Sentences with phrase «thirst after righteousness»

To all who are spiritually weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to all who will come, this church opens wide her doors and offers welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Saints are those who «hunger and thirst after righteousness».

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is different.

Make us to hunger and thirst after righteousness: that we may be filled therewith.

Matthew refers to «the poor in spirit:, Luke to «you poor»; Matthew speaks of «those who hunger and thirst after righteousness», Luke of «you that hunger».

They «hunger and thirst after righteousness» but also after acceptance, love, and serenity.

The ethical life which Jesus exalts in many of his most characteristic teachings is the ethical life of the penitent: the kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit, the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, those who seek mercy, the childlike, the humble.

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

«Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied» (Matt.

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

There's a world of difference between one who is «hungering and thirsting after righteousness» and one who is merely seeking an intellectual snack.

As Shamblin puts it in The Weigh Down Diet, the purpose of a Christ - centered diet program is to «learn how to replace head hunger with the will of God so that you transfer this urge for a pan of brownies to that of hungering and thirsting after righteousness.»

Not exact matches

We «hunger and thirst» after righteousness; we «find the Lord a sweet savor;» we «taste and see that he is good.»