Sentences with phrase «divine order of things»

I am a good person and I believe that the divine order of things has a way of working things out as they should.

Civil religion portrays a divine order of things, giving us a sense of worth and direction in relation to ultimate purposes.

Make us to love; move in upon us, work through us, put pressure on our little selfish lives, so that we may love «that which thou dost command» — the things, the places, the times, the persons, the circumstances in which God has sent us, the whole realm of the divine ordering of things.

Not exact matches

The author (s) of this story lacked perspective on their calendar, or maybe they wanted to debunk astronomical principles of order in favor of making the statement that God made all that is in the universe in one «work» week a nice juxtaposition between divine and human potential to get things done.

The mystery of creation and the history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

Thirdly, the chaosmos need not «include a stable actuality whose mutual implication with the remainder of the things secures an inevitable trend towards order» (AI 115); rather the «system, is neither stable nor unstable, but «metastable,» endowed with a potential energy [the so - called divine «energy of disjunctions»] wherein the differences between series are distributed» (LS 103).

What ties together Shenk's different arguments is what I call the divine inversion — the many ways in which God acts contrary not merely to physical nature, but to what humans take to be the natural order of things in the social and political world.

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

When we read Aeterni Patris as a whole, we see that Leo framed the revival of Christian philosophy chiefly in the context of the ongoing political problems: «False conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State.»

For the older tradition, knowing is participating receptively in the intelligibility of things, an intelligibility that issues from the divine intellect that ordered them and gave them their being and natures.

And the reason I still pray for a divine interruption in the natural order of things, in the way of the world, is because I believe that God is, truly, wonderfully, redemptively, Love.

If God in «his» heaven is a father ruling «his» people, then it is in the «nature» of things and according to divine plan and the order of the universe that society be male - dominated.4

The self - determined civilization of the last centuries is disintegrating because it does not correspond to the divine (i.e., universally meaningful) order of things.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

Notice, then, that in the prayer Jesus taught the order of things is this: first, identification with God, his will, his kingdom of sovereign love; next, asking for daily bread or what is needed to make life possible; then, deliverance from evil and from the test that will be too much for us; and all of it, as Matthew's gospel recognizes when it adds the doxology to the simpler Lukan version, to God's glory — so that the divine will may be done, and be seen done, «in earth as in heaven.»

Nevertheless, divine soul or souls exercise a providential universal causality, not only in great things but in small as well, ordering everything for the good of the whole, as far as may be (Laws 894 - 904).

It was not a new organic Church but a council or agency of co-operating Churches uniting on a common profession of Jesus Christ as divine Lord and Saviour, in order to carry on co-operative activities and discussions in such things as home missions problems, Christian education, foreign missions, and other activities.

Formerly the facts were there by the nature of things, solid and manageable, and, simply as facts, were the expression of a divine order and therefore in themselves presented no moral problem.

«Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as those which threaten, us lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schoolsof philosophy, have now crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

I exist But only in you if you want me... All things are meaningless accidents, works of chance unless your marveling gaze, as it probes, connects and orders, makes them divine... — Wilhelm Willms, «God Speaks» 1