Sentences with phrase «gift of grace»

To be forgiven and to forgive are always gifts of grace that come from some place beyond ourselves.

What is in my heart has been given to me as a great gift of Grace.

The unmerited gift of the grace of God in spite of our rotten selves just seems too good to be true.

Brave luminaries, Jan Hus and William Tyndale, Were made to glow like scrolling leaves on Kindle, Snuffed out like candles and condemned to night For bringing Christ's free gift of grace to light....

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.

Their experience of adoption has given the Robertses a special understanding or what it is like to receive God's gift of grace in Jesus Christ.

Gifts of grace for you.

Catholics go on to speak of such works as are «made possible by grace and... the Holy Spirit»; people are responsible for their actions, reward in heaven is promised biblically, but «justification always remains the unmerited gift of grace.»

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

We are ALL sinners who desperately need the beautiful gift of grace that God has given us.

Is God's gift of grace revocable by human disobedience?

[8] These are two separate gifts which logically precede and make possible the actual gift of grace offered to man's free will.

Moreover, God gave Adam and Eve the further gift of grace to share in His divine life.

This destiny is not extrinsic to man's nature but is embedded in it, even though it requires God's gratuitous gift of grace to realise it.

To be free from that captivity is a wonderful gift of grace and mercy.

At the 2012 Easter prayer breakfast, he explored the «all - important gift of grace» that came through the endurance of «unimaginable pain that wracked His body and bore the sins of the world.»

Our obsession with measured reality ill prepares us for God's strange, undeserved and unexpected gifts of grace.

Rather than fighting over which side of Barth's dialectic to emphasize — the givenness or the nongivenness of the dynamic gift of grace — we should be seeking to proclaim the gift itself to a world that finds it increasingly hard to believe in such things.

It's just that the supreme gift of grace is God's own presence within us, liberating, empowering, and directing us.

We can not begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace, yet if we wait for grace to move us, before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.»

Such amazing gifts of grace and beauty that our Lord continues to bless us with.

And if we believe the promise, if we believe what God has said, if we believe in Jesus for eternal life, then we have received the free gift of grace.

We are never perfect but we have the assurance and gift of this grace in our lives to help us and stop the devil from condemning us.

Her heart wasn't, in fact, serene and loving, and maybe we can say that serenity must be the gift of grace.

Giving the gift of grace invites us to think outside of and beyond our agenda, our opinion and ourselves.

This is the gift of grace; the Christian can only accept it.

Faith, hope, and love are the three «theological virtues,» meaning that they are the gift of grace, in contrast to the natural virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Through that, I realized OK, I believe it but that's not enough I had to receive this gift of grace through Christ.

We can not earn, deserve or merit God's love or forgiveness; it is only through His gifts of grace and mercy that we have that love for forgiveness.

Augustine taught, Polanyi explains, «that all knowledge was the gift of grace, for which we must strive under the guidance of antecedent belief: nisi crederitis, non intelligis.»

Thomas Aquinas tells us that this is a «quality» in our soul, having lost our gift of grace, which makes us both selfish and sensual.

Soul - friends got regular phone calls, notes of encouragement, hilarious greeting cards, a truly listening ear, earnest prayers, pick - me - up stories and gifts of grace.

Fortunately, in marriage we also see and experience the other side of the cross — the gifts of grace and mercy.

Seeing it may well be a gift of grace.

Also Rom 5.16 says that the gift of grace will abound to many.

Polanyi clearly agrees with St Augustine that it is «a gift of grace».

A congregation that is able to live simply and faithfully out of the Christian story is a gift of grace, but that gift must be sustained by some remarkable social creativity.

The individual creation of the soul and the gift of grace which God offers to it illustrate the second, or supernatural way in which God is related to the world.

This calling is a gift of grace and a challenge which comes in unlikely places: to those repairing nets on the Sea of Galilee, to tax collectors, to sinners, and to those who are up a tree and out on a limb.

Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead accept God's free gifts of grace and forg... More

Mr. Driscoll, I choose to give you a gift of grace.