Sentences with phrase «loving hand of god»

«They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which created us... It is our duty to protect them and to promote their well - being.»
Only God knows best and therefore it is wise to surrender our days into the loving hand of God and let Him guide us along the path He has predestined for us.
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.

Not exact matches

And these followers make a large demographic of political votes in a country that loves to start wars and elect politicians who will be «guided by the hand of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me
«Healing hands of God have mercy on our unclean souls once again / Jesus Christ light of the world, burning bright within our hearts forever / Freedom means love without condition without a beginning or an end / Here's my heart, let it be forever yours.»
You on the other hand will have absolutely no chance at paradise, that is of course unless the God you deny accepts you out of the true love he offers
I had a hard time loving because of pain and hurt in my life... from none other than my family... but I asked God to allow me to see them through his eyes... that helped me pick up the pieces... hand them to Jesus and allow him to lead me and guide my way to him... that is the only hope of life we have.
On one hand God is a behemoth of dirty done deeds against much of humanism's dispositions while on the other hand God shows little to practically no love to all our civilizations» ongoing trials of which we steadily reshape as the needs arise.
The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.
In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.
The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.
You mean as part of what it means to make sacrifices the greatest of which being God having to make the greatest sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all of us imperfect beings had to actually sacrifice his beloved son.
I love Jesus and have served him all of my life and know nothing can take me out of God's hand...... sin definitely can't because the blood of Christ has stripped sin of its power.
We try to contribute to the renewal of these treasures of salvation in the lives of Gods people through a renewed clarity of understanding of Gods plan of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern woLove for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern wolove for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.
However, the non-believer does not recognise the hand of God in what happens, so the grace God gives doesn't deepen their love for Him.
On the other hand, God is calling these communities, and each of us as members of them, to participate in the salvation of the world God loves.
That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.
I love the sacraments, I love Scripture, and I know that my faith, my understanding of God, is cerebral and it's strong; in my spirit and it's awake; in my heart and it's love, but here in my body it's all earthy and sensual, it's the catch in my throat when I sing the words I've sung a hundred times, in the creak of my knees when I hit the floor, unable to stand any longer, in the tremor of my hands when I tremble, in the strength of my voice singing out ahead of my own life.
but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.
We can slink away in despair and denial or we can crawl back into God's big saving hands, Isaiah proclaimed, and the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus confirmed, that this God who knows all, creates all, controls all and plans all also loves all.
God, the creative Lover of the world, is willing to die at the hands of his people and then comes back again, not to make them pay, but to give them more love.
I, on the other hand, presuppose that God can not be evil; that goodness and being belong inextricably together or else there is no ground for basic trust... Even Calvinist Paul Helm, a leading evangelical Calvinist thinker, agrees (as I show in my book) that «goodness» attributed to God can not be totally different from every understanding of goodness (and love) we know of
O God of every nation, of every race and land, redeem the whole creation with your almighty hand; where hate and fear divide us and bitter threats are hurled, in love and mercy guide us and heal our strife - torn world.
When it comes to living life and loving others, God is not as concerned with the cleanliness of our hands or the perceived purity of our words, but with the attitude and motivation of our hearts.
On the other hand, we have a conception of God as both morally righteous and supremely loving.
May the knowledge of the love and grace of God sink from my head down into my heart so that it flows out of my hands, my mouth, my ears, and my eyes so that this body becomes the body of Christ in the world.
After one has made whatever personal inventory and commitment one desires, it may be helpful to repeat in a relaxed mood some short, meaningful phrase such as «God is love,» or «In thee I rest,» or «Be of good cheer,» or «The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,» or «Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.»
Justice is the «alien» or «left - hand» rule of God through temporal powers, while love is the «proper» or «right - hand» rule of God through the Church and the gospel she proclaims and lives.
«If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,» she said, «it is not because God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise — in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.»
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.
As Christians, as children of God, we need to know that we are safe in his hands, and that no matter what, He loves us.
As people begin to ask whether our beautiful but fragile world is part of a godless and random universe, on course for an inevitable extinction event, how can we show that it is in fact held in the hands of a sovereign and loving God?
Later, Whitehead explains the division of the God understanding into the vision of Jesus of a loving God and God as a ruler, on the other hand, from which Whitehead felt deeply repelled (pp. 175f).
Being Lutherans, people who believe that God rules in his left - hand temporal kingdom (through justice) as well as in his right - hand kingdom of eternity (through love), we were not truly escapists, quietists, or non-participants.
Relational people, on the other hand, focus on what God has done for them, and know that God is already in every conversation and relationship (even if He is not mentioned), so they can just love and enjoy the person standing in front of them right now.
That plays right into the hands of those Christian anti-Semites — who, thank God, have become fewer and fewer of late — who make insidious comparisons between a «loving» Christianity and a «cruel» Judaism.
On the other hand, without the dramatic and poetic expression of the reversal in God's love play, when Krishna is conquered by Radha and the divine bows to the human, the full reality that the devotee experiences would not be expressed.
Perhaps the best way of thinking about this is to distinguish between the loving unity that the three divine Persons experience, on the one hand, and the loving unity that defines God's eternal essence, on the other.
We do not know; we must leave this in the hands of a just and loving God.
We have to be aware as both givers and receivers that funding, while sometimes necessary, is no substitute for people who are willing to be the hands and feet of a good God who loves them.
Yet, on the other hand, he never scaled downward man's possibilities, and the very virtues that have been enumerated as belonging to the life of faith and love are implicit witness to his confidence that man with the help of God could live as the «salt of the earth.»
This way we have a deeper empathy for what others are going through and can be the hands and arms of God by showing love.
Though you sit at the right hand of God soaked in the purist of light and love you will feel it naught so great will be the sorrow in your heart for your wasted life and the vile hatred you spread.
Whatever the topic at hand, Wyschogrod's thought orbits a single center of gravity: God's free yet irrevocable love for the people Israel, and in connection with Israel, for the world as a whole.
Be the hands and feet of God and extend love to those who may be hurting most.
with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!
The care of souls was a matter of personal admonition and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend in penitence and confidence the forgiveness of sin, the great love of God extended toward them, so that in life and death, in sin and sorrow, they knew they were in the hands of a holy, loving God.
On the other hand, the notion of God as sentimental niceness — what I have called «smothering love» — springs from the wish of many people to be so completely tolerant that they are unwilling or unable to take a stand on anything.
If you want that person to feel God's presence, be the hands and feet of that love.
About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.
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