Sentences with phrase «joys of being human»

Having lived in solitude for so many years, the ascetic has touched the pains and joys of being human and is humbly aware that no one is excluded from frailty, weakness and sin.

«I would never want anyone to think I was making some sort of spiritual claim other than the pure joy of being human that belongs to everyone free of religion.»

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Anger, sadness, loneliness, joy — all of these emotions are part of the human condition, and you can't escape them.

We're just open to experiencing the love, loss, pain, laughter and joy — the emotional truths of being human.

But the end result is the same: By its nature, human erotic love is ordered to creating and raising new life, and to the mutual joy and support of a man and woman vowed in a covenant of love.

The article is informative in letting people that suffering is part of the human experience, just like joy, love, etc..

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

In fact, those human moments are are the sacred moments — birth, grief, work, death, suffering, sex, joy, laundry, all of it.

Christ's love was life - giving because when human hearts opened up to Him for whom they were made, the result was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes from knowing you are close to God, or that you are loved by God.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

For what exhilarates us human creatures more than freedom, more than the glory of achievement, is the joy of finding and surrendering to a Beauty greater than man, the rapture of being possessed.

«The experience of absolute control over another being, of omnipotence so far as he, she or it is concerned, creates the illusion of transcending the limitations of human existence, particularly for those whose lives are deprived of productivity and joy.

There would be certain consequences that come with the act of procreation, namely, a deeper union between the couple: «spiritual and sacramental love, joy of possession, and the fulfilment of human, complementary vocation in one flesh, all taken up to God», [5] as well as a natural organic pleasure such as accompanies the proper functioning of other humanacts (like eating and drinking).

The joy of the gospel of marriage springs from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the good news of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that is inseparable from the Truth, who frees the human person and reveals to him what it means to be human.4 Only in Jesus does every human being discover what it means to be truly human, to be made for God and to live in relationship with God, to have true happiness.

We rightly reject the sort of spiritual shallowness which expresses itself in an affected superiority in the presence of the extraordinary richness of human life, that underplays the wonder and the joy of married love, and at the same time (there is a connection) depreciates the worlds of natural beauty and of the arts.

The enrichment and joy of human relationships in sex has been denied its importance.

There is a range of concepts of God's grace, wrath, glory, and the like, of human joy, guilt, awe, and the like, that are characteristically and particularly (though not necessarily uniquely) Christian.

According to Christian faith, this inner life of the spirit is more vital to human nature than the body because it is here that our desires, hopes, aspirations, joys and sorrows, motives, and ideals are located.

This is a very healthy corrective to a great deal that has unquestionably disfigured the history of institutional Christianity; for instance, the sometimes subtle but persistent belittling of the richest and most profound of human experiences, as if the joys of human love were somehow suspect, and not among the most sheerly precious experiences that life has to offer.

Humor, on the other hand, is born from an altogether higher recognition: that tragic contradiction is not absolute, that finitude is not only pain and folly, and that the absurdity of our human contradictions can even be a cause for joy.

There are things that do not fall into that category: friendship, joy, sorrow, love, hatred, kindness and much else of what makes us humans unique in this measurable universe.

Could a human experience with all its subtle mixture of contentment and worry make sense to a being who has eternally existed in perfect peace and joy?

More important, as I have written, «In trying to reach a consensus of the faithful, the key to bringing persons together is in sharing opinions, ideas, dreams, hopes, doubts, feelings of despair or joy, and those normal human expressions that make us who we are.»

As the most intimate of all human relationships, as the one that to the majority of people is the most central and precious, the one giving the most joy - as well as the most pain - does it not contain enormous theological potential?

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

At the end of the day, «heaven» and «hell» are human devices / metaphors that describe the conscious emotions of joy and suffering.

Writing on joy, she exults in the wonder of a God who would choose human beings for such a task, and she describes the facets of redeeming love: «Redemption does not mean you and me made safe and popped into heaven.

