Sentences with phrase «of pure grace»

He is a master conductor who plays scenes like symphonies of feelings, continuing long past the narrative point has been established to express the emotional intensity of the characters and situations, and to add moments of pure grace to the mighty drama.

1 — God exists 2 — God desires an expression of His glory 3 — God creates mankind 4 — God loves His creation 5 — Mankind rebels against God 6 — God implements plan to redeem mankind (a demonstration of pure GRACE) back into communion with Him, not because of our worthiness, but only for His glory.

They were gifts of pure grace.

The gospel message is one of pure grace from first to last.

Not exact matches

And it was known yea verily that a riddle that was not, in the purest sense, and yet by the grace of Iluvatar in the answering shall ye know its truest nature..

To the Amida Buddha of Infinite Light, thanks for spinning the Pure Land out of your grace and your imagination, and for being at the end of the tunnel in those near - death experiences.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Pure Land Buddhists might call this something the primordial Vow of Amida; feminists and process thinkers might call it the primordial Eros of the universe; and more traditional Christians might call it Grace.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

While Maritain sadly failed to go all the way with de Lubac in refusing pure nature, he still opposed Maurras, not only in the name of «the primacy of the spiritual» but also of an «integral humanism» for which the free and natural spheres of politics and culture must be oriented toward supernatural grace if they are to be fully human, just, and legitimate.

Because he conceives radically the idea of the grace of God, he makes it plain that God's forgiveness must be for man an event in time, that the relation of «I» and «Thou» exists between God and man, that God stands opposite to man as another Person over whom the man can have no sort of control, who meets man with His claim and with His grace, whose forgiveness is pure gift.

@ my take: the «pure» life of christian leadership is not in being «better» than everyone else, but in admitting your need for grace faster & earlier all the time.

(There are way too many links on my blog if you are so inclined) He preaches pure grace like I've never heard in my life and many times I'm overcome with waves of God's presence and love just listening.

God's guidance in the new life is pure grace, given out of his love for us.

We must acknowledge the real measure of divine revelation and grace which is to be found in the non-Christian religions and in any other place where men meet that which commands their fullest and purest allegiance.

In those pure regions he sees his father, or mother, his sisters, or brothers, or those persons who sat under the same means of grace with him, and whom he derided as fools, fanatics, and hypocrites....

Wearing long - sleeved white shirts and trousers sashed with red, they leap impossibly high — the essence of pure unadulterated masculine grace in motion.

Though perhaps not as popularly celebrated as pure coconut oil, whole coconut milk also maintains high levels of healthy MFCAs and is thus graced with similar healing effects to the oil.

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Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson will grace the blocks assigned to atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118, said the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today.

Or, one of my all time favorites, if I were to embody pure grace right now, what might that feel like?

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This pure white bone china also features a platinum band for a tablescape that captures the grace, color and beauty of a secret garden.

The Blossom (below) is an instant hit with me, the delicate lace cap sleeves and flattering keyhole back is pure grace, and oh how I'd long to float around in the incredibly feminine delicate lace and dotted tulle of The Aster, whilst The Maple sure has some va va voom to it with that fabulous structure...

Critic Consensus: It may occasionally be guilty of coasting on pure charm, but To Catch a Thief has it in spades — as well as a pair of perfectly matched stars in Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

The most one can say in defense of this mirthlessness is that the film settles into a mildly pleasant melancholy in the last act, as Alan, always the purest character and lone source of grace notes, finally gets to come of age.

A pure screwball companion to While We're Young, the 2014 film that only recently graced Seattle Screens, the pair form a hilarious portrait of our culture's obsession with a certain kind of youth, a Manhattanite companion to Sylvia Chang's brilliant exploration of Hong Kong womanhood, 20 30 40..

Huston's direction is pure grace, creating a world of relationships and a history of family in the rhythms and glances and comments (guarded and unguarded) of the guests.

It's pure entertainment with an endless parade of the kind of whiz - bang special effects, not quite sloppy sentiment, and a constant barrage of the quips and banter that define grace under pressure in the Marvel Universe.

At this point, we have only seen a few pictures and haven't even been graced with a trailer but we do know that Michael Myers and Laurie Strode are back to give us another couple of hours of pure, slasher horror.

provide many light moments; the courtroom scene is pure farce; we discover the origin of Grace's obsession with shoes; we learn more about Fanwell's background; Grace's musings on physical and mental comfort are worth consideration, as is the concept of the guilt - free sofa; Mma Ramotswe's inner monologue is full of gentle philosophy and it was a lovely surprise for the reader to meet the much - quoted (and apparently very human) Clovis Anderson.

What Rogan finds under our veneer of civility is pure animal nature, red in tooth and claw — in a way, the sinking of the luxurious Empress Alexandra echoes mankind's fall from grace.

Prancing in a swift, light - footed manner, these dogs are pure expression of grace and athleticism.

But about this time Grace Hartigan began to abandon the formal approaches of pure abstraction.

Writing about Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, c. 1937, Sultan remarks: «I am struck by the pure grace of this image, and find myself thinking of Indian miniatures, which also have flat areas of gorgeous color bounded by sensitive line; also of Matisse, and of course Arshile Gorky, a friend and great influence.

Paintings by the early Australian modernist Roy De Maistre, for example, share a space with a series of pieces by the young Dutch artist Riet Wijnen, whose interest in «the impossibility» of pure abstraction has led her to create a fictional dialogue between Grace Crowley (also a pioneering early Australian modernist), and the British constructivist Marlow Moss.

And as complex as «Between Island and Mainland» (2012) and «Ferryman» (2012) appear, with their swirling / organic forms with interlocking edges, painted with varying differences in thinness, thickness, and modeling, they evoke so distinctly the serenity and simplicity of the Buddha Amitãbha's ascendance, the grace of which was so essential to Pure Land Buddhist painting for over a millennium.

If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.

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