Sentences with phrase «only by the gift»

Indeed, it is only by the gift of freedom in Christ that we become aware of the terrible burden of the law, and only by faith in Christ do we receive the power to name the darkness of sin and guilt.

The gift of perspective is matched only by the gift of perseverance.

Not exact matches

These exceptional personalized gifts, sent to only a few dozen fans, were seen by the rest of her fan base as an incredible act of kindness.

Until now, the app has only allowed payment by Rogers customers using a prepaid Mastercard or gift cards from a handful of retailers.

Additionally, the exemption for the estate and gift tax, the most progressive component of the federal tax code, only paid by extremely rich estates, is doubled.

The government followed up by making an illegal gift to American car manufacturers by saying «We're going to break international law and only give subsidies to U.S. auto companies, not foreign - owned companies in the United States.

Play on these emotions by offering specials within the holiday season, whether it's 24 - hour - only coupon codes for online purchases, the creation of limited - time - only gift basket availability or a limit on the number of buy - one - get - one - free deals you'll offer on a certain product.

Not only could such a gift to businesses be looked down upon by American voters, but it would also complicate the GOP's plan to pass tax legislation through budget reconciliation, a process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate but brings with it limitations on adding to the deficit beyond the span of a decade.

More recently, MasterCard expanded the scope of the platform by building a mobile app that not only keeps the brand more connected to its customers, but also allows its partners (brands like Staples and Citibank) to offer exciting gifts and experiences directly to customers, as well.

The research, commissioned by Christian Legacy, found that 65 % of Christian women included a charitable gift in their will, compared with only 35 % of men.

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

What you have to lose is the genuine and profound meaning in THIS life that you are distracted from by religion with its dishonest promises of eternity, with its abundance of gifts that you are said to receive only after you die, when it is far TOO LATE to validate the claims.

Not only through my money and my gifts, but also through the court system; through the local leaders and by organising the community against this.

Yes, I would like to subscribe to Premier Christianity by credit card and receive the next 12 issues of the magazine for # 42.00 (UK only, if you are outside the UK, click here) and I am willing to forgo the free gift.

I read your statement, which I already knew that the only sin that God can not forgive is when men with all his clear conscious reject the gift of salvation by his Creator.

I can only explain to you that the scripture promise that to all there is a gift of faith by the same spirit, and that there truly are other spiritual gifts that not everyone will experience.

It is instead a penitent approach to a God who gives life freely, and who not only does not profit from the holocaust of the particular, but who in fact fulfils the «sacrifice» simply by giving his gift again.

God shows his mercy and love to all, but He only gives grace to those who receive the free gift of salvation by faith.

Though it is personal in the sense that we can enter the Kingdom only by responding to the call and to the gift of God, we can not enter or dwell in it alone.

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as gifts to the world but as offerings to God; offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material offering, just as we try to offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.

For the unbeliever, those who reject and mock God's forgiveness, they will condemn themselves by refusing the only gift that could save them.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

That there were men in Palestine in Jesus» day and later who claimed the gift of prophecy and led many astray is shown not only by the Gospels (cf. Mk 13:22; Mt 24:24) but also by the works of the historian Josephus.

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

Not because we hate anyone, but because we love you and want you to recieve the gift that can only be given by God.

In his sermon «St Paul's Gift of Sympathy», 13 Newman describes the Apostle's love for Christians and stresses that Paul is so full of love for others that «in the tenor of his daily thoughts, he almost loses sight of his gifts and privileges, his station and dignity, except he is called by duty to remember them, and he is to himself merely a frail man speaking to frail men, and he is tender towards the weak from a sense of his own weakness».14 Paul knows that not only do others need God's mercy, but above all others he himself has need of it.

The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.

God offers you and I the free gift of everlasting life which can not be lost, and this gift is only received by simply believing in Jesus for it.

There is the aspect of eternal life which is the free gift of God to all who simply and only believe in Jesus for it, and then there is the ongoing, daily experience of eternal life, which is called «inheriting» eternal life, which is through living by faith.

The reversibility of the evil decision of the first man is only to be explained by the fact that the integrity on the basis of which the first decision was made, was lost by the evil decision (as it would not have been by the good), because, in contrast to angelic integrity, it was an unmerited, preternatural gift.

A wider reading of the New Testament, especially John and Paul, suggests that such injunctions are only a moment of eschatological delay within a wider promotion of gift - exchange beyond the fetishized limits upon such exchange imposed by most ancient societies.

True, the free act by which God's self - communication is accepted is itself the gift of God and can only be realized as grace.

They can only exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees by receiving the gift of righteousness, the fulfiller of the law, Christ himself.

Further, he makes explicit the link between baptism and the receiving of the Eucharist by interpreting the words of Jesus regarding the thirsty coming to him and the gift of the Spirit (John 7: 37 - 39) to indicate that «it is only after we have been baptised and have obtained the Spirit that we proceed to drink the cup of the Lord.»

In previous generations God has left the gentiles without revelation, only intimating his power by his gift of rain and of the seasons which produce food and consequent gladness for men (Acts 14:15 - 17).

And this becomes possible only by virtue of Christ's total gift of Himself, because only in Him and in the story of His earthly life is this total affection rendered visible.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

The Gospel is the amazing news that by faith alone we are made unconditionally and irrevocably eternally secure.There are no buts or what ifs only a constant absolute our Lord Jesus.He is God and He guaranteed Eternal Life as a free gift if we believe Him for it.What a Gospel of amazing news!.

A church is not the minister only or the congregation only but the entire Christian fellowship, and it can be strong only as its members accept the obligation to give it support by their gifts, their service, their prayers, and their presence.

Nature is usually seen as a system which can be studied, understood and controlled, whereas creation can only be understood as a gift from the outstretched hand of the Father of all, and as a reality illuminated by the love which calls us together into universal communion.

Man must build his existence upon that which is beyond his control and available only as God's gift (ubi et quando visum est deo), upon a world which is transcendent by being basically future, and present only as the eschatological miracle, the gift of transcendence.

This radical freedom can only be a gift, for every endeavor to become free is an endeavor of the old man who is determined by his past.

But whereas Coover believes that we can enjoy the opportunities of our dynamic present if we but realize the ultimate «vanity» of all of life, the writer of Ecclesiastes finds the human being able to be at peace only with the realization that life is a gift given by God.

A concrete «act» of God in history can be discerned only by faith — and faith, as even the most orthodox theology maintains, is the gift of the Holy Spirit; the physical, objective «miracle» or act of God is only an outward indication.

There is no glassy essence to discover; there is nothing but an unformed gaze that receives form only by looking away from itself and receiving the gift of being looked at by God.

Paul argues that we do not have a licence to sin.because of grace If christians continue to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has to be an ongoing repentence in the christians walk that leads that person to become more like Christ.It is true that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..

(Later, Huck can only make sense of Jim's kindness to him and Tom Sawyer by concluding he must be «white on the inside,» a comment that reveals Twain's gift for creating characters that both critique yet fully inhabit their cultural contexts.)

It is only to say that this is the realm of grace in which we are surprised by free gifts.

12A - 13) We pay lip service to the ideal, but face a pastoral reality in which harmony or unity is achieved only by rejecting the gifts of some.