Sentences with phrase «of earthly existence»

Growth in grace involves maturity in the kind of attachment we have to the goods of this earthly existence.

But this new goal, coming «to share in the divine nature», is not tacked on to the end of our earthly existence as an afterthought; rather, this new goal changes the whole trajectory of our earthly lives.

And in the last year it was the voice from the eastern religion which grasped her heart and made her feel that the limits of an earthly existence are not the limits of our being, that we belong to two orders, although we can only see one of them with our senses.

Dear brothers and sisters, Blessed John Paul II reminded us that «man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God».4 The sexual intimacy of marriage, the most intimate kind of human friendship, is a pathway to sharing in God's own life.

Heaven exists for the purpose of shedding light on the meaning of our earthly existence.

Eddie must wrestle with the apparent meaninglessness of his earthly existence.

How much more could young people participate fully in the sacrifice of the Mass by being with Christ at Calvary, by being united with all souls in Heaven and Purgatory, and by receiving Christ's Body and Blood, therefore being closer to Him than at any other point of their earthly existence?

(Bultmann, Johannes, p. 327, on 12:28: «In John — and here he part company with the Gnostic myths — the Father is glorified through the Son, by his taking upon himself the very depths of earthly existence.»

Scripture leads us to believe that heaven will be the completion of our earthly existence.

That place can be a paradise free from the evils and insecurities of earthly existence, or it may simply be a place in the records of history or the lives of one's offspring.

By assuming our human frailty, the sinless one is victorious within the very arena of earthly existence where we lay under the curse, condemned to sin and death.

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

I wasn't exactly Mother Teresa during the short span of my earthly existence, so there was no guarantee that I would spend my afterlife on a stretch of white heavenly sand.

This is unquestionably the best and most beautifully tense way to play the game, as you no longer have the luxury of an earlier save file to go back on, granting more weight to every decision you make, and dead soldiers really are painfully rubbed out of earthly existence for good.

* An African trickster deity that is a guide to and guard of the crossroads of earthly existence and the afterlife.