Sentences with phrase «experience joy for»

It never gets old watching these rescues experience joy for the first time.

Andrew Lansley looked like he had experienced joy for the first time in years.

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«The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.»

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

In Oculus's first full - length virtual reality movie, you can experience the joys and annoyances of being the shiny new toy for an American family.

3) The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11) The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55) 4) The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23) Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance.

By allowing the doors to the opportunities you had hoped for to be shut, God can redirect you onto the path He wants you to take — a path that promises a greater joy and a richer experience.

For those that haven't yet experienced the joy and love of Christ, it could be a time of deep inward reflection to see if there are places in your heart that need changing.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

The biblical good news also tells us about how God wants to rule and reign over all aspects of life, how there is nothing beyond the scope of redemption, how there is hope for the future, a source of joy and gladness to be had, true community to be experienced, and peace to be introduced.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

For even if He eternally experiences the crushing sorrow of losing a child, He also eternally experiences the joy of being with His Son for eternity, and the even more thrilling experience of His Son rising from the deFor even if He eternally experiences the crushing sorrow of losing a child, He also eternally experiences the joy of being with His Son for eternity, and the even more thrilling experience of His Son rising from the defor eternity, and the even more thrilling experience of His Son rising from the dead.

«The experience of absolute control over another being, of omnipotence so far as he, she or it is concerned, creates the illusion of transcending the limitations of human existence, particularly for those whose lives are deprived of productivity and joy.

To experience the life of joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, and purpose that God wants for us, we must first be born of the Spirit so that God's new life dwells within us.

For example, the person who wants to experience sex before marriage can no longer experience the joy of a real marital donation in its fullness: giving oneself totally and for the first time — that is, in a true virginal gift — and receiving the same gift from one's spouFor example, the person who wants to experience sex before marriage can no longer experience the joy of a real marital donation in its fullness: giving oneself totally and for the first time — that is, in a true virginal gift — and receiving the same gift from one's spoufor the first time — that is, in a true virginal gift — and receiving the same gift from one's spouse.

A tested medicine, for example, provides and inner experience of relief and perhaps joy and contentment.

This is a very healthy corrective to a great deal that has unquestionably disfigured the history of institutional Christianity; for instance, the sometimes subtle but persistent belittling of the richest and most profound of human experiences, as if the joys of human love were somehow suspect, and not among the most sheerly precious experiences that life has to offer.

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.»

If I can not learn to find peace in the midst of anticipation, I will never experience the joy of contentment, for «we know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

But almost always they get to the same place I have... they get over their addiction, see it for what it is, and eventually evolve to a place where they experience peace of mind and even joy.

I acted as a go - between like a woman, and began to lecture Radha for being too proud... At such time I experienced moments of incomparable sweetness and joy.

It is not because He will send adulterers to hell, but because adultery is so destructive and damaging for the real joy and pleasure God wants us to experience in life.

For what I experienced was neither pride in my genes nor glory in my dog - handling (she had, after all, disobeyed by running and swimming away), but sheer exultation in the joy of being alive, in the thrill of water, and in affection for waggy dogs» taiFor what I experienced was neither pride in my genes nor glory in my dog - handling (she had, after all, disobeyed by running and swimming away), but sheer exultation in the joy of being alive, in the thrill of water, and in affection for waggy dogs» taifor waggy dogs» tails.

A group that does not experience such joy in belonging together is hardly likely to survive for very long, save by a superficial bonding of those who really have nothing in common.

It is in this process of fulfilling one's potential for full aliveness that one experiences inner affirmation and joy.

For the priest or the nun, (and here one admits to speak from knowledge), the first great joy of life as we get older is the humble joy of the love of God as an experience.

I experienced an explosion of energy, and the joy of being alive (expressed as a dancing mountain stream) when I finally gave up the frantic search for «the answer» and spontaneously began to laugh at myself and my futile attempts to manipulate myself and others.

