Sentences with phrase «gracious about»

My client has been so gracious about the challenge and I am so lucky to work with her.

He was very gracious about my «cheating» on him.

The seller accommodated a specific request of mine and was so gracious about it.

Since my clients and colleagues have been remarkably gracious about my attempts to vacation this week, I will keep this brief and return to my rest BEvERage novel kids.

Bellamy was there years before Leo, but he was very gracious about Leo stealing his artists.

They were all very gracious about helping us in a pinch, and are always very friendly and accommodating.

You need to be gracious about criticism and grateful for praise.

Joanna is extraordinarily open and gracious about sharing her hard - won knowledge about ebook creation, publishing, and marketing with fellow authors and her site, The Creative Penn, contains abundant resources to guide authors new to the epublishing world along the path that has proven successful to her.

That number had already been announced earlier in the year, but Bezos was very gracious about using the shareholder's meeting to acknowledge all the efforts of Amazon's 33,700 employees.

It was very close but I've raced him enough in the past to know he wasn't going to punt me off and he was very gracious about the result.

The problem is that the Lapointe scenes feel more like an improv session that Smith was afraid to cut short or nudge in a different direction, as if he was so gracious about Depp agreeing to be involved that he ceded all control of those scenes.

Be open and gracious about sharing tips and advice, particularly if it has something to do with her future.

My poor Boston loving husband was so gracious about it, so I am going to enjoy every moment of this today, too!

(Users say authors are gracious about sharing their PDFs.)

«It's a very prized position and one that she made clear from the beginning she intended to go back to at the latest possible moment,» de Blasio said, adding that «NYU was very gracious about the timeline.»

When I said to HSS we would welcome them here and do what we can to facilitate this, they were thoughtful and gracious about it.

Being allowed to keep some precious possessions off limits makes it easier for your child to be gracious about sharing other possessions.

If you have readers, you can download some books on your Kindle, but truthfully, this is probably the only time in life where they will watch four movies in a row, so be gracious about it.

While Ronaldo — the original one — has been nothing but gracious about his record being broken, there has been a fair amount of kvetching from others about the appropriateness of somebody like Klose taking the record of somebody like Ronaldo.

For what it's worth, the Predators» captain was gracious about the play when asked after the Predators lost the Cup Final.

This recipe is Ree Drummond's (Pioneer Woman) except she uses sharp cheddar and I think she'd be gracious about your using it IF her name was more prominantly displayed.

«As a Christian I think this is us being gracious about this issue and also being sensible and pragmatic,» he said.

Be gracious about the alcoholic's closed meetings and 12th Step work.

What made it difficult for me were the ones who were less than gracious about their criticism and were given to dogging me until they got what they wanted, with little to no open - mindedness as to what goes into the decisions that were made and allowing for the fact that decisions were not made in a vacuum.

For the record, the Catholics were more gracious about it.

If anyone replies or asks me questions here, it will take me some time to reply — please be gracious about my slowness.

Not exact matches

Michael was gracious enough to open up about his own struggles with finding the right balance between drive and happiness.

But, I think there is a differential settlement likely to happen with Brexit [in Liverpool and Manchester] and David Davis has been gracious and understanding in that we need to be able to talk to him about the fears we have.»

When it comes to how often women have sex and when they start to have sex, goodness gracious me oh my is there grief about that.

He was advocating a posture of gracious, generous orthodoxy that keeps things simple, refusing to obsess about peripheral matters, and recognising that our current opinions about non-essentials are unlikely to be universally important and absolutely correct.

We serve a gracious and powerful God who is all about redeeming our mistakes for His glory.

Yes, God exerts His right to be gracious and compassionate to whom He wants, but He is not talking about determining people's eternal destinies; He is talking His right to bestow blessings and favor upon certain people for certain reasons.

What I appreciate most about the foundation is its ability to speak to such people in a way that his helpful and gracious without being condescending.

But remember, of course, that theological truth about a loving, gracious, and forgiving God helps lots of people out of the bondage to religion, laws, and guilt.

Those of us who are saved by grace, teach grace, write about grace, proclaim grace, and have «grace» in the names of our churches and ministries, are some of the least gracious people that exist.

Then it was on to Portland, where I couldn't help but think of the Portlandia song, «The Dream of the 1890s is Alive in Portland,» when my gracious host Andy Campell, (who homebrews his own beer, of course) presented me with AMAZING homemade bread from his wife April and began talking about his friends who make their own soap and, you know, pickle things.

That is, the big question about justification for Paul was not How do I find gracious God?

I know that You are a God who is gracious and compassionate, taking long to get angry, having great loyalty, and is sorry about doing evil.»

Similarly, however, and again because of God's gracious bestowments upon his creatures, most individuals and most schools of historical analysis can see some things clearly about the past.

Learn about them if you want, but know that God is gracious with us in our humanity, and knows that we can not understand Him or His ways all at once, and so He works with us where we are at.

If our relationship with God is in the spirit of adoption — if God is the gracious parent who freely and lovingly chooses to parent us — might this concept then challenge our own cultural assumptions about «real» parenthood?

He was speaking to teachers about education, but his observation applies also to parenting — to parents who know they have an ideal for the concept of the «good» and a relation with a gracious God.

They invite me to hang out with them on dates and they're really gracious to periodically check up on me to ask if anything about their interaction makes me uncomfortable.

The problem is that people who have spent years talking about grace, reading books on grace, and going to conferences on grace are suddenly faced with situations in which they need to be gracious and, instead, become... nasty.

Some years ago Horst Symanowski made this same point (against a more secular and more hopeful background) when he declared that people do not lie awake anymore worrying about Luther's question, How can I find a gracious God?

Though I am not a Calvinist, I hold to radical, outrageous, scandalous grace (a grace which is more gracious than the grace of many Calvinists), and I believe that as fallen and sinful human beings, we should always be about the work of reforming ourselves and our theology and never consider ourselves fully reformed.

Thus the final exhortation of Paul to his beloved community in Philippians 4:8: «Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.»

But, for this brief series, I want to talk to men about being godly, gracious, and discerning.

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

«Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.»