Quotes About Abraham

Por lo tanto, el hecho de que Abraham sea justificado por la fe, sin la circuncisión, muestra cómo puede ser el padre de todos los que son justificados por la fe (con o sin la circuncisión).

Y si Cristo es el heredero universal de Abraham, entonces todos los que están unidos a Cristo por medio de la fe, tanto los judíos creyentes como los gentiles creyentes, están unidos a la herencia completa de Abraham: «Y si sois de Cristo, entonces sois descendencia de Abraham, herederos según la promesa» (Gál. 3:29).

En lugar de edificar un reino partiendo de los hijos físicos de Abraham, Cristo vino a edificar un reino partiendo de los hijos espirituales de Abraham.

En resumen, la hermenéutica histórico–redentora, que es el primer punto del amilenarismo, nos lleva al segundo punto del amilenarismo: que los verdaderos hijos de Abraham son aquellos, y solo aquellos, que están unidos a Cristo por la fe. Aquellos que son hijos de Abraham por la fe, son los verdaderos herederos de Abraham.

El cuarto punto del amilenarismo es que la Tierra Prometida es la Tierra nueva. Abraham no buscaba un pedazo de tierra que permaneciera bajo la maldición de la Caída; él buscaba una ciudad cuyo constructor y hacedor es Dios. No será hasta la nueva creación que el Abraham resucitado, con todos sus hijos glorificados, morará para siempre con Dios en la Tierra en perfecta paz.

Not only did the seventeenth-century Baptists understand the dual nature of Abraham's covenant; they also understood this dual nature to be the ground of the continuity and discontinuity of the rest of the divine covenants.

Therefore, the Law of Moses was instituted to call them to repent, and the promise to Abraham was given to call them to believe the gospel.

The details of Isaac's birth were the opposite of Ishmael's. Isaac's mother represents the unconditional covenant of grace revealed to Abraham. Isaac was born (1) supernaturally, (2) by the free woman, and (3) according to the promise. In a sense, these characteristics are true for all those who have been born again by the Spirit into the covenant of grace.

If and when it is ever fully realized, the emerging paradigm shift presented here could forever change how the three great Western religions—the "people of the Book," as the Qur'an calls the descendants of Abraham—understand their holy scriptures and their relationship to each other. This paradigm shift could even help to usher in—at long last—peace in the Middle East.

Lincoln's height, saying she'll need to "take a ladder to get to Abraham's bosom." (In later years, Lincoln would turn their fourteen-inch height difference into a joke; they were, he'd say, "the long and the short

The covenant with Abraham has a both/and rather than an either/ or focus: it is both for Jews and for gentiles, for in Abraham, "all the families of the earth will be blessed" (Genesis 12:3).

The new covenant that Jesus offers, in his body and blood, does not replace the old covenants with Abraham or Moses or David. It rather is a continuation of them.

That's why both Matthew and Luke provide genealogies placing Jesus in the line of Abraham, Judah, and King David.

From Delhi to Palam Is the realm of Shah Alam.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. --February 22, 1861

October 19th. (To Miss Grace Bedell) Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received. I regret the necessity to of saying I have no daughter. I have three sons--one seventeen, one nine, and one seven. They with their mother constitute my whole family. As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection if I were to begin now?

He understood that the sources of the gravitational field were not just ponderable matter but also field energy. He realized that gravitational field energy is to be included as a source and that the gravitational field equations were therefore bound to be nonlinear.

Then there was the even odder incident of Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who went out to meet Abraham, bearing bread and wine after the fight was over and the kings were all sunk in the slime-pits. Who was this priest of a forgotten worship whom Abraham honoured? I

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

protected the moral purity of Sarah, who was to be the mother of the promised son of Abraham.