Sentences with phrase «gracious act»

The most gracious act of goodwill conceivable is the sending of God's son, and yet no sooner was Christ born than the innocents were slaughtered.

Of course, the consequence is excommunication, but excommunication is the most gracious act the church ever performs.

Essentially, this is a clash between a world - view which is grounded in an ongoing gracious act of creation, and a world - view which presumes a static order of reality from which the individual has become estranged through ignorance, and to which he may return through recollection and self - knowledge.

This justification removes from us all false props, all reliance upon external authorities, and all refuge in worldly securities, and throws us not upon ourselves but upon the pure gracious act of God in His unconditional love, so that the ethical and religious life are lived exclusively with Jesus Christ as the centre.

Freed for the Sabbath by the events of the Exodus (i.e., by God's gracious acts of freedom on behalf of his people), the Israelites kept the Sabbath: they refrained from work.

Thanks to the gracious act of His Son, He sees you perfectly redeemed.

Hence the Catholic doctrine of justification does not profess a semi-Pelagian synergism according to which salvation would be divided up into God's gracious act and the independent free act of man.

So God's gracious acts were said to be done for his name's sake (e.g..

It maintains that as sinful men and women we are so fallen and degenerate and unworthy as to be totally without hope of reconciliation with God, unless God in a gracious act of divine imagination pretends that our sinfulness has disappeared, that it has somehow been removed by the execution of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Reformers proclaimed that the sovereignty of God was both a critical word against the world and a gracious act of deliverance.

It could be a place to further understanding, a place where your gracious act could be studied as one way... to overcome barriers between peoples.

To die early is a gracious act of the Lord.

It is a gracious act of God, I would contend (as would Bonhoeffer), to offer us the red pill.

My God doesn't stand a chance of being evil, because of all the gracious acts he has done.

While my gracious acts of kindness toward nature's creatures surely showed off my sensitive side to an approving Sega rep, I have to admit that the pursuit was more driven by the simple obsessive pleasure of collecting stuff.

It is a gracious act to tell your coworkers that you will miss them and write several things about the company that made you happy during your time working there.