My ultimate hope in doing so is to reach parents and to educate them on how a simple, brief conversation might prevent upset to their child down the road.
I hesitate because I realize the struggle of finding
ultimate hope in Jesus with other competing hopes in our hearts.
Not exact matches
Petronas was
hoping to cut its contribution to 9 billion ringgit ($ 2.13 billion) next year, from an estimated 26 billion ringgit this year, amid a sharp earnings drop, but the government objected and the
ultimate amount may come
in around 18 billion ringgit, Wiranto said, noting this raises questions on revenue sustainability.
An environmental assessment report from the US State Department that landed last week would seem to move TransCanada's
hopes forward, but the pipeline's
ultimate fate is still very much
in limbo.
With all JOBS Act regulations now
in effect, the
ultimate question is whether we're on track to realize the
hopes and dreams of real estate crowdfunding, and what the future holds.
For mortals the
ultimate peace is death (as
in «cross my fingers and
hope I will live
in heaven»).
For Christians the
ultimate hope that cheers us is lodged elsewhere than
in a firm bedside handshake.
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence
in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the
ultimate goal of divine creation and human
hope the kingdom of God
in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
Alienation and repression must forever rule
in history if it is impossible to abolish their ground; so long as the
ultimate ground of a fallen history remains wholly isolated and absolutely autonomous, there can be no
hope in the resurrection of energy and life.
As long as love and loyalty, aspiration and
hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so long will there remain an
ultimate mystery
in the divine - human encounter.
So, God himself must ultimately forgive sin, and it is
in the expression of this
hope for
ultimate forgiveness that ancient Judaism reached its height.
For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw
in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of
ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which
hope and wonder might evoke.
But more than that, Jesus welcomed these outcasts into table - fellowship with himself
in the name of the Kingdom of God,
in the name of the Jews»
ultimate hope, and so both prostituted that
hope and also shattered the closed ranks of the community against their enemy.
The parable following 19.11 develops this theme
in that it instructs the Christians to settle down to the long haul of history
in the general context of an
ultimate parousia, a parousia which, however, is clearly receding both
in time, so far as the Lukan
hope is concerned, and
in importance for the Lukan theology.
Naturally enough, with the rise of apocalyptic, the
hope for God's
ultimate forgiveness becomes the
hope for God's eschatological forgiveness, and with the rise of Messianism, it becomes the
hope for messianic forgiveness:
In Pesikta 149a, the Messiah comes «with grace and pardon (slyhh) on his lips.»
The remnant or the one, and we find both concepts before as well as after the Fall, is a projection of faith, an assertion of
hope in the
ultimate fulfillment of the covenant promise.
That one can dare to maintain such
hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely
in the relinquishing of concern for one's own security,
ultimate security and meaning are found.
In the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a natio
In the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's
hope and faith
in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a natio
in the
ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a nation.
Israel's persistent, obstinate
hope in the
ultimate fulfillment of the promise is itself an act of faith, made defiantly
in the face of her own repeated abandonment of faith.
Furthermore, may we know that it is permissible to feel bereft of meaning and
hope and that we can express that
in our prayers, and, lastly, may we see God as the
ultimate role model and translate our verbal prayers into actualized transformative deeds.
Key concepts
in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of experience, creative solitude,
hope, faith affection new being,
ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action
in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.
Christianity does not ignore the vision of a redeemed political order but it sets all political
hopes in a perspective which relates each person and each historical fact to the
ultimate community of all life with God.
The
ultimate truth and
hope of the Church, God and his Christ, will be expressed anew as though what
in fact has always been preached were really understood for the first time.
Our
hope is that the good which comes to be is not lost, but participates
in the continuing life of God and thus shares
in His
ultimate victory.
It provides a one - sentence affirmation about the gospel and speaks of our entire
hope of justification and salvation» resting on «God's promise and the saving work
in Christ,» as «our
ultimate trust.»
If we say that the
ultimate ground of all human
hope lies
in Jesus Christ, what does that mean for our life together as God's people?
11: 17) and a new foundation for
hope in the
ultimate coming of the future Kingdom.
The principle may be stated thus: Growth
in Christian maturity is growth
in love for all the goods of mortal life, and at the same time it is growth
in the capacity for detachment of our
ultimate faith and
hope from dependence upon our particular plans and interests.
