The Church, as Christ the Saviour
working upon all men in word, in life and in sacrament, is not accidental or incidental to the order of human history, but part of that order and the sign of the deepest meaning of human culture in time and for eternity.
Henceforth our business was to
work upon man; to study him, to stimulate and educate him.
Not exact matches
Once
upon a time, there was a young
man who got his dream job in the financial services industry, thought he could make it big one day and
worked hard at it, then got disillusioned and disgusted by what he saw around, and finally quit to live a life of greater peace and fulfillment, while pursuing his passion in value investing.
As Anton LaVey explained in his classic
work The Satanic Bible,
Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt
upon whims and desires.
in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing
upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married
men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a
work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
As an independent person,
man is required by Islam to believe in God, worship Him, and to live in a manner which assures him a clear conscience; it is incumbent
upon him to
work for a living, to control himself and his children, and to realize his interests and maintain his existence without encroaching
upon the life and welfare of other people.
In this way, feminism benefits
men, too, because it
works to free them from those expectations that are foisted
upon them due to their biological sex.
Christ's apparently merciless attacks
upon complacency were no more than the initial stage of the
work of God's Spirit
upon the personalities of the
men behind the façade.
Therefore, the realization of the existence of this Kingdom,
working for its expansion, living according to its principles, and, if necessary, dying for it, is the real significance of
man s temporary existence
upon the earth.
What he does not leave in doubt in this morally serious
work is the powerful influence that environment can exert
upon young
men and women at crucial formative stages in their journey through life.
but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge
man based
upon the original sins... but not sure if that would
work since
man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.
God so energized through this particular human life, which had been divinely purposed and intended, that those
upon whom it made and continues to make its impact have been obliged to say that in this
man Jesus, God lived and
wrought.
We have argued that
man's bond with the ultimate structure of God's good, and
man's dependence
upon the
working of God's power is disclosed in the midst of the turmoil of our existence.
Kirk saw the so «called «Straussian» interpretation of the Declaration, with its emphasis
upon the inherent equality of all
men, as not only unhistorical but as necessarily tending toward egalitarian ideology, and he consequently
worked to downplay the Declaration's significance.
The second conviction is that any enduring hope must be based, not
upon man alone, but
upon the fact that God is present in human history, and is there creatively and redemptively at
work.
But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they failed to recognize him, and
worked their will
upon him; and in the same way the Son of
Man is to suffer at their hands.»
For
Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself
upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective
work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.
One of the quotes I pasted in the back of my Bible many years ago says, «Pray as if everthing depended
upon God;
work as if everything depended
upon man.»
The second stage is the super-evolution of
Man, individually and collectively, by the use of refined forms of energy scientifically harnessed and applied in the bosom of the Noosphere, thanks to the co-ordinated efforts of all
men working reflectively and unanimously
upon themselves.
They understand that the dependence of
man upon God and the orientation of
man's
work by reference to God's
work require that theology must take the place of the psychology and sociology which were the proper sciences of a Christianity which was dependent on the spirit in
man.
It must have been teaching about the
work of the living and real God and the moral demand which this God made
upon all
men without exception.
By developing the various themes in this first lecture (indeed our entire discussion) under the large figure of Ecology a general intention is clearly stated: to argue that faith comes to exist in the vast and complex totality of a
man's life, that faith as engendered by the Word of God
works upon, makes use of, reillumines and reinterprets the total geography of existence.
Most of them have truly enormous organizations
working for them — often hundreds of
men and women whose livelihoods depend
upon one
man.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate
man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich
man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the
man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the
man who built his house
upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his
men the same wage whether they have
worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
After all, in describing the satisfaction
work in one's calling brings, Calvin writes, «Each
man will bear and swallow the discomforts, vexations, weariness, and anxieties in his way of life, when he has been persuaded that the burden was laid
upon him by God.»
A
man has to
work purposively to invent the complex
upon the basis of the antecedent simple; he requires also a unity, the concept of the nature to be produced, which controls and directs the purposive
work of his hands.
