Sentences with phrase «in presence of»

So the unhappy creatures in this text in Revelation are in the presence of the Lamb by virtue of the fact that he sustains them in existence, and they may even be aware of this fact.

The elder Bonhoeffers were listening to the radio from London on July 27 when an English voice spoke: «We are gathered here in the presence of God to make thankful remembrance of the life and work of His servant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who gave his life in faith and obedience to His holy word... «22

Dare you find enough joy in the presence of Christ, to be courageous in the present moment?

Unquestionably in this case we are in the presence of a vision of God: «In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

I do wish you all a beautiful Christmas in the presence of Christ.

This insight closely corresponds to the disciples» experience — perhaps fully explicit only after the resurrection — that when they were with Jesus they were in some special sense in the presence of God.

Courage is found in places where there is more in joy in the presence of Christ — than discouragement is found in the present moment.

In other words, the image of Jesus confirms our certainty that we are in the presence of a breach (perhaps related to the breach of holiness) between religions of sight and vision on the one hand, and a proclamation of the Word on the other.

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

When we deal with visions, we are in the presence of another dimension of sight: one that does not refer to reality.

Dana and I spoke with our children of Ruth's ultimate healing — of having faith that their sister was no longer in pain, no longer struggling but in the presence of the one who would wipe away every tear in a place where there is no more death or sorrow or crying or pain (Rev. 21:4).

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

From Matt: Revelation 14:9 - 11 portrays the eternal torment of the condemned as taking place «in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb» (14:10).

A key spur to Descartes» actual writing was a critical floor speech he gave at a 1620s Baconian talk, in the presence of his great supporter Cardinal Bérulle.

The icon becomes in itself the presence of God, of the Virgin Mary, or of Jesus.

It is also, of course, a «rejoicing in the presence of the beloved,» as the theologian H. Richard Niebuhr put it; but neither presence nor union is love's prior condition, and while each would be a welcomed and hoped - for goal, that goal is not demanded.

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

«There's widespread belief in the presence of ancestors» spirits.»

Faith requires one to believe in something even in the absence of evidence and in the presence of evidence to the contrary.

The only thing that this curriculum of life requires is that he live and live well, dwelling in the presence of those seeking to do the same.

The grief may be taken as a mark of his true humanity, as a kind of agony in the presence of death (like the synoptic accounts of Jesus» Gethsemane prayer).

They in turn respond with another kind of fear, a sort of awe in the presence of the one they only dimly understand as their Lord.

So this year, as we gather together in the presence of blood that is familial, foreign, violent, and life - giving, let us thank him who covered us with his own.

A man can not take certain steps and thereby place himself in the presence of God.

In the presence of Jesus the dark forces within, which ravage the souls and bodies of men, were overcome and their victims made new.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

And in the presence of Ganapathy (God of all obstacles) they are married.

In the first place, praying for God's help reminds us that we are not in control of the world or even of our own life, while reminding us that we are living in the presence of an infinite and eternal being.

There is nothing we do that is not in the presence of God.

One thing remains to be done: Christ consecrates himself in the presence of the disciples (17:19).

Worship is not an indifferently or casually performed activity such as going to a movie or concert; the worshiper attends a service in expectation of being in the presence of the Living God.

He then signed it twice: once in the presence of the detective alone, and again later with a news reporter present as a witness.

Subsequently, the Scriptures and tradition become the constraining informational sources on which members of the Church rely in order to situate themselves in the presence of the promising mystery that gave new life to the disciples after the death of Jesus.

He appeared publicly in the temple and, in the presence of large audiences, delivered trenchant criticisms of the official representatives of the Jewish religion.

The faith is never more carnal and touching than when we are in the presence of suffering or illness.

The hinge of the argument in each document is a fact of Jewish and Christian faith: that each individual conscience stands in the presence of its Creator.

How irrelevantly remote seem all our usual refined optimisms and intellectual and moral consolations in presence of a need of help like this!

Our knowledge of our determinism is without struggle, because we know of no power that can set us free to be free indeed; our visions of possible life amidst destruction are unaccompanied by visions of possible life in the presence of glory and everlasting joy.

In that sense, the Presbyterian debates do not feel like friendly arguments over the breakfast table, or even the more heated kinds of exchanges that might take place in the presence of a marriage counselor.

Mystics of all faiths point us to the true place of meeting which is in the presence of God, where comparisons become if not odious at least irrelevant, as the mystics sense the Divine Mystery, who is both the source and sustainer of all life and the most intimate presence in the heart and life of the believer.

This is liberating, if you're like me, because at least as often as I feel deep gratitude and peace in the presence of God, there are times where I feel like I've been cast off.

He appears in the presence of God on our behalf (9:24).

In the presence of a certain society among them, the medicine man throws a bit of sacred tobacco on the altar fire and chants in a low voice:

This was originally a talk given at a conference on Baptist identity, and I recommended three strategies for Baptists to consider in their worldwide Christian mission: retrieval for the sake of renewal, humility in the presence of the holy, and particularity in the service of unity.

It tells us how we should behave in the presence of the rich and of the poor, what teenagers should wear, what words are acceptable in polite society.

Atheism is simply the sounds that any rational person makes in the presence of religious nonsense.

And the Most High preserved him in the presence of his might, And revealed him to the elect.

7:15, 8:14), where wisdom is easily defeated in the presence of riches or folly (Eccl.

Why would you say such a thing in the presence of the substrate?

Joy is having a faith even in the presence of suffering (Hebrews 12:2), disaster (think Habakkuk), lament (think Psalms), or persecution (think apostles).