Not exact matches
«He's an egomaniac devoid
of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what
means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had
found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility
of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by
grace of his fingers on the wounds
of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject
of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing
of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear
of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls
of others.»
Thus the deeper
meaning of Jesus» message is: in accepting one's death there is life for others; in suffering, there is glory; in submitting to judgement, one
finds grace; in accepting one's finitude resides the only transcendence.
And I don't
mean the weak - kneed concept
of grace that is
found in most our churches where we talk and teach it, but don't really believe it.
Indeed, most people
find that talking about their pilgrimages and their beliefs as Christians is itself a
means of grace that enhances: and strengthens the faith they already have.
In all things we will then come to know what it
means to lose our life in Christ yet
find our life in Christ, the full, spiritually sensitive, joyful, loving, life
of grace in Christ.
Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related
of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods
grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus
finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way
of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver
of is speaking to him to go another way
means death.Getting back to the two situations
of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture
of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings
of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way
of thinking.brentnz
As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon
of the inward vision and deprives the heart
of the clarity
of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the
grace of the sacrament
of marriage) permit man and woman to
find again the true liberty
of the gift, united to the awareness
of the spousal
meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349).
I once heard a missionary who had worked all his life in the East say that they could
find no word in Japanese to translate what we call «God's
grace» until somebody hit on an expression which
meant the lushness
of the grass in the springtime, and that was it!
And when we go on to key words like justification, redemption, salvation,
grace (and others) we confront the problem
of finding English equivalents (see Chapter m) and, more important,
of trying to delimit the range
of meanings.
Some critics have
found fault in
Grace and Frankie for its supposedly regressive stance on sensitive topics, and those criticisms are not wholly unfounded, but perspective is important here: Robert and Sol are by no
means bad people, and the show does not portray them as such, but to leave your wife for a man after 40 years
of marriage would be shocking to say the least, and that bitterness, that sense
of betrayal, is conveyed beautifully and poignantly by Fonda and Tomlin.
When Heigh and Souder bring a young girl on probation for an unspoken offense (Whatever it might have been, it
means nothing to these two, who, despite what she might have done, only see a girl in need
of help) named Anne (Chloë
Grace Mortez)-- affectionately called «Little Anne» by Heigh, which ties into another missing girl dubbed «Little Debbie» by those who knew her — home, they
find her mother Lucie (Sheryl Lee), a seemingly independent prostitute, entertaining clientele.
This
means that if the same glitch exists there too (which given the unlikeliness
of running out
of inventory space and the general mechanical similarities is likely), a really bored / dedicated player could
find themselves locked out
of the true ending, as well as unable to use Mipha's
Grace or get all Heart Containers.
But he does this with humor and
grace, and although he uses
found objects and sculptural elements taken out
of their contexts, he carefully wraps them in plastic foil and covers them in graffiti in order for them to lose their initial
meaning.