The far more pressing challenge, and the one that will not soon go away, is how the church can faithfully serve its mission of witnessing to
enduring truth in a world more and more susceptible to truthiness.
Not exact matches
Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith
in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the
truth of God, trusting fully
in Him, and acting responsively to His love which
endures for us despite our undeserving nature.
The economic crisis presently being
endured in much of the West and beyond also reflects this
truth: the whole meltdown
in many ways had its source
in that unbridled capitalism that decreed the autonomy of the individual and the moral good of each person being allowed to pursue wealth without any relationship to the rest of human society.
In this fearless, funny, and refreshingly relatable chronicle of her own metamorphosis from the insecurity that once held her captive, author Kayla Aimee unfolds the blueprint for women to identify the deep - seated sources of our assumed inadequacy and replace them with steadfast
truths of affirmation and replace our need for approval with the promise of an
enduring acceptance.
But we do know that the spirit of loyalty to other persons, of openness to being transformed ourselves, and a willingness to
endure the pain of risking ourselves
in the search for the
truth, are among those conditions.
’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate,
enduring insight of Marx is that
truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key
in theory and leverage
in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless
truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.
4 dLove suffers long and is ekind; love fdoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not 2puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, gdoes not seek its own, is not provoked, 3thinks no evil; 6 hdoes not rejoice
in iniquity, but irejoices
in the
truth; 7 jbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
But an unbiased observer might attribute
enduring elements of
truth in Hinduism and Buddhism to explain their history.
Until then even the
enduring, permanently valid
truth is only partial, spoken
in images and parables, wandering and therefore changing on the pilgrim road of unpredictable history.
For weary generations the Jews have not ceased to toil, sweat, groan, travail, and
endure the sufferings and experience the sorrows of a misunderstood and despised people, all
in order that they might come a little nearer the discovery of the
truth about God.
Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially
in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «
enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this
truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of
truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront
in our everyday life.
Dropping out without
enduring to the end, was written
in His
truth.
The creative movement
in the world,
in its every detail and its varying degrees of importance, with whatever it has contributed to furthering God's love and his activity
in love, is continuously experienced by God, known to him, cherished by him, and used
in the furthering of his objective — which is the wider and wider sharing of love, with its related righteousness and
truth and
in its
enduring beauty,
in the ongoing of the creative process.
To summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the
truth of God,
enduring many sufferings, and
in the end laying down his life for the sake of others.
The reason is that the sensuous nature and the psycho - sensuous completely dominate him; the reason is that he lives
in the sensuous categories agreeable / disagreeable, and says goodbye to
truth etc.; the reason is that he is too sensuous to have the courage to venture to be spirit or to
endure it.
This feeling must be conquered through patience, which consists both of steadfastness
in enduring sorrow and injustice and of knowledge of the
Truth.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice
in iniquity, but rejoices
in the
truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
Because images,
in a book or
in a sermon, are generally regarded as decorative and hence optional
in their bearing upon the principal form and content of the communication, the imaginative preacher may have to
endure such comments as «His sermons don't seem theologically weighty» or «It was too interesting to have contained much
truth», or perhaps such inverted compliments as «I was much involved
in your talk, or whatever it was.
But on the side of the goal of «every unborn child protected
in law and welcomed
in life» is moral
truth, and what we must hope is the
enduring, if sometimes inarticulate, decency of most Americans.
1 Cor 13:4 - 7 Love is long - suffering, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not puffed up, does not act improperly, is not self - seeking, is not provoked, does not keep a record of wrongs, does not rejoice
in unrighteousness, but rejoices
in the
truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
3For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers
in accordance to their own desires, 4and will turn away their ears from the
truth and will turn aside to myths.
The Bible also mentions a falling away from the
truth in the last days and
in 2 Timothy 4:3 it says, «For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having ITCHING ears».
And when you have played its destructive force to the hilt, then suffer its awful consequences coming back at you, the desperate holding on at any cost to what you thought you had secured but which has turned to ashes, leaving
in its wake not joy and freedom but the burden of guilt over those you hurt and ruined... But why not
truth at the outset, and the love which hears, believes, hopes and
endures all things?
Only to the extent that love is grounded
in truth can it
endure over time... [And if] love needs
truth,
truth also needs love.
