Sentences with phrase «awe of life»

It's a book that ends in awe of life and all that life is.

I'm seriously in awe of the life you lead and extremely jealous to boot.

Perhaps the quickest of all is becoming completely present to the awe of life.

I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine» of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe of life, love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights from what I learn / experience can be termed as the Divine acting.

When Père Auguste elevated the Host, I was in awe of the Living Mystery we were encountering.

Not exact matches

Silva, who is also the creator of the wildly popular YouTube series Shots of Awe, says the video is a great example of the kind of awe he wants everyone to seek out in life.

We will explore the concept of in and out across technology, life, business, science and awe.

We live our days in awe of the Middle Kingdom.

Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality?

«Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child.

They live on the great stretches of parrie and mountain that give the state its awe - inspiring and stark beauty.

It is the awe and reverence that bring us close to the Father's heart and leads us into a life of spiritual and emotional wholeness.

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

They have fascinating stories, the stories that leave me breathless with awe at my God, awe at the goodness of life in The Way, I needed to catch my breath a time or two, it was real.

Perhaps above all they called men to share the timeless life of God so that they could regard their present lives as an almost infinitesimal part of an awe - inspiring and magnificent whole.

Therefore, although Jesus would be the last person to use fear as a moral weapon (except in the case of the desperately self - complacent), he did teach that life should be lived with a due sense of awe and responsibility.

I love studying evolution and the universe and I am in wonder and awe of this magnificent universe we live in.

One can not help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Fifth, Christians choose to use «God» as the symbol for the ultimate mystery of this creative process, so that «life must at all points be lived in awe and respect before the ultimate mystery of things.

Those things will still be terrible, but they may not invite shame and sorrow into our lives as much as they will inspire wonder, awe, and worship at the grace and forgiveness of God.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even when suffering under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

I however will be remembered as one who embraced this single precious life with awe and wonder free of superti.tious malarky.

Well did Kant, in one of his best utterances, declare his awe for the starry» skies, together with the ethical principles by which we, and any other comparably thoughtful animals, should live.

Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»

If we prodigals see the father running in our direction with open arms, we should know in our souls that this as an event so unexpected, so undeserved, so out of joint with all that life should bring us, that we fall down in awe before this joyful mystery.

The glory and the holiness of the God of Mount Sinai calls forth in the Covenant people awe, wonder, and fear, which is expressed, finally, in their obedience to those principles through which God's presence is seen in human life, those principles through which life, love, and the fullness of God's creation are finally achieved.

Indeed, the kindling of new life in the process of reproduction of organisms would be awe - inspiring, if it were not so commonplace that it is taken for granted.

What the New Testament does do is to portray the gracious message of an open access to that same God whose depth of accepting love is seen on a cross and whose presence in the life of that crucified one is designed to call forth from us the same awe, reverence, and obedience to those rules of life through which we find the fullness of life, the depth of love, and the meaning of our own humanity.

You're just the last generation of spiritually dead heads walking and squawking as you bumble through life among the rest of us that respect, appreciate and are in awe of His truth.

He makes it known in all its splendor, with a sense of awe and wonder and with all its meaning for the faltering lives of Christ's little ones.

Perhaps too much pride — in my researches into parish histories (I have written several, and enjoy doing them) I have delved a good deal into Catholic parish life of the 1930s, 40 s, and 50s, and although there is much that is awe - inspiring and impressive, there are weaknesses.

The radical contingencies are what inspire a sense of awe and wonder: the fact that I exist at all, and the further fact that I am who I am; a «miraculous» recovery by someone who was given no chance to live; a sudden break in a stormy sky where the sun bursts through.

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

It must live with regenerative awe and wonder in the midst of the strange turnings that transform victory into defeat and defeat into victory; the humbling ironies and the intractable conditions within both people and nature that shatter the best laid plans and destroy the bridges of our hopes.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

While it would be foolish to give up the meteorological explanation for the theological one, it should be said that there may be important aspects of the storm, such as its relation to the powers of nature on which life is dependent and the sense of awe inspired by it, which are present in the latter interpretation but wholly lacking in the former.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

I am going to link this article to one which I will post, great insight and I love how God transcends all human and spiritual aspects of life to get our attention to the majestic nature of His love, grace, and awe.

I can imagine no greater anguish than making a choice defined by those two sentiments; I am in awe of the many parents that have made it on behalf of life, even knowing the consequences.

For many of us it is the only time in our lives when we truly stand in awe and are overwhelmed by wonder.

One idea is that the elves represent something of the contemplative, withdrawn as they are from the world, living peacefully in hidden places like Rivendell, whose ambiance is described by the author with the love and awe of a person who has experienced the depth of retreat - like stillness.

Such lives belonged to German burghers gaping up at their empulpited hero, sure of his charisma, awed by his power, perhaps stunned by their inability to know just what was driving him — and eager not to let go of those little useful securities on which we all rely.

O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Heaven?

I would rather enjoy life and be in awe of everything around me then believe in a reassuring fable.

How does a purely mechanistic universe create free - willed life — life that can discover and contemplate its cataclysmic origins, experience a sense of awe and beauty, and display an attitude of generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness even under conditions that are brutal and horrific?

Funny how star gazing gives one awe and a sense of eternity and in my case it removes the hope of heaven... i.e. there is no heaven, just space with gazeous substance... a place where it is childish and absurd to think we are going when we die... Our solar system / galaxy seem empty of organic life altogether... actually inorganic seems to be the norm... so my faith struggle of the week is how can I possibly believe in after life... when reality shows me decomposition of all that we are, scientific observation does not allow room for a «spirit body» to rise and go in some nebulae... So why do I still need to believe despite this raw evidence... I drive me crazy sometimes...

So as we realize this over and over during our lives, we can start realizing that there is no reason to jump to the old untrue conclusions that what goes bump in our closet is a ghost any more than when we have a feeling of awe, love or connectedness that it has to be a god communicating with us.

Human life has evolved to a stage of development that enables the human being to commune with the source of life, to stand in awe of it, to feel both alienated or out of touch with it, and in communion with it, and that is worship.

The Phoenix had truly come forth not just as a powerful new life, but also as the numinosum which would allow them to once again experience the awe and reverence of the sacred — not a sacred which was foreign and opposed to them, but one which ultimately legitimized them in their innermost being — both collectively as a people and individually as persons.