Sentences with phrase «life affirming in»

In fact, the Hindu tradition, which includes sensual pleasure among its aims, is far more life affirming in my view than the Christian tradition.

Life affirms itself in us.

Not exact matches

Any choice you make that eliminates toxic chemicals in your life is health - affirming.

But more important, it hopes that Shpeel will affirm that there is still a lot of life in the Cirque du Soleil brand.

As we all try to understand what this vote means to us, I want to affirm to anyone on our team that is scared or feels personally exposed, that I and everyone else here at Grubhub will fight for your dignity and your right to make a better life for yourself and your family here in the United States.

Speaking to the High River Times in April 2015, Mr. Fraser was quoted as saying «I will emphasize the Pro-Life values of Albertans, making constituents and other candidates aware of the issues surrounding abortion and how they are directly relevant to provincial policy... We should de-fund abortion and fund the life affirming alternatives of crisis pregnancy support, parental support, and adoption.»

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

The first consists of the claim, affirmed in a December 23, 1988 Vatican press statement and quoted in the bishops» statement, that «the supreme pontiff... is deeply convinced that the two peoples have an identical, fundamental right to have their own homeland in which they live in freedom, dignity, and security in harmony with their neighbors.»

Yes, there are welcoming congregations, but even in some of those, things are not life affirming.

Janny and I not only met new friends who we hope will be part of our lives for a long time, we drove home with full hearts — hearts that were affirmed in hope being possible.

As for doctrine, the already proposed Anglican Covenant was affirmed by the primates as a «vital element in strengthening the life of the Communion.»

By respecting equally the life of the unborn child and the life of the mother, by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-life.

Citing, and affirming, the wisdom of the Athenians, St. Paul declares, «In Him we live and move and have our being.»

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

I don't find the abusive nature of Fundamentalism in religion or politics life affirming.

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

It calls for the identification and development of resources «which will enable all families to be ministered to creatively and all persons, regardless of their family patterns, to be affirmed and supported in the life of the Church...» Behind such statements lies an emphasis articulated already in 1978 by G. William Sheek, then Director of Family Ministries and Human Sexuality of the National Council of Churches.

He also redeems Augustine at this point, pointing out that he affirmed the Lord's bodily ascension as well as gendered existence in the life of the world to come.

It is not hard to see the result, in America and Western civilization generally, as the embattled simplicities of a life - affirming libertinism and a life - denying asceticism complicate all attempts to answer the question whether it is safer to choose abundance than scarcity.

As Jacques Dupuis put it, Vatican II affirmed positive elements not only in the personal lives of people of other faiths but in the religious traditions to which they belong.

I want to be known as one who speaks life, not death; who empowers and affirm and speaks even the hard truth in love and invitation.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

Others could easily affirm God as active in the lives of persons.

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

George Weigel, the Pope's biographer, recently in effect affirmed that St John Paul lived this out in his friendships.

Rather, Paul is affirming that God gives life to the dead in the sense that God gives life and being where there were none before (see verses 18 - 25).

He opened his lecture by affirming the Church's teaching that Catholics must live life to its natural end, a familiar and welcome belief among the folks in the audience that morning.

If God will raise us from death to a new life of fuller communion with himself then this will be sheer miracle: God's re-creative Word affirming us in the moment of our utter nothingness.

Because Lewis has kept the action in this novel on the supernatural level, in the nontemporal, a-historical Eden, he can affirm life here; but the contrast between Malacandra and earth is such that human life is seen as brutal and brutish.

Eden affirms that all Christians are called to live chastely, as the Catechism explains, whatever their state in life.

Moreover, preachers admit that they fail to make use of significant events in the lives of their people and ignore their meaning instead of making them a part of the curriculum of Christian teaching by affirming, complementing, and evaluating them.

To affirm Eternal Recurrence and renounce autonomous selfhood is to live the Kingdom of God, which is in our midst.

We live in a dangerous world and affirm the crucial role of government in protecting us from harm and in setting the terms on refugee admissions.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

We are to affirm the fundamental goodness of life but not so as to acquiesce in the power of evil as it thwarts and destroys life.

Camus steadfastly affirms the value of life in spite of personal and historical tragedy.

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

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The old Testament affirms the goodness of life and sexuality, and sexual language is freely used to describe the relationship between God and his people, but the prophetic tradition is consistently and radically opposed to the kind of sexual worship found in Baalism.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

Instead of simply stating the law and reacting in panic when it is widely broken, those concerned for traditional moral wisdom would do much better to affirm the high possibility of the life of faithful love, and to understand with love what is happening to people in ghettoes, in college campuses, in the life of the family today.

The Oliners» work shows that the golden rule is far better than obedience to edicts in producing positive, life - affirming outcomes.

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

But Christians affirm that in fact God works through other means, the worldly means of politics, economics, family life, and so forth.

The peaceful protesters in Ferguson seem to have been motivated by the violation of their life - affirming sensibilities, and rightfully so.

The Hebrews were a lusty life - affirming people, and their literature reveals and revels in this attitude.

Dr. William Porcher DuBose seems to suggest in his fine autobiography Turning Points of My Life, and James Matthew Thompson explicitly said in his Through Fact to Faith — both of these books are nearly a half - century old — that the soundly biblical conception of providence serves to safeguard and to state all that the term «miracle» was once used to affirm.