Sentences with phrase «grace notes of»

From Jack Burton in «Big Trouble in Little China»» to Stuntman Mike of «Death Proof,» there are grace notes of a self - assuredness that the character once had, but here, Russell pairs that with a slight sadness, or an ambivalent concession to the fact that life simply beat him down from whatever aspirations he once had.

What stands out most are the film's character moments and tiny grace notes of feeling around the edges of the story.

West's grasp of the rhythms and the grace notes of the Western idiom is undeniable, but he never seems to find a film worth telling within it.

In Manchester By The Sea, he makes emotional numbness compelling, revealing grace notes of humor and compassion in a character who hides his heart behind a wall.

Not exact matches

Halldórsdóttir, a consummate guide, conducted the tour with humor and charm, even bringing along a bag of kleiner, Icelandic pastries, as a grace note.

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After University of Miami pediatric cardiologist Dr. Grace S. Wolff died 2015 of ALS, her husband, retired environmental engineer Armando Perez, celebrated her life by writing a book based on her own photos and notes, «Mending Children's Broken Hearts.»

If any of the loans you wish to consolidate are in the grace period, remember to make a note of this in your application.

Editor's note: Larry Alex Taunton is the founder and executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation and author of «The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief.»

As I have noted before «the history of the acceptance of 2 Peter into the New Testament canon has all the grace of a college hazing event» (Bible.org).

You noted a difference in the application of the word grace, but I believe you'll find that even the word grace is different because God's grace isn't shed abroad as the Angel proclaimed saying God's goodwill is now toward man.

The doctrine of grace, Torrance noted, is directly related to two of the primary divine attributes, God's holiness and his love.

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.

As seen in the chiastic structure noted above, the parallel statements «not of yourselves... the gift of God» are not explaining «faith» but are explaining «by grace you have been saved» (See the excellent article by Rene Lopez called «Is Faith a Gift from God?

All of this is to say that to see the story as conveying an experience of believing or «belief in action» is to see it as very close indeed to the parable form, for, as we noted in our comments on the parable of the Wedding Feast, the implied question was, On what logic — that of merit or of grace — do you actually live your life?

I will check the notes, ask for help, and I'll relax my shoulders, straighten my spine, and breathe fresh air while I learn, all over again, the gift of grace freely given and wisdom honoured, and healing, and when my fingers fumble, when I sound flat or sharp, I'll simply try again.

On Christmas, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released a statement praising Jesus as «the messenger of humanism and grace» and noted, «I believe that the sole way to save the man from severe moral, social and cultural crises is returning to the exalted teachings of the great messengers of God.»

Please note that these verses do NOT say that the gift of grace is given to everyone.

2012 Note: A while back I tried to start a church planting website to promote and encourage churches that focus on the free grace of God.

You don't want to claim that you are atheist, and at the same time admit that you claim it because of the grace of God, that allows you to claim it, as is noted by the dates of your birth and death.

Grace Church is the kind of congregation where worshippers take notes during the sermon, which on this Sunday focused on the importance of believing in Jesus» virgin birth.

The Church's «faith story» is more than just a graced subjectivity: it is the response by the redeemed Brideof Christ, of which we are all members by Baptism (note, by Baptism, not by some a-sacramental graced subjectivity), to the Lord who lived, died and rose again in history and whom she awaits to complete all things in His Second Coming.

A note showing the incompleteness of the chapter indicated something of his feeling:» «I feel about it more or less like this: the good citizen, too, is humble before God, but the vicious man really lives only by grace.»

This has even been held by some great theologians, of whom John Calvin is the most noted exponent, as the doctrine of «irresistible grace.»

It deserves note, however, that a few at least cut right across this procedure to a belief in the free forgiveness and grace of God.

Grace is the primary source of all activity and creativity, and Pope Francis pointedly notes that technical solutions to the environmental crisis are powerless without a person's openness to God's grace (Grace is the primary source of all activity and creativity, and Pope Francis pointedly notes that technical solutions to the environmental crisis are powerless without a person's openness to God's grace (grace (200).

