Sentences with phrase «better gift from»

It was more than I expected and I couldn't have asked for a better gift from my husband!

Like me, many choose to live out what the Church has always taught about sex, namely that it is a good gift from God that is only for marriage between a woman and a man.

If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to those who back you, how much more can you expect good gifts from those who need your support?

It also suggests that youngsters should learn that sex and healthy relationships are «good gifts from God and should bring joy».

His comments, which come alongside the Church's response to the Government's consultation on relationships and sex education (RSE), which closed last month, say that the Church's starting point for the subject is that «healthy relationships and sex are good gifts from God and should bring joy».

And, perhaps, to our consternation, the gift turns out to be nice, something that we didn't know we wanted and certainly didn't ask for, but there it is, a good gift from someone who is not really a good friend.

Since I am from a theological perspective that sees culture as a good gift from God, I do not seek to define «Christian culture» verses «secular culture.»

Of course, I have stated elsewhere on this blog that while our feelings and senses are a good gift from God, they can often mislead us.

I received the best gift from daddy at Christmas.

Ford bringing the Mustang in Europe, in 2015, was one of the best gifts from across the pond in a very long time.

Not exact matches

«Deep down at heart, we are like kids at Christmas and want to be surprised with something cool,» says Ruhlin «The element of surprise can elevate a gift from good to great.»

«This year, we wanted to showcase some of the hottest holiday gifts from across the U.S. in toys, fashion, and electronics through an interactive heatmap, which can help create more successful gift giving and better inform seller promotions,» says Zoher Karu, eBay's vice president of customer optimization and data.

The good news is that if time gets away from you, many of the major retailers offer buy online, pick up in store options, which let you bypass the holiday shopping crowds and grab your gifts as early as the same day you ordered them.

«It's like a gift from the employer that can help build engagement and help employees feel better about where they are working.»

And the best part: you'll get to benefit from the gift as well at the next dinner party.

This all comes from a misguided belief that gifted students will achieve on their own — even in spite of a strict educational system that doesn't serve them well.

Gift cards often give you the best bang for your rewards points from a dollars - for - points perspective.

Robbins is donating all of the profits from the book, in advance, as well as providing an additional financial gift to Feeding America in order to personally provide 50 million meals this year.

The holidays are infamous for the plethora of tasty, but not - so - good - for - you desserts and snacks that tend to literally show up at your front door (holiday gifts from gracious vendors, salespeople or your resident office Betty Crocker).

Our goal was to create a consumer - gifting platform that would let Facebook friends give each other real - world gifts from the best local businesses.

It was a gift from a good friend after my wife Jane and I started High West.

Thieves can then sell that data to crooks who specialize in encoding the stolen data onto any card with a magnetic stripe, and using the cards to purchase high - priced electronics and gift cards from big - box stores like Target and Best Buy.

Giving lies in our very nature, certain in our hearts that none but the gift passed from an open hand will multiply as those we help better themselves, those they love and, at length, the country they call home.

Gifts to you from award - winning / best - selling author, international speaker, and consultant Shel Horowitz.

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Typically best - suited for buyers with strong credit profiles, the Conventional 97 requires just 3 % down on a home, and the downpayment may be a cash gift from a family member.

I loathe the tendency to turn undesired outcomes into «gifts» from some notional Father; what ever happened to «This is bad, but we'll muddle - through best we can.»

That Lutherans and Catholics have made progress in our mutual understanding of the faith is a gift from God, and we do well to thank him for it.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

«Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change» (James 1:17).

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede - This was a gift from my daughter's best friend.

He's the dean of a well - established divinity school, a Baptist theologian and an earnest Christian, a gifted writer and a theologically articulate lecturer, a champion of orthodoxy, «distinguishing heresy from truth,» and one who has rightly discerned, as Neuhaus puts it, the «pattern of Christian truth, a pattern derived from the apostolic witness and maintained across time as the depositum fidei.»

But that's okay, because if you leave a comment sharing your favorite place to find gifts that support a good cause, (or any comment at all), you will automatically be entered to win a GIVEN t - shirt from World Vision.

... but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops ---- It's a reach to say it's a «gift from God», as human beings have created it.

Surely, a God that is supposed be all things that are good would not refuse one of his children for using the most important gift from God and that is the ability to think.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

Historically, he is right — kings did give some of what they had received as gifts to others, and since he is quoting from the Targum, he is accurate in his quotation as well.

A thousand quotes from any of his works will reveal the same thing: a man who knew full well his gift and how to use it, and yet knew even more that his words were no different than the sweeping of a broom.

I couldnâ $ ™ t agree more He refers to faith as a Virus Well again I say he is right it is a gift from God that one can only acquire from being ever so close to him.

The city of Newtown, Conn., has received so many good - will donations from the national public that its officials have gone on record asking everyone to stop sending gifts.

The idea surfaced at a wedding reception, when the couple offered to take unused gift cards from fellow guests» wallets, promising to use them for a good cause.

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

I would say the quotes from Matthew would refer to you as the way I intepret the evidence and I am guessing Tao and I would not get along that well, because I have the gift of gab or at least I think it is a gift.

The quote is immediately followed by this: «Like all gifts from God, the power and freedom of sexuality can be channeled toward good or evil.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Or is it only the good experience of the Buddhist monks who experience oneness and tranquility that is a gift from god?

«Donors expect their gifts to be handled efficiently and honestly, so that the best returns are achieved to finance the works of the Church, especially those aimed at preaching the Gospel and helping the poor escape from poverty.

I didn't conceive of limits — hers or mine — as potentially good: gifts from God that enable each of us to admit our creatureliness, our need for one another, our need for God's grace.

This is a different «good» from «good» done out of gratitude to God for his good gifts.

«To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that He now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit to all who repent and believe.»