'' [A] s high court clerkships drift ever upward into the stratosphere
of earthly rewards to which young lawyers can aspire, one stark reality persists: Recipients of this prize are overwhelmingly white, and mostly male.
The Hellenistic Jewish text, Wisdom of Solomon, for example, pictures the righteous as gentle and forbearing in the face of persecution by the wicked, reproving but not physically opposing their foes, despite lack
of earthly reward for their virtue.
Not exact matches
This is the old faith, just as the last problems
of our life remain the old ones: that we should become loving and unselfish, that we should bear the darknesses
of existence, that we should finally come to terms with death, that we should do our duty also when we can expect no
earthly reward, that we should follow our crucified Lord and Saviour.
It has some
earthly rewards along the way, but it is actually quite desolate and void
of real meaning and substance.
Entrance into heaven itself is freely given to all who believe in Jesus for eternal life, but the
rewards and riches
of heaven are reserved for faithful Christians who put heavenly riches above
earthly pleasures.
Another heresy
of the electronic evangelists is their Palagian distortion that promises considerable
earthly rewards for the faithful.
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.
Those
of a materialist or rationalist bent reject resurrection altogether, ascribing it to a fear
of death or a desire for an unearthly
reward to
earthly suffering.
Seeing the choices each character made in the past, and how it has impacted their present and the future
of others, is one
of the most
rewarding aspects
of Earthly Remains.
All I know is that the heavenly
reward of the Pilgrims was far greater than their
earthly toils to pay back their financiers.
Reward yourself richly on any day when your child's baseball score comes immediately to mind but you can honestly say you have no
earthly clue what the score
of the Dow Jones is.
May your
earthly reward be the «peace
of mind» to end each day with.