Sentences with phrase «selves for eternal life»

Love allows us to live life more abundantly and peacefully in the physical world and it prepares our spritual selves for eternal life.

Not exact matches

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.

His human life, as we shall see, was an adequate instrument, thoroughly personalized, for God's eternal Word or Self - Expression.

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

The introverted despairer thus lives on horis succesivis [successive hours], through hours which, though they are not lived for eternity, have nevertheless something to do with the eternal, being employed about the relationship of one's self to itself — but he really gets no further than this.

In the world of the practical, God is loved for the sake of one's self, for the self's purposes, and for the yield of this relation in the reward of eternal life.

For eternal life does not mean the endless prolongation of a conscious self but a life of such quality that, having no further concern for self - interest, can transcend death and rise to a fresh mode of manifestation in the lives of men who follFor eternal life does not mean the endless prolongation of a conscious self but a life of such quality that, having no further concern for self - interest, can transcend death and rise to a fresh mode of manifestation in the lives of men who follfor self - interest, can transcend death and rise to a fresh mode of manifestation in the lives of men who follow.

However, in the first case of the unreturned gift, one could say that there always remains a hope for a reciprocal gesture, as there is in an eschatological reserve: there will always be self - sacrificing in this life, but in hope of the eternal banquet.

But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.

As a thinking being, it is possible for me to suppress and quell in my consciousness every movement of self - assertion, every notion and opinion that is merely mine, every desire that belongs to me as this particular Self, and to become the pure medium of a thought that is universal — in one word, to live no more my own life, but let my consciousness be possessed and suffused by the Infinite and Eternal life of spiself - assertion, every notion and opinion that is merely mine, every desire that belongs to me as this particular Self, and to become the pure medium of a thought that is universal — in one word, to live no more my own life, but let my consciousness be possessed and suffused by the Infinite and Eternal life of spiSelf, and to become the pure medium of a thought that is universal — in one word, to live no more my own life, but let my consciousness be possessed and suffused by the Infinite and Eternal life of spirit.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who «will render to each one according to his deeds»: [a] 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self - seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness — indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

This ongoing God - enabled pursuit of a holy life is an inner transformation that actualizes a life of purpose and eternal significance.Such a distinctly Christian way of living finds its fullest expression in Christian love, which was exemplified fully by Jesus Christ, and is characterized by humility, self - sacrifice, mercy and justice, and mutual submission for the good of others.