I am a dove type and I cherish
everyday of my life which brings me to my knee to be thankful for all I am and all to become in the future.
Not exact matches
There's an old Haitian expression that translates roughly to: «beyond the mountains, more mountains,»
which I think should be the
everyday motto
of all good entrepreneurs because it's a spot - on description
of the basic fact
of life in a startup.
The data on trust reveal that the feeling is actually the sum
of small gestures, kind words, secrets kept, and other
everyday actions,
which contribute to filling the mental «marble jar» we keep for each person in our
lives.
Known for its Swedish meatballs as much as its affordable furniture, IKEA recently launched a line
of products called Lattjo,
which aim to bring more fun into
everyday lives.
The rest is explained by the natural resources with
which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know - how
of fellow citizens, the quality
of public and private institutions, and the degree
of trust that greases the wheels
of commerce, politics and
everyday life.
... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument
which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion
of god to go on with their
everyday lives.
In and through this experience,
which becomes the illuminating event
of our total
everyday life, one finds himself in a great company, the Church: a member
of a body that
lives in the Christ - happening, dwells in this Word
of the Lordship
of Christ.
The man who is wholly taken up with the demands
of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances
of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best,
of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in
which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness
of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through
which is disclosed to us at every point
of contact the unique essence
of the universe.
And the basis
of that assurance is the same as that
which sustains so many
of our certainties in
everyday life — not theory but experience.
In the midst
of the Church's bearing the
everyday burdens
of man, she discovers that the question
of life addresses them in such a fashion that they themselves can ask about the meaning
of life; to
which query can be directed the witness that the meaning
of life is to receive
life as a gift from God.
The believing man who passes through this shattering
of security returns to the
everyday as the henceforth hallowed place in
which he has to
live with the mystery.
Jesus» parables reflect the
everyday life of his country,
which until recently had hardly changed from what it was in his day.
This is as it were a symbol
of everyday life which is a mean between the abysmal terror
of Good Friday and the exuberant joy
of Easter.
It is realized in what makes our
everyday life specifically human: in the patience that can wait, in the sense
of humour
which does not take things too seriously, in being prepared to let others be first, in the courage
which always seeks for a way out
of the difficulties.
The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary
of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement
of the hidden mysteries
of God, but also has a pastoral power by
which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action
of its members in the tangible and sober reality
of everyday life.
State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism,
which opposes religious inst itutional power and influence in all aspects
of public and political
life, including the involvement
of religion in the
everyday life of the citizen.
What I find disappointing is that grown adults can see that after centuries
of evolution, in
which we have grown taller on the average, our brains have enlarged, and technology has altered our
everyday way
of life... can sit back and say stupid stuff like that.
And through what is ordinary and
everyday he invites us to enter into that «mystical death
which is the secret
of life.»
[2] State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism,
which opposes religious institutional power and influence in all aspects
of public and political
life, including the involvement
of religion in the
everyday life of the citizen.
There is in Berger's discussion
of religion and
everyday life a courageous optimism, despite the existential despair in
which humanity is assumed to
live, a courageous optimism that the social sciences will reshape and reinvigorate our understanding
of ourselves.
This separated religion is man's greatest danger whether it manifests itself in the form
of a cult in
which sacramental forms are independent
of everyday life or
of a soul detached from
life in devotional rapture and solitary relation with God.
Someone else said, «The sermons
which get my attention are the ones in
which they relate a story
of everyday living and use it to tell us about Christian
living.»
By the same token, the meaning
of any specific activity in
everyday life (say, cooking dinner) is given by the broader sphere
of relevance in
which it occurs (e.g., being a parent).
Funerals, weddings, and other religiously orchestrated rites
of passage (e.g., christenings, baptisms, showers, hospital visits) thus maintain the stability
of everyday life by providing occasions on
which the nonordinary can be experienced.
This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning
of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect
of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through
which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects
of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity
of style.
Together, these features
of everyday reality make it an efficient world in
which to
live.
