And we know that for those who
love God all things work together for good...
The early Christians, therefore, intuitively treated suffering not as ignominy to be endured, but as opportunity to be used, and their typical attitude was positive and triumphant, as when Paul said, `' We know that to
them that love God all things work together for good.»
«And we know that for those who
love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.»
Not exact matches
Nominus: «the burning bush represents many
things to Jews and Christians such as
God's miraculous energy, sacred light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity,
love and clarity.
I pray to whichever holy name (
God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more
loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under
God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's
God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important
things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?
If I wrote a book, people probably would not believe what I have experienced and how I was blessed by
things that might have destroyed me because I had a praying aunt who was everything a Christian is supposed to be — and because
God loves me.
The last article of his that I read, moments before learning of his death, was his piece in the February issue of First
Things called «On
Loving the Law of
God,» an engaging essay (responding to one by Gilbert Meilaender) on the law - and - gospel dialectic of Lutheranism.
As much as I
love the Lord, if I was in Mr. Hawkin's condition, I too might find it a little hard to validate the
things of
God too.
God hate sin
God is
God of many
things one is
love, peace, joy wrath, judgement, don't forget he destroy the world becaused of sin, Sodom and Gomorral
I think that keeping
God's law in place is not repressive, but it is actually the
loving thing to do, so that the grace of
God will actually mean something.
The great
thing about Jesus» teachings is that all of the laws and commandments from the Bible, many of which you just posted, will be followed by someone who
loves God with all of their heart, all of their mind and all of their soul; and if they
love their neighbor as themselves.
Neither death or life, not angels or principalities or powers, not
things present or
things to come shall be able to seperate us form the
love of
God which is in Christ our Lord.
If only we had the RELIGIOUS POLICE like in Iran... they'd beat some sense into these atheists and teach them a
thing or two about the
god of
love!
Believing in a
God that teaches us to
love one another more than yourself is the opposite of survival of the fittest and should be a positive
thing, not a negative.
aka the book written by man to control man... of course it has
things that are evil... u can only interpret the word of «
god» by what u know around u cuz apparently he speaks like nostradamus so man hears peace and
love and changes it to bigotry and war
I mean, a philosopher or scientist can talk about any of the
things Christians talk bout without using the «wrapper» (transcendence,
god, truth,
love, etc.), which begs the question, why talk about these
things through Christianity at all?
The just and
loving god is going to do mean
things to me for all eternity because I don't believe in santa claus.
IF these
things didn't happen, no amount of belief on your part will create
God's
love out of nothing.
Nothing makes me feel better, more
loving and more receiving of
God's
love than when I get out there and do
things for others.
Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without
love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of
god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.
God speak of these
thing occurring in our day.
I just lost my soul mate this last Monday, he told me «I will
love you forever» in a text message I was the last one he talked to... he wasn't sick he just died @ 49 The strange
thing is he believed in
God, but also he believed in true
love!!
It is the only
thing that squares with a truly
loving and just
God.
Human
love is one thing, and a wonderful thing it can be; however, there is another «God» love or greater all encompassing Love that can be experienced as w
love is one
thing, and a wonderful
thing it can be; however, there is another «
God»
love or greater all encompassing Love that can be experienced as w
love or greater all encompassing
Love that can be experienced as w
Love that can be experienced as well.
people with alheimer's really talk some crazy stuff before they die,
god and
love don't have a damn
thing to do with it
You act like there is no such
thing as
love or compassion without a
god behind it.
(Do ya
thing God loves that stuff?..
If you changed every instance of the word «
love» in the story with «God» or every «God» mention with the word «Love», it still works because it's all the same th
love» in the story with «
God» or every «
God» mention with the word «
Love», it still works because it's all the same th
Love», it still works because it's all the same
thing.
What we can't forget is that these analogies were chosen in order to explain
things that are constant (
God's character,
God's
love for the church) in ways that people in those cultures would understyand (gendered relationships).
«Millions of Americans are good with
god» = horribly offensive and attacking paraphrased «My
god will viciously torture you in fire for eternity after you die for not believing the same
things I believe» =
loving and inclusive
rather than just a law / rule / commandment... certainly... Jesus says The greatest commandments are to
love God and
love others, for the law and the prophets hang on these two
things..
And in that tack of semantics, of
loving God above all
things, of obeying him and blindly doing his will, we will continue to discriminate and to fight holy wars and to hear men with two faces tell us that they are His middlemen and to pander for politicians and to condemn science, which is merely the study of His design, as we have for centuries.
I
love being Catholic, but there are a few
things I miss: the freedom I shared with my brethren in spontaneous prayer; the radical openness to
God that asked «What is
God doing?»
It is incumbent upon us to make peace, to
love all people, to discern the powerful current of all
things moving back to
God and participate in this reconciling force that the scriptures say is at work in the world.
The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart
loves God above all
things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy
God and use created
things for
God's sake, rather than attempting to «use»
God for the sake of created enjoyments.
Or is it that you know that those
things are not moral, not by a
god, let alone one that supposedly «
loves» us?
The only
thing more important than
loving other people is
loving God Himself.
this is so much more real and fits so much better with the image of a kind and
loving god... thumpers would have u believe that
god is the angriest, most spiteful, micro controlling, bitter, nasty character ever put out to this world... we must remember that the
god thing is supposed to produce caring, inclusion, peace and
love ~ not murder, hatred, exclusion and bullying..
In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that
God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and
love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to
love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these
things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»
In «Obedience,» Herbert offers himself to
God, asking that
God's will would work through him in all
things — including his poetry: «Let me not think an action mine own way / But as thy
love shall sway / Resigning up the rudder to thy skill,» he writes.
the shortest answer to your question is the cross, where
God tells us two
things clearly: 1) we are much worse off than we want to admit (that's what I deserve)... but at the very same time... 2) we are much more
loved than we ever dared hope (Jesus takes what I deserve)
Ever noticed that
god always
loves the same
things you do and hates the same
things you do?
Man or religion always points the glory to themselves and throws
God in here and there to make it look like the real
thing but it is false.Peace and
love...
Who cares that hes» a successful
God fearing good do - er with significant multiple Ivy League degrees that gives tons of money to charities, has incredible business and political experience and
loves his country... oh wait... but then there is that Mormon
thing... VOTE THE ISSUES IDIOTS, NOT THE RELIGION!
The fact is if you believe the words of
God and the teachings of Jesus, this practice is an abomination and nothing that anyone can do to make it pretty, nice, sweet,
loving or any other
thing to make it acceptable can override what the Lord says about it.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of
thing Satan
loves, obviously from Martin's comments because it gives haters and ignorant people ammunition to argue against
God and church.
But then again,
God also
loves to give babies AIDS and do other terrible
things, so I suppose it's just all in a days work to him.
All I'm trying to say here is that when I'm told to
love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to
love my neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to
love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to
love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that
God demonstrated his
love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these
things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»
The main
thing that changed was my rekindled
love for
God and my deep desire to know Him more.
Love / good / help / kindness, I call those
things God, but I don't believe there is a «being»
God.
All of the suffering, inconvenience, and discomfort caused by the decree of Caesar was actually the
loving hand of
God working
things out to accomplish His purposes in His own way.