Sentences with phrase «glimpse of all»

A sight of the awesome greatness of God may overpower our strength and be more than we can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength, no love can be enkindled, [our will] will not be effectual... but will remain inflexible; whereas the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these affects, as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.

Anyway, the book has finally been released and Aric has given us a little glimpse of its content with a guest post today.

I look back on that moment with my dog as a small glimpse of Paul's notion of boasting.

Meet the Rio Olympians Who Put God Before Gold A glimpse of inspiration and testimony from some of Team USA's Christian athletes.

The best way to «sell» one's teenager on being a hospital volunteer or helping in a summer camp for the retarded is self - interest: «It will look good on your college application; it will teach you something you can use later on» If the young manage to catch a glimpse of selflessness in the process, fine; but we didn't direct them to value that part of the experience, nor did we expect that they would think of it in terms of «service» to others.

In verse 24 we pass from present to future, and we catch a glimpse of the eschatological hope of the church.

When the father, who has been waiting and watching, catches that first distant glimpse of the returning son; the father rushes out to retrieve the lost son, to embrace the found son, to shower the returning son with generous hospitality, and to begin the celebration.

Curious men and women crowded around to catch a glimpse of her.

Here I need only add that in the act of worship there is granted a glimpse of heaven itself.

The reader does not expect to discover, in the midst of this paean to friendship and domesticity, a glimpse of something far greater than friendship or domesticity» something good beyond Badger's goodness and yet infinitely more frightening» something numinous.

Philip Jenkins» The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity is a useful account of the expansion and establishment of Christianity around the globe and a glimpse of what Christianity might look like in the decades to come.

Each year a fresh wave of curates is released into ministry within the Church of England, and this book offers a glimpse of what awaits them.

The Puritan case, in this sense, provided Weber with a rather unusual glimpse of the subjective.

he gives you a glimpse of his strength.

We see another glimpse of this in various places in Scripture.

This protection no longer exists now that «God is dead,» now that the «spiritual pupil» can not catch a glimpse of the appearance of the Absolute.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

There were men and women who saw in their humble little parish a glimpse of heaven.

A mystery novel offers us a glimpse of the fulfillment of that hope: in the context of a story we observe the convergence of human and divine justice.

Through the Christ, humanity catches a glimpse of the compassion and love of God for the world.

Edmund Wilson, McCarthy's second husband, had urged her to write fiction, and the resulting work (which won praise from Vladimir Nabokov) offers a glimpse of bohemian life in 1930s New York.

Elim was the first oasis Israel reached after they left Egypt, where twelve springs fed seventy palm trees, a beautiful glimpse of the mission of the twelve tribes among the seventy nations.

When a supernova of revelation and imagination overcomes you, and everything you've ever witnessed before and everything you will ever know simply becomes a glimpse of something greater.

It gives us a glimpse of how God operates.

You have looked over the seemingly bottomless canyon and have caught a glimpse of a distant meadow.

it's kindof scary to think once bagdad was known as the city of light during it's glory days, but that whole region is now known for religious intolerance and war, perhaps a glimpse of future america if we don't stop indoctrinating our children.

Sitting in a steepled building with stained glass remembrances of Jesus» life while munching a bit of bread and sipping a bit of juice somehow does not help us catch a glimpse of Jesus nearly so easily as munching some potato chips and sipping from a bottle of water alongside a group of people who live in the streets, as the coastal breezes waft the ever - present stench of urine from the nearby walls and bushes over our little group.

This first glimpse of him announced that he would go to jail, which hushed the room.

Our mysteries DWARF your so called satelites in space, but then It was prophesized that you could only get a glimpse of The Heavens.

Yet, one can catch a glimpse of theological reasoning underpinning his writings.

In Scripture, when mortals catch a premature glimpse of God's glory, they react in remarkably similar ways.

One can only pity a believer in that they waste their only glimpse of this planet, of this universe, worrying about what is going to happen after they close their eyes for good.

The problem is, that while you might get a glimpse of what perhaps motivates them, it is a highly subjective interpretation.

These relationships that God has given us are so meaningful, because through them, we are offered the opportunity to get a better glimpse of Him.

The interweaving of the scientific quest with the search for moral resources that will help us confront threats to human survival makes this four - hour series more than just a glimpse of cuffing - edge research.

To risk a generalization even more reckless than those I have already made: from the time of the pre-Socratics, all the great speculative and moral systems of the pagan world were, in varying degrees, confined to this totality, to either its innermost mechanisms or outermost boundaries; rarely did any of them catch even a glimpse of what might lie beyond such a world; and none could conceive of reality except as a kind of strife between order and disorder, within which a sacrificial economy held all forces in tension.

Our city is hungry for a glimpse of Jesus.

Don't do it as a would be spiritual «whim» based on the ramblings of a few bored and famished believers desperate for a glimpse of the one and only true God.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with a devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»

With a glimpse of purity, his devoted keeper was peaking at me.

The glimpse of God's activity in these past events is just that, a glimpse.

Perhaps only a mother can appreciate even a glimpse of those burdens.

The Olympics reminded me that smetimes we just got ta step back for a minute, catch a glimpse of the big picture, and celebrate one another's somersaults.

In the end, the questions proved to be what allowed all of them to get a bigger glimpse of the mystery called God.

Sin triggers in god a sudden outburst, a violent temper tantrum, and humanity is exposed to a brief glimpse of what this god really thinks of us, what we all really «deserve.»

To say that the Bible was written by «men caught a glimpse of mystery, the Unknowable, and did their best, inspired by such a vision,...» to me comes across as either:

Instead, it is a momentary glimpse of the sheer givenness of the world and the subsequent intuition that the world can not account for itself.

They knew what they were doing, for they weren't «men caught a glimpse of mystery, the Unknowable, and did their best, inspired by such a vision,...»

It offers us a brief glimpse of a style of life that supports life.

(For a glimpse of one Jewish Renewal teaching about the Third Temple, try my post, «Reb Zalman on Chanukah, the Third Temple, and God's Broadcast.»