But we shall not really «see» the Kingdom
of God in these
everyday miracles
of nature and human
life unless we look and look again, and not only look, but mark the spot at
which the vision came to us, that we may know where it will repay us to make further explorations.164
From our human,
everyday perspective,
which no doubt is our concrete perspective (all others being more or less stretched or «abstract»), the richly diversified realm
of life appears permanent, with abiding character.
This directs attention to the concrete subjects doing science or scholarship, as well as the
life - worlds
of everyday living and the social institutions within
which those subjects do science and scholarship.
Drinking induces a transformation
of feeling
which removes one from the ordinary and
everyday realm into a different world, in
which the tensions and anxieties
of living are dissolved and a sense
of release is enjoyed.
It would mean accepting a view
of the world in our faith and religion
which we should deny in our
everyday life.
The Spirit
which animated God's Son is released in «Resurrection» and resumes a ministry
of personal and social transformation «in Jesus» name» through believers» performance
of the faith in conjoining arenas
of «worship» and «
everyday life».
Panikkar's theology is highly marked by his biography
which laid the encounter
of different religions and contexts in his cradle, as it were.40 He has faced this challenge and engaged in an intense study
of languages, philosophies, theologies and sacred scriptures as well as
living everyday life in many contexts.
Though some
of the splashier and more publicized experiments
of the «wired church» attract the most attention and concern, most congregations that use computer technology are simply trying to make the ministries in
which they are already engaged more effective, attractive and applicable to the
lives of the people they serve, especially the young, for whom these technologies are as familiar a part
of everyday life as using the telephone — a mobile unit, that is.
The complex
of organisations and relationships that form civil society provide the environment in
which we typically experience our
everyday lives.
If our redescriptions
of the world
of everyday life under the sign
of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this
life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion
of a human society understood as a «Kingdom
of ends» (in
which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities
which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.
Chapman explained to Roberts
which the Felony Code
of Canada will not require these kind
of prices flippantly and therefore the highest possible penalty for that is
everyday living in jail, similar penalty specified for murder.
But the biblical narrative, the great critic Erich Auerbach wrote, depicted «something
which neither the poets nor the historians
of antiquity ever set out to portray: the birth
of a spiritual movement in the depths
of the common people, from within the
everyday occurrences
of contemporary
life.»
For the Lord's Supper is the way in
which, by our Lord's ordinance, we are fed by him, strengthened by him, nourished in him, sent forth in his power to carry him into the world
of everyday life and experience.
God comes to us in... things
of our
everyday life, apart from
which we can not understand ourselves.»
The philosophy
of technology,
which has been the principal focus
of his work since the mid-1970s, is about bringing to light and calling into question the technological shape and character
of everyday life.
Besides the conditions
of society itself, under
which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care
of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts
of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter
of death (and judgment) has been used as a form
of social control.
If one omits the happy ending
of Stage 7 (
which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language
of the social scientist into the parlance
of everyday living, one has a picture
of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.
In addition, Whitehead understood that while novelty is a necessary element in our liberation from oppressive structures in the past, the wrong novelty can also destroy those hard - won patterns
of order on
which depend our
life, liberation, and creativity (in the
everyday meaning
of that word).
Malcolm Diamond points out that in the experiences
of our
everyday lives we judge that
which can change in a relationship to be superior to that
which can not.
(2) The «utopia»
of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation
of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from
which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision
of the specific struggle
of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in
everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.
If I were choosing recent books in this area
which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire
of the Nations; John Milbank's critique
of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading
of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in
Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach,
which argues with a dense interweaving
of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion
which has learned much from theology.
There are several characteristics
which identify television as a substitute ritual for overcoming the profanity
of everyday life.
State atheism may refer to a government's anti-clericalism,
which opposes religious institutional power and influence, real or alleged, in all aspects
of public and political
life, including the involvement
of religion in the
everyday life of the citizen.
It is perhaps an unusual place to start, though, because our
everyday lives tend to be plains
of humdrum daily existence rather than peaks on
which the gods visibly dwell.