Sentences with phrase «most ordinary places»

The emphasis on finding inspiration, even from the most ordinary places, should encourage young readers to make art of their own.

Grahame, We too have found that we can be the church, the body of Christ, in the most ordinary circumstances and the most ordinary places.

Not exact matches

The headset already can be used to control most ordinary functions in common software, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs, by taking the place of a mouse — the cursor simply follows your gaze, and you can think your way into triggering the equivalent of a left or right mouse click.

The ones I've seen have happened in the most profound places in the most ordinary people.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Ordinary families in parishes are the «place» where the Christian mystery is lived out most vividly.

From the Holocaust to Vietnam and Iraq, this title explains how ordinary people can commit the most horrific of crimes if placed under the influence of a malevolent authority.

Dark energy accounts for most of its mass, exotic dark matter comes in second place, and ordinary matter — the atoms we are made of — lands in a distant third place, with just 4.4 percent.

Astronomers now develop their theories mindful that Earth most likely occupies an ordinary, unprivileged place in the cosmos.

The best place to meet men are not at the general places where ordinary people are roaming here and there Most men are not exactly in a relaxed state of mind when they do their grocery shopping.

Ordinary Traveler and Aruba Marriott have teamed up to bring you a chance to win a 3 - night stay in one of the most beautiful places in the world — The Caribbean!

San Juan is one of the most unique and accessible places to travel under the U.S. Flag and far from an ordinary Caribbean destination.

Louis de Belle's Ordinary Backdrops is a photographic series that takes place in Japan, taking the most mundane settings and exposing their beauty and symmetry.

Pak's interest lies in the possibilities of discovering extraordinarily profound and insightful messages encoded within the most unlikely and ordinary places.

Many people, further along in a relationship, have this feeling once in a while — maybe at a special place or time, or maybe in the most ordinary circumstances.

I am thankful for: (a) Jesus wanting to deepen His Relationship with this ordinary woman (b) a believing husband who is as loving, faithful, and true as he was 43 years ago (c) being able to live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth