It is our experience that relationship growth and healing occur most naturally
in places of beauty, peace, and harmony; special places where nature and its healing touch are all around.
But even
in this place of beauty and connection, I didn't feel satisfied.
You are
in a place of beauty natural splendour and charm.
You're
in a place of beauty, natural splendour and charm.
Not exact matches
One time capsule was buried
in front
of Sleeping
Beauty's castle on the park's 40th birthday
in 1995, and the other was
placed underneath Buena Vista Plaza
in California Adventure
in 2012.
Jenna is proud
of her roots and pays tribute to her home state by naming each showpiece after a
place in Michigan that exhibits great
beauty, character and charm.
When we recognize our
place in an immensity
of light - years and
in the passage
of ages, when we grasp the intricacy,
beauty, and subtlety
of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense
of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual... The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.»
The kind I thought was being taught
in divinity school (among other
places (such as found
in the
beauty of nature
in the middle
of our hearts)-RRB-.
So my guess is that I must learn,
in time, to appreciate where I am, to enjoy the
beauty of this
place, to be embraced by the Mystery with no words or images.
Even
in a
place of such
beauty, hundreds
of thousands
of people live, sleep and eat
in hell.
In the channellings
of Kryon by Lee Carroll we can learn for instance: «There is simplicity,
beauty and benevolence
of systems built for you, dear Human Being, because you, like me, are from another
place.
Churches who provide 3 meals a day, You see the
beauty of an historical
place like the Vatican, preserving history
in its art work amd library but are unaware
of the services it provides behind the scenes away from the eyes
of the public.
I can feel the tension between the big things that grieve me to my over-sensitive core — like the execution
of Troy Davis that took
place last night — and the little things that tick me off — like folding laundry again, the big things that overwhelm me with gratitude —
beauty, truth, love, friendship, kinship — and the little things that make me want to weep with joy — the gap between Joseph's teeth, Evelynn's toothless smiles, Anne perched
in a chair for an hour with a book.
And thank you for my knees, how they bend easily, at last, to Creator, and thank you for these eyes that see
beauty in the strangest
places, for the mother - blue
of them, and thank you for the very physical and very real self
of it all, thank you for helping me to worship and see and know beyond my brain and my heart, and reminding me that this, the created self is good.
For the interested but uninitiated, the
place to enter the conversation is Oakes» The Pattern
of Redemption, followed by a substantial investment
of time
in the Balthasar writings highlighted by Oakes, then the Cambridge Companion to see what others make
of it all, leading into Hart's The
Beauty to get an idea
of what might be «the future
of Balthasarian theology.»
I can give you the short answer as to why Catholic Churches were so beautiful
in earlier centuries;
in the words
of Isaiah, «I have loved, O Lord, the
beauty of thy house and the
place where thy glory dwelleth.»
«When we recognize our
place in an immensity
of light ‐ years and
in the passage
of ages, when we grasp the intricacy,
beauty and subtlety
of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense
of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.»
In the West, we imprison beauty in museums and concert halls; we have taken beauty off the streets and out of our public place
In the West, we imprison
beauty in museums and concert halls; we have taken beauty off the streets and out of our public place
in museums and concert halls; we have taken
beauty off the streets and out
of our public
places.
«Uncle Will» has a fully developed teaching on the
place of man
in the cosmos, the indispensability
of the Stoic virtues
of magnanimity and generosity, and loneliness, class, understanding,
beauty, and love.
And the astonishing thing is that at such times and
in such
places — foul as they may be with the stinking ischiorectal abscesses
of our comings and goings — just there, the thing,
in all its greatest
beauty, may for a moment be freed to fly for a moment guiltily about the room.
I would point out, however, that billions
of other human beings,
in every time and
place, have had similar experiences â $ «but they had them while thinking about Krishna, or Allah, or the Buddha, while making art or music, or while contemplating the sheer
beauty of nature.
Christians have built churches
of great
beauty in many
places, which are consecrated or set apart for the worship
of God.
If our world were nothing but a
place of created goodness and profound
beauty, a space
of flourishing for all, just and life - giving for all
in God's creation, then Jesus» challenge would be deeply troubling.
In the works of Kemmis and other authors in the New Urbanist movement, I found convergent themes of longing for community, joy beauty, place, connection with our past, and meanin
In the works
of Kemmis and other authors
in the New Urbanist movement, I found convergent themes of longing for community, joy beauty, place, connection with our past, and meanin
in the New Urbanist movement, I found convergent themes
of longing for community, joy
beauty,
place, connection with our past, and meaning.
Let them be
placed under the care
of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is
in charge
of the women; and let
beauty treatments be given to them.
If we can be quiet
in our hearts long enough, we will discover that God still carves out highways and turns the wilderness into a
place of wonder, life and
beauty even though nothing is as we expected.
