Sentences with phrase «little gifts of»

As a former teacher, it is the little gifts of art and drawing that I miss the most and treasure from my old students!

They are the flashes of color in a black and white world, little gifts of truth that inspire doubters like me not to give up.

Depending on your product and services, sending little gifts of appreciation with elements of surprise and delight to your best customers can be a superb means of telling them to come back.

I'd love to hear your before and after story and if you would be so kind as to email [email protected] I'll send you a little gift of thanks!

As you spend more time cuddling and kissing, it will feel extra comforting to know your card is delivering a little gift of its own as you embark on the journey of parenthood.

Not exact matches

If I have a point to add, it's to avoid those «celebrity gifting» suite «opportunities»... these are ways to keep the marketing agencies of such events in business, and provide little else.

«So for one of my Christmas presents from Kanye, he gives me this little box with a Disney Mickey toy, Apple headphones, Netflix [and] Amazon gift cards and Adidas socks,» Kardashian says, as her camera pans over the box of gifts.

Whether we're posting, commenting, liking, repinning, or +1 ing, our new visual culture is one in which we're constantly offering each other little gifts, little moments of pleasure that remind us we're truly and deeply bonded to one another.»

A few too many parties, a culinary over-indulgence or two, and a little over-excitement when gift shopping can leave us feeling exhausted, unhealthy, financially overstretched, and surrounded by giant piles of stuff, so that just when you should be starting the new year with energy, you're instead feeling frazzled and exhausted.

Give the gift of style and space with this neat little wooden stand.

«One of the greatest gifts one can give a marriage is the recognition and acceptance that there are times when you're going to get it wrong... When you will lose the work - life balance; when you will share too little or too much; when you will lean too heavily while it was [the other person] who needed the rest.

I was amazed at all of the little tasks they assisted with, like helping my bridesmaids steam their dresses or packing up all the cards and gifts at the end of the night.

The premise of Upside is simple enough: Reward business travelers with gift cards for being a little more flexible with their flight and hotel.

«I loved to get them a lot of things to put under the tree at Christmas, because it was just so much darn fun to watch them when they were little, opening the gifts and enjoying them,» said Davis, who lives in Mesa, Ariz..

«In 2009 it was all about personal, practical gifts, and last year consumers wanted to treat their loved ones to something special — this year, it's a little bit of both,» said Pam Goodfellow, director of Consumer Insights at BigResearch.

Other gifts include a Christmas tree sent to a couple living in a hotel because their home was destroyed in a tornado, a travel care package sent to a woman with cancer who had to travel across the country every three weeks for treatment, and a package of new toys sent to a little girl whose own were destroyed in a fire.

Put this strategy to test when you're shopping for stocking stuffers — it's easy to get carried away with small, relatively inexpensive presents, but a bunch of little purchases can add up over the course of the gift - giving season.

The resulting list claims to rank the hottest gigs for the coming year and amounts to a little early holiday gift for those in search of a stable career.

The holidays are already an emotional time for shoppers, with little kids tugging at parents to buy them things, with pressure to get the perfect gifts for new family members, friends and business associates, and with a perceived lack of time to get it all done perfectly.

An article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives estimates that as much as 20 percent of wealth can be attributed to formal and informal gifts from family members, but many people receive little or no assistance.

Current mortgage programs allow borrowers to put down as little as 3 % of the purchase price — and the money could be gifted from someone else, like a family member.

Many of these events come with special T - shirts and gifts to reward the engineers who take a little time out to work on them.

If it is a gift that our age (including the church) has misused, then its misuse is the result not of caring too much about entertainment, but of caring too little.

I often give a little 3 - book starter pack of this book as a gift for beginning readers in grade 2 or 3.

I think there is little knowledge of what the Gift of eternal live is.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madLittle by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madlittle, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

And sitting on the mantle there was one last gift from my mother for my little middle daughter: an ordinary pot of purple pansies.

Today I was at a Christian bookstore and I found a little gift set of fragrance oil and a wax thing you melt.

