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Quotes About Purposes

God" has now done something in Jesus so important that it represents a surpassing further disclosure of divine purposes, both illuminating the eschatological future and also casting a powerful retroactive light on all "God's" prior actions witnessed to in the OT. Everything is given a new meaning in light of Jesus, and Jesus in turn is the superlative vehicle of divine purposes, the new defining divine action in the light of whom one now can and must understand adequately what "God" means.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
But Protestant countries such as England ignored it for official purposes.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Archons live mainly in Saturn's Rings. Rome was known by the "Romans" as Saturnia, not as Rome and Saturn was one of the Roman gods. However, the Archons do not respect the limits of their living space, nor do they respect the limits of the purposes for which they were created.
~ Laurence Galian
They have been fulfilled in Christ, so we must determine their theological purposes and apply them to current situations. We need holiness and a proper relationship with God just as they did, and the legal regulations properly understood can help us center on those critical areas of the Christian life.
~ Grant R. Osborne
We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.
~ Rand Paul
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.
~ Harold Laski
The nature of the congressional investigating committee has suffered violence at the hands of some who have not understood or appreciated the scope and function of such a committee. Too often, in recent times, the committees have been used for publicity rather than for the original purposes intended.
~ Harry Truman
most city diversity is the creation of incredible numbers of different people and different private organizations, with vastly differing ideas and purposes, planning and contriving outside the formal framework of public action.
~ Jane Jacobs
The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord. The king is history slave. History, that is, the unconscious general swarm life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of things as a tool for its own purposes
~ Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich
God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate.
~ Dallas Willard
Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.
~ Dallas Willard
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame – if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.
~ David A. Bednar
A sovereign, creative, truthful God is not threatened by our human attempts to describe and better to understand the nature and purposes of God.
~ William H. Willimon
he had the patience to wait and the shrewdness to realize that the climate of material prosperity and of a feeling of relaxation which settled over Germany in those years was not propitious for his purposes.
~ William L. Shirer
But for all practical purposes the formation of ice breaks the continuous symmetries of water non-deterministically. This non-deterministic symmetry breaking is called spontaneous symmetry breaking.
~ Henning Genz
I am concerned that the vague guidelines and policies used by the NSA for intelligence collection and sharing, in conjunction with elusive direction from the Administration, have led to intelligence being collected on sitting members of Congress for political purposes.
~ Ron DeSantis
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
~ Tryon Edwards
To make our meetings more effective, we need to have multiple types of meetings, and clearly distinguish between the various purposes, formats, and timing of those meetings.
~ Patrick Lencioni
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
~ William Shakespeare
I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.
~ Chuck Grassley
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
~ Herbert Simon
Do you think this plague will be over by the time I return? They say these visitations are all from God, but I can't pretend to know his purposes.
~ Hilary Mantel
As to the purposes of the union, therefore, Georgia is not a sovereign state,
~ Unknown