Sentences with phrase «means unmerited»

Grace means unmerited favor, and getting something other than what we deserve.

Grace has never meant unmerited favour.

Not exact matches

The love of God, shed abroad in our hearts by His unmerited mercy, is the bedrock, the cornerstone of that work which makes us justified, righteous and ready for the very real new creation ahead — the hope that makes our days here (often scared with pain and trial) have meaning — that's the hope of our calling that allows (as Steve notes) us to live for each other.

For Jews, too, salvation is an act of God's hesed, a word that the KJV obscurely translates «lovingkindness,» but which really means an unconditional act of love, uncompelled and unmerited.

It is difficult, above all, to figure out the meaning of innocent suffering, the spectacle of unmerited retribution to which Dostoevsky kept returning under the rubric «the tears of a child.»

Justification by grace signifies God's unconditional, unmerited, radical acceptance of the whole person: God, the Cosmic Lover, graciously embraces not just a person's disembodied spirit but the whole fleshly self — the meanings of which theology is only beginning to explore.

What really happened was that, after five centuries of neglect, the Isaian passages on the Suffering Servant of the Lord were used by the early Christians as a means of interpreting the necessity and the significance of Christ's unmerited suffering.