He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven.

However he dropped out to pursue an acting career which has seen him star in British classic Trainspotting, cult horror Dog Soldiers, the critically acclaimed Sixteen Years of Alcohol, as well as the HBO / BBC venture Rome and Ridley Scott's Crusade epic Kingdom of Heaven.

Phillips ' most recent serious acting job has been a recurring role on the WB drama 7th Heaven as Lily Jackson, sister of family matriarch Annie Jackson Camden ( Catherine Hicks ).

And William Paley held that all moral obligations bottom out in the self-interested " urge " to avoid Hell and enter Heaven by acting in accord with God's commands.

This was in opposition to Jesus ' doctrine that everyone could be a child of God and experience Heaven in their present lives by acting in a gentle, loving manner.

Her last acting appearance was a small role in the 2002 independent film Manna from Heaven.

He also enrolled at Boston College, prior to leaving the school after his freshman year to pursue acting, specifically, 7th Heaven.

Most Christians deny that entry into Heaven can be properly earned, rather it is a gift that is solely God's to give through his unmerited grace.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

A man who recognizes the truth that God works through everything is already in Heaven and this is the only resurrection.

" This alludes to the Catholic belief in a spiritual state, known as Purgatory, in which those souls who are not condemned to Hell, but are also not completely pure as required for entry into Heaven, go through a final process of purification before their full acceptance into Heaven.

Prior to the Crucifixion the Jews are called Israelites, the honorific title of God's chosen people ; after it, they are called " Ioudaioi ", Jews, a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the " kingdom of Heaven " has been taken away from them and given instead to the church.

Several works of written and filmed science fiction have plots in which Heaven can be reached by the living through technological means.

Filled with compassion, she released all the good karma she had accumulated through her many lifetimes, thus freeing many suffering souls back into Heaven and Earth.

The group's rapid evolution can be traced through the Seven Steps to Heaven album, In Europe ( July 1963 ), My Funny Valentine ( February 1964 ), and Four and More ( also February 1964 ).

Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II soon afterwards acquired controlling interest in the live-action films released through September 16, 2005, the latest film in this package was Just Like Heaven.

* A canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the 1945 screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray: " I sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, ' I myself am Heaven and Hell.

Christianity teaches that those who gather up riches and power in this life will almost certainly not be rewarded in the next (" it is harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle ...") while those who suffer oppression and poverty in this life, while cultivating their spiritual wealth, will be rewarded in the Kingdom of God.

* Jens Lekman has a song titled " Tram # 7 to Heaven ", a reference to line 7 of the Gothenburg tram which passes through his native borough of Kortedala.

There was such a glory over everything ; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.

" makes allusions to Tantalus in lines in the first stanza, especially lines two through four: "' Heaven '— is what I cannot reach !/ The Apple on the Tree —/ Provided it do hopeless — hang —/ That —' Heaven ' is — to Me!

* Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri's beloved and guide through Heaven in The Divine Comedy ( d. 1290 )

The symbolism in these cathedral structures is of the hierarchy of Earth and Heaven, and often reveals its meaning through the internal decoration of the building with frescos or mosaics.

At the end of Divine Services on Monday, the dismissal begins with the words: " May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable, Bodiless Powers ( i. e., the angels ) of Heaven …".

Heavens such as Tuṣita Heaven are said to be accessible through meditation, and accounts of this are given in the writings of the Indian Buddhist monk Paramārtha, who lived during the 6th century CE.

It is said that Felix appeared as an apparition to one of his descendants, his great-granddaughter Trasilla ( an aunt of Pope Gregory I ), and asked her to enter Heaven through death, and on the eve of Christmas Trasilla died, seeing Jesus Christ beckoning.

Smart proposes “ Were it not for thee, oh sun ,/ Those pansies, that reclining from the bank / View through the immaculate, pellucid stream ,/ Their portraiture in the inverted Heaven ,/ Might as well change their triple boast, the white ,/ The purple, and the gold ”.

The film follows two fallen angels, Loki and Bartleby, who, through a loophole in Catholic Dogma, find a way to get back into Heaven after being cast out by God.

Heaven and Hell strictly abide by an agreement to work through contracts and never kill each other.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

It deals entirely with the earlier exploits of Sun Wukong, a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat, and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself, Qitian Dasheng (), or " Great Sage Equal to Heaven ".

Without going outside his door, one understands ( all that takes place ) under the sky ; without looking out from his window, one sees the Tao of Heaven.

Since ( the clock ) showed good agreement with the Tao of Heaven, everyone at that time praised its ingenuity.

In the People's Republic of China, I-Kuan Tao and the other four Way of Former Heaven religious groups remain banned as illegal secret societies, as was the case in Taiwan until 1987.

The variations on the central theme are many: for example, different sects use different names for the supreme deity, the I-Kuan Tao and the T ' ung-shan She calling her " Venerable Mother of Limitless Heaven " ( Wuji Laomu ), the Tz ' u-hui Tang " Golden Mother of the Jasper Pool " ( Yao-ch ' ih Chin-mu ), the Tien-te Sheng-chiao " Unborn Sacred Mother " ( Wusheng Shengmu ).

T ' ung-shan She ( 同善社, pinyin: Tóngshàn Shè, literally Society of Goodness ) is a religious group that is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien-t ' ien Tao ) sects.

) from Szechwan, who stands in the seventeenth patriarchal generation of this Hsien-t ' ien Tao ( Way of Former Heaven ) branch line.

Tien-te Sheng-chiao () is a religious group that is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien-t ' ien Tao ) sects The Way of Former Heaven sects are syncretic religious groups that aspire to unify Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and other religions.

Tz ' u-hui Tang ( 慈惠堂, Ci Hui Tang, literally Compassion Society ) is a religious group that is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien-t ' ien Tao ) sects.

Daoyuan ( Chinese: 道院, " Sanctuary of the Tao ") is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien-t ' ien Tao ) sects.

In antiquity, it was a subject of complaint that Theophrastus had not expressed himself with precision and consistency respecting God, and had understood it at one time as Heaven, at another an ( enlivening ) breath ( pneuma ).

Cynthia Lowery of the Associated Press expressed her exasperation with Beatlemania by saying of the Beatles: " Heaven knows we've heard them enough.

The idol with many bodies and one head may express Lewis ' horror, expressed in many of his works, at the absorption and suppression of the individual into a collective controlled by a single will: in Perelandra, referring to a similar loss of individuality, he speculates that " what the Pantheists falsely hoped for in Heaven, the wicked really receive in Hell ".

In addition, the " ㅇ " stands for Heaven ( 天 ), the " ㅡ " represents the horizon of the Earth ( 地 ), and " ㅅ " signifies Man ( 人 ) as expressed in the Chinese character.

The grave of Lisa Launders in Gate of Heaven CemeteryOn two occasions, Steinberg was denied discretionary parole, mainly because he never expressed remorse for the killing.

In particular, " A Suplication for the joys of Heaven " and " A Contemplation " expressed her concerns about her life and political and spiritual beliefs.