Sentences with phrase «of victory in this world»

He sees that Christianity is not a matter of blood, or of race, or of victory in this world.

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Often regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders in modern history, Churchill would overcome immense obstacles to eventually lead the British people to victory over Hitler's Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Nikkei 225 dropped quickly when the first announcement of Donald Trump's victory was in Asian trading on Nov. 9, following the U.S. election and set the tone for other world markets.

When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians around the world heralded Victory in Europe Day — the Soviet Union would mark Victory Day on May 9 — exuberant about the end of nearly six years of war that had destroyed much of Europe.

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu ended her long wait for Olympic victory and Australia captured two gold medals in an exhilarating first day of swimming competition that saw three world records smashed in Rio on Saturday.

He's also a fighting champion, putting his undefeated record on the line four times in the past two years, most notably in two absolutely brutal victories over Sergey Kovalev to become the unified light heavyweight champion of the world.

Johnson rose to No. 1 in the world starting with the first of three straight victories, the first player to do that going into the Masters in more than 40 years.

The resultant maelstrom of violence massively weakened the USSR rather than strengthening it, but the ultimate victory of Soviet forces in World War II appeared to justify the Terror.

His book, «Return to Glory: The Story of Ford's Revival and Victory at the Toughest Race in the World,» was published in 2017 by Atlantic Monthly Press.

The swimming competition at yesterday's Olympic games was full of indelible visuals: Katie Ledecky crushing her own world record in the 400 - meter freestyle, 21 - year - old Ryan Held crying on the podium after his team's victory in the men's 4 × 100 - meter, and Michael Phelps» shoulders, which were dotted with large, wine - colored circles.

In Bezos's most recent shareholder letter, he took something of a victory lap — and revealed one of the most prized secrets in the business worlIn Bezos's most recent shareholder letter, he took something of a victory lap — and revealed one of the most prized secrets in the business worlin the business world.

Washington, D.C. — The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative today announced that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has issued a complete and resounding victory for the United States in finding that U.S. «dolphin - safe» labeling requirements comply with WTO rules.

Gross (left), head of the world's largest bond manager, told CNBC Wednesday that the president's victory gives him the political capital needed to enact a dividend - tax hike that will cause a substantial drop in stocks.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

O'Brien begins with a frankly apocalyptic charge: the Pope has created a «Rome — Riyadh axis» in order to unite «the religious of the world... for a final victory over the irreligious.»

America's victory in the Cold War benefitted the whole world, including, above all, the captive peoples of the Soviet Bloc.

The victory of the post-European techno - secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value system, culture, and faith — in other words, the very foundations of its identity — have reached the end of the road and have indeed already disappeared.

Through that victory, the church believes, a strange vitality has been released into the world, a spirit of hope that still erupts in arenas of weakness, suffering and death.

Rich with the sap of the world, I rise up towards the Spirit whose vesture is the magnificence of the material universe but who smiles at me from far beyond all victories; and, lost in the mystery of the flesh of God, I can not tell which is the more radiant bliss: to have found the Word and so be able to achieve the mastery of matter, or to have mastered matter and so be able to attain and submit to the light of God.

In the presence of Christ's Resurrection we are in the presence of the final things of God, of victory, not as the world knows it, but as God knows it, in the subduing of all things to the purposes of his mercIn the presence of Christ's Resurrection we are in the presence of the final things of God, of victory, not as the world knows it, but as God knows it, in the subduing of all things to the purposes of his mercin the presence of the final things of God, of victory, not as the world knows it, but as God knows it, in the subduing of all things to the purposes of his mercin the subduing of all things to the purposes of his mercy.

It was of course the historicity of Jesus Christ which provided a major reason for the victory of Christian faith in the Graeco - Roman world.

If on the other hand the world is in truth a battlefield whereon victory is in the making — and if we are in truth thrown at birth into the thick of the battle — then we can at least vaguely see how, for the success of this universal struggle in which we are both fighters and the issue at stake, there must inevitably be suffering.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

Paul thanked God for personal victory over sin, (Romans 7:25) for the church's victory in the proclamation of its faith «throughout the whole world,» (Romans 1:8) for the lives of faithful Christians, (Philippians 1:3; I Thessalonians 1:2 - 8) and for deliverance «out of the power of darkness» into «the kingdom of the Son of his love.»

