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.

While other names of God in Judaism are generally restricted to use in a liturgical context, HaShem is used in more casual circumstances.

Jose Ignacio Cabezon, who argues that the use of " theology " is appropriate, can only do so, he says, because " I take theology not to be restricted to discourse on God ...

Most of the settlers had enjoyed freedom of worship in their previous homes but found here they were restricted in worshipping God according to their Protestant tradition.

However, the word good is used very strictly, to be restricted to use to the Supreme Good, God.

During the fourteenth century, the task of interpreting the Bible and God through the written word was restricted to men, specifically ordained priests ; to interpret God through the senses and the body became the domain of women, primarily women mystics, especially in the late Middle Ages.

Some theologians, including the new Master General of the Dominicans, Thomas Cajetan, suspected that she was inspired by the devil rather than God, and restricted her access to the friars of Santo Domingo, who were agitating for ascetic reform in the Dominican Order and for whom she was spokesperson ; the Duke of Alba, one of whose palaces faced the monastery at Ávila, took a patron's interest in the affair.

Around the 15th century, titla in most schools came to be restricted to a special semiotic meaning, used exclusively to refer to sacred concepts, while the same words were otherwise spelled out without titla, and so, for example, while " God " in the sense of the one true God is abbreviated as above, " god " referring to " false " gods is spelled out ; likewise, while the word for " angel " is generally abbreviated, “ angels ” is spelled out “ performed by evil angels ” in Psalm 77.

Here the restricted divine command theory is commonly combined with a view reminiscent of Plato: God is identical to the ultimate standard for goodness.

God Save the Queen remains one of the National Anthems, along with God Defend New Zealand but has been generally restricted to Official occasions where the Monarch or the Vice-Regal representative, the Governor General, are being either honoured or in attendance for a particular purpose.

Hermes himself was very largely under the influence of the Kantian and Fichtean ideas, and though in the philosophical portion of his Einleitung he criticizes both these thinkers severely, rejects their doctrine of the moral law as the sole guarantee for the existence of God, and condemns their restricted view of the possibility and nature of revelation, enough remained of purely speculative material to render his system obnoxious to his church.

This combined with the view that he is the representative of God held by some religious groups, being the head of the security and armed forces, and controlling the official state media ( the radio and television are restricted to state radio and television ) makes him immune from any kind of criticism and unchallengeable.

" In order to accommodate many different religions within scouting, " God " may refer to a higher power, and is not specifically restricted to the God of the monotheistic religions.

In order to accommodate many different religions within Scouting, " God " may refer to a higher power, and is not specifically restricted to the God of the monotheistic religions.

It is usually restricted to specific circumstances of space ( figurative images are absent from mosques, but not outside their walls ), time ( synagogues are not painted, but the oldest preserved one c. CE, Dura-Europos synagogue | Dura Europos, Syria was ), object ( in Africa the High God has no statue or painting, but lesser deities do ) or modality.

In assigning to God the responsibility which he learned could not rest with his doctors, Eisenhower gave evidence of that weakening of the moral intuition which was to characterize his administration in the years to follow.

To know God he must follow in Papa's footsteps.

Again, as faith reveals God my Father and Christ my Saviour, I follow without question where He leads me daily by His Spirit of love, wisdom, power and prayer.

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.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

If the rich man is to be saved, all he must do is to follow the two commandments, and while material wealth is of no value to God, it can be used to alleviate the suffering of our neighbor.

Another opinion is that the choice was free in a limited context, thus: although the Jews chose to follow precepts ordained by God, the Kabbalah and Tanya teach that even prior to creation, the " Jewish soul " was already chosen.

One who serves God out of love studies the Torah and practices the precepts and walks in the way of wisdom for no ulterior motive at all, neither out of fear of evil nor in order to acquire the good, but follows the truth because it is true and the good will follow the merit of attaining to it.

The writers appealed for the unity of all who follow Jesus, suggested the value of congregational self-governance, and lifted the Bible as the source for understanding the will of God.

If the Lord is God, follow him ; but if Baal then follow him ” ().

They also point out that in, Paul says that God will reward those who follow the law and then goes on to say that no one follows the law perfectly ( see also Sermon on the Mount: Interpretation )

Even if one wanted to follow the literal word of God, the need for people first to understand that word necessitates human interpretation.

As a result, it is impossible to follow the indisputable word of God ; one can only achieve a human understanding of God's will.

This beautifully lyrical sloka from the Atharvaveda clearly states that the woman leads and the man follows: " The Sun God follows the first illuminated and enlightened goddess Usha ( dawn ) in the same manner as men emulate and follow women.

* Though Fox used the Bible to support his views, Fox reasoned that, because God was within the faithful, believers could follow their own inner guide rather than rely on a strict reading of Scripture or the word of clerics.

Judaism has always held that people who are not Jews are obliged only to follow the seven Noahide Laws ; these are laws that the Oral Law derives from the covenant God made with Noah after the flood, which apply to all descendants of Noah ( all living people ).

The seasonal cycle is imagined to follow the relationship between the Horned God and the Goddess.

The follow up single was the southern working man's anthem " God Bless Saturday ", which peaked at 37 on the mainstream rock tracks.

When the Egyptian army attempted to follow, God permitted the waters to return upon them and drown them.

Although practice varies between different national churches, most Methodist churches annually follow the call of John Wesley for a renewal of their covenant with God.

He was forced, by his extreme empiricism, to posit the existence of God in order to explain our experience of coherence, even though on an empirical understanding of raw sense data, such a conclusion did not follow.

Other purposes include power for spiritual warfare ( the Christian struggles against spiritual enemies and thus requires spiritual power ), power for overflow ( the believer's experience of the presence and power of God in his or her life flows out into the lives of others ), and power for ability ( to follow divine direction, to face persecution, to exercise spiritual gifts for the edification of the church, etc.

Christians who follow teachers such as John Calvin generally accept that God alone decides the eternal destinations of each person without regard to man's choices, so that their future actions or beliefs follow according to God's choice ( Romans 9: 14-16 ).