Sentences with phrase «gracious toward»

That was certainly my personal experience with him, as he was more gracious toward me than I probably deserved, considering the many swipes I've taken at his policy decisions over the years.

Peter Mandelson is generally gracious toward the host, sponsor or chairman of whatever event he had been invited to address.»

After this initial dust - up, Bruno said he and Clinton did work well together and praised her for being «gracious toward me.»

C.S. Lewis was gracious toward those who were not yet understanding — and remembered well the «before» when he did not «get it» either.

We are gracious toward all persons!

In his 28th day under curfew Mitri Raheb, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, was still gracious toward his assailants.

Though he has obviously moved on, he was very gracious toward evangelicals in his presentation — in an environment where it would be easy to do otherwise.

Not exact matches

The NFL player says he's amazed that God is so gracious and forgiving toward sinners.

The covenant at Sinai also begins with a brief historical introduction («I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt») whose explicit purpose is to document God's gracious intentions toward Israel and to engender Israel's desire to be a faithful servant who would love her lord above all other competitors.

I try to remain civil, loving, gracious, and kind, because that is how I see God behaving toward me... (which also tells people what I think God is like).

Many atheists I have met are a bit antagonistic toward Christianity, but of course, most Christians are quite antagonistic toward atheists... Then there are the friendly and «godly» atheists who are more loving, kind, generous, and gracious than many of the Christians I know.

Recognizing this is the first step toward humbly and properly conforming my life to God's gracious working in the world.

Judas who did not repent, but instead hanged himself or Peter, who bitterly repented and restored of the love intensly coming from the Creator and Redeemer of the world toward his unbelievable bitter denial of friendship to a much superlative gracious God!

And this, for the devout, was, on its highest level, the experience of salvation: not deliverance or welfare or the like — though these are comprised within the scope of the term — but most of all an assurance of God's gracious attitude and concern toward the individual, not less than toward the nation.

God's way of acting toward others seems terribly unfair at times because He decides to be generous, loving, forgiving, gracious, and merciful to those who didn't earn it, work for it, or deserve it.

At the heart of this difficult doctrine is the proclamation that our lives and our deaths are in God's hand; we are loved of God not by our own merit but by God's gracious initiative toward us We need not spend our lives in good works in order to be saved but only in grateful response to being so loved.

If we accept the account of human nature given by the Western theological and philosophical traditions — that we are free, rational beings, limited and imperfect, prone to diversity of opinion and errors in judgment — we may be more inclined to be not only tolerant but gracious and loving toward those with whom we disagree.

But we can probably move toward a more gracious stance than we currently live, and seek to reveal some of God's grace to this world.

23 But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them; nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

a little too seriously, rather than seeing it as Father Joe's gracious way of steering him away from the superficiality of moralism toward the deeper truth of personalism.

Be big and gracious and hugely supportive, boost your mood instantly by tell them you are so happy for their success, let them know you truly believe they are worth every bit of happiness they have and I'm not kidding, doing this, raising the bar on what your capacity is for genuine sincerity toward another person will bring you a sense of personal peace and real, solid comfort in where you are in your own life.

Sweet women choose to love in the midst of harshness, always extending a kind, understanding, and gracious hand toward others.

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.