Sentences with phrase «own fear of god»

Based on months of negotiation, my conviction is that the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed out of the single currency to put the fear of God into the French and have them accept his model of a disciplinarian eurozone.

Plus, if it doesn't happen, won't the doomsday talkers just lesson the fear of Gods wrath in the eyes of his people?

Could that be what the author was getting at when he described the fear of God as the beginning of wisdom?

Yet, while contemplating the relationship between evangelism and the fear of God over the next few days, some thoughts about fear began to gel.

But broach the subject of the fear of God with the same people and they pull back like they've touched a hot stove.

I'd been chewing on the first two chapters of Proverbs for a few weeks before I began writing this piece, and when I reached this line again, it hit me like a ton of bricks: The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

Your statement appears to want it both ways, if we do good acts because of a fear of God, would more or equal amount of us do bad acts because of a fear of God as well?

Without the fear of God, most would just revert to pillaging and raping.

But what if our perception of the fear of God is wrong?

I suppose that we couldn't expect much more, since there is little incentive not to lie without fear of God... barring faith in some truly man - made myths that I'm sure this group is willing to offer.

Personally, the fear of God's judgement could cause someone to seek God, but if you say you believe and even fill a church pew the rest of your life, because of fear, but you really don't believe, I think you're just as lost as those who deny his existence.

Put the fear of God into them so they won't misbehave.

Hell and fear of God was also a big part of his teachings.

The fear of God is the sense of awe we experience when we're brought face to face with the transcendent (unequaled, surpassing, matchless) splendor and beauty of who He is and the incredible love that He has for us.

I have to tell you though, some of religious folks would be a very bad people if it wasn't for the «fear of god» as they already don't know anything about logic.

We may never see the end of religion or the use of the bible b / c there are those who will be raised with the fear of a god instilled in them and their dependence on the love of those using that fear will hinder their progress.

people like you Pitt are the reason why people like me read this stuff, we are AFRAID that you will overrun our world, force your anger and hate down our children's throats, you like living in fear of your god, yup you do..

It is the fact that you live in fear of a god that, like many other gods, can't even be shown with evidence to exist.

You need the fear of God.

its not sad, it might be scary for you to believe things just are but at least we do not go through life doing good out of fear of god, we do not go through life thinking the after life will be better.

God has left everything for the final day and everyone will get something no matter we believe in it or not so over time we develop a kind of fearlessness (no fear of God) because He is not following us in an unmarked car like a cop and this freedom we use in a wrong way.

I'm pretty sure the world has advanced enough to know how to live a healthy and good life while treating others well without the «fear of God» being put into place.

Then he informed me I have no fear of God; that we're all going to stand before Him someday.

Where sin, death, and the devil are no longer the bondage in question and where fear of God's judgment has been diluted or dissipated into political correctness, then justification becomes liberation from anything that anyone experiences as bondage.

People in the Old Testament lived in constant fear of God.

It is also a principle of Islam that if a sinner repents and abstains from committing further sins because of fear of God and a determination to uphold His orders, God has pledged to forgive the sin.

The «fear of God» is the essence of «holy insecurity,» for «it comes when our existence becomes incomprehensible and uncanny, when all security is shattered through the mystery.»

Fear of God is the indispensable gate to the love of God.

The fear of God is only a gate, however, and not, as some theologians believe, a dwelling in which man can settle down.

Only through the fear of God does man enter so deep into the love of God that he can not again be cast out of it.

All religious reality begins with the acceptance of the concrete situation as given one by the Giver, and it is this which Biblical religion calls the «fear of God.»

The fear of God must flow into the love of God and be comprehended by it before one is ready to endure in the face of God the whole reality of lived life.

If we succeed in coming together... we will put the fear of God into those extremists who call themselves muslims because we'll show them that they are wrong in every sense of the word.

The fear of men over the fear of God.

But because he lacked the fear of God, or the belief of Christ's imminent return, he failed in his designated tasks.

«They have been taught the fear of God but when they encounter the Holy Spirit they experience a God that acts in the world today,» he says.

Such fear of God accomplishes nothing.

For this reason the narrative portrait of Paul's relationship with the apostles is not simply meant to show that Paul was not taught by them; it is also meant to model the unity that is only possible in the fear of God and the revelation of Christ in the gospel.

Now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness to men, faith, and the expectation of the future given to us by the Father himself through the Crucified One.»

Once again the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, you don't get there if you believe you are indestructable

18 Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

I assume you mean 1 Peter 2:18» Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.»

Love is central in God's relation to man and is more important than fear of God, justice, or righteousness.

If you need religion and fear of God's wrath of eternal fire and brimstone to be a moral, ethical, loving, compassionate human being..

«God has come to test you, so that the fear of God may keep you from sinning.»

While I might might mock Christians for thier wild beliefs, It would be nice to see athiests put thier money where thier mouth is and see them put up a billboard denouncing a Muslim holiday, I guess to athiests the fear of Allah is greater that the fear of God, so Im guessing Athiests do believe in something... hehe

Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man who with the years forgot his childish fear of God, was swindled out of the best, and was taken in by that which was most insolent.

Moral ideas centered around it, just as they centered around the fear of God in the earlier period.

Consequently an overwhelming fear of God and His wrath seized their hearts, and their pious devotions were regarded as a means of escape from the judgment to come.

-- let us never forget that the ignorance of Socrates was a kind of godly fear and divine worship, that his ignorance was the Greek rendering of the Jewish perception that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.