Sentences with phrase «of earthly things»

2) As to Neanderthal they did not have the brain capacity (Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002), to wonder, thus not the first Adam 3) Nicodemus went to Jesus in the dark of night and Jesus said «I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe so how can you believe when I speak of heavenly things».

Israel hoped not for an ideal world order (if the word «ideal» be used in its strict sense), but for the end of earthly things and for the glory of God and His people.

12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly 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.

Yet all these things are well taken cared of for God Who is and will always be a God Who give justice to all and in everything, we will just eventually stop and realize that all the things we fought for and thought to be good for us are all passing, even this earthly life is but temporal, all that we are treasuring on earth are but temporal and passing, our health, our riches, our achievements, these are all useless in the next life.

«If it were only grace, making all earthly things cease to matter, God would still owe us an answer to the question about justice — the crucial question that we ask of history and of God.

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.

Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm of pure spirit.

This means, says Isaac of Nineveh, «the mind detached from earthly things and the whole heart pointed to that on which it hopes».

As though to say «stop looking for me in the heavens when you aren't even close to understanding the majesty of a loaf of bread,» or as Jesus puts it, if you can't understand earthly things you'll never understand heavenly things.»

But because the term towards which the earth is moving lies not merely beyond each individual thing but beyond the totality of things; because the world travails, not to bring forth from within itself some supreme reality, but to find its consummation through a union with a pre-existent Being; it follows that man can never reach the blazing centre of the universe simply by living more and more for himself nor even by spending his life in the service of some earthly cause however great.

When Jesus speaks of having life more abundantly, this, I think, is the life he means: a life that is not reducible by division, category or degree, but is one thing, heavenly and earthly, spiritual and material, divided only insofar as it is embodied in distinct creatures.

He goes his way indifferent to the distribution and division of earthly goods, as one who has no possessions and desires none; he is not concerned for his daily bread, like the birds of the air; he does not trouble himself about house and home, as one who neither has nor seeks a shelter or a resting - place; he is not concerned to follow the dead to the grave; he does not turn his head to look at the things that usually claim the attention of men; he is not bound to any woman, so as to be charmed by her and desirous of pleasing her.

So just as it would seem to be impossible for any earthly government to exist without a standing military, without violence toward enemies, and without governing rules for order and peace which include death to traitors and some form of capital punishment, so also God had to include such things in the earthly government which He set up in Israel.

his mind was set on the things of man, the things of the world and its earthly values

Therefore, it is our duty to examine the earthly, the types, the pictures, and through understanding of these things, the deep things can be revealed by His Spirit.

Earthly offenses are the cutting of living bodies, the cutting of dead bodies, leprosy, incest, calamities from creeping things, from the high gods and from high birds, killing of cattle, bewitchment.

then there is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and evil... every one will be a good one... but because of free will we have human doing wrong things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will be accountable for others... its like you are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will be your good deeds that you have done in this earthly life...

Then it goes on to say that as a result of being raised with Christ, we are to «put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking with you» (Col. 3:5).

However, where it expresses an affirmation of the earthly and the historical, the reality it discloses can encompass all things only if the actualities of the world so shape and condition its being that their full significance is preserved in the divine life.

The first volume of his labors, Earthly Powers, covering the years 1750 «1914, provoked a lively discussion (including a strong review by Russell Hittinger in First Things) about the role of religion as a rival to the secularist states emerging in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

They sweat, get sick, and require routine maintenance — earthy things; and while they have some choice of pasture and speed of movement, they are confined to this terrestrial ball — earthly things.

We are mistaken if, with the fundamentalists, we deny or ignore the fact of this transfiguration and imagine that things always were as they later seemed; but we are likewise mistaken if, in the manner of modernists, we deny or ignore the value and truth of this transfiguration and thus fail to recognize the unity and transcendent meaning of the whole event and the exalted significance of the earthly life as a part of it.

