Sentences with phrase «own blessedness»

You know, that long - term history we're talking about earlier of stocks is made up of that bull market part that's kind of two - X the long - term average, and then all that negative that goes with it, and the blessedness that comes from owning stocks in the long - term includes all that volatility.

Those failures are no reason to lower the bar of expectation, to foreshorten our aspirations to the goodness needed for eternal life; they are a reason to get up, seek reconciliation, and continue on the journey into the life of blessedness the Holy Spirit, «the Counselor» who brings consolation, makes possible.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

What Jesus calls blessedness we call failure.

The first task in the art of dying well is to learn how to live an existence that leads to blessedness.

His gospel did not promise blessedness, nor did it bind salvation to legal or moral conditions: blessedness is the «only reality.»

Yet the eschatological situation in which he found himself was not yet that of the final blessedness, but rather the «last hour», in which forgiveness was offered to the penitent.

Prayer in the smaller and still more intimate group of two or three friends who love and understand each other well enough to share all their other interests can be a doorway to blessedness.

That was apparently how the ancient Hebrews took solemn oaths because of the blessedness of the «seed» which God had promised to multiply to Abraham and his descendants.

In both groups one ongoing task will be to clarify each person's story as witness to the truth and blessedness of the gospel.

He is our salvation because in him God reverses the direction of our pride and self - love, and shows the way to blessedness:

God reaches down to the foundations of the universe, into atomic structure, and reaches up into the highest possibilities of blessedness, far beyond the reach of our knowledge and imagination.

Fear, on the other hand, is a dry nurse for the child: it has no milk; a bloodless corrector for the youth: it has no beckoning encouragement; a niggardly disease for the adult: it has no blessing; a horror for the aged: when fear has to admit that the long painful time of schooling did not bring Eternal Blessedness.

He receives blessedness as an individual.

The Greek conception of blessedness is thus spatial; it is determined by the contrast between this world and the timeless Beyond; it is not a time conception determined by the opposition between Now and Then.22

«One man does not become blessed,» says Saint Augustine, «by the blessedness of another.»

The Buddhist life is the life of compassion, the effortless effort to free others from their bondage to illusion so that they may know the blessedness that comes from letting being be.

And think how it is with me, Adam: that life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I can not but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters, there is not perfect love....

In fact, evergreens are biblical metaphors for reversal: they symbolize divine reversal from a state of accursedness and judgment to a state of blessedness and restoration.

To this extent the classical philologian Ernst Heitsch» is correct in sensing that the historian's awareness «tua res agitur is «nuanced in a particular way» by the New Testament scholar: «It is a matter of thy blessedness, however one may understand this.»

Jesus goes on to describe this kingdom as a future blessedness.

Its blessedness was a present possession of those who accepted it.

For the number «one thousand» (Rev. 20:4) does not apply to the eternal blessedness of the church... On the contrary, all Scripture proclaims that there will be no end to the blessedness of the elect...» (Institutes, III.xxv.5).

The Christian himself can conceive no ideal of love higher than that of the Boddhisattva who renounces his own final blessedness for the sake of the world.

For a man must believe that God is God only for the sake of his blessedness.

The God we imagine is the God we want, who can give us what we want, and this means a personal God who takes notice of us and guarantees us a blessedness that transcends the limits of nature.

And, oh, this misery, that so many live on and are defrauded of this most blessed of all thoughts; this misery, that people employ themselves about everything else, or, as for the masses of men, that people employ them about everything else, utilize them to generate the power for the theater of life, but never remind them of their blessedness; that they heap them in a mass and defraud them, instead of splitting them apart so that they might gain the highest thing, the only thing worth living for, and enough to live in for an eternity — it seems to me that I could weep for an eternity over the fact that such misery exists!

As we noted, the blessedness of the Millennium was not all that blessed for those who were «forced to obey» in Swaggart's description.

God made a choice — he chose some individuals to be saved unto everlasting blessedness in heaven, and he chose others to pass over, allowing them to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell (Sproul, Grace Unknown, 141).

«In the blessedness of your saints you have given us a glorious pledge of the hope of our calling that, moved by their witness and supported by their fellowship, we may run with perseverance the race that is set before us and with them receive the unfading crown of glory.

Such a rose is to be in a sky - blue field [symbolizing] that such joy in the Spirit and in faith is a beginning of the future heavenly joy;... And around this a golden ring, [symbolizing] that in heaven such blessedness lasts forever... Luther «s Works, American Edition, Vol.

He is specifically cited in Reformation arguments, especially by Calvin, and both Luther and Calvin recognized that the themes they emphasized as the essential gospel had been stressed earlier by Augustine: the universality and depth of the problem of sin; the consequent incapacity of even the «best» persons to follow the law commanding inward love, the possibility of salvation — of escaping condemnation and of gaining blessedness — through God's grace alone.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

God is eternal blessedness, undying life, unfading light.

«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?

Like Debbie, I thought «grace»... but that the grace of being shown one's own blessedness, one's own beauty can be overwhelming and hard to face, especially when we've been taught otherwise, all in the name of the virtue of «humility.»

Their thinking was largely affected by Jewish apocalyptic conceptions, according to which history had fallen under the dominion of demonic powers; when «the fullness of time» should come, God would engage these powers in battle, would defeat and destroy them and their human agents, and would inaugurate a new and unimaginable order of blessedness, righteousness and peace.

The acceptance of suffering for the right and for Christ certainly brings blessedness to follow (3:14).

22: that sharing of God's blessedness, when Purgatory will be no more.

Therefore I turn, and cause the Book to be opened a fourth time: «Men do not desire blessedness upon their lips, nor truth in their bowels»» And I make no comment about the bowels, But rather allow the completion of the thought, such as it is» «For blessedness is the daughter of tears, and truth is but the son of pain.»

We, however, often view religion as helpful only in answering (often quite arbitrarily) questions of how we can reach eternal blessedness, not how we might live better while we are here.

Does someone achieve blessedness and justification in God's eyes because he has conscientiously fulfilled the duties of blood vengeance?

One contains the wicked who in torment await the resurrection day, when final penalties will be adjudged; another contains the wicked who already have been punished and for whom there is to be no resurrection; another contains the moderately good who await their reward at the judgment; another contains the faithful saints who enjoy Paradise until their rising at the last day to eternal blessedness.

(Ephesians 1:3) While, therefore, Paul longed for the great consummation, when at Christ's coming «the body of our humiliation» would be fashioned anew and «conformed to the body of his glory,» (Philippians 3:21) this climactic experience became less an external and imposed event and more the fulfillment of the Christian's present blessedness.

As those who are saved are successively in two extremely different states — first in a state of condemnation and then in a state of justification and blessedness — and as God, in the salvation of men, deals with them as rational and intelligent creatures, it appears agreeable to this wisdom, that those who are saved should be made sensible of their Being, in those two different states.

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

The word beatitude means blessedness, or the highest happiness.

-- «O the blessedness of!»

They participate in God's being and may lead toward blessedness in him.

And when Jesus tells us the paths that lead to blessedness, we can not bring ourselves to believe him.