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According to the gospels, Jesus said the greatest commandment was to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.” [38] The scripture in Deuteronomy to which he referred is known in modern times as the Shema, a declaration emphasizing the oneness of God and the sole worship of God by Israel. [39]
The phrase "God helps those who help themselves" is a motto that emphasizes the importance of self-initiative and agency. The phrase originated in ancient Greece as " the gods help those who help themselves " and may originally have been proverbial .
The intended audience of the book are Christians—particularly evangelicals—who feel tension between their commitment to the Bible and the difficulties of life. [1] [2] The book provides Christian readers with an opportunity to explore doubt by emphasizing that faith requires trusting God rather than having correct views about God. [3]
A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all one’s desires. This gift is described by Aquinas as a fear of separating oneself from God. He describes the gift as a "filial fear," like a child's fear of offending his father, rather than a "servile fear," that is, a fear of punishment.
"'Confide in Me'" without a shadow of a doubt is the best Kylie track we were involved with. It's the thing I am most proud of professionally - the whole process from start to finish. It's the track that really sort of took her to the next level". -Producers Brothers in Rhythm commenting about the song's production. [1]
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father [the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God of God,] Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
The Pharisees have not properly understood the words of God. John MacEvilly refers to the disciples' "mere material violation of the letter of the law" as excused by their "exercise of mercy to the souls of their brethren, whom they wished to rescue from eternal perdition", and also to the Pharisees' "excessive zeal for the law", which renders ...