My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

The steady purpose of our society is to assure justice, before God, for every individual.

It is not the authority of God Himself which makes them true.

Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.

Forgiveness is the door through which a person must pass to enter the Kingdom of God.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

Then he thought of Aaron Blaustein standing in his rich house saying: `` God is tired of taking the blame.

It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man ( or woman ) than on God.

I pray to God that he may be spared to us for many years to come for this is an influence the United States and the whole world can ill afford to lose.

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

Believing that God is the Author of this law and of all laws of nature, Roman Catholics believe that they are obliged to obey those laws, not frustrate or mock them.

The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.

Since the will and word of God are for them concentrated in Christ-like love, it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance is quite another thing.

But of course the paterollers won't be of any help, not with everything so upset and that Yankee cavalry outfit they say is running around, God knows where ''.

Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.

Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work, motivated by the religious conviction and belief that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that is accessible through the natural light of reason.

In De Differentiis Plethon compares Aristotle's and Plato's conceptions of God, arguing that Plato credits God with more exalted powers as " creator of every kind of intelligible and separate substance, and hence of our entire universe ", while Aristotle has Him as only the motive force of the universe ; Plato's God is also the end and final cause of existence, while Aristotle's God is only the end of movement and change.

On a much more intelligible level, the Abecedarian hymn Altus prosator, a sequence traditionally attributed to the 6th-century Irish mystic Saint Columba ( but see Stevenson, below ), shows many of the features of Hiberno-Latin ; the word prosator, the " first sower " meaning creator, refers to God using an unusual neologism.

This program prepares people for ministries that seek to make God ’ s word dynamic and intelligible to people at every stage in their lives.

Presuppositionalists contrast their approach with the other schools of Christian apologetics by describing the others as assuming that the world is intelligible apart from belief in the existence of God and then arguing on purportedly neutral grounds to support trusting the Christian Scriptures and the existence of God.

They claim that by accepting the assumptions of non-Christians, which fundamentally deny the Trinitarian God of the Bible, one could not even formulate an intelligible argument.

In The Triune God: Systematics, Lonergan develops the theory of intelligible ( or spiritual ) emanations in God as propounded by Thomas Aquinas.

In his book of Masses Animuccia is consciously trying to compose music that reconciles, as he sees it, the two polarities in this issue of composing ‘ intelligible ’ music: that of making the text audible, yet at the same time sounding beautiful – therefore fulfilling the music ’ s most important function of drawing the listener deeper into prayer and closer to God.

Immediately the Bible became clear and intelligible to me ; prayer and communion with God became as natural as breathing ; my main desires, motives and purposes in life were transformed overnight.

Much of Kepler ’ s enthusiasm for the Copernican system stemmed from his theological convictions about the connection between the physical and the spiritual ; the universe itself was an image of God, with the Sun corresponding to the Father, the stellar sphere to the Son, and the intervening space between to the Holy Spirit.

* He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God.

He sits in the temple of God, e. g., his sphere of dominion is in the church or temple of God, as seen in the Papacy.

And, this anti-imperialism extended also to the theory of missionary obligation that developed within the Dutch Reformed Church: the kingdom of God will grow within the sphere of influence assigned to the church by divine providence, as children are taught the Gospel by their parents and family.

In Jewish philosophy and in Jewish mysticism Divine Simplicity is addressed via discussion of the attributes ( תארים ) of God, particularly by Jewish philosophers within the Muslim sphere of influence such as Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Paquda, Yehuda Halevi, and Maimonides, as well by Raabad III in Provence.

In the Christian view, there is a sphere beyond the earthly, and if loyalty to man conflicts with loyalty to God, the latter takes precedence.

They believe, he writes, that Jesus was not divine ; but because his soul was " steadfast and pure ", he " remembered those things which he had witnessed within the sphere of the unbegotten God " ( similar to Plato's concept of Anamnesis ).

Each sphere of omnipresent God is extended toward infinity beyond God's core placed in Heaven.

The outermost moving sphere, which moved with the daily motion affecting all subordinate spheres, was moved by an unmoved mover, the Prime Mover, who was identified with God.

Here he arranged the " orbes " in the new Copernican order, expanding one sphere to carry " the globe of mortalitye ", the Earth, the four elements, and the Moon ; and expanding the starry sphere infinitely upward to encompass all the stars, and also to serve as " the court of the Great God, the habitacle of the elect, and of the coelestiall angelles.

The Avengers defeat the Squadron and thwart the Grandmaster, with the Thunder God Thor miniaturizing Hyperion and trapping him in a glass sphere.

As a hymnwriter he has had few equals in England, he wrote Praise God from whom all blessings flow ; it can scarcely be said that even John Keble, though possessed of much rarer poetic gifts, surpassed him in his own sphere.

In his lectures he excluded mental philosophy and included the whole sphere of moral obligation, dealing with man's duty to God and to his fellow-men in the light of Christian teaching.

Among the further details are these: that Scythianus lived " in the time of the Apostles "; that Terebinthus said the name of Buddas had been imposed on him ; that in the mountains he had been brought up by an angel ; that he had been convicted of imposture by a Persian prophet named Parcus, and by Labdacus, son of Mithra ; that in the disputation he taught concerning the sphere, the two luminaries, the transmigration of souls, and the war of the Principia against God ; that " Corbicius " or Corbicus, about the age of sixty, translated the books of Terebinthus ; that he made three chief disciples, Thomas, Addas, and Hermas, of whom he sent the first to Egypt, and the second to Scythia, keeping the third with him ; that the two former returned when he was in prison, and that he sent them to procure for him the books of the Christians, which he then studied.

Beyond that sphere is Schamayim, who is the Divine Fiery Water, the first outflow of the Word of God, the flaming river pouring from the presence of the eternal mind.

All subsequent acts of creation within the divine sphere ( save, crucially, that of the lowest aeon Sophia ) occurs through her co-action with God.

The Earth is encapsulated in a transparent sphere recalling the traditional depiction of the created world as a crystal sphere held by God or Christ.

Both have their thought fixed on mankind opposed to God and do not pass beyond that sphere " ( quoted in Schimmel 87 ).

From a Christian viewpoint this sphere is important since Jesus preached that people should " seek first the Kingdom of God ".

In its left hand, the large seated figure holds a gilt bronze sphere emanating rays to symbolize God.

Common Grace is a theological concept in Protestant Christianity, primarily in Reformed and Calvinistic circles, referring to the grace of God that is either common to all humankind, or common to everyone within a particular sphere of influence ( limited only by unnecessary cultural factors ).