Not exact matches
I
give to you what I
give to no one else, and that is my seed, my procreative power, which, united
to your seed, can incarnate our love, take on flesh that will be the living fruit of our love, the proof also that we want our love
to be a
gift to God and
to the future.1 I have expanded on this at length elsewhere.2 Holding
to our present topic, let us look a bit more closely at those issues of justice involved in this
divine plan of the union of man and woman in marriage.
Parents pray that the
gift of belief is
given to their children at baptism, but belief can not be forced or even willed; it is a
divine gift.
Man was quite rightly
given little encouragement
to think that his eternal salvation could be won by his own unaided efforts, for it was the
gift of
divine grace.
It may be insight into the
divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the
gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability
to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and
to give direction and purpose
to their lives.
Moreover, God
gave Adam and Eve the further
gift of grace
to share in His
divine life.
We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative
gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He
gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of
Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with
divine design - It is accidental
to us, not
to God.»
In the Holy Spirit the Father
gives all that He has, His
divine nature,
to the Son, and the Son returns the
gift fully.
The cross confirms this
divine responsibility and sets us free
to serve in a world with the calls and
gifts that Christ
gives us in abundance.
Between outrageous directions for such culinary concoctions as tripe Nicoise, Cuban bread, sweet martini, and just plain pot roast, Capon reflects upon the
divine gifts of food and drink and humanity's divinely
given commission
to eat, drink and be merry.
These heart - shaped sweets are easy
to whip up (a perfect solution for last minute
gift giving) and taste absolutely
divine.
It works... I have been making loaves this week
to give as
gifts... tastes great, the Cranberry Orange smells
divine.
She is interested in the poetic within everyday life and the use of ancient practices such as
gift -
giving, Moshaereh (communal poetry reciting) and bibliomancy (the art of
divining with books)
to inspire socially driven artworks.