One on God's side is a majority. Wendell Phillips 5 votes Subjects: God 20 We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. Miguel de Unamuno 5 votes Subjects: God 21 To place oneself in ...
I praise you Lord God, that your Word is living and active. No matter how often we read a passage or hear a scripture story, you can breathe fresh life into its meaning and impact. The Christmas narrative is no exception.As we read and hear again the grand story of Jesus’ birth, ma...
You know me, Lord. If I’m not careful my mind can slide into fear and worry, especially about the needs and struggles of loved ones. Or I can slip backward into hurts or regrets of the past. Release from such thoughts is not always easy. But I’ve heard it said, “What is IM-...
only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit. —Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
And it is hardly necessary to argue for the view that our existence and our activity acquire meaning only by the setting up of such a goal and of corresponding values. (Albert Einstein, 1939)To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life ...
If my friend’s case is true, then suffering, cancer, and death are “very good”. But I Cor 15:26 tells us that “the final to be destroyed is death”. If good is to have any meaning at all, then it cannot include suffering, harm, destruction and death as would be necessary for...
The same is true of Engl. year. Its cognates outside Germanic usually mean “season; spring; summer.” Elsewhere, this root occurs in words meaning “to go, pass.” In Slavic studies, the root god–has also been compared with Greek agathós, but there, too, this comparison was ...
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half. —Samuel Gridley Howe 71 In the face of this once-in-a-century test that is crucial to the future of humanity, the...
The modern day meaning of Repent is not the same as the meaning of the Greek word Metanoia. Please seriously consider this issue as your post presents a false gospel of works. Please consider the word Repentance in Hebrews 12:14-17: ...
Except for the formal language, the above quote sounds like something preached from an American pulpit last Sunday. But as you can guess from his portrait, Charles Carroll lived long ago; he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. ...