Sentences with phrase «earthly rewards»

The biblical tradition promised earthly rewards, as well.

The Hellenistic Jewish text, Wisdom of Solomon, for example, pictures the righteous as gentle and forbearing in the face of persecution by the wicked, reproving but not physically opposing their foes, despite lack of earthly reward for their virtue.

Another heresy of the electronic evangelists is their Palagian distortion that promises considerable earthly rewards for the faithful.

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.

But if the world itself is not Good in its innermost being; if, as the Scripture says, it still «lieth in wickedness,» (I John 5:19) or if it is far from being as one for whom it is a rare exception not to will the Good; if this be so, then earthly reward is of a doubtful character.

'' [A] s high court clerkships drift ever upward into the stratosphere of earthly rewards to which young lawyers can aspire, one stark reality persists: Recipients of this prize are overwhelmingly white, and mostly male.

This is the old faith, just as the last problems of our life remain the old ones: that we should become loving and unselfish, that we should bear the darknesses of existence, that we should finally come to terms with death, that we should do our duty also when we can expect no earthly reward, that we should follow our crucified Lord and Saviour.

It has some earthly rewards along the way, but it is actually quite desolate and void of real meaning and substance.

May your earthly reward be the «peace of mind» to end each day with.