But when in the toils of life and struggle, when in my troubled thoughts all is in confusion, it may seem to me as if even that was forgotten which I know I had
willed in sincerity.
It is not possible to determine the morality of an action prior to determining what is objectively
willed in it.»
If it is certain that a man in truth wills one thing, then he wills the Good, for this alone can be
willed in this manner.
His role is valuable, legitimate, and divinely
willed in the absolute sense.
Not exact matches
The government
willed this to be so, by encouraging and facilitating more investment
in housing.
Bates, a Brit with a deep technical background and big - company chops, was perhaps one of the few executives — «a needle
in a haystack,» Durban calls him — who could wrangle strong -
willed engineers spread across half the globe.
He believed
in them, and then
willed them to super human feats of product development and programming.
In such situations, entrepreneurs need to be strong -
willed, confident without being cocky, and determined to make an idea work, often against the odds.
Having an early death
in my mind
willed me to save 50 % + from the first year onward and devise a CD, real estate, and stock investment distribution system for my savings every year.
Instead, advertisers embracing the opportunity to fine - tune their paid search presence and get more creative with AdWords accounts will reap the benefits now as less steely
willed rivals disappear from the listings and
in the future, with a cohesive campaign that delivers customers time and time again.
Much of your argument such as I've seen, for your sky fairy (and I really think that is an appropriate term for your obviously fictional deity with all the self - contradictory tales about it
in the bible), really seems to consist of a combination of
willed ignorance and arguments from ignorance.
But since we set as the central point of this perception and of this profession of belief the maintenance and hence the security for the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the maintenance of a divine work and fulfill a divine will — not
in the secret twilight of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the Lord... Our worship is exclusively the cultivation of the natural, and for that reason, because natural, therefore God -
willed.
Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God
willed to create all men out of one,
in order that they might be held
in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.
He starts off the treatise by stating that marriage is an unequivocally good thing, that God
willed to create man and woman
in friendship, and that the first natural bond of human society is man and wife:
Partly it is the
willed annihilation of history
in order to open the doors of a wished - for secular utopia.
Teaching from the pulpit, for example, that God
willed Adam and Eve to sin, that cancer is predestined by God, that prayer doesn't cause anything to change
in the world, and that evangelism has no purpose since sheep are sheep and goats are goats?
Marriages were typically based on economic considerations, not love, with wives holding a higher position than slaves
in the household, but still functioning
in many ways as the property of their husbands, who could do with them as they
willed.
Maine's eloquent and vivid novel is finally about its own business, not Scripture's, but the two are scarcely extricable, and we read
in part to see how, and how successfully, the strong -
willed son will pull away.
And this similarity indicates that the human, the only creature on earth whom God
willed for its own sake, can attain its full identity only
in sincere self - giving.»
God has
willed to show forth his goodness
in men by mercifully sparing some of them, whom he predestines, and by justly punishing others, whom he rejects.
Strong -
willed and smart, she held her own
in political debates with my grandfather.
it is your misconception of Who, what is God
in the scientific theology, God is the integral forces, matter, conciousness and all reality that exist
in the universe, we humans is just part of Him after the big bang when he
willed 13.7 billion years ago to become matter.E = mc2.
From Sarah: Since any strong
willed woman tends to get the title «feminist,» how do you find yourself embracing this label and its connotations
in your faith and daily living?
If Allah had so
willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you
in what He hath given you: so strive as
in a race
in all virtues.
But biblical prophetism proclaims that the great contemporary events
in the world are part of a process
willed and
in outcome determined by God.
«And if thy Lord
willed, all who are
in the earth would have believed together.
Prophetic scripture had foretold it: Jesus knew the Scriptures, and he had
willed to accept all that was
in store for him.
Yet he accepted with a perfect resignation of his human will that a greater good, indeed the greatest good
willed by The Father lay
in His enduring the cross.
Once God had decided upon this predestination of Christ's human nature, then he
willed the union of Christ's divine nature with his human nature
in the person of Christ since only a human nature united to the divine nature
in one person could love to the highest extent, the extent to which God loves.
And yet he was a faithful servant, who
willed the Good
in truth, and he was also loved by the Good, that prizes obedience more than the «fat of the ram.»
For, when the Good took up its place at the goal where the reward beckons or where the Good itself beckons to a man, the Good against its will would then be forced to see and to put up with the fact that there were two paths, and two men bent on them; the one be-cause he
willed the Good
in truth, and humbly but gladly followed its beckoning; the other because fear drove him thence.
There maybe a storyline, since everyone has a placed position with relations to others
in certain timeframes, but one still faces consequences for the free -
willed actions.
Yes, this double - minded man becomes as unsteady
in all his ways as the one who
willed the Good for the sake of the reward, because he is continually intent upon what is
in flux, upon what is always changing, and he fears continually that which no man should fear.
«Salvation history,» not because every moment of this world is
willed by God
in a direct manner — the bloodletting of Herod is not intended by God as the flight of Jesus is — but because the voice crying out
in Rama is as much the subject of sacred prophecy as Jesus's flight.
For
in the Old Covenant such as it appeared
in history there was much that was right and
willed by God, but there were also a great many errors, wrong developments and depraved ideas, while there was no permanent infallible authority to separate the two.
The simplest explanation for the existence of all the something we see is that an extremely intelligent being, God,
willed it to happen for His own purposes, and left evidence of that purpose
in the nature of His creation and His communication with the creatures He created.
Reaching for the wholeness of Scripture is to read each text
in the canonical context, not to see it as an atomic unit all alone but as a member of the divinely
willed body of the canon such that the light of every part is shed on all the rest.
Why are we so stubborn and strong
willed and steeped
in mans tradition, why cant we just obey.
Moreover, there are things that happen
in the world that are not
willed by this Thou, just as there are things that happen
in our own bodies that are not
willed by our psyches.
Only through human vigilance can the tenuous equilibrium of freedom be maintained, and only
in this way can the future
willed by God be established
in an indeterminate universe.
Satan bbjss was once God's loved son and the most handsome of all God's sons... Satan's downward spiral was his desire to be like God
in every way which Satan could never be... Satan, along with all his brothers who found him to be their leader did rival God and God's faithful sons and war ensued... Satan along with all his northerly followers were cast out of their heavenly abode and sent to the celestial earthen plains to live among us humans... Thusly the fallen sons of God saw the daughters of mankind to be fair and they took from mankind all the women that they
willed...
In the basic theme of religion, every person that dies is dead because God
willed it.
Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships
in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality
in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God
willed to be appropriate and applicable
in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers
in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.
And how can the predatory abuse of human power
in prisons against the most vulnerable
in their midst be turned so as to allow
willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?
In an award - winning sermon on eugenics, MacArthur asserts that decent Christians have a responsibility to use «every help which science affords» to prevent the «feebleminded and wrong -
willed» from «pouring their corrupt currents into the race stream.»
This world abounds
in life and is held together
in a seamless web maintained by God -
willed laws.
But the one who
in truth
willed one thing and therefore
willed the Good, even if he be sacrificed for it, why should he not go on willing the same
in eternity, the same thing that he was willing to die for?
Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up
in hunger and fear as
in war - torn lands, or
in squalor and crime as
in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God
in his inscrutable providence
willed it to be this way.
And yet eternity is more lust than the earth and the world; for
in eternity there is a crown of honor laid aside for each of those that have
in truth
willed only one thing.
I believe that any reading of Edwards's life, including the story of the sad controversy
in Northampton, will make quite clear that he was no self -
willed man talking the name of God
in vain to fortify his wishes.