A theology of blessing begins with God, the fountain of all blessings, whose benevolence toward his creation produces mercies without number. |
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How we have no national dance company and rely on the tender mercies of people like Sonja to keep our folk dances alive and to innovate new ones. |
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The unfailing recurrence of His mercies both temporally and spiritually inclines us to take them as a matter of course. |
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In the future this is what the company will also offer us if it is delicensed and left to the tender mercies of the marketplace. |
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I have reason to speak much of His goodness, and to kiss the rod, for it was sweetened with abundant mercies. |
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The working classes and middle classes are now at the mercies of the regional land market. |
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Consistency has never been his forte, so perhaps we should be grateful for the mercies this album provides. |
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By experience we discover the Lord's mercies to be new every morning, and his faithfulness to be sure and dependable even when ours is weak. |
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That's still a long time but I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies. |
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That would not be as good as live Friday night coverage, but we might have to be thankful for small mercies. |
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This year it was not a matter of life and death there were no lives at stake so we must be grateful for small mercies. |
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Around it there is the lingering legacy of a relatively poor society in which it made sense to be grateful for small mercies. |
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Okay, maybe all of this isn't really very much, but let's be thankful for small mercies shall we. |
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They should not be abandoned to the tender mercies of manipulative liars and gold-diggers. |
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The children were given over to the tender mercies of the church and its care homes for orphans. |
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They would leave their wives to the tender mercies of the labour ward while they travelled abroad to watch football. |
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They were now facing a very uncertain future, consigned to the tender mercies of a new and hostile regime. |
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The children will now be entrusted to the tender mercies of their distant cousin. |
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Unlike filmstars, crime victims have not submitted themselves to the tender mercies of the press and forfeited any right to privacy. |
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We have no national dance company and rely on the tender mercies of people like her to keep our folk dances alive. |
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For all Thy mercies unto me, sweetest Jesus, I praise Thee and honor Thee with all my heart. |
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We are thankful and grateful to God for His undeserved mercies. |
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All occasions invite God's mercies, and all times are God's seasons. |
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He had recently committed himself to the tender mercies of a psychiatrist. |
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Accordingly, the arrangement gives extraordinary protections to investors but leaves labor, the environment, and consumers to the mercies of the deregulated markets. |
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My dad and I left him to the tender mercies of his mother and went inside. |
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She threw herself on the tender mercies of the world's web community. |
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I must confess to a fugitive and irrational wish that he might find some small mercies there. |
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In any area of taxation policy, one must be grateful for small mercies as the Treasury and Inland Revenue are vigilant about protecting their fiscal base. |
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It is a little piece of heaven which reaches the earth and invites everyone to sing praises for the Lord's mercies. |
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Their kinship is built on equal shares of traded insults and tender mercies. |
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But he, and Scotland, have to be grateful for small mercies. |
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But fear is forcing thousands to vote for Assad whose tender mercies are well known. |
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And now it may have been roused again by the tender mercies of John Boehner and other senior House Republicans. |
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I wouldn't really recommend right now pushing the Bosnian Croats or the Bosnian Serbs into the tender mercies of either one of those individuals. |
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But, I expect, we have to be grateful for small mercies, however. |
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We are thankful for small mercies following a downturn of the kind seen after first reading. |
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Remember, Father of mercies, all those who toil, suffer and die in the creation of a more fraternal world. |
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We have seen, though, how, for ten years, the Estonians left their agriculture to the mercies of world market conditions. |
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Great souled priests full of wise counsel and abundant pastoral mercies. |
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It keeps us going a bit longer, and we must be grateful for small mercies. |
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Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need. |
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Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? |
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When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease. |
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Pray for our service to the Church and people, for the broad use of our facilities, for our plans to educate our country in biblical values and for journey mercies for our promoters. |
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In O'Connor's fiction, however, we find that grotesqueries are mysteriously transformed into loci for God's mercies. |
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What loud cries did beat on all sides of the gates of heaven! and with what inexpectable, unconceivable mercies were they answered! |
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more. |
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Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies. |
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We thank the Father of all mercies for your apostolic ministry as Successor of Peter which you have exercised so courageously and with perseverance and courage for 25 years. |
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After seeing their shares fall rapidly from 750p to 250p, investors in spreadbetting outfit Plus500 may be grateful for small mercies, such as Teddy Sagi's Playtech gaming firm showing up with a £460m, or 400p-a-share, bid. |
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Selling state stakes in big firms could yield as much as €15 billion, enough to cover last year's deficit. There are some small mercies among the savagery. |
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I cannot imagine leaving that little girl to the mercies of the Taliban. |
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Small mercies Reprints Related items A new ruler for Kenya: Rainbow-coloured newcomersJan 2nd 2003Shortly after his election, Mr Kibaki, aged 72, a keen drinker and high-handicap golfer, suffered his fourth stroke. |
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The very fact that these elections were held in near peaceful circumstances is unusual for this region, and we have to be grateful for small mercies. |
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Before God, the Father of all mercies, we place Father Pinard's colleagues, the parishioners of Kampanga and all those whom this brutal death has touched. |
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In Traveling Mercies, she demonstrates a unique ability to lay bare her soul even its ugliest parts without ever coming off as narcissistic or solipsistic. |
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