And he called it thus not only when
beauty and hope helped him to overcome the incomprehensibility
of existence
in this world, but also when he met the darkness
of death and the cup
in which was distilled all the guilt, vanity - and emptiness
of this world was
placed at his lips and he could only repeat the desperate words
of the Psalmist: «My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!»
An Emergent definition
of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways
in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and
beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being
in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense
of the depth that people discover
in the oddest
places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source
of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move
in his reflections on
beauty and transience
in his Confessions).
My reply was that anything or anyone — or any horse — that displayed the
beauty of creation, and that embodied the excellence that Peter Berger would call a «rumor
of angels,» ought to have some
place in the Catholic press, even if the theological point wasn't hammered home with a sledge.)
Leeana is the author
of Found Art: Discovering
Beauty in Foreign
Places (Zondervan 2009), spiritual writings inspired by her time
in the Middle East.
Based on the «downward mobility» model
of the Beatitudes, Kathy's approach to «church» is radically different than what we've come to accept
in our consumer - driven Christian subculture and focuses instead on following Jesus into the hard
places of suffering, inequality and justice
in order to experience hope,
beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.
Viladesau does not shirk the important differences between various schools
of Christian theology
in understanding
of the
place and function
of art and
beauty in relation to God.
He thus illustrates how these thinkers influenced Percy's exploration
of man's inner confusion about his
place in the universe: how the Stoic virtue
of honorable endurance proper to Percy's Southern upbringing blossomed into the perception
of divine intent revealed through the
beauty of created things.
The prominent
place evil assumes
in the stories broadcast by the electronic church indulges our need for this strange form
of «
beauty» without granting us an enabling vision.
In the central
place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages
of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.
In the first
place he thinks it might be wishful thinking since we can not ourselves see any overall pattern
of beauty.
All Christians know,
of course, that it is through God's self - outpouring upon the cross that we are saved, and that we are made able by grace to participate
in Christ's suffering; but this should not obscure that other truth revealed at Easter: that the incarnate God enters «this cosmos» not simply to disclose its immanent rationality, but to break the boundaries
of fallen nature asunder, and to refashion creation after its ancient
beauty» wherein neither sin nor death had any
place.
And it is our being drawn toward the spectre
of eschatological
beauty that gives rise to our moral aspiration
in the first
place.
But that is the
beauty of an open church — that we find our inspiration
in many
places and are open to what we Friends call «continuing revelation».
In the first
place, we have seen that, from the very sciences themselves, the universe reveals God as the supreme Mind behind the amazing order, design and
beauty of creation.
And see q, 54 a 4 ad 2: «Although those openings
of the wounds break the continuity
of the tissue, still the greater
beauty of glory compensates for all this, so that the body is not less entire, but more perfected» and ad 1: «a special comeliness will appear
in the
places scarred by the wounds».
On page 29 it speaks
of truth's
beauty and goodness, and on page 38
of Thomas» integration
of reason with faith; but it is cool towards «an assent to formulas,» is wary
of «a fundamentalist assertion
of the Catholic truth,» and fails to refer to John Paul II's Fides et Ratio, or to Veritatis Splendor which validate the
place of careful, informed thought
in making ethical decisions.
Compatible with the contrast between the abstract harmony
of logic and the concrete harmony
of society and the arts is the
place given by Whitehead to the harmony
of truth
in contrast to the harmony
of beauty; Truth «is the conformation of Appearance to Reality -LSB-...] The notion of «conformation» in the case of Truth is narrower than that in the case of B
beauty; Truth «is the conformation
of Appearance to Reality -LSB-...] The notion
of «conformation»
in the case
of Truth is narrower than that
in the case
of BeautyBeauty.
It's also one
of the loveliest
places to enjoy all the
beauty of fall
in this area.
But then, there were more than a few magical moments on each trip where I really saw what my parents had been trying to show us year after year after year — that there are some really awesomely gorgeous
places in America, steeped with history and
beauty — that outside
of the craziness
of every day life there is a world where none
of the petty stuff matters, and what's really important is being together as a family appreciating some
of the more basic pleasures
of life.
The world - renowned Esalen Institute, located on the sacred cliffs above the ocean
in Big Sur, California, is a
place of peace and
beauty, a
place where people can contemplate, think, and discover.
My favorite appetizer, the «lollipop corndogs», at our go - to burger
place in Berkeley (home
of this
beauty).
The
beauty of this vegan tofu quiche recipe is its versatility — as long as the volumes stay the same, you can use pretty much any vegetables
in place of those listed.
Ok so if you're looking for a juice that will give a whole host
of beauty benefits then you are
in the right
place my friends!
7.23.13 The Road to 30 — Russian River Valley Celebrates 30th Grape - to - Glass Party «The Russian River Valley appellation has great physical
beauty and great wines, gorgeously lush ambassadors
of what California's stunning climate can do with the right grapes planted
in the right
places.