Sentences with phrase «upon the truth of»

And after a period of time listening to me, reading the scriptures, they will come upon the truth of scripture and then make their decision.
It is only within the Church, built upon the truth of the Incarnation, that true freedom from tyranny lies.
And just how is it that you are uniquely blessed to have come upon he truth of the Gospels and are now compelled to let the rest of us know?
But if we just go away without hearing, understanding, believing, or acting upon the truth of the Word of God, this means that the devil is stealing the Word from you heart.
But their advice is predicated upon the truth of the very thing one is quetioning.
We invite the penitent to continue to reflect upon the truth of the situation, making clear the open invitation to return to us.
The solution to this question is contingent upon the truths of any type of specific case.

Not exact matches

But the truth of it is — and this is a point I work hard to impress upon my students — that leadership isn't a function reserved for the top of the food - chain.
Disaster films nearly always contain some not - so - subtle commentary on our mistreatment of the environment, but this one was so topical upon its release that it could have been shown as a double - feature with An Inconvenient Truth.
So this entire story is based upon disinformation — a distortion of the truth.
If one does «literally believe» upon these above four verses of KJVB scripture you will then slowly begin to understand the Truth in God's Word!
Just so you know, as soon as I stumbled upon this particular toon, I subscribed for your RSS feed and followed you on Twitter right away I just love how despite the simplicity & minimalism of the toons (which btw, I really adore), you communicate larger - than - life truths.
«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.
There is not one shred of truth from science to account for the presence of life upon the earth by any means other than a special creation by the great original first Cause - God - Who is life and the fountain source of all life!
Our celestial universe could very well be part of a ginormous being swimming upon a vast sea upon a grand earth so huge the concept of which is but as a dream to be considered only as truth if one but believes.
I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon by the people of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).
And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.
In our age, in which we have lost the significance of the mystery in sign, let alone the limited signification of truth in any particular sign, it is not amiss in the poet, when he is confronted by inquisitive theorists and urged to pronounce upon the nature of his peculiar calling» the rescue of sign» to speak directly for that labor Eliot calls the purification of the dialect of the tribe.
The principle of conformation expresses «the stubborn fact that whatever is settled and actual must in due measure be conformed to by the self - creative activity» (S 36), and also assumes that «universality of truth arises from the universality of relativity, whereby every particular actual thing lays upon the universe the obligation of conforming to it» (S 39).
According to René Descartes, rationality is built first upon the realization of the absolute truth «I think therefore I am», which requires no faith.
One rationalist in its insistence upon essential truth, one empiricist in its insistence upon the plurality of conflicting truths.
However be cautious of relying upon discernment as mature Christians are hard to read at a glance and the mentally ill will be speaking the demonic and also the warring truth.
Pastors may concentrate upon the comforting, prescriptive truths of Psalm 23, «The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.»
For example: «It is truth that today's manly - made churches are in actualities a mimmickery of wanting to establish mankinds» on and upon earth Christendoms being their idolized and adorned perceptions and variations...» This is probably one of the worst word usage I've ever seen.
It is truth that today's manly - made churches are in actualities a mimmickery of wanting to establish mankinds» on and upon earth Christendoms being their idolized and adorned perceptions and variations of God's True Kingdom Domains being of our bodies that are God's buildings!
Decorously contained on a half - page with regular rhyme and punctuation, it seems at first glance to be the sort of poem a pious 17th - century country parson might be expected to write — a courteous reiteration of theological truths upon which the Sunday faithful may happily agree.
In these days when «organised religion» is looked upon with suspicion we are losing sight of this most wonderful truth about God's work.
Every advance in our knowledge of reality, every new truth discovered, impinges upon how we understand the truth given to us in Revelation.
Regarding the argument that we can't be «unborn» etc, I think we have to be very careful building doctrine upon analogies, because analogies can never give us the whole truth, they only illustrate an aspect of it.
Such are the foundational and indispensable truths upon which any credible affirmation of universal rights must be based.
There are undoubtedly some who know intuitively how much depends upon the historic truth of the Resurrection.
To read the gospel with an open mind is to see beyond all possibility of doubt that Jesus came to bring us new truths concerning our destiny: not only a new life superior to that we are conscious of, but also in a very real sense a new physical power of acting upon our temporal world.
This isn't a formula or» 5 - easy - steps», but it is a path upon which we will discover more of God and His truth.
If our primary knowledge is irreplicable and dependent upon accidents, how can we be sure of assenting to the truth?
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
Although the formulation of these truths has a cultural history, they are not the possession of any one culture, nor does their universal recognition constitute a cultural imposition upon others.
The prolific Jesuit scholar, Fr James Schall, now in his eighties, has given us this book about the pleasure of knowing the truth of things, in particular the delight of discovering coherence from reflecting upon diverse aspects of existence, of realising that all sorts of «scraps of evidence» point to the fact that only Christianity provides an adequate account of our existence.
Wise application of the Word of God to our life situations, our identity and our purpose was the powerhouse that gave 19th Century African - American theologians the foundational truths upon which historic and modern «blackness» was built — theologians like Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Rev. Alexander Crummell, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner to name a few.
Liberty of spirit is fundamental, since the free society is founded on respect for truth» specifically, upon openness to the light of evidence.
But they do disclose to us certain important truths, upon which the attainment of our eternal salvation depends, and they do also give a popular description of the origin of the human race and of the chosen people.
This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.
After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social, economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and ideology] in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True human development] requires a new perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»
I was reading the book reviews of a certain Christian book on Amazon yesterday, and stumbled upon the most astounding argument for the truth of Christianity I have ever read.
The truth in the myth of Cain and Abel still remains: the mark of Cain is upon us.
Christianity does not replace them, but from the very outset sheds upon everything a light that makes it possible to enhance all the tiny or huge pieces of truth and charity present at each and every level of existence.
The value of faith stems not from the irrationality of its object but from the humility that is required to see the truth which is accepted, and the courage required to act upon it.
Religions are hinduism, absurdity of hindu Jew's, filthy secular s in their hindu Judaism, filthy secularism, denial of truth absolute, created to hind, fool humanity to subordinate to hindu Jew's, criminal secular s of Egypt and Persia, Prophet Moses, Anointed son of blessed Mary and Mohammad, spirit of truth, peace be upon them, condemned hindu Judaism, self center ism and command to obey truth absolute, or way of truth absolute.
The sad truth is that even the language of Christian sign and symbol has largely died out in people's consciousness, so deep is the sterilising effect of secularism upon our culture now.
Melville wrote of our condition more than a century ago when he spoke of landlessness: «as in landlessness alone rests highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety.
And he will sprinkle upon him a spirit of truth, like water for impurity.»
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