Sentences with phrase «built upon grace»

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There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

It's lies built upon lies, and those who do their thing of «forgiveness and grace», without looking hard at the facts, are perpetuation this cancer.

This new Kingdom is the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom built upon forgiveness and mercy, grace and generosity, love and kindness, rather than a kingdom built upon blame, victimization, persecution, and violence toward others for selfish gain.

Only occasionally does some piece of personal description raise our hopes that it may conceivably be based on a true reminiscence, e.g. that Justus Barsabas (cf. Acts 1:23) was flatfooted, and that Paul was «a man short of stature, thin - haired upon the head, crooked in the legs, well - built, with eyebrows joining, and nose somewhat hooked, full of grace» (Acts of Paul).

«Grace», says Aquinas at the beginning of his Summa Theologiae,» [1] «does not do away with nature but perfects it», and «faith builds upon and perfects reason».

Of these, the «Christ above culture» type seeks a synthesis of culture with Christ so that grace perfects or builds upon culture.

Yet if Jesus were God and not man at all, there was no ground for the author of the fourth Gospel to say, «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth» (John 1:14), or for the church to build its faith upon this foundation throughout the centuries.

We have some beautiful theology and anthropology filling out the traditional Catholic maxim «Grace builds upon nature».

(but even if it didn't that should be obvious) Therefore Gods groundwork for the spectacular future that God has in store for us is built upon love and the way to create that love is for God to forgive us and grant us eternal life which is made available to us by the grace of Jesus Christ and the death he took for us all on the cross.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new medium.

Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new, African medium.