Sentences with phrase «earthly way»

But God doesn't operate by earthly ways of doing things; in the Bible, He declares that «as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts» (Isaiah 55:9).

Without that orientation, we're too apt to love our neighbors (and ourselves) in a merely earthly way, mistaking material improvements for spiritual growth.

(No one running for office in the United States has the nerve to say it, but the only earthly way out for Middle East Christians is the reassertion of western political and military power in the Levant.)

Your second option is to throw out all that evidence, say it rained for a really long time to create the big flood and have no earthly way of explaining how it could happen and then your only real issue is the explanation of how noah was able to fit every piece of flora and fauna onto his ark, his family and enough food to survive for 40 days at sea.

This mixed reality of saints and sinners accounts for the sins which plague the pilgrim Church from within as she makes her earthly way through the ages towards her heavenly homeland where one day she will be for all eternity without stain or wrinkle.

You're right, there's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going, but there are 360 degrees of possibility from whatever angle I look at it.

Luck wasn't on our side that day, and there was no earthly way to do anything about it.»

(There is no earthly way a working mom can exclusively breast feed and not co sleep in some form.)

John Yau rather gingerly suggests, in an interview with her, that there is something spiritual about her work «in an earthly way.»