Sentences with phrase «human majesty»

Yet the enlargement of human majesty and dignity is insufficient: the heavens may tell the glory of God, but it is an impersonal glory.

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3000 years of religious psychosis and pandering falsehood is a mere syllable of a fart when compared to majesty of the Universe (which is not in any way the embodiment of some pathetic humans» imagined deity).

Unlike human beings who are creatures of a day, God is the one whose steadfast love endures forever, whose faithfulness is to all generations: «The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength.

Calvin, Institutes, I.vii.5: «Enlightened by him (the Spirit), no longer do we believe that Scripture is from God on the basis of either our judgment or that of others; but, in a way that surpasses human judgment, we are made absolutely certain, just as if we beheld there the majesty (numen) of God himself, that it has come to us by the ministry of men from God's very mouth....

«Therefore, illumined by his [the Spirit's] power, we believe neither by our own nor by anyone else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.

Nevertheless, in the very name of the Incarnation itself, and the majesty of divine wisdom contained within that economy of human salvation, we insist urgently upon the fact that the birth of Christ is the summit not only of theology and philosophy, but of the material sciences as well.

God is with us, not in awe and majesty, but in that most accessible of human forms, the baby who reaches out for our embrace.

If we are to avoid Subordinationism (an offshoot of Arianism) we must not talk of Jesus» sonship in human terms, because in the Trinity there is equality of majesty «andno opposition of relationship» (Council of Florence 1442).

The question is whether a generation which has lost its faith in all the gods of the nineteenth century, that is, in «history,» or «progress,» or «enlightenment,» or the «perfectibility of man,» is not expressing its desire to believe in something, to be committed somehow, even though it is not willing to be committed to a God who can be known only through repentance, and whose majesty judges all human pretensions.

The ability of human genius to ponder the nature of reality in its simplicity and its majesty is what these great minds have strived to make known to humanity.

Since God transcends any of the categories of human intelligence into which we may try to fit Him, the only question is whether we do less injustice to His majesty by referring to Him in personal pronouns, or by using impersonal abstract nouns, such as «Ground of Being» and «First Cause.»

The things they can do with their voices gives glory to God and reminds us of the beauty and shocking majesty of God's creation, especially humans made in His image.

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

If you can appreciate and accept this relationship for exactly what it is — glorious, dynamic, challenging, beautiful, exalted, wounded, and oh - so - human — then swept away by the majesty of a sacred relationship is exactly where you'll be.

Whether it stems from the acceptance of another's kindness, appreciation for the majesty of nature, or a recognition of the gifts in one's own life, gratitude enhances nearly all spheres of human experience.

For all the mountainous visual majesty her lens captures, it is director Jennifer Peedom's soulful, stirring depiction of the human spirit that allows her feature, Sherpa, to truly soar.

Forty years after the first and last humans (for now) stepped on the moon's surface, a handsome, largely visual chronicle of that historic journey brings its majesty and mystery to young readers.

20/20: Accelerando transforms Fisher Museum's galleries into dark immersive spaces that picture the majesty of the natural world as well as the poetry of human consciousness.

Each painting is like a single frame of a dancer in motion, a celebration of the majesty of the human body.

Genesis is an attempt to portray the beauty and the majesty of regions that are still in a pristine condition, areas where landscapes and wildlife are still unspoiled, places where human communities continue to live according to their ancient culture and traditions.

Where one person sees the majesty of human invention, another sees the excessive gaseous waste being dumped into our skies on a daily basis (some even see it as a nationalistic tribute to our great nation).

Kelly D. Alley: The Himalayas is a place of majesty where glaciers hug the world's tallest mountains, snow melt and precipitation combine to form the water of many vibrant river systems, and millennia of cultural and linguistic diversity guide human life ways.

In books like Mindsight; The Mindful Therapist; and Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, he's succeeded at getting both therapists and a lay audience enthralled with the complexity and majesty of the human brain.