Sentences with phrase «blessedness in»

Can any wealth assure us that our children will find blessedness in lives of integrity, unharmed by the world's temptations?

They participate in God's being and may lead toward blessedness in him.

God made a choice — he chose some individuals to be saved unto everlasting blessedness in heaven, and he chose others to pass over, allowing them to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell (Sproul, Grace Unknown, 141).

Not exact matches

You know, that long - term history we're talking about earlier of stocks is made up of that bull market part that's kind of two - X the long - term average, and then all that negative that goes with it, and the blessedness that comes from owning stocks in the long - term includes all that volatility.

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 blessednesIn 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 blessednesin a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

The first task in the art of dying well is to learn how to live an existence that leads to blessedness.

Yet the eschatological situation in which he found himself was not yet that of the final blessedness, but rather the «last hour», in which forgiveness was offered to the penitent.

Prayer in the smaller and still more intimate group of two or three friends who love and understand each other well enough to share all their other interests can be a doorway to blessedness.

In both groups one ongoing task will be to clarify each person's story as witness to the truth and blessedness of the gospel.

He is our salvation because in him God reverses the direction of our pride and self - love, and shows the way to 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.

To this extent the classical philologian Ernst Heitsch» is correct in sensing that the historian's awareness «tua res agitur is «nuanced in a particular way» by the New Testament scholar: «It is a matter of thy blessedness, however one may understand this.»

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.

«In the blessedness of your saints you have given us a glorious pledge of the hope of our calling that, moved by their witness and supported by their fellowship, we may run with perseverance the race that is set before us and with them receive the unfading crown of glory.

Such a rose is to be in a sky - blue field [symbolizing] that such joy in the Spirit and in faith is a beginning of the future heavenly joy;... And around this a golden ring, [symbolizing] that in heaven such blessedness lasts forever... Luther «s Works, American Edition, Vol.

He is specifically cited in Reformation arguments, especially by Calvin, and both Luther and Calvin recognized that the themes they emphasized as the essential gospel had been stressed earlier by Augustine: the universality and depth of the problem of sin; the consequent incapacity of even the «best» persons to follow the law commanding inward love, the possibility of salvation — of escaping condemnation and of gaining blessedness — through God's grace alone.

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.

«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?

Like Debbie, I thought «grace»... but that the grace of being shown one's own blessedness, one's own beauty can be overwhelming and hard to face, especially when we've been taught otherwise, all in the name of the virtue of «humility.»

Their thinking was largely affected by Jewish apocalyptic conceptions, according to which history had fallen under the dominion of demonic powers; when «the fullness of time» should come, God would engage these powers in battle, would defeat and destroy them and their human agents, and would inaugurate a new and unimaginable order of blessedness, righteousness and peace.

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.»

We, however, often view religion as helpful only in answering (often quite arbitrarily) questions of how we can reach eternal blessedness, not how we might live better while we are here.

Does someone achieve blessedness and justification in God's eyes because he has conscientiously fulfilled the duties of blood vengeance?

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.

As those who are saved are successively in two extremely different states — first in a state of condemnation and then in a state of justification and blessedness — and as God, in the salvation of men, deals with them as rational and intelligent creatures, it appears agreeable to this wisdom, that those who are saved should be made sensible of their Being, in those two different states.

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.

In Luke's infancy narrative, Zechariah expresses misgivings about God's promises, while Mary's «blessedness» consists of her spontaneous trust that the promises of God to her would be fulfilled.

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.

Their joy and blessedness comes out of their utter dependence on God; it is the joy of walking in the company of God.

In the very here of our existence there may be the there of blessedness; and if perhaps something is added about what happens after that, it is no contradiction of what happens now, here, in this present moment of our Christian belonginIn the very here of our existence there may be the there of blessedness; and if perhaps something is added about what happens after that, it is no contradiction of what happens now, here, in this present moment of our Christian belonginin this present moment of our Christian belonging.

Religious faith can not be culturally ascetic, but what is absent in these expressions of Christianity is the culturally critical dimension which, in its original expressions elevated hot the culturally acceptable but the socially outcast and despised as the paradigms of divine favor and blessedness.

(Heiler, Buddhistische Versenkung, pp. 40, 84) Though this blessedness now be imagined as a dissolving of the finite into the infinite (the Upanishads compare it to salt dissolving in water,

«Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven - through a purification or immediately, - or immediate and everlasting damnation.»

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.

If this be the highest thing that can be said of man and of his existence, then the ethical has the same character as man's eternal blessedness, which to all eternity and at every instant is his telos, since it would be a contradiction to say that this might be abandoned (i.e. teleologically suspended), inasmuch as this is no sooner suspended than it is forfeited, whereas in other cases what is suspended is not forfeited but is preserved precisely in that higher thing which is its telos.

Perhaps the greatest obstacle to a robust belief in heaven is tile curious notion that a life of eternal blessedness would be boring.

They want no part of that «blessedness» described in the Beatitudes.

It turns from selves in their concrete personal and communal existence to ideas of the image of God in man, of the soul, of mankind, the people of God, of sin and blessedness.

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!

«We will never stop cooking chili until every man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth, in the Galaxia of the Universe, has had the opportunity to sample a taste from the Bowl of Blessedness.»

Whether it be because your arsenal of recipes are so perfectly delicious, or because I am constantly reassured by the humor, beauty, and blessedness of your life that good things come to those who are willing to let them in.

Toddler In Tow: I am a military wife and trained breastfeeding counselor with a Montessori background, blogging about the craziness and blessedness of military life, breastfeeding, and peaceful parenting.

Meanwhile, the picture's final revelation of his blessedness comes not in his celebrated kindness to animals, but in the appearance of stigmata that, by themselves, are meant to sanctify the soft, half - whispered platitudes of a Shakespearean cast - off in a tunic and tights.