Sentences with phrase «as unmerited»

These looming signs of woes have again necessitated discerning minds to conclude that if the nation eventually elects the right people in 2019, such victory shall be viewed as an unmerited success.

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The love of God, shed abroad in our hearts by His unmerited mercy, is the bedrock, the cornerstone of that work which makes us justified, righteous and ready for the very real new creation ahead — the hope that makes our days here (often scared with pain and trial) have meaning — that's the hope of our calling that allows (as Steve notes) us to live for each other.

The parable, as we saw, appears to be entirely underground except for the cracks in the surface, the stretching of reality, which allows us to see the new and unfamiliar context for life, unmerited love.

It would be to use God's pardon as an excuse for sinful self - assertion, turning God's unmerited mercy into «baneful reassurance.

He rightly speaks of the Christian concept of grace, unmerited favor and forgiveness, which is based upon our faith in Jesus as Redeemer, as motivating and even commanding our forgiveness of our unworthy neighbors.

In the New Covenant the chief thing is not the wonderful treasure of strength and unmerited favor it contains, nor even the heavenly security that that treasure never can fail, but this, that the living mighty ONE gives of this One's self, and makes the Spirit of YAHWEH known, and takes possession of us as our Mighty One.

b) we're finite, but we've learned more about God's character this way c) God planned to use our self - rendered destruction to demonstrate his unmerited grace that we would not otherwise personally comprehend as finite creatures

They had to rely and depend on the charizomai forgiveness of God just as we do — the free, unmerited, completely unearned and unwarranted, gracious forgiveness of God.

The reversibility of the evil decision of the first man is only to be explained by the fact that the integrity on the basis of which the first decision was made, was lost by the evil decision (as it would not have been by the good), because, in contrast to angelic integrity, it was an unmerited, preternatural gift.

What really happened was that, after five centuries of neglect, the Isaian passages on the Suffering Servant of the Lord were used by the early Christians as a means of interpreting the necessity and the significance of Christ's unmerited suffering.

Neither is faith or any works a matter of merit but all a matter of grace as both «unmerited favor» and «empowerment.

The whole world is being exposed to God's message of eternal life, there for the asking, without measuring up or meeting some kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.

However, the deeper purpose of this section will be to look at the bearing of Christian faith both as truth and as power, regardless of denominational or ecclesiastical affiliations, on man's perennial problems of frustration and fear, unmerited suffering, sin and death.

Grace is often defined as God's unmerited favor, or, in everyday terminology, God giving us something good that we do not deserve.

It is not about «unmerited credit» to the enemy, but accepting the fact that, as much as I hate Mourinho's guts, he is doing a better job of winning than my Arsenal!

Unlike Shane Black, however, the love the aspiring scribes here have for their lovingly over-written words is wholly unmerited, as is the film's steamy on - set love affair with itself and its ridiculously over-inflated sense of its own cleverness.

Roman philosophers like Seneca and Cicero considered grace a virtue, and modern philosophers continue to study grace, defining it as an intentional act of unmerited favor, or as an inclination to promote others» interests and bring them joy.

A failure as a politician, he has found much consolation in the unmerited attention he receives from parts of the media, where he repeats ad nauseam his fantasies of a world that is cooling and icecaps that are thickening: explicit denial of observable phenomena.

There may indeed always be something that can be cited as «evidence»: I remember the Reverend William Sloan Coffin telling me that the «unmerited good» on Earth was evidence for the existence of God.