Ask God to put His calming hand
upon the hearts of those who are sowing animosity among people groups.
God has written His law
upon the hearts of every person.
Many who heard him remembered also that the great prophet Jeremiah had foretold the days of a new covenant — written, this time, not on tablets of stone but
upon the hearts of the people.
Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress
upon the heart of man.
Well, I realized I was wrong after stumbling
upon this Hearts of Palm soup recipe in Mexican Today.
Marriott International — the hospitality industry's iconic leader in guest service — is expanding
upon the heart of its hospitality, its hundreds of thousands of associates, by creating additional points of engagement for guests, powered by artificial intelligence.
Feel your heart touching
upon the heart of the planet.
Not exact matches
But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling
heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions
upon millions
of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.
Widely maligned by critics
upon its release, Twister holds a special place in the
heart of many a millennial, thanks in part to the popular ride at Universal Studios.
In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day
of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty
of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's
heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled
upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.
So I think that we will see a broader growth dip, which probably will impact
upon the UK more than it will impact
upon Europe because we are at the
heart of it.
Religions are based
upon a set
of beliefs that held dear to one's
heart.
I had in my
heart and tongue the Name
of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression
of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left
upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging God to look
upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my
heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs out
of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought
upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
While the
heart behind much
of this has been to improve
upon systems that needed change, the fruit
of this labor has sent many churches down the road
of misplaced purpose and identity.
Verses 5 - 8 describe more
of this religious leader's pride in the context
of what his end will be: «By your great wisdom and traffick have you increased your riches, and your
heart is lifted up because
of your riches: therefore thus says the Lord God; because you have set your
heart as the
heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers
upon you... they shall bring you down to the pit.»
Do you have a moral standard written
upon your
heart that informs you that if you were married and suddenly attacked by a stranger and your wife defended you and touched the genitals
of the attacker, that she should be PUNISHED by having her hand cut off?
These questions are, as you know, at the
heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background
of such questions that I want to reflect
upon the significance
of human cloning.
The same with the second man... we can say that it appears that he was doing the will
of the Father by loving his neighbor but we do not know what was in his
heart upon his death.
The rythms
of the liturgy fall
upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony
heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber
of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeness.
The only delusion that occurs is when unregenerate man looks
upon that born - again child
of God and assumes he has lost his mind when in fact his mind and
heart have been liberated.
Say, «Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel — it is [none but] he who has brought the Qur «an down
upon your
heart, [O Muhammad], by permission
of Allah, confirming that which was before it and as guidance and good tidings for the believers.»
It has become so settled in the mind
of the denominational community that «Asking Jesus into the
heart» has become the defacto method for becoming a Christian, fearing baptizing converts immediately
upon profession
of faith will cause them to be «saved by works».
«But this is the covenant which I will make with the house
of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and 1 will write it
upon their
hearts» [Jer.
Even if the Exodus account laid all the responsibility for the hardening
of Pharaoh's
heart upon God Himself, and none
upon Pharaoh, this still would tell us nothing about whether or not Pharaoh concluded His life as one
of God's redeemed.
The church that refuses to listen to such movements
of God
upon the face
of the earth is the church that also fails to hear the whisperings
of God to their own
hearts and minds.
A coherent philosophy
of the human person, clearly expressed and debated, will yield much fruit, not least in a greater understanding with Muslims
of good will and pure
heart,
of whom there are many - Peace be
upon them!
A real and sustained effort was made to reconstruct the whole social order
upon the basis
of the Law
of God, not only by giving it statutory force, but by «writing it on the
heart», so far as this could be done by positive instruction and through the ordinances
of public worship.
The main problem is the perversion
of the human
heart, which is turned in
upon itself, as Augustine said, rather than being open to the other beings as well as to the Source
of all being.
Surely such morbid speculations crowd in
upon the dark recesses
of our frightened and rebellious
hearts from time to time.
At every moment the vast and horrible Thing breaks in
upon us through the crevices and invades our precarious dwelling - place, that Thing we try so hard to forget but which is always there, separated from us only by thin dividing walls: fire, pestilence, earthquake, storm, the unleashing
of dark moral forces, all these sweep away ruthlessly, in an instant, what we had laboured with mind and
heart to build up and make beautiful.
They might be described as the feudal underlords
of the personality,
of which Whitehead speaks in Modes
of Thought: «Finally, the overlord tends to relapse into the conventionality
of routine imposed
upon the subordinate governors, such as the
heart.
