Sentences with word «unmerited»

Roman philosophers like Seneca and Cicero considered grace a virtue, and modern philosophers continue to study grace, defining it as an intentional act of unmerited favor, or as an inclination to promote others» interests and bring them joy.

Who wouldn't find the story of unmerited grace from an ever - loving father, one who pursues the wayward and the faithful equally, to be comforting?

But if we build a booth to them, erect a frame around them and enshrine them, we can end up worshiping those moments or memories or persons to the extent that they become a hindrance, a stumbling block or even idolatry — rather than unmerited gift from God and resource for service to others.

The freely given and unmerited love of God is proclaimed by speaking of the poor and their needs, their rights and dignity, their culture, and, above all, of the God who wants to place them at the center of the history of the church.3

Or consider a closely related question of which this same letter is an illustration — the problem of unmerited suffering.

i think you need to look up the definition of scapegoat... screw it, here it is: «is the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat.»

I wonder in particular whether employing the concept «gay people» with such nonchalance may communicate a familiarity and friendliness with this concept that is unmerited by its pedigree.

The solution is grace, it is an act of unmerited mercy on God's part.

Grace has never meant unmerited favour.

Another is «unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.»

Denham also made this point, that there should be more space for insiting on shared norms and challenging unmerited rewards at the top.

Grace means unmerited favor, and getting something other than what we deserve.

Finally, you call forth from people some sort of response to grace as unmerited favor, to the fact that our lives are gifted.»

But in a supreme act of totally unmerited generosity, Our Lord conforms his human to his divine will: «Father, glorify your name» (Jn 12, 28).

All you do is find faults with club you support and give unmerited credit to competitors.

So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death.

Isn't this the truth, to the extent that policymakers got a hold of these statistical tools, after which they much too swiftly and carelessly singled out teachers for unmerited treatment and blame.

It will present the idea that Christians «receive unmerited perks from institutions and systems all across our country.»

Christianity is the faith of unmerited greatness — the faith of heroic virtue, unsurpassed hope, and unbounded charity.

Protestants may make this case against eugenics by emphasizing unmerited grace.

IF there is an immanent God (much moreso if he is also loving), then unmerited suffering requires, nay DEMANDS an answer... something I have found Christianity very poor at providing.

It is difficult, above all, to figure out the meaning of innocent suffering, the spectacle of unmerited retribution to which Dostoevsky kept returning under the rubric «the tears of a child.»

In 1997, we bore common witness to «The Gift of Salvation,» underscoring God's unmerited justification of sinners....

None of us gains heaven by our own efforts; only submission to the loving embrace of Jesus crucified and risen fits us for so unmerited a glory.

He's trying, I think, — and too hard at it — to teach the Reformed worldview narrative of complete depravity and unmerited election to God's work by Grace through faith.

Seeing himself a sinner who fell infinitely «short of the glory of God,» the salvation that Luther found through the redeeming death of Jesus Christ was for him a sheer gift of the most unmerited grace.

But God, rich in love and mercy, by free unmerited favor quickened your life and set you in a safe place in the constant presence of Christ.

And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?

«Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved Son....

And while unmerited grace is great news for all of us, actually replicating such grace - filled reception of others can be a bit more challenging.

It takes some time to understand the bible, I will encourage you to read the book Unmerited Favor, Destined to Reign You have already Got it, Sharper Than a Two - Edged Sword.

The hysteria that ordinarily surrounds a major tournament year, when patriotism conjures frankly unmerited belief, has been tempered by realism — the current talent pool manager Gareth Southgate has to choose from does not inspire great confidence.

Oluwawole alleged that the Nobel Laureate was brought to Ekiti Sate for the commissioning of the new government house in a chartered helicopter paid for from the coffers of the state, while an undisclosed amount of money was also packaged for his stomach, «hence his result to unmerited image laundering for the reckless outgoing governor.»

The Bawku Central MP was charged with contempt for making unmerited bribery allegations against Members of the Appointments Committee and the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko.

After all, it's tough to imagine a more spontaneous or unmerited fortune than money you win from a random scratch - off ticket at a gas station.

I have carried this gift of unmerited kindness for over 35 years.

Summary of skills — Follow the headline with a summary that would be the way you'd describe yourself, absent both modesty and unmerited arrogance, and if you knew the characteristics about yourself that others value most.

Recently, though, critics of an approach to human sexual diversity called «evolutionary psychology» have been offering up some rather unmerited denigrations of the field.