Sentences with phrase «life passage such»

Are you navigating a difficult life passage such as mid-life, parenting a teen or caring for an elder?

Healing Gifts: Soul - deep sexual healing, alchemy (turning «trash» into treasure), helping people through extreme life passages such as births, deaths, and other transitions

Not exact matches

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

With such metaphors in John as the «bread of life» and «vine and branches,» these passages lack the narrative quality which would make them parables.

Do the phrases «after two days» and «on the third day» have any such association in this passage from Hosea, where, to describe the hoped for restoration of Israel, they are used in conjunction with the three verbs, «restore to life», «raise to life», and «live» which form the basic vocabulary of resurrection?

Summarizing Lewis, (and referencing Scriptural passages such as 1 Corinthians 4:5, 2 Corinthians 10:18, Romans 2:29, John 5:44, and 1 Peter 1:7), Wesley writes that «pondering this future glory... has implications for how we think about our lives now.

The pre-existent glory is brought into connection with the remembered facts of Jesus» life in such passages as those quoted in the preceding paragraph, of which II Corinthians 8:9 is typical: «Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor.

One gathers from the Philippians passage, as well as from such sentences as that quoted from II Corinthians, that far from being embarrassed by the normality of the earthly life, Paul saw in it a sign of how much Christ had been willing to sacrifice on our behalf.

Such passages as these have been quoted by Christians to justify an ascetic view of family life, and by those not Christians to disparage the wholesomeness of Jesus» outlook upon this most intimate of human relationships.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

True, the latter does not emphasize the life - giving powers of wisdom, though this is not foreign to its thought, and some passages approximate such statement (3:18, 22; 4: -13, 22; 7:2 - 8:35).

Despite being a natural rite of passage for small children, behaviors can also be brought on or exacerbated by what babies consider dramatic life changes, such as:

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

Objective — To make an effective elected second chamber, composed of mature experienced individuals with collective experience of all aspects of British life, whose principal task is to improve legislative bills during their passage through parliament into law, and whose secondary task is to scrutinize the actions of the government and act as a watchdog for the rights of the British people, should the Government or lower house appear to act in such a way as to undermine these rights.

He suggests that the flakes could also be added as a filler into plastic drinks bottles — where their added strength reduces the amount of plastic needed, and their ability to block the passage of gas molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide maintains the drink's shelf life.

Making an online community for such private herpes dating makes it easier for herpes to communicate with the people of their own kind on the same platform and their passion about their life grows with the passage of time.

Pointedly, Lucy gets a couple of eloquent monologues in which to ponder such weighty matters as the impermanence of all life, the preciousness of every moment, the human tendency to prioritize feeling over thinking, the depressing myopia of human experience in general, and the fact that life gains meaning only with the passage of time.

The passage of time certainly hasn't diminished the indignity: A joyless jumble, this box office dud is almost as wretched as the Michael Bay live - action sequels Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon, with cheap - jack animation and a waste of such talents as Leonard Nimoy, Eric Idle and, most of all, Welles.

But perhaps my favorite pithy summation of this deeply problematic issue, which of course is directly lifted from the book but brought to fetishizable life in the film, comes from Anthony Lane's New Yorker review, which never drips with such finely - wrought, Wildean disdain as in this passage:

The horrors of the Civil War are also made immediately felt through the characters» lives in quiet but such graphic prose that it made me feel I was understanding it for the first time as a fellow human being rather than a student of history... One beautiful passage at the end of the book stays with me and seems particularly relevant, perhaps, to our current political moment: «So much blood has been spilled that redemption may be out of reach in the end.

Such a law is not only necessary, reasonable and an effective means of saving lives, its passage would also bring Florida's sheltering procedures more in line with the humane, progressive values of the American public.

These ideas are further conveyed in his Hub works, where transitory, connecting spaces between rooms, such as vestibules and corridors, speak metaphorically about movement between cultures and the blurring of public and private, as well as reflecting on the passage of the artist's own life.

Through his work, Gordon investigates human conditions like memory and the passage of time, as well as universal dualities such as life & death, good & evil, right & wrong.

Just like society needs to change course, the press needs to change course (maybe it's beginning to happen), or like Martin Luther King Jr said, and the 2007 HDR report quoted «In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late... We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on.

They are also responsible for creating and executing a successful strategy that will ensure the seamless and cost - effective passage of their product through its research, development, engineering, manufacturing, «go live,» and distribution cycles; as such, this job requires top notch problem solving skills and analytical abilities.

Authorities have frequently described such significant events, especially in children's lives, as rites of passage (van Gennep, 1960; Turner, 1969; Myerhoff, Camino, & Turner, 1987; Warfield - Coppock, 1992; Delaney, 1995; Harvey & Rauch, 1997).