Sentences with phrase «seeking glory»

50I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

However, while Kane has recently signed a new deal at White Hart Lane, Sheringham — who himself swapped North London for Manchester — has urged the England international not to wait too long before seeking glory elsewhere.

In fact the whole of the league needs players prepared to run, you can not get away with being basically a «goal hanger» like we called them at school, seeking the glory of a goal but not tracking back and defending with the rest of team.

I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

That is against everything Jesus taught... about being vain and seeking the glory of men... what?

In a wildly dumb piece that ran this week, the Toronto alt - weekly called Commander Chris Hadfield a PR - seeking glory hound and space exploration a waste of money.

To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.

«How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?»

To understand this is to seek his glory and praise.

The Lord our God is one [hen] Lord;» Mark 12:29 «you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only [monos] God?»

Now Paul said that he COULD have asked of those he served: 1 Thessalonians 2:6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.

Not exact matches

Bruce Berkowitz seeks a return to glory by betting on the value of Sears» parking lots.

So, bottom line, before automatically deciding to move to the Bay Area to seek fame and glory, consider the benefits of growing your company in the community you're already in.

Instead of a case of a craven fame - seeker seducing a great man, or a short - sighted narcissist seeking a mirror for his own self - perceived glory, this story, as Loeb tells it, seems to be a case of two people who should have been good falling far from even their own standards.

It would place the Church in the role of gently but firmly pointing out violations of biblical law and predicting the consequences, while seeking to live out its own profession before the world, showing God's glory in the wholesome, restrained, but ultimately satisfying outcomes it would demonstrate.

7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Romans 2:7) shows immortality and eternal life.

As Pope Benedict XVI made clear in his 2008 address at the Collège des Bernardins, Benedictine monasticism (for example) generated many of the glories of later western Christian civilization as a secondary result because its primary aim was quaerere Deum, seeking God.

Paul is telling them in verse 7» To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life».

Ro 2 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well - doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self - seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Some sought economic gain or military glory, but most were inspired by faith.

If the church is the representative of Jesus to the world, then to the degree that the church seeks to meet our own needs before the needs of others, desires to control the beliefs and behaviors of others (both inside and outside the church), and chases after glory, fame, power, wealth, and recognition before men, is the same degree to which the church presents Jesus as a Satanic Messiah to the watching world.

His call to artists to show the world the glory of beauty and goodness, his appeal to women to discover their own unique vocation, his call to youth to seek God, brought a Christian inspiration into areas of life where a secular world view had longdominated.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

The world is seeking after glory and honor, but these things are only given to those who serve God.

Glory for self isn't to be sought but letting others see what God is doing through us is of much value.

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

... and (God) gives eternal life to those who by patient continuance in DOING GOOD seek for glory, honour and immortality».

Wanting not to argue the truth but to sing it, he seeks to fill his listeners» minds with the wonder and glory of God.

By contrast, Jesus» response seeks to remind them that the way to messianic glory leads through the cross.

Jesus did not seek to gain power or credit for Himself, but consistently gave glory to God and spread power among His followers.

Paul is talking about how we can experience the riches and blessings of being in the family of God, and how God seeks to unify us into one family, and how we can live for the praise of His glory.

«To those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality — eternal life.

It seeks to persuade individuals and organizations to make national might and glory their main aim in life.

Men beset by anxieties are likely to seek mental peace through worship since they discovered in earlier experience that it was a by - product of a devotion that had no ulterior purpose but was directed to the eternal glory.

The best that I can do is celebrate, and seek to harmonize with, the manifest glory of God.

The result was a new and peculiar literary form, apocalyptic, which sought to unravel the secrets of the divine plan for the world, to recognize the signs of the end, to calculate the time of its arrival, and to invent fantastic elaborations of the heavenly glory.

As «a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior, according to the Scriptures, and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and» Holy Spirit», (Constitution of the World Council of Churches.)

In his version, he sought to «imitate, however imperfectly, those rhetorical and rhythmical patterns which are the glory and the sublimity of the Koran» (p. 25).

But unfortunately, you have so called scientist who are seeking their own glory, trying to discredit the Bible so that they can claim they discovered it first.

He tells us to fear men's glory, not to seek it.

7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Romans 2:7)

On the one hand there is an official and institutional form of Christianity seeking to be faithful to the beliefs and forms of Christendom's past glory, and on the other there is a secular, non-religious society which tends to assume that emancipation from all religious faith is part of the goal of complete secularization.

«Correlative to that is that the» glory of a human being — moral, upright, seeking the truth — is brought to a climactic point for me by what it is to be a. Christian».

Our tendency to seek the holy directly, apart from any mask or ambiguity — through what Luther criticized as a theology of glory.

Our tendency is to seek the holy directly, apart from any mask or ambiguity — through what Luther criticized as a theology of glory.

Rather than seeking to discover what the text can do for her and her wants, Evans would do well to strive to shape her life to the glory of Scriptural truth.

That is, as inheritors of the old covenant, Christians sought to demonstrate the reasonableness of only one divine and eternal being, while as initiates into the life of Jesus, they also sought to show how Christ's glory consummates God's action ad extra and reveals the triune nature of God in a way that never puts monotheism at risk.

Writing to fellow churches across Pennsylvania, the association's leaders explained that through Bucknell, they sought «to see... the cause of God, the honor and glory of the Redeemer's kingdom promoted in all our bounds, and spreading far and wide until the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.»

Led by a leader beleived to be infallible, it is a closed society, seeking to spread its influence throughout the world for the greater glory of itself.

(Examples: «Suffering from a headache, she sought, for the glory of God, to relieve herself by holding certain odoriferous substances in her mouth, when the Lord appeared to her to lean over towards her lovingly, and to find comfort Himself in these odors.