How To Use God's will In A Sentence
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Focus on God's will and be open to its renewing work in Scripture, in words that form in your heart after prayerful contemplation, in things you read, hear or see in daily living.
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In practice it entails self-surrender, resignation to God's will, yielding to others, self-denial, contentment, and a quiet spirit.
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God's will is the undetermined determinator of everything in this world.
Guess Who Was At The Party?
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History was nothing less than God's will immanent in the world, the unfolding of a great purpose.
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Most Muslims believe that major events such as life, death, marriage and livelihood, if not all that happens to them, are due to God's will and preordainment, and that they are virtually, if not totally, powerless in influencing the course of such events.
Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real?
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Now this was according to God's will, so that the church might be provided with pure altar bread made by the hands of a chaste and innocent youth.
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Shakespeare's work in particular was considered to antithetical to God's will and works of his that found their way into Puritan hands were burned.
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Please pray for us as we seek God's will - to his praise and glory through the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He truly toiled and moiled just to accept God's will when he prayed at Gethsemane.
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That, if it be God's will, we may do him more service and may get to be fitter and riper for heaven, is an end for which we may wish the prolonging of life, in subservience to our chief end; but, otherwise, what can we propose to ourselves in desiring to tarry here?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Thus, jealousy is in direct contradiction with God's will.
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Among the three religious vows, obedience is considered a spiritual way of listening to an inner voice in the stead of God's will.
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For Luther, the rest of the commandments function both to show us God's will for our lives and actions and to show us that we are sinners whose sins violate God's call to love.
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He thought he could play it his way: tell America God's word and God's will, uncompromised by so-called modernisation and the we-know-best presumption that was political correctness.
Not the End of the World
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I had done my beloved Mary; [54] but once more, _God's will be done_.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
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Reply Obj. 2: The saints impetrate what ever God wishes to take place through their prayers: and they pray for that which they deem will be granted through their prayers according to God's will.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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But note that in this great variety of natural endowment there is one trait -- a moral trait, not a mental -- that marks all alike, namely a pervading purpose, that comes to be a passion, to do God's will, and get men to know Him, and that everything is forced to bend to this dominant purpose.
Quiet Talks on Power
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Eidophone conversations with two other crewmen's wives had been difficult-when at least they were accepting God's will in Christian fortitude, and wanted only to ask about sending messages or gifts to the men they would never remeet in his life.
Explorations
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McCain renounced Hagee's support on Thursday after earlier remarks by the evangelist - suggesting the acts of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust were part of God's will - drew attention from reporters.
Texas pastor Hagee says split with McCain 'best for both of us'
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The vulgar Latin hath it, regnum sacerdotale, to which agreeth the translation of that place, sacerdotium regale, a regal priesthood; 93 as also the institution itself, by which no man might enter into the sanctum sanctorum, that is to say, no man might enquire God's will immediately of God
Leviathan
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Today, he would be called ‘born again’; a spiritual awakening convinced him he was one of the elect, placed on earth as an instrument of God's will.
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Leibniz, meanwhile, believed every atom in the universe to have a soul, the universe being a projection through them of God's will, like a cosmic hologram.
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He has fallen down and worshipped that miserable 'Ich' of his, and made that, and not God's will, the centre and root of his philosophy, his poetry, and his self-idolizing æsthetics; and when it fails him, then for prussic acid, and nonentity.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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We must submit ourselves to God's will.
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Snoopiness, gossip, toying with the occult, reluctance to do what is good, forgetfulness of God's will, factionalism, and many other failings are as much manifestations of concupiscence as disordered sexual impulses.
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Contrary to all comprehensive and totalizing theological traditions, we expect that we will have to discern God's will for us in our own age, occasion by occasion, without the benefit of an infallible this-worldly authority.
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But we somehow feel obligated to spend time explaining away Scripture texts that propound notions that have long-since become moot (e.g., dietary laws that protected desert tribes lacking refrigeration) or are truly repugnant (e.g., Paul's views of women and slaves) at the expense of preaching vivid depictions of God's will in action today.
Eliot Daley: Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God
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He could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.
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Even the term 'self-determination' has to be modified as religious people may understand the movement of their life not as self-determined but rather as co-determined with God's will.
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber: Defining One's Own Destiny: Self-Determination, Religion And The 'Arab Spring'
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The mayor, fumbling for words of succor at a press conference, had suggested that God's will was somehow behind those who got out alive.
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So much of what we talk about is not what God's will is but what makes us feel ok, resulting in a confusion of faith with religion.
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That his cause, indeed, was the cause of God, he remained unshakenly convinced; but in a sadder spirit than he had ever shown before, he left God's will to determine what amount of visible success that cause should attain to in the present evil world, or how far the decision should depend upon His last great Judgment.
Life of Luther
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Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother.
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As a result of tsarist policies, Crews maintains, "Muslim men and women came to imagine the imperial state as a potential instrument of God's will," and engaged with it to renegotiate their own relationship with Islam as loyal subjects of the tsar.
Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia
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Now this was according to God's will, so that the church might be provided with pure altar bread made by the hands of a chaste and innocent youth.
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In particular, we are to read her Evangelical faith, her five children, including a Down Syndrome baby, and her belief that she is an instrument of God's will as absolute proof of her self-transcendency.
Aimee Liu: Why the Political is Personal(ity)
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Some religious anti-communists profess to find signs of God's will here: a Moses-like child rescued from the waters who symbolizes the arrival of imminent freedom for Cuba.
