestows on his saints, with Mary again its most perfect recipient.

This living word from God bestows freedom upon us to live the lives God intends.

For, if this is the only permanent thing in life, if this is the only thing that counts, then whatever effort you bestow on mastering it is well - spent..

His living word from God bestows on us freedom to live as God intends.

Then our Lord made the cataclysmic announcement that he himself is the incarnate life of God that can never die and that he is capable of bestowing that life on any who also will receive it.

That is to say, faith today is oriented towards the kingdom, its value, life - style and it meditates on the scourged Christ, on the power of love bestowed, i.e., on passion and suffering.