Sentences with phrase «came as a gift»

For example, the causal argument is not really a demonstration of God's existence, but a statement of the experience that everything which exists comes as a gift and thus suggests the question concerning the ultimate sources of being.

Man can not achieve this redemption by his own efforts; it must come as a gift through a divine intervention.

This is a dynamic concept, combining freedom from self - concern with serenity, and it comes as a gift.

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This distinction seems unnecessary, provided we recognize, as Jesus did, that it comes as the gift of a loving God.

One of the most important elements of our babies» bedtime routine came as a gift: a pair of plain white Aden & Anais swaddle blankets.

I first tried these colors a few years ago when I bought a mascara from Lancome and the eye shadow came as a gift.

Emotional, physical, and mental intelligence naturally come as gifts and blessings, not our technology.

There are very few credit restrictions on the FHA loan, and the agency allows your 3.5 percent down payment to comes as a gift from a family member, employer, charitable organization or government homebuyer program.

It's a true, three - percent - downpayment mortgage program, for which the 3 % downpayment may come as a gift.

Oh sure, I owned the NES and all that came with that (the Master System came as a gift from Grandma), but I was well aware of Shinobi, Space Harrier, Altered Beast and Phantasy Star long before many of my peers.

* Hi Cory - to answer your question: that tagline came as a gift by one of the subscribers to my newsletter.

It's a true, three - percent - downpayment mortgage program, for which the 3 % downpayment may come as a gift.

FHA rules allow all of your down payment funds to come as a gift from a relative; so if you're lucky enough to have a family member with some extra cash to help with your home purchase, that's one option to increase your funds.

Not exact matches

One etiquette consultant usually makes peanut brittle as holiday gifts, and clients have come to anticipate her homemade candy.

My own mom's set lasted 35 years, but when it came to talking about companies using Cutco products as gifts, I had no example to give.

It can be hard to come up with a clever gift — especially when you remembered at the last minute — but you don't want to be the 10th person to show up with flowers and a covered dish (though neither would go amiss as an addition to your gift).

Swift then went shopping for Christmas (or «Swiftmas,» as it came to be called) gifts for those fans.

The information we have, such as Boeing's $ 1 million gift, comes from voluntary disclosures by the companies themselves.

In fact, you can give these donations as gifts (many of them come with an «experience» such as a safari when you donate to a local exotic animal zoo) and get good karma points, a tax write - off, and a genuine thank you to boot.

Studies have shown mixed results when it comes to charities and other non-profits offering thank - you gifts as donor premiums.

In anecdote after anecdote in the book, Chase comes off as a dyspeptic if gifted freak.

Valentine's Day is coming up, and you might want to consider that day of flowers and chocolates as a gift - giving opportunity — not just for your sweetheart but for your business clients.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ solely by our faith in Christ and what He alone did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free gift of God and it doesn't just come after all we can do as Mormons believe.

In his otherwise scrupulous survey of sources, McGinn neglects that gifted generation of dogmaticians who came to maturity in Europe during the two decades between the world wars: Paul Althaus, Hermann Diem, Emil Brunner, Heinrich Vogel, Edmund Schlink, and the Roman Catholic Michael Schmaus - all of whom have written grippingly of Antichrist as a revealed truth that speaks to our age.

Faith comes, then, as a gift of the ability to trust in that power which endures in the passing of all the gods we have made as an expression of our delusion of being a «No - Limit Person.»

Further, the promise comes not by right but as gift.

Can you, as a disciple, with a clear conscience come close to relating to 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8, where the greatest gift, love, is profiled?

Asking keeps us in relationship to the One who gives, aware of what comes to us, even apparently by our own efforts, as gift.

He created every one of us as unique indivdiduals, so there is no «one size fits all» when it comes to how He answers prayers and gives gifts.

I see the salvation process as part coming to an awareness of what you already are, created in the image of God or what some may call being born of the Spirit and given the gift of faith.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

True agreement comes, for example, not only when we state that we agree on the gift of salvation but when we then work out in concrete terms the profound implications of that for the way we think and live as churches and as individual Christians.

Sex in the Plan of Creation Holloway, in keeping with the Scotist vision of the Incarnation promoted by this magazine, argues not simply that the coming of Christ was part of the plan of creation but that the division of the sexes was planned as the means by which the Incarnation would be possible: «God did not fashion sex «for loving» but that the Incarnation might be the gift of creation from the potential of its own resources for the enfleshing of God».

But once the new covenant between man and God came about as a result of Christ's death and resurrection, we were given this free gift of salvation.

But the expression of this good gift must come inside a relationship through which it can communicate the holiness of life as well as the gratification of biological desire.

This «economic man», as he came to be called, could hardly be more distant from the Christian idea that human nature is based on gift — life received as a gift from God, love given freely to other men.

The other sort of qualification necessary for being a teacher is the possession of personal gifts for the indirect «teaching» that, as a midwife, helps another come to gnosis.

A sample: for the feast of Corpus Christi, we are given some practical grounding in Christ's words about being the «living bread come down from heaven», together with thoughts about how we are united to the Father through Jesus, and also with one another - quoting St Paul - and finally a profound look towards eternity as «Jesus» gift of himself is transmitted to us beyond time and space».

Wouldn't it come as a baffling shock if Christians everywhere put down their picket signs, ceased the boycotts, dropped the Christmas lawsuits, and instead, showered politicians, business owners, and ACLU workers that show disdain for Christmas / Christians with thoughtful gifts, invitations to OUR Christmas celebrations, letters of prayers, (not condemning ones), asking nothing in return?

The isolation that marks any serious struggle is a call to recognize that life is full of gifts that come and go, come and go as we ourselves come and go through the many stages of living.

Your sins are already forgiven, no one goes to Hell because they did not ask for forgiveness, a person goes to Hell because when they have passed the age of innocence, and have come to the Knowledge of the Gospel, or they have learned that Jesus died for their sins, and that He gives us salvation freely because He loves us more than we love ourselves, and we have to make a choice to accept or reject this free gift, if that individual accepts Jesus as their Savior, then they go to Heaven, and if that individual rejects Jesus, then they go to Hell.

The faith that you have comes as a revelation from the Father that is where the gift lies.

When morning finally arrives, the first hundred in line who suffered through the weather, the cold, and the line jumpers amongst themselves are all excited as the manager of the store opens the door and then address the crowd with simply wonderful news: They dug into their profits and managed to come up with enough of the free gift not only for everyone in line, not just the first 100, but everyone who wants to come in for the entire duration of the sale.

I know not if the voice of man can reach to the sky; I know not if the mighty one will hear as I pray; I know not if the gifts I ask will all granted be; I know not if the word of old we truly can hear; I know not what will come to pass in our future days; I hope that only good will come, my children, to you.

The beauty came from elsewhere as a free gift, in the language of worship and Scripture chosen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

I felt it came to me as a gift.

Man can hear and respond to the signals by coming to see the world as a gift, and God as its loving Giver.

Meanwhile, gifts of material were coming in such profusion as in fact to handicap the work; and Moses was compelled to call a halt to this vigorous response.