Sentences with phrase «mind earthly things»
«Phl 3:19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
This means, says Isaac of Nineveh, «the mind detached from earthly things and the whole heart pointed to that on which it hopes».
his mind was set on the things of man, the things of the world and its earthly values
«The corruptible body», says the Sage, «presses down upon the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses upon many things» (Wisdom 9:15).
Their end is destruction; their god is the belly;... their minds are set on earthly things» (Phil.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
So, «set your mind on things above, not on earthly things,» for example, is a command that comes to pass since he spoke it to my heart which was once darkness without him.
For example, in Colossians 3:2, he writes, «Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.»
Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.
Their god is their belly... their glory is their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.»
These enemies of the cross had set their minds on earthly things; on a self - indulgent planning and getting, owning and spending.
Our minds are so earthly focused, it is hard to understand how just by loving Christ, and enjoying His presence, and how not trying to be like Him, but just liking Him, just by loving Jesus, we can have the contentment, joy, peace, and happiness that would never be ours otherwise — even were God to grant us all the things we prayed for.
The biblical injunction to «set your minds on things above, not on earthly things» is tied to the hidden nature of the Christian self.