As Christians we come to church on Easter Day to celebrate the greatest day of the year, to sing for joy at the central moment of our faith and to experience again the wonder, relief and excitement of the first Easter morning.

In this initial phase God experiences each actuality just as it is for itself, with all its joy and / or suffering.

I believe the spiritual, the internal, will always overpower the external but in order to experience that we have to have an upside down view of everything in that the physical is not ever as important as the spiritual — and this is something special a gift a freedom that is amazing and in our world of Ugg boots and cars with amazing technology, with the million catalogues that drop through the door or show their wares on our screens... to discover and experience the joy of the internal spirit life is nowhere near as easy as it sounds — and once experienced it is an effort to hold to it and feed it for it to grown and be the power it is meant to be.

Rather, I have begun more and more to experience for myself the «joy of the Gospel» that Pope Francis calls us all to proclaim, and which shone out in the lives of the priests who inspired me as a young man: an extraordinary sense of peace, happiness and purpose which comes from encountering Jesus and handing your life over to him.»

GodFreeNow I really feel bad for you, you will not experience the LOVE, PEACE AND JOY God is offering.

Time and time again, the people we interviewed shared that they are aiming to live life intentionally and purposefully now, and that even in the midst of being unsure about the future and even longing for a spouse, they are experiencing genuine joy in their current lives.

Experience of Spirit provides such transforming intimacy with God in Christ that seeing the glory of God, the believer is effective in witness and unshakable in persecution (7:54 - 60).47 The Spirit accounts for making joy and praise the dominant moods of the Christian life (2:47; 3:8 - 9; 4:21; 5:41; 13:52).

Written from a purely secular perspective, the book even speaks of the advantages of periods of abstinence for a relationship as a means of rekindling the romantic feelings of courtship and experiencing afresh the joys of the honeymoon.

Heroism, for example, is beautiful because it is the result of integrating a multiplicity of contrasting experiences (strength and frustration, joy and tragedy, rebellion and resignation, life and death) into the unity of a single person's story.

It might very well suggest the rich conception of a «communion of saints» in which there is a joy that is shared in «widest commonalty», in and with God, as he rejoices in the growing good that thus becomes the further occasion for delight not only to himself but to other subjects of experience.

We experience the grace of God's election whenever we are chosen to be an occasion for joy, by friends and family.

They strive to make known the proper nature of man, his problems and his experiences... revealing man's place in history and in the world,... illustrating the miseries and joys, the needs and strengths of man,... foreshadowing a better life for him.

While students do need high expectations for their work and conduct, focusing on order becomes hazardous when it overtakes the joy of experiencing God's grace.

A vital function of growth groups for all ages is to help people break out of «the heavies» and experience «little moments of ecstasy» — in playfulness, joy, celebration, worship, deep sharing, mystery, and pain.

God is one who aims for the reign of justice, freedom, life, joy, and intensity of experience and beauty.

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

Decision «once for all» can be a genuinely life - transforming experience, bringing into the soul of the individual new motives and interests, new direction, new power, and new joy.

This is how you can again experience the intimacy and joy and fellowship with God that you long for.

Apart from buying one for myself, I'm thinking of giving it as a birthday gift to some of my non-vegan friends, so they can experience some vegan love and joy too (okay I confess, my motives would not be entirely altruistic...) Thank you for writing such wonderful cookbooks!

Almond Joy Sunday This sundae is trying to replicate the joy experienced from eating an Almond Joy, without including all of the ingredients they contain that aren't good for you.

Like all Panda Express restaurants, the new location will offer guests a place to experience joy with loved ones and provide personal and professional growth opportunities for associates at every level.

My team were never challenging for the Premier League title when I began to follow them, and the joy I would experience when they would reach an unlikely cup final was immense, so I'm sorry if I don't feel any remorse for a fan who only followed a team when they were one of only two top sides challenging year on year, before enjoying an unbeatable Invincibles campaign in only his third term of supporting the side.

Just one week on from the joy of celebrating a second FA cup triumph in a row, this weekend proved to be chastening experience for the Arsenal players on international duty.