Sentences with phrase «important than god»

This means your mindset alone is more important than any God - given talent or coaching that you have received.

If God is 10 % of your life then 90 % is spent on something more important than God.

Any love more important than God's love can become an idolatrous love.

In other words, do you think we Christians ever make our theology of God more important than God Himself?

«When people say, «I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself,» they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.»

When religion becomes more important than God, we are doomed.

Not exact matches

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.

I'm pretty sure it was more important for him at that moment to hear I loved him than for him to hear how God was waiting for him - especially since he didn't believe that.

It was heartening to learn that in the end, that most people chose to talk about what was was truly important to them... family, rather than wasting the last minutes of their lives discussing the comforting fantasies, but fantasies nonetheless, of god, jesus, heaven, etc..

If you have faith in God, you understand that his will is more important than ours, so in fact faith can move a mountain assuming you have faith in God, and it is his will.

More important than all else, however, he hid from no one the joy God had offered him through the rediscovery (when he was approaching 33 years of age) of his Catholic faith, leading to his first communion and confirmation a mere 9 years ago.

Those that form church communities around deciding certain stories within the canon are more important than others or certain interpretations of the stories are what God really wanted to communicate.

Love in and for our families is important, but, never more important than the love of God in Christ.

Yet, Heidegger is even less congenial to Christian theology than Kant, for in an important sense Christianity is anthropocentric: «God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

The only thing more important than loving other people is loving God Himself.

Americans are certainly allowed to believe that their God is much more important than their country.

Well, I guess your god has more important things to do than helping the sick and the dying.

While morality is important, faith is more about relationship with God than it is to morality per se.

«Being elevated above everyone else can give the sense that you are quite important and that people are actually worshiping you rather than God,» she says.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

The examples go on and on, but the principle is the same: when we see a need that we could meet, and we refuse to meet it, even on good theological grounds, we have lost sight of the heart of God, and have made theology more important than people.

That belief in God is more important than the character and policies of the person running shows that we have a long way to go as far as maturity and tolerance goes.

This tells us that your spiritual development is more important to God than what you look like on the outside, or where you were born, or what kind of clothes you wear.

1 st more important than anything on this Earth is your relationship with God.

Those who know themselves to be on pilgrimage to the Kingdom of God know that sex, as important as it is, can no more define us than can power or money, ethnicity, or politics.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

«The current BSA proposal constructively addresses a number of important issues that have been part of the ongoing dialogue including consistent standards for all BSA partners, recognition that Scouting exists to serve and benefit youth rather than Scout leaders, a single standard of moral purity for youth in the program, and a renewed emphasis for Scouts to honor their duty to God,» this week's Mormon statement continued.

I believed that truth was more important than love and that God was violent.

I thought that you spoke for God and your answers were more important than my questions.

To understand the action of God as interior to the entire evolutionary process does not mean that some events, aspects, and dimensions can not be more important than others.

We consider what he taught about God and his will for man immeasurably more important than what any other person in human history has said or done.

More important than the mere fact that Whitehead too could not understand the world apart from God, is the particular form that his doctrine of God takes.

More important and more basic than that, it is because God's own purpose of self - expression does not there expect and provide for such adequacy as was achieved by him once for all in human regard, when by his prevenient preparation, his concomitant grace, and his effectual action he was «made flesh» in the person of Jesus Christ.

This is an important issue because Murdoch implicitly acknowledges from time to time that her Good is in many ways less appealing, less satisfying, than a personal God.

Seeking these things as more important than the things of God will lead to an empty and meaningless life.

As the great hour approaches, the dresses, the flowers, the guests, the gifts, the right tempo of the wedding march, how to get through the ceremony without stumbling over the words or dropping the ring seem a great deal more important than the blessing of God.

No development in Biblical praying is more important, therefore, than its gradual reorientation until God's will, not man's, became central and controlling.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

Saying thank you means we are doing two important things: choosing to look at the good things in our lives with gratitude rather than only focusing on the things that aren't right; and acknowledging that everything we have comes from God.

I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.

Even those Catholics most devoted to the Pope must realize today that it is infinitely more important to tell the world credibly what is actually meant by «God» (which in former times could simply be presupposed) than to indulge in controversy about the First Vatican Council.

And if my suspicion that the move to immaterialism originated in the embarrassment of elite theologians over the scandal of the incarnation is even partly correct, then nothing could be more important for how Christians experience God than to think again about the metaphysics of matter.

As I write about the violence of God in the Bible and have conversations about this with various people I interact with during the week, I often tell people that one of the reasons this is such an important topic is because Christians need a better answer to provide the world than the ones we have always given.

Considered in this light, Mantel's mother's sins, which set Mantel at odds with the Church, may have been less important for her spiritual development than the loss of her father, which estranged her from God himself.

But if we could unite, if we could love one another, if we could agree that love for others was more important than being right about the rapture, then maybe the church would stop dividing over doctrine, and start showing the world what the love of God really looks like.

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

I am not sure what to make of this argumentum ad arithmeticum, unless the point is that the earth is approximately 1.88 times more important to God than love and 2.04 times more important than heaven.

I don't even try to defend myself anymore because what God knows about me it so much more important than what they say about me.