Sentences with phrase «love of reading by»

Originally called «Habitats For The Humanities» and «House of Stories,» the Little Free Library initiative quickly grew into a much bigger movement with a stated mission to: «promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide.»

You don't inspire a life long love of reading by making pupils study «the classics» but by giving them free access to a wide variety of great books from an early age.

Foster a love of reading by sharing your enthusiasm about what their book is all about.

Read alongside your child and encourage a love of reading by exposing him or her to many great books.

Cultivate a love of reading by taking regular trips to the library.

NEA's Read Across America helps students to master basic reading and comprehension skills and develop a life - long love of reading by making it F - U-N.

The exciting literary pop up also coincides with the launch of a new library in the City, where our young visitors can explore their love of reading by browsing through the books or become a librarian for the day.»

Not exact matches

I might also add I have recently read «Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leader» by Adam Morgan and also «The Start - Up of You» by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, which I loved and did not hesitate to add to this list.

Pennell recommends reading «Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom,» by Rick Hanson, and books by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

The commercial starts with the message stating that «too many kids lose their mothers to heart disease and stroke,» followed by a number of children reading genuinely sweet love letters to their moms.

A bit thrown by suddenly being shifted into the role of interviewee, I awkwardly began, «Well, uh, I love to kayak, hike with my family, read, coach my kids in sports...» «No,» Pedro said, «What do you do for fun?

«Everyone has been stunned by the events of the last several days, and this has not been easy for anyone who loves this program,» reads the statement.

I was introduced to this idea when I read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (I'm not a fan of the title but I love the book).

I haven't read much of his horror but loved the short stories that became Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me on film.

The last article of his that I read, moments before learning of his death, was his piece in the February issue of First Things called «On Loving the Law of God,» an engaging essay (responding to one by Gilbert Meilaender) on the law - and - gospel dialectic of Lutheranism.

I am reading a book called Mystery of Emptiness & Love by Domo Geshe Rinpoche, and in the first chapter it says «The purpose of this book is to help you uncover the view that is holding you, rather than the view you are holding».

George, if you can read this genuine, heartfelt piece and your first reaction is to dispute it by being critical of the source and not appreciative of the message, it seems you have a mind set more similar to the scribes and pharisees than to that of honesty, generosity, grace, and love that Jesus commands us to pursue.

if you want to see Christ start with yourself — You are just as loved by God as any man of God, open your bible, read it, if you don't understand it look for a community that will help and encourage you in finding out what our Creator has to say about you, and your life.

-LSB-...] i want to encourage you to read today's post by him... here's an exerpt: «But in order for love to determine the nature of our relationship and to actually maintain it, we hold our opinions lightly and are honestly open for change.

But I also want to say, if you had been here (I'm in Birmingham) and read some of the stories of people's kids being killed by this storm (so many had lost power already by earlier storms and had no idea F4 and F5 tornodoes were about to hit, and their kids were at friends» houses... and then those friends» houses were totally destroyed, and several parents lost all of their kids - I also know of several people who lost their wives AND all of their kids because they were at work while their family was at home)... anyways, if you could read some of these stories, who are you guys to tell them that their loved ones are not going off to a better place?

I gather that this strikes you as a very dissatisfying portrayal, and it should for two reasons: One, you are reading a portion of the bible which describes a portion of His attributes which can be remedied by simply reading the WHOLE bible to see what it has to say regarding His longsuffering, kindness, and love; that, I dare say without which, you would not even be able to sit here and slander Him with the irreverance conveyed in your words.

But if I were told that what I am writing will be read in twenty years time by the children of today, and that those children will laugh, weep, and learn to love life as they read, why then I would devote the whole of my life and energy to it.

Scripture can and should be enjoyed just by reading it and hearing the stories of love and pain, or faith and doubt echo through your own soul.

And I especially loved reading his work from the complete twenty - six - volume set I had owned since boyhood, with its evocative dull red covers and rough - cut pages and illustrations shielded by translucent slips of rice - paper.

In this tract Wesley seems to come to his high ideal of «perfect love» in his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themes.

There is something deeply moving and reassuring about the shape of the Christian community that emerges from these readings: a community founded on and held together by love.