Westerners too, reared on the Bible with its denunciations of «idolatry», felt little sympathy with Hindu devotion and some would refuse the gift of prasad, a sweet which after being offered to the god is given to the devotee.

But when so little wilderness remains in a nation, the contemplative gifts it offers — such as silence, solitude and a sense of awe — become worth as much as the marketable commodities that can be extracted.

In short, you need to acknowledge the enormity of that which has happened [A Gift of Hope (Little, Brown, 1985), p. 66].

The awareness of this gift should perhaps have led him to witness to the Reformed heritage and its fundamental convictions with a little more gratitude and care.

Great little piece of artwork, very interesting creativity thanks for the opportunity to win such a gifted piece of art!

His gift was a gesture of kindness and gratitude from someone who had so little to someone who has so much.

Man was quite rightly given little encouragement to think that his eternal salvation could be won by his own unaided efforts, for it was the gift of divine grace.

So if someone gets deep into Buddist meditation, which I have not tried, but I have been guessing is a little bit like my knitting of repeat lace patterns (knit, yarn over, purl, two together, repeat... Over and over), if someone really gets into the yoga, and I have worried about, and they get into a deep tranquility... But they derive an innocent benefit from it, I am going with, it is a gift from God.

Yet in a previous comment you stated: «So if someone gets deep into Buddist meditation, which I have not tried, but I have been guessing is a little bit like my knitting of repeat lace patterns (knit, yarn over, purl, two together, repeat... Over and over), if someone really gets into the yoga, and I have worried about, and they get into a deep tranquility... But they derive an innocent benefit from it, I am going with, it is a gift from God.»

So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.159

All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.»

But he doesn't let the disciples go without adding one more thing: an odd little parable of sorts, with some curious comments about gifts.

The homeless people they meet and the response of those people to a simple gift and a little love and kindness given in the name of Jesus makes an impression unparalleled by any sermon or what - have - you that they have yet encountered in life.

If parents can give a child the gift of a complicated and subtle language, they can be trusted to pass on the relatively little biological information that children need to know about sex, and in a manner that, most likely of all methods, will place it in the context of the language of love and life.

The Protestant tradition as a whole, in reaction to perceived abuses, downplayed virtually all mystical aspects of the Christian life — there was little if any room for miracles / supernatural gifts of the Spirit.

New Testament writers thought little, I suppose, about the «theology of money» at this rarefied theoretical level, but the New Testament does offer an illuminating perspective on the use and social effect of money, especially gifts of money.

If love is sincere, there is little difficulty in noting the issues or differences that may arise; on the one hand the indiscriminate instinct of lust with its promptings to seek satisfaction with the first appealing person available; on the other, the particularised human instinct (the conjugal instinct already present) urging a young person to keep the gift of sexuality for one; and to respect that «one» when found but withoutthere yet being a mutual conjugal commitment.

There seems to be little to gain by speculating what Joseph thought about why he had to travel to Bethlehem for the census or if the Magi picked up their gifts in the market on the way over to the stable, in comparison to the great mystery of the Creator of the cosmos taking on human form in order to save us from the fires of Hell and restore us to how we were created to be, let alone «considering afresh the Holy Incarnation».

So when the gospel is presented to us and we are told that eternal life is the absolutely free gift of God to anyone who receives it by faith in Jesus, and that there is nothing we need to do or even can do to earn it or keep it, most people start a get a little suspicious.

They picked up the idea and continued it... SO in a way Santa lives on even today... So who is to say that Santa does not exist, when the spirit of Santa lives on in parents, and families and relatives, and friends... at least a little in all over the parents and familys, and friends, that exchange gifts on Christmas...

Perhaps they would say that if an elite is defined as a group of highly competent, responsible people with a special gift for holding themselves to exacting standards, we have at present rather little in the way of an elite.

I do believe they are considering little boys the ones they are feeding... and maybe those teenage ones will be able to look at a breast not only as a object of sexual desire but first the resource that mothers use (can use) to feed their children... what a wonderful gift of knowledge and tolerance to give to them!