And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act
upon me though the united flames
of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths
of your
heart, the angels
of your triumphant activity.
The «kingdom
of Heaven» is a condition
of the
heart — not something that comes «
upon the earth» or «after death.»
It is a fact beyond question that deep within ourselves we can discern, as though through a rent, an «interior» at the
heart of things; and this glimpse is sufficient to force
upon us the conviction that in one degree or another this «interior» exists and has always existed everywhere in nature.
If I seal up the entry into my
heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act
upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials
of sensation,
of ideas,
of moral goodness,
of holiness
of life.
I am so sorry I can not believe,» and then appeals to us for pity because he can not believe, but when the Holy Spirit touches a man's
heart, he no longer looks
upon unbelief as a mark
of intellectual superiority; he does not look
upon it as a mere misfortune; he sees it as the most daring, decisive and damning
of all sins and is overwhelmed with a sense
of his awful guilt in that he had not believed on the name
of the only begotten Son
of God.
An - Nisa sura 04: In the name
of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Then because
of their breaking
of their covenant, and their disbelieving in the revelations
of Allah, and their slaying
of the prophets wrongfully, and their saying: Our
hearts are hardened — Nay, but Allah set a seal
upon them for their disbelief, so that they believe not save a few --(155) And because
of their disbelief and
of their speaking against Mary a tremendous calumny; (156) And because
of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son
of Mary, Allah's messenger — they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo!
He answers with exact fidelity to these inward drawings, either by an elevation
of his
heart toward God, or by a meek and loving regard to Him; or by such words as love forms
upon these occasions, as for instance, My God, behold me, wholly Thine: Lord, make me according to Thy
heart.
(44) And when thou recitest the Qur «an we place between thee and those who believe not in the Hereafter a hidden barrier; (45) And We place
upon their
hearts veils lest they should understand it, and in their ears a deafness; and when thou makest mention
of thy Lord alone in the Qur «an, they turn their backs in aversion.
Of his own free will He walks naked and alone into the heart of the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak upon his innocent humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image of God in their own soul
Of his own free will He walks naked and alone into the
heart of the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak upon his innocent humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image of God in their own soul
of the storm as broken and twisted creatures wreak
upon his innocent humanity the damage that mirrors the broken image
of God in their own soul
of God in their own souls.
Once one has settled
upon one's own mediocrity and despaired
of doing or being anything great, one sets one's
heart on nothing more than distraction.
Daniel T. Rodgers, in his book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850 to 1920 University
of Chicago Press, 1978), enlarges
upon Weber's original thesis, suggesting that «at the
heart of Protestantism's revaluation
of work was the doctrine
of the calling, the faith that God had called everyone to some productive vocation, to toil there for the common good and for His greater glory.»
is simply too ingrained, too much a part
of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come
of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office
of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office
of Religion to protest against the sophistry
of Satan, and to preserve the memory
of those truths which the unbelieving
heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility
of man, the sovereignty
of the Creator, the supremacy
of the law
of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy
of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made
upon our conduct and character.»
That was the meaning
of the saying, «Take my yoke
upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls» (Matt.
Accordingly, Garaudy asks: «Is it to impoverish man, to tell him that he lives as an incomplete being, that everything depends
upon him, that the whole
of our history and its significance is played out within man's intelligence,
heart and will, and nowhere else, that we bear full responsibility for this; that we must assume the risk, every step
of the way, since, for us atheists, nothing is promised and no one is waiting?
The height
of absurdity came when Hitchens assailed Mother Teresa for allegedly giving her
heart to greater Albania, «a cause that was once smiled
upon by Pope Pius IX and his friend Benito Mussolini.»
Men's
hearts will fail them for the fear
of things coming
upon the earth, people who have been provoking on the day
of the Lord, will seek to die, and death will flee from them in that day.
The existential posture
of Augustine's «self - understanding,» Pascal's «reasons
of the
heart,» Bergson's «duration,» and William James's «stream
of consciousness» have had a marked impression
upon my thinking.
He concludes that at the
heart of the problem, suffering is a resolute insistence
upon and adoration
of the imperishable goodness
of creation.
But they presage the opening dirgelike phrases
of his Decline and Restoration, the «other book» that weighed
upon his
heart from his very first days at the university but which he did not actually begin to write until after the outbreak
of World War I, in 1914: