Sentences with phrase «genuine acts of»

What you are, teaches your children far more than what you say, so if you want your children to be kindhearted... You too must be kindhearted and perform genuine acts of kindness on a consistent basis.

The wisdom of the Church teaches that our bodies are made for the worship of God and for genuine acts of spiritual love.

Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»

The man kneels before the teacher, a genuine act of reverence, showing that he is in earnest and not trying to trap Jesus with his question.

All the people of faith - christians, muslims, hindus and others are touched by this genuine act of humility, love and compassion.

The pope has won my heart through this genuine act of humility.

News - Atheists fail to appreciate a genuine act of kindness, humility and love.

The first is that, as an instinctive Platonist, I naturally believe that every genuine act of human creativity is simultaneously an innovation and a discovery, a marriage of poetic craft and contemplative vision that captures traces of eternity's radiance in fugitive splendors here below by translating our tacit knowledge of the eternal forms into finite objects of reflection, at once strange and strangely familiar.

Not exact matches

Openness asks that we eliminate biases, empathy demands that we push for a more genuine understanding of one another, and generosity requires that we perform an actual act of kindness.»

Fundamentally, Christian spirituality is not about attaining an altered state of consciousness but about widening the range of genuine caring about others, so that we act for their interest not out of duty but out of love.

In this way, God through his own act of self - giving constitutes man whose genuine free response completes God's gift.

We must rather recognize that it is precisely this act of dialectical inversion which prepares the way for the apocalyptic vision of genuine faith.

It provides the element of self - determination or freedom without which there is no genuine act.

This is no intuitive perception but a bold swinging into the other which demands the intensest action of my being, even as does all genuine fantasy, only here the realm of my act «is not the all - possible» but the particular, real person who steps up to meet me, the person whom I seek to make present as just so and not otherwise in all his wholeness, unity, and uniqueness.

Even some critics who accept the fundamental reality of the I - Thou relation as «the centre of any genuine religious experience» treat «revelation» as the objective — «the act of God whereby He has disclosed the way and destiny of Israel» — and meeting, or the I - Thou relation, as the subjective — «the act of man whereby that destiny and its divine source are drawn into the inner life of the individual.»

Each of us is an «unfulfilled capacity,» made with and for a purpose — or, as our process conceptuality requires us to put it, «being made...» The Christian would say that we are thus being made toward the image of God, to reflect, and personally (and socially) act for, the divine Love; and the deepest intentionality in us is in the direction of finding genuine fulfillment in fellowship with God.

Each miracle is less a sign to excite wonder than it is an act of genuine service, a deed done by the son of God to benefit those in whose behalf it is performed.

The Incarnation is thus an act of genuine self - sacrifice, a complete emptying out of God's being.

If these acts of liberation did not contain elements of antinomianism and anarchism they would not be genuine, for the old authority must be radically broken before the new order can be born.

Frank's thesis is that all across the nation» especially in the so - called red states» millions of impoverished or relatively impoverished Americans are voting and acting contrary to their genuine interests.

When a person acts on behalf of someone who has won his sympathy, the welfare of the other person has become his interest — it is a new self - interest altered by the genuine concern for the welfare of the other.

In the next place, a purpose of proclamation is to bring about genuine commitment, whether this is for the first time (as with some who are present it very well may be) or is a renewed response in self - dedication to God who in Christ has acted decisively for us humans and for our wholeness.

That will depend, as does the act of genuine repentance, upon the particular psychological - physiological condition of the hearer.

Going by the comments on this board, only the atheists are disturbed and spewing hatred in face of this genuine & exemplary act of humility, kindness and love from a true man of God.

In the light of all the «genuine & exemplary act of humility, kindness and love from» priests for little boys, this looks a lot more like an act of PR and damage control

Rollins writes, «A faith that only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ... Only a genuine faith can embrace doubt, for such a faith does not act because of a self - interested reason (such as fear of hell or desire for heaven) but acts simply because it must.»

