Sentences with phrase «counter-veiling centers of life»

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

Apple and Microsoft are betting that people still want to make the television the center of their lives.

«Hate,» he said «is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence.

There is no reason that the U.S. has to remain the center of life sciences innovation and entrepreneurialism — and that's a realization that many outside our borders have come to already.

We have to be extremely arrogant to believe that we are the center of life.

Notwithstanding the growth of government and the proliferation of litigation, the center of life for most Americans remains with family, friends, and private groups - not political and legal institutions.

God is the center of my life and the source of the best that I have to give to others.

Most I know are humanists; people who care about the rest of humanity regardless of their faith and who adhere to a moral code just as noble as anyone, just without a deity as the center of their life.

Sometimes called Plainness, this is basically humility in action, and an effort to place God at the center of living.

God is not at the center of our life; something less than God is.

Their eyes are fixed on him, the one who has become the center of their lives.

The 17th - century French priest St. Vincent de Paul said, «If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary.

But alas, we are doomed to disillusionment if we allow marital or blood relationships to become the center of our lives and thereby close the circle.

Producing goods and consuming goods has become the center of life of the Westerners.

It means only that they do not have the values and attitudes of Jesus the Christ self - consciously at the center of their lives.

This is what it means to be the Church: enabling and leading people to follow Jesus Christ, not in their words alone but by living towards God, by putting Jesus» message at the center of their lives.

He placed the One who was the center of his life in the honored place — the stern of the heart.

It means that while she lived, she was necessarily the organizing, unifying center of her life.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, «the ending of our life would not threaten us if we had not falsely made ourselves the center of life's meaning.

The answer to all of these is to put Christ at the center of your life where He belongs.

And by «forms of social life» I mean all that culture, morality, and religion have handed down to us by way of placing commitment in the center of our lives.

But this will never happen without Christ at the center of your life.

But because, I think, of the combined effect of affluence and the busyness of life in the city, it was no longer a center of the lives of the Catholics who attended Mass there.

We talk about why kids shouldn't be the center of your life, discuss the importance of a regular date night, hear a tense couple's court case, find out how to make a family mission statement and a lot more!

He entered into the shared remembrance of Jesus which lay, has always lain, and lies still, near the center of the life of the Christian community.

The poet pulls us into the very complex center of life.

Its claim is that the only Object worthy of man's worship and adequate to serve as the center of his life of devotion is the Reality that is ultimate — God Himself.

Religious entities in Asia will emerge as counter-veiling centers of life, giving identity, values and meaning.

There are thus millions upon millions of centers of life in each animal body» (PR 108).

To accept it is to know the true center of life and hope.

They also relied on each other for help and support that was always there, and on the belief that their son, flawed and difficult as he was, was a person worth making every effort to save, even when this effort became the center of their lives.

When we truly know God to be at the center of our lives we are living a life of prayer.

The church was the center of life — all life.

As it is, once in a while I'm stretched too thin and don't see Sophie for a day, and that reminds me to slowdown, to find the real center of my life.

Life with only a small section devoted to exploring prayer is quite different from putting prayer at the center of life.

Included in these plans was the center of life — a temple.

And the same logic should make it clear, of course, that all sorts of other kinds of people — childless gay people, infertile people, people who do not feel called to parenthood — can become every bit as mature (or immature) as a parent of six, as long as they can find some substitute discipline for repeatedly placing someone or something else at the center of their lives.

The church was no longer to be the center of all life, but it was still to be the center of religious life.

I don't trust anyone who professes believes without evidence of what is believed in and claim that such unfounded belief is the center of their lives from which all else springs.

So, spirituality, a relationship to the same Spirit that Jesus knew in his own experience, would be one of the centers of a life that saw Jesus as a model of the Christian life.

Clearly if Rick Perry adhered to the Christian faith and made it the center of his life, he wouldn't have indulged in corruption and driven the education system in Texas into the ground.

Placing sexual gratification at the center of life is unquestionably idolatrous.

Most of us mature only part way — we learn, hopefully, to place our family or our community or our deity nearer the center of our lives, but only in rare cases do we really vanquish that limitless quality, that striving, that grasping.

I may not comprehend what it means to be completely free, but I do know that my best art, my most selfless acts are always birthed from the very center of life's messiness.

By accepting the wonderful «challenge of orthodoxy» that is the placing of Christ at the center of their lives, clergy of all stripes would find the inspiration to minister God's love to all the baptized as they labored to promote the Kingdom of God.

By making our children the center of our lives, we are 1) teaching them to be selfish and entitled, and 2) neglecting the importance of prioritizing our marriages.

This account of «life» as a characteristic of cells means that in the human organism there are billions of centers of life, not one.

Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.»

Jesus is the center of their lives.

God is pushed further from human existence.10 Countering this, Bonhoeffer insists that God must be met in the center of life rather than on the periphery.