You and I can no more speak merely
for the affirmation of those who agree, or stay silent because of those who would take offense.
Thanks for the affirmation: it IS a ton of work... but she's ready, she wants to use the potty, and there's no reason to hold her back.
What new possibility for life, for experience, for free choice,
for affirmation does this actual event allow for?
She was image - conscious, they said, looking to outsiders such as consultants and new
hires for affirmation.
Female believers look to the
churches for an affirmation of their roles and their interests, and they naturally seek justification in the scriptures, which provide a vocabulary for public debate.
Without any meaningful standard by which to measure our worth, we turn to the public
eye for affirmation.
But my
need for affirmation can turn — and in the past has turned — into an unhealthy search for validation.
For instance, how do we know when we're
looking for affirmation (a genuine need) or validation (unhealthy obsession)?
Instead of looking to a
parent for affirmation, kids are able to decide how they feel about themselves and what they need to do.
The Christian Faith is an attempt to find a rational
basis for the affirmations of Christianity, and it leads him progressively to abandon the mythological form of the Addresses.
That is what passes
for affirmation in what I think is the deeply corrupt world of self - publishing.»
«People with healthy narcissism don't have to rely on
others for affirmation,» says Susan Krauss Whitbourne, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
This area could be stocked with paper, markers, crayons, water, soft music and lighting, a jump rope, a stationary bike, lavender scented cotton balls,
jars for affirmations or worries, or a rocking chair.
If young people feel disaffected with school because they are unrecognized there, they may search
for affirmation outside of school, sometimes through drugs, crime, and sex.
Trading Nials» Price Action methods on the Daily Chart paves the
way for these affirmations to become true.about this idea of trading i like it most......
It is difficult to minister to the need
for affirmations with «truth is relative,» especially when relativism becomes one of those analytic monsters like absolutism.
Not all the comic concoctions work, but the female perspective makes
room for affirmation amid humiliation.
In the former case, a particular law will have been passed by the legislature and then it is put to a popular
vote for affirmation / overturning, and in the latter case a new law is proposed by the people (generally through a petitioning process) and then voted on by the populace.
Positive group dynamics are important, but people actually
yearn for affirmation and praise on social media.
But there are a lot of people (including some liberals) who do not have a strong partisan identity and do not come to the news
hoping for affirmation of their choices to join Team Red or Team Blue.
We also find groups of Christians who search the
Bible for affirmation of what they already think, turning to hatred and violence instead of looking for information and a deeper relationship with God.
I try not to come down hard on that sort of
call for affirmation (I'm not far removed from it at all), but the Scriptures say we should try to look beautiful with a gentle, quiet spirit — if there's peace in our eyes, this is much more beautiful.
From this perspective, the time has
come for the affirmation of value systems of other worlds, such as pre-Colombian America, Islam, or Asian mysticism.
In the aftermath of an unfathomable tragedy, both Jews and Christians must do what God requires of His covenanted Israel» work with redoubled
effort for the affirmation of life.
In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the
liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»
Women have been socialized to discredit the value of other women's care and support, preferring to depend on
men for affirmation of self - worth.
As the theological
matrix for this affirmation of ordinary life gradually fades» as it is seen less as a Calling» the bourgeois ethic's relation to Deism emerges.
Although K.C. (as we have come to know him in EATWOT) writes to and for the people of India, his message has meaning for all Christians and other justice seeking people who are committed to creating a global village that protects the rights of the poor and provides
space for the affirmation of their dignity.
Within the boundaries of this «given» there are, to be sure, vast and absolutely crucial
possibilities for affirmation or denial, hearing or deafness, decision or stasis — but no elaboration of these possibilities can avoid the limit of sin and of death.
He said: «My Lords, I thank the
Minister for her affirmation that according to both the letter and the spirit of the legislation on same - sex marriage, it is for the Church of England and all faith communities to determine their doctrine and what is appropriate conduct for their clergy.
It is
important for an affirmation of the human soul congruent with our best contemporary knowledge to be introduced to challenge these implicitly dehumanizing ideas.
Toni Solo of Scoop Independent News has commented: «One of the defining characteristics of contemporary Nicaraguan society is a widespread turning to religion or
spirituality for affirmation in the face of the ruthless application of savage «free market» capitalism.