Sentences with phrase «leaving a gift of»

No we don't - but I have to say, those family members who raid Costco and leave gifts of food for the nurses are much appreciated.

Her mother left her the gift of being able to think and feel however she wished and not be bound by any boundaries!

Or you could also ask, why did they left the Gift of Battle in the new recipes or why didn't they add a tradeable currency for that too?

It is one's hope, as an artist, to leave a gift of knowing, as Ad Reinhardt did, for other artists so that our visual language can be further explored and built upon.

Ohh no the little tinker I know they usually like to leave you gifts of mice but that errkkkk I don't think I would be to pleased about hee hee

Not exact matches

What might be nice if you've had a good Airbnb stay is to leave a thank you note and, depending on how generous you feel, a gift such as flowers or a bottle of wine.

A few too many parties, a culinary over-indulgence or two, and a little over-excitement when gift shopping can leave us feeling exhausted, unhealthy, financially overstretched, and surrounded by giant piles of stuff, so that just when you should be starting the new year with energy, you're instead feeling frazzled and exhausted.

In his great work The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill notes that Abram, progenitor of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was himself an innovator, leaving behind a religious world where multiple Gods were credited with the responsibilities of daily life to follow a God who asked him to travel far and believe.

Instead of placing a lot of importance on leaving a big inheritance for future generations, she said many grandparents want to be the person in the family that people can turn to now — whether it's to help out with college tuition or get that must - have holiday gift.

Start by sending new subscribers a small gift of a coupon code when they receive a welcome email; this will leave them with a positive first impression and keep them engaging with your messages.

This strategy translates well to buying gifts online: If you're deciding between a few choices, put all of them in your cart, and leave them for a few days without checking out (as long as you'll still have time for delivery before they're needed).

New York Times Washington correspondent David Sanger called Trump's climate decision a «strategic gift to the Chinese, who are eager to fill the void that Washington is leaving around the world on everything from setting the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing the infrastructure projects that give Beijing vast influence.»

To leave a lasting impression, give a gift at an unexpected time of year.

A supervisor leaves a gift on each desk with this note: «I think we have lost connection to the true meaning of Thanksgiving so I wanted to give you something that reminds you of its true meaning.»

The simplest way to leave a gift: you designate a specific asset, sum of money, or percentage of your estate as a gift to the Foundation in your Will.

Making gifts to your spouse can sometimes work well if your estate is larger than your spouse's, and one or both of you will leave an estate larger than the applicable exclusion amount.

On the left side of the margin, there are special promotions, gifts, tournaments, and messages.

My objections would have more to do with the lengths some might go to cut their taxes under such a system; selling stocks in droves right before tax season, giving gifts out to family and friends (perhaps with the intent to take them back after the tax man leaves), and of course, owning more assets outside of America.

Even leaving out the idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act of counter-cultural liberation, with which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind of thing I was taught, by teachers of impeccable liberalism, to praise.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

Then I discovered that Christ had already borne the weight of my sin, and that once I accepted His gift, He would never leave.

What is left out is not the pleasure, not the togetherness, but an openness to something beyond the couple that places them on the trajectory of self - gift, rather than on the trajectory of self - indulgence.

His extraordinary gifts as poet — and these are the most salient aspects of what he has left behind — enable him to reach everyone who loves to watch or hear language do everything it can do.

After saying «The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,» I would need to explain the word grace as «a wonderful gift from Jesus that leaves you very happy,» and they would have been able to connect with that.

I myself have left two of the new movements, broken - hearted, but this does not negate the wonderful gifts that God gave my family in each case.

Central to this tale would be the wondrous birth of Isaac, after a lifetime (ninety years) of infertility, which leaves no doubt that children are a gift, not a maternal product and possession — the latter a dangerous, albeit perfectly natural, belief of womankind, as we learn from Eve's proud boasting at the birth of Cain.

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He gifts us with any number of good and virtuous options, and then leaves the decision to us.

To me, his gift in life is helping to save Catholicism, which is having many problems retaining members throughout the world, especially in Europe, maybe he should become a religious leader and leave politics to people who actually understand the focus of the nation and the world aside from Lucifer.

I think Bob has stated perfectly why people are leaving this faith, because many aspects of it are implausible and unreasonable... which many Christians fully admit (God doesn't want us to use the brain he gifted us with, He just wants simple obedience / faith — like a drone or slave).

God's act of justification by grace enables persons to switch worlds, to leave that culture of death and to enter a world always intended by God for people (the new creation), founded on the total and entirely free gift from God (justification by grace).

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

It is as if someone offered us, with his left hand, the gift of love; and then, with his right hand, made a fist at us and said, «If you won't accept love, I'll knock you down».

The natural law is a gracious gift serving to mitigate the consequences of sin, as well as to leave everyone without excuse.

There «disillusionment» enters the individual existence suddenly and unexpectedly and when, as may happen, it comes at the beginning of that existence, nothing is left to the one who is «saved» but the senseless and aimless vegetating of his only gifts.

When I came back to Catholicism in 1981, I didn't come back to the old Church which I'd left, which was a gift that I loved — but for me if was gift of fear and guilt.

It comes at last — the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, where they achieved nothing, where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; where they have left no sign that they have existed — a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.»

I am leaving you with a gift — peace of mind and heart.

When I left the Charismatic Vineyard church over frustrations I experienced there among them being what I regarded as a cavalier exercising of «gifts» causing damage someone came to me with a word of encouragement on my last day.

In previous generations God has left the gentiles without revelation, only intimating his power by his gift of rain and of the seasons which produce food and consequent gladness for men (Acts 14:15 - 17).

These people, knowing it necessary that people that we have been given an undeserved gift of Grace didn't choose to «keep it simple» but felt compelled to also make sure we were aware: Christianity is shocking in that God loves us so much he was willing to die for us rather than leave us trying (and failing) to impress him on our own; but frankly, people had conceived of such an notion before, the twist is that a God fully capable of saving us has already accomplished all the necessary work to save us but without needing us to do so nonetheless invites us to participate in our own salvation.

Imagine if Santa didn't leave actual, physical gifts, but was credited for the feelings of goodwill and generosity that people feel during the holidays, and what if he wasn't supposed to be living in a «real» place like the North Pole, but was just an invisible spirit, like some other characters we know?

The protagonist of Humboldt's Gift, Charlie Citrine, is a successful playwright and biographer who returns to the Chicago of his boyhood; muddles about in the urban scene while trying to straighten out a marital problem; leaves for Spain with a large friend, Renata; is deserted by her; returns to America to bury his old friend Von Humboldt Fleisher; and receives his bequest.

We are left with the picture of a singularly fecund historical interlude, composed of variously gifted and creatively eccentric individuals seemingly arising out of nowhere and committed to a symbolic transformation of the world of their contemporaries.

I live my life chasing empty distraction, playing with pieces of ribbon while leaving the gift unopened.

if it is truly a gift the no amount of good works is need... we leave the rest to God as stated:::::: Matthew 6:33 King James Version (KJV)

Have we overemphasised the Pauline teaching on each person being a part of the Body of Christ, and the diversity of the spiritual gifts, so that UK Christians now simply pick their gift from the list, get on with it and leave it at that?

As least he leaves with a bottle of maple syrup as a nice parting gift.

• One of the country's flagship left - wing radio stations, where James Baldwin once debated Malcolm X and whose most popular host once grilled President Clinton on his failures to advance progressive causes (we regret not having heard this), New York City's WBAI offered books by lefty favorites Howard Zinn and Robert Reich for its most recent pledge - week gifts.

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