Already God's reign is present as a ferment
in the world, stirring
hope in all people and preparing the world to receive its
ultimate judgment and redemption.
If one values every single individual as unique and irreplaceable, and if one's image of the good is of the widest possible conviviality, then
in order fully to aim for the good, even the sacrificial offering of oneself must sustain the
hope of one's own
ultimate redemption.
This
hope for the Good Society was justified
in liberal theology both by its
ultimate faith
in God and by what it took to be experiences of real victory over evil.
In Jerusalem the new movement will present itself to the authorities of the country; in Jerusalem the ultimate verdict must be pronounced; in Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realize
In Jerusalem the new movement will present itself to the authorities of the country;
in Jerusalem the ultimate verdict must be pronounced; in Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realize
in Jerusalem the
ultimate verdict must be pronounced;
in Jerusalem the hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realize
in Jerusalem the
hopes of the Kingdom of God will be realized.
In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctificatio
In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the
ultimate mystery of his existence
in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctificatio
in faith,
hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future
in forgiveness and sanctificatio
in forgiveness and sanctification.
Concern for the
ultimate vindication of the martyr had been a prominent factor within Jewish thought
in promoting the
hope for a final resurrection.
When the idiom of resurrection came to be used
in an eschatological form to express man's
ultimate hope, there was no one clear and unmistakable interpretation of it.
In a blend of fidelity to Jesus as the Christ and to the kingdom which was his central message, the church has been able to find both a challenge to action and its
ultimate hope.
When these symbols are taken literally they confuse the mind of the church, distort the relation between time and eternity, and reduce God's
ultimate vindication over history to a point
in history; for Niebuhr, one such falsification is expressed
in the
hope of a millennial age.
The content of this
ultimate hope grows organically out of the felt needs, miseries, dreams, and faith of that given period, using categories available
in the culture of the time.
In fact one has the feeling that the New Testament sees realms of society and state as both capable of being transformed by the ferment of the church, the community of Divine forgiveness and the
hope of the coming Kingdom, to become foretastes and signs of
ultimate human destiny, namely the Kingdom of God.
If we are not bored by the message of the incarnation as it is presented to us
in helpless words from the pulpit, but meet it with a longing heart
hoping to confront the
ultimate question of existence, then we shall be able to celebrate the feast of the advent of the Son
in which the mystery we call God (often imagining that this word has explained the mystery) is truly protectively near, on earth and
in the flesh where we are.
Reverence for the name of Jesus, for His mother Mary and for the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church unites one with the past and the future
in the
hope of some
ultimate fulfillment.
I indeed share with Boff the
hope for an
ultimate unity of humanity
in God.
Christians
hope that the
ultimate destiny of the believer, perhaps of all people, is to see God and to be
in the presence of the One who is Light and Love, Beauty and Holiness.
Hoping in an
ultimate horizon of fulfillment beyond any we can adequately imagine on the basis of our interaction with society is capable of liberating us from the idolatrous tendency to demand an impossible acceptance from those around us.
Accordingly, there still exists
in Indian Christianity the
hope that all religions will find their
ultimate home
in their own one true religion, namely Christianity.
Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses,
in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «
in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is
in the significance and value of individual men and women and the
ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of
hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»
This spiritual ground for
hope at this time of wanton destruction of our world, can help us to recall the
ultimate purpose of life and of our journey
in this world.
The
ultimate loyalty is a loyalty to the Absolute, and
in that loyalty — not the social gospel of doing good or the corporate gospel of wealth — is the only
hope of creating a «Beloved Community.»
«39 The present writer has found great inspiration, much truth, wisdom, and beauty, fervent witness to the numinous character of
ultimate reality
in the great Hindu writings through the ages, and
hopes to learn still more from them; but he can not agree with Radhakrishnan's conclusion that «Jesus» own testimony, philosophical truth and religious experience alike demand that He should be brought
in line with the other great saints of God, who has not left himself without a witness
in any clime or age.
In fact, the nature of the penultimate historical goal of humanization within the hope of ultimate salvation, is the theme of moral philosophy in the Christian religio
In fact, the nature of the penultimate historical goal of humanization within the
hope of
ultimate salvation, is the theme of moral philosophy
in the Christian religio
in the Christian religion.