The two kids were together a lot, they were having some kind of teen-age affair -- God knows how far that had gone -- and the kid's crippled.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

" Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is.

" the bishop presiding after the likeness of God and the presbyters after the likeness of the council of the Apostles, with the deacons also who are most dear to me, having been entrusted with the diaconate of Jesus Christ " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 6: 1.

At a later point, having been deserted by God on the eve of battle, Saul consults a medium at Endor, only to be condemned for doing so by Samuel's ghost, and told he and his sons will be killed.

The apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from God in order to serve the calves of Jeroboam II and Baal, a Canaanite god.

Thank God for having expressed it through your pen.

The Athanasian Creed, received in the Western Church as having the same status as the Nicene and Chalcedonian, says: " We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity ; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance.

The Three Witnesses testified to having seen an angel present the gold plates, and to having heard God bear witness to its truth.

In 1248, after having dedicated her entire life to serving God and the poor, Margherita Colonna died.

They are said by some to reflect how the unified consciousness of humanity ( the immortal human being or the soul ), is divided to manage different aspects of earthly life ( body / instinct / vital energy / deeper emotions / communication / having an overview of life / contact to God ).

However, there was also an apocalyptic dimension in his teaching, and he was clear that if everybody stopped marrying and having children that would be an admirable thing ; it would mean that the Kingdom of God would return all the sooner and the world would come to an end.

Christianity, with a few exceptions, sees the One, True God as having triune personhood: God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus ) and God the Holy Spirit.

Although Christians generally believe their religion to be very inclusive ( since not only Jews but all gentiles can be Christian ), Jews see Christianity as highly exclusive, because some denominations view non-Christians ( such as Jews and Pagans ) as having an incomplete or imperfect relationship with God, and therefore excluded from grace, salvation, heaven, or eternal life.

God expresses remorse for ever having appointed Saul as king:

The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cites David as one directed by God to practice polygamy, but who sinned in committing adultery with Bathsheba and having Uriah killed.

In refuting the beliefs of the gnostics, Irenaeus stated that " Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good, having power over all things, and himself executing judgment.

He puts forward the idea that when men have the opportunity to possess property and work on it, they will “ learn to love the very soil which yields in response to the labor of their hands, not only food to eat, but an abundance of the good things for themselves and those that are dear to them .” He states also that owning property is not only beneficial for a person and their family, but is in fact a right, due to God having “... given the earth for the use and enjoyment of the whole human race ”.

In those cases, the notion of God as having a male gender is rejected, and God is not referred to using male pronouns.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

*" A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

What this means is that God will give humanity such things as reason and compassion but this applies to all and not individual intervention.

Luke presented Jesus as the Son of God, but turned his attention especially to the humanity of Jesus, featuring His compassion for the weak, the suffering and the outcast.

# To attain moksha: By the grace and compassion of God or a God-realized guru, a jiva gets a human body to purge itself of the layers of base instincts.

It is because I am Beat, that is, I believe in beatitude and that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son to it ... Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Then it was proclaimed that God would smash them one against the other, both parents and children, and they were not to be interceded for with pity, mercy nor compassion.

That is, God is not detached from suffering but willingly enters into human suffering in compassion.

According to this view, Abraham failed to show compassion for his son, so God punished him by ostensibly failing to show compassion for Abraham's son.

Thus, as great a Mitzvah as it is, this test is considered trivial for someone of the spiritual stature of Isaac, who, as one of our forefathers, was likened to God ’ s “ chariot ” ( Gen. Rabba 47: 6 ) for he served as a vehicle for the divine traits of kindness, strictness, and compassion.

The 19th century had no more reverent thinker than Martineau ; the awe of the Eternal was the very atmosphere that he breathed, and he looked at man with the compassion of one whose thoughts were full of God.

: Merciful God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of souls: Have compassion on all who do not know you as you are revealed in your Son Jesus Christ ; let your Gospel be preached with grace and power to those who have not heard it ; turn the hearts of those who resist it ; and bring home to your fold those who have gone astray ; that there may be one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord.

In 2009 the General Assembly indicated in its revision of Article XI of the Manual the means for accomplishing its mission: " making disciples through evangelism, education, showing compassion, working for justice, and bearing witness to the kingdom of God.

Real love and devotion for God is to have compassion for the poor and the suffering ," Amritanandamayi says.

Awakening in her own body with Setsuna's help, Alexiel reveals to him that she had always loved him: because he had been born the opposite of his healthy sister, she bargained with God to save his life in exchange for her imprisonment, from which she later escaped with Lucifer, and an agreement to never show him any compassion.

The Christian Bible's Second Epistle to the Corinthians is but one place where God is spoken of as the " Father of compassion " and the " God of all comfort " It reads as follows: 2 Corinthians 1: 3-7 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves received from God.

`` Holy Mary, Mother of God, Star of the Sea, stay Thou with me on this next dive.

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 wager between God and Satan brings on the destiny of Faust, but Faust assumes his role voluntarily.

God was everywhere, in the belfry, in the steeple, in the clouds, in the trees, and in the mountains hulking on the horizon.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

`` It's time you began to think on God, Stephen.

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

What in the name of God was he doing, crouched in a timbered pit on the wrong bank of the river??

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.

In 1958, the Conference endorsed birth control as the responsibility laid by God on parents everywhere.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

A stronger stand on their beliefs and a firmer grasp on their future were taken Friday by delegates to the 29th general council of the Assemblies of God, in session at the Memorial Coliseum.

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.

`` God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life '', and `` as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name ''.

Is putting a rocket in orbit half so significant as the good news that God put His Son, Jesus Christ, on earth to live and die to save our hell-bound souls??

`` As many as received Him ( Jesus ), to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name ''.

and then, with this God on our side, we can face the whole world without fear.

The statement also points to a classic paradox: The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another.

With its zeal for liberty and its dependence on God it breathed the spirit which had been nourished on the Evangelical revivals.