As you move forward with your career planning, surround yourself with people who can speak with
grace and truth about where you are right, where you need to try harder, or when you need to attempt a new approach.
Not exact matches
Keep firm with your Faith
and continue to proclaim the Good News of our LORD, the
TRUTH about his HOLY SPIRIT given to all who believe in GOD's SAVING
GRACE.
Pundits can banter
about one southern cook
and the nature of racism in this continent,
about the nature of marriage
and truth and grace and orientation
and the Church,
and our screens can explode with opinions
and rebuttals
and politics.
A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life
and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full
truth about the indwelling of
grace),
and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.
From the perspective of God's saving
grace and restorative mercy, the
truth about marriage revealed by Christ is practicable
and most pastoral.
Imagine, apologizing for having helped (or tried to help) sinners see the
Truth about their sins
and turning them to God's
grace for redemption... which is through faith
and dependency on Jesus Christ.
For the law was given through Moses, but
grace and truth came
about through Jesus Christ.
As I have written before, words reveal
truths about who we are in nature
and in
grace,
and as such, we believe a falsehood
about our nature when we embrace a gay identity, or when we believe that anyone has an «orientation» toward the same sex.
What if the intent, watchful one on the right sees a halo of self righteousness
about the head of the one on the left,
and feels love
and sadness over the
truth and grace missing when he draws close
and encounters a publicly presented picture of «happy face»?
• «What Nostra Aetate failed to do was to tell the
truth about the essence of God's
Grace and Mercy, the
truth about our Salvation,» writes a reader of our weblog First Thoughts, responding to something I'd written
about our Jewish brethren.
Only through the biblical writers» testimony do we encounter the message of God's
grace; only the revelation of Jesus Christ, disclosed uniquely
and irreplaceably through the testimony of the evangelists
and apostles, tells us the
truth about the merciful God
and our relationship to that God.
He wrote appreciative statements
about Schleiermacher, he allowed that Schleiermacher might be interpreted as a theologian of the Holy Spirit, he emphasized the humanity of God in contrast to the Wholly Other, he called human beings «covenant - partners of God,»
and he looked for «parables» of
grace and truth in non-Christian religions
and ideologies.
FOLKS ITS NOT
ABOUT ACCEPTING GAYS, ITS
ABOUT MANKIND
AND HOW SOCIETY / WORLD HAS TURNED AWAY FOR A LOVING GOD, WE ARE ALL SINNERS IN THE EYES OF GOD,
AND I AM SO GLAD HE IS WILLING TO FORGIVE US IF WE ARE WILLING TO TURN FROM OUR WAYS, A SIMPLE PRAYER OF ASKING FOR HIS FORGIVENSS, THATS IT, WOW NO ONE IS GUARANTEED TMRW, WE ARE HERE BY THE
GRACE OF GOD EACH DAY,
AND EACH DAY IS AN OPPORTINITY TO REPENT, MAY GOD HELP US, MAY OUR EYES BE OPEN TO THE
TRUTH,
AND MAY HE HEAR OUR PRAYER BEFORE ITS TOO LATE,
And if I want them to pray, I must pray, and if I want them to know God as love and Abba, and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them, and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
And if I want them to pray, I must pray,
and if I want them to know God as love and Abba, and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them, and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and if I want them to know God as love
and Abba, and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them, and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and Abba,
and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them, and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them,
and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and I want them to forgive
and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and offer
grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and second chances
and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my li
and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm
about to live a better
truth with my life.
I think the
truth switching for a lie is that being gay is God's plan — I think he loves them very much like a down syndrome baby — but being gay is an ailment they have to live with — so we can have
grace and mercy on them but don't lie
about it — should they get married — I have no idea — ?
Words reveal
truths about who we are in nature
and in
grace,
and as such, we believe a falsehood
about our nature when we embrace a gay identity, or when we believe that anyone has an «orientation» toward the same sex.
First among them is the need for a vital ecclesial intellectual life
and culture of
grace as the context for knowledge of basic metaphysical
truths about God, the human person,
and the natural law.
Being a Catholic is not
about rules, it is
about truth and grace given by an incarnate God.
In its curiosity
about people, families,
and communities, it affirms the unassailable
truth of Chris's final epiphany, which Penn has the
grace and decency to allow him before his untimely passing.
Foolhardy as it may be for Hazel
Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) to declare that sentiment in the opening moments of The Fault in Our Stars, however, it reveals something essential
about her character: she seeks the
truth with resolute zeal, despite the illness that often takes away her breath, requires her to use a portable oxygen tank,
and will kill her, sooner rather than later.
Since then, with the exuberance of an Iowa cheerleader
and the smart - alecky cynicism of a Brooklyn roller - rink queen, she'd taken him under her wing, defending him against the not infrequent fallout from his lack of social
graces, pugnacity,
and proclivity to take on quixotic battles for
truth and justice that no one else much cared
about.
Jennifer Slattery writes soul - stirring fiction for New Hope Publishers, a publishing house passionate
about bringing God's healing
grace and truth to the hopeless.