Sentences with phrase «life affirming things»

I can be tough when I need to but I'd rather fill my time, mind, and heart with positive and life affirming things.

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

Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop Random House, 342 pages, $ 22.50 What baleful things may befall a rugged, plain - spoken, life - affirming man when he ventures into that great bourne called The Beltway» that is the (probably unintended) theme of the....

The thing I loved most about it is that it took breastfeeding from a mystery to a normal part of life, while also affirming the art and wholeness and spirituality of the practice.

We get to talking about all the ways in which we've been disappointed and ostracized, and the next thing you know, we've slipped right into a contagiously cynical church - bashing session, the kind that can leave those who have had beautiful, affirming, and life - giving experiences in church feeling like the odd ones out.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Unencumbered, he could indulge in generalities that committed him only to his own opinion: «Novelists must be heroic in affirming life»; there are such things as «human nature,» «universal values,» and «a universal human morality.»

(35) They call us to what Sam Keen calls an «incarnate existence» in which we affirm the sacred in the so - called secular, and thereby gain a new and profound respect for our bodies and for all living things.

But maybe you can relate because when, for your entire life, you have this one thing that you do always, one thing that you feel good at doing, and then for the first time, someone in your real life, in your real church, notices and says, yes, you're good at it, and we welcome your gift, we affirm it, we see God at work in you?

Whitehead (1929) affirmed that all living things are characterized by a threefold urge: «(i) to live, (ii) to live well, (iii) to live better.

To affirm that living things emerged out of non-living ones, and that conscious beings emerged out of non-conscious ones, is not to affirm that the lower beings or processes produced something totally different from themselves.

When a 15 - year - old overachiever checks himself into a mental ward, he learns to affirm the good things in life without ever whitewashing the bad.

«New Beginnings is for a lot of families an opportunity to put their child somewhere where they know that they're going to be valued for their culture, where they're going to be affirmed — even for where they live, which is not a common thing no matter where you go,» Swagerty says.

Heart - breaking, life - affirming, laugh - out - loud: these may be clichés, but here's one novel that is all these things and more.

A life - affirming anthem to kindness and self - sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy.

t life - affirming thing that I've ever played, and it's difficult to put into words exactly why that is, especially in a short paragraph.

The artist's approach to abstraction is not a conceptual or analytical exercise, but a life - affirming method of communication with the viewer, each brush stroke containing much more than just visual information: «Paint strokes do a number of things, but they do not simply describe the form in my work: they affirm the human spirit, the involvement of the human spirit» (S. Scully, Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings, London, 2006, p. 25).

Stockholder's installations, sculptures and collages affirm the primacy of pleasure, the blunt reality of things and the rich heterogeneity of life.

Life - affirming and dangerous, she is an accidental mentor to the best younger artists here, and a rejoinder to mediocrity, to things I prefer not to recall.

Hardly some juvenile punk carrying a chip on her shoulder, Barlow is that very rare thing: a mature cultural sophisticate who apparently retains a virile sense of devil - may - care adventure and a life affirming generosity of spirit.

We might well expect to see the same thing in other subjects: for example, life scientists no longer need to affirm evolution through natural selection, it has become settled science; geologists take plate tectonics for granted today, although they would not have in the 1960s when there was a scientific revolution underway.

It's the most life - affirming thing you can do.

That is a relatively short term as financial companies go but one thing Globe Life has going for it is Globe Life's A.M. Best Company rating of A +, Superior affirmed as of July 2017.

Assuming substance abuse isn't involved, anything that will affirm your new life and keep your mind off your ex is a positive thing.

These are the times I have noticed in marriages of change and opportunity, when both partners may be open to learning new things about each other and themselves, and still see the relationship as positive, life - affirming, permanent.