`` 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.

Three core principles establish a basis for Bahá ' í teachings and doctrine: the unity of God, the unity of religion, and the unity of humankind.

Most Protestants reject the doctrine of Purgatory on the basis that, according to the Protestant interpretation of Scripture, Christ has already made full atonement for our sins on the cross, thereby removing all obstacles which prevent us from coming directly into the presence of God after death.

This belief in the unreality of imperfection, stemming from the allness of God, Spirit, is the basis of Christian Scientists ' characteristic reliance on prayer in place of traditional medical care, often with the aid of Christian Science practitioners.

Cyril is credited with creating a basis for all other mariological developments through his teaching of the blessed Virgin Mary, as the Mother of God.

Furthermore, according to David's apologists, the death of Uriah was not to be considered murder, on the basis that Uriah had committed a capital offence by refusing to obey a direct command from the King. However, in tractate Sanhedrin, David's broken heart pleads and numerous actions for forgiveness are discussed, God ultimately forgives but would not remove his sins from Scripture.

Christian feminists believe that God does not discriminate on the basis of biologically-determined characteristics such as sex and race.

In countries not previously part of the British Empire, the tune of " God Save the Queen " has provided the basis for various patriotic songs, though still generally connected with royal ceremony.

The scriptural basis for this new positive attitude towards Jews among Evangelicals is Genesis 12: 3, in which God promises that He will bless those who bless Abraham and his descendants, and curse those who curse them ( see also " Abrahamic Covenant ").

Other factors in the new philo-Semitism include gratitude to the Jews for contributing to the theological foundations of Christianity and for being the source of the prophets and Jesus ; remorse for the Church's history of anti-Semitism ; and fear that God will judge the nations at the end of time on the basis of how they treated the Jewish people.

Resnicoff reported that Falwell supported the idea of using the Biblical verse that teaches that " God hears the words of our mouths and the meditations of our heart " as a basis for allowing Christian chaplains to offer " inclusive " prayers, because they could offer denominational words, such as " In Jesus's name ," silently, as a " meditation of the heart.

The Church pointed to Genesis 3: 16 as the basis for pain in childbirth, where Eve's punishment for her role in disobeying God was that he would " multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.

Sometimes called the " First Vision ", Smith's vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ as two separate beings was reportedly the basis for the difference in doctrine between Mormonism's view of the nature of God and that of orthodox Christianity.

Here he states that the Christian moral doctrine provides people with intrinsic value, belief in God ( which justifies the evil in the world ) and a basis for objective knowledge.

The death of God, in particular the statement that " we killed him ", is similar to the self-dissolution of Christian doctrine: due to the advances of the sciences, which for Nietzsche show that man is the product of evolution, that earth has no special place among the stars and that history is not progressive, the Christian notion of God can no longer serve as a basis for a morality.

Therefore, God predestines on the basis of foreknowledge of how some will respond to his universal love (" conditional ").

His leadership, influence and legacy led to the formation of communities dominated by Gentile groups that worshiped the God of Israel, adhered to the " Judaic moral code ", but relaxed or abandoned the ritual and dietary teachings of the Law of Moses, that these laws and rituals had either been fulfilled in the life of Christ or were symbolic precursors of Christ, all on the basis of Paul's teachings of the life and works of Jesus Christ and his teaching of a New Covenant ( or " new testament ") established through Jesus ' death and resurrection.

This anthropocentric perspective, establishing human reason as autonomous, posed the basis for the Enlightenment's emancipation from God and the Church.

This passage, along with the phrase in 1 Peter that God did " not leave his soul in Hades ," is the theological basis behind the statement " He descended into Hades " in the Apostles ' Creed.

) The basis of Subud is a spiritual exercise commonly referred to as the latihan kejiwaan, which was said by Muhammad Subuh to represent guidance from " the Power of God " or " the Great Life Force ".

Melanchthon looked upon the law as not only the correlate of the Gospel, by which its effect of salvation is prepared, but as the unchangeable order of the spiritual world which has its basis in God himself.

His view of life is deterministic and the basis of his religious thinking is the predestinate recognition of the necessity of all temporal existence as an effect of the absolute, eternal, and immutable will of God, so that even the fall of the human race appears to him essential to the divine plan of the world.

The argument asserts that an omnibenevolent God provides the basis for attributing right and wrong to any thought or action.