Jesus did teach that the royal power of God was already at work and that ultimately it would be manifest to all the world in a final victory of God over Satan.

The eternal peace of humanity with God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows about and experiences.

But in that respect the sufferer's suffering is different from the active person's suffering, for when the active one suffers, then his suffering has significance for the victory of the Good in the world.

It was a long and sometimes terrible conflict, occasionally exacting a fearful price in martyrs» blood, but it was, by any just estimate, a victory: the temples of Zeus and Isis alike were finally deserted, both the paean and the dithyramb ceased to be sung, altars were bereft of their sacrifices, the sibyls fell silent, and ultimately all the glory, nobility, and cruelty of the ancient world lay supine at the feet of Christ the conqueror.

Close study shows it to match other Scriptures that picture the ascending Jesus declaring his victory over Satan to fallen angels who once influenced the world to sin, but who now are being held in spirit - prison as they wait for their day of judgment.

In Christianity the problem of evil, for example, is not an illusion which is to be escaped but the occasion for responsibility in this world, for struggle, and for ultimate victorIn Christianity the problem of evil, for example, is not an illusion which is to be escaped but the occasion for responsibility in this world, for struggle, and for ultimate victorin this world, for struggle, and for ultimate victory.

THAT»S what Christ's message was about — the victory of God over evil, not just in the world, not just in hell, but in human beings too.

They have known too in their very marrow that there is no final victory in this world, and they have known that their political masters would never really stop playing a bloody game of ambition and small - mindedness.

If the authors of Principia Mathematica, both lecturers of Trinity who were members of the secret brotherhood of the Apostles, both rather unworldly dons, improvident in budgetary prudence, both devoted to discovery of truth, can no longer maintain a sense of humor about the wisdom of fighting for victory or negotiating a peace, what hope remains for reason in a world gone mad?

Such men and women have understood that «the strongest power in the world is that of love itself, which does not work by force to achieve its highest purpose or win its greatest victories».

But wherever we stand, Easter is the season where all Christians should join in remembering how Jesus Christ, the light of the world, won a victory over the forces of darkness by his resurrection from the dead.

All the same it is necessary to see also the limits of this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it depended on the persons and groups that drafted it in the aftermath of World War II and the victory of Allied Nations.

But, in the final verse which can be taken as a summary of the whole second discourse, even their despair is seen as a temporary tribulation that will be put aside because of Jesus» victory over the world.

It is the mighty proclamation of the grace which has already been given for the world, and of the victory of this grace in the world.

Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, wrote an exuberant review of Science and the Modern World in which he saw Whitehead's philosophy as «exactly the emphasis which modern religion needs to rescue it from defeat on the one hand and from a too costly philosophical victory on the other.

In this way Plato is justified in his saying, «The creation of the world — that is to say, the world of civilized order — is the victory of persuasion over forcIn this way Plato is justified in his saying, «The creation of the world — that is to say, the world of civilized order — is the victory of persuasion over forcin his saying, «The creation of the world — that is to say, the world of civilized order — is the victory of persuasion over force.

But we do know that it means to share in a victory of God over the world in the sense that through faith in Him and His ultimate mercy we are reconciled to the conflict in which we stand.

Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ who stands against such an insensible, dying world and, through our ambassadorship, raises it from the dead.

It is not any special ritual of exorcism, though this may be appropriate in certain instances, but the preaching of the gospel itself that brings to a lost and helpless world the fruits of Christ's cross and resurrection victory.

The high point of ideological ferment following Allied victory in World War II provoked furious reaction.

Can't we just take this as a morbid «victory» of sorts, justice in the name of those lost around the world to this man's hatred?

Until the next world, violence alone ensured the survival of Christendom — and so, after their victory at the great Battle of Lepanto, Spanish and Italians butchered scores of defeated Turkish seamen thrashing in the bloody seas, determined that the sultan would lose all his skilled bowmen and rowers.

What is the relation between God's final victory, and the resolution of the immediate problems of justice, order, and peace in this world of time, death, and conflict?

And although earlier apocalyptic conceptions are generally missing in the Fourth Gospel, as we have already had occasion to observe, traces of this idea of Christ's victory are to be found even there; as in 14:30: «Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me»; in 16:11: «The prince of this world is judged»; and in 12:31: «Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.»)

The story of Jesus, he writes, is «the story of God's kingdom being launched on earth as it is in heaven, generating a new state of affairs in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus» followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.»

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»