Sentences with phrase «first gift of grace»

Nature is good, I readily affirm, and is itself the first gift of grace.

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He means that if free will first existed on its own and subsequently encountered God's grace, then free will might collide with grace, but in fact our being free at all is itself a gift of God's grace, and so there is no possible antagonism between the two.

The gift of God's grace restores to us some of the innocence our first parents lost.

We do wait for the adoption — that will come at the fulfillment of all things, which, however imminent, is still future; but even now we possess the Spirit of adoption, that is, God's miraculous gift of forgiveness and grace, an advance installment, a token payment, a foretaste, a «first - fruits,» of a life which in its full, true character belongs only to the world to come.

In the fallen world order, Original Sin blocks our primal integration into grace and the gift of divine faith is now given in the first nascent dawning of personal knowledge and love of God as we are drawn into the Life of the Trinity by the action of Christ though the Church at baptism.

Right after Grace - Marie had said her first words of the class, her friend and student of many years, Pat Bagge, came to the front of class and presented Grace - Marie with a gift box and card signed by about 100 of her students to celebrate her 20 years at the helm of Grace - Marie's Kitchen.

Rounding out the sterling cast, Sebastian Stan embodies Tonya's first love / husband / ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, as a sleazy, if seemingly harmless, dummy with a volatility and violent streak while still managing to bring extra layers to him; Paul Walter Hauser is hilariously moronic as wannabe secret agent Shawn Eckhardt; Julianne Nicholson is felicitous casting, looking like every skating coach, and excellent in her own right as the warm Diane Rawlinson; and McKenna Grace (2017's «Gifted») brings a touching sense of heartache to young Tonya, especially as she pleads for her father to stay as he leaves his daughter with LaVona.

Written and directed by the gifted first - timer Kelly Fremon Craig, and graced by a superb star turn from Hailee Steinfeld, «The Edge of Seventeen» is the rare coming - of - age picture that feels less like a retread than a renewal.