Sentences with word «exaltation»

It is at the basis of inspiration, which becomes, as one might say, a sort of exaltation of what has first been ordained and fixed by the intelligence.

And that meant exaltation as Messiah — not a mere reanimation of his body; not one more resuscitation of a dead person, doomed to die again, like Lazarus or the youth at Nain; not a ghostly apparition, as evidence, after a fashion (but evidence always to be doubted!)

Joseph Smith taught a plurality of gods, and that man by obeying the commandments of God and keeping the whole law will eventually reach the power and exaltation by which he also will become a god.

This recent body of work investigates flower and their specific capacity for exaltation or mourning.

But such «proofs,» such exaltations, came at the great expense of adopting, continuing, and extolling a view of nature we have come to realize as ultimately destructive.

The death and heavenly exaltation of Jesus as Lord has inaugurated this new age.

Kormákur makes you feel the existential wonder, relentless risk, and spiritual exaltation of the climb.

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

It is an invitation to «a human exaltation from which man participates excellently in the things that are God's,» as described by St. Bonaventure.

The name Serusier chose because exaltation was to be their constant state of mind.

Paul brings all three elements — pre-existent godhood, historical manhood, and final exaltation — into one great picture:

Perhaps also there are analogies between the experience of standing in a dazzling or blinding light and moments of religious exaltation, reflected in the Hebrew idea of God's «glory» or Paul's phrase, «light unapproachable».6

The essential belief among those who practice plural marriages is that they are necessary to achieve the greatest exaltation in what Mormons refer to as the celestial kingdom, the highest of heavenly kingdoms.

For the rest, all the points of the Pauline preaching reappear: the Davidic descent of Jesus, guaranteeing His qualification for Messiahship; His death according to the Scriptures; His resurrection according to the Scriptures; His consequent exaltation to the right hand of God as Lord and Christ; His deliverance of men from sin into new life; and His return to consummate the new Age.

Resurrection is primarily a collective event to which Jesus» personal exaltation provides access for all those devoted to the definitive coming of God's reign.

But in some environments, the excessive exaltation of scholarship can lead to a kind of intellectual snobbery.

Among the romantics, who frequently sought insight and inspiration in exotic places, terrifying emotional states, and the sublime exaltation of nature, Delacroix located this experiential narrative within the act of painting itself — specifically, within the optics of illuminations zone of greatest chromatic activity: half - light.

Isn't that hapless conclusion about good alternate fathering (nevermind what it follows), itself actually right in line with much that Wade Horn and the fatherhood - exaltation agenda is spouting now as their «step one programs» — unwed biological father «involvement» and rights, male parental responsibility, joint custody, and so forth?

St. John brings this out most clearly by describing the passion of Jesus as the «hour» in which he is glorified, and by the double meaning he gives to the phrase «lifted up», applying it both to the cross and to Christ's exaltation into glory.

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.

For Tinder, the Christian message is not one of human fulfillment, but of individual exaltation.

The same exaltation of false freedom used to justify abortion — the liberty to redefine the very nature of the human person — is now at work in the revolution of same - sex marriage.

The false exaltation of a closed and impervious independence is one of the main blocks today to human fulfilment.

You are correct that all will be resurrected (or saved from physical death) but you must be obedient to the commandments, including being baptized to gain exaltation (and no, you do not have to have multiple wives, one is enough).

These fanatics believe that if you are not one of them you are below them and they should pity you and convert you because they are the only ones to receive exaltation.

Far from being the authors and finishers of our own lives, we are the creatures of what Cheever calls «an indecipherable collision of contingencies that can produce exaltation or despair.»

It is not aesthetic exaltation or vigorous thinking or honest work; it is the turning of the soul toward God with the desire that these and all other experiences may be enjoyed or engaged in by us as God would have them.

The mystical exaltation of violence at the hands of Hitler and of all modern revolutionaries makes people forget that violence means bloodshed, means human beings screaming in pain and fear.

as Maritain called it, which alone can account for both the terrible perversion and the wondrous exaltation of human life as it exists before God.

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

By his death on the Cross and his glorious exaltation to the Father's right hand, Christ has been made Lord over the whole world, even though his dominion is not universally acknowledged (Philippians 2:9 - 11).

But with the cultural exaltation of the Victoria's Secret brand and fashion show, the execs behind the fabricated lifestyle are banking on the fact that millions who don't know better will believe she does and purchase the bra that promises to transform them into such.

But it is a fleeting exaltation!