Not exact matches
Efrat Ravid
is Chief Marketing Officer
of ClickTale,
which rebranded itself in February with the slogan, «
Light up the digital
world.»
The ability to take pictures in low
light or to capture professional - looking HDR images has
been achieved through software developments, like Almalence's own super sensor,
which is used on millions
of smartphones around the
world today.
The recent surge in growth in North American non-conventional oil production, whether it
's light oil from North Dakota or the heavy stuff that comes out
of Alberta
's oil sands,
is made possible by high oil prices,
which are in turn linked to
world demand remaining robust.
So let's see if that helps: the
world's governments, companies and households
are on the hook for 18 million tonnes
of loonies,
which would
be roughly equivalent to the weight
of the 9.4 million cars and
light trucks sold in Canada between 2013 and 2017.
The current US recovery,
which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also
been the weakest economic expansion since
World War II, with an average annual growth rate
of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in
light of continued high expectations.
that
's Satan 2Cor 4:4 In whom the god
of this
world hath blinded the minds
of them
which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who
is the image
of God, should shine unto them.
I find that most
of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality
are either determined to not think about the issue because
of tradition and fear or
are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure
of contemporary culture (in our part
of the
world)
is to equate my sexuality with the colour
of my skin
which is, in
light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.
On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I
was suddenly flooded by
light and absorbed in a sea
of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness
of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding
world.
In
light of my series this past week about the Bible, in
which I said that the Bible
is the most violent religious text in the
world, someone sent this picture to me.
It
's important for our kids to see us engaging fully in the complex struggle
of what it means to pursue
being God
's light in the
world,
which includes our home.
He
is the
Light of the world, and I won't stumble around in darkness, Jesus provides plenty of light in which to
Light of the
world, and I won't stumble around in darkness, Jesus provides plenty
of light in which to
light in
which to live.
Rich with the sap
of the
world, I rise up towards the Spirit whose vesture
is the magnificence
of the material universe but who smiles at me from far beyond all victories; and, lost in the mystery
of the flesh
of God, I can not tell
which is the more radiant bliss: to have found the Word and so
be able to achieve the mastery
of matter, or to have mastered matter and so
be able to attain and submit to the
light of God.
We do not just go to the
world; rather, we bring with us beliefs
which determine the kind
of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in
which the scientist uses only the cold
light of reason while the theologian uses the
light of faith
is not strictly true.
There
is the conception
of religion as access and approach to God, in
which a man enters out
of the shadows into the
light, out
of the passing things
of time into eternity, out
of the
world into the presence
of God.
In
light of my series on the violence
of God in the Bible, in
which I said that the Bible
is the most violent religious text in the
world, someone sent this picture to me.
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.
2 Corinthians 4:3 - 4 KJV But if our gospel
be hid, it
is hid to them that
are lost: [4] In whom the god
of this
world hath blinded the minds
of them
which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who
is the image
of God, should shine unto them.
And, as Pope Benedict again has said, this fundamental question,
which isa question we have to answer with our intelligence sustained by the
light of faith,
is that if we discern reason in the
world, in nature - if nature
is understandable - the question arises; where does this come from?
You know all
of that, but you
're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus
is the
light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods
of this
world constantly seek to destroy that
which is born
of God.
The paintings
which depict Radha and Krishna surrounded by darkness while they themselves
are lit by a sullen glare from the sky, or portray the lovers enclosed in a triangle
of night while the inhabitants
of Vrindavan unconcernedly go about the day's tasks,
are visual metaphors for a sensualism
which is simultaneously hidden from the
world and from the lovers» awareness.
God creates the
world of Jesus, the
world conformed to his infinite love for his Son in the joy and
light of the Spirit; he thereby also wills his goodness in all his creatures infinitely,
which is to say he wills this
world for eternal union with him in love, and he wills that we should become partakers
of the divine nature.
But put beside it the thought
of the writer
of the Fourth Gospel, that the
Light which came into the world with Jesus was the light which enlightens every
Light which came into the
world with Jesus
was the
light which enlightens every
light which enlightens every man.
Jesus
was indeed the Man Who Belongs to the
World, but he was this because he made it possible to appreciate more profoundly the full scope of the revelation of God wherever it had appeared in the history of the world, in the light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound signific
World, but he
was this because he made it possible to appreciate more profoundly the full scope
of the revelation
of God wherever it had appeared in the history
of the
world, in the light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound signific
world, in the
light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound significance.
As a mother commits herself totally to bringing into fruition the seed
of life within her, so Christians must
be committed to the emergence
of a new
world in
which light prevails over darkness, love overcomes hate, and freedom vanquishes oppression.
To speak
of a leap into the
light suggests that there
are continuities
of faith with the other ways in
which we know the
world around us, that it
is this same
world,
which we already know in part,
which is now seen for what it truly and ultimately
is by reason
of the
light which is eternal.
This «poetic dimension,» as Macquarrie calls it,
is a state
of mind in
which things
are seen in the
light of their
Being, much as Van Gogh portrayed, and Heidegger understood, an entire
world of human involvements in a simple pair
of farming boots.
She outlines a structural semiology
of sexual morals
which connects «
is» and «ought,» in order to submit facts to a candid
world understood in the
light of a well understood grasp
of seemingly self evident moral truths.
It seems clear that the evangelist's intention
was to reinterpret the Christian Gospel in terms agreeable to the most elevated kind
of religious experience, outside Christianity, with
which he
was acquainted, recognizing that in it there
was something
of the
light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the
world.
«We live in a
world where it feels as though the darkness
is falling ever more severely on whole swathes and regions and in
which the
light of the news often seems to go out», he said.
The Bible also says rabbits chew their cud, the earth
is balanced on pillars, the earth
is a flat disc, the stars
are small ornaments hung up in the sky,
which itself
is nothing more than a black sheet covering the
world at night... it says the moon gives off its own
light, it says the
world was created in 6 days less than 10,000 years ago... It says a lot
of things that aren't true.
In the first place, so far as its theological aspect
is concerned, we can see that those who respond in faith to Jesus Christ
are impelled to read the whole
of human existence, indeed the whole
of their experience
of the created
world, in the
light of that
which has taken place in that important moment.
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god
of this
world hath blinded the minds
of them
which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who
is the image
of God, should shine unto them.
A more pictorial and naturalistic but no less conceptualized variation on this approach
is the popular painting by William Holman Hunt, The
Light of the
World (1851 - 1853), in
which Christ knocks at the allegorical door
of the heart, waiting to enlighten it with his lamp
of truth.
But in the midst
of our unpreparedness, even as we repent
of our sins, the Church bears witness to that heavenly order
of rejoicing in that
Light which illumines every light: God is coming into the world, to make holy all the world in «the economy of the flesh,» as St. Cyril ha
Light which illumines every
light: God is coming into the world, to make holy all the world in «the economy of the flesh,» as St. Cyril ha
light: God
is coming into the
world, to make holy all the
world in «the economy
of the flesh,» as St. Cyril has it.
Their apocalyptic vision promised a new era
of German
world domination under the leadership
of wise pagan priests — an empire
of light, inhabited by noblemen,
which would
be cleansed
of all Judeo - Christian influence.
When we read this passage in the
light of the situation today, our eyes
are opened to the amazing inroads
of the church
of Christ in the Third
World nations,
which may indicate a new Pentecost, a sign
of the last times.
Whitehead
was a philosopher who seemed to have experienced the
world in much the same way that Suchocki had, and his perception
of the nature and dynamics
of the
world was expressed in a comprehensive metaphysics
which seemed meaningful to Suchocki in
light of her experience.
Albert Speer recalled a Nazi rally on the eve
of World War II: «For an hour the legendary Untersberg
which lay vis - á - vis
was flooded by a very strong polar
light....
How could I rely so heavily on the themes
of disenchantment and desacralization, as I did in the opening section, without coping with the obvious fact that these historical processes —
which I saw in a positive
light — suggest a certain patriarchal domination
of the natural
world with
which women have
been so closely identified in Hebrew and Christian religious symbolization?
Yet, in
light of the prevailing
world view in
which it
was completely permissible to manipulate, cheat, extort, and rob (especially the poor), Amos sees the Day
of God as a day
of judgment because the community has debased its covenantal relationship with God.
The Hebrew thinkers, with a penetration that might have spared some later thought its worst blunders, recognized that the meaning
of the
world can
be understood, if at all, only in the
light of, and by inclusion
of, human life,
which is its highest expression.
Also as for the glory
of those who have now
been justified in my law, who have had understanding in their life, and who have planted in their heart the root
of wisdom, then their splendour shall
be glorified in changes, and the form
of their face shall
be turned into the
light of their beauty, that they may
be able to acquire and receive the
world which does not die,
which is then promised to them.23
We may go further and say that in the
light of contemporary biblical study and
of the knowledge
of the
world in
which we live, the traditional, restricted view
of resurrection
is seriously defective.
It
is the problem
of how to understand the meaning
of the symbol «Christ» (or any other man - centered religious symbol, for that matter) in the
light of the immensity
of the universe, the heliocentric system
of planets, the infinitely small part
of the universe
which man and his history constitute, and the possibility
of other «
worlds» in
which divine self - manifestations may appear and
be received.
The more we live with the
light of the
world which is the reason for the Gospels, the more clearly we
are able to glean from them the urgency and hope
of the message
of the kingdom
of God.
In whom the god
of this
world hath blinded the minds
of them
which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who
is the image
of God, should shine unto them.
It
is here that I would like to offer an idea
which might throw some
light on this relatively recent problem
of a biological
world apparently «groaning» from the outset and with suffering and death seemingly built into the process by
which it developed.
There
are two spiritual realms that reach into our
world, the realm
of darkness
which is ruled by Satan, and the realm
of light, the Kingdom
of God with Christ as its Head.
i have a painting at home
which i did 5 or 6 years ago
of a figure standing behind golden bars
of light the painting depicts i mysef as christ bringing to surface the ideas
of cosmic conciousness to to the
world around us there
is great symmetry in the simplicity
of both paintings if christ
was alive today he might well
be looking at the
world though caged iron bars
The task to
which I would like to see Christians the
world over commit, themselves during the next three decades
is to formulate visions
of a good future in the
light of which believers can learn to cause, to celebrate, and to cope with change.