Sentences with phrase «is closer to god»

Besides which, we can safely say that a true Muslim believer or any other true believer in their own country is closer to God the Almighty, than non-practicing Christians inhabiting Europe today.
John's God is closer to the God of the Negro spiritual, born of slavery and suffering: «The Lord, he may not come when you want him to, but he's always right on time.»
I don't believe anyone is closer to god than anyone else.
There is a problem with such reliance on attributes, however, for it actually describes a Supreme Being who is closer to the God of the philosophers than to the God of Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob.
Jim, it is simply illogical to say a person who rejects God is closer to God than who believes in him.
Letting go of that and acknowledging how wrong Christians have been about many, many things throughout the centuries lets you move to a better place that is closer to God.
They used to whip themselves and many still do, to be closer to god.
Here is why I am close to God now... the more I understand about my dad, the more Christ I see in him.
Those people who were in the Klan or any other religious organization claimed to be closer to God and felt they had the right to proclaim others way of life as wrong.
Seasons when I'm closest to God and prioritize what matters, I'm plugged into community.
I see from a distance that you and your brothers turned out well and I want to know what it was about your parents that made you want to be close to God as adults.»
I can be close to God, pray, and follow the 10 commandments.
Ironically, the bullies often pretend to be super spiritual, more spiritual than everyone else, and of course they (claim they) know their Bible better and are closer to God.
Isn't it interesting how those who are close to God are also those who are closest to people?
Although my life (as I knew it) was destroyed by egos creating evil in my life, the blessings were / are that I'm closer to God than ever.
Christ's love was life - giving because when human hearts opened up to Him for whom they were made, the result was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes from knowing you are close to God, or that you are loved by God.
It's possible the mundane words of the street are closer to God's Word, then some of our pious words from the pulpit.
Then another surprise: In the economy of God's grace those who are hired at the very end, those whom no one else wants, are the closest to God's heart.
In the economy of God's grace those who are hired at the very end, those whom no one else wants, are the closest to God's heart.
It tells you that if you suffer, you are close to god.
I once prayed that whatever it took for me to be closer to God I was willing to do.
Being close to God doesn't make me less intelligent.
Then boom I am broadsided with more problems from it that honestly should not be... since this incident I have tried my very best to be closer to God and do his will.
In fact, the text is quite clear that far from being closed to God, she was actually worshiping God (Acts 16:14).
Calvinists say that Lydia was closed to God and Jesus Christ, closed to faith, closed to salvation.
I often think that many atheists are closer to God than many who claim to believe in and follow God.
Why do some people prop themselves up as being closer to god than someone else?
Hey man, think you said it before... perfect in this world doesn't look perfect, it looks messy, it goes under and loves the broken and hurt whose hearts in their brokenness are close to God.
God is always calling and encouraging us forward from where we are to be more than we are, to be closer to God and to be more like God.
Maybe Stalin was closer to god than you are.
Off the cuff, I do think that religion has a lot to do with encouraging an elitist, critical, condemning attitude in some people, especially the type of religion that causes one group to speak and act as if they were closer to God than every other group.
Perhaps we need to be a people who are close to God.
stupid me wanting to be close to God and having a personal relationship with him and looking to him for guidance and direction believing that he would tell me what to do.
I hear people say they just need to be closer to God, they've got a demon or they don't have any faith.
You need to be closer to God to get better and then your country will turn around.
I was always craving to connect with and to be close to god especially when I would see evil and selfishness in the world.
It was the only way; just like the only way I will ever be close to God is when I let Jesus intercede for me.
Can you still be close to God and be partly wrong?
Being close to God offered all the things that humans want now: significance and safety.
Visual Spirituality is one with your own Spirit and is close to God the Father and Mother and allows them to Show you Themselves and the Perfect Love you feel from Them.
John 3 in Greek reads that we can change our lives into ones that are closer to God by deciding to believe the opposite of what annoys us and then act on that.
Do good, live good, die good, be close to God!
But God also sees your trust, and your love, and your hope, and your desire to be close to God!
So Strauss distinguishes prescription from the appeal to an ancient order that was closer to the gods and all that.
To begin with, the idea that the poor are closer to God is not widely accepted in America.
I know it is true that an Athiest can be closer to God than a person who «says» they believe in God.
In the Catholic Church, you don't get promoted for being the closest to God or following the teachings of Jesus.
Truly devout people do not need a priest or minister or rabbi or omam to be close to their god.
It will not do to have a faith that can be undermined by God's saving one's neighbor, or to be afraid lest other men turn out to be closer to God than one had been led to suppose.»
Similarly, Dalit and Adivasi religio - cultural beliefs and practices that celebrate accessible love and solidarity with the marginalized are closer to the God - dynamic as manifested by the life and teachings of Jesus than those that highlight the overpowering, destructive, and violent characteristics of God.
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