Sentences with phrase «ineffable god»

So we mortals must choose carefully the images we apply to an ineffable god.

Despite this, Beckett's book remains an important survey and reminder of what in Western thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).

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What it is NOT is the inerrant, ineffable «Word of God».

For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable, ecstatic experience of intimacy with God.

When this is combined with the insistence that this is wholly ineffable, it becomes possible to think that those who have discovered God in this way are experiencing the same reality as that which Buddhists have identified.

In fact, the sea is presented as a monster that only God's ineffable power...

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

Certainly Christian life, which is nothing other than the acceptance of the ineffable mystery of God as love, must be accomplished in the concrete details of earthly life, which is determined by the secular forces of science, of politics, of power and also of guilt.

It is not different gods, but different, human conceptions of that which is ultimately ineffable.

In ways unarticulated and perhaps beyond articulation, people are encountered by God, by the ineffable.

In fact, the sea is presented as a monster that only God's ineffable power can tame.

He grasps the ineffable through the creation of symbols, in signs and speech which reveal God to men for this age.

this god would be endlessly curious, and insatiably experiential... this god would be masculine and feminine, and ginormous and infinitesimal, and truthful and compassionate, expansive and contractive, and both light and dark, and both knowable and yet ineffable, and this god would be All in All, and in us * as * us... pretty much like god is, without all the religious attempts to define and confine who / how god is.

What hearing could he gain if he stood in this pulpit today, or in any pulpit in America, and spoke to us now about our depravity and corruption, about our unfreedom and the determination of our lives, about the ineffable gloriousness of God, and about the awfulness of his wrath?

The holiness of God is the mystery of His ineffable being manifested to us as His glory, which includes His righteous and merciful acts to which we are to conform our own lives.

Thus we experience precisely in freedom what is meant by God, even if we do not name or consider this ineffable, incomprehensible, infinite goal of freedom, which makes possible the distance to the object of our choice, the actual space of freedom.

Christians may never stop, they may never set up anything as an idol, until the infinity of ineffable love reveals itself and God himself confronts them face to face.

God freely and completely bestows the Godself in the encounter with humans, yet remains ineffable because we creatures are incapable of fully receiving or understanding the one who is imparted.

Even if God is not known or not expressly visualized in the free act: wherever freedom is really exercised, this happens in silently stretching beyond all individual data into the ineffable, quiet, incomprehensible infinity of the primeval unity of all thinkable reality, in an anticipation of God.

This is the level of legitimate desire, the seeking, the searching, the yearning for the ineffable and ultimately real, the holy God, a desire, a seeking, a searching, and a yearning that is not separate from our call to live fully, to love completely, to exist courageously.

God is hidden, holy and mysterious, the ineffable source of revelation and grace.

The revelation of God is God himself acting within events and making himself known to those who are able to witness the events (and therefore among whom alone they can happen) as a concrete, ineffable Reality.

But does this ineffable being which we call God exist only in this way?

A Church without humility in the face of the ineffable mystery and love of Almighty God?»

In Jesus they had been actually confronted with the disclosure of the ineffable love of God, which is the basis and the meaning of the story.

It was not primarily in his words or acts as such, but in himself, that the ineffable love of God made itself known as a living, potent and present reality.

Remember — anything from the Bible that appears contradictory, absurd or immoral is either 1) Taken out of context 2) A translation error 3) A metaphor 4) The ineffable Way of God that must be accepted on faith.

A special kind of knowing «in Christ» can occur when a couple is drawn closer to God's mysterious, ineffable love through their love for each other.

The revelation of the word of God would make no sense apart from an ineffable dimension of reality which in revelation becomes articulate.

It is meet and right that we should laud thee, bless thee, praise thee, give thanks unto thee, and adore thee in all places of thy dominion: for thou art God ineffable, incomprehensible, inconceivable; thou art from everlasting and art changeless, thou, and thine Only - begotten Son, and thy Holy Spirit.

God is ineffable.

When, however, this diversity of gods was gathered up into monotheism and, for the whimsical nature of the divine powers was substituted the ineffable goodness and justice of the one God, how then could the inequity and cruelty of man's experience be explained?

In all this he was not metaphysically analyzing the divine nature but was indicating the manifoldness of the divine approach to man, and was endeavoring, in the spirit of his own words, to express the ineffable — «O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

Plus the omnipresent hype, not for the films themselves, but rather for that ineffable, high - altitude Sundance experience and for you, you, and you, oh my God, actually present at the most happening American film event, where, as one blogger gushed, the thrill was not in seeing the merchandise but in watching Harvey Weinstein make a deal.

Is it just the ineffable foibles of Bob's subtle «whims - of - the - Gods» ENSO / PDO / NPR / volcanos etc inter-relationships?