Sentences with phrase «giving divine persons»

Not exact matches

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Creative beings that we are, people can scripture - mine for just about anything that gives them the willies to demonstrate it's against God's will or law or the divine or natural order.

Although I've read about how God has given people divine revelations through their dreams, I honestly didn't believe...

It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental life - giving empowerment.

The Caliphate or Imamate in Islam is not based on a heavenly sanction which gives the Caliph power from God to rule the nation; he has no divine authority which makes it the duty of the people to obey him at any cost.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

Given this interest in spiritual practices and things monastic, it is not surprising that more and more people are practicing the daily office (also called «divine office,» «office,» «liturgy of the hours» or «common prayer»).

(c) 5:82 [and] thou wilt surely find that, of all people, they who say, «Behold, we are Christians,» come closest to feeling affection for those who believe [in this divine writ]: this is so because there are priests and monks among them, and because these are not given to arrogance.

The funny part is that the leash is all the divine attributes people give Jesus.

Three separate persons are needed to constitute the divine nature, i.e., the process of self - giving love; but it is the nature, not one of the persons, that binds them together as a unique interpersonal process, hence as one God.

If to Peter was given in the power of the keys, a humble and utterly steadfast courage in keeping and expressing the doctrine of Christ, and to Paul was given the understanding to a supreme degree of the philosophical and theological evolution through time of the Mystery of the divine Economy in Christ, to John was given in an especial degree the intuition in recognition and love of the Divine Person in Himself.

St. Paul's Letter to the Romans gives it classical articulation in the Christian Bible: «For all alike have sinned, and are deprived of the divine glory, and all are justified by God's free grace alone, through God's act of liberation in the person of Christ Jesus» (Rom.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

Not given to rancor, she implored divine mercy for both friend and foe, praying (in The Fruits of the Spirit [Lougmans, 1956]-RRB- «not only for the innocent people of Germany, but also for those who have brought this evil and misery on the world.»

Most Spot - On: Jamie, the Very Worst Missionary with «Human, Like Jesus» «Maybe we need to be praying less for some kind of divine intervention and more for the simple compassion to stop injuring, using, abusing, or neglecting the people that cross our paths in a given day.»

But although the God of Israel was identified with the one God of all monotheistic religions, divine self - revelation through the history and experience of the Jewish people had given this God, as we have just noted, a special quality.

People writing historical accounts tend not to give credit of events to the divine, as such things are unprovable.

Questioning the logic of the substitution theory of atonement, Williams asked, «In his life, then, was [Jesus] a divine mammy, nurturing other people's children, giving them the sustenance they needed to stand between themselves and the cold, cold world?»

Since nobody has a device capable of intercepting and decoding divine, psychic messages, these people's experiences are no more or less credible than the «divine revelations» given to Abraham, Moses, John who wrote Revelation, Mary Baker Eddy or Joseph Smith.

The insight which has been given has languished; may this book make people look again and consider the possibility that it offers a new hope and a new synthesis both human and divine in our modern conflicted and confused world.

The setting itself gives the tone for this authoritative teaching: while Luke's account of the sermon takes place on the plain, Matthew has Jesus up a mountain, thus evoking the biblical notion of mountain as a place of divine revelation, and Mount Sinai in particular as the place where God's will for his people Israel was revealed.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

But here is the plot of the enemy of human souls, the Deceiver of this age: he has numbed the hearts and consciences of so many people of this generation, so that they have lost their abilities to experience this divine love and longing... And so, because they have lost this divine ability given to them by God, they scorn and ridicule those who have it, making themselves into to blind beggarly fools......

Far from identifying God, therefore, with the dominant customs of contemporary Israel or stopping with the divine condemnation of them, Hosea saw God with passionate earnestness refusing to give up his people and determined to save them from their evil:

She just says that preparation for worship should give less thought to people and more thought to the divine.

Now, with this convergence of divine and human meanings, the time was ripe for a philosophically full and rigorous definition to be given to the person — one that corresponded to its divine, angelic and human signification — and thereby to achieve a full and mature understanding of the human individual as personal.

At the same time it gave religious sanction to the notion, already latent, that each people, and each alone, possessed a pure faith and a divine mission.

They are to be honored in acknowledgment of God's claim upon every individual life, in acknowledgment that all life is his and therefore sacred; and that the holiness of life can best be affirmed by honoring and respecting those two persons through whose combined life the divine image and animating breath are given.

Third, the early church's ecumenical creeds have given definition to a trinitarian concept of God (Nicene Creed) and to an affirmation of the human and divine natures in the person of Christ (Chalcedon Creed).

I honestly think that she chose to use the voice of God to give her the feeling that she had divine power as to what was created in her person.

He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, «This man is the divine power known as the Great Power.»

Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»

And finally - I hear (to my horror) that hot cross buns aren't a world - wide phenomenon: appalling, they are divine, proper little yeasty slightly sweet buns, studded with delicious sultanas, an absolute treat on a chilly autumn (southern hemisphere) Easter weekend... give them a whirl, they are SO satisfying and surprisingly easy, a good first recipe for people afraid of using yeast.

I've never read anyone claim we have a divine right to titles, but I have seen people say we should be competing given the resources we have.

«Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.»