Sentences with phrase «human gifts she receives»

The supernatural and merely human gifts she receives along the way are sufficient for her task, and those who seek a theologically astute way to engender hospitality will do well to take careful (and, I suspect, joyful) note.

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A landscape architect, Karen sits on the board of New York's High Line public park, which Ackman money helped build; and Human Rights Watch, which has received major gifts from the couple.

We can see that in human beings and many other creatures, the power to bring about new life has been divided into two collaborating halves — the male which prompts the gift of life, and the female which receives, actively responds, nurtures and brings forth the fruit of life itself.

This «economic man», as he came to be called, could hardly be more distant from the Christian idea that human nature is based on gift — life received as a gift from God, love given freely to other men.

Humor receives finitude as a gift, conscious of the suffering intrinsic to human existence, but capable of transcendence....

God's gifts are hard enough to receive even when they come to successful human beings.

In either case, the human is no longer an ecstatic subject who receives the gift of being and the grace that fructifies our nature, but is himself the primary source of transcendence.

In doing so, he is somewhat provocatively affirming the ability of the human mind to know the truth in the real world, as a «gift received» (CiV 34 & 77).

So the death of Jesus has a definite contribution to make to God in terms of God's experience of the human capacity to receive as well as the divine capacity to be received, i.e., to have the gift that is offered actually received.

In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us -LSB-...] In all knowledge and in every act of love the human soul experiences something «over and above», which seems very much like a gift that we receive, or a height to which we are raised.»

John in Revelations, talking to Laodicea, speaks rhema words from God and says «I would that you were hot or cold, but because you are lukewarm (indecisive, mixing law and grace, tainting my free gift with human hands), I will vomit» [and] «you will not receive anything from Me.»

What such organization can do is to make the structures of our corporate life more just, that is to say, able to check the forces of exploitation, corruption, tyranny and war and minimize their threat to human life and also maximize the space for mutual responsibility so as to receive the spiritual gift of communion.

What we have seen in the funeral of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI is the possibility of loving the faith as a human gift that is received, and in that very reception acknowledging its contingency and fragility.

Humans are created too, after all, and in gratefully receiving the gift of the world, they learn to remember that it is not, finally, human effort that grows the grain and forges the steel.

Gratitude is not a self - enclosed or self - sufficient feeling but a human person's response to another person or persons» whether human or divine» for benefits, gifts, or favors received from them, such as the gratitude due to caring parents, loving friends, and dedicated teachers or mentors.

But, when we give mothers the space to be authentically human we give them the best gift they'll ever receive.

Everyone loves receiving and giving gifts — it's human nature.

Seems like anybody who plays the Human Torch also receives the gift of a second chance.

Their human companies received a gift that will last a life - time — a photo of their four footed friend placed in a silver frame.

The UCLA School of Law has received a $ 20 million gift to launch a new institute that will serve as a national hub for human rights education and advocacy.