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

It seems impossible also to organize a genuine course of study including the Biblical disciplines, church history, theology, the theory and practice of worship, preaching, and education on other grounds than those of habit and expediency unless there is clarity about the place of these studies and acts in the life of the Church.

It was a genuine heartfelt reaction and emotion which then was the opening act» of a transformance.

Historically, most Christians have read that passage as a categorical condemnation of all same - sex sexual acts, regardless of the genuine commitment and care that may or may not accompany those acts.

We all act as if we were free: that action is itself proof enough of our own genuine freedom.

And in accomplishing the divine purpose, there is complete respect for, and a valuing and employment of, the creation's own dignity and freedom, its responsibility for decisions, and its capacity to act as a genuine cause in the total advance.

Self - sprung prayers, on the other hand, she views as genuine evidence of a willed act to commune with God, relying upon individual creative and expressive abilities.

In his eyes genuine philanthropy and genuine prayer alike sprang from inner quality of spirit, for which no outward deed could act as surrogate.

The human expression of sexuality is always indicative of the personal quality of those who engage in such activity; and sexual acts which help to develop genuine personal life, but without destroying or damaging healthy human social relationships, must be evaluated in terms of the tenderness, mutuality, and faithfulness they display, even if they may seem to violate some inherited code.

To be genuine, however, freedom requires that, at least in some crucial instances of decision, the movement of the act of will be the decisive factor.

Genuine actors operate within a framework established by the imitative nature of film ¯ hence a good person can portray a bad one, or act out bad actions, without it being a reflection of his or her character.

My wild guess is that the majority of genuine Christians support virtually all of the elements of the Affordable Care Act.

By undercutting the moral basis of representativeness in religious programming on television, the paid - time religious broadcasters have removed one of the major contributions that religious groups could have made in influencing television in America: that of acting as agents in challenging the television industry to act within its moral responsibility as a utility for genuine social communication.

But shall we not be misled by this formulation of a common view of the world, infinitely precious in itself, if we consider it simply in terms of its application and result, without looking for the principle and fecundating act of a genuine union?

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

This one act of Christ abolishes the obstacle of sin which prevented the establishment of a genuine covenant.

All of which has led to suspicions that the WSL may have been acting in cancelling Margaret River as much out of recognition of Medina's displeasure as out of a genuine and well - founded concern for the welfare of its surfers.

Whereas his feud with Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant (who also recently crossed words with Jackson) seemed to come from a place of genuine hurt, he mostly acts out on our behalf, his inspired silliness meant as a seasonal tonic.

Two, asking me why I chose what I did — and expressing genuine interest, versus morbid curiosity — was way more empowering than acting shocked or dismissive of my choice.

How sad that parents need to be told this and of course when we do tell our children this we need to make sure that we act it out as well and that we are genuine and not just saying the words.

Its own Equality Act advice for schools says «Voluntary - aided schools may apply religious criteria when recruiting or dismissing any member of their teaching staff... Religious criteria may not be applied to any other posts in a VA school unless there is a genuine occupational requirement.»

In effect, this is an example of something Princeton political scientist Rory Truex calls «representation within bounds» — when deputies are encouraged to act as genuine citizen representatives, but only regarding areas outside the core concerns of the regime, including political reform.

States can also ignore directives for a really long time, either for political reasons or out of a genuine inability to act.

One of the counts reads: «That you, Kayode Odukoya, on or about the 21st day of March, 2013 in Lagos within the Lagos Judicial Division knowingly forged the Memorandum of Loss of Lagos State Certificate of Occupancy Registered as No. 33 at page 33 in Volume 1011 at the Lagos State Registry, Alausa, Ikeja in respect of property being and situated at No. 29 Oduduwa Street, Ikeja GRA Lagos State with intent that the document may in any way be used or acted on as genuine to the prejudice of another.»