Sentences with phrase «saved by the merits»

If these new Catholics were properly catechized before their baptism or reception, they were also prepared for the Christian reality of failure, which the Church calls «sin:» they would have come to understand that every one of us lives by the divine mercy alone; that we are all «worthless servants» (Luke 17.10); and that we are, finally, saved by the merits of Jesus Christ alone.

Not exact matches

If, as Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians, those whose works will have merited no reward at the end of days will have to be saved «as though by fire» when the damnable works they did leave behind are consumed, the insatiable bibliophile may prove to have chosen a particularly combustible vice to indulge.

I am a child of God, fallen, without merit, but saved by grace.

Most important, Abraham learns that one virtuous man does not make, and can not save, a nation by his own merit alone.

The Joint Declaration emphasizes, however, that God accepts us by grace alone through faith in Christ's saving deed and not on the basis of our merit.

At the heart of this difficult doctrine is the proclamation that our lives and our deaths are in God's hand; we are loved of God not by our own merit but by God's gracious initiative toward us We need not spend our lives in good works in order to be saved but only in grateful response to being so loved.

As a result, we are totally dependent upon God to initiate salvation for us, which He did in eternity past by choosing to save some, without any condition or merit on the part of those whom He chose (Unconditional Election).

The staple of LCMS preaching was the three - point sermon: you have sinned and by that sin merited eternal separation from God; Christ died to save you from the consequences of your sins; you should in grateful response strive to live in obedience to God's will.

For example, the Joint Declaration asserts, «We confess together: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.&raquBy grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.&raquby God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.»

Merit writing programs automatically save work in online portfolios are easily viewable by students and instructors.

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After this revelation, Brill concludes the book with his five recommendations, which include ending LIFO, merit pay for teachers with high value - added scores, saving money by replacing teacher pensions with 401 (K) s, and making teaching a temporary job rather than a life - long career «In a world where career changes are the norm... that may not mean that they stay for twenty or thirty years, but it should mean they are there for at least five or ten.»

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I also urge you to listen to this short, succinct and compelling talk in which Pandya illustrates the merits of getting the right scientific expertise to the right problem by showing how targeted meteorological forecasting helped improve the deployment of limited supplies of meningitis vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa, saving lives and money:

I think, though, that ultimately the subjective nature of them leaves little room for comment by me, save to say that perhaps there is merit in everyone drafting his or her own ungodly body of rules to guide their professional or personal lives.

A London partner at a US firm adds: «Honestly, I think merit - based pay is driven by cost - saving as much as a firm's determination to hang on to star associates.

It is fairly evident that the Committee tried to instrumentalize its FR in order to provide the other constitutional authorities (the Government and — most certainly — the Judiciary) with somewhat of a saving (or escaping) clause in order to overcome the stagnation caused by the Margellos doctrine and the ICJ's authoritative distinction between procedural conditions, such as the jurisdictional immunity of the defendant State, and the merits of the case, even if the contested affair involves grave violations of jus cogens norms.