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

6: 5 - 6) It constitutes no claim of the petitioner; it invokes the goodness of God, which can be trusted, for even an earthly father gives good things to his children who ask him — how much more would God do so!

He takes delight in everything, and whenever one sees him taking part in a particular pleasure, he does it with the persistence which is the mark of the earthly man whose soul is absorbed in such 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.

These enemies of the cross had set their minds on earthly things; on a self - indulgent planning and getting, owning and spending.

When we view things with earthly eyes we get an earthly answer, we look at things purely in terms of rules or laws.

Every thing is becoming possible since they our earthly lords wanting to act as Gods replacing believers only God and satisfying atheists beliefs in their Earthly Gods more than the God of Hearthly lords wanting to act as Gods replacing believers only God and satisfying atheists beliefs in their Earthly Gods more than the God of HEarthly Gods more than the God of Heavens.

The author is stating something Christians already know — God could have chosen a clean palace for Jesus to live in, but to fulfill Scripture (Hebrews 2:17) He willed for His Son to live like us, a common man, sweaty and as you said, dirty, and as Scripture says, «A man like us in all things, but sin», so He could experience every aspect of our Earthly life...

But God doesn't operate by earthly ways of doing things; in the Bible, He declares that «as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts» (Isaiah 55:9).

Against this dualism, between the internal and external, private and public, a dualism which has led to the exploitation and oppression of many human beings, I contend that followers of Christ have no other option but to take an active interest in the earthly, secular things such as politics and economics because Jesus would not permit us the luxury of dwelling in a «spiritual ghetto unrelated and unconcerned with real life issues».

«In the earthly Jesus the culmination of Creation and of history is found but in the Risen Christ this is surpassed: the passage through death to eternal life anticipates the point of the «recapitulation» of all things in Christ (cf. Eph 1:10).

If you were to ask your earthly father for something, you recognize the fact that he could say one of three things, yes, no or wait.

Because the Eucharist is the living God, Jesus Christ, in all the events of his Eternity including his earthly life, and because Jesus did all these things both as man and as God, he achieved something for us men, for our salvation.

The biblical injunction to «set your minds on things above, not on earthly things» is tied to the hidden nature of the Christian self.

This is because the extension of mercy in the name of Christ loosens the bonds of desire to earthly things that will be lost anyway.

NOW... LIFE... «I WAS dead - but I am alive...» God gave earthly things as a reminder of spiritual ones (new birth, promised land etc.) Let's see the function of blood in the living organism: the major one is TRANSPORTING of a) oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and rest of the body, b) nutrients to the body, c) Waste products to be detoxified or removed by the liver and kidneys... See the picture?

Especially given the fact that their provider of all things earthly has now generously provided front row, interactive, live entertainment.

Since the careful bureaucrats who compiled the file neglected to say where he was buried, this stack of paper is the closest thing to Boris Bibikov's earthly remains.

In the grand scheme of things, our ideology is to have a world that feels earthly enough to be recognizable, but unique enough to represent a vastly different planet.

The subjects of paintings like The Garden of Earthly Delights III (2003)-- which is, among other things, an homage to Hieronymus Bosch — grow out of Shaw's vivid imagination.

Emeka Ogboh, The Way Earthly Things Are Going, 2017, Multichannel sound installation and real - time LED display of world stock indexes, Installation view: Documenta 14, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), Athens, Photo: Mathias Völzke

My only Nativity set that I had for 10 + yrs got broken by my young grandchildren last year... I have been fighting for my life with inoperable spinal tumors for the last 4 yrs, and actually had already started to put little names on certain earthly possessions that have great meaning to me, so that each of my children and grandchildren would have one thing in remembrance of me.

That's a pretty staircase — and it's ever challenging, isn't it, in this world, to navigate wants versus needs — to focus not on beautifying the haven of one's earthly home but rather to spend that time / funding / energy in ways and on things that are eternal --