Sentences with phrase «is a giver as»

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This is a reflection of one's «giver» nature, as described by Adam Grant in his New York Times best - seller, Give and Take.

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.»

The problem is the giver's imposing his or her values on you, as well as his or her insensitivity and excluding you from the process.

Under the current system of lax or non-existent restrictions on political spending, billionaire givers are at least as influential as any individual member of the House or Senate, probably a bigger deal than the chairmen of the two major political parties.

Robbins points to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff as being a total giver, which has set him up for success in business.

When I would teach / preach on «tithing» as a New Testament practice, I would ask the listener (read: giver - to - be) the following question: «If in the New Testament we find no reference to «tithing» let alone a stated percentage to give to the «church», and if it is our understanding (perhaps even our practice!)

-- Since God truly is the giver of life, He deserves worship as such.

With the widespread loss of belief in God as law - giver, the idea of being morally bound or obliged — as if this or that verdict on your action hangs in the balance — loses its basic meaning, however much it might retain its compelling psychological effect.

Instead I am outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, the people of the second chance, the radical grace givers, the ones with arms wide open, the ones that you've rejected as not worthy of being listened to and I will be happy here.

Christ necessarily became male because this is the sex that expresses in its identity most fully His role as Saviour and Life - giver for all humanity, a role that is determining, dynamic and initiating.

I want to be outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, the second - chance givers, the radical grace lavishers, the ones with arms wide open, the courageously vulnerable, and among even — or maybe especially — the ones rejected by the Table as not worthy enough or right enough.

The only sex that can articulate and embody Christ's role as Bridegroom and Life - giver to the Church, as the onewho is ever present to care for her, is the male one.

Rather, it is a proclamation that, in the happening of Jesus the Christ, God discloses himself as the ever - present giver of our lives, and, therefore, we are free to live our lives as they are given moment by moment.

All religious reality begins with the acceptance of the concrete situation as given one by the Giver, and it is this which Biblical religion calls the «fear of God.»

I consider the giver to be the same person as the recipient.

Pastoral care - givers can not convey «a presence by means of which [others are] told that nevertheless there is meaning» unless they understand themselves as participating in a ministry not their own but Christ's.

God is a giver and we should do as He did.

Christocentrism has not been abated, but Christ as giver of grace is seen as author of nature and Lord of history as well.

We have to be aware as both givers and receivers that funding, while sometimes necessary, is no substitute for people who are willing to be the hands and feet of a good God who loves them.

Craig i am thinking that even though the promise hadnt been fulfilled through Christs death the act of faith is what saved them.As abraham believed God and was credited to hi mas righteousness.I was thinking though there were different dispensation periods ie pre flood enoch post flood elijah the prophets Moses the law giver and jesus all were taken up to God to heaven not just enoch so in all periods there was a representative of Christ as an example to the people of that time that the messiah was coming.brent

On the one hand, he is revealed as the Giver of food and drink and as the One who commands us to eat and drink.

Because Jesus Christ is present with all people as the Giver of food and drink and as the Bread of life, and because his presence is revealed to his congregation by the Holy Spirit, and because he permits and commands us to eat and, drink, therefore we may and must eat and drink all things with Jesus in faith, love and hope.

Although God is certainly admired as a warrior who leads armies into battle, God is far more centrally the giver of the law.

God, as the giver of the future, is the limitless origin of promise.

That is, they have no particular connection with Jesus of Nazareth, so if we are Christians they must play a subordinate role, one that complements his role as central meaning - giver and direction - pointer.

We concluded that there are several reasons that could be used to support an argument for choosing Jesus as our compass, for granting him a sacred role as meaning - giver: first, we are not aware of any especially good alternatives; second, his ability to serve in this role has been confirmed in many faithful lives; and third, in choosing him we align ourselves with a compass which is in the public domain, and as such our interpretation is subject to the correction of tradition and public debate.

Indeed, the tree's self - expenditure is, at the same time, paradoxically not self - denial but self - fulfillment — at least self - fulfillment as a loving mother and as a giver.

Here, as in 25:1 - 9, the emphasis is placed upon the spirit of the giver, the cordial, willing disposition of the one making the offering of help for the Tabernacle (see especially vss.

I am learning to choose faithfulness, contentment, responsibility and generosity in the rhythms of a life dedicated to the ways of Jesus and real personhood, affirming our Maker as creator and giver and sustainer of it all.

Yeah, I know that's a pretty significant qualifier on the end, and we can bicker all day about what that would entail, but how you think about it will reveal to you whether you a cheerful giver or view worshiping the Savior with your wallet as a form of tax code in which you are glad to find a loophole.

For as soon as something passes into someone else's hands, it is marked by their character, by their usage; it has become something different in a sense, insofar as the gift - giving succeeds in establishing understanding between giver and recipient.

For as many have noted, even to have the consciousness of being a giver is to reward oneself for giving and to cancel the gratuity of the gift.

In my view there is at least today a distinct experience and teaching in Catholic theology according to which God must be understood as the all - efficient Giver who gives himself both the potency of freedom and its good act according to his grace that is neither derived nor compelled, and which nothing in man precedes.

And, as I shall seek to demonstrate, to eliminate the Old Testament eliminates not only a huge number of wars but also the essential picture of what peace is all about, of God as giver of peace, of how peace is to be maintained and ordered — its connection with justice — and of the final peace that is promised and hoped for.

He has instead made a perfect universe in which His laws are precisely obeyed, in and through which He, as the ultimate cause and the law - giver, controls and directs material and biological evolution.

The Christmas story — the one according to Luke not Dickens — is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

So, if I find myself wishing I was sick because I felt fatigued to do church, or I'm not as patient with people, I figure out what the energy - givers and the energy - takers are.

There we are portrayed not as the givers we wish we were but as the receivers we are.

Be a gift giver — tell your spouse all the things that you regard as his or her major assets, strengths, and attractive qualities.

However, since focus on these gifts could also lead to a false sense of elitism or to the neglect of other aspects of the faith, many Pentecostals are careful to insist both on the importance of the fruits of the Spirit (as recorded in Galatians 5:22 - 24) and on seeking after the Giver of the gifts, the Holy Spirit, rather than after the gifts themselves.

And of course, like what happens so often, we think that we help provide the blessing by giving, when in reality the giver is blessed as well, not just those on the receiving end.

it is not uncommon to find those who stand outside the Hebrew faith characterizing the God of the Old Testament as one whose nature is essentially that of the righteous law - giver who demands conformity to his law.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

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Whatever metaphor we use, he is the true source and giver of eternal life to the individual as well as to the world.

Only as such possessions are used for the alleviation and not for the production of human misery can we be true stewards of the Creator and Giver of all.

But those who either do not use these things or who use them as though they used them not, trusting more in Him who gave them than in the things given, understanding in them His consolation and mercy and who are not absorbed in these gifts lest they fall away from the giver, these are they whom the day will not overtake as a thief unprepared.15

As you will recall, Nygren insists that in God there is no eros (the Greek word, by the way, for what I have been calling «desire», which significantly also in Greek means «love»); in God there is only agape, which Nygren interprets to mean the love which gives without regard either to the value of the recipient or the urgency on the part of the giver to receive a returning love.

Envisioning yourselves as companion, friends, lovers, care - givers, servants and much more — those are nobel ideals.

It is cruel to allocate health - care resources in such a way that the young and those in mid-life, who still have so much to live for and so much to contribute, must through their tax dollars be forced to pay for sophisticated equipment to prolong lives which long for nothing so much as to return to their Giver.