Sentences with phrase «great act which»

Newman's sermon to the assembled prelates in the hot summer of 1852 was certainly complimentary: «And so that high company moves on into the holy place [Newman was picturing the procession of dignitaries with Cardinal Wiseman the last to enter the chapel of St Mary's Oscott]; and there, with august rite and awful sacrifice, inaugurates the great act which brings it hither.»

In this wonderful exchange in preparation for the Preface and Eucharistic prayer, we are reminded at every Mass about the great act which will take place in our midst.

When he arrives there he himself performs the one great act which he can perform, the act which calls forth God's grace and establishes new relation.

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Jobs, dividends, and economic activity that would have gone to Americans would instead go to Chinese and Russian firms, which will find themselves operating in a market suddenly devoid of their greatest competition — all thanks to an act of our own Congress.

One bill which attracted a great deal of resistance was Bill C - 10 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in contraband tobacco).

So, it's really great to use the scalable techniques of Indiegogo, as well as the curation capabilities of MicroVentures to bring this all to bear and to First Democracy VC, which is a constant balancing act because we only want to present the deals that we think have been filtered well to be presented, but we also want it to be as scalable as possible, and to have as many deals as possible, because the goal is to democratize the opportunities.

God would not act contrary to his own will = > Chosen is a state of being that increases blessing and responsibility which typically includes greater persecution.

As the great English legal historian, F W Maitland put it, «We must distinguish between the perfection of a legal act and the fulfillment of obligations which that act creates.»

The problem for them is how to act responsibly so as to begin a process of change which will lead to sustainable consumption and greater justice.

He lays great emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of both, as divine acts which are Creative in themselves.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

One guide to right conduct which has been of great help to me is the old maxim, «So act that you can will the principle of your act to be law universal.»

In the new humanity which is begotten today the Word prolongs the unending act of his own birth; and by virtue of his immersion in the world's womb the great waters of the kingdom of matter have, without even a ripple, been endued with life.

In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.

Its reality can be denied only by obscuring the fact that ideas and attitudes determine the decisions by which the greater part of life is regulated, and exercise much control over bodily acts.

We have already seen that while God is the greatest power, «that which none greater can be conceived,» God is not the only power, and that divine power always acts persuasively.

He discounts the greatest act of love which truly makes him God's enemy according to the most accepted interpretation of Christianity.

The cosmic enterprise is like a great adventure, in which deity moves out towards the creatures — not as if it were only an incidental or accidental act of God, but because God by very necessity of the divine nature itself is constantly outgoing, self - identifying, receptive, and responsive.

In all forms of faith there must be some acts of trust, great or small, but in the Christian faith it is an act of commitment followed by a continuing sense of commitment, which makes the difference between faith and unbelief.

no no no, i first engage them in a conversation... normally ending badly due to them not liking my choice of argument or tools i use in a conversation over belief... so in short i am norally the one insulted and left to think... which i believe is the same way children act when they hear the word «NO»... but i have had some great conversations with people over religion, its just a rare thing.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

Speaking of Jesus in this way may seem to make him merely one of many great men, exceptional but not superhuman, not the divine being he is believed by Christians to be; but however his person and nature are understood, I for one can not believe that even in him God acted in any way inconsistent with the same natural laws and operations by which he works today.

For instead of learning from this terror that he is not capable of performing the great deed and then plainly admitting it (an act which I can not but approve, because it is what I do) the manikin thinks that by uniting with several other manikins he will be able to do it.

Not only that, the main handicap (lack of self - control) which those who chose to marry apparently suffered from was considered, if not automatically remedied by the act of marrying, to be in any case no longer of great account.

So when I saw the faces once again of so many with whom thirty years before and in the decades that followed I had - so often bitterly embattled against the Establishment - faced that challenge, men from whom inevitably I had become separated on my own conversion to Rome; and when I saw their profound happiness at the Pope's great and apostolic act, and their excitement at the prospect before them, I could not fail to remember once more a famous passage from the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which the agnostic George Eliot said she could not read without tears; and certainly, I can not:

Meanwhile, Jack Anderson maintained that these same companies were being allowed to tone down, before its release, a government study which shows that oil spills have done great damage to the ocean.7 How can we act responsibly if we can't even find out what the facts are?

But it must be understood that by this insistence on a direct return to the great Act of God on which Christianity is founded, I am by no means implying that all modern churches have lost their vision or reduced the revolutionary Good News to dull orthodoxy.

Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in fear or in anger or in greed, the great and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

It is the conceiving of alternatives different from the past which enables physical acting to actualize changes in structural interrelationship and achieve greater complexity of structure.

In declaring the Gospel, the Church recalls the great Event from which its own life began, and in doing so testifies out of a lengthening experience that this event really was a «mighty act» of the living God, persisting in its consequences to this day.

There are elements of very great importance, not only as to the theology of war and peace but as to analysis of the existing situation and procedures for acting within it, on which Christians can agree.

An intellect which at a given instant knew all the forces acting in nature and the positions of all things of which this world consists — supposing the said intellect were vast enough to subject these data to analysis — would embrace in the same formula the motions of the greatest bodies in the universe and those of the slightest atoms; nothing would be uncertain for it, and the future, like the past, would be present to its eyes.

The greatest obstacle to maturing in the American churches in our time comes from our division into parties, one of which practices witness and charity to the exclusion of acts of justice, while the other practices justice and charity to the exclusion of witness.

This highly ambiguous notion has done a great deal of harm, and has all too often been used to pour scorn on anything that can be labelled simplistic, overly dependent on authority, or — that other great bogey of today's Church — «fundamentalist,» which is usually a code word for anyone who believes the Gospel might actually be worth believing and acting on, especially if they belong to one of the new ecclesial movements.

Thus says Yahweh God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act [in redemption], but for the sake of my holy name... I will vindicate the holiness of my great name... which you have profaned....

«By his love (for this is it which leads us to God through the agency of his Word) we ever learn, in obeying him, that this great God exists, and that he himself by his own will and act disposed, ordained, and governs all things» (Irenaeus: Adversus Haereses, I V, xx, I).

has aroused quite the greatest commotion in the reception of his work, we can also concentrate on the determination which sustains itself in the feelings of diverse objectified occasions or on the common element which sustains itself in these objectified occasions, and we speak about the act of feeling a more or less complex «eternal object» (cf. PR 233/356 with regard to the shift of perspectives presented here).

The resurrection of Jesus was the great act of God which had closed the old era and inaugurated the new.

He was acting scrupulously as the agent of his Superior, Fr Staupitz, and made no comment on the transaction, which was certainly a great bore, and distasteful to him.

Greater critical attention needs to be given to Turner's little - noted Thomist tendencies, apparent in passages where he posits, for example, a condition in which «the pure act - of - being is directly apprehended.»

In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»

He praised the Food Safety Modernization Act for pushing closer collaboration and greater accountability between suppliers and farmers, which translates into a stronger position when talking to vendors.

Brazil nuts, which are a great source of selenium and magnesium, act as the «flour» along with desiccated coconut.

«The proposition of law is one which, I think, has been accepted by the highest judicial authority, and acted upon for a great number of years.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

You had the culmination of the blood feud with a really hot crowd to the point that they were acting marky rather than smarky, a fantastic ladder spotfest, an amazing NXT title match which would be MOTN on any other PPV, a great tag match with a shocking swerve and a decent women's title match showing the improvement in Shayna Baszler.

The reason Man Utd had such a hard time after he left was (1) Ferguson is among, if not THE greatest club manager in football history, which is a tough act to follow for anybody, and (2) He chose David Moyes as his successor.

But, I know the club will act against him next month and then, FINALLY, we can begin the great catch up, which will however take two or three years to recover from the cancer WENGER HAS LEFT BEHIND.