Yes Please by Amy Poehler — I'm not usually one for reading humour books or books by comedians in general, but I loved Tina Fey's Bossypants and so I decided to grab this one from the library as a bit of light reading one weekend.

In the book, I make a brief but impassioned case for reading the text with the prejudice of love, a hermeneutic I believe was employed by Jesus, and, as many reviewers have pointed out, a hermeneutic that Augustine also favored.

So I just finished reading The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory Boyd, and absolutely loved it.

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

As in a reading glass the rays of the sun may be focussed and thus intensified, without in any way denying or darkening those rays as they shine down upon, say, the whole garden, so in Christ God's loving concern in focussed and thus intensified, not by denying but by concentrating his other and wider operation.

However, and quite surprisingly I should add, you might be interested to know the effect your words have upon a believer in God of forty years, and by the way I wish to thank you for your words in this province, that when I read such terse thoughts they have the distinct effect of deepening, in an extraordinary way, my faith and cause me to love and worship God even more than ever.

I am currently reading a book «the wisdom of Tenderness» — by Brennan Manning and here is what I just read I quote» When the primacy of love is subordinated to doctrinal correctness and orthodox exegesis, cool cordiality and polite indifference masquerade as love....

If you've already read The Language of God, consider checking out A Fine - Tuned Universe by Alister McGrath, Coming to Peace With Science by Darrel Falk, Saving Darwin by Karl Giberson, or I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution by Denis Lamoureux.

The entire passage reads, «In spite of the many kinds of love, which in Greek are designated as philia (friendship), eros (aspiration toward value), and epithymia (desire), in addition to agape, which is the creation of the Spirit, there is one point of identity in all these qualities of love, which justifies the translation of them all by «love»; and that identity is the «urge toward the reunion of the separated,» which is the inner dynamics of life.

While I haven't read everything on the subject, I know of no other book like it on the market, and it really helped answer some of my own questions and provide me some direction as I seek to follow Jesus by loving and serving others in my community.

Anyone who has closely (and by closely I mean not just read articles when Driscoll catapults himself into Christian media) followed the events since 2007 and knows the dark underbelly of MHC knows that Mark Driscoll is a narcissist and that he is simply manipulating the bigger picture by sending this love letter to the people who are still drinking his kool - aid.

The statement, read at the closing session of the annual meeting by the FGCK secretary general, Rev Simon Kariuki, added that the church supported the Nyayo Philosophy of peace, love and unity as expounded by the president.

But Lentricchia has grown impatient with having his own critical perspective parroted by graduate students who have no love of literature, no appreciation for the themes and content of great literature — indeed, who rarely read it at all because they are so enamored of «critical theory.»

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

Jesus preached love and we who read the bible follow it... the largest part of the poor in the world today are fed by christians.

I do not understand Jesus» words to love one another to include the bickering, the «I'm right and you're wrong and that means you're going to hell», the anger, snarky remarks, intolerance and general lack of love that I find not only in the comments on many «Christian» blogs, but also that I read and hear expressed by «Christians» elsewhere.

Reading The Giving Tree to our children can thus inspire gratitude in us as parents and can encourage us to repay our debts to our own mothers (and fathers) in the only way we can — by gladly spending our substance in the loving care of our own children.

I have been helped by reading these posts, and believe that if you want to learn how to love the homeless in your area by meeting their needs and showing them the love of Jesus, you also will benefit from reading these posts.

a Material minded human will not be able to expalin who the God is Please Read «the Philosophy of Divine Love», by Swami Prakashanand Saraswati.

souls is not male or female... read «Philoshophy of Divine Love» by Swami Prakashanand Saraswati... it is a wonderful book for those who really want to know who we are and why we are born as human....

By reading this book, you will gain a better understanding of what the text means when it says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart and that God loved Jacob but hated Esau.

Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty:: This author is one of my go - to favourites for a weekend read but I didn't love this one.

When read this way, I am constantly impressed by the degree to which these early Christians were willing to sacrifice beliefs and traditions they held dear for the sake of love and for the sake of advancing the gospel.

Anyway, I love your blog, your breaker - sheep thoughts / actions and you as a person, but my last issue is that you are writing about too many relevant and intriguing issues and I'm losing «profits» by spending too much time reading and commenting... any chance I could get a financial kick - back (profit) for my time spent adding to the spirtiuality section of your blog!?