Sentences with phrase «life affirming moments»

Although this work reflects on the complex situation in Afghanistan, Stimson deflects the focus away from the truncated newsreel moments to daily life affirming moments.»

While most days my job as nurse brings out lots of happy and life affirming moments, there are unfortunate times when I see children that are sick, hurting, and very unwell.

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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.

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.

The Christian will affirm that at any given moment the natural world as a whole is gathered into the experience of a single ongoing Life, a divine Self, who feels the whole, «declaring it good,» or at least potentially so, both in its particulars and in its complex unity.

Who can positively affirm that at this moment, although we perceive nothing, new forms are not taking shape in the contours of the earth and of 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.

Every moment of your life you are affirming that it makes sense.

Finally, radical faith calls us to give ourselves totally to the world, to affirm the fullness and the immediacy of the present moment as the life and the energy of Christ.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

Thus, due to cultural familial and other environmental conditions, God was able to initiate the possibility of a full relationship with the person of Jesus from the beginning, and at every moment of his life Jesus freely chose to affirm and maximize the initiative that was his.

Although not without moments of sadness and tragedy, Brooklyn is sublimely uplifting and life affirming.

At a low moment, Barnum is even comforted by a formerly dismissive critic who essentially admits that he secretly admires Barnum's whole stupid, supposedly life - affirming deal.

Dialing up Arcade Fire, Of Monsters and Men, and The Lumineers (and practically every other contemporary band you can think of that writes rousing, lighter - raising pop hymns), the two - thirds mark of the movie is essentially defined by sequences serving as launch pads for yet another life affirming music moment (the score by Theodore Shapiro also employs the help of autumnal indie pop troubadour Jose Gonzalez to mildly better effect).

For me, those moments are priceless; they affirm that miracles still happen — including the one in which a projected «failure at life» went on to become a teacher of visually impaired students.

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.

It's intoxicating and life - affirming, yet there's also a moment of relief when we join the relative calm of a trunk road.

Or, maybe a class of third - graders will save up their quarters and buy a copy of your book, even though they could have had it for free, giving you one of those life - affirming moments to cling to when events turn life - denying.

Now, Catherine has compiled a year's worth of her favorite awe - inspiring and life - affirming moments in 365 DAYS OF GRATITUDE, a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of our world and to the joyful act of giving thanks.

When you Goons get particularly nasty, I often take a few moments to read a few of those warm and loving and life - affirming comments.

This is not a work of realism; it stands powerfully as a symbol for moments that are life - affirming.

In a moment of potential transformation or whatever news, revelations and life - changing scenarios await us, The Therapist Office asserts the need in such environments for affirming, alluring and distracting artworks...