Not exact matches
God so loved the world He gave His son Christ... I would not want my last hours
on earth to be filled with only kind
words, but also with the truth of salvation thru Christ... because of God's
gracious love.
But then Jesus, who had seemed so
gracious, suddenly goes
on the attack, putting imagined
words in their mouths.
No, I believe that tough love means going down deep, to battle our own selfishness, our own anger, our own frustrations, our fears, our temptations to choose being right over being
gracious, to give up
on having he last
word, to stop convincing by arguing and harsh invectives, pinches and pricks, to win at all costs.
The assembly that heard his
gracious words in the hometown synagogue responded warmly, but before they could heap
on too much praise, Jesus slipped a jeremiad — a complaint reminiscent of Jeremiah himself — into his talk.
God has given you the skill to speak truth based
on your knowledge of the
Word, your ability to apply logic and common sense to that knowledge, and express yourself in a kind and
gracious manner.
I regard as basic the proclamation of sovereign freedom: «I will be what I will be,» fashioned analogously to the
words: «I will be
gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will show mercy
on whom I will show mercy» (Ex.
It is a good - faith effort
on the part of some Roman Catholics and some Evangelicals to say, with as much clarity as possible, how they understand God's
gracious gift of salvation
on the basis of the
Word of God.
If saying that something is vile, demonic, and later go
on to compare it to Nazism, is somehow
gracious, then we have different definitions of the
word.
The
words came up to me
on every side jostling one another and smiling in agreement so that, where before there was hardly any
word in the whole of Scripture more bitter tome than penitentia (which I sought to feign in the presence of God — coram Deo — and tried to express with a fictitious and forced love), now nothing sounds sweeter or more
gracious to me than penitentia.