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 Yahweh had shown his superiority to other gods before, in Second Isaiah he becomes the sole God of the world.

At length God brings the Assyrians to destroy the northern kingdom, leaving Judah as the sole custodian of the promise.

Eldol states that he is the sole survivor of the Britons who met there, having escaped by defending himself a stake that he claims was thrown to him by God.

In its strongest form, this view may identify evil as an absence of God, who is the sole source of that which is good.

Die Stem was the co-national anthem with God Save the King / Queen from 1936 to 1957, when it became the sole national anthem until 1995.

Gregory's avowed aim in writing this book was to ' fire others with that enthusiasm by which the saints deservedly climbed to heaven ', though this was not his sole purpose, and he most surely did not expect his entire audience to show promise of such piety as to witness the power of God flowing through them in the way that it did for the fathers.

Jeremiah ’ s sole purpose was to reveal the sins of the people and explain the reason for the impending disaster ( destruction by the Babylonian army and captivity ), “ And when your people say, ' Why has the our God done all these things to us?

In 365, he published the Contra Arianos vel Auxentium Mediolanensem liber, in connection with the controversy ; and also ( but perhaps at a somewhat earlier date ) the Contra Constantium Augustum liber, in which he pronounced that lately deceased emperor to have been the Antichrist, a rebel against God, " a tyrant whose sole object had been to make a gift to the devil of that world for which Christ had suffered.

In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, creativity was the sole province of God ; humans were not considered to have the ability to create something new except as an expression of God's work.

Eastern religions have not been as concerned by questions relating to the nature of a single God as the universe's sole creator and ruler.

) It also asserts that Jews believe that they are the sole children of God ( Surah 5: 18 ), and that only they will achieve salvation ( Surah 2: 111 ).

According to Islamic scriptures, the belief that Jesus is God or Son of God is shirk, or the association of partners with God, and thereby a rejection of God's divine oneness ( tawhid ) and the sole unpardonable sin.

The Qur ' an relates the story of Abraham in order to provide an example of an intellectual quest for understanding God as the Cause of Causes: Related in verses, Abraham moves progressively from worshiping the stars, the moon, and the sun to acknowledging God as the sole cause of the heavenly phenomena.

There is an emphasis on the oneness of God and on the sole worship of God by Israel.

It declared that the Roman church was founded by God alone-that the papal power ( the auctoritas of Pope Gelasius ) was the sole universal power ; in particular, a council held in the Lateran from 24 to 28 February the same year decreed that the pope alone could appoint or depose churchmen or move them from see to see.

God is thy Master, His law thy sole avail!

However, this reveals a mistaken understanding of the priesthood of all believers which in the Assemblies has to do with the ability to directly offer worship, whether silently or audibly, to God and His Christ, at the Lord's Supper without any human mediator being necessary – which is in accordance with 1Tim 2: 5 where it is stated that Christ Jesus Himself is the sole Mediator between God and men (" men ", being used here generically of mankind, and not referring simply and solely to " males ").

The United Church of Christ acknowledges as its sole Head, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior.

*" human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil " ( No. 3 )

The Church of the Nazarene, an evangelical Christian denomination, sees " knowledge acquired by science and human inquiry equal to that acquired by divine revelation ," and, while the church "' believes in the Biblical account of creation ' and holds that God is the sole creator, it allows latitude ' regarding the " how " of creation.

His being and His will -- Stevie could not divide God from his Papa -- illumined every parish face, turned the choir into a band of angels, and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven.

Oh, God, the name repeated over and over, anybody to hear -- Not being a fool, Mr. Skyros knew why.

and, being left carnal, he will be an imperfect being, possessing the image ( of God ) in his formation, but not receiving the similitude ( of God ) through the Spirit ''.

I praise God for the privilege of being a nurse who has that peace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The same God who called this world into being when He said: `` Let there be light ''!!

When I came into being, 15 years ago, I had one primary purpose: to help men and women everywhere to know God better, and through knowing Him better to become happier and more effective people.

However, he thinks we should love God more than ourselves and our neighbours, and more than our bodily life — since the ultimate purpose of loving our neighbour is to share in eternal beatitude: a more desirable thing than bodily well being.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Islam teaches that the purpose of Man's entire creation is to worship the Creator of the Heavens and Earth-Allah ( God in Arabic ) alone that includes being kind to other human beings and life including bugs, and to trees, by not oppressing them.

The suggested merger in God ( Hindu belief ) in this state involves virtually a reversion to the first state of God being Self-absorbed.

AD 250 – 336 ), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the persons of the Trinity (' God the Father ', ' God the Son ' ( Jesus of Nazareth ), and ' God the Holy Spirit ') and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father.

" Arianism " is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Logos — as either a created being ( as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism ), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created ( as in Semi-Arianism ).

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of " like " essence or being ( see homoiousia ) but not of the same essence or being ( see homoousia ).

Ousia is essence or being, in Eastern Christianity, and is the aspect of God that is completely incomprehensible to mankind and human perception.

It is all that subsists by itself and which has not its being in another, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all being uncreated.