This would not have been possible without the blood and platelet transfusions he received,
gifts of life from so many selfless donors.
To know God's forgiveness means to respond thankfully to the continued outpouring of
the gifts of life from the sources of our being, even while we live in ways which constantly bear the mark of imperfection.
They talked for a while about programs and resources that might help, about staying with them for a couple of months, and, mostly, about her strength to receive
the gift of life from the Lord.
Not exact matches
Using longitudinal data
from the nine - decade - long Terman
life - cycle study, which has followed the
lives and career outcomes
of a group
of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge
of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller
of the University
of Florida analyzed the characteristics
of the most ambitious among them.
Emily, a psychic medium based in Brooklyn, New York, directly opposed my unrealistic, misinformed view
of psychics
from the moment I met her because not only does it turn out that she
lives in my neighborhood, but also she embodies an even more mysterious kind
of magic: the ability to be an everyday person, a working mom, and the possessor
of an impressive
gift.
Some
of these skills and
gifts are innate, some come
from experience, and many come
from life outside
of business.
Maanavi explains, «I have a favorite quote
from Shakespeare: «The meaning
of life is to find your
gift.»
I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that
life is that
gift from God and I think even when
life begins in that horrible situation
of rape that it is something God intended to happen.»
Sears, Roebuck and Co. may have been able to infer when you bought a
gift from their catalog for a friend who
lived in another town, but Amazon has more reason (and more ability) to use that information to build a profile
of your friend's interests.
Political consultants
from both parties say the value
of any
gift from the weekend may be short -
lived.
I fully admit $ 100k was a
gift & early inheritance, then then rest was
from saving W2 income,
lived with parents a couple
of years, luck, and pouring almost all savings into a high cap commercial real estate deal.
DBA has served as an unpaid board member for the International
Life Sciences Institute
of North America and has received payment for board membership
from Kraft Foods and consulting fees, grants, and / or unrestricted
gifts to his university
from Kraft Foods, Kellogg Company, PepsiCo, Jason Pharmaceuticals, and McNeil Nutritionals.
My mother is 80,
lives in one
of the cheapest places in the country, makes 60k a year between social security and a guaranteed dividend (until she dies)
from charitable
gift.
Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no
life) = If we have the Faith
of Christ (a
gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident
of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far
from the
life of Words
of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am
of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit
of truth as Paul takes us through the Words
of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word
of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher
of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
So this is what I got
from reading this article: god is all everything but can't or won't stop bad things
from happening... he's ok with suffering and will very generously comfort us
from the suffering that he provides, all you have to do to receive this
gift of comfort is to
live with the suffering until the day you die.
That being a spiritual death or being outcasted
from God whereas overcoming that spiritual death and returning to God is the
gift of «eternal
life» as opposed to immortality.
The atheist who claims to come
from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid
of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods
gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless
Actually, what's really disturbing are those who reject that our ability to love comes
from the One who gave the most through His son Jesus... the ultimate
gift of love, so we could
live and love on this earth and beyond.
What you have to lose is the genuine and profound meaning in THIS
life that you are distracted
from by religion with its dishonest promises
of eternity, with its abundance
of gifts that you are said to receive only after you die, when it is far TOO LATE to validate the claims.
LOVE is part
of life, and we have been given that
gift from GOD, to give to others.
Thus the proper pattern
of human
life was understood to spring
from a divine
gift, a divine command, and a divine penalty.
«I came to realize
life is a
gift from God, and I think even when
life begins in that horrible situation
of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen,» said Mourdock, the Indiana state treasurer.
If Mary's baby was, as Many have theorized, the product
of an attack bt a Roman soldier I think If the pro-lifers spin it right the family could be a useful example to use for
living with this «
gift from god» Stats in the US show such assaults unfortunately generally lead to divorce, but if we are to believe the history, Joseph was very supportive.
