Sentences with phrase «for majesty»

Whether for their majesty, wisdom, stealthy grace or any other number of attributes, people just love the owls.

Golub's first mature works — cobbled amalgamations of body parts — looked to antiquity and pre-Columbian art for impetus: the former for its majesty; the latter because of its abrupt distillations of form and unyielding frontality.

MARKETING INTEL CAREERS: At least one spy agency, Britain's GCHQ, purchased advertising in Microsoft's XBox Live system to recruit gamers for careers for her majesty's government.

It's a movie that takes big risks, presenting an art form known for its majesty and grace in a gritty and utterly horrific manner, never offering a clear distinction between fantasy and reality.

Malick presents the Native Americans with a deep feeling for their majesty as well as for their fearsome mystery in the eyes of the new visitors.

Whether it stems from the acceptance of another's kindness, appreciation for the majesty of nature, or a recognition of the gifts in one's own life, gratitude enhances nearly all spheres of human experience.

For her majesty's opposition, it was a bad 2011 and if ever a political party needed to see some light at the end of the tunnel, Labour does now.

I added to the former tribute, and laid upon him as their yearly payment, a tax in the form of gifts for my majesty.

Not exact matches

Presidents through the years often escaped the majesty and protocol of the White House by choosing less formal settings for bilateral talks.

O eternal and everlasting God, I presume to present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept of my humble and hearty thanks, that it hath pleased thy great goodness to keep and preserve me the night past from all the dangers poor mortals are subject to, and has given me sweet and pleasant sleep, whereby I find my body refreshed and comforted for performing the duties of this day, in which I beseech thee to defend me from all perils of body and soul...

Like Tocqueville, he was disturbed by Americans» racial attitudes, materialism, indifference to the majesty of nature, and disregard for the «sanctity of death.»

«For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were EYEWITNESSES of His majesty.»

God and Man at Georgetown Prep is warmly recommended for young people, their parents, and teachers who have tired of trivial alternatives to the majesty of the tradition they are called to transmit.

As though to say «stop looking for me in the heavens when you aren't even close to understanding the majesty of a loaf of bread,» or as Jesus puts it, if you can't understand earthly things you'll never understand heavenly things.»

For Holloway it is not a question of theoretical speculation, but of filling out our understanding of the majesty and meaning of our Lord Jesus Christ as the «Master Key» who unlocks the meaning of all orders of creation, material as well as spiritual.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

It may be objected that real possibility, insofar as it is objectified, is a slight and puny thing, hardly evidence for the power of majesty of God.

God can not appear in the present order in his total glory and majesty, for this would mean the total destruction of the present.

David, who was an adulterer and murderer, who ignored God's laws for years and chose His own way, saw at the end of his life the majesty and beauty of God's power and forgiveness.

Through our creativity and experimentation, we slowly uncover something of the majesty of God's plan for the creation.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same, Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help, and no help came; What their foes liked to do was done; their shame Was all the worst could wish: they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

Blander, more diffident, and less disturbing rituals, substituting syrupy banality for alarming majesty, have replaced them.

The problem with the dear Reformed brethren (and sisters) is that they can speak much and wax poetically about the majesty of God, the drepravity of man and the gospel, as a Topic (filling many libraries), but don't actually give you the good news: you, yes, you, my body and blood shed for You.

Prayer for First Sunday of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

There is no awe here before the dread majesty of God, and no respect for the Holy Table at which Christ is wrapped in linen and His most Precious Blood poured out, where heaven opens and angels throng about us, bringing earth and heaven together... the mere sound of singing is preferred to the meaning of the words that are sung».

Read and Judge; --[79:40] As for the one who reverenced the majesty of his Lord, and enjoined the self from sinful lusts.

A brilliant achievement of Sumer was the impulse given to the Stone - Age cultures of Egypt, which, soon after 3000 B.C., responded with the sudden upward surge of the first dynasties and then the majesty and enduring wonder of the Pyramid age, great in its architecture and engineering, notable for the realism and yet the impassive dignity of its art, and memorable for the brilliance and varied richness of its thronging life.

23 And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles.

There were real powers at work on men as they contemplated the majesty of nature or felt the impulse towards tribal unity or responded to the demand for moral improvement.

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

His proper abode was, for later thought at least, in the heavens, where he sat on a throne of majesty, surrounded by the host of his ministrants.

God is with us, not in awe and majesty, but in that most accessible of human forms, the baby who reaches out for our embrace.

The absolute monarch with his arbitrary control and transcendent majesty is overcome by this approach, for he has no place in a process metaphysics.

If this is true, instead of blaming eschatology for the» impracticableness» of Jesus» ethical teaching, we should thank eschatology for that teaching's majesty and permanent relevance.

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

The only way to catch the full majesty of such passages is to read some of them; as, for example, chapters 40, 42:1 - 9, 51, 55, 60, 61, 65:17 - 25.

In a similar way the first person plural is often used when Allah speaks about His power, majesty, glory, great deeds or when He speaks about His anger and wrath for the sinners and criminals.

Later on, Peter will rely on this encounter to help counter the «cleverly invented myths» (2 Pet 1, 16) of theGnostics, who denied the flesh in Christ: «we had seen his majesty for ourselves.

Moreover, every legitimate celebration of the Eucharist is regulated by the bishop, to whom is confided the duty of presenting to the divine majesty the cult of the Christian religion and of ordering it in accordance with the Lord's injunctions and the Church's regulations, as further defined for the diocese by his particular decision (48 - 49; 54 - 55).

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi and his mercenary troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, deserted him.

Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, we thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before thy divine majesty, with these thy holy gifts which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make, having in remembrance his blessed Passion and precious Death, his mighty Resurrection and glorious Ascension, rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.

Yours, O Lord, are the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.

Jesus laid down his majesty and in obedience and submission He paid the ultimate price for us.

When Christ would appear in his glory, it is in his meekness, not in his majesty, in mercy to work salvation The LORD says to my Lord: «Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.»

Isa 53:2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

«For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.»

Then I could have looked down on it and taken pleasure in watching it unfold in all the beauty and and majesty it has the potential for.

In this way, adoration and praise lead to, and are expressed in, our thanksgiving for the fact that God exists, that He exists in all His majesty yet in His mercy, that the Creator of the world is the God of love.

And we must always bear in mind that God is not indifferent to the victims, for ultimately all the victims are the Victim, God's own Son, and when God condemns by reason of the offense against his will and love and majesty, this is not an abstract, philosophical, or theoretical declaration.

He is «holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens... a Son Who has been made perfect for ever... one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of majesty.»