I consider massage to be
a necessity in life for well being it is not pampering yourself it is therapy.
Not exact matches
«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or
living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Cam
living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic
necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson
for the
Living Wage for Families Cam
Living Wage
for Families Campaign.
According to a recent nationwide poll conducted by Research Management Group (RMG), more than one third of Canadians (36 %) feel they can only afford to pay
for the basic
necessities, and more than two
in five (43 %) feel they tend to
live from paycheque to paycheque.
= > There is no
necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil,
life and death all
in accordance with the plan of creation
for the salvation of souls.
There is often a great deal of talk about opposing a sense of victimhood and entitlement — which most people
in my neighborhood would probably agree with — but we must recognize that people are still being victimized by police brutality and other forms of trauma; they are entitled to both the basic
necessities of
life as well as opportunities to provide those and more
for themselves.
I understand that out of
necessity there has to be a cause
in order to account
for the conditions necessary
for life here, innumerable and varied.
The purely individual need
for a fulfillment that is denied to us
in this
life,
for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive
for believing that man was made
for eternity; but only
in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the
necessity for Christ's return and
for new
life become fully convincing.»
Generally, they include the following
in their gospel definition: - human sinfulness - the deity of Jesus - the death of Jesus on the cross
for our sins - the resurrection of Jesus - the
necessity of faith
in Jesus to receive eternal
life
ex couples «non-involvement
in joint parenthood», «lower exposure to normative pressure about the
necessity of
life - long unions» as well as differing motivations
for getting married.
Yet
in his Essay
in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the
necessity of individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge
in forming religion and morality: «many a man will
live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr
for a syllogism.»
Faith does not diminish the
necessity for the analogia entis, but neither does the beatific vision, which, even though it is the endpoint «intrinsic to the spiritual
life,» still functions as «a defining end as far beyond every proportion as God
in Himself is beyond the creation.»
In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vita
In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement
in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vita
in human
living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst
for greater being that by psychological
necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.
Were it to be destroyed overnight, who would provide the minimal
necessities for life in a society far removed from the soil or the sea, where basic human needs are met?
For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent
in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor
in the global evolution of a
living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical
necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.
This is at best misleading: Writing
in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the
necessity of humility and surrender
for a genuine religious
life, but he had no more esteem
for a purely submissive religious posture than
for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.
Shared euphoria, seen
in this context, is more than a spiritual good; it is a
necessity for a fulfilling spiritual
life.»
The emphases
in counseling on respect
for the orderly cause - effect sequences
in the world of the psyche and on the
necessity of a person's growing
in his responsibility
for his own inner
life can help to counteract any tendency
in spiritual healing to function
in ways which encourage magic or the temptation to shift the total responsibility to God.
Richard Dawkins,
in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found
in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4
In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
In Chance and
Necessity,
for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of
life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:
In spite of rising costs of
living, salaries and wages
for great numbers of people are high enough to afford all the
necessities and provide many of the luxuries undreamed of by our fathers.
The Garden of Eden story,
for instance, opens a whole potential discussion
for the responsibility involved
in the act of eating - the
necessity of taking
life in order to
live - and how that act should then be approached.
Welfare indirectly allows many
in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying
for all of
life's
necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those
in the middle class pay
for out of pocket.
What we observe
in large parts of Africa is what might be called the Haiti Syndrome: entities nominally classified as states which have virtually fallen out of the international economy and which seemingly can not provide
for their citizens elementary justice or allow them to provide
for themselves the basic
necessities of
life.
The «brotherly affection,» the willingness to «abridge ourselves of our superfluities,
for the supply of others
necessities,» that Winthrop spoke of
in the early Puritan covenant seemed again to
live in the revolutionary ranks.
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a
necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As
for any repose, or ability to face
life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect
in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration
in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»
But it is this experience, too, which probably caused Buber to reject his earlier monistic formulations of an already existing unity which only needs to be discovered
for a later emphasis on the
necessity of realizing unity
in the world through genuine and fulfilled
life.
In it he attacked those who did not emphasize the
necessity of a regenerated or holy
life for the ministry.
For the government to impose its will upon the masses is an effort to force the masses to worship it
in order to receive basic
necessities of
living.
Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing
in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the
necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical
life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance
for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.
We now
live in a culture
in which about half of all marriages end
in divorce;
in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood
in fatherless homes;
in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally;
in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving
for parental time and attention, and often
for basic material
necessities.
the possibility and
necessity of
living in a dimension of meaning
in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama
in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us
for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude
for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.
And it was this doctrine,
in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible
for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to
live the Christian
life of service to the God of love
in the midst of the tragic
necessities of this world.16
In 2005, before a Congressional hearing in the U.S., Prof. George Q. Daley of Harvard spoke forcefully and influentially about the necessity for embryonic stem - cell research to go ahead, and dismissed suggestions that one could work instead with «induced pluripotent stem cells» («iPS», i.e. stem cells reprogrammed from some cells of a living adult
In 2005, before a Congressional hearing
in the U.S., Prof. George Q. Daley of Harvard spoke forcefully and influentially about the necessity for embryonic stem - cell research to go ahead, and dismissed suggestions that one could work instead with «induced pluripotent stem cells» («iPS», i.e. stem cells reprogrammed from some cells of a living adult
in the U.S., Prof. George Q. Daley of Harvard spoke forcefully and influentially about the
necessity for embryonic stem - cell research to go ahead, and dismissed suggestions that one could work instead with «induced pluripotent stem cells» («iPS», i.e. stem cells reprogrammed from some cells of a
living adult).
The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search
for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations
for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method
in the
life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and
necessity of the theologian's task.
The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared
in other ways