Sentences with phrase «by brokenness»

Ryken said he was «saddened by the brokenness we have experienced in our relationship and the suffering this has caused on our campus and beyond,» and was «grateful to come to a place of resolution and reconciliation... by Jesus Christ.»

A recent On the Square essay entitled «A Poet Haunted by Brokenness» occasioned a small disagreement among some First Things readers.

Not exact matches

If, as our current philosopher - pope reminds us, sin flows from a failure to gratefully acknowledge and do the duties that flow from our deeply relational being, then Mattie was, in a way, sort of a sinner by nature (as are we all, due to original sin), who added to her natural brokenness through her proud willfulness.

That you give them a gift by «going first» and sharing out of your own brokenness, your own vulnerabilities, your own messes... and in that, they are given the gift of not being alone, of companionship, of courage.

We are called to be people of the resurrection, reconcilers of brokenness — and that doesn't usually happen by writing and posting 140 characters of criticism with no visible Christian character behind it.

One person commented, «I have come to realize that the meaning of the resurrection, in all of its hope, comes only by giving voice to the brokenness.»

The capacity to speak, symbolized by the physical tongue, is the primary way through which we human beings express ourselves, and nothing reveals more deeply the biblical insight into the sinfulness and brokenness of human life than our verbal means of self - expression.

As Bonhoeffer had understood in his prison cell, if brokenness and crisis were to become «that edge where change is possible,» this crisis would have to be sustained by something stronger than the human.

The preamble of the proposal adopted in January includes what might be called, without disrespect, ecumenical boilerplate: CCT will foster «relationships where our differences can be better understood, our commonalities better affirmed, and our brokenness healed by God.»

By being itself, the church fulfills its first social task, helping «the world understand itself as world» (PK 100), that in spite of brokenness and distortion, the world is God's good creation (PK 101).

But it is shared by people whose marriages have been broken, who remain unreconciled, and who» because we can do no more than «support» them in their brokenness» must experience our liturgies, architecture, and teaching as profoundly dissonant and unconvincing.

Confronted by such magnitude of disease and chaos and brokenness, they moved prayerfully past hopelessness and into action.

The question that Christians have to answer, then, is this: Do we want to be people who perpetuate this brokenness by insisting on the continued subjugation of women, or do we want to be people who, however imperfectly, attempt to model the harmony of Eden and our hope of paradise restored?

We are given to know that nothing in our brokenness destroys the possibility of being understood by another who cares.

Far too many of the people who were ending up in the brokenness of life were being driven off the cliff by dogs yelping at their heels.

In other words, to take the world by storm for Christ, to redeem, restore, reform, repair all the brokenness in our world.

It was there in the stillness, in the wanderings of my imagination, that I processed the brokenness of a broken home, adapted to the subsequent juggling of two homes, coped with the eventual abandonment by a father, and, over time, unlocked my guarded heart to a new father.

Of course we can point out the utter failure of state - based solutions as evidenced by increasing brokenness in society and rising violent crime and anti-social behaviour... Better to encourage marriage to build family, and the independent voluntary sector to play a role etc..

In linking the ends of two booming eras (American industrialism and Victorian England), the screenplay — written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins — both underlines the brokenness of its lead characters and allows for its stunning visual aesthetic.

This influence can lead to a sense of brokenness and disconnection brought on by an outside source.

I am passionate about providing professional care for others by walking with them through the pain, brokenness, and struggles that life unexpectedly brings.

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