Being true Christian is to
experience the fulfillment of all the promises of the same God of Torah.
Keillor never grew tired of this routine — he waited for it every week, knowing it would come, wanting it to come, and
experiencing the fulfillment of expectation when it did.
He never married or
experienced the fulfillments of genuine mutuality with men or women, though he seems to have wanted these relationships desperately.
They built an opportunity for women that not only centered on the fun of fashion, but that served as a real career, one in which women could build a substantial business and call their own shots, all while
experiencing the fulfillment of affecting women's lives through relationships being built along the way.
We have all probably heard somebody (probably NOT a pet owner) say something like «it is only a dog / cat,» and we need to realize that those people have yet to
experience the fulfillment of a true human / animal bond.
Humankind is surely
experiencing the fulfillment of a Chinese proverb: «We live in interesting times.»
Not exact matches
When are you in the trenches with a team that is completely bought into the vision and everyone is executing at an exceptionally high level, you will
experience some
of your greatest career
fulfillments.
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.
Technology is certainly an enabler in the
fulfillment of experiences, and it plays strongly during the entire ownership
of our cars, but I would still place a higher priority on the personal touch
of our
experience strategy.
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experience.
Chief among these are the joy and release, the personal
fulfillment, the remembering
of our common humanity, and the presentiment
of the sacred, which the player sometimes
experiences in and through the activity.
The charismatic
experience is a «sensation
of surrender to an immersion in a larger reality: an
experience perceived as self -
fulfillment and enhancement
of individuality rather than the loss
of it» (Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine, People, Power, Change: Movements
of Social Transformation [Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1970], 124).
This ecstatic union
of Satan and Jerusalem is in process
of fulfillment even as Albion (Blake's symbolic figure representing a universal but fallen humanity)
experiences the final epiphany
of Jesus.
We have, too, enough accumulated human
experience to show what patterns
of human conduct lead to misery and disaster, and what can lead to happiness and
fulfillment.
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.
Similarly «home» for one person is a place
of fulfillment, for another a source
of anxiety and dread, both meanings coming out
of the relationships
experienced in the home.
But it is through the mutual self - giving in love that our humanity is established (whether in sex or beyond), rather than the abstract
experience of pleasure or the
fulfillment of a craving or felt need.
God can not do other than what is God doing,
experiencing all creaturely
experience with supreme sensitivity and responding accordingly with the new aims offered for the
fulfillment of all creatures.
Here, too, Israel reads her own
experience of seeking to take matters
of the covenant, the Yahweh covenant, into her own hands, to force, by her own means, in her own way, in trust in her own devices, the
fulfillment of the divine promise.
We can make appeal to
experiences of planning, frustration, hope,
fulfillment, promise, disappointment, etc..
Change and temporality can also, however, make possible the realization
of justice,
of liberation from oppression,
of increased
experiences of fulfillment and joy.
«The consequent nature
of God is the
fulfillment of his
experience by his reception
of the multiple freedom
of actuality into the harmony
of his own actualization» (PR 530).
This would imply the grateful recognition
of the powerful sources
of moral insight available through the
experience of the Jewish people and the revitalizing power resident within the Christian Gospel, but also the rightful and needful contributions
of other peoples and historic religions to the
fulfillment of the highest potentialities in existence.
Furthermore, parents who enjoy their children, feel the
fulfillment of participating in their growth, and share in the «one - flesh» unity
of this ongoing
experience have much going for the sexual and companionship sides
of their marriage.
Thin young women covered in little else than underwear and satin promote the
experience as the
fulfillment of their greatest career dreams.
We continually recount our common past and seek to incorporate it ever more coherently within our memory, but we concretely
experience revelation only by looking forward along with this past to the
fulfillment of God's promise.
If we find the life
of the Church a continual support and
fulfillment for what the pastor seeks to do, we also discover that the
experience of personal and mutual ministry in the Church deepens our participation in the Church's worship, sacraments, and witness to the world.
Fulfillment entails a notion vital to the development
of an ethics
of character and virtue from a process perspective, that all creatures, all actuality, drive towards the
experience of beauty, richness
of experience.
Furthermore, one
of the key psychological concomitants
of creating is an
experience of elation like that which accompanies
fulfillment of love.
They are meaningful in that (1) they keep the ethical problems
of history clearly defined, and (2) they indicate the nature
of the perfection
of history for which grace as Truth established the norm and grace as Power anticipates
fulfillment in
experience.
As to this history, it is less the
experience of the change
of everything than the tension created by the expectation
of a
fulfillment; history is itself hope
of history, for each
fulfillment is perceived as confirmation, pledge, and repetition
of the promise.
There are countless particularly creative situations having nothing to do with Christianity historically in which life -
fulfillments quite comparable to those
of the best
of Christians are
experienced.
You will find a
fulfillment in loving thy neighbor that you could never
experience with your current frame
of mind.
Consequently, just as an actual occasion in the immediate past influences a newly concrescing occasion through its aim at
fulfillment for it, God likewise influences individual persons through the particular propositions or aims at
fulfillment which he entertains for them in each moment
of experience (PPCT 386f.).
This process is empowered by hope and results in an enhancement
of hope, based on the
fulfillments they have already
experienced.
As a final example, consider another observation made by Husserl about the
fulfillment structure which obtains between and among various
experiences.2 We are all aware
of the difference between the mere representing
of an object to consciousness by thinking about it, and the direct intuition
of the object itself which is the
fulfillment of the former.
In such an act, I can hold before my consciousness my initial representation
of the pie and the successive
experiences on my way into the kitchen (and I am aware
of them as being past and as having been present to me), and I can recognize that the direct intuition
of the pie is the
fulfillment of the prior
experiences.
The romantic stage is similar to the prehension
of data from the past and the lure
of the possibilities
of the future; the stage
of precision parallels the stage
of the creative synthesis
of these data and possibilities; the stage
of generalization resembles the final stage
of the becoming
of a momentary
experience, the culmination
of an actuality's drive toward
fulfillment, or in Whitehead's word, satisfaction.
(Ephesians 1:3) While, therefore, Paul longed for the great consummation, when at Christ's coming «the body
of our humiliation» would be fashioned anew and «conformed to the body
of his glory,» (Philippians 3:21) this climactic
experience became less an external and imposed event and more the
fulfillment of the Christian's present blessedness.
So Jesus was baptized
of John and signified thereby his
fulfillment of the old dispensation and inauguration
of the new, though it meant for him also the
experience of alienation and death on the cross.
The second argument, which is advanced by all
of the previously mentioned critics, is similar to the first, but it concerns God's
fulfillment of the divine
experience rather than God's
fulfillment of the world.
Thus for each
of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question
of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form
of our measuring up to the possibility
of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt
experience as existing men)
of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human
fulfillment.
Each occasion
of experience is in touch with possibilities from which it selects a goal regarding its «self -
fulfillment.»
The family is the basic unit
of growth and
experience,
fulfillment or failure.
The demand for immediate, powerful and deep religious
experience, which was part
of the turn away from future - oriented instrumentalism toward present meaning and
fulfillment, could on the whole not be met by the religious bodies.
The Whiteheadian view envisages God as more oriented toward the
fulfillment of the individual than toward the filling out
of some cosmic outline.15 But it insists that the organismic connection
of all things makes it impossible for the individual to
experience fulfillment apart from the cosmos as a whole.
Therefore, a «need imposed by the environment» will be
experienced by an occasion not merely as a «threat» to its own subjective
fulfillment but also in terms
of its capacity to disrupt the future which that occasion is able to affect by its aims.