Sentences with phrase «gift of freedom of»

Dance each rhythm — a beat of its own, a body dialogue with different drums, moods and motion — and give the gift of freedom of expression to your inner spirit.

There is, first, God's great gift of freedom of choice and decision.

Not exact matches

I am not bashing Mormons but I fee sorry for them that they can not enjoy the true freedom of salvation they are trying to buy their salvation by good works you don't need to do that its a free gift

This misuse of the gift of freedom is the realm of the Antichrist.

And yet, without Christ, the divine gift of freedom is misused to rebel against God and reject his law.

Modernity is based on reason and freedom, both gifts of God, and there has indeed been much incremental progress in the rational and technical mastery of nature.

God chose the gift of freedom for us and we're responsible for the consequences of our choices, just as those sick parents will have to live with and suffer from their horrible decisions.

15I have deleted «gift of» from «uncontrollable gift of freedom» to eliminate Hick's implication that free - will is derivative rather than originative.

Instead of strict schedules or crippling anxiety, this book gives the gift of freedom to mothers (and fathers).

Persons are dignified because God's personhood dwells within them, and persons are free because they participate in the gift of divine freedom.

From the opposite angle, when a large - scale challenge comes our way, the great gift of freedom cries out to be used, and used properly.

At the same time, my sense of the importance of rightly using the ever - renewed gift of freedom is heightened.

The new Homer has the freedom and vigor of an extraordinarily gifted and beautiful child of old, moneyed family.

The central problem in the creation of a pluralistic world society is, then, a spiritual one, requiring the acceptance of the gift and responsibilities of mature freedom.

The spark which, incapable of being pinned down by the naked eye, pins one finally inexorably to reality, the great unpinning: one achieves a dancing discipline, is fulfilled by a flying fatal freedom, achievement and fulfillment being gift and more than gift.

11.6, Luke 12.8 f., are, like the kerygma's call for decision with regard to his person, «at the same time words of promise, of grace: at this very moment the gift of freedom is offered the hearer».

Freedom makes us morally responsible for our actions; it also makes us capable of love — for true love must be free gift.

This man shepherded his beleaguered, persecuted church through the long, dark years of Communism and for those deprived of freedom, the gift of freedom becomes one of the most important.

When humans attempt to break another human will, they desecrate the likeness of God in that person and violate their God - given gift of freedom.

I don't believe that God rejects anyone for any reason; but that S / He does give us the freedom to reject the transformative gift of Divine Presence / Grace.

He continues, «For the Christian, this is a distorted sense of freedom that denies life as a gift of God over which we have been given stewardship as with other good things.»

Without freedom, man could not place himself in a state of gift in return; without it God's love of the world would be without the fullness that freedom makes possible.

Now if personal freedom is basically a unique gift of God, what we call spirituality must have an inner connection with it.

God is a God of Promise, and we struggle for the freedom which is a gift from this God who makes all things new.

«Christian freedom is not, as St Paul says, a gift to be used as «an opportunity for self - indulgence» (Galatians 5:13) but the freedom to give ourselves in loving service... it has absolutely nothing to do with a truncated notion of a happiness that is defined — at least in America — in terms of consumer choice.»

He has given us the great gift of human freedom and the ability to act responsibly, thereby setting us apart from and above the whole sub-human world.

The quote is immediately followed by this: «Like all gifts from God, the power and freedom of sexuality can be channeled toward good or evil.

A good retirement includes the gift of responsible freedom.

Imagination can indeed be a gift of the Spirit, but it is a gift used with immense subjective freedom.

Would that Jesus» generous gift of freedom for a bent - over woman were visible in our time, and especially in our sanctuaries.

God's gift is free; it is, therefore, a gift to our freedom, i.e. renewal to our moral strength, to what makes men of us.

No event occurs in the world without God's coming, not as a put of its past, determining world, but as the gift of freedom, the gift of transcendence, the gift of the future.

I am convinced that these principles, faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift of self between one man and one woman - and freedom of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent challenges that history presents to each one of you,»

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

It is from divine freedom that the gifts of grace come, not from claims of obligation or ownership laid on God.

My claim here is that asymmetrical reciprocity and non-identical repetition allow sufficiently for an element of freedom in gift exchange to distinguish it from contract.

As to the third postulate, that of the existence of God, we respect its character as postulate, that is, as a theoretical proposition dependent on a practical exigency, if we tie it very directly to the first through the second: if the postulate of immortality deploys the temporal - existential dimension of freedom, the postulate of the existence of God manifests existential freedom as the philosophical equivalent of the gift.

The book of Acts really teaches us that it's all too easy — even with all the gifts of grace we have received — for the Christian community to almost entirely fall our of step with that freedom and virtually abandon the message of life (Paul talks in Galatians about how he stood alone for the Gospel).

Extend the gift of freedom and grace, second chances, and more grace, just as you have received them.

I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of man, that who so ever believes that Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but all of the sins of mankind upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?

May we welcome those who yearn to breathe free and to pursue happiness in this land of freedom, adding their gifts to those whose families have lived here for centuries.

I believe the spiritual, the internal, will always overpower the external but in order to experience that we have to have an upside down view of everything in that the physical is not ever as important as the spiritual — and this is something special a gift a freedom that is amazing and in our world of Ugg boots and cars with amazing technology, with the million catalogues that drop through the door or show their wares on our screens... to discover and experience the joy of the internal spirit life is nowhere near as easy as it sounds — and once experienced it is an effort to hold to it and feed it for it to grown and be the power it is meant to be.

Early liberal responses to the new sexual freedom of youth had a tendency to present sexuality as the good gift of God without exploring general biblical guidelines for responsible sexual expression.4

As the messianic events of liberation in the Old Testament were not a result of human efficacy but rather a gift, an act of power that transcended the given possibilities of history, the Christian communities saw in Jesus an act of God's freedom... the power that creates a new future is something new, it is freedom from beyond history that is freedom for history.

We may say then that our freedom too is a gift of revelation in that the latter opens the future to us as a realm of infinite trustworthiness.

But by those who have become sensitive to the fact that their freedom is a gift of God's self - absenting, a new and invigorating relationship of love and gratitude, and one of deep, mature dependency as well, may take over their lives and shape them into the new creation of which St. Paul speaks.

There is a mounting insistence among women (including many who reject the methods of militant liberationists) that they be treated as full human beings, with freedom to choose and to develop their personal gifts and abilities.

Indeed, such diversity could be an asset as a demonstration not only of the American way of freedom of worship but of the rich variety of gifts within the household of faith, if the churches understood each other and were working toward a common end.

We'll come to realise, in fact, that those gifts we were given in the very beginning — gifts of freedom and responsibility — have not been annihilated in us.

When you all approach one another trying to beat each other to death with your «obviously superior» knowledge, we have a gift of the Internet and Freedom to discuss these things with respect and with the interest of bettering ourselves and everyone else.