For domesticated animals the situation is even more complex and pets may enter
deep relationships not only with conspecifics but also with their owners.
Not exact matches
Every time I hear people talk about how networking didn't work for them, I discover it's because they have never done a
deep - dive on the
relationship - building process relating to their networking.
Again, you establish an invaluable trust — as well as a
deeper kind of
relationship that can't be built within a business framework, where money always ends up raising a suspicious eyebrow.
By agreeing
not to sell his strollers at discount shops or on websites, as many of his rivals were doing, Boardman has been able to develop a
deeper relationship with retailers.
Yet, being head down to a device can keep you from forming
deep personal
relationships and make others feel as if you're
not listening or paying attention to them.
Despite
deep - rooted problems, one or both partners often aren't willing to leave the
relationship.
No matter what Madison Avenue wants you to believe, your
deepest happiness comes from experiences and
relationships,
not from things.
I tell them
not to be so entrenched in working on their start - up ideas that they don't build
deep, meaningful
relationships with their peer group.
You won't just meet these people: you'll work closely together, building broad and
deep relationships across Canada, in Silicon Valley and beyond.
This is obviously
not where one's spiritual journey ends — surely being an active follower of Christ requires a
deeper relationship with God that can
not be achieved through merely reading this one Bible verse.
To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital
relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are
deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [
not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).
The covenant was
not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize
deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.
People who don't believe in your God are still capable of
deep committed love, it's through our intimate
relationships with other human beings we learn the true meaning of love.
I believe the reason people are leaving church in droves is because the gospel is
not being preached in a way that challenges people to go
deeper in their
relationship with God, in which their lives are transformed and they are in turn discipling others.
It is
not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a
deeper, more meaningful
relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.
If you leave a job, school, etc. you most likely don't have all of your
deep relationships within these settings.Let's take this a step further: the church triangulation is a co-dependent one: Co-dependent triangulation.
I forget what the numbers are, but scores of pastors are lonely who don't have
deep, authentic friendships (
not relationships merely but friendships) are pretty high.
This hasn't meant that
deep relationships haven't happened in the church as David points out, but it has set up in many communities for a number of these complex reasons where friendships become utilitarian — from leadership on down — the fruit becomes that the friendships exist for the church.
She isn't into superficiality, but appreciates
relationships that are
deep and meaningful.
You can call that ideology stupid or unrealistic, but someday those that cling to shallow lustful things now, will see in themselves years later, something yearning for a
deeper commited
relationship, one
not too dissimilar to the one their parents enjoyed, and their parents before them.
In my selfishness, I thought it was just between me and God.It took the situation with Alicia to wake me up to the fact that when we're
not closely listening for the voice of God, we don't just miss out on the peace and joy we experience from a
deeper relationship with the Lord; we don't just miss an opportunity to give honor and glory to the One who most deserves it; we don't just miss out on answered prayers God may have had in store for us — sometimes we miss the opportunity to answer someone else's prayer.»
The Psalm does
not question the
relationship of David and Mount Zion to all Israel3 In its moods of
deepest despair, the Old Testament story finds hope for the future of all Israel in the certainty that God would realize his purpose in the David - Zion covenant with the re-establishment of that rule in some form.
As Mathew was saying, Most Catholics believe that the bibles creation narrative, shows
not what literally happened, but rather is meant to give a
deeper understanding between the
relationship of God and man.
Psalm 10: 3 - 4 — This talks about the wicked men, how they do
nt have God in their hearts or in their minds, which is a fine piece of scripture but it can hardly be used for either myself or the maker of the video since we both seem to advocate a
deep and personal
relationship with the Lord rather than letting a group of «religious» people ruin it for you.
We simply do
not know what community would look like in a modern city because our
deepest cultural experience with it comes from the 19th century, in the small - town, face - to - face
relationships of an agrarian economy.
Restraint is
not a word that most people associate with contemporary Christianity, but at Holy Communion restraint is
not a spiritual avoidance tactic, but a kind of balance that leads to a
deep personal
relationship with God.
Again:
not a
deep relationship with God, but enough of one to knowingly make the decision that I made.
There in the closed room, where one probed and treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever -
deeper levels of his inwardness as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of human standing over against each other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed
relationship must and can be opened to the sick person in his relations to otherness — to the world of the other which he can
not remove into his soul.
I had been unhappy with the time it took to mature our
relationship — felt guilty that ours appeared to me
not as
deep as those of my acquaintances who have been married twice as long....
It is sacramental
not only because physical contact is employed to express and increase human love but also because the human
relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a
deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanity.
I can
not invest into a person and expect to just walk away when the
relationship gets
deep.
The heat generated by this topic is witness to the fact that we are, in Pinnock's words, «close to the heart of the conception of religious authority in our evangelical confession, which «limits the ground of religious authority to the Bible.3» There is a «
deep relationship between origin and authority» that can
not be ignored.4 Thus discussion concerning the implications of inspiration is of interest to all evangelicals who seek to be Biblical Christians.
Those in the spiritual - but -
not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual
relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a
deeper, more profound
relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.
I define evangelism as «living our lives in such a way that we reflect the person of Jesus and in so doing we draw those who are
not in
relationship into a
relationship with Jesus, and those who are already in
relationship with Jesus into
deeper relationship.»
But as I have continued to read about the period, I have become convinced that it's
deepest impact was
not on our theory of truth and its
relationship to rationality, but rather on our concept of our
relationship to nature.
The Net is a great way to keep up with friends, to find out movie times and to read reviews, but don't think for a minute spending hours online will satisfy that inner ache for true,
deep relationship.
Shouldn't any form of desire for long - term commitment and
deep loving
relationships be celebrated?
Actually, my hope is far
deeper than to find agreement on how to deal with gay
relationships and to decide if gay sex is «sin» or
not.
That's
not the first or only time these men address God, Christ, and heaven, but rather that is the public view of a
deep and daily walk and
relationship these people have with their Lord.
They assume that someone, who is married, can
not be in a
deep relationship with Christ.
Education in religious text does
not give you a
relationship with God it gives you knowledge
not even understanding of the
deeper things of the Bible.
Her group, which is
not affiliated with any official campus organization, says there's nothing wrong with enthusiasm for hoops - just that such passions make this a good time to explore a
deeper relationship with God.
This only happens occasionally in the book but prevents the reader sharing in the
deeper revelation and love of God that is occurring at that point in salvation history, especially in light of the New Testament, and raises the question that if the person in Scripture who is experiencing this unique
relationship with God didn't really understand God, then how can we?
He was a man who has clearly realized that the love of Jesus Christ can
not be matched even by the love of those we share
deep and lasting
relationships with, because the person of Christ is Love.
Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks
not so much to the conscious attention of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable emotion, and of profound subconscious
relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness of the «more» which is
deep down in the structure of reality.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but
not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his
relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a
deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate
relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
I think a counselor is good if you need someone to talk to about the
deeper stuff — of course good friends should be confided in — to a point — but
not so that the friendship becomes just about that — because then it feels like a counseling
relationship — and the friendship may be lost as you will associate that friend with your sin which you want to get rid of, and when you are free from the sin, you may want to be free from those associated with the sin too.
I am saying that we should use those close
relationships to spur each other on towards a much
deeper dependence on Christ,
not human perfection.»
It is you who have lost your way in a
relationship that's offered more hurt than love, in a job that leaves you depleted and spent, or in the guilt of
not being good enough, pretty enough or smart enough for someone whose judgment cuts
deep.»
Rather than using fear as a fence to keep us safe, perhaps we can center our friendships on a
deep love that keeps us in the center of God's will for those
relationships, which means that we will do what we can to protect our
relationship,
not abandon it.