Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called
them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).
«You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of God who called
you out of darkness into marvelous light».
Come walk with
me out of darkness into the light of day.
and like lnivig stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
But you who have been called
out of darkness into the light are expected to believe with a whole heart; your faith shall dominate the combined attitudes of body, mind, and spirit.
«But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called
you out of darkness into His wonderful light.»
He bringeth
them out of darkness into light.
For all it is the knowledge of being called
out of darkness into God's marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).
He guides them to the paths of peace, leads
them out of darkness into the light by His leave, and guides them in a straight path.
This idea also leads to a march — not in the name of white or black or even red, white and blue — but in the name of «him who called
us out of darkness into his wonderful light.»
They call us out of sleep into wakefulness,
out of darkness into enlightenment — eyes open, fists clenched and punching, poised on tiptoes like high - strung boxers bobbing and weaving before the hell.
He argued that if the sufferings of two billion people in Vietnam, South Africa and other places excited the imagination and compassion of the church, how much more should the spiritual sufferings of two thousand millions move her to bring multitudes of
them out of darkness into God's wonderful light.
Like the Venerable Bede before him, he considers life as a brief passage
out of darkness into light and then back into darkness.
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of Him who called
you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
The church is in the most literal sense «a royal priesthood,» constituted «that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light» (I Peter 2.9).
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light; who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
The Apostle Peter reminds believers that we are set apart: «But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light.»
KJV 1Pe 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called
you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
the first was a motivational one called leading
you out of the darkness into the light a blind man's inspirational guide to success.
Our firm has helped thousands of people step
out of the darkness into the light.
Not exact matches
But the sons
of the kingdom will be cast
out into outer
darkness.
Even if you find a way to create medicine that lets you live forever and you build spaceships to colonize the rest
of the planets
out there, eventually, the entire universe will run
out of energy and everything will settle
into darkness until the day that atoms themselves stop spinning and matter entirely breaks apart.
Satan is the ruler
of the world at this time but his time is short and he will be cast
into outer
darkness We who believe are the called
out ones and we will be like Him.
By which Allah guides those who pursue His pleasure to the ways
of peace and brings them
out from
darknesses into the light, by His permission, and guides them to a straight path.
For these words to have their effect you have to have known the ecstasy
of worship — no tepid Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, but a baptism that made you weep, or an Easter vigil that brought you
out of darkness and
into light.
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.»
If by the power
of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the
darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death
of the Lord, and makes us men
of prayer who are really conscious
of the future judgment
of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace
out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.
Reminds me
of Moses leading the children
of Israel («god wrestlers)
out of Egypt «
darkness») and
into the wild («wilderness») with nothing but momentary manna, pillars
of fire, columns
of smoke to guide them unknowingly.
«The children
of the kingdom [the Jews] shall be cast
out into outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.»
On the other hand, Jesus» ascent through the resurrection and new immortal life truly re-enacts the miracle
of the primordial act
of the actualization
of existents in a sort
of «upward» or «backward» sense — that is just as creative aspect
of Jesus who brought humanity
into being through «the Spirit or the Thought», the word kun —
out of the recesses
of the
darkness of non-being [SN], his return through resurrection, potentially leads humanity back to the state
of uns in him.
* Matthew 8:12 But the children
of the kingdom shall be cast
out into outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
Large amounts
of phosphorus could be from the moon impacting (moon surface = KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, phosphorus)-RRB- Even in their picture showing meteorites landing on molten surface (lol) shows a glowing molten moon — they ignore the big blob in the sky and say «meteorites» instead
of «ejecta» — they should be put up against a wall and shot with silly string and cast
out into the outer
darkness of unemployment to wail and gnash their rotting teeth.
«Whilst in this state
of philosophic pessimism and general depression
of spirits about my prospects, I went one evening
into a dressing - room in the twilight to procure some article that was there; when suddenly there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came
out of the
darkness, a horrible fear
of my own existence.
Finally, the Spirit
of Truth has lead me
out of such
darkness and
into a much more healthy view
of reality.
We are to be a holy nation, a people
of God's own choosing, called to proclaim the excellencies
of Him who called us
out of darkness and
into His marvelous light.
Irony is ever present in the writings
of St John, and Our Lord's words, though part
of divine revelation to all, nevertheless gently point
out the fault
of the one who will only see Jesus by night: «men have shown they prefer
darkness to the light» (Jn 3, 19) and «the man who lives by the truth comes
out into the light» (Jn 3, 21).
The king asks how the man got
into the wedding without the proper clothing, and when the man is unable to provide an answer, the king has him thrown
out of the wedding hall and
into the
darkness outside.
How long do you think it will be before man evolves fully
into the Light
of Truth and walks
out of the
darkness once and for all time?
The Prophet led us
out of the
darkness of ignorance
into the light
of truth.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them
into chains
of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one
of eight people, a preacher
of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world
of the ungodly; and turning the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah
into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct
of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly
out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day
of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust
of uncleanness and despise authority.
You will be cast
out into the outer
darkness where you will weep and gnash your teeth, except you won't have teeth after I kick the sh.t
out of you.
At that instant
of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke
into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden
of guilt and condemnation was gone,
darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains
of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings
of faith, freed from the chains
of death and
darkness, and crying
out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.
He'd called them
out of the
darkness of their past and
into new beginnings.
Greenblatt is a reductive New Historicist
into whose mill a thousand works can go, and all will come
out sounding like a cross between Leviathan and Heart
of Darkness.
The only thing God will require
of you is to produce your own righteousness before Him... And if you don't you'll be cast
out into outer
darkness from where there is no return.
Above that God is
of light and named as The Light
of Heavens and Earth, God has sent his light for our enlightenments to his creations (Jinn & Mankind) as for Guidance as through, a Reminder, a Warner, for those being lost astray saving the soul
of who wants to be saved from the
darkness into light, generation after generation some believe and some do not believe which all will be judged by God on a named date when we are brought back from dust where ever your atoms might be will they will come back
into shape brought
out from under grounds;
Thus we wait, we try
out new words, we pray for God to return, and we seem to be willing to descend
into the
darkness of unfaith and doubt that something may emerge on the other side.
As the early Hebrews thought
of Yahweh first
of all as the one who had delivered them
out of Egypt, so the early Christians thought
of God as the one who had rescued them
out of the power
of darkness and translated them
into the kingdom
of his Son.
But I am also aware
of a wild kind
of hope which begins with limits and frailties but which reaches beyond them, beyond the signal box and the Pennine valley and
out into the
darkness.
And
of course, here in Matthew 25, it is a servant
of the Lord who was not faithful in his responsibilities and so is also cast
out of the celebration hall and
into the
darkness outside.