Sentences with phrase «affirming something»

«For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important — when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself.

This means that affirming something passionately enough — in this case the full reality of the profane, secular, worldly character of modern life — will somehow deliver to the seeker the opposite, the sacred, as a gift he does not deserve.

A life affirming something / everything which no argument can reach.

If you affirm something in your mind and then go out to work on bringing it to fruition then that is «positive thinking» for the positive result you desired.

To negate anything is to affirm something else.

I now feel comfortable reciting the creed without editing it or feeling a pang of conscience if I affirm something that I do not literally believe — an act that once would have struck me as incongruous.

The stories below relate to this discussion and affirms something Hesselgrave emphasized in his Second Thoughts.

It was a demonstration of your awareness and appreciation of the value of library resources and services within our community, and it affirmed something that I have come to believe over the past 2 years?

When we affirm something of God (kataphatic theology), we have subsequently and immediately to deny it (apophatic theology) before we can dare assert it again on a new level.

To affirm something is simply to declare that it is true.

Not exact matches

Actually Gary — believe it or not — you touched on something I have bee reflecting on and I mean this in an affirming and complimentary way to you.

That the world is broken is something that her colleagues on the religious Left surely affirm.

I found it affirming, conducive to peace and powerful — something I could not ignore.

Every move of God that has happened is a progressive layering of a revelation, one upon another; each affirming what came before, but stretching the boundaries of what already existed to make room for something that never showed up yet.»

«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.

The person who praises an athlete's achievement, a work of art, or the manifestation of a person's virtue affirms that these are indeed praiseworthy, and that something would be wrong with a beholder who did not acknowledge them.

It is necessary to affirm the local as something unique, that exists in the wider network of relationships.

It affirms that something has become organism, something has developed; but to discern the ultimate conditions of that development is beyond its competence.

And in this context the word «conservative» means in principle something quite positive, for it also includes the courage to affirm continuity, clear principles, detachment from ephemeral fashions, fidelity to the Word of God which endures for ever, respect for tradition, for what has organically developed, for the wisdom and experience of our ancestors.

Wieman, who (except perhaps in Wrestle) was never willing to affirm the total dominance of the value - making process in nature, was reasserting that position, while moving beyond the principle of concretion toward something which could «promote» itself.

In this way, man affirms that he knows and loves something as true, or as good, or as beautiful, and at the same time knows and loves truth, goodness and beauty to - be-realized.

Adolescents who have open, affirming, pro-life parents usually «catch» something of their love of life.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

And he calls them to something better, life affirming.

maybe yes or maybe not, but you could not affirm that something behind our understanding happened before the beginning of the universe.

So, after affirming a whole range of ways in which various roles and occupations and professions can contribute to our common good she said, «To all of you on this Christmas day, whatever your conditions of work and life, easy or difficult; whether you feel that you are achieving something or whether you feel frustrated; I want to say a word of thanks.

There is a decisive difference between wanting something and affirming its worth, for about any want it is always possible to ask whether or not it is worthy, about any desire whether or not it is desirable, about any interest whether or not it is right.

It is important to affirm them and to introduce the growth perspective in the counseling by statements such as these: «It takes strength to recognize that you need help and then do something to get it.»

To cut short an argument, I will affirm that all beauty depends upon relation of an experience to something other than that experience, and other than relation merely to the past experience of one and the same person or individual.

But those tasks can be classified broadly into two groups: those in which theologians want to regard themselves as doing something special and unique and those in which they wish to affirm community with other religious traditions.

«Winning» over others may not be something Christians should ever affirm.

And they are also why Christians have affirmed that if followers of Jesus find themselves in conflict with the Bible on something, it is us that needs to change, and not the Bible.

Although the whole Bible is revelational and thus inerrant in fulfilling its intention (something Fuller repeatedly affirms in spite of criticism by some like Lindsell), 45 those things in Scripture which are incidentally related to the completion of this revelational intention can be labeled «non-revelatory» matters.

If Philip Larkin's fine words about An Arundel Tomb (that what remains after death is our loving) are the truth — and something deep in human existence affirms that they are — then what matters most of all about any one of us is the way in which and the degree to which we are enabled to contribute, however imperfectly this must seem to us, to the delight of God and the implementation of God's will and way in the world.

This reversal makes something magical of the brazen serpent and a destroyed idol of the golden calf, affirming that the eternal God is the enemy of images, at least as early as Amos and Hosea.

Is he, in fact, now communicating something different, yes instead of no, a life affirming rather than a life - denying message to the world?

The wisdom literature of the Old Testament affirms that something universal continues to speak to us in reason and conscience.

One option is to affirm that an actuality is something possible (after all, denying this seems counterintuitive, or at least contrary to common sense) and deny that definiteness is identical with actuality.

By attempting to pin the resurrection down to something which it, in fact, was not, we are prevented from appreciating the full scope of what the Easter faith is pointing to when it affirms that Jesus is risen.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

The range of views on the issue (even though most fall on the affirming side) is quite something, and yet we feel fully supported and affirmed in that community.

But the DVD doesn't really explain why this is so, moving quickly on to affirm that such atheistic use of the multi-verse still leaves unanswered the question «Why something rather than nothing?»

«Faith consists in the willingness to let ourselves be constantly transformed and renewed by God's call... The beginning of salvation is openness to something prior to ourselves, to a primordial gift that affirms life and sustain it in being.»

There are too many statements in the Bible affirming that those who believe are saved (including, of course, John 3:16, which is cited as the preface to «The Gift of Salvation») for us to say that something other than belief is necessary for salvation.

Whoever affirms Jesus» thought accepts also the paradox that an event which from the observer's viewpoint must be regarded as a natural occurrence, as a part of the world process determined by law, is in reality something different, that is, a direct act of God.

The Church also needs to find a way to teach what she affirms in her official doctrines, something that hasn't been happening very effectively for two generations.

But why not say something on behalf of what has been revealed, and affirmed?

There was something about Roncalli's ways» his buoyant personality and self - deprecating humor; his willingness to affirm rather than condemn» that attracted so many to him.

And then, of course, a tradition that is capable of self - critique, a tradition that is capable of affirming the truth found in all other traditions — that is something that could actually help you.

I want to say something about the way in which reflection upon Jesus» own faith in God led to the historic formulations of orthodox Christianity, and why these doctrinal constructions are important, both because of what they positively affirm and because we can not revise or replace them unless we understand what they were intended to do.