Sentences with phrase «into good graces»

Xbox may just get a Christmas miracle this year and finally find their way back into the good graces of gamers everywhere.

On the other hand, sitting with the dateable characters gives you a chance to get into their good graces and win their favour, which is the goal of the game... right?

Anyone know if it's possible to get into good graces with BoA again?

The importance of getting your loan back into good graces is so you can be eligible for the Income Based Repayment (IBR) Program and then the final reduction programs to be announced in 2012.

On the other hand, I have another site that «fell into the good graces» of Google where I see an increase of 20 % in my search engine traffic.

Band Of Misfits, questions are posed: Will Captain ever get back into the good graces of his peers?

Sarsgaard bribes and sweet talks his way into the good graces of Mulligan's pathologically status - obsessed father (Alfred Molina) and mother, but the unlikely lovers discover there are things money can not buy and charm can not finesse.

In what can be described as «teenage Romy and Michele take down the president,» teen dim bulbs Betsy (Dunst) and Abigail (Michelle Williams) fall into the good graces of President Nixon (Dan Hedaya) and the positions of «Official White House Dog Walkers» after witnessing the Watergate break - in.

The actors give engaging and memorable performances as a family that realizes it does indeed need the help of their estranged relative Dylan, who ultimately proves his worthiness of being accepted back into their good graces.

Will comes into the good graces of a member of the group and joins her, along with Marcus (Fiona says she can't go), to a SPAT picnic.

After defying Goldie, Edgar tries desperately to get back into her good graces.

It's a lot of plot, but the movie charms itself into our good graces when it enters the netherworld, a neon - colored nonstop fiesta that's a blast even if you're just a bag of bones.

To win Agis, the cross-dressing princess must inveigle herself into the good graces of his guardians by seducing Leontine and Hermocrates.

Indeed, when we first meet him he is worming his way into the good graces of SS officers for his own selfish purposes.

The scheme of the princess: She and her maid Hermidas (Rachael Stirling) will disguise themselves as young men, penetrate Hermocrates» enclave, and insinuate themselves into the good graces of the brother and sister.

Phishers will also try to worm their way into your good graces by playing off of your likes and interests.

Making brief eye contact without any verbal dialogue after some time has passed gives her the idea that she may have finally made it into your good graces.

Glad the blouse has found it's way back into your good graces and regular outfit rotations.

Cuomo spent a long time working his way back into the good graces of black voters after he quit the just one week before the primary, and his camp is very sensitive about his relationship with the black community.

He'll have to play his way back into good graces but adding Nasri, assuming that gets done, and still having Helb back allows for some serious playmaking depth in the midfield.

For the first part of the pre-season, the Villa player had to find his way back into the good graces of the supporters.

And then — just when the fishing business was picking up again and your family beginning to let you hack into its good graces — Bartholomew had come over the hill and found you down by the lake shore mending the fishing nets.

Then, having insinuated himself into the good graces of the people by a show of seeming piety, he gave out that a certain book had been sent down to him from heaven.

Instead, every human philosophy and religious system is filled with ideas about working our way back into the good graces of whatever deity is being worshipped, and about pleasing and appeasing the gods who are angry with us.

While it may take time and patience to get back into good graces with the credit gods, the path is simple.

The truly cynical might say the new attitude is an effort by the chairman to get himself back into the good graces of the government.

Not exact matches

It would be pollyannaish to believe that Macy's will easily win its way back into shoppers» good graces.

Director J.J. Abrams, who directed Cruise in «Mission: Impossible 3» and was in Paramount's good graces after directing the studio's hit «Star Trek Into Darkness,» was also working to get Cruise back in the franchise.

With that in mind, Cramer shared five factors that could be driving the retail sector back into Wall Street's good graces.

Completing my B.A. (majoring in Psychology and Political Studies), I embarked upon a new adventure, as Personal Assistant to the owner of Cape Grace Hotel (voted Best Hotel in the World, Conde Nast Traveler Readers Choice 2000) and this quickly turned into a sales & marketing role locally and ultimately abroad.

Moral of the story is we all need forgiveness.Sin is sin.We all need the mercy of God.This man is on a quest to find that.Judge yourself.We are all sinners in need of a savior.You won't be able to say to God on the day of judgment, well at least I didn't shoot my brother in - law, therefore I should be allowed into heaven.You'll give an account for your life.I'm counting on grace, not because I deserve it, but because of the high price that Jesus Christ paid on the cross.A debt I could not pay.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

I bear witness that we can believe in the «right» things, that have all our doctrinal ducks in a row, but if our lives aren't icons of the incredible abundant and hospitable extravagance of our God, if we aren't bearing good fruit, if our roots aren't going down into the artesian wells of renewal and redemption and restoration, well, then, that is something but it is not grace and it isn't a tree of life.

How I would love it if my mother could hear the good, good news that, «Jesus loves me, this I know...» And this, somehow - by God's grace - this finds its way into the pieces of herself that remain.

Rarely has a company faced a steeper climb back into the public's good graces.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

But it is chiefly concerned to tell men what they may become in Christ, what indeed they already are in the divine intention: sons of God, made in his image, fallen into sin by their willfulness, and now by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ able to be conformed to his likeness, the evil and the sin which they know so well being done away through God's forgiving love shed abroad through him.

His parents had «stolen» God's fruit, and Cain, as the «promised seed,» was the one who would get his family back into God's good graces.

He does not want humans to give offerings in an attempt to manipulate or control Him into doing what humans want, or as a way of getting back into God's good graces.

As business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membership.

However, most christians believe that in order to be accepted into gods good graces, you HAVE to accept him, or Jesus (I guess both) as their lord and savior, no if ands or buts.

As Niebuhr put it so well, «The effort to bring Christ and culture, God's work and man's, the temporal and the eternal, law and grace, into one system of thought and practice tends, perhaps inevitably, to the absolutizing of what is relative, the reduction of the infinite to a finite form, and the materialization of the dynamic.»

Some christians believe that whether you believe or not, if you live a good and moral life you'll still be accepted into gods good graces, this is their workaround for why, say Ghandi is still allowed into heaven and not in hel.l because he was a hindu.

The common enemy will make thee believe, as soon as thou fallest into any fault, that thou walkest in error, and therefore art out of God and his favor, and herewith would he make thee distrust of the divine Grace, telling thee of thy misery, and making a giant of it; and putting it into thy head that every day thy soul grows worse instead of better, whilst it so often repeats these failings.

Legalism is an assumption that I can work my way into God's good graces, just like growing up in school: I had to work my way into my teacher's good graces.

The long history of man's seeking to offer himself to God, as is his bounden duty, is here fulfilled as the worshiper is brought into union with Christ and by Christ is offered to the Father, that through such self - commitment and dedication to God, the will of the Father may more perfectly be done and our own lives enriched by His Grace, so that «we may do all such good works as he has prepared for us to walk in»; and, in the end, dwell with Him in heavenly places.

This one is called «Living Loved» and we were chatting about learning the unforced rhythms of grace, about relaxing into the arms of our good God, and walking with our Jesus.

When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.

Human shriti sakti is good but it tends to turn almost inevitably into samhara sakti which in history needs to be constantly checked by law and redeemed by Grace.

«We trust that long ago you began to weigh and ponder all this, and that you are fully determined, by the grace of God, to give yourselves wholly to his service and devote to him your best powers of mind and spirit, so that as you daily follow the rule and teaching of our Lord, with the heavenly assistance of his Holy Spirit, you may grow up into his likeness, and sanctify the lives of all with whom you have to do.»