Sentences with phrase «edifying way»

Although Second Life looks like a game and provides a fun outlet for daydreamers, lawyers are using it in serious, edifying ways.

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Brian: The best way, I've discovered, of edifying the saints is to not put obstacles in their way or burdens on their backs.

You know it is actually possible to have sex in the absence of marriage in ways that are actually respectful and edifying for both don't you?

Oh, to edify oneself in a living way with the sufferings of others is a comfort, and to dwell too exclusively on one's own suffering may easily become that doubleness of mind which thinks that there is comfort for all others but none for itself.

Yes, some of us gather together physically from time to time, sometimes weekly, to encourage and edify one another, and while this physical gathering is one way of manifesting the church, or being the church, the physical gathering itself is not «church.»

In this way, music can be very edifying.

Since I issued that call, Rorty has continued to develop his notion of an edifying conversation in ways that I find stimulating, yet troublesome.

I'm not sure how the debate on homosexuality would turn out if defined that way, but I believe it would be more edifying than many recent discussions of these matters have been.

But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent with another account of his death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.

I think we've spent somuch money and energy on policing and locking people up that we've neglected all kinds of other ways we could edify our communities.

You're making me go back and look over this stuff as well, I find this edifying in that way.

Written by C. S. Lewis from the perspective of a senior devil mentoring a junior devil in the ways of temptation, The Screwtape Letters edifies the reader even as it engages difficult and ugly truths about human experience and total depravity.

«Last night I had a very in - depth conversation with a number of very committed, focused local elected officials from the city of Hartford and I was edified in so many ways, in detail, on a granular level, of some of the fiscal challenges far beyond the knowledge that I had on this topic,» Ganim told an audience of about 50 people.

The image is gorgeous, faithful, and super-sharp in contrast in a way that edifies Kazan's stage - bound constructions.

There are other ways to edify, though C. S. Lewis didn't seem to touch upon them in these books.

As terrific as Gaghan's Syriana might have been, he doesn't appear to have any idea how to mix the comical, topical, dramatic and satiric elements in ways that are either edifying or rewarding.

What's more, check some real - world examples of how gamification can improve corporate training experiences and provide online learners with edifying content in an enjoyable way.

I consider literature to be edifying in some way, encompassing a theme or themes that cause the reader to think about some aspect of life; I didn't find any of that here, just escapist fiction.

It's a cheap and dirty way of making any game more «challenging» and I can't say I find it particularly edifying.

It doesn't speak with a single, edifying voice, the way that a treatise by a single author might.