The building
of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died
from blood loss, the image
of God in the paramedics that made them give their
lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom
of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill
of the thousands
of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all
of these are gracious
gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.
The shift in our understanding
of sex
from a sacramental and
life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all
of our relationships shallower and made each
of us less capable
of the profound
gift of self on which marriage is founded.
It is not a
gift or an act
of love to rip someone
from the faith they
lived while here on Earth.
When this sentiment is said out loud in groups
of Christians, it's usually assumed to be: A) highly sarcastic (as people bemoan their romantic
lives and their curse
of this «
gift»
from God); B) highly ironic (as people are obsessively on the lookout for their future spouse);.
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.
Personally, I can not imagine a worse judgement for sin than to have my children brutally murdered, and the greatest
gift of this
life (being a parent) taken away
from me.
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal
life by there actions by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal
life is a free
gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal
life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal
life but saved
from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded
from God although its not the motivation
of the reward but because we love the Lord.regards brent
Grief is a normal process, and grief is a
gift from God to help us get through the lashes
of our
lives.
We can imitate the one man with the distorted conception
of God, and thus disobey with the consequence
of death, or we can be imitators
of the other man who came right
from the bosom
of God with a perfect, exact conception
of God, and who trusted his faithfulness in obedience, and received the
gift of life.
I get so much
from your beautiful
life & your
gifted way
of sharing both with art & words.
We're not trying to wrestle paltry
gifts from a reluctant deity, counting coins in the counting house, viewing our
lives as a sheet
of checks and balances.
It is a tragedy that the uncertainties discussed above are removing
from us our ability to give to others one
of our greatest
gifts, our organs and the possibility
of extended
life.
In all aspects
of Christian
life, especially in the Sacraments and most especially in the Eucharist, we receive the free
gift from God given through another person.
It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience
of an adult
living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part
of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different
from God's love or Christ's
gift of salvation.
In the midst
of the Church's bearing the everyday burdens
of man, she discovers that the question
of life addresses them in such a fashion that they themselves can ask about the meaning
of life; to which query can be directed the witness that the meaning
of life is to receive
life as a
gift from God.
The crux
of the matter reduces down
from halls
of rationalism to be the person
of Christ by means
of his Holy Spirit speaking through the heart and mouth
of the believing saint, revealing himself as The
Gift of eternal
life.
It also sets them up to be victims
of cults in addition to the cult
of Christianity by belittling their
gift from God
of life itself; their own
life!
Again, does this mean that Jesus was chosen by God to sovereignly receive the free
gift of eternal
life from God?
A sample: for the feast
of Corpus Christi, we are given some practical grounding in Christ's words about being the «
living bread come down
from heaven», together with thoughts about how we are united to the Father through Jesus, and also with one another - quoting St Paul - and finally a profound look towards eternity as «Jesus»
gift of himself is transmitted to us beyond time and space».
Hauerwas helped him to see children as a
gift from God, and to see that a properly Christian question is how we can be open to receive the
gifts of life God might give.
It is instead a penitent approach to a God who gives
life freely, and who not only does not profit
from the holocaust
of the particular, but who in fact fulfils the «sacrifice» simply by giving his
gift again.
Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms
of conscience, as a
gift from the hand
of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires
of every
living thing.
It tells many
of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good
of the church — countless hours
of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your
life choices are so much more sinful than the rest
of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you
from laying your
gifts at the altar.
To me, his
gift in
life is helping to save Catholicism, which is having many problems retaining members throughout the world, especially in Europe, maybe he should become a religious leader and leave politics to people who actually understand the focus
of the nation and the world aside
from Lucifer.
But we know
from the rest
of Scripture that becoming a son
of the Most High is not a reward, but is one
of the
gifts that comes with eternal
life.
She is sent out into the village to
live from the
gifts of the people.
So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn
from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a
gift, and with little care or conscious thought
of the consequences
of our [ab] use
of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as
living parts in the vast creation.159