«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 wo
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 wo
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 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.