Sentences with phrase «many peoples and nations»

«That's why it was important for us, and personally for me, to show the world that even if we may differ at times, we can and should be united in the effort to become better as people and a nation.»

Zuckerberg's comments come at a time when many people and nations around the world are taking an increasingly inward view.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations.»

The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development.»

Everybody, even Bible critics, now agree that the earliest movements of people and nations is accurately recorded in Genesis 10.

Most evangelicals probably agree with Reinhold Niebuhr that in a world infested with well - armed Hitlers, Stalins and colonialists, persons and nations that follow the way of the cross get wiped out.

Some of these names and the peoples and nations that come from them become very important in the future history of the world.

On his cross he had broken down the middle wall of partition between peoples and nations.

I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.

Western theology has committed a terrible disservice to this imagery of a potter and clay by making it seem as if God is a deterministic puppet master up in heaven pulling the strings of people and nations down here on earth.

Defeat in Vietnam presented the U.S. people and nation with an opportunity for repentance.

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: «You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have REDEEMED us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, Revelation 14:3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty - four thousand who were REDEEMED from the earth.

The text sets forth «a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.»

Aren't a President's character and integrity, and commitment to serve the people and the nation are important?

a great American President is for the people and the nation — free of any religious baises and prejudices.

The long history of such out flow of resources from the southern nations and the accumulation of it in the colonial centres widened the gap between people and nations.

He is also fond of stereotyped expressions such as «a great voice» (twenty times), «the kings of the earth» (ten times), the Lord God, the Almighty» (nine times), the adjective «true» («alethinos») with «faithful», «holy», or «righteous» (nine times), «tribe and language and people and nation» (six times; cf. Dan.

As with the two - volume work, although I agree with nearly everything Greg writes in the book, I once again found myself disagreeing with the central idea... that God withdraws from Jesus on the cross, and therefore, in the violent portions of the OT, God is withdrawing Himself from the people and nations who experience / suffer violence.

In the Old Testament, the Lord used first Assyria and then Babylon as the instrument of discipline for his people and the nations (Isa 7:1 - 25; Hab 1:6 - 7; Dan 1:2).

The people and nation are set as equals among other nations, targeted for evangelical outreach, but are not seen as possessors of the physical promises.

America, look in the mirror, if you really look and are honest about what you see, you'll know that this is indeed a sad time for us as a people and a nation.

This self - division is the main reason for the loss of faith, practice and Christian in uence in the life of their peoples and nations.

So we sharpen our analytic tools and try to discover what those disastrous experiences tell us about ourselves as a people and a nation.

Yahweh will wage warfare against people and nations that is both monergistic and antagonistic.

From the beginnings of the Bible to the end, the advance in the idea of God was extreme: Beginning with a territorial deity who loved his clansmen and hated the remainder of mankind, it ends with a great multitude out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, worshiping one universal Father; beginning with a god who walked in the garden in the cool of the day, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time.»

Unless people and nations can learn to co-operate, there will be repetitions of the bitter violence witnessed in former Yugoslavia.

For the peace of the world, for justice between peoples and nations, for advance in learning, for breaking down hostilities between peoples, for the spiritual health of countless individuals and the corporate welfare of the humankind, this is a time to disciple the nations, baptizing them on the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and teaching them whatsoever our Lord has commanded us.13

What this means is that election has nothing to do with who has eternal life and who does not, and everything to do with God's choice of certain people and nations to perform certain tasks and purposes in He plan for the world.

In his address to the New Delhi Assembly of the WCC in 1961, Thomas spoke of Christ being present in the world of today engaged in a continuous dialogue with the peoples and nations.

The peoples and nations act again.

[And] they sang a new song with these words... «Your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

Religious proponents of international law could draw on the prophets for biblical support: Amos, Hosea, Micah and others discerned Yahweh's law as both impartial and international, striking against the arrogant pretensions of all people and nations who violate human rights in the belief that God is on their side.

The Lukan witness that the many tongues of Pentecost all combine to declare «God's deeds of power» (Acts 2:11) to the ends of the earth is confirmed by Revelation's insistence that many tribes, languages, peoples and nations will be represented in the coming kingdom.

And they sang a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll; And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.»

Peoples and nations differ as to the energy of thought they bring to bear upon the vocal material at their disposal for the expression of ideas.

I know that around God's throne in the new heavens and earth there will be people purchased and drawn from «from every tribe and language and people and nation» (Rev. 5:9).

The Church is sent into the world to call people and nations to repentance, to announce forgiveness of sin and a new beginning in relations with God and with neighbors through Jesus Christ.

You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings,» a voice tells John (Rev. 10:11).

And that involves an application of God's Word to the issues which continue to erect barriers between people and nations, to the practices which alienate and oppress people, and to the false theologies which allow people to think that they are devout Christians when in fact they are not.

In contrast with peoples and nations of earlier stages in history, we show less zeal in our search for a framework.

Beginning with a territorial deity who loved his clansmen and hated the remainder of mankind, it ends with a great multitude out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, (Revelation 5:9.)

When used in the historical terms with which I prefer to use it, globalization in so many ways sums up the dominant and encompassing reality (note that I underscore this word) of the collective life of people and nations in our time, so potent and full of issues and questions for or against human development, so that it presses upon everyone who wants to make sense of the times in which we live, or who wants to be concerned about «keeping and making life more human».

God «desires all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth» (1 Timothy 2:4) and we are assured that people from «every tribe and language and people and nation» will be present in heaven (Revelation 5:9).

To proclaim the criteria by which the Coming King will judge persons and nations, to exemplify those standards in the church as the new society, and to work for their recognition by the world — these are irreducible aspects of the Christian summons to the forgiveness of sins and new life, and to the lordship of the risen and returning King.

They support the destruction of the people and nation.

The group that was to become the people and nation of Israel in the centuries following the Exodus from Egypt is described here as a relatively unified and homogeneous entity.

The same line of thought, carried a little further, brought the author of the Book of Daniel to describe how thrones were placed and the Ancient of Days seated, with a fiery stream flowing out in front of him, while millions of ministrants stood in his presence or performed his bidding; then «there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and there was given him dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples and nations should serve him» (Dan.

However, Ineffabilis Deus says: «All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin» in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who, with her only - begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers.»

And liberty, as a goal and cause in itself, becomes a terrible taskmaster, sending people to their death, and exacting horrific crimes on people and nations which are viewed as obstructing our liberty.