Sentences with word «lowliness»

While we moderns might suggest that Bianco work on self - esteem issues, the images of an overcoat of charity and innerwear of lowliness of heart — the heart where the Holy Spirit also dwells — show how the will has to be changed thoroughly if we are to live in relationship with both neighbor and God.

Do nothing in strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind think each other better than yourselves.

His grace was such that the high king endured such lowliness for the sake of those that want to find him.

«Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

This is why divine incarnation, according to the hymn in Philippians 2, shows us God in lowliness and humility: It is quite a come - down for the immortal and incorruptible God to take up our mortality and corruptibility, making it his own.

In Luther's early theology of the cross, God hides His saving presence in the torment He visits on His elect; in the mature theology, the gracious hiddenness of God is primarily a matter of His lowliness, His kenosis in the incarnate Son, in His chosen signs, and in His saints.

And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by God himself in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that God himself assumes in taking on a human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various ways.

God could have done it a different way, but I believe that one of the reasons He did it this way was to show that the Kingdom of God is based on a different set of standards: Humility, lowliness, and simplicity instead of glamor, glitz, and glory.

Men should take care lest in sinful pride and presumption they are offended by the lowliness of the masks and by the simplicity of the Scriptures.

And Mary said, «My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.

My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.

«He has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.

He knew that the wretchedness of Judah had reached such desperate proportions that a holy God must act, that the very depth of the lowliness of his people called into question God's honor.

In her Magnificat she says God has looked on «his servant in her lowliness».

Furthermore, Wesley argued (against Reformed doctrine) that Christians could enjoy entire sanctification in this life: loving God and their neighbors, meekness and lowliness of heart, abstaining from all appearance of evil, and doing all for the glory of God.

Walter Lowrie translates the title as «The Anxiety of Lowliness.»

This 15th - century hymn uses clothing in another way: «Let holy charity / Mine outward vesture be, / And lowliness become mine inner clothing / True lowliness of heart, / Which takes the humbler part, / And o'er its own shortcoming weeps with loathing.»

In the discourse on «The Worry of Lowliness,» [3] for example, Kierkegaard describes three modes of being, which are represented by the bird, the heathen, and the Christian.

True power is a kingly power, but lowliness, suffering, and death.

It can sometimes demand that a man leave his esteemed calling and put on lowliness, that he give away all his possessions to the poor, that he shall not even dare to bury his father.

God has met us in our lowliness and misery.

The Christmas message is that God is with us in our lowliness, in our depravity and the Christian life is a life of sharing, sharing in the poverty, lowliness, and depravity of others.

The message of Christmas is that God has come down to us in our lowliness, in our poverty and in our misery.

This king is humble and lowly, and it is through that humility and lowliness that he is triumphant and victorious.

In this state of imprisonment, Rodrigues experiences the lowliness of missionary life for himself: He is kept in custody by Inoue, Lord of Chikugo, until he apostatizes or renounces his faith.]

Like Hagar cast off into the wilderness, God saw me in my isolation and looked with favor on the lowliness of even one like me.

Lowliness.

In Mary's song, the magnificent Magnificat, she tells of her Savior who has «looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.»

«Lowliness is assured by majesty, weakness by power, mortality by eternity.

This of course, refers to her own humility and lowliness of mind.

What matters is the sacrifice of godly privilege for the lowliness of humanity, irrespective of gender.

Here in Ephesians 4:2, Paul calls us to have this same attitude of humility and lowliness that Christ had in Philippians 2.

with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

But one of the supreme virtues in Christianity is this lowliness, this humbleness.

Lowliness means humility, lowliness of mind, the esteeming of ourselves as small.

If you have ever been in a conflict with someone, you know how hard it is to maintain an attitude of lowliness, gentleness, long - suffering and love, unity and peace.

So the six attitudes so far are lowliness, gentleness, long - suffering, bearing with one another, in love, and endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit.

So first, we need to have an attitude of lowliness or humbleness.

She is magnified above all creatures, and yet it is her humility, lowliness, and indeed nothingness (nichtigkeit) that is notable.

Of course, in those days, the very idea of going hither and thither, unaccompanied, would have been viewed by many as unbecoming, or as a symptom of lowliness or poverty - which was not, in fact, the case.