Sentences with phrase «divine forgiveness»

Here, of course, the religious awareness of divine forgiveness provides the clue to what human forgiveness must be.

The latter means experiencing divine forgiveness for the distortion of one's own understanding and having the willingness to accept those whose convictions sincerely differ.

I have discussed this in other posts, as well as why confession and repentance are not required to receive divine forgiveness of sins.

The answer is very simple and yet touches the ultimate depth of our life: by true private confession and by divine forgiveness of all my sins.

Note the close relationship between human and divine forgiveness here.

One needs forgiveness from them, too, but that does not replace divine forgiveness.

I love the idea of grace and divine forgiveness for failings.

In both cases a man would assume to possess the criterion of how the event of divine forgiveness must appear.

These chapters are dominated by the figure and role of Moses who, when the incident of the Golden Calf shattered the Covenant, was able to use the uniqueness of his relationship with the Lord to appease the divine anger through intercession and argument with the Lord, and to gain for Israel full divine forgiveness.

To be at one with God is to experience divine forgiveness, and this is possible when one is dedicated to the progressive realization (through the grace of the sources of our being) of the ideal of community.

Only the despair that results from a knowledge that sin causes suffering to God can appropriate divine forgiveness.

For our good, not even divine forgiveness means that the consequences of sin in this life are fully remitted.

When I saw the headline about Mark Wahlberg asking for divine forgiveness for his role in Boogie Nights, I didn't quite believe it.

By a combination of intercession and argument, he has gained for Israel full divine forgiveness.

Instead of receiving his due punishment, the helpless sinner receives the unexpected and undeserved verdict of divine forgiveness.

What looks like a logical contradiction is resolved in life, for not only the Bible but our own experience tells us that to forgive others as fully as we can is both a condition and a consequence of divine forgiveness.

When one looks for the secret of such goodness in others or in gratitude thanks God for such a measure of victory as has come to his own life, the explanation lies in humility, loving outreach, a sense of divine forgiveness, and power that comes from dwelling in «the secret place of the Most High.»

From whichever end the problem of human forgiveness impinges on us — and more often than not, it comes from both ends at once — the only effective, lasting way to bridge the rift is the love that is begotten of divine forgiveness.

The White Army rescued them, and in the spirit of divine forgiveness they refused to hand over their tormentors.

Showing forth the divine forgiveness that comes from Jesus Christ, the Church is deliberately indulgent toward offenders, but it too must on occasion impose penalties.

For this fading out of the sense of sin and consequently of the need of repentance and divine forgiveness, many factors are responsible.

The cross speaks to Christians of a God who takes the initiative in forgiving sinners, but in the basic Buddhist and Hindu cosmology, there seems to be no place for human repentance and divine forgiveness.

Jesus was, in the words of I. H. Marshall, a «living parable» - «one who brought to sinners the offer of divine forgiveness and friendship.

Those who have faith in the divine forgiveness are participants in the history of salvation which reaches to the creation of heaven and earth in the beginning, and to the new heavens and the new earth at the end.

Two real miracles take place here; a man receives the divine forgiveness, and he is healed.

Jesus affirms his status as the divine Son of man, authorized to bear the divine forgiveness, and bids the man to rise from his bed and walk.

There follows a strange saying about the temple tax in Matthew (17:24 - 27); an argument about true greatness (Matthew 18:1 - 5 and Luke 9:46 - 48); and some teaching material in Matthew, 18:6 - 35, concluding, in verses 23 - 35, with the superb parable of the unforgiving servant, a vivid and impressive study of the relation of human and divine forgiveness.

The liberal interpretation of the Gospel rarely did justice to the place of the divine forgiveness in human life.

Yet on almost every page of the Bible is the record of human sin and rebellion, and the need of divine forgiveness and saving help because man is not good enough or wise enough or strong enough to save himself.

In the context of God's forgiveness men learn to forgive, and in the exercise of forgiveness toward their fellow man they enter ever more deeply into an experience of the divine forgiveness.

That this word can be the event of divine forgiveness will indeed be understood only if we set ourselves free from a commonly held modern view - point which has had a fatal influence on historical study.

Just as it can not be determined that any events of history — including the cross of Jesus — manifest «objectively» the divine forgiveness, so it is impossible to prove on objective grounds that they may not do so.

This was a prayer in which both human and divine forgiveness are linked.

Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.

This would not prevent others from so speaking of them, if they mean events in which they become aware of the divine forgiveness.

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.