Sentences with phrase «at their reflection for»

The only problem is that any passenger is left staring at their reflection for the duration of the trip, which is fine, if you have the self - esteem of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Then Morgan sat back in her chair and stared at her reflection for a few quiet seconds.

Not exact matches

Her list of ten questions for a life check - up are intended for use at the half - year mark, but can easily be adapted to suit a bit of summer self - reflection.

It certainly doesn't hurt a business owner to have someone to turn to for advice and reflection on what he or she can do to improve the atmosphere and level of engagement at the office.

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Looking at valuations in a broader context, we see them as a reflection of a strong economy, an improving corporate earnings outlook and prospects for pro-business policy reform from Washington DC.

At a time when downtown Detroit is in the midst of a civic renaissance, the state of the city's multifamily real estate market is both a reflection of larger trends and a sign of what might be in store for the Motor City in the years ahead.

Instead, he criticized Martha for her obsessively zealous service at the expense of companionship and reflection.

Mary, Seat of Wisdom: Reflections on the Intellectual Life Monday, April 9 Join the Thomistic Institute at Yale for a lecture delivered by R. R. Reno of First Things.

What finally emerged in the summer of 1518 from this frantic rethinking — recall that Luther was trying to work through the theological issue while at the same time explaining to the world why he shouldn't be burned at the stake for heresy — seems to have been shaped primarily by reflection on texts such as Matthew 16:19: «Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.»

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

She is a former foreign correspondent at Catholic News Service (CNS) in Rome and the editor of «John Paul II: A Light for the World,» «Benedict XVI: Essays and Reflections on his Papacy,» and «From Pope John Paul II to Benedict XVI.»

Despite profound skepticism on the part of many in the curia, John Paul pressed forward at the eve of the new millennium with plans for a series of reflections that might allow the world «to draw lessons from the past,» so as to choose life in what had become a culture of darkness.

Waiting for the doors to open, I catch a glimpse of my reflection in the subway windows and suddenly feel disaffected by the «Royal Tenenbaum» gaze that stares back at me.

That calls for a vaginal theology and a phallic theology, at the very least, which will regard as significant, central and irreducible data for theological reflection the experience of being female or male, including but not confined to genital sexuality.

William Cardinal Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was in the country in February, and he urged priests to at least balance, and perhaps replace, the homiletical diet of casual reflections on the readings of the day, seasoned by a cute story or two, with a solid dose of catechesis.

FAITH Magazine July - Aug 2007 Ecumenical and Inter-religious developments in the search for a modern apologetic Following Pope Benedict's reflections on Faith and Reason at Regensburg...

By a Lenten journey we mean a time of reflection, repentance and preparation for arrival at Good Friday and Easter.

A little reflection, I say, at least for one to whom the processive way of thinking is second nature.

My investigation of the Christian at play might have stopped at this stage except for two factors: (1) there is little or no serious theological reflection currently focusing on our play (or our work!)

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.

Fr Jeremy Fairhead, Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford, provides an extremely useful and sensitive reflection about making decisions, particularly focused on resisting pressures and discerning what is right for the individual.

We gave them a gap year for study and reflection either at the Institut Catholique in Paris or at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, USA.

Strat believed that we must make a careful and credible case for discerning the meaning of the challenges thrown up by the mainstream secular culture: «There is a place and a time for making a stand, but there is also a place and a time for considered reflection, especially if there may be some hope of attacking the disease at its root.

In their life and reflection, human beings possess various items of knowledge which, though they lack the ultimate degree of clarity, certainty and obligation of a theoretical and moral kind, yet are and must be valid for them, at least until they attain better insight.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual liFor as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual lifor its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Moreover, the unique events relevant to theology, the genuine intuition of religious experience, and revelation - theological reflection can not reach into the metaphysical core anymore and at all.2 David Pailin appropriately summarizes this process - theological confession for the dissolution of revealed theology into general metaphysics in saying:

Nevertheless, while The Heart of Virtue may not be destined for the best - seller list, it is an encouraging sign that we have not altogether abandoned what has been at the core of moral reflection for two millennia.

