Sentences with phrase «wisdom of many»

I remember attending an apologetics camp in which I was reminded of the importance of building my house on the solid rock of a biblical worldview... or else the surging floods of the «wisdom of the age» would wash my faith away.

Funny how one post-modern, self - described «theologian» comes along, poo - poos the wisdom of the ages in the face, and claims to have some weird new insight into what the Bible (God) really meant.

Paul attempted this with his facile quips, «The wisdom of the world is foolishness with God.»

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

I am currently reading a book «the wisdom of Tenderness» — by Brennan Manning and here is what I just read I quote» When the primacy of love is subordinated to doctrinal correctness and orthodox exegesis, cool cordiality and polite indifference masquerade as love....

We can not go back to a premodern era, but to go forward we need to do a much better job of recovering the essential wisdom of the past.

Even as someone who is not yet a mother, I see the wisdom of this approach.

Surely we ought to have the courage to let our heart be seized by God's grace and to accept the scandal and absurdity of our inescapable situation as «the power of God and the wisdom of God» by looking up at the Crucified and entering into the mystery of his death.

As intellectuals, they necessarily immerse themselves in the wisdom of this world; as Christians, they understand that wisdom to be in considerable tension with what....

In Christ we can see revealed with total clarity how the whole cosmos, and every aspect of creaturely existence, depends on the gratuitous love, yet utterly coherent Wisdom of the Creator.

The self - help section at your bookstore is full of the wisdom of married men.

Romans, not written by Jesus, but by Paul who drew upon the Old Testament Wisdom of Solomon, to add a list of of reproaches not voiced by Jesus in His quest to free men from suffering.

The content of the gospel as eternal salvation is either reduced to a social message to ameliorate the conditions of life in this world, or it is equated with the loftiest wisdom of philosophy and heroic examples of moral achievement.

The community can not regulate love; but it can regulate aspects of human behaviour in which we can never depend solely on the wisdom of love, or what is thought to be love.

Buttressed by such a phalanx of support Leo XIII ended his encyclical with a ringing exhortation, «We exhort you, Venerable Brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defence and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences» [6] It was an exhortation that was welcomed and followed by many in the Church so that it has been written «We are accustomed to consider Saint Thomas, Thomism, and Aristotelianism as the predominant points of orientation and the most favourable to the Church.»

One needn't be ungrateful for the genuine achievements of American liberalism in order to question the wisdom of this project and its guiding assumptions.

The success of the tour surely testifies to the wisdom of Pope Benedict's efforts to re-connect contemporary Catholicism with the devotional riches of the pre-conciliar Church.

This was how he believed the wisdom of God would get through to the world: «That through the church,» he noted, «the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known» (Eph.

This is what is entailed when we confess that the Word, the very reason and wisdom of God, «took flesh and dwelt among us.»

Each encouraged him to pursue some kind of «healing» — the wisdom of which can be debated — but they did so without legalism, fear, or anger, and with what appears to be genuine love for Wesley.

The wisdom of this policy has been amply demonstrated.

You are open and honest by what you said, and for you to have left the IC at your age tells me you have embraced the wisdom of your years and have been courageous enough to follow that wisdom, despite what I would imagine some may have thought about that.

«to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Called - Out Ones of Christ to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord».

God has chosen the agenda of the text, and we must be content with the wisdom of these choices... The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism.»

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

Stanley Hauwerwas and Paul J. Griffiths Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her trenchant critiques of peculiarly American pathologies, and for the wisdom of her political judgment.

Faith of our Fathers is a spirited defense of Catholic ritual, discipline, and communal observance» of the ways in which the collective wisdom of Christian tradition is passed on from one generation to another.

Commitment to purity teaches you the wisdom of not stepping off that roof.

Others hold that «the Wisdom of God said» means simply, «God said in his wisdom»: or that Wisdom is here personified as in the current wisdom literature.

They sought the wisdom of God not out of pride or self - worth, but because they recognized their need of it.

Finally, if you have bordered on questioning the infallible wisdom of the word of God because it doesn't make sense to you, I urge you to learn from the example of Saul.

True, but do you not see that your argument is the opposite, that the wisdom of God is no wiser than the foolishness of man.

Confronted with this awesome display of the majesty and wisdom of God, and suddenly aware of his own insignificance and ignorance, Job backs down:

Instead of this, Luke reads (11:49), «Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, «I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute»» — a curious anticlimax, probably the result of condensation.

What is meant here by the Wisdom of God is uncertain.

It is far easier to folow the history and see why your book, your god, and the NT needed to be created, BY MEN... no evidence of divine inspiration... a line showing the previous cultures your story was taken from, and one can see where the wisdom of men was incorporated... just in your version it is not mans wisdom, but something from some deity (who until the NT was a very vindictive, murderous, egotistical god), who suddenly is all love and flowers.

As I considered the teachings of the Christian Religion, I was also seriously studying the wisdom of the Zen Buddhist spiritual tradition.

All the while, of course, socialists place great faith in the goodness and wisdom of the politicians and social planners.

Some scholars believe that there was a book, now lost, that was entitled «The Wisdom of God,» and that Luke here quotes from it.

And though very often it is literal light, it is also the wisdom of the poet who helps us to understand more deeply what it is to be human, just as our Lord himself took flesh to do.

By participation in an ongoing religious community, particularly of the type we know in the Western world, an isolated individual is partly lifted above himself, not only because he may, in a group, be more recipient of God's help, but also because he there shares in the distilled wisdom of our race.

«The Wisdom of Solomon» in the Apocrypha — although Solomon did not write it — is everlastingly right when it says that the beginning of wisdom is «the desire of discipline,» the love of it, the voluntary choice of it, the discovery that self - discipline is the highway to everything that makes life worth living.

He simply believed that his wisdom was greater than the wisdom of the Lord.

The child who trusts the wisdom of these pages has a head start on David, who had to be convinced by Nathan that it is not we who must build God a tabernacle, but God who chooses to dwell in and among us.

In man and woman as God made them there was one harmony of natural law and peace in the spiritual wisdom of God through grace.

Jews call for miracles, Greeks for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ — yes, Christ nailed to the cross, and though this is a stumbling block to Jews and Greeks alike, he is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

The no nonsense wisdom of St. Josemaria Escriva is wonderfully captured in the phrase «You have an obligation to sanctify yourself.

And I think the «wisdom of crowds» has been very much in play to respond: «Thuggery can flow either direction.»

The Scandal Of The Cross «To the Jews a scandal, to the Greeks foolishness, but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.»

Yes, of course, there was the poverty of the underclass - but the conventional wisdom of the time viewed that as a social rather than an economic problem.