Sentences with phrase «good ruler»

«Is Peach really a good ruler?»

And once he meets Evan and couple things transpire, he decides he's going to help mentor him on how to be a good ruler.

Foster, Their Solitary Way, pp. 67 - 98, See also Samuel Willard, The Character of a Good Ruler... (Boston, 1694); Benjamin Wadsworth, Rulers Feeding and Guiding This People... (Boston, 1716).

Puritan sermons and tracts abound with references to the good ruler.15 In fact, Winthrop was typical of a ruler who reminded both himself and his fellow magistrates of the nature and extent of their responsibilities.

23:1 - 39) Jesus realized that a good ruler gives good advice to his subjects.

But a good ruler must have the courage to change things.

The good rulers get it and the bad rulers forfeit it.

If you get a better ruler and it shows your old measurements are a load of dingo's kidneys then surely you have to at least expand the error bands on the history or discard it all together...

Not exact matches

Good news is on the way because I am a lawyer representing a deposed overseas ruler and I need help transferring his hundreds of millions of dollars to a secure bank account.

As Uranus, your ruler, makes a move to the next sign, a new development at home or with family can be unsettling, but will work out better than you think.

Furthermore, since, as is self - evidently apparent, the classes of beings are, at a command, in motion in a fashion a thousand times more well - ordered than that of an army, each group, from the stars, sun and moon and their motions to the flowers of the almond, displaying the decorations and uniforms the Pre-Eternal All - Powerful One has conferred on it, and the motion He has determined, in a way a thousand times more regular and perfect than that of an army — since this is so, the universe has an Absolute Ruler behind the veil of the Unseen, and its beings look to and conform to His command.

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

«They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow.

At best, he could be considered neutral, but rulers who choose to keep their enemies around to cause their subjects to cling to them out of fear are not «good» rulers.

The shah was a progressive ruler who wanted the best for his country.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&raWell aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.&rawell as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

The consequences of rebellion against God The Good will cause the onslaught of powers, principalities and rulers against us, why because we choose to remove ourselves from the protection of God who is our shield.

Under great Tiberius's judgment seat sat the lesser rulers: Pilate up in Jerusalem; the Herod boys down in Galilee and beyond, running things with their usual unbrotherly squabbling; and Lysanias stuck in Abilene, better known to us as the Bekka Valley, scene of Mideast terror.

Is it better to accept an imaginative picture of God as the distant ruler controlling his realm through external and benevolent power or one of God so intimately related to the world that the world can be imagined as God's body?

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

A good friend of mine says we all have a ruler, and it always starts somewhere below us.

A ruler has to save face and show that he is a well - disposed man; he has to justify himself!

As for your «righteous» ruler... well, if you think the function of the President is to «rule», you're even more of a lost cause than anyone had imagined.

Titus 3:1 - 2 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men.

Well, you motivated me to go to the thesaurus and look up «leader»... how about baton, bellwether, big wheel, bigwig, boss, captain, chief, chieftain, commander, conductor, controller, counsellor, dean, dignitary, director, doyen, eminence, exec, foreman, forerunner, general, governor, guide, harbinger, head, head man, herald, honcho, kingpin, lead, lion *, luminary, maestro, manager, master, notability, notable, number one, officer, pacesetter, pilot, pioneer, precursor, president, principal, rector, ringleader, ruler, shepherd, skipper, superintendent, superior.

V. 3 «For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil.

Changes of clocks and rulers were already well known in physics due to temperature and pressure and so on.

By calling God a liar who withholds good from his subjects, Satan charged that Jehovah is a bad ruler.

You crave punishment because it makes you feel somehow superior, or correct in your discovery of «God's Word» in a book which was written and edited and re-edited (as well as redacted) by countless rulers and scholars along the way, each wishing to have some stake in the claim of the Eternal.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

This is our Father's world; he is not only «Maker of heaven and earth» but Ruler as well.

Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.

The place of the justified resort to force within this overall conception was, for medieval and early modern thinkers alike, encapsulated in a verse from the Apostle Paul, Romans 13:4: «For [the ruler] is God's minister to you for good.

Think of the rich young ruler, who was just plain too well off, too much like us, to be a disciple of Jesus.

When Adam and Eve chose to listen to Satan over God, they chose Satan as their ruler, saying he knew better than God.

The Son of man will judge the judges of this world and overrule the rulers; he is clearly a political as well as a religious figure.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

«Jesus came to establish on earth a spiritual kingdom, which, separating the religious from the political system, destroyed the unity of the State... [A] perpetual conflict of jurisdiction has resulted from this double power, which has rendered any good polity impossible in Christian States; and no one has ever succeeded in understanding whether he was bound to obey the ruler or the priest.

So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying, 2 «Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons, 3 select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.»

or «the Year of Our Lord,» turns up six times, and there is a Sovereign Ruler of Events, one Grace, two Governors (of the World and the Universe), two Nature's Gods, and, for good measure, one Goddess of Liberty.

He references Jesus» command to the rich young ruler in Matthew 19 who asks, «What good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?»

Of course, it is good when a ruler promotes the economy, but that should not be his only concern.

The political constitution, according to Madison, would aim at obtaining for rulers «men who possess most wisdom to discern and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.»

There is still goodness there, because there are still good people there, being exploited by the rulers of that darkness.

Whitehead's refusal to accept imperial ruler as a metaphor for God found expression in Modes of Thought as well.

So the wise philosopher - king is perfectly free — as reluctant ruler — to mould the cave dwellers any way he thinks best.

May this my praise - song, Varuna, sovereign ruler, Reach unto thee and make thy heart complaisant; May it be well with us in rest and labour, Do yet protect us evermore with blessings.11

Muslims did not have to wait three hundred years for a Constantine; Muhammad was their Constantine, a ruler as well as religious founder.

The best they could hope for would be to live in a society governed by a just ruler.

But a politician well - intended will always be influenced by the power of the one whom Christ called «the ruler of this world» (John 12:31: 14:30).