Sentences with phrase «fleeting god of»
People put their faith in money, the most fleeting god of all.
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By deconstructing the mounds of Jesus junk, we can catch fleeting glimpses of God.»
What God is a a perfect being (hard for us to completely comprehend as we only have a fleeting idea of what perfect is).
The king himself had reached nearer perhaps to a monotheistic conception of God than any of his people, but he was oppressed by the fleeting character of life, and uncertain of what lay beyond this life.
The pessimistic attitude of the Semitic mind toward the world as a fleeting shadow, the notion that it has value only as a place in which man prepares himself for a more permanent life, led to the conception that God is the absolute sovereign power which rules all things, including man and his actions.
So he has prepared us to see success for what it is — sometimes the result of faithfulness and hard work, sometimes not, sometimes used rightly to glorify God and care for his creation, sometimes used wrongly to glorify ourselves, never an entitlement, often a stumbling block, and always fleeting.
Then, in the fleeting swiftness of a second, I became aware of all the musicians, and of their conductor, whose various God - given talents had been compounded together into a melodious whole; and all for me to share in.
We have our images of this age and they are all virtual fleeting moments of a disconnected society as we drift without purpose and without God.
Barth's testimony to the reality and sovereignty of God is a vital foundation if we are to hold out for anything more than the fleeting, tragic significance of human liberation.
Scores so far include 8 / 10s from both The Metro and GameInformer, 8.5 from God is a Geek and a 7/10 from VideoGamer, who warned of the fleeting 4 hour runtime.
The human body reflects the divine model... when, for an instant, the brilliance of divinity hap - pens to fall upon a mortal creature, illuminating him, as in a fleeting reflection, with a little of that splendor that always clothes the body of a god.