The sermonic form remains in that each chapter ends on a note of grace, and there is very little explicit transition between chapters or reference from one chapter to another.

The Official Catholic Response of June 1999 correctly noted the difficulty of reconciling this thesis with Trent, which insisted that God's grace removes everything that is truly sin and makes us truly and interiorly righteous.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

On a more serious note, «although no good Catholic novel should read like a theological tract, it is remarkable that a book whose hero has his heart set on damnation should ultimately reaffirm the power of grace.»

I have already noted that the dominant Western dualism that has colored much Christian talk about grace does not plumb the depths of the Christian experience of grace.

J. M. Garrigues correctly notes that Maximus does assume Dionysius» understanding of a cosmic order as a «vision of the communication of grace», while at the same time avoiding the Areopagite's «rigid, well - constructed hierarchy» as an ontological plan.

Note distinction between Christian concept of grace, and all the rest requiring that we earn some or all of our salvation, as in temple duties and missionary work.

Christians follow a ladder shaker of the highest order, whose word reaches us not just from the yellowed notes that become sound in a lecture hall they have graced before, but from the anger of the picket lines where struggle is no stranger; nor should it be, in a world that has not yet been fully redeemed.

The Old Rail Splitter was, in many ways, a man of natural grace whose words and actions show ¯ as Lord Charnwood noted in his excellent 1916 biography ¯ a «most unusual sense of the possible dignity of common men and common things.»

Those prophets and theologians of today who, like the Old Testament prophets and Paul, from whom they draw much of their message, have a clear and powerful sense of sin would do well to accent as much the prophetic note of hope through the grace of God.

As both Rogers and Williams note, marriage doesn't make any sense, theologically, without the pre-existent language of grace.

Philosophically speaking, the virtuous life is regarded as the life worth living (the life lived well, or rightly); and so it seems fitting to conclude this summary of Lumen Fidei on the note struck at the outset; namely, that in this encyclical one finds the sort of word on which one can rely — a word one might expect, in fact, from a conscientious father such as we have had in both popes with which the Lord has graced our times.

Note also in the reading that this is the word, it is what God said to Moses; that the quality of divine compassion and mercy and grace here comes through as it has not previously in Exodus; that this is a recital of faith in the nature and purpose of God (see the emphasis upon the divine «I,» even more pronounced in Hebrew, and compare the same feature in Joshua 24); and that all of this is an expansion of the single, simple, eloquent theme which opens and closes the recital: «I am the LORD,» conveying in the very name all the essential meaning of the divine Life.

Please note that I don't exactly know what the evangelistic method is of Zane Hodges, Antonio DaRosa, or any of the other Free Grace people accused of teaching a «crossless gospel.»

His notes show him moving away from Biel's (and many others») complicated scheme which, while saving God's prerogative, maintains that the «natural» man has a chance of doing something worthwhile by «doing what is in him», back to an idea that God's «prevenient Grace» is always available and always necessary for a life worthy of man and God.

We can note also the promise of Psalm 84: For battlement and shield is יהוה God, יהוה will give grace and glory.

In five reflective chapters he offers the fruits of his reading of the New Testament, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, John Donne, and Jeremy Taylor, with poems by George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, and T. S. Eliot added as grace notes.

Though the combo of mint and chocolate has a place in my heart all year long, I'm happy to note that the bright combination is especially welcome as wreathes and trees grace our living rooms and twinkly strands light the dark - at - 5 pm streets around here.

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I shall pass over her venomous assault on Sir Craig Oliver, David Cameron's former communications chief, except to note that several senior Tories were stunned by her lack of grace.

Buhari noted that Ekwueme's life's journey had been a narrative of immeasurable grace, courage, and candour.

His speech Tuesday, about the release of renderings for a new train station, included some nationally tuned grace notes.

Students using MMT were able to learn the first 45 notes of «Amazing Grace» in half an hour while studying for GRE exams.

All the water on Earth can be divided into hockey pucks, he says, and GRACE takes note of how they move around every 30 days.