Sentences with phrase «things of earth»

I also loved the passage about her mother's perfume recipe: I realized they were a poem, both poem and enchantment, recipe and prayer, a code for an invisible kind of beauty to be conjured with things of the earth.

My point was, if Jesus was humble and back then told his disciples to sell all they had and follow him, then he must not have been to bog on adorning ones self with the riches and material things of the Earth.

Like an ocean - wave caught in a snapshot, or a torrent of lava stiffened by cooling, the mountains and living things of the earth wear the aspect, to those who study them, of a powerful momentum that has become petrified.

In Matthew 10:26 - 33 the church is exhorted to fearlessness in the face of danger and to trust in God, who cares for even the smallest things of earth.

St. John Cassian advises, «Before the time of prayer we must put ourselves in the state of mind we would wish to have in us when we actually pray... The Soul will rise to the heights of heaven or plunge into the things of earth depending upon where it lingered before the time of prayer.»

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and Grace.»

Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.

My point is that there are things of earth that are beyond the ken of even the most expert scientists.

Furthermore, a metaphysical outlook, being other - worldly, is unable to show the modem world a Christian outlook which values the things of earth and sees the world as in process of spiritual redemption and transformation and presents salvation as taking place here on earth.

The Christian attitude permits no ultimate asceticism toward the things of earth and sense.

Among all the creatures and things of the earth, man was qualitatively and obviously very different.

Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the things of earth rather than up towards the things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.

Before attempting to study God's word, always pray and ask for assistance in understanding what you are reading because again, per the Bible, religious words can not be understood by those who have their minds wrapped up with the things of this earth.

And, conversely, there is no preoccupation with the things of earth without awareness that disruptive covenanting has caused a break in heaven.

As each circle is nurtured, you serve yourself and others by fostering an enhanced life experience for all things of the Earth.