And we strive to live from that place within us, where we are that Awareness, that connection to Source, that Union with God, such that no matter what happens in the human drama, whether wondrous or unspeakably, intolerably awful, Awareness is a constant.
Twice a year, at Passover in the spring and the Jewish New year in the fall, the wall's rabbi clears out the accumulated notes which are buried in accordance with Jewish custom, which forbids the destruction of writings that mention God, such as worn or damaged Torah scrolls, prayer books and other religious articles.
To turn a deaf ear to Wagner's music because of Wagner's failings is to insult God; such a response suggests that a listener's religious and moral sensibilities are more worthy of respect than those of God who, for some unfathomable reason, made Wagner a conduit for God's creative gifts.
To bring Mann and Ginsberg into the same sentence, to summon and advance European high culture with a slacker casualness, to mix a with-it, slangy, trans-Atlantic prose with the concerns of classic fiction (about self and morality and God): such are the novel fusions that Geoff Dyer has made defiantly his own.
The relationship between a word and the object it refers to is thought to be the desire of God that such and such a word should refer to such and such an object.
Let God1, God2, God3, … be a numerable totality of Gods (machines) such that Godn has the capacity to control particle Pn and only particle Pn.
Furthermore, God's willing is not constrained by anything other than the constraints of logical possibility, and there is nothing that can (efficiently) cause God to choose one way rather than other; God is the ultimate source of God's action, such that nothing is causally explanatorily prior to God's choice.
Further, as with all divinely-held properties, God has that existence property as a perfection that is, God exists in a perfect way, such that God cannot not exist.
For Pascal, one's choice of salvation is free in the sense that it expresses one's strongest desire; but the desire itself is communicated only to those who are predestined by God, and is such that the recipient is guaranteed to follow it.
The same point applies to Malebranche's epistemology; here too divine simplicity constitutes a side constraint on God's actions, such that there is no genuine sense in which he could have created each mind with a complete set of ideas.
As a network of outposts each ordered on the life and teachings of Jesus, the kingdom of God should be such that I can walk from kingdom place to kingdom place in Allentown and never want for anything, even in the poorest neighborhoods or in the poorest churches.