When God wills that, for the perfection of the
work of creation and the salvation of mankind, he should take
upon himself a created nature, he wills that T shall be a
man, so that the human nature of God lives through the Divine 1», through the DivinePerson of the Word, who subsists in the Essence of God.
(Revelation 21:1) While their minds
worked upon the problem of suffering — exploring its retributive and disciplinary aspects, its saving power in the form of self - sacrifice, its future solutions in the eternal realm, and its inexplicable residue of mystery — their practical devotion was given to the kind of world where
man's monstrous cruelty to
man would end.
[But the church] is forever involved in the great inversion whereby
man turns back
upon himself and his
works, back
upon his faith, away from the God of faith.
«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to
men, and
men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt
men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and
work upon the corrupt nature in
men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of
men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.
Newton published his Principia in 1687 with an Eye
upon such Principles as might
work with considering
Men for the belief of a Deity».
The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth
upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both
men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the
work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.
The antithesis here seems to be between not faith and
works but, by implication, grace and
works; that is, the ground
upon which God freely bestows his grace and gifts to
men and what is apparently the (failing) attempts by
men to earn that bestowal and ground the divine bestowal on merit.
Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at
work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy
men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based
upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.
When we commune with it,
work is actually done
upon our finite personality, for we are turned into new
men, and consequences in the way of conduct follow in the natural world
upon our regenerative change.
This decision was made before the foundation of the world and was based not
upon any act of will or
works of
men and women, but solely
upon God's sovereign good pleasure.
O eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of
man and of woman, who didst replenish with the Spirit Miriam, and Deborah, and Anna, and Huldah; who didst not disdain that thine only - begotten Son should be born of a woman; who also in the Tabernacle of the testimony and in the Temple, didst ordain women to be keepers of thy holy gates, do thou now also look down
upon this thy servant, who is to be ordained to the office of a deaconess, and grant her thy Holy Spirit... that she may worthily discharge the
work.19
We all know of particularly devout persons who pounce
upon their amazed fellow
men at
work, on the street, in the street - car with the sudden question, Tell me, are you converted?
Man United, although I despise them too, I have major respect for them because like us, all the money they are spending is not from a the pockets of a sugar daddy, but earned over the years of success, also built
upon hard
work and dedication.
we have become so reliant
upon one individual to run the whole operation that our once relevant scouting department has become so stagnant that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once... when this occurs the management team, who by this juncture is little more than a congregation of spefically chosen «yes»
men, making it incredibly difficult for new ideas to emerge and / or transfers / contract renegotiations to be dealt with in a timely and effective manner... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never
work for a team of any consequence ever again
There was less than three minutes played when Dundee keeper Elliot Parish was called
upon to save a close - range drive from striker Moussa Dembele after he had
worked a clever one - two with wide -
man James Forrest.
And,
upon completion of the deal, De Gea added: «I saw
Man Utd's interest as an extra motivation to
work even harder to show off my ability.
Tomas Rosicky bought plenty of freshness, driving forward, and making those passes to the front
men, giving Arsenal some outlay to
work upon.
It is appalling to me that we are still in a situation where
men feel that they can't take parental leave because it's frowned
upon and not manly, and they are
working longer and longer and longer hours and forced out of family life, at the same rate that women are being forced out of
working life.»
We feel strongly that he will build
upon his impressive track record in the Assembly, and continue to be a guardian for the needs and concerns of
working men and women.
«Here we are trying to
work these services for these people and we're being played
upon like the boogie
man,» Kasprzak said.
Women without college educations are dramatically less economically dependent
upon their husbands than they used to be, while the economic dependence of women with college educations on their husbands remains high because although both
men and women with college degrees have seen surging incomes since the 1970s, most women with college degrees experience large income penalties for leaving the
work force for a while to raise children, while women without college degrees don't face those kinds of income penalties in their far less skilled jobs.
«I'm talking about the notion of a
man and woman
working together in a full partnership as equals, doing this kind of
work that used to be frowned
upon.»
Upon receiving today's endorsement, Eric Massa stated «I am deeply honored to receive this early endorsement from the AFL - CIO, and I once again commit myself to standing with the
working men and women of America and their families.
As are the demands placed
upon the
men and women who
work every day in the bulky suits and restricted environment.