Sentences with phrase «gracious man»

All those who knew him will remenber this discrete and gracious man, anxious to be at your disposal, always listening, often with a sense of humor.

He was a very gracious man, I thought.

And he was a gracious man, one of the best speakers I ever met in my life,» said Amodeo.

After the sole witness in his case (who was 12 at the time of the trial) finally confessed that he'd made it up, Mr. Jackson walked out of prison a free, gracious man.

When your children leave the faith, it's hard to not take it personally, but Tony has always been a gracious man, committed to his faith and ideals.

The celebration is open to all who had the pleasure of knowing this exceptional, talented and gracious man.

He continued, «Bev was one of the most humble, gracious men I have ever known and one of my closest friends.

The gracious men waved back at my little girl, and the driver even honked the horn, causing her to squeal with delight.

Not exact matches

In what might be called the standard Protestant reading, the young Luther was a man haunted by a question for which traditional Catholicism could provide no answer How can I get a gracious God?

Calvinists often argue that if man «contributes» faith to the process of salvation, then man has done a good work to earn that salvation, which therefore makes salvation not a gracious gift of God but a transaction between God and man.

But nevertheless God purposes to be gracious, when a sinful man flees to the very God from whom he would otherwise have to flee in feat of judgement.»

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

Feminism was born out of an alliance between men and women, out of a gracious and mutually beneficial relationship where both sexes worked for the cause of women.

The Pharisees strove to maintain a balance between man's duty to strive to earn pardon and his inability to attain it except as a gracious gift from God.

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.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

Proverbs 24:9 The awords of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a bfool will swallow up himself.

Without God's gracious authorization and justification man can not find enjoyment in eating and drinking.

The Renaissance, with its new and optimistic estimate of man, suggested that man could shape his destiny without God's gracious help.

This kind of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it finds explicit expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God, who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ as the savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father of men.

When Moses asks God to let him see his glory, the basic answer is: «I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name «the Lord»; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy, but... you can not see my face; for man shall not see me and live» (Ex.

Men are actually embarrassed to give up a seat on the subway to an old woman; they mumble «I was getting off anyway,» instead of making the gesture in a straightforward and gracious way.

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed and continual strife in his bones... If there be with him... an interpreter to show man what is right for him, then God is gracious to him.

Though those men are gracious, Nye's gross ignorance and stupidity would be exposed and he would be thoroughly humiliated.

Rather, it can become a community of conviction, participation, personal relationships and discipline, in which men and women can reorient themselves to the world through the rediscovery of its center in the gracious activity of God.

Bev was one of the most gracious and unassuming men I have known.

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

It should make us the most just and honorable men, and the most compassionate and strong and gracious women.

It means a fresh apprehension of the working of God in history: a fresh and vivid realization of the God who in Christ revealed himself to men long ago and who, still in Christ, stands ready to make himself known in gracious power also to us and to our generation.

To that man, the bliss that calls to him in the beautiful would seem only an intolerable accusation, its gracious invitations only a perverse condemnation of his well - earned and lavishly vegetal happiness...»

It is this gracious love by which the justified man lives.

They started from the Conviction that God's creative love, his gracious dealing with his creatures, his purpose to bring men into true sonship towards himself whatever it might cost to win them over from complacent, hard - hearted, self - love, and his willingness to pay, himself, whatever it might cost — that all this was focused in the real, historical and human Jesus.

O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Heaven?

And Jonathan Edwards says in the same strain: «Those gracious influences which are the effects of the Spirit of God are altogether supernatural — are quite different from anything that unregenerate men experience.

Again, since Jesus was unmarried and was executed while still a young man, we are provided with no divine exemplar for the good marriage, for the successful coping with the problems of middle age, or for the gracious acceptance of the closing phases of earthly life.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

Rather in the last hour God encounters man with a free and gracious opportunity of eschatological existence, a chance which man neglects at his own peril and which therefore places him in ultimate decision.

One such occasion was when the sixteenth - century reformers replaced unsatisfactory definitions of divine grace: models and analogies which seemed misleading because they offered an inadequate or untrue expression and interpretation of the Christian experience of God's gracious approach to man; they did not clearly indicate that by «grace» is meant «God being gracious».

Indeed, we might say that God created man with the intention that man should «make what God did not make» and, what is more, that man «make what God did not think to make» as a consequence of God's gracious self - limitation of his own power in the act of creating man.

Its dark these days David, probably more so in your part of the world than most, but «Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.»

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his good deed.

The psychology of a defeated nation is always a tale of sad and baffled inward turning, and the conference never forgot that these men and women, so many of them with somber faces and all of them with such sad and bitter and baffled thoughts, were brothers and sisters who must receive the fullest consideration, the most gracious and understanding sympathy.

Whenever the context requires especial precision I distinguish between the «human loves» meaning man's love for man, other creatures, the world, beauty, all the things which call forth our natural capacities for love, and «the love of God», meaning the gracious love which God gives to man and which takes on the special character of forgiveness and reconciliation.

But it would be a gracious rule: not compulsion, not an infringement of man's freedom, but its fulfilment.

Good gracious, enough with the dang kale, man.

In contrast, consider the case of 65 - year - old Gordon Patton, a gentle, gracious and presumably sane man, who did not feel the hot flush of wreck fever until recently.

While we should of all been paying attention to Mr. Mannings gracious winning ways, this weeks headlines have been all about Kanye West and Cam Newton acting like spoiled children.

It was typical of the man; forgiving, playful, utterly gracious and with a generosity of spirit that lifts the world.

Real men will support the movement, and they'll be understanding and gracious.