Then I read up on plot synopses and gameplay mechanics, and would eventually sink a significant amount of time
into Glory of Heracles II (Famicom) and IV (Super Famicom).
The result is the same to this day lives are transformed
into the glory of God or the rejection of God for the glory of man.
Involvement in this kind of a lifestyle is not a journey into diminishment but an odyssey into the fullness of life and, simutaneously, a transfiguration
into the glory of God.
How, then, could it be true that the prophecies were fulfilled which spoke of the congregation of the righteous being transfigured
into the glory of an immortal life?
He is the «holy way,» and through him we enter
into the glories of Zion.
Not exact matches
The piece sounds like a fairytale that's been blasted
into the cold depths
of outer space; merely reading, you miss out on all its rainbow - subwoofered - extraterrestrial
glory.
The company is currently pouring resources
into its Watson IoT offerings, undoubtedly hoping to recapture some
of its former
glory as a high - growth tech leader.
However, because
of the proliferation
of overnight success stories, too many founders dive
into entrepreneurship without a plan, limiting their chances
of fortune and
glory.
But we... with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord, are being transformed
into the same image from
glory to
glory, just as by the Spirit
of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne
of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)
They have entered
into glory and there are in a better place than all
of us.
Regular participation in the Eucharist enables evangelical Catholics to enter more fully
into the communion
of the saints in
glory, whose witness is celebrated throughout the church year, and enables the people
of God to plumb more deeply the riches
of the Word
of God, through the cycles
of readings appointed for the liturgy.
Pelagianism Augustine accused Pelagius
of teaching salvation by works Western Christians are obsessed with not being saved by works Western Christians deemphasize ascetic disciplines and exercises Spirituality becomes a set
of mental acts Salvation is rescue from hell, rather than transformation
into glory Determinism enters some parts
of western theology from Manichaeism through Augustine
Maybe this Jesuit Pope will put that
into practice for the «Greater
Glory of God.»
Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens
of millions
of men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death
into a new life
of freedom in the blazing
glory of the Thrice - Holy God.
You will run
into trouble whenever you parcel out God's Word, rather than understanding the Bible as a progression
of revelations and solution to the human condition, with the common thread and purpose
of Jesus Christ running throughout from beginning to end, to further the
glory of God.
Many people will be called out
of singleness and
into marriage and then called to steward their marriage to the
glory of God.
CHRIST SAID TO LOVE YOUR ENEMY, TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, not to kill in his name nor to bring down the
glory of God by cajoling ignorance
into praying to satan.
Philippians 3:20 - 21 — ... The Lord Jesus Christ who will transform the body
of our humble state
into conformity with the body
of His
glory...
I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea
of a person who sacrificially gives
of himself for others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers great personal loss, but ultimately rises
into glory,» is no coincidence.
Before the Western Roman Empire slid
into decay and fragmentation in the 5th century, it had lived out many
of its
glory years looking over its shoulder at Constantinople, wary
of a rival that could exceed it in beauty and power.
Romans 8:20 - 22 — For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because
of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption
into the freedom
of the
glory of the children
of God.
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow
of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter
into his
glory?
In Luke's gospel, there is a story
of two disciples travelling to Emmaus on the first Easter day, who were joined by a stranger, who explained to them that Moses and all the prophets had said that the Christ had to suffer before entering
into his
glory (Luke 24:26 - 7; cf. Acts 3:17 ff.).
Prayer
of the Day: «O God, who before the passion
of your only begotten Son revealed his
glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light
of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed
into his likeness from
glory to
glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
The other possibility, the evocation
of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities
of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the
Glory, Charles Williams» Descent
into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out
of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure
of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life
of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal
of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)
For if this memory were to waken in her soul, and like a favored lover sometimes steal her thoughts away from the king, luring her reflections
into the seclusion
of a secret grief; or if this memory sometimes passed through her soul like the shadow
of death over the grave: where would then be the
glory of their love?
Cf. Lewis's remarks in «The Weight
of Glory»: «The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was not in them, it only came through them and what came through them was longing, these things - the beauty, the memory
of our own past - are good images
of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken far the thing itself, they turn
into dumb idols.
John says
of the miracle at the wedding in Cana
of Galilee, at which Jesus changed water
into wine, that this first miracle «revealed his
glory and his disciples put their faith in him» (John 2:11).
We live in a world temporarily under sin due to it being subject to Satan, the fallen angel Lucifer who rebelled against the Father and caused Adam and Eve to sin; whereby, we all have been born
into a fallen world and fall short
of the
glory of God because
of it.
Usually when we pray this Christian prayer, we think that God is going to send us
into high profile ministry positions, places
of honor and
glory, and opportunities to be heard.
«He made the sinless one
into sin that we might become the goodness
of God» (2Cor 5:21) Jesus makes good the damage done by sin by literally making good again those who have done the damage to God's
glory and to themselves.
I've been engaging a couple
of my friends in this subject that led me going up and down sharing but with your work put together I'll just share it around many
of them thanks
glory be
into Christ....
Then will the dead rise, the judgment will take place, and to some the heavenly
glory will be revealed while others will be cast
into the flames
of hell, where there will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
We are saved by faith and baptism
into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the
glory of God.
His call to artists to show the world the
glory of beauty and goodness, his appeal to women to discover their own unique vocation, his call to youth to seek God, brought a Christian inspiration
into areas
of life where a secular world view had longdominated.
A radical Christian would interpret these words as meaning that the
glory of the God
of the old covenant is abolished, for apart from an abolition
of the God
of judgment, there remains no possibility
of transforming humanity
into the likeness or image
of the
glory of Christ.
Already we have seen that faith can name this movement as the metamorphosis
of God
into Satan, as God empties himself
of his original power and
glory and progressively becomes manifest as an alien but oppressive nothingness.
He wasn't hoping for some other destination, waiting to be whisked away to
glory; he was driving his tent pegs
into the soil
of the land he had been promised.
It is, rather, a qurban, literally a «drawing nigh»
into the life - giving presence
of God's
glory.
The phrase «Paschal Mystery» presumably means everything involved in our Lord's passing over from this world and entering
into his
glory: his death, the descent
of his soul to Limbo, his preaching to the spirits who were in prison, the freeing
of the just souls, the Resurrection, the Ascension and perhaps also the sending
of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
Not only in the
glory of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky
of the Alps» and not only in his misericordia did God share with us insight
into the special characteristics
of his love, but also in sending us a human model
of it in sending us his Son, who called us his friends, and sacrificed his life for us.
and changed the
glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man - and birds and four - footed animals and creeping things.
Acts 7:55 - 56 (Speaking
of Stephen) But he, being full
of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly
into heaven, and saw the
glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand
of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son
of man standing on the right hand
of God.
It needs to be nurtured, for it is in process
of growth toward final qualitative transformation
into the life
of vision and
glory.
Even as we pray for Dad to enter swiftly
into eternal
glory, we should be mindful
of ourselves.
According to I Timothy 3:16 (KJV); «And without controversy great is the mystery
of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen
of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up
into glory.
I believe that predestination does not refer to God's choice
of which people get to go to heaven, but refers instead to God's determination to bring
into glory all those who receive eternal life by faith in Jesus.
The fact that «All have sinned and come short
of the
glory of God» was Paul's maxim for Gentiles to refuse being circumcised
into Jews.
Why would you pass this world
into glory only to wind up with the same things you left... materialistic and items
of the flesh... you can't equate the etherial to what is earthbound.
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the
glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four - footed animals and creeping things.