Sentences with phrase «gift of self in»

From this centrality flow all the essential characteristics of religious life: prayer, the liturgy and particularly the Eucharist, community life, mission to the world, total consecration and radical gift of self in perseverance.

The Gift of Self in Marriageis a broadly sound book, but not without some weaknesses.

Priestly celibacy, then, is the gift of self in and with Christ to his Church and expresses the priest's service to the Church in and with the Lord.»

Mgr Burke offers a profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and of gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.

The conjugal act, profoundly unitive, isa procreative kind of act, and the gift of the child is to be profoundly linked to the spouses» incarnate gift of self in that conjugal, not merely copulatory, act.

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Ask for help, in part because you realize the person who provides you with that help will automatically feel greater self - respect, self - esteem, and self - worth, because they've received one of the greatest gifts of all: knowing they made a difference in another person's life.

It is certainly possible that the unethical favours at the expense of of a third party might just be construed as the cost of gifts in the eyes of the giver and the receiver and hence become indistinguishable from other forms of self - interest.»

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

Again, from Scruton: «[A] vow is a self - dedication, a gift of oneself» — open - ended in its commitment to a shared destiny between parties.

If she (and you and I for that matter) understood the love within the Most Holy Trinity and how that love is life - giving, one can begin to understand what love is, the gift of self involved, I do not believe she could remain in her present position.

In Ephesians the bible says,» by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not of your self, it is a gift from God, not by works so no one will boast.»

If one is a Catholic Christian in particular, one can look at Christ's body on the cross to know the kind of self - gift you and I are called to.

The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.

To Jefferson, the self - evident truth of equality was an unearned gift of the Creator to the nation's citizens that must be respected but that need not apply to slaves in bondage or to native savages.

In speaking of the process of constant self - creation, of our continuing need to «reconceive ourselves» — a gift of the Bard to humans — he is echoing phrases that sprout from the lips of those who insist on a «multiplicity of subjective positions,» «potential identities,» and the like.

From these diverse stories of «thinking Christians» a common theme emerges: the search for truth demands (to paraphrase contributor Kathryn Wiegand) a willingness to die to self» even to the hopes bequeathed by one's most cherished intellectual gifts» in order to be reborn in Christ.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the punishment meted out after the Fall, that place where the nakedness which once bespoke trust and mutual self - gift now becomes an object of shame and concealment.

Sarah Bessey makes me want to get to know Jesus all over again, but this time specifically through my womanly flesh, embodied as Christ self was embodied, engaging God with the glorious gift of BEING a woman rather than in spite of it.

What is the role of self - examination and of affirmation from others in discovering spiritual gifts?

Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive self - gift they made to one another in marrying.

Christians believe that in Jesus who is called the Christ God's gift of self to the universe is bestowed definitively and irreversibly.

But the cosmos in its finitude is unable to receive the boundlessness of God's self gift in one instant.

The significant aspect is the personal dimension: God in self - giving, in self - relating to the world, placed himself in a state of gift.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

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

For man as spirit - ordered - to - time, time becomes a necessity for placing self in a state of gift in return of God's love.

It's such a universal and familiar reaction it's hard not to see ourselves in it, particularly those of us who operate within a culture that idolizes success and self - sufficiency, where even gifts are expected to be deserved.

«Christian freedom is not, as St Paul says, a gift to be used as «an opportunity for self - indulgence» (Galatians 5:13) but the freedom to give ourselves in loving service... it has absolutely nothing to do with a truncated notion of a happiness that is defined — at least in America — in terms of consumer choice.»

But once (within marriage) generosity has been fulfilled in a particular couple (which only they can determine in conscience), need «each and every act of sexual intercourse» be open to the gift of children without destroying the symbolism of the conjugal act as complete self - gift to each other?

The unmerited gift of the grace of God in spite of our rotten selves just seems too good to be true.

We shall propose that when our consciousness is shaped by faith in the divine promise, as well as by a trust in the gift of God's self - limiting love, we will be able to see in the cosmos a depth and breadth otherwise obscured.

Christians, however, may understand the decisiveness of Christ as the moment in evolution when God's promise and self - gift, which have been continually and creatively present to the cosmos from its birth, are embraced by a human being without reservation.

An understanding of revelation as the gift of an ever - more - inclusive future rooted in the kenotic love of God can help transform the Church's self - understanding in a way that would make it more closely related to the needs of our contemporary world.

The cosmos in its finitude is unable to receive the boundlessness of God's self - gift in any single instant.

In his evolutionary Christology, Karl Rahner writes that Jesus Christ is God's gift of self to the universe, bestowed definitively and irreversibly.

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

I am convinced that these principles, faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift of self between one man and one woman - and freedom of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent challenges that history presents to each one of you,»

Worship, as a characteristic action of man the religious animal, consists in the offering of self to God and the returning gift of enhanced life, in communion with God, for man.

However, in the first case of the unreturned gift, one could say that there always remains a hope for a reciprocal gesture, as there is in an eschatological reserve: there will always be self - sacrificing in this life, but in hope of the eternal banquet.

Hence the theme of revelation as God's self - gift with universal intent will be a constant one in each of this book's chapters.

Unless a gift is in this fashion sacrificial — the giving up of something — it is argued, a gift reduces to a hidden contractual agreement, governed by a principle of self - interest; and actions out of self - interest, as Kant pointed out, are not pure gifts.

If I selfishly love my frozen yogurt, microbreweries, and Pinterest, or dislike tattoos, noise, slow decision - making, or fill in the blank, more than my brothers and sisters who are different; if I prefer this church, or neighborhood because of the schools, the safety or because the worship resonates with me; if I am committed to my ways of doing life; if I let me self - comfort, self - enjoyment, self - security, or self - convenience guide my decision making; I will never experience the gifts that accompany thriving relationships with people who are different from me.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

This motif casts in a new light the precious gift of self that we bestow on the other when we utter those words «I do» at the altar.

Indeed the purpose of all this is that Man may be fulfilled by the Self - Gift of God Himself, in the Incarnation.

The exclusive fidelity of marriage, at its deepest, is an image of Christ's total self - gift in love.

Similarly, the future I speak of is my own particular future in which true self - hood is received as a gift.

Love is gratitude: it is thankfulness for the existence of the beloved; it is the happy acceptance of everything that he gives without the jealous feeling that the self ought to be able to do as much; it is a gratitude that does not seek equality; it is wonder over the other's gift of himself in companionship.

If you as believers and non believers think that what I call for is wrong or not a right of prevlage to think of or try to establish thinking in between then I must have been in the wrong place all this time and efforts... Religion is not Completion but rather Correction...!?! It is only then with such knowledge of foundations can mankind use the senses they been gifted to tell which is which for them selves rather than following blindly what ever they been told and not allowed to discuss or look further...!?!

In the language of Christianity love of God and neighbor is both «law» and «gospel»; it is both the requirement laid on man by the Determiner of all things and the gift given, albeit in incompleteness, by the self - giving of the BeloveIn the language of Christianity love of God and neighbor is both «law» and «gospel»; it is both the requirement laid on man by the Determiner of all things and the gift given, albeit in incompleteness, by the self - giving of the Belovein incompleteness, by the self - giving of the Beloved.