«If the story of Jesus,» Kaufman remarks at one point, «provides significant insight into and orientation for today's human life and problems, christology can and should continue to have an important place in our theological reflection and our religious devotion; if not, it should be allowed to fall away.

What I attempt here is to reflect on what, at this moment, seems to me reasonably clear about the continuities and shifts in my own attempts to pursue that almost impossible — but for me necessary — mode of inquiry, theological reflection.

And yet those datable acts of beginning, radical though they were, and archetypal for all later reflection about America, were themselves mythic gestures which could not but stir up, at the beginning and later, the images and symbols of earlier myths and mythically interpreted histories.

On reflection we can see that the above argument for the internal relatedness of God as cognitive subject presupposes that there are alternative possibilities for God, at least with respect to what creatures, or what states of creatures, He has as objects of knowledge.

For example, they would groom parts of their body they had not seen before and make faces at the reflection.

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

Best Reflection: Sarah Bessey with «A Lament for Nigeria» Best Response: Kate Wallace at The Junia Project with «They Say the Church is Feminine»

So ingrained was the non-Christian Aristotelian framework of reality in the theological discourse of the Church at the time, that it proved difficult to conceive letting go of it and to use a different cosmology (Copernican) as a new paradigm for theological reflection on the same truths.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

Maria Grizzetti (@mgrizzetti) is the Director of Development for the World Youth Alliance, and writes in the area of theological reflection at Incarnation and Modernity (www.incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com).

But when others appear to have arrived at a place where forgiveness and adoption are sensed and valued, even when these things are not directly spoken of in the language of another faith's mainstream reflection, are we to say that God has not found a path for himself?

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

A higher state of consciousness diffused through the ultra-technified, ultra-socialized, ultra-cerebralized layers of the human mass, but without the emergence (neither necessary nor conceivable) at any point in the system of a universal, defined and autonomous Center of Reflection: this, by the first hypothesis, is all we are entitled to look for or desire as the eventual highest end of hominization.

Today, however, the central model for understanding the idea of revelation has shifted to a more «personal» one, at least in most important theological reflection.

But that a man can become a martyr, if he ought to be a witness to the end, can not be derived from a purely juridical reflection, for in a trial it is not the witness whose life is at stake but the accused.

This reflection process need not be at explicitly conscious levels for its effectiveness; it is enough that one has absorbed the institutional purpose to whatever degree into the internal structures of one's identity, and then, in the naturalness of a relational world, woven that purpose into the projections of one's own influence upon others.

Also honored were James Cone, who offered impassioned reflections on praxis and the experience of the oppressed, and Chung Hyun Kyung, the Korean professor who had caused such a stir at the Canberra meeting of the World Council of Churches, who again called for the fusing of liberation thought with indigenous shamanism and a large dose of romantic naturalism.

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

I will only recall that, by virtue of its convergent nature, hominization is scarcely conceivable (seen from the point at which we find ourselves) except as terminating, whatever road it follows, in a point of collective reflection where Mankind, having achieved within and around itself, technically and intellectually, the greatest possible coherence, will find itself raised to a higher critical point — one of instability, tension, inter-penetration and metamorphosis — coinciding, it would seem, with what for us are the phenomenal limits of the world.

Some of my fellow staff members here at First Things have written reflections on what sets First Things apart for them, and why our magazine is worthy of support — see Matthew Schmitz's, Alexi Sargeant's, and Carl Trueman's here.

Even when I taught a course at Vanderbilt University divinity school in 1971 called «Forms of Religious Reflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very muReflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very mureflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very mureflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very much a part.

But in another sense nothing will be ended: for at this point, and at the height of its powers, something else conies into operation, a primary attribute of Reflection concerning which we have hitherto said nothing — the will to survive.