Sentences with phrase «blessedness for»

The Christian himself can conceive no ideal of love higher than that of the Boddhisattva who renounces his own final blessedness for the sake of the world.

Not exact matches

Those failures are no reason to lower the bar of expectation, to foreshorten our aspirations to the goodness needed for eternal life; they are a reason to get up, seek reconciliation, and continue on the journey into the life of blessedness the Holy Spirit, «the Counselor» who brings consolation, makes possible.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

Fear, on the other hand, is a dry nurse for the child: it has no milk; a bloodless corrector for the youth: it has no beckoning encouragement; a niggardly disease for the adult: it has no blessing; a horror for the aged: when fear has to admit that the long painful time of schooling did not bring Eternal Blessedness.

And think how it is with me, Adam: that life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I can not but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters, there is not perfect love....

In fact, evergreens are biblical metaphors for reversal: they symbolize divine reversal from a state of accursedness and judgment to a state of blessedness and restoration.

For the number «one thousand» (Rev. 20:4) does not apply to the eternal blessedness of the church... On the contrary, all Scripture proclaims that there will be no end to the blessedness of the elect...» (Institutes, III.xxv.5).

For a man must believe that God is God only for the sake of his blessedneFor a man must believe that God is God only for the sake of his blessednefor the sake of his blessedness.

And, oh, this misery, that so many live on and are defrauded of this most blessed of all thoughts; this misery, that people employ themselves about everything else, or, as for the masses of men, that people employ them about everything else, utilize them to generate the power for the theater of life, but never remind them of their blessedness; that they heap them in a mass and defraud them, instead of splitting them apart so that they might gain the highest thing, the only thing worth living for, and enough to live in for an eternity — it seems to me that I could weep for an eternity over the fact that such misery exists!

As we noted, the blessedness of the Millennium was not all that blessed for those who were «forced to obey» in Swaggart's description.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

The acceptance of suffering for the right and for Christ certainly brings blessedness to follow (3:14).

Therefore I turn, and cause the Book to be opened a fourth time: «Men do not desire blessedness upon their lips, nor truth in their bowels»» And I make no comment about the bowels, But rather allow the completion of the thought, such as it is» «For blessedness is the daughter of tears, and truth is but the son of pain.»

One contains the wicked who in torment await the resurrection day, when final penalties will be adjudged; another contains the wicked who already have been punished and for whom there is to be no resurrection; another contains the moderately good who await their reward at the judgment; another contains the faithful saints who enjoy Paradise until their rising at the last day to eternal blessedness.

(Ephesians 1:3) While, therefore, Paul longed for the great consummation, when at Christ's coming «the body of our humiliation» would be fashioned anew and «conformed to the body of his glory,» (Philippians 3:21) this climactic experience became less an external and imposed event and more the fulfillment of the Christian's present blessedness.

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

The possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that self - fulfillment — all of this, of course, in relationship with others and not in any presumed human isolation of self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God in His consequent nature for the furthering of His purpose of good in the course of the process of creative advance.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

At this point he went further than the passage in Isaiah 26:19, for he held out the hope that not only the faithful martyrs would be raised to everlasting blessedness, but the unfaithful apostates would be raised to receive their eternal punishment.

Oh, Thou the Good's stern zeal for thyself, that Thou perhaps permit - test him to get the reward in the world, just when Thou hast rejected him; that Thou lettest him get the reward of the world, while he has ungratefully forgotten what a blessedness it is to have Thy reward, while earth withholds her reward from him!

The house embodied for him the general blessedness of his life, which was manifest, really indisputable.

Blessedness, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna, Austria MOMENTUM 2011, 6th Nordic Biennial for Nordic Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway More or Less: A Few Pocket Universes, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki

Aloe: Healing, protection, affection Angelica: Inspiration Arborvitae: Unchanging friendship Bachelor's button: Single blessedness Basil: Good wishes Bay: Glory Black - eyed Susan: Justice Carnation: Alas for my poor heart Chamomile: Patience Chives: Usefulness Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness Clover, white: Think of me Coriander: Hidden worth Cumin: Fidelity Crocus, spring: Youthful gladness Daffodil: Regard Daisy: Innocence, hope Dill: Powerful against evil Edelweiss: Courage, devotion Fennel: Flattery Fern: Sincerity Forget - me - not: Forget - me - not Geranium, oak - leaved: True friendship Goldenrod: Encouragement Heliotrope: Eternal love Holly: Hope Hollyhock: Ambition Honeysuckle: Bonds of love Horehound: Health Hyacinth: Constancy of love, fertility Hyssop: Sacrifice, cleanliness Iris: A message Ivy: Friendship, continuity Jasmine, white: Sweet love Lady's - mantle: Comfort Lavender: Devotion, virtue Lemon balm: Sympathy Lilac: Joy of youth Lily - of - the - valley: Sweetness Marjoram: Joy and happiness Mint: Virtue Morning glory: Affection Myrtle: The emblem of marriage, true love Nasturtium: Patriotism Oak: Strength Oregano: Substance Pansy: Thoughts Parsley: Festivity Pine: Humility Poppy, red: Consolation Rose, red: Love, desire Rosemary: Remembrance Rue: Grace, clear vision Sage: Wisdom, immortality Salvia, blue: I think of you Salvia, red: Forever mine Savory: Spice, interest Sorrel: Affection Southernwood: Constancy, jest Sweet pea: Pleasures Sweet William: Gallantry Sweet woodruff: Humility Tansy: Hostile thoughts Tarragon: Lasting interest Thyme: Courage, strength Tulip, red: Declaration of love Valerian: Readiness Violet: Loyalty, devotion, faithfulness Willow: Sadness Yarrow: Everlasting love Zinnia: Thoughts of absent friends