The makeup of the group underscores another popular religious theme in King's work that's reflected in this line from the apostle Paul in the first Book of Corinthians: «God chose the
weak things of the world to shame the strong.»
SH I've always been interested in work that makes use
of things of the world — Kurt Schwitters, George Herms, Hannah Höch, collage and assemblage history.
Otherwise, this text is too close for comfort, and Kierkegaard knew it: «In the magnificent cathedral the Honorable and Right Reverend Geheime - General - Ober - Hof - Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: «God hath elected the
base things of the world, and the things that are despised.»
America, we southerners know especially well, is the easiest place in the world to be both at home and homeless, to enjoy the
good things of the world without forgetting that our true home is somewhere else.
Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the
lesser things of this world.»
Paul reminds us in I Corinthians 1:28 that the
lowly things of this world which God chose are to «break up the existing state of things» (author's translation).
Because O'Connor accepted sacrament as truth, she found it easy to view the natural
things of this world as vehicles or instruments for God's grace.
Indeed, the notion of «fallen nature» suggests that, while traces of God's law and purposes are inevitably scripted into the deep character of all that is, the
natural things of the world are out of order or confused of direction in one or another respect.
The major task of the comic hero, therefore, as Nathan Scott insists, «is to remind us of how deeply rooted we are in all the
tangible things of this world....
Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the
elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.
Things like this don't take away the terrible and
horrible things of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carry on.
Until one understands with revelry this accurate account of Truth, then you will remain mired in bitterness and
seek things of the world and not of God!
What characterizes spirit and thinking is primarily the range of their object, that is, the determinateness of something that stands out as something other than the perishable, changeable, and
fortuitous things of the world; that, being universal and necessary, stands above time and place.
But if you were a Christian you would already know that God IS all powerful, rather than thinking that the
stingy things of this world could tie His hands.
I'm a simple and realistic man with good goals and dreams, I'm all way around the
wonderful things of this world, totally honest maybe sometimes too honest, low - tempered and i love swimming, tourism, sight - seeing, music..
In his choice of subject matter, Thiebaud found a way to direct his love of paint's materiality, have it affirm his devotion to paint and to the perishable and
impassive things of this world.
«Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man - made things, including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful and
poetic things of the world» — George Kubler, The Shape of Things, 1961
In 1999, interested in materials and anti-industrial gestures, I visited Richard Salmon Gallery in London to see the exhibition «Furniture»: I was convinced that artists invariably tell us more than designers do about the
everyday things of the world.
For once the
humble things of the world are spared the weight and freight of having to portray our tortured and disappointed states of being.
He described a rudimentary concept of property as «that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the
external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.»
What he asks us to renounce is not our enjoyment of the
good things of this world, but our failure both to share this enjoyment with the poor and to imagine and trust in the infinity of goodness and compassion that transcends and grounds the good world.
Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, ducking your head, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, dulling your mind, satiating your hunger with the
lesser things of this world.