Sentences with phrase «worldly goods»

(I'm in the middle of all of those right now and my worldly goods look like the living room vomited them all over the house.

Back in the day you and your buddies would think nothing of moving your lava lamp and all your worldly goods on a weekend.

Buying Omaha renters insurance is going to ensure that your precious worldly goods will not be lost without leaving you any means to replace them.

The last thing you want to deal with as a landlord is your former tenants» worldly goods, but you need to give them a chance to get it back before you call in the haulers.

-LSB-...] tied bundles of cloth -LSB-...] are used like ordinary containers for the safe - keeping or transportation of a family's worldly goods.

But is it really a good idea to create a document determining who will get your worldly goods while Big Box shopping for jumbo paper towels and flip flops?

Kathryn Goldman: Estate planning is basically succession planning for your worldly goods.

Although it throws a bit of a spanner in the works with regards to my carefully laid out work schedule this week, I'm happy to work a few hours later each night for the promise of a house full of our worldly goods.

As the natives of Bikini atoll clutch their worldly goods and flee, tenor voices sing of «a gigantic shimmering mushroom, ever changing its form and color.»

Add real estate to the list of worldly goods you can acquire with Bitcoin.

I wonder how many of them will be divesting themselves of all their worldly goods before the big event?

Probably the relationship to a beloved and healthy natural context also contributes more than worldly goods that are not really needed.

Allah has purchased of their faithful lives and worldly goods, and in return has promised them the Garden.

Crime disturbs this just order, for the criminal takes from people their lives, peace, liberties, and worldly goods in order to give himself undeserved benefits.

The old language was, «I plight thee my troth and with all my worldly goods I do thee endow.»

It is a fearsome matter to imprison a man, but it is also fearsome to use fines and impoundments to confiscate his worldly goods, which he may have accumulated by honest labor and is counting on for the succor of his family and the support of his declining years.

Nevertheless, the import of the narrative of the Rich Young Man seems clear enough: Jesus calls those who would follow him to be prepared to dispose of their worldly goods and possessions if they become a hindrance to discipleship.

Faith working through love, even within the restricted limits of the Christian community, challenged forcefully the natural impulse to possess and to retain possession of worldly goods.

So all the selfish people who gave because they wanted salvation, and now want their worldly goods back because they didn't goto heaven.

It was only because they wanted to be indemnified for the loss of their houses and worldly goods, which had been left behind in the hands of their enemies in Mecca, and because they wanted to put an end to the persecution and violence which the enemies were inflicting upon their brethren in Mecca that the Muslims tried several times, unsuccessfully, to intercept enemy caravans passing near Medina.

Never has this been clearer than now: if the church were consistent, we hear, it would not concern itself with worldly goods, or political affairs, or the rights and wrongs of classes, groups, nations; and — this we are not told, or not by the same persons!

This concern about how worldly goods inhibit spiritual progress is not prominent in the Jewish scriptures and has introduced distinctive debates into Christianity.

There is something wildly ironic about Christians» protesting that the Unification Church's demands that members turn over all worldly goods to the church are sinister, and that its members must be unbalanced to comply.

All this they take quite on faith, with the result that they despise all worldly goods alike, regarding them merely as common property.»

Buddhists know that attachment to worldly goods, and certainly to their increase, blocks the path of spiritual advance.

He should read the Part of the Bible that Jesus states to give up your worldly goods for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

And then I will look forward to their next prediction so I can talk them out of their worldly goods they say they no longer need.

It was the Catholic Church that decided he shouldn't have been married, so they could say that priests shouldn't be married — so they could claim all their assets and not worry about any priests» heirs popping up and claiming their worldly goods.

The Christian can not be indifferent to worldly goods.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

He became a hermit, sacrificing all worldly goods with the sole intention of knowing God better.

They didn't force all the itinerant Jews to travel to their ancestral home (around 1,000 miles for Joseph) carrying all of their worldly goods.

There are plenty of deluded people who give away all their worldly goods or perform heroic acts of self - sacrifice that you never hear about, because such actions aren't crimes and thus don't get reported on the news.

Most significant, the imminence of the final coming of the Kingdom of God dominated the thinking of many in the early church and lowered the priority accorded to worldly goods, economic systems and attempts at social transformation.

I may believe in an invisible god but I do not worship worldly goods as most people do.

On top of this, there may be the lure of worldly goods to entice the believer to fall away from the true faith.

Dan says: «I have to tell you, I would have preferred to learn some of those lessons BEFORE we sold the house, put all our worldly goods in storage, hopped in the car with our dog, and headed into the unknown.

Not exact matches

He does not call for any simple return to a metaphysic which downplays the goods of worldly life in comparison to theoretical contemplation, religious devotion, or civic participation.