Sentences with phrase «gift bestowed»

Life is a precious gift bestowed upon mankind.

We don't have emperors yet, but we have a House of Representatives controlled by the far right that is now nourished by streams of «dark money» unleashed thanks to the gift bestowed on the rich by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case.

Denotes an unofficial and surprise gesture or gift bestowed upon a guest from a cast member completely at random.

Perhaps the most precious gift bestowed on the movies by Kurosawa, however, is his profound humanism — his understanding of human frailty, his compassion for that frailty.

Set in Hendon, the north London suburb where the Alderman, a former Orthodox Jew, grew up, it begins as elderly, revered Rav Krushka (Anton Lesser) is giving what will be his last sermon — on the nature of free will, a divine gift bestowed only on humans.

It's a significant spot: That statue, like Petit's graceful walk, is another much - loved gift bestowed upon us by the French.

A push present is a gift bestowed upon you by the dad - to - be as a token of appreciation for the last nine months of pregnancy and for the incredible feat of «pushing» out your bundle of joy.

Having multiple children is a gift bestowed on many.

That sixteenth - century Protestants themselves saw printing as a divine gift bestowed from above to spur on the work of Reformation is beyond doubt.

This is a gift bestowed only on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ, and a simple believer may find this meaning before a hermeneutical expert.

Music, in the secular world, is an entertainment, a diversion, which is not to say that it is of a lesser value — after all, the gifts bestowed on the musicians come directly from God.

And when I say, «extra content,» I mean this in both ways — you'll likely receive additional content such as personal philosophies, tips and tricks, reading material or gifts bestowed upon you by your teacher, which is another reason you'll be feeling extra content.

Of all the many wonderful gifts bestowed upon us by Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, now we can count the gift of English among them.

Others, like a sketch by Mr. Schnabel, are small gifts bestowed on Mr. Glimcher over the course of the decades he has spent cultivating relationships with his artists.

The exhibition was mounted to acknowledge and celebrate gifts bestowed to The Met (donated and promised).

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9) Fortune on Monday through Thursday will bestow a $ 25 gift card to the team with the best name.

The reality is that people are successful not because of what's bestowed them but rather what they do with the gifts they have.

With «Heron Blue» and «Lost Verses» in particular, Kozelek again bestows musical gifts upon us.

For those that like to Bible thump, the second greatest gift God bestowed upon man was Free Will.

God bestowed wonderful gifts upon women; His Mother, a woman, had the highest honor a person could ever receive....

This scene at the tomb of Jesus bestows a supreme gift upon the beloved of God.

Isaiah's prophecy lists gifts of the Spirit that will be bestowed on the king who descends from Jesse: wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, the fear of the Lord.

He had, and like a flash of lightning came the insight that for all my failures and faithlessness, my gifts were to be put to service in the Church of the One who had bestowed them on me.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

Christians believe that in Jesus who is called the Christ God's gift of self to the universe is bestowed definitively and irreversibly.

Early Pentecostals further believed that the gift of tongues which had been restored to the church bestowed actual languages which would enable them to speak in the languages of the nations.

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

We should be able to celebrate human accomplishments, including accomplishments in genetic research, as the result of divinely bestowed gifts of knowledge and technical skill.

This is the gift that an all powerful, loving and wise God bestows upon us... What we do with this gift of choice is up to us, will you follow, trust and love or pull away, and withdraw?

Willful giving to the poor is good but forced redistribution of material wealth to the masses defies the gift of free will that Creator bestowed on mankind.

This begs the question: why would God, who supposedly loves all of his creation, not bestow the gift of faith to all, so that all may be saved?

He was claiming a gift that is up to God alone to bestow.

The Gospel offers us the gift / virtue of an eschatological hope; but that is not all that it bestows on us.

In his evolutionary Christology, Karl Rahner writes that Jesus Christ is God's gift of self to the universe, bestowed definitively and irreversibly.

Ephesians 2:8 - 9 is saying that salvation is a gift of God that was bestowed on us through our faith, not because we earned it by works.

In the story The Giving Tree, we have a pure and selfless giver bestowing gifts upon an ungrateful, spoiled, and demanding boy / man.

Perhaps the best gift that children bestow on their parents is the opportunity to reengage with the world, to relive life.

It is amply documented, by Hill and others, that Acton took the side of the Protestant establishment in England, that the same establishment was fulsome in its expression of gratitude to Acton and, among other gifts, bestowed upon him the Regius professorship.

The name of the Holy Spirit himself as «gift» is after all bestowed not only to denote a pure one - way gratuity, but also because the Spirit expresses the infinitely realized exchange between Father and Son.

He is called to be «a seer, a revelator, a translator, and a Prophet, having all the gifts of God which he bestows upon the head of the church.»»

This motif casts in a new light the precious gift of self that we bestow on the other when we utter those words «I do» at the altar.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

Because preaching presses for a God - determined and Christ - realized ethicality, and because the gift of grace whereby this possibility is bestowed is ensconced in a holy story, the character of Christian preaching is a unique kind of discourse.

True salvation is a terribly costly gift, but it is a gift freely bestowed.

For humans, immortality is God's conditional gift, bestowed at the resurrection but only to the redeemed.

The true actor in every hierarchy — celestial (the angels), ecclesiastical (the clergy), sacramental, and lay [5]-- is Jesus Christ, who reveals his presence and bestows the overflowing gifts of his grace through the established ranks.

«He that believeth hath eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life»; (John 5:24) «This is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception of immortal life as a present gift, inhering in the quality of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic of the Fourth Gospel.

I am most indebted to him as teacher and mentor for the gift of freedom that he bestowed the theologian with: freedom to think, to construe, to project.

How loving and wonderful God truly is to bestow this gift on man.

(54) And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth: We did bestow on some Prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: and We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms.