Sentences with phrase «with divine purpose»

When we're on the yoga mat, deep breathing helps us feel more aligned with ourselves and with our divine purpose.

Surely, it may be argued, if there is only one God the object of worship in all religions is the same, and it can not greatly matter how that worship is given or what means are used to regulate human life in accordance with the divine purpose.

The God of the biblical drama is a God of intention as well as love, a people is chosen to be God's own, both out of love and with a divine purpose.

Alston says that we serve God by cooperating with the divine purpose.

Hasker claims that the amount of intervention possible for God compatible with the divine purposes would surely be «far less than would be needed to materially affect the overall balance of good and evil in the world.»

Further, the distribution of the peoples of the earth is represented as being in accord with divine purposes; even if not ethically determined, at least it was an expression of that impulse which the writers believed to be the ultimate authority in human life.

Not exact matches

I now wish to argue that conformity with the divine telos may, for purposes of ethical deliberation, be translated into what I call the maximal happiness principle: so act as to maximize happiness — and, by implication, in the long run.

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

That is how Mark ponders and wrestles with and finally solves the problem: Christ had to die — it was the divine decree — but Christ voluntarily accepted his death, as «for many»; and the characters in the tragedy all express, the events in the story all serve, this one overmastering purpose.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

Thus a sense of divine purpose along with a religious experience growing out of hope is generated.

And nothing is more powerful than a divine source that fills your ego with a sacred purpose.

But again, and even with the possible implication of divine judgment in the death of Rachel, we see the repeated motif of the Jacob cycle: the tension between sin and divine grace, the expression of faith that Jacob - Israel is saved and redeemed only by the will and purpose of God (35:5), and finally the repetition of the promise and the blessing, and the second account of the changing of Jacob's name to Israel.

Human potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purpose.

Each of us is an «unfulfilled capacity,» made with and for a purpose — or, as our process conceptuality requires us to put it, «being made...» The Christian would say that we are thus being made toward the image of God, to reflect, and personally (and socially) act for, the divine Love; and the deepest intentionality in us is in the direction of finding genuine fulfillment in fellowship with God.

The understanding of historical judgment as positive in divine purpose may well be already implicit in Amos (see 4:6 - 11 and the discussion above) But still in the eighth century, it is most warmly expounded in Hosea (see especially 2:14 - 23; 5:15; 11:11) It is a pervasive if often only implicit element in the utterances of Jeremiah and makes possible that stunning declaration of a new covenant with Israel «after those days» of judgment:

Therefore the tradition has spoken insistently of judgment — or to use perhaps a better word, appraisal — both moment by moment and at the conclusion of every human life, with a further appraisal made when the entire created order is evaluated in its contribution or failure to contribute to the advancement of the divine purpose in the world.

In this sense, as we can see, there is deep truth in the medieval saying tota vita Christi misterium crucis — «the entire life of Christ is the mystery of the Cross» — because, as the apostolic witness testifies, Jesus gave himself at all times and in all places and with all those who met him, as One obedient to the divine Father's purpose for him.

It assumed that a conception of God suitable for religious purposes would align the divine purpose with human good.

The more our thoughts and actions are compatible with God's loving will and purpose, the more fully he will incorporate them as objectively immanent in one aspect of his nature.21 We earlier emphasized the divine priority in the whole event Jesus Christ: we also thought of Jesus intensifying his obedience to the call of God in each situation that confronted him.

If, for our purposes, Cotton Mather can stand as a kind of archetype of Puritanism, with his very considerable impulsive energy kept in tight control and consecrated with meaning by its service to the divine plan, Benjamin Franklin may serve, as he has for so many others, as an archetype of the worldly American.

The divine aim to call forth civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe in ways transparent to the ways of God.

In the 1917 edition, Scofield writes in the introduction:»... the dispensations are distinguished, exhibiting a majestic, progressive order of divine dealings of God with humanity, the increasing purpose which runs through and links together the ages from the beginning of the life of man to the end of eternity.»

