Sentences with phrase «depend upon the grace»

When we are Christians, we must depend upon the grace of God, not upon the works of the law.

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The Exception (grace) presupposes and depends upon The Rule (nature).

Using this double aspect of grace, Niebuhr contended that history is meaningful but depends upon God for its fulfillment.

Each person depends upon Jesus for his salvation and union with God (reflected in the objective order of the ecclesiastical hierarchy), but must also freely give himself over to the power of grace through growth in the spiritual life (the hierarchy of the stages of the spiritual life).

This is why, when acceptance is transformed into a witness to God's grace, it unites men in the deepest community of all, that which God has created through his mercy shed upon all men, and upon which they all depend.

For the Church's holiness does not in some Pelagian sense directly depend upon her members» deeds - even though by their lives the saints among her do manifest her saintliness to the world and contribute through their graced cooperation to her growth in goodness.

The church which has fallen into this temptation seeks to supply the societies upon whose approval it depends with supernatural grace or with religious aid of one sort or another.

These lists and specific references in other essays identify six similarities: (a) God is understood as love involving God's presence in human experience and God's response to that experience, (b) human existence depends upon God's grace and that grace makes humans free, (c) humans respond to God resulting in the fulfillment of God's intentions in the concrete experiences of individuals, (d) knowledge involves more than subjective sensory experience, (e) experience broadly understood is crucial for theology, and (f) reality is characterized by diversity and relationality.