Sentences with phrase «eak things of this world»

I'm not looking to the things of this world to be my ultimate satisfaction.»

No one wants to admit they have failed especially this generation.God does not like sin yes he loves us all, but once we become born again we are to repent and turn from our sin, and the things of this world are to become strangely dim.

Life - changing, poignant moments when all those gathered seem focused on God and God alone, free of distractions and the things of the world.

Things of the world are holding you apart.

Judgment is coming to the mockers and those consumed with the things of this world and it will be sudden and final.

= > faith is a gift from God and I could lose that faith if I begin to follow the things of this world.

Those of your family holding onto the things of the world is what is doing it.

From a Christian perspective, the things of this world, although important and necessary, can never be the main concern.

To establishment lawyers, the immigrants» irreverence toward the law and its minions looked more like cynicism than a way of keeping the things of the world in their proper place.

Your concept of God as exemplified by Jesus is very limiting and confined to the things of this world.

As to scientific proof I am glad you agree objective proofs are limited to the material scientific while Jesus speaks to the things of God which are not the things of this world.

We are dealing with the denudation of the soul's appetites and gratifications; this is what leaves it free and empty of all things, even though it possesses them... Since the things of the world can not enter the soul, they are not in themselves an encumbrance or harm to it; rather, it is the will and appetite dwelling within that causes the damage.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; — 1 Corinthians 1:27, NKJV

There seems to be great love for the things of this world, but no love for God or neighbor.

All this was in the face of a lagging zeal and a growing interest in things of the world for their own sake.

We are all here to pursue the things of this world or there would be no creation.

That is our question to the things of this world.

Knowing and loving Christ begins with seeing glimmers of divinity in the beautiful things of this world.

In the same way the double - minded talk that is from time to time addressed to the sufferer may be recognized by the fact that it puts its trust in the things of this world.

Those of you are caught up in the things of this world need to «GET A LIFE!»

Otherwise, this text is too close for comfort, and Kierkegaard knew it: «In the magnificent cathedral the Honorable and Right Reverend Geheime - General - Ober - Hof - Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: «God hath elected the base things of the world, and the things that are despised.»

The major task of the comic hero, therefore, as Nathan Scott insists, «is to remind us of how deeply rooted we are in all the tangible things of this world....

If we have learned anything from the credit crisis, it is that the things of this world are inherently uncertain.

God has made time and made all the things of this world how amazing is it that those that would try to distort the Bible would do so to alleviate their own guilt rather than embrace the word so that it would do what it is supposed to do.

his mind was set on the things of man, the things of the world and its earthly values

The makeup of the group underscores another popular religious theme in King's work that's reflected in this line from the apostle Paul in the first Book of Corinthians: «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.»

He taught about finding delight in God rather than the things of the world.

God has a pattern of choosing the «weak things of the world to shame the strong.»

They're in the light, and in the light the small things of this world look very small.

And as we lose our love for the things of this world, and die to them, They bring us to a place where we want to please Them as an over riding desire.

A picture of Holy Communion's spire comes to mind and I remember the words of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: «Continual silence, and removal from the noise of the things of this world and forgetfulness of them, lifts the heart and asks us to think of the things of heaven and sets our heart upon them.»

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

The evidence is in the testimony of the those who witness the living power of God over the things of this world.

Free will allows people to choose their own gods, that is the American way to love the things of the world.

In the second chapter Whitehead introduces the idea of a variable, which is a letter that can refer to general things of the world.

In fact when God says I will take the foolish things of the world to confound the wise that is not logical or reasonable yet that is God.

They are not prepared to agree with the medieval hymn - writer who said that «the times are very evil» — if by those words it is being said that the world itself, the things of this world, the experiences known in this world, are in and of themselves bad.

I am so sorry that you want to blame God for all of the ugly things of this world.

We learn of God from «seeing the invisible,» as an inference from our empirical experience of the things of the world.

The Amish consider electricty evil because it connects them to the things of the world.

Be as clever in dealing with the things of God as they are in dealing with the things of this world.

Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.

But God has CHOSEN the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God HAS CHOSEN the WEAK things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; I beleive God loves the poor, simple, uneducated of His creation, see Acts 4:13, and He extends His salvation to the sinful, see Luke 11:13.

God fear would make a man of faith to think a thousand time and will ultimately stop him from being corrupt and from doing other vain things of the world.

27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

In the intervening books he has developed the theory of the Forms (the ideal heavenly realities of which our material world offers mere copies), and so is now able to point out that poetry is not true, since its objects of representation are the things of this world.

28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Mr Hayward you are an apostate and lust after the things of this world.

In this sense we encounter God everywhere radically as the actual question put to our freedom in all things of this world and, as Scripture tells us, above all in our neighbour.

The entire chapter covers «ALL» the (adultery, incests, sodomy etc.) unclean things of the world and is NOT bias to gays.