Surely the
truth, for those of us who seek to understand the portents we see multiplying around us, is that we must face the fact that
in no sphere, whether economic — political or social, artistic or mystical, can anything stable or
enduring be built on Earth until we have found a positive answer to the following question:
1Co 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 1Co 13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 1Co 13:6 does not rejoice
in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the
truth; 1Co 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
I wanted to affirm the eternal
truth that lies underneath this ancient code — a
truth that has
endured the test of time, but I also wanted to free that eternal
truth from its rigid, ancient context so that it might be heard anew
in the context of my world and my century.
Their deliberations showed the work of reason
in a great repertoire of movements and a great range of mood and observations; and their decisions hewed closely to
enduring truths about the human person.
34:6) can not contain, nor indeed adequately represent, the «
truth» of the man and his
enduring meaning to those whose existence he shaped and to whom,
in a sense, he gave life.3
God is love: 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice
in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the
truth; 7 [b] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
The «mad
truths» recorded above are older than Marxism; towards the second half of the last century they took refuge
in the workers» movement born of industrial capitalism, and continue to remain one of its most
enduring founts of inspiration.
Al - Ghazali, the great mystical philosopher,
in his book The Rescuer from Error gives a vivid account of the spiritual crisis he
endured until, by the mercy of God, his way was enlightened and he regained the power to guide himself to the
truth.
You'll be attacked
in the most viscous ways, of course, but the
truth is all we have and it must
endure.
It is an inner struggle for me to keep my mouth shut, and yet I
endure and continue to pray and implore God to open their eyes to the
truth, But the problem is that I an fighting generations of the traditions of men, and short of the Lord appearing to them personally
in a vision saying
in a booming voice «I am the Lord God!
If doctrine and theology result
in division for the sake of
truth than that is right «For the time is coming when people will not
endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the
truth and wander off into myths» (2 Timothy 4:3 - 4).
If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed (for no man can control the profession of another further than this; even if the other has
endured, borne, suffered all for the Faith, an outsider can not get beyond what he says about himself, for a lie can be stretched precisely as far as the
truth —
in the eyes of men, but not
in the sight of God), then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchausen.
That's the sad and
enduring truth at work
in all of these cases.
«I am not asking for vengeance; only that the
truth should be made known so that nobody
in the future should have to
endure what I have
endured.»
Imagine the names they were called and slander they
endured,
in return for acknowledging «these
truths to be self - evident, that all men are equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...» They fought for an idea and forfeited all comfort to realize it.
«The
truth of the matter is that I can no longer
endure these blackmails from my traducers, as I have seen that they are not resting
in their oars, as they have vowed to implicate me by all means necessary.
The
truth is that having to
endure and live through the loss of a loved one is one of the toughest challenges that life is going to bring you
in front.
The
truth is that having to
endure and live through the loss of a loved one is one of the toughest challenges that life is going to bring you
in fr...
The third — and hopefully not final — installment
in Richard Linklater's beloved verbose romantic series, following Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), exceeds near - impossible expectations by maintaining the incisive
truth and microscopic clarity and wit of its predecessors, while introducing a jagged new edge to the
enduring romance between Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke): reality.
Absent an ember, there can be no smoke; there is a kernel of
truth in all such
enduring creation stories and they can not be easily, or wisely, dismissed.
In lush and elegant prose, Divakaruni has crafted a vivid and enduring dream, one that reveals hidden truths about the world we live in, and from which readers will be reluctant to wak
In lush and elegant prose, Divakaruni has crafted a vivid and
enduring dream, one that reveals hidden
truths about the world we live
in, and from which readers will be reluctant to wak
in, and from which readers will be reluctant to wake.
Shors recreates an historical Hindustan brimming with breathtaking intrigue and containing the secret
truth of the Taj Mahal for a world still
in awe of its
enduring majesty.
Holt's debut collection of short stories,
In the Valley of the Kings, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as one of «those works of genius» that «will
endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their
truth.»
She writes books about the world's religions, trying to explain that their strength lies not
in dogma but profound and
enduring truths.
In this unforgettable story of love and loss, Ben learns the
enduring truth that some violent crimes renew themselves across generations.
Absent an ember, there can be no smoke; there is a kernel of
truth in all such ancient and
enduring legends, and they can not be easily, or wisely, dismissed.