Sentences with phrase «by divine grace»

The story of Jacob is supported only by divine grace, only by divine intention and purpose.

God's provision for the birds of the air and the care for the lilies of the field are examples of his assurance that the humans will in no less be cared for by the divine grace (Mt. 6:25 - 33; Lk.

Barth again and again emphasizes that the church exists as the church not insofar as it possesses some inalienable human form but only as it lives by divine grace.

And, little by little, aided by divine grace which never fails, she took the Greco - Latin decadents and the Germanic barbarians, converted them and educated them, and inspired the building up of a brilliant civilisation whose apex, hitherto unattained, occurred in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

It was the year 1609 when Galileo first pointed skyward an instrument which «I myself devised», he wrote, «enlightened at the outset by divine grace»: the telescope.

Youthful nature and certain natural ways helped me to balance my natural health and youthful to continue my living as a survivor not victimizing me at any situations of life so far by divine grace.

But this is mainly because they were predestinarians, and rejected the very idea of human freedom in the name of the claim that we are all slaves to sin, and are freed only by divine grace.

As Rabbi Greenberg puts it, «This atonement is by divine grace; it is above and beyond the individual's own effort or merit.»

(The theistic explanation is by divine grace, which creates a new nature within one the moment the old nature is sincerely given up.