A quote from Elder Bednar says: "Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.... I had the impression to share this quote that I had found with my cousin Emily. I sent this quote: "Knock, and He'll open the door. ... In closing, I want to leave you this quote I found on Instagram from LDS church. ...
They behaved as if they were waiting for their death, that a higher power was controlling their everyday lives as if they were puppets. ... This created a community that shared the belief of fate and the power of God in Christianity. ... " This quote describes that if you are good to God, then you will be rewarded with a happier life. ...
He acknowledged the power of his country but the poverty prevalent there worried him. ... He brings up the question of evil's existence, to quote "The Tyger," from Songs of Experience: "Did he who make the lamb make thee"". ... He believed that God is the spiritual and creative power in man, and apart from man the idea of God has no meaning. When Blake speaks of the divine, it is with reference to this power and not to any external or independent God or deity. ... When Blake speaks of divine, it is the reference to this power and not any external or independent godhead. ...
Throughout the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, the protagonist, Dunstan Ramsay, maintains a periodic relationship with Mary Dempster. Davies, who was highly influenced by Jungian Archetypes, introduces them in her character, identify her as "The Fool Saint". Examples of this are found refo...
In the quote it is describing God's true nature as is relates to humans here on earth. God has to power and the self awareness to respect what he has created. ... Jesus was on the cross as a result of our choices as humans and it was God's self-limiting power that prevented him from saving Jesus. ... Edwards states, "They will often think of a God who can do absolutely anything - of power without limits of any kind. ... In Jesus crucified we find that Divine power, which, as the resurrection assures us, is a real power to save and heal, can look like utter foolishness- (Edwards, 4...
For one person to fulfill 48 of these prophecies, the number becomes staggering--1 chance in 10 to the 157th power (1 with 157 zeros after it). ... This is shown in Mark 12:24 in which Jesus replied to the Sadducees, "Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?" Jesus would sometimes quote clear Old Testament predictions as finding their fulfillment in Him. ... He was able to quote many scriptures that helped him teach and win religious debates. ...
Back to Romans 10 a. 10.13 - Paul quotes Joel 2.32, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."" ... -, then Paul quotes Isaiah 52.7, "Lord, who has believed our message?... And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the sa...
To me this quote means, whatever thoughts or reactions you have when the word God is mentioned will determine how you think, feel, and behave. ... You may not always get the answer you want but we have to look at our problems in the light of God's power instead of looking at God in the shadow of our problems. ...
Nietzsche says that those who believe in and follow Christianity are the weak ones, just looking for power and a way to be like the strong. ... I think that these quotes are a part of good Christian theology to a point. ... Nietzsche's main argument is that those who believe in Christianity are simply doing it so that they have someone to look up to as a higher power, and someone to answer all of their questions. ...
Zeus's rise to power is different than other religious stories where is father did not pass those powers down to his son but instead he overthrew is father Cronus and gained the sovereignty of heaven for himself. ... He was also son to father Cronus and owned supreme power over his realm of the underworld. ... That lightning bolt when seen was associated with him and the power that he possessed. ... Quotes that "treat every moment like your last" or "never put tomorrow what you can do today" or "time is money....
Many people believe religion is the most sacred way of life, and to some it is their biggest obligation. A Buddhist once proclaimed in context to religion, "Many paths lead up the mountain, but the view from the top is the same." This quote, I believe contradicts religion in its entirety. However...
In fact, history would argue that no kingdom's monarchy could have ruled with power without the support of the Catholic Church, and more specifically the papacy. This time of great Church power also came with wide spread Church corruption and positional abuse. ... He is quoted to have saying "Now," he said, "I shall certainly lead a far more God pleasing life than I ever did at the University." ...
Peter quoting the 16th Psalms in the Bible, traditionally ascribed to David, he spoke of an greater. ... How David could influence our lives if we will open our eyes to see David as a person like us who is thriving to know God and all His power. ...
This is a quote of a soldiers who turns to God in a cry of desperation to live to see another day while also describing the brutal injuries that many soldier faced in war. ... And I pray hey will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me"" (Williams 1). ...
Three of the most famous writings from ancient civilizations are the writings of Confucius, Hammurabi's code of laws, and Egypt's Book of the Dead. At first, they seem very different, they're from different times, regions, and religions, but they all offer a peek into what values ancient people ...
No parable of Jesus has been used or quoted more than that of "The Prodigal Son-. ... "I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this knowledge that surpasses knowledge "that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."" ...
Abstract Benjamin Franklin stated "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."1 If death is certain, why do so many fear it? Is it our uncertainty of what lies beyond the grave? Is death to be feared as an extinction of life or is there a place of torment that drives th...
The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. Just as Eastern Orthodoxy cannot be understood apart from Christian Hellenism, and Roman Catholicism is a product of Latin civilization, so the Unification Church greatly profited from the religious development of its homeland. Korea's indigenous religion, like that of most early cultures, was a form of...
In fact, the gospel of Christ "is the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:16).# In essence, it is God's dynamite# which is used to clear away the rubble of sin so that we might "have access by one Spirit unto the Father" (Eph. 2:18). ...
One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...
