Sentences with phrase «acceptance of the gift as»

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It has also gained acceptance, with a small but growing number of retailers now accepting it as payment, including Starbucks and Amazon (for gift cards).

* know the love of God...... to be unrelenting and unlimited;... makes no exceptions and has no qualifications;... to be the constant inviting presence of God; and... to be the unconditional acceptance by God of me in my entirety as a gift.

This transformation does not involve «trying harder,» which would be a return to the performance principle; rather it is the giving up of effort, the acceptance of life as total gift.

Love is gratitude: it is thankfulness for the existence of the beloved; it is the happy acceptance of everything that he gives without the jealous feeling that the self ought to be able to do as much; it is a gratitude that does not seek equality; it is wonder over the other's gift of himself in companionship.

The constant inviting presence of God and this unconditional acceptance of us in our entirety as a gift — this is love.

God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love, anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.

The motive was more noble; it is intended to affirm the proposition that in acknowledgment of this relationship of God - to - parents - to - child and in appropriate acceptance of life as holy gift, life is lived in praise of God and therefore is fulfilled life, gratified life, meaningful life, completed life.

«The public servant's acceptance from these persons of a valuable gift that is a contribution of $ 50 or more would presumably violate» the section of law «as a misuse of the public servant's city position,» the board wrote.

The gift of acceptance: Choose to accept others, as they are TODAY.

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To the extent that you accept your womanly body you will be giving that gift of acceptance to the next generation of women as well!

But there can also exist a sense of selflessness and joy in giving, as well as a gracious and loving acceptance of the gift that is part of the interaction.