Sentences with phrase «of gift you'd»

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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?

1) that eternal life given on the basis of faith alone, in Christ alone, apart from works; 2) that eternal security is part of the gift of eternal life; 3) that assurance of salvation is through faith in Christ's promise of eternal life, and not by looking at one's own works 4) Christians can apostatize in this life, and are still eternally secure 5) eternal rewards are earned by faithful works, and lost by unfaithfulness 6) unlimited atonement 7) free - will to respond to God's drawing or not

Prayer has its great end when it lifts us to be more conscious and more sure of the gift than the need, of the grace than the sin.

Girard, however, fails to see the richness, multivalency, and ambiguity inherent in the language of sacrifice in Jewish and Christian thought; he fails to grasp, in particular, the conversion theology effects of the story of wrath into the story of mercy, or how it replaces the myth of sacrifice as economy with the narrative of sacrifice as a ceaseless outpouring of gift and restoration in an infinite motion exceeding every economy»

Technique in all its military modes and derivatively in every other mode threatens us, Technique is aimed at control, the fencing out of death, the fencing out of gift and, eventually, the fencing out of humanness.

The act of creativity is as much of a gift as the product of the creativity.

The Holy Innocents have been honoured as the first example of those who were welcomed into heaven because of the gift of their lives for God.

If we can really understand the magnificence of this sacrifice done on our behalf, then the reality of that gift transforms us and makes want to serve and please him.

Jesus knows how much money is put in the box not because he supernatural knowledge but probably because the amount of gift was called out by the priests.

Being a celebrity is a sort of gift of public opinion, something given by no one in particular.

My brethrens, might it be helpful for our diplomats to extend an olive branch in the form of a gift basket of that wholesome miracle food, the humble yet regal peanut?

In the same way, the spirit of adoption that Paul commends to the reader is one of gift.

«The minister says that baptism is an outward and visible sign of a gift, the gift of the Spirit of God brought into the body and mind of the person being baptized.»

Scott mentions some examples of grievous willful sins such as murder, rape, sexual immorality, etc. and wonder what they mean in light of the gift of salvation freely given by faith in Christ.

The logic of gift exchange is less about supply and demand than relationships and reciprocity.

The awareness of this gift should perhaps have led him to witness to the Reformed heritage and its fundamental convictions with a little more gratitude and care.

The previous volumes» How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews» were extremely popular, and Cahill follows the same basic format here, presenting an introductory description of the world in which the gift «giver appears, a history of the protagonist (in the first volumes a people, not an individual), and finally an assessment of the gift «giver's lasting effects on history.

When called on to pray, the first thing to come out of their mouths is not Polish, nor English, but that great, holy charism: the uniting language of the gift of tongues.

There has to be an acceptance of the gift, a response to that which shows itself to us.

I agree with Meister Eckardt: «The fruitfulness of a gift is the only true way to show gratitude for the gift.»

The imperative to give rests upon the narrative account of a gift already received.

Many churches have lost sight of the gift of confession, either practicing it infrequently or practicing it only in the most vague and abstract manner.

A better form of a gift is when...

The evolving universe gives testimony to the totality of that gift.

So that God's gift may achieve its fullness in free beings who are themselves capable of placing themselves in return in a state of gift, the universe is ordered to become a universe - with - man.

For man as spirit - ordered - to - time, time becomes a necessity for placing self in a state of gift in return of God's love.

Without freedom, man could not place himself in a state of gift in return; without it God's love of the world would be without the fullness that freedom makes possible.

Only believing in Jesus, the One who did it all for us, results in the reception of the gift of eternal life.

The significant aspect is the personal dimension: God in self - giving, in self - relating to the world, placed himself in a state of gift.

In the rite of confirmation, which acknowledges the presence of the Spirit in a believer's life, a thumb to the forehead reminds God's children of their mark: the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Protestant dialectical theologians from Luther to Barth have insisted that we only truly know our fallen and sinful condition as a consequence of the gift of grace, that only a realization of redemption or of the forgiveness of sin makes possible an understanding of the reality of sin.

And this quality of gift seems to be part of what has happened at Christmas: the Word itself is made flesh, and so the flesh of Jesus is the message now.

Yes, we must welcome the neo-orthodoxy; but yes, it is only the platform on which a great and beautiful fullness of the Gift of God is to be built.»

Such a gift might spring from varied motives — gratitude, homage, or the desire to curry favor — but obviously in the background of the practice of animal sacrifice was the idea that God liked this form of gift and profited by it.

17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

It requires a spirit of receptiveness, an openness to «the idea of gift» as a fundamental principle of human existence»

Because our basic theological understandings of grace include assent to the claim that the most beautiful and precious things in and about our lives are unearned and undeserved, themes of gift and gratitude sometimes seem overworked.

The myth of a gift giving person who distributed largess at the winter solstice predates christianity.

The central problem in the creation of a pluralistic world society is, then, a spiritual one, requiring the acceptance of the gift and responsibilities of mature freedom.

An inclusivist believes that all are offered the gift of salvation, but are also given the right of refusal of the gift.

Mut «a, a temporary marriage which may be terminated after even one day upon payment of a gift, is permitted among the Shi'as.

It takes its point of departure from the voluminous literature on the subject of the gift.

What you will find in these pages is nothing short of a gift.

They needed to be among the assembly yesterday of about 3000 believers in three different services that heard the message of the cross given and the simple message of the gift of eternal life by believing in the one that was nailed to the cross for our sins.

She is creation's first act of donation and in the giving of herself, allows Adam to make of himself a gift as well.

But only for (verse 17) «they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness», not for everybody.

I could logic it all away, I know I could, but these moments are too much of a gift for me to look at straight on.

The true Christian knows the true worth of the gift of faith.

«The root of the gift [of priesthood] does not come from below.