Sentences with phrase «yearning for god»

The people of God need pastoral help in processing this ambivalent sense of both deeply yearning for God's new creation and deeply fearing it.

Just because the articulation of our need is a yearning for God's rule to become concrete, so with the oppressed I protest the structures of oppression.

This book of spiritual guidance is concerned with the way in which the spiritual life is «a path of paradox,» a deepening yearning for a God who insists on concealing himself.

donald haggerty ignatius, 200 pages, $ 16.95 This book of spiritual guidance is concerned with the way in which the spiritual life is «a path of paradox,» a deepening yearning for a God who....

This yearning for the coming of the kingdom is yearning for God.

St. Augustine, in the fourth century, who said that our heart is restless until it rests in God, had the seine yearning for God.

On the one hand, the people of God are filled with the yearning for God; on the other, they are part of God's garden, active and growing toward the ultimate harvest.

What I really did not know was that my spiritual ignorance, my inexpert yearning for God, was a hidden treasure, a pinch of yeast leavening my life.

Even though it forbids the undialectical confidence in God's mercy that Luther later came to teach, it nonetheless allows the sinner yearning for God under the cross a sort of paradoxical assurance, a sense of being at least in the appropriate place before God, which sustains the heart and enables it to endure to the end.

In other words, believers follow Christ not because he delivers the best cultural payoff but because they yearn for God.

Psalm 10:4 The wicked one in the pride of his countenance will not seek, inquire for, and yearn for God; all his thoughts are that there is no God [so He never punishes].

He yearns for God's glory, in essence his Shalom, and calls the «saints» to guide the lost home.

She prayed with that which she yearned for God to bless and touch.

Not exact matches

One has only to crack open the album's lyric booklet to see Daly and his fellow lyricist Smith struggling with and yearning for the love of God.

It boggled the mind: How was I in an objective state of mortal sin when my heart yearned so for God?

And here is Fr Holloway, «Our knowing is yearning towards more... the end of the search is actually for the Wisdom who is God.»

* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a loving intimate relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.

In sharp contrast to the Old Testament testimonies to the wrath of God and the yearning of God for the covenant people to mend their ways, Clement wrote, «God is impassible, free of anger, destitute of desire» (4.23).

The attitude of the candidate is that of Psalm 64: O God, You are my God, for You I long, for You my soul is yearning... therefore I have gazed upon You in the sanctuary, to behold Your power and glory.

For only God can really satisfy our deepest and most human yearnings, for absolute truth and absolute loFor only God can really satisfy our deepest and most human yearnings, for absolute truth and absolute lofor absolute truth and absolute love.

Routine, domestic life is judged inadequate, and the self yearns for a more immediate, direct experience of God's power.

Re ``... the sacraments as objective acts of God which function ex opere operato, rather than just subjective acts of humanity which yearn for, invoke and somehow evoke the divine.

Because of sin our minds are darkened and our wills are distorted: we no longer see God clearly and we no longer yearn for him with all our heart.

Whereas ancient man yearned for an immortal existence among the gods, the prophets declared that YHWH had chosen to dwell among men.

Boris Grushenko yearns throughout Love and Death for a signal from God that he is.

If people want to connect their lives with a living God, why condemn them for digging deep to buy gifts for their children or yearning for lost love?

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's gift of Himself.»

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water

They are the persons who, in simplicity of spirit, in comforted sorrow, in humility, in yearning aspiration after goodness, in compassion for others, in purity of heart, in peace - making, and in faithful devotion even to the point of persecution, seek after God and his kingdom.

A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father - figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.

The basic ability to pray, to yearn for a connection to God, demonstrates the meaningfulness of life.

But somehow, we yearn for a personal experience with God.

We want God, we thirst for God and yearn for Him.

I am the director of an adoption ministry, and have always yearned for the day when God would give us the opportunity to adopt a child.

I look on God as an all - knowing Judge to be feared (Or as a trustworthy Shepherd who guides me along life's way, or as a loving Father who yearns for the return of his children)...

They, like the first disciples, yearn for the living presence of God.

Created in the image and likeness of God, principally in the soul, he yearns for more; he yearns for the soul's trueenvironment which is the love and knowledge of God, for the goal and purpose of all spiritual nature is to rest in God.

Deep down, do any of us really believe that shorn of our hard - won attributes, our «tribute,» we would, in our nakedness, be acceptable to or longed for by the yearning God?

They are one with us, and we are one with them, in yearning for the completion of God's plan of salvation in the final establishment of the Kingdom of Christ who is «the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end» (Revelation 22:13).

As I've grown older (and started paying better attention to sermons), preaching and teaching that comes directly from the heart of God is what I yearn for most.

Niebuhr thus seems to have brought together the perfect love of God which transcends all selfishness with the human yearning for mutuality and the struggle of man for justice.

The parables which best illustrate the divine initiative that stems from the yearning love of God for every person, whatever one's moral status or station in life, are the trilogy of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost boy, ordinarily called the prodigal son.

This is the level of legitimate desire, the seeking, the searching, the yearning for the ineffable and ultimately real, the holy God, a desire, a seeking, a searching, and a yearning that is not separate from our call to live fully, to love completely, to exist courageously.

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be....

Our «devotion to the Kingdom of God» may have concealed an inward yearning for approval and power.

If we can not know God, then it is understandable that good people who yearn for asustaining relationship with Him turn in desperation to weird, and frankly kooky, forms of spirituality in order to fill the void left, so they imagine, by God's unattainability.

The spirituality of man is the self - conscious link that we have with God, our yearning and capacity for God.

The yearning for completion, for acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the experience of physical longing for union and the search for intimacy with God.

And in periods of despair about «explanation» of the events of God, anxious spirits yearn for new language.