Sentences with phrase «less than the god»

Though we might not always appreciate the ongoing challenges that are part of every community, they are nothing less than God's mercy and provision for us.

For God would be less than perfect — that is to say, less than God — if either his holiness or his love had come into being at a certain point within God's own divine life.

God is not at the center of our life; something less than God is.

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

Unless something extraordinary happened to convince them that against all their expectations God had reversed his apparent verdict on Jesus, I can not imagine that they would later on have taken immense risks to assert in public that a man who had been condemned and hanged was no less than God's Messiah.

You stated no one less than God can carry the weight of God's church on our shoulders.

Not out of timidity, but because humans are less than God.

Certainly no one less than God could carry the weight of God's church upon his back; thus Jesus referred to Peter as well as Himself in that verse.

Any good reality, less than God, can serve as a means toward God.

Anything less than God will be destructive the minute we elevate it to the level of ultimacy.

This is why I claim that open theists don't think God knows less than the God of classical theism; he knows more!

To arrive genuinely at such a position requires profound awareness of oneself as a creature, as less than God but valuable to God.

But when my desire fastens on anything less than God, it immediately becomes destructive, for that is where desire turns into covetousness, and covetousness will rob my life of its potential because it will narrow my vision, depress my limits, bring me to the edge of death, violate my purpose in creation, and starve my life to death.

To covet is to believe that something less than God will satisfy the deepest human hunger in my heart.

When we seek to fill that hole with anything less than God, we initiate a process of self - destruction.

To covet is to think that something less than God will make me feel adequate or secure.

The birth we celebrate is nothing less than God coming to dwell among mortals (Rev. 21:3).

He went on about how it was settling for less than God's best and so on and so forth.

No reader of the New Testament can escape the impression that within the primitive Christian community, whose life the documents reflect, an event of incalculable magnitude had occurred, an event of such magnitude that those who witnessed it could confidently believe that it was nothing less than God's supreme disclosure of himself to men.

The demonic affirms that which is less than God and pretends it is God: money, power, prestige.

Nothing less than God — albeit God in the mystery of his being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — is the object toward which Scriptures, Church and Jesus Christ himself direct those who begin by loving them.

Revelation comes in the form of a divine promise which upon reflection turns out to be nothing less than God's own self - donation to the world.

something less than God: if he «deifies» us, the Son must be of the same substance as the Father.

This means that the worship of anything that is less than God — possessions, power, beauty, success — is a sin.

The apostles are other examples.We can not BE His examples but it is better to strive toward that goal than to accept anything less than God's standard of true righteousness.

Because followers of the Word choose to attain less than God has for them is a reflection of their love of world and not God.

i argued that the Scriptures themselves preclude being read as anything less than God's Word.

For whether it is in ourselves, or in mankind, or in civilization, or in America, that we are asked to have faith, the admonition always points to an object of faith which is less than God and which certainly does not deserve unreserved commitment or adoration.

Technology as a total way of life becomes idolatry, that is, ultimate allegiance to something less than God.

As I looked at the issue myself, I recognised that the traditional biblical view pointed to same - sex practice as wrong, and less than God's best for my life.

Yes — we are less than God as Father.

Does the existence of that papyrus make Him less than a God?

Sometimes the stories leave me feeling as though God is less than God and not the author of life and love.

He did not ever become less than God.

But then, this makes God less than God!

By calling for a least - common - denominator public faith, Barton seems happy to settle for less than the God of historic Christian orthodoxy.

Someone willing to be healed will recognize Jesus came to give us life (John 10:10), so we must settle for no less than God intended.

The middle paragraph deals with the historical facts of Christ, but with something else too — namely, the relation of Christ to God, so there can be no mistake among Christians as to the major insistence of all Christian experience, that when we meet Christ we meet nothing less than God Himself.

This is not Him acting as «less than God» but is instead Him acting as the «perfectly loving God» that He truly is, as revealed in the incarnation of Jesus.

Don't waste your life, and don't be satisfied with anything less than God's plan.»

Or are you settling for less than God has for you?

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

From the book of Genesis when Rachel's midwife predicted that she would bear a son (35 - 17) to Exodus where midwifery was endorsed by no less than God himself (1 - 20) midwives have enjoyed the privilege of great power.

«Apple's founder Steve Jobs was elevated to this position of something more than a man but less than a god, and we all worshipped this guy and absolutely forgave all of his failings because he was able to design an amazing iPod and iPhones.

We don't know the exact figures for the game but it did less than God of War 3 which had sold 1.1 million units.

It is because our understandings about the world are less than God - like perfect that we will encounter these kinds of pragmatic facts and alternative facts that seem to us to be contradictory, that seem mutually exclusive.

Not exact matches

God has always picked men less than perfect!

No less of an investment genuis / god than Warren Buffett has stuffed away nearly $ 100 BN in 1 - year US T - bills as nothing in the M&A world or stock market excites him much.

Most people get locked up in a padded room for less than what passes as «ok» when it gets the «god» label attached.

I'm quite sure that less than 50 % of humanity honestly believes in a god.