Sentences with phrase «life affirming means»
Why Spay / Neuter is Good for Our City Spaying and Neutering are humane and life affirming means of ending euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets.
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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.
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.
But Christians affirm that in fact God works through other means, the worldly means of politics, economics, family life, and so forth.
I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.
And when women, dancing Sarah's circle, affirm the importance of relationships in human life, they are doing more than reflecting women's psychology; they are showing all Christians what it means to be created in God's image.
The Faith movement holds that there is an all - pervasive Meaning within the material universe; nothing is arbitrary or expedient, but purposeful and life - affirming.
Every suicide, and especially an assisted suicide, represents a failure of the human community to affirm the meaning of a person's life.
But if basic democracy means the attempt to order the common life in such a way that these conditions are met — and I believe that basic democracy can be so defined — then the positive relationship between the Christian ethic and political and social democracy is here affirmed.
[1] John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1995), 65: AAS 87 (1995) 476, recalls that «Pius XII affirmed that it is licit to relieve pain by narcotics even when the result is decreased consciousness and a shortening of life, «if no other means exist, and if, in the given circumstances, this does not prevent the carrying out of other religious and moral duties.»
They were transformed from abstractions (that I affirmed so that I could keep belonging to my tribe) into meaning - rich narratives that I had to wrestle with to understand if and how they informed my life.
Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.
It's nothin to do with male domination or the extreme women's liberation movement but rather coming along side and affirming the gifts of the other and encouraging the man in his place of leading and initiating and the women strengthening and empowering the men in her life to be all that they were meant to be.
This means that no pastoral care can be complete which does not assume a form including a call to renewed discipleship to those capable of actively witnessing to the Kingdom of God in their own lives, as well as a call to affirm respectfully the incapacitated as themselves signs of God's gracious presence and identification with those deemed hopeless in the world's sight.
This means that affirming something passionately enough — in this case the full reality of the profane, secular, worldly character of modern life — will somehow deliver to the seeker the opposite, the sacred, as a gift he does not deserve.
Sex has this amazing function that it is at one and the same time the means of making new people within the binding union of marriage and what establishes and affirms that binding union within which new life is nurtured and raised.
In attitudinal values meaning is derived from choosing a life - affirming attitude toward even desperate situations.
In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.
If there is salvation only for those who believe in Christ, as «extreme Christians» affirm, and salvation for them means eternal life in God, then what will be the fate of the great majority of the people of Asia, or more than two - thirds of the human race?
Blomberg offers as his definition of inerrancy one penned by Paul Feinberg: «Inerrancy means that when all facts are known, the Scriptures in their original autographs and properly interpreted will be shown to be wholly true in everything that they affirm, whether that has to do with doctrine or morality or with the social, physical, or life sciences.»
«Death for a person,» declares Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas, «means ceasing to love and to be loved, ceasing to be unique and unrepeatable, whereas life for the person means the survival of the uniqueness of its hypostasis [personification], which is affirmed and maintained by love.»
This also means strengthening those communities and traditions which affirm life and its relationships.
More concretely it means to support values, practices and institutions that affirm and enhance life and to denounce systems and structures that diminish and extinguish the lives of so many.
By GOOD I mean life - affirming, joy - inducing, compassionate, and challenging.
A meta - analysis of dozens of studies of traditional Chinese medicine and other nonpharmacological interventions meant to improve patients» quality of life affirms that these approaches, on the whole, help alleviate depression, fatigue, pain, anxiety, insomnia and gastrointestinal problems in Chinese cancer patients.
I think Baumbach and Gerwig mean Brooke to be a life - affirming free spirit who can't find a place in our mercenary world.
Reworking James Thurber's 1939 short story into a wake - up call for middle - aged white men to stop dreaming and start living, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is weakly life - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meanLife of Walter Mitty is weakly life - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meanlife - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meaning.
This is meant to seem funny and life - affirming but probably will do nothing for the kids's SAT scores.
McQueen has grown as a person, I mean, car, and Cruz has an epiphany about believing in herself, and of course we all share in the joy of an all - around, life - affirming, girl - power moment.
And while its wider role means it doesn't feel quite as focused as the 599 GTO, as a mad, life - affirming supercar, the F12 is pretty darn special.
Providence Animal Center is dedicated to their mission of life - affirming care for animals, which means that no animal will be put to sleep unless it is medically necessary.
Upon his return to New York City, Stamos affirmed his commitment to the exploration of abstraction and continued to create works guided by his firm belief that «for the painter there exists a spiritual power, which communicates life and meaning to material forms, and... he must achieve this power before taking part in the elaboration of forms.»
Freed from the obligations of representation, Malevich exhibited there his «Black Square on White Ground», while affirming that «Creating means living, eternally creating newer and newer forms».
«It is quite right,» Oldenburg wrote while working on The Street, «to emphasize the vulgar if it has been neglected, if art has become too lyrical... by vulgar I mean proletarian, ordinary, tasteless, but also instinctive (life affirming).»
Beautifully simple in its structure and application, pro bono provides the most nimble and direct means for lawyers to facilitate access to justice by affirming it and living it, and not simply by talking about it.