A note which permeates biblical thinking, in contrast with the cyclical or static views often found in other faiths, is that all history moves toward the fulfillment of a divine purpose — toward an end in the double sense of both finish and fulfillment.

At the same time, only with intelligent life can there be any sense of alienation from divine creativity, any awareness of our capacity to thwart the divine purpose by self - centered activities randomly conflicting with one another.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

For the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the world.

It was perhaps already in contact with speculations regarding the divine purpose in the creation of the world, the angelic powers, the figures of Adam, Death, Satan or Antichrist, the Heavenly Man, the coming salvation, the relation of spirit and flesh, soul and body — speculations which were at least tinged, no doubt, with Gnosticism.

It sought a solution of the problem by way of personifying the concepts of God's Word and God's Wisdom, identifying, as I said just now, Word and Wisdom with a pre-existent Son of God, and asserting that it was this divine being, this personal projection or offspring of the mind and purpose of God who took human nature and lived and died and rose from death.

Through the many differences that distinguish conflicting views of the divine nature in the Bible, one common strand of idea runs — God is in earnest, he cares, he is no metaphysical abstraction but a living being with purposes, devotions, and affections.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

If God is really actively engaged with and in the world, adapting the divine intention to it, taking into the divine life what occurs there, and hence seriously affected by it quite as much as sustaining it creatively and working within it to accomplish an enduring purpose, then indeed God must be understood in a fashion that is most suitably symbolized by what we know of relationship at the human level — granted, of course, that we say this with an O altitudo, to use Sir Thomas Browne's phrase.

Once in a while he tinkers with it, fixes it up, resets it to serve his special purposes, so that the strongest evidence of Christianity's truth is this divine intervention in miracles, but generally the watch runs mechanically by itself.

We have defined prayer as the intentional and attentive presence of God, with the purpose of alignment of self — in desires and actions — with the divine Lover who is our heavenly Father.

All of creation works and functions together toward a common divine purpose and goal, and yet it does this with incredible diversity.

Parsley has said, «I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam.

The man Amos, the prophet Amos, could not have spoken with such passion on behalf of Yahweh except in the faith that the very historical judgment which he proclaimed was itself ultimately positive and redemptive in divine purpose.

Making again today, but as soup on purpose with a little extra turkey sausage sliced in it... my house smells divine!

Ask your higher power to remove all obstacles blocking the way to abundance with this simple plea: «Please help me receive everything I need for my divine life purpose.

It was the exact shift that I needed to get re-aligned with my truth, my divine beauty, and my purpose.

Hold for 3 breaths and connect with the divine using the affirmation: «I am a powerful, creative force with sacred purpose.»

Hence, to move further, let us discuss some of the top most yoga programs in India that you can enroll into and fulfill this divine purpose with perfection:

In order to explore this divine art form, every year a number of souls undertake Yoga Teacher Training program in India with the purpose of sincerely imbibing it in their lives, while additionally seeking an opportunity to spread the message of yoga to others.

With a sort of firm Calvinist take on divine justice, Mattie pushes ever forward, but in the process she also forms a new community around her, providing purpose and redemption for the two lawmen who accompany her on her quest.

Like the 300 well - oiled, scantily clad musclemen in 300, the 47 ronin are outnumbered and outmatched, but blessed with a divine sense of purpose and a peerless fighting spirit.

It's each of our basic needs, duty and the purpose for the art of right living by understanding the natural state of each soul, with compassion, liberty and solidarity within to protect the dignity of our divine life and living as a means for keeping us united as oneness in nature to balance natural health.

As a woman I feel proud and grateful to be the part of this world with humble lessons and experiences learned from my personal life as well as from knowledgeable personalities directly and indirectly which reflects to practice and preach for a constructive healthier natural life style within the family as well as for the society, to be followed by the human of all genders to maintain and balance the integrity, peace and purpose of the divine life and natural way of living with all its simplicity, values and strength.