The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.
The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.
. . . God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself, can hardly be ignorant of the things which proceed from It and of which It is the source. This, then, is how God knows all things, not by understanding things, but by understanding Himself.
God is a fountain flowing into itself.
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing. . . formless intelligences but. . . it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings. . . the first group is forever around God and is said to be permanently united with Him ahead of any of the others and with no intermediary. Here there are the most holy 'thrones' and the orders said to possess many eyes and many wings, called in Hebrew the 'cherubim' and 'seraphim'. . . The second group. . . is made up of 'authorities,' 'dominions,' and 'powers. ' And the third, at the end of the heavenly hierarchies, is the group of 'angels,' 'archangels,' and 'principalities. '
When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.
I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.