Sentences with phrase «in a sinful world»

To be sure, in a sinful world religious freedom and freedom of speech will be abused.

Meeting the basic psychological, social, and spiritual needs will be still harder, perhaps impossible in a sinful world.

An ordinance is a directive designed to preserve life in the sinful world.

«Now if one thinks this type of language is too strong, let him only remember that God the Warrior is simply the reverse side of God the Lover or of God the Redeemer... [Love] is power in action in a sinful world.

For him the notion of the calling is the solution of the problem of the Christian service of God in a sinful world.

As sinners in a sinful world, knowing that the infinitely better awaited us beyond the grave, we experienced life as the time in - between.

That shows that God is incredibly sovereign to accomplish his purposes in this sinful world no matter what happens.

This was Christian in the sense that the law of love on the one hand and the Christian awareness of the law of self - love as an ubiquitous and persistent force describe the upper and lower limits of a social order in a sinful world.

This is not a radical suggestion; no matter how great the candidate, no vote can ever represent more than a sign of preference, for in a sinful world, there has never been and never will be a perfect candidate.

Here the covenant of the preservation of the fallen world through justice and judgment (indicated by the covenant of God with Noah in which God calls all humanity to create and maintain an order of society based on reverence for life, and the Divine ordinance through which the political order that uses power and legal justice for the liberation and protection of the weak from self - aggrandizement of the strong in a sinful world - Moses, David and Rom.

Congratulations to Justin Welby @ABCJustin on BBC R4 Today exploring openly how we follow Jesus in a sinful world, yet still make mistakes.

Yet even with this legitimate narrowing of the emphasis Calhoun does not bring sharply into view the problem of moral action in a sinful world.

Instead of being something arbitrary, which it was even in the thought of Aquinas, it becomes central to the fulfilment of the plan of God in a sinful world: this is not just a moral redemption but «a work in the dynamic order of being itself», a work in the ontological order, by which He must restore and heal all the damage that has afflicted our being.

Bad things happen to us because we live in a sinful world; not because God has withdrawn His love from us.

Failing that, in this sinful world, at least the institutions would not have stonewalled and deepened the injuries people suffered at the hands of clergy.

Shame is a protective reaction we each have in a sinful world, not wanting to be used by others, personally, sexually, etc..

God message is always: Immerse yourself in this sinful world that so desperately needs words and acts of healing, and you will find you are not alone, for I am already there, summoning you to help me.

Official Christian teaching has consistently emphasized that creation is good and that this goodness exists as a permanent stratum of our own human existence as well, even in a sinful world.

The sacrifice is more than just an act of blood: it is a total giving of Himself, from the heart outwards, which will in a sinful world, involve a giving unto death.