But if we understand God's «glory» as precisely the divine Love - in - act, with its rejoicing in the joys and its sorrowing with the sadness of God's human children — indeed the glory which is nothing other than the divine generosity, gracious welcome, and unfailing faithfulness in mercy and forgiveness, then the phrase is rich in meaning.

God, in whose loving reality made known to us in these brief glimpses in the act of worship, gives us «joy and peace in believing»; and that God is our human destiny itself.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

Surely what's not at stake is the enjoyment and delight in the «light and ephemeral» joys that form so much of the substance of human relationships.

Although God wishes human beings love God from the centre of their lives, in their joys and blessings, it is also true that God wishes people to remain faithful in suffering.

With that said, I think they do want the general belief in God, a general sense that goodness orders the universe, that love and peace and joy are all good things, that human rights actually matter, and that we can experience some sort of mystical communion with God / the universe / whatever through spirituality.

Perhaps it was just the warmth of the afternoon, or the excitement of the moment, or the clear affection which the happy couple held for each other, or perhaps it was that Paul had over-prepared for this reading or was finding some human joy for himself in the intoxicating words.

Besides being explanatory models of the phenomena of life, they also provided personality figures with whom ancient man could identify in the variety of human experience, such as wonder, despair, joy, sorrow.

We can certainly say that his real climax is in the Passion narrative, for the tomb pericope which now ends the Gospel has little of the Easter joy and human interest that are to be found in John's tomb story.

The ultimate goal of Christian marriage enrichment is to liberate couples to claim and share the fruits of the spirit for which the human family longs — love, faithfulness, integrity, reconciliation, healing, joy, and peace.

Furthermore, we need to recognize the plain fact that a good deal of physical and, even more obviously, of psychological suffering is made possible through exactly the same human (and other) conditioning that makes it possible to enjoy the sense of well - being, even of joy.

The goal of human striving is taken to be the maximizing of the joy of life which is the accompaniment of the process whereby the potentialities of life are actualized in a process of continual growth.

The Lord is the goal of human history, the focal point of the longings of history and of civilisation, the centre of the human race, the joy of every heart and the answer to all its yearnings» (45).

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

Art is the process of expressing in concrete forms human emotions and aspiration, ranging from the simple joys of being to the most complex metaphysical expressions.

Only, because it is always a joy to me to thank him to whom I am indebted, I would thank Lessing for the one solitary hint of a Christian drama which is found in his Hamturg ~ Drama ~ urgieA» He, however, fixed his glance upon the purely divine side of the Christian life (the consummated victory) and hence he had misgivings; perhaps he would have expressed a different judgment if he had paid more attention to the purely human side (theologia viatorum).

Towards the fulfillment of His purposes He has brought man into being and He offers to His human children the privilege of co-operating with Him so that they may have a share in the effecting of these ends and, at the same time, find a supreme joy for themselves as they are related to Him and participate in His communication of life.

We see the truly human in Christ in the words spoken in the olive grove (cf. Lk 22, 42), and in the reminder to the apostles that if they loved him, they would put selfishness to one side, and would be glad that he was going to the Father, «for the Father is greater than I» (Jn 14, 28), which is but to say that the Father is the source of my origin and my joy.

Viladesau adapts to aesthetics an argument from Kant and concludes that «God is... self - subsistent joy in God's own being and in all that participates in it, and the supreme goal and mover of human desire.»

Yet it is right when he speaks in the nature of man, that we should see that the «Father» is still hisfruition, in the Divine Person, and that we should see in his human nature also, as the Son of Man and High Priest of Mankind, the reverence, the subordination, and the joy with which we should be swept up in and through him to the Father.

There is also the joy and the happiness of Christ, which is the radiation through His human psyche of the joy which defines the being of God in Itself.

That is why Jesus says that when a sinner repents, heaven is overtaken with joy, heaven goes crazy of the salvation of a human - being — unlike the Pharisees and Scribes that go crazy over finding a lost animal!

That kind of joy in human gifts and human capacity is the basis of art, the basis of everything good in culture.