Sentences with phrase «majesties which»

It also said revile angelic majesties which would mean that in this occasion they were so blinded by their lust that they repulsed or assailed the angels no where did it state that there was intercourse or that it was even a option.

Throughout the whole Qur» an the speech maintains a surprising solemnity and powerful majesty which nothing can disturb.

Not exact matches

O eternal and everlasting God, I presume to present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept of my humble and hearty thanks, that it hath pleased thy great goodness to keep and preserve me the night past from all the dangers poor mortals are subject to, and has given me sweet and pleasant sleep, whereby I find my body refreshed and comforted for performing the duties of this day, in which I beseech thee to defend me from all perils of body and soul...

And by restoring sacral language that was peremptorily discarded in the previous translation, the current translation reminds us that Mass is far more than a social gathering; it's an act of worship, the majesty of which should be reflected in the language of the liturgy — which is not the language of the shopping mall or the Super Bowl party.

But in the end it was not Job's innocence that was important but rather the majesty and mystery of God, before which Job bowed down and became silent.

3000 years of religious psychosis and pandering falsehood is a mere syllable of a fart when compared to majesty of the Universe (which is not in any way the embodiment of some pathetic humans» imagined deity).

Believing that that customary election prayer, hallowed by the auspices taken by a counsel, has the force and religious weight that the majesty of the Republic demands, I prayed too that the election over which I presided should bring to the successful candidates all good fortune and prosperity.

I think dismissing this from that verse is where the «theological peril» lies because it strips one more piece of majesty away from God's Word which is masterful in its forethought and in the pictures and shadows we're told by Paul that it contains.

If God's truth is in fact to be found where Christ stands, the mockery visited on him redounds instead upon the emperor, all of whose regal finery, when set beside the majesty of the servile shape in which God reveals Himself, shows itself to be just so many rags and briars.

In their presence would you dare frankly to confess that that which you desire in the world, in which you sought your consolation, certain that the king in his majesty would not despise you even though you were a man of inferior rank; certain that the beggar would not go away envious that he could not have the same consolation; certain that the man like yourself would be pleased by your frankness?

The caverns of earth are filled with pestilential dust which once was the bones, the flesh, the bodies of great ones who sat upon thrones, deciding causes, ruling assemblies, governing armies, conquering provinces, possessing treasures, tearing down temples, flattering themselves with pride, majesty, fortune, praise and dominion.

Beyond the deepest heaven and the farthest star, yet closer than our own breathing, lies the ultimate majesty who commanded and thereby created them — the One fixed their bounds which can not be passed.

The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort — Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 529f.13

Even those who were inclined to condemn the new liturgical translations out of hand - often the same who muttered about the Pope's visit - have had to concede that there is a majesty in the Eucharistic Prayers which was missing from the former version.

Prayer for First Sunday of Advent: «Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Perhaps it is worth pointing out, in order to avoid misunderstanding, that the description of majesty, which is intended to make us capable of seeing it and to lead us to it, is not like that of the Old or even the New Testament.

There is no awe here before the dread majesty of God, and no respect for the Holy Table at which Christ is wrapped in linen and His most Precious Blood poured out, where heaven opens and angels throng about us, bringing earth and heaven together... the mere sound of singing is preferred to the meaning of the words that are sung».

And something else is very important the «awe» which the majesty of the Buddha arouses in us is not just a consequence of our awareness of his deeds, as is the case in Himayana where the Buddha is venerated because of his great accomplishment.

Now what happens if you lose faith in these arguments, which when seen in darkness appear to the credulous to be dressed in God's majesty?

A brilliant achievement of Sumer was the impulse given to the Stone - Age cultures of Egypt, which, soon after 3000 B.C., responded with the sudden upward surge of the first dynasties and then the majesty and enduring wonder of the Pyramid age, great in its architecture and engineering, notable for the realism and yet the impassive dignity of its art, and memorable for the brilliance and varied richness of its thronging life.

Israel's sense of the wonder of nature as interfused with a presence is well illustrated in a passage that portrays the might and majesty of the sea, that enemy on which the Hebrew characteristically looked with suspicion and fear, but which is here sublimated into an expression of the power of God:

The passage is suggestive of that other in which the majesty of Hermon looks down upon the springtime beauty of the northern plain:

But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.

The order within which such a Gift is decreed must be supremely worthy of the unique majesty of the Gift.

He is might and majesty and power -LRB-» 5.3, 4); and the sinner will drink the wine of his wrath and fury which go out against men (14:10, 19; 15.7; 19.15).

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

Along these lines we can find a new development of orthodoxy which will bring out the full majesty of Christ as Mysterium Fidei.

The scriptures, the sermon, prayers, sacraments, music, lighting, heating (or air conditioning), church architecture, and visual symbols which communicate an awareness of the mystery and majesty of God are all instruments to this end.

In fact when it comes to veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he emphasises its role in his own creative development: ``... Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of beauty, both in majesty and simplicity is founded.»

Whitehead himself was quite explicit about cosmology: «The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.

This is the theology of gender which lies behind the majesty of the Enfleshing of God.

Give them the full vision of the majesty of Christ, King of all wisdom and truth in creation, together with the full, demanding heritage of the ascetic and spiritual life of the Christian man, and you will be surprised at the readiness with which they come: «everyone who belongs to truth, will listen to my voice».

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi and his mercenary troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, deserted him.

Deut 33:17 In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox... Deut 33:17 Q. firstborn ox citrus him, and rays Rams horns - which people actually butt together, zero — the land, and tens of thousands of Ephraim, and they are thousands of -LCB- Manasseh -LCB- S = literal interpretation of the Hebrew one version.

Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, we thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before thy divine majesty, with these thy holy gifts which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make, having in remembrance his blessed Passion and precious Death, his mighty Resurrection and glorious Ascension, rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.

It is the root of his majesty, the unapproachable intensity of his being, the inexhaustible ground of being in which everything has its origin.

The question is whether a generation which has lost its faith in all the gods of the nineteenth century, that is, in «history,» or «progress,» or «enlightenment,» or the «perfectibility of man,» is not expressing its desire to believe in something, to be committed somehow, even though it is not willing to be committed to a God who can be known only through repentance, and whose majesty judges all human pretensions.

The invulnerability in God is the integrity of his being, his creative vision and function which is his sovereign majesty.

Obedience which is not the fulfillment of a contract, but which arises from reverence before the majesty of the holy God.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

«Under the necessity of connecting the world of men with the God, who in majesty and nature was so far above this world, there were two courses which Judaism could take and which it took.

John Calvin was extremely cautious about the music he sanctioned for use in worship, which he thought should exhibit moderation, gravity and majesty.

Since God transcends any of the categories of human intelligence into which we may try to fit Him, the only question is whether we do less injustice to His majesty by referring to Him in personal pronouns, or by using impersonal abstract nouns, such as «Ground of Being» and «First Cause.»

(2) Discovery of the historical character of revelation together with deepening skills in exegesis, which is merely the historical treatment of texts, yields an exciting rediscovery of the worth, the relevance, and the majesty of Scripture.

David Atkinson's devotional interests come to the fore in the first sentence of, The Message of Genesis 1 - 11: The Dawn of Creation (The Bible Speaks Today Series, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990, 190 pp., $ 12.99): «The poem of beauty and grandeur which forms the opening chapter of our Bibles is a hymn of praise ot the majesty of God the Creator.»

For the poem «works,» all by itself; it lets the reader glimpse a pattern of majesty broken which is a parable, for any Western consciousness, of the passion of Christ.

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

The «that than which nothing greater...» formula is Anselm's attempt to express the perfection, majesty, and transcendence associated with the thought of God throughout the fabric of biblical religion — «Thou shalt have no other gods before me.»

But not even he, in all his improvisational majesty, can control the angle and speed at which Dawson swings his leg.

This book lays to rest the myth of an objective medical knowledge, and it does so with a majesty of intellectual argument and a care for detail which recommends it to both the general and specialist reader.