Sentences with phrase «than the blessing of»

As the great hour approaches, the dresses, the flowers, the guests, the gifts, the right tempo of the wedding march, how to get through the ceremony without stumbling over the words or dropping the ring seem a great deal more important than the blessing of God.

What higher praise could Ta - Nehisi ask for than the blessing of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison who christens him as the long - awaited visionary finally filling the intellectual void left behind by the late James Baldwin.

What better press for Sony than the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church (after the whole Resistance thing, they're ready to make nice).

Not exact matches

While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018 on a high note rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.

Overall, I think my age brings more to the table than not, and the idea that someone who isn't affiliated with a political party, didn't have the blessing of the establishment, and who doesn't have deep pockets was able to get elected into a substantial government office is pretty exciting.

The OECD's methodology is slightly different than the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics but the results aren't far off; in October, the BLS reported the average U.S. workweek was 34.6 hours.

Like Alberta, Venezuela is blessed with huge reserves of heavy oil — more than any other nation on earth, according to some recent estimates.

According to a preliminary estimate from the BLS, there were 150,000 fewer jobs in the U.S. as of March than previously believed.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

I have been blessed with my own business for the past year and a half as well as a job that I love more than anything (besides Mom, of course.)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that this particular field is growing at a rate of 15 percent, a number that is more than twice as high as the national average (closer to a 7 percent).

BLS reported that, rather than retiring outright, over one half of older workers are continuing to work in «bridge» jobs.

And what better way to do this than quote Scripture and threaten the loss of God's blessings for non - tithers / less - than - sacrificial givers.

Jesus said, «Blessed are the peacemakers,» and He said it to a group of people who were no less prone to conflict than we are.

Or are you perhaps more deserving of blessings than that child was?

The atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless

Why does God provide different types of blessings for cancer patients than He does for an amputee?

Not only is it a blessing, it makes one keenly aware that there is far more to this life than our five senses can possibly detect, much less our ability to fully comprehend God, the origin of our Existance, and His plan for us.

Though my annual salary is not what one post claimed, I am blessed with far more than I need, and my sole objective and life's calling is to mobilize resources that empower under - resourced people to climb out of the poverty pit in which they were born.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers You should more impressed by the fact you just expressed Jesus to be of form and substance more like God than scientifically provable organic matter that existed and is falsifiable.

That is largely the result of a soteriology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing [mankind created in the image of God with the potential for aquiring «godlikeness» over time through cooperation with Grace].

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

A systematic theology that begins with Original Sin rather than Original Blessing can not be reconciled with the witness of Jesus to God as recorded in the Gospels.

Christians whose anthropology is defined by Original Sin rather than Original Blessing will always have a pessimistic view of people and life in general.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

Blessed: «You have done nothing to demonstrate your religious morality actually comes from a god and is not actually anything more than the subjective arbitrary morality of your religion's forefathers attributed to your (their) «god».»

Meanwhile, for more than a year, we went to Mass every Sunday, and every holy day of obligation, sitting where we knew we could get in line to approach the celebrant priest (not a deacon or extraordinary minister) with our arms folded to receive a blessing.

Few things bless a church more than the precious gift of leaders who serve together in unity for the joy of their people.

The evil desire to invalidate someone — to make them somehow less than me and therefore less able to share in the blessings of God — is the opposite of the wisdom that comes from heaven, which is full of mercy AND impartiality (James 3:16).

We are a result of our decisions, but those who place their lives in the will of God are following God's plan for all and their lives will be more blessed than those outside the will of God.

As Robert Louis Wilken has noted on more than one occasion, Maximus the Confessor's use of the phrase «blessed passion of love» evokes ideas that were important to Christian tradition.

What could be a better example of God's love than to show us how blessed we are, not to get what we deserve?

This realization returns us to a classical theological confession: that first and foremost God's creative act testifies to the love of God, to the willingness of God to make and bless that which is other than God.

«Blessing» announces to us that, keenly aware of the frailty and failing of the human, John was not content to dwell upon the down and the dark, any more than he was keen to deny it.

This is a less - than - reality - t.v. - worthy, day after day, messy journey of faith draggin» its triflin» self back to the cross where Jesus offers peace and blessing to the broken - hearted.

Two years ago I wrote an article for The Christian Century on the language of hymns and the new biblical translations which I freely confess was more heat than light («Lord, Bless This Burning Pit Stop,» January 15, 1975, p. 36).

The closing statement of Paul is a quotation from Jesus: «It is more blessed to give than to receive.»

Against both the foregoing views, the truth is that life in all of its dimensions occurs under the law of ambiguity; we experience it as both blessing and curse, sometimes predominantly one more than the other, but never exclusively one without the other.

Quite to the contrary, Paul is telling the spiritual leaders of the Ephesian church that it is more blessed for them to give to the needy in the church, than it is for the elders to receive.

Yet mindful of Thomas à Kempis's words that it is better to be a devoted servant of God than somebody who can discourse wisely, I was delighted to learn the revealing information that the former parish priest of four US parishes has as heroes inspiring men and women of God: Simone Weil, Edith Stein (St Teresa of the Cross), Dorothy Day, Blessed John XXIII, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and St Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

But, at age 35, I would be officially out of school for the first time in 30 years, and I leaped into the decade with a blessing in my pocket worth more than the Ph.D. — unbounded enthusiasm for the theological vocation.

Lacking this sensitivity, a counselor's advice, like that of Job's «comforters,» is apt to be a burden rather than a blessing.

He will not be content with the blessed assurance which comforts beyond all measure: that eternally the Good has always been victorious; the blessed assurance which is a security that passeth all understanding; the blessed assurance that the unprofitable servant may have within himself at each moment, even when the time is the longest and he seems to have accomplished least of all, the blessed assurance which allows the unprofitable servant if he loses honor to speak more proudly than that royal word: All is lost save honor.

At the end of the day, I have come to see wealth as a spiritual DISadvantage, more curse than blessing.

Was this because they had a far higher opinion of Blessed Teresa than Hitchens would permit in his film?

There are more complex, more important human questions than have been addressed by either the stern denunciations of divorce or the accommodating «cheap grace» efforts to bless divorce — or by the heralding of divorce as a liberation from outmoded bourgeois morality.

Could it be that God has given some people more than others, not so that they can feel extra special, or become puffed up about how great of people they are in God's eyes, or how wonderful their ministries are for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, but so that those to whom God has given more can use what they have to bless others who have been given less, and in so doing, be blessed in other ways in return?

[43:59] He was no more than a servant whom we blessed, and we sent him as an example for the Children of Israel.

scott god also told us not to judge, so let cleflo do cleflo and you do you if you do nt understand how to percieve gods word than it could also be you i remember when i first got saved i was taught a lots of religion stuff but i kept running after god and not after man and he revile some things to me thur his holy spirit watch what you say about gods people cause we all have issues and with that being said be blessed and if hes doing wrong by gods word than he has to answer to god not you so why set yourself up to be curse for it god do nt need your help in nothing stay free cause who god set free is free indeed.