Sentences with phrase «through human works»

Salvation, the writer insists, came to the gentiles by grace through faith, not through human works, but as a gift from God.
In the Rektoratsrede this is accomplished through human work, which may be either freely chosen, or assigned by the «leader.»

Not exact matches

He also told The New Yorker he felt the ambitious undertaking would allow him to «confront a lot of our shared anxieties about the future of human expression (see: Twitter or text messages) by forcing a great work of literature through such a strange new filter.»
Through his own initiatives, he's working to prolong human life (Human Longevity), commercialize space flight (Space Adventures), and mine asteroids (Planetary Resourhuman life (Human Longevity), commercialize space flight (Space Adventures), and mine asteroids (Planetary ResourHuman Longevity), commercialize space flight (Space Adventures), and mine asteroids (Planetary Resources).
Make it abundantly clear through words and actions that you are devoted to the community, and most likely you'll be amazed at the rash of new clients that will be willing to work with you because not only are they interested in your product, they like and respect you as a human being.
When employees see firsthand the human impact that their work makes, when they feel and know that they are making a difference in the world through the work they do, it increases their motivation to perform.
Through its sister organization — the Better World Campaign — the UN Foundation works to support a fully funded United Nations so that it can continue to be an effective voice for international cooperation on behalf of peace, development, human rights and the environment.
My former client (disclosure: I stopped working with them as of December last year) Wayfare also received genuine interest from the press through the idea that we, as human beings, occasionally want to meet people from all over the world.
God does intervene sometimes to stop the baby from being killed, but frequently works through humans to advance the cause of right.
Rather, society is a never - ending work - in - progress constructed through the ongoing strivings of living and breathing human beings whose motives are psychologically complex and culturally specific.
By the way, I would include you descriptions of «two believers go [ing to] volunteer at the homeless shelter, or work [ing] together to raise support and awareness for human trafficking» as mutual edification, since they are helping one another grow at the same time (through their example to one another if nothing else).
International trade fulfills these twin duties by satisfying human needs in the most effective way while eliciting collaborative work through the division of labor.
I had thought that the human state of falleness was a state that somehow through discipleship with Jesus would somehow in the long run work its way out and then the gate to the tree would be open.
No human is perfect so that shows that when you are in need and great thngs happen just in the nick of time, that's God working through us.
Less polemically but still in the Enlightenment tradition, Montesquieu used the example of the reducciones in his Spirit of the Laws to work through questions about the common good and the role of the state in procuring human happiness.
The existence of God the Creator can be known with certainty through his works, by the light of human reason....
That is how God works through human nature, and nature itself is a gift of the Creator.
As can be seen through comparative religion, no human philosopher or religious leader has ever invented the idea that God fully and freely accepts human beings without any effort or work on their part.
It is a way of loving in which nature works through grace to restore the love in human relationships to God's original intention.
Rather, it is God himself working in us and through us; and our exertions, with their attendant pains, if there be any, are simply our human reactions to, and sensations of, the divine working: ultimately, it is God who is praying, not we ourselves.
But instead, he works in, through and by means of human beings.
For example, He works miracles through His divine nature — it is impossible for human nature to work miracles (that's why they are miracles!).
But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.
I believe that God works through creatures, especially human ones, that that work is transformative, that we can not know in advance just where such transformation will lead, but that we can distinguish God's transforming work when it occurs from other kinds of changes.
Yet they are works of grace, guaranteed not by material laws or human effort, but by the play of Divine wisdom and love on human hearts and minds through Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
-LSB-...] charity is placed as a key link: divine charity works through human action, as a theological virtue -LSB-...] Man is not considered only as the object of a process, but as the subject of this process.
That work of the Holy Spirit in guiding human authors to compose and record through their personalities God's selected message without error in the words of the original documents.
My view is that when God called Abraham he knew he was going to work through flawed human beings to bring about redemption... and that the fault lines run forward then all the way to the cross, the most wicked thing humans ever did and the most loving thing God ever did.
«This present darkness» is too powerful for any human solution, yet God works through the human.
The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.
«Everything - in - God» tells us that God is not so exalted that he becomes meaningless to human life, but rather is operative in the whole creation at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.
Second, most importantly, there is a theology of «common grace» — that means that human beings are able to do good because of God's mercy, working through and in human hearts.
Therefore, communication must be expressed as»... God's unique gift to humankind, through which individuals and societies can become more truly human» (Manila Declaration, 1980) and be constructed as a forum for dialogue with all those who are working to build that community in solidarity.
He, in fact, communicated through story in his own work, interpreting at length the story of Abraham and Isaac, and creating parabolic stories to convey his insights into the human condition.
For the Christian who operates from a stance of hopefulness, believing that God is getting his work done through human history and through the history of nature, the inclination will be to place the burden of proof on those who oppose a given type of scientific research.
We have been evoloving both physically and socially for hundreds of thousands of years, adapting to our environment and passing on learned information from one generation to the next for us to build upon pulling ourselves out of the muck through thousands of generations of hard working humans to get to where we are today.
«Through our church here, we carry on the tradition like fellowship groups for the elderly... we also have a debt advice service... we also work with victims of human trafficking.»
Its achievement is through the spiritual energy imparted by His spirit in human hearts, but its final consummation comes slowly through the joint efforts of God and man, working side by side, in the struggle to create a new and divine order and to make His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
They intend their document, which has worked its way through several years of preparatory meetings, to be presented to the United Nations in 2000, adopted by the General Assembly in 2002, and eventually achieve the enduring status of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
Child sponsorship charities work to champion children's rights and to help prevent human trafficking through education.
It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?
It's funny how God always does His work through humans using natural means, rather than a simple demonstration of supernatural capability.
If the contempt, however, is tied to an antagonistic human domination and to the need of people to discipline their unruly bodies through work, it can provide an ethical framework to support the thoughtless and arrogant exploitation which is part of the ecology crisis.
It is penetrated by God who works through it and can lure it to serve God's purposes, but God and the world are never the same reality, not even in human nature at its highest.
Cobb holds that Wesley was a process theologian in the sense that Wesley sees God as working with each human being through the course of our lives — a process.
God so energized through this particular human life, which had been divinely purposed and intended, that those upon whom it made and continues to make its impact have been obliged to say that in this man Jesus, God lived and wrought.
In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation of human existence with God's intention for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.
The early tract and missionary societies enlarged their work of rescuing human wrecks of economic competition, and they began to pay more attention to the immigrant through language classes and employment agencies.
She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.
It must be addressed as a result of the fall, like Cancer, which is treated though God's working through human agents and rarely through miraculous intervention.
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