When you're
transformed by love, it seems anything is possible.
I try to capture that story of being
transformed by love in every book I write.
This could feel like an airport romance novel about a girl whose life is
transformed by love, but Ronan complicates Eilis's otherwise simple story arc as much as she can.
I've got a lot to learn on this front, and I need people to keep me accountable, but I'm convinced that my best «apologetic» is not an argument or a defense or even a published book, but a life
transformed by the love and grace of Jesus Christ.
God is love, and as much as I respond [sighs] in allowing myself to be
transformed by that love and acting in that love, that's my religion.
Missional churches want to do more than just have big buildings and Bible studies, but instead want to embrace culture so it can be redeemed and
transformed by the love of Jesus.
In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not
transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.
Then there's Manchester United, last season's hilarious mess
transformed by the loving touch of the Iron Tulip into this season's bubbly optimists.
Wallace: The Underdog Who Conquered a Sport, Saved a Marriage, and Championed Pit Bulls — One Flying Disc at a Time by Jim Gorant (Penguin / Gotham; Blackstone Audio) is the story of an unruly pit bull who is
transformed by a loving couple who train him to catch frisbees.
Not exact matches
Covenant House New York is not only respected for providing
loving care and vital services to homeless and abandoned youths, they also help
transform the lives of these young kids
by setting them on a path towards achieving success.
Stand out among frozen dessert brands
by aligning with a big - brand presence Menchie's started out as a simple dream of a young couple in
love and over a few short years has
transformed into the world's largest self - serve froyo franchise.
Craig that was exactly my understanding however if we believe that in that traditional sense a person could lose there eternal life
by there actions
by not walking in the Lord which i do nt think is right as eternal life is a free gift from God not based on works.Jeremys definition is that we are saved
by faith in Jesus Christ to eternal life.I believe the term salvation has the meaning to be saved not necesarily to eternal life but saved from ourselves Christ gives us the power to be
transformed into his likeness or to be Christ like.In the eternal picture our actions determine how we are rewarded from God although its not the motivation of the reward but because we
love the Lord.regards brent
These include a heart for Christ alone, a mind
transformed by the word, arms of
love, knees for prayer, a voice to speak the good news and a spirit of sacrifice.
Having been married twelve years now, I am struck (sometimes painfully, sometimes serendipitously)
by how marriage, much like conversion, involves an ongoing process of falling in and out of
love, losing and then finding oneself, and being, in essence, «converted» and
transformed over and over again.
[41] This searching for God and his
transforming love ends with God taking all the initiative and we, in our humility, being overwhelmed
by his presence.
In between the self - righteous avoidance of the evil of others and the acceptance and willing of evil lies the difficult path of taking evil upon oneself without being corrupted
by it and
transforming it into
love.
We must replace the
love of God
by the
love of man as the only true religion... the belief in God
by the belief in man... My wish is to
transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers... candidates for the hereafter into students of this world, Christians, who,
by their own profession are half - animal, half - angel, into men, into whole men.13
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live,
Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown — I mentioned this one in my January round - up, but finally finished it this month.
«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous
love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened
by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced
by his eternal
love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is
transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»
Maybe her life has been radically
transformed by God's
love.
Therefore, each of the natural
loves, beautiful and splendid as they are in themselves, must be
transformed by charity,
by love of God.
The world invites us to be
transformed by its truth, which satisfies our
love.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live,
Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown
They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and
transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and
love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5
It is my belief that to some extent he did share it, though he
transformed it
by an emphasis on the mercy as well as the judgment of God and on the
love of God and neighbor as the criterion for God's moral demands.
At the close of two weeks of daily growth group sessions, participants in one workshop could identify these biblical themes in their shared experiences: bondage and liberation, salvation
by grace, judgment, death and rebirth, alienation and reconciliation, mutual caring, the
transforming power of
love, becoming a spiritual unity, growth.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live,
Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown.
I like to think that everything from the gathering of the berries to the raising of my tinies to the feeding of the hungry to the advocating for my local community's needs is a sacrament, and a foretaste, that we embody the Gospel
by our roots, too,
by our
transforming love,
by our unhurried community development,
by our friendships,
by our casseroles, and our wanderings.
People tend to
transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only
by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.
on my nightstand Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable
Transforms the Way We Live,
Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brene Brown:: Her book, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be...
It challenges believers to «
transform the world through fascination»
by honoring the teachings of Jesus — associating with the poor,
loving enemies, showing mercy, and suffering.
You know how clueless I can be regarding some of your topics, and reading this: «We
love to throw around the verse, «Be
transformed by the renewing of your mind...» was one of those clueless moments!
They would weave for you tales of God's wrath or
love, and of how their lives were
transformed by the very knowledge that they now are pleased to share with you.
Instead of a richly ironic story in which even Jesus» enemies are caught up in the symphony of grace, we get a Manichean morality play, in which evil is not so much
transformed by God's
love as merely beaten
by it.
He simply carried a Christian understanding of agape (
love or covenant fidelity), relatively detached from its theological context, into medical ethics and then used this
love as a principle
by which to evaluate and
transform the covenants already present in the world of medical care.
Mostly they came, I think, because, he
loved them and could tell them so, yes, even those vast, milling throngs; there was a touch, a sense, a spirit moving in, across, among those mobs of eager people, told them here at last they had a man who was concerned not for himself, who was not out to get himself elected, but who cared for every single one of them, and tottering old dames, lepers, whores, soldiers, robbers; I've seen them all
transformed by seeing him.
However, through a personal relationship with Jesus we come to discover that we gradually need to be
transformed by grace, body and soul, to enter into the fullness of
love.
St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary
by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be
transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent
by Jesus as a sign of his undying
love for his followers.
By believing against all odds and
loving against all odds — that is how we are to let Jesus show in the world and
transform the world.
By believing against all odds and
loving against all odds, that is how we are to let Jesus show in the world and to
transform the world.
By loving the adherents of demonic egoistic injustice, the disciples of Jesus affirm the
transforming power of unselfish
love.
There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on
love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival human agent
transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a friend, indeed a child of God.
Man's
love of God can be renewed and
transformed by agape.
As Todd Billings puts it, «The Bible is the instrument of the triune God to shape believers into the image of Christ, in word and deed,
by the power of the Spirit,
transforming a sinful and alienated people into children of a
loving Father.»
Just when I thought I couldn't
love you more, you prove me wrong
by transforming yourself into tortillas.
Make an easy base that can then be
transformed into something sublime
by using herbs you
love or have on hand.
With eighty - five beautiful color photographs, Einkorn will introduce home cooks to a delicious ancient grain that can
transform the way they eat for the better
by adding more nutrition and flavor to the foods they
love.
As non-reproducing females, the workers feed the queen bee, guard the hive entrance and cool the collected liquid
by fanning their wings to
transform it into the thick, sweet honey we know and
love.
While Sir Alex is full of admiration for his opposite number and the work he has done in
transforming not only Sunderland's fortunes on the pitch but also the way in which the club in general is perceived
by the media and the public, don't expect any
love lost out on the pitch.
Kidorable delights both children and the adults who
love them
by transforming everyday, functional kids accessories into objects that excite their imaginations and enrich their lives at play.