Sentences with phrase «obedience which»

In other terms, the Court of Justice («ECJ») can not take obedience to its judgments by Member States and the respective authorities as granted or constitutionally - mandated since, in Weiler's words, this is a voluntary obedience which goes hand in hand with the exercise of constitutional tolerance in the Member States.

While obedience is a competitive sport there is also practical obedience which is not much different than teaching basic manners and communication.

As beautiful as he is, he is just starting to learn basic obedience which will need to be continued.

This makes them very easy to train for obedience which is a must if you want a companion that will listen to your every command.

The 2 - week program focuses on practical, everyday obedience which is completed with a high level of precision, outside, off - leash with distractions!

Lewis even claims that «dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery» (Abolition, p. 46).

Then there is the willing obedience of man at any cost to the Word of God spoken to him, an obedience which may sometimes be in accord with the will, desire, intelligence, and choice of man, so that man is full of joy (this will be the situation in the kingdom), but which may also clash with the will, desires, intelligence, and choices of man, so that there is great sorrow as in Gethsemane.

For he would have missed exactly the obedience which Jesus desires; he would imagine that he could achieve and present an act of obedience when obedience is not really present as the determining factor of his life.

And in truth just this demand for complete obedience which involves the whole man takes a heavy burden from man, however paradoxical this sounds; for he is now set free from the endless and useless task of searching for commands and prohibitions which he must know in order to act rightly; from the fear of having failed here and there because he did not know the scriptural precept or its right interpretation; from the contempt which was felt for the people who did not know the Law.

The implications of this commitment in faith to fact, or (as we might say) in engagement of life with the historic, crucified, and «risen» Lord, have been worked out in Christian theology within the context of the communal life of the Christian fellowship and through the worship and obedience which are the expression of Christian discipleship.

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

Jesus sees the conduct of man from the view - point of the obedience which man owes to God.

It was obedience which brought me grace, and after that experience I knew what God's grace was.

He must deal with obedience to God, the obedience which breaks our bondage to sin.

There is no obedience to God in a vacuum so to speak, no obedience separate from the concrete situation in which I stand as a man among men, no obedience which is directed immediately toward God.

To obey the whole law is to obey each part — a commitment to obedience which ensures the salvation of the community at the end of time (2:12 - 13).

There is obedience to the injunction to seek first the Kingdom of God, an obedience which is not possible without this drastic self - renunciation.

Writing about Humanae Vitae just a month after Pope Paul VI issued it, at which point lots of Catholics, including a goodly number of Jesuits, had popped a cork, the then - superior general asked his fellow Jesuits to assume an attitude of «obedience which is at once loving, firm, open, and truly creative» and «to do everything possible to penetrate, and to help others penetrate, into the thought which may not have been his own previously» - precisely because they were Jesuits, and this is what Jesuits do.

Focus on the differences between the faiths... Two of the faiths focus on the law and obedience which man throughout time has proven he can not maintain, and man consistently fails.

Thus far in this part of our discussion I have been trying to show that Paul's thinking about the work of Christ is predominantly eschatological: In virtue of an obedience which man, who stood simply in the succession of Adam, could not give, and of a victory which man could not win, the human situation has been radically transformed.

And I believe our acting out of that «sacrament» (not a biblical word) is a wonderful act of obedience which shows our whole hearted desire to enter into God's covenant with him.

Though in one sense belief in God is the necessary presupposition of belief in miracles, it is not belief in God as an explanation of the phenomena of the world (for the world always hides God, if He does not will to reveal Himself by miracle), but belief as the obedience which is ready to perceive the claim of God upon man in all situations.

Indeed, the giving of our full attention to the needs of the eco-system (call it Mother Earth, Gaia or Nature, if you wish) is in many ways replacing the dutiful obedience which humans were expected to show to the Heavenly Father in traditional monotheism.

Thus, as C. F. Evans points out, «the evangelist indicates that this spiritual ascent takes place at the cross and by means of it, and through the love and obedience which lie within it.

They did it, as witness the founding fathers of the Jesuits, by combining a new freedom in individual initiative and development, with self - discipline and obedience which was total in integrity and sincerity.

It called men to a life of faith and obedience which transcended the religion of both Jew and Gentile, though it claimed to be the genuine consummation of the heritage of Israel.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

They were obviously incapable of taking vows of obedience which every priest must take.

Not exact matches

Faith is internal the external evidence of which is obedience.

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

The root of the tree of life in them, which is to grow into the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, is obedience to this word.

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

Those who teach this view have some verses which seem to indicate «salvation» lasts forever, but those who are opposed to «Once Saved, Always Saved» point out numerous verses which say that «salvation» depends on continued obedience, faithfulness, and good works.

What is the origin of this strain within the Bible which identifies Yahweh as the God who does justice and who is known only in obedience to his call to do justice?

Obedience implies something external to ourselves which requires conformity on our part.

Shortly after arriving at the Keller household, Sullivan wrote, «I am convinced that obedience is the gateway by which knowledge, yes and even love, enter the mind of the child.»

The voice from heaven declaring who Jesus really is recalls the account of Jesus» baptism (3:16 - 17) and heaven's earlier announcement, which also came immediately after Jesus had submitted himself in full obedience.

The difference that Paul points out is that Jesus had a true understanding of God, and thus Jesus trusted God's faithfulness leading to obedience in contrast to the distorted view of God that Adam had which resulted in disobedience.

I clung to the belief that God can bring beauty from the ashes, that my faith and obedience could be the soil from which He would one day produce pleasant fruit.

«Obedience is the gateway by which knowledge, yes and love, enter» our minds.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

Adam's eagerness to snatch the prize of equality with God — the desire of Everyman to set himself up in the place of God as absolute master of a world which is really not his own, but God's — is replaced by the second Adam's total self - surrender: his obedience to the point of accepting the death of the Cross; death which paradoxically leads to life, whereas the consequence of Adam's self - glorification proved to be death.

And this, I might add parenthetically, was the issue beneath the issues at the synods of 2014 and 2015: the obedience of the Church to divine revelation, in which we find the Church's constitutive «form.»

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

But as Francis understood the economy of salvation and the radical obedience to which the disciples of the Lord Jesus are called, if God saw fit to take a risk on the humanity of the Church, who are we to deem that a mistake?

The authenticity of the Sunnah is proved by the Qur» an, for it orders that the Prophet should be obeyed and it made obedience to him a form of obedience to God and a recognition of His love, «But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission» (Surah IV, 65).

However, the power of the Kingdom is inseparable from the «end» which it is bringing to the world, and, as Albert Schweitzer has so powerfully insisted, the new life of ethical obedience to which Jesus calls his followers is likewise inseparable from the liberation of the believer from the very reality of the world.

That is a central Christian teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain saved by our obedience.