Sentences with phrase «as pure grace»

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It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

Because he conceives radically the idea of the grace of God, he makes it plain that God's forgiveness must be for man an event in time, that the relation of «I» and «Thou» exists between God and man, that God stands opposite to man as another Person over whom the man can have no sort of control, who meets man with His claim and with His grace, whose forgiveness is pure gift.

But then there is also the Sambhogakaya, the Dharmakaya experienced by human beings as compassionate — we might say pure grace.

In those pure regions he sees his father, or mother, his sisters, or brothers, or those persons who sat under the same means of grace with him, and whom he derided as fools, fanatics, and hypocrites....

Though perhaps not as popularly celebrated as pure coconut oil, whole coconut milk also maintains high levels of healthy MFCAs and is thus graced with similar healing effects to the oil.

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Simple — I like pure, elegant lines; I always have even as a young woman, I don't think I have changed my look greatly it's stayed with me — now, for me in my fifties and beyond it's important to me that my style reflects how I feel inside; it's the simple things that make my day, make me realize how fortunate I am — «style» to me is a whole person, how they live their lives, how they talk to people, their grace

Critic Consensus: It may occasionally be guilty of coasting on pure charm, but To Catch a Thief has it in spades — as well as a pair of perfectly matched stars in Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

The most one can say in defense of this mirthlessness is that the film settles into a mildly pleasant melancholy in the last act, as Alan, always the purest character and lone source of grace notes, finally gets to come of age.

provide many light moments; the courtroom scene is pure farce; we discover the origin of Grace's obsession with shoes; we learn more about Fanwell's background; Grace's musings on physical and mental comfort are worth consideration, as is the concept of the guilt - free sofa; Mma Ramotswe's inner monologue is full of gentle philosophy and it was a lovely surprise for the reader to meet the much - quoted (and apparently very human) Clovis Anderson.

And as complex as «Between Island and Mainland» (2012) and «Ferryman» (2012) appear, with their swirling / organic forms with interlocking edges, painted with varying differences in thinness, thickness, and modeling, they evoke so distinctly the serenity and simplicity of the Buddha Amitãbha's ascendance, the grace of which was so essential to Pure Land Buddhist painting for over a millennium.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.