Sentences with phrase «hide the mystery of»

«Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God's humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity,» the pope said after recalling the story of Christmas.

Gregory's analysis is largely consistent with modern behavior modification theory and behavior therapy that focuses on actual, regularized, visible, even measurable, behavior change more than the hidden mysteries of supposed intentionality.35

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

The serenity and security passed by Jesus to his followers derives not from knowing hidden mysteries of past or present but from watching nature's rhythms of here and now.55

All of the other pages and articles listed on our website explain the deep hidden mysteries of God and how and by whom this whole world has been deceived as confirmed in Revelation 12:9.

See for example: Goldsmith, Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture (Marina del Rey: DeVorss & Co., 1947); Addington, The Hidden Mystery of the Bible (Marina del Rey, CA: DeVorss Publications, 1969); Seale, Learn to Live the Meaning of the Parables (Marina del Rey, CA: DeVorss Publications, 1955).

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Dig Deeper: The Mystery - Shopper Questionnaire How to Set Up a Mystery Shopping Program: Launching the Program The first step is to determine what is to be measured and the second step is to determine what type of evaluation method is to be used, such as onsite visits, hidden video, audio recording, and online interactions.

Also, gnosticism is not unique to Christianity - the idea of «hidden knowledge», founded in Greek mystery - cult, attached itself to many religious communities of the time.

God's freedom is part of the hidden nature, or mystery, of God — something that we don't hear much about today.

For them, the Incarnation was not an afterthought but is The Mystery at the heart of God's creative purpose hidden in the Father's heart from all eternity and revealed in Christ in the fullness of time.

Show us, Lord, how to contemplate the Sphinx: without being beguiled into error; how to grasp the mystery hidden here on earth in the womb of death, not by refinements of human learning but in the simple concrete act of your redemptive immersion in matter.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

This means that the «revelation of the mystery hidden from endless ages» which had taken place in the Incarnation of Christ continues to occur through the «deeds and words» of the Church.

But then someone else ended up dead, and another story began to unfold — about a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure and the mysteries of one man's life.

Hopes, dreams, successes, loves, losses, unfinished business, hidden violence, secrets, mysteries, lies: all these and more filter down through the history of a family, playing themselves out in the present and beyond.

But the hidden connection of received forgiveness and physical cure can become visible in such a way that medical limits are bursted, and the physicians face a mystery.

But then someone else ends up dead, sparking a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man's life.

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ

Of course, the mystery is hidden underneath this tremendous rhetorical flourish.

Meanwhile Jesus has from the first been gathering disciples, to whom he imparts fuller instruction about the parabolic teaching which he gives to the multitudes; he tells them that the purpose of this method of teaching is to hide its real meaning from them that are without (4:11 - 12) but that to the disciples is given the mystery of the kingdom of God.

Paul expresses his wonder at the «mystery» kept hidden from previous generations, that «the gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel» (Eph.

To leave it forever shrouded in mystery, so that the odyssey of horror remains something forever hidden in the recesses of your darkest imaginings?

But this mystery is nothing but the hidden dawn of the kingdom of God itself amidst a world which to human eyes gives no sign of it.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

Only silence; agonizing silence, which would later turn to ceaseless prayer before altars, and usher forth the realization of a maternity that would be hidden from the world — a mystery of hidden love that would be lived as one Mother had shown before, pondered in the heart, and then held lifeless on the hill of Calvary.

What counts is not so much the name and the form as the response in the heart to the hidden mystery, which is present to each one of us in one way or another and awaits our response in faith and hope and love.»

- go to football games - attend an opera - play cards - watch any kind of movie at the theater or in your home - own a television - listen to rock, country western, or Mozart - invest in the stock market - observe Christmas with a decorated tree - decorate and hide Easter eggs - read mystery novels

Paul spends all of Ephesians 3 talking about one more rich gift of God — the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations, but has now been revealed.

However, in the depths of our knowing, born of the experience of faith, there is also the sense of an abysmal mystery, which Luther spoke of as the Deus Absconditus — the hidden God.

He was, in ways hidden in mystery, destroying the power and guilt of sin.

We must first determine whether and where a hidden mystery already impinges somehow upon our lives, apart from any explicit sense of a special historical revelation.

You do come across as if you have no questions concerning the mystery and hidden aspect of Jesus» teachings of the Kingdom of God.

[13] Or better, in the words of Maximus himself: «This [the Incarnation] is the great and hidden mystery.

It stresses that «all peoples comprise a single community» and that from ancient times «there has existed among diverse peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things».21 Reference is made to the contemplation of the divine mystery in Hinduism and to Buddhism's acknowledgment of the «radical insufficiency of this shifting world».

It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it» (TOB 19:4).

There is so much for all of us that hides Jesus from us — the church itself hides him, all the hoopla of church with ministers as lost in the thick of it as everybody else so that the holiness of it somehow vanishes away to the point where services of worship run the risk of becoming only a kind of performance — on some Sundays better, on some Sundays worse — and only on the rarest occasions does anything strike to the quick the way that little girl's cry did with every last person who heard her realizing that Jesus didn't show for any of them — the mystery and miracle of Jesus with all his extraordinary demands upon us, all his extraordinary promises.

Instead the classic sources of theology have always maintained that the inexhaustible mystery of God remains hidden even while it is being revealed.

It was created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the mystery hidden since time immemorial in God, and thus to be a sign of it.»

Staff of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh have hidden 500 «Mystery Boxes» across the Triangle to promote the opening of the museum's Nature Research Center on April 20.

If you're looking for more of a traditional fashion solution, a cute jacket is always a good option to keep you warm on those early morning walks and easily hides those mystery stains plaguing all of your shirts (OxiClean hasn't met your kid).

Brian Balogh's A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth - Century America (2009) argued that progressives should embrace the hidden state because Americans demand it.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia and the Nigerian National Hajj Commission are up against explaining the mystery surrounding the death of a Nigerian who hid himself in an aircraft from Nigeria and landed in Jeddah.

In «Mystery of the Hidden Cosmos,» Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Don Lincoln delve into the complexity of this unseen universe.

Some of the great mysteries of science hide in plain sight — and, in this case, roll on two wheels.

A hidden population of black holes born less than one second after the big bang could solve the mystery of dark matter

The ruddy font of photons gilds the marble floor, streaming past the juggler balancing a club on his forehead, the volunteer collecting for tsunami relief, the girl learning to ride a unicycle, the doorway to a nanotechnology lab, the hiding place where Mystery Hunt's coin was found behind a fire hose, as hundreds of students, heading both east and west, follow the path of light.

If so, they would give us a valuable new window on the exotic physics that went on in our universe's obscure first moments, and perhaps also help to explain one of its biggest contemporary mysteries — where most of its mass is hiding.

Radio telescopes can see the invisible and hidden activities across the Universe and are the tools for solving some of the greatest mysteries of our Cosmos.

Is the mystery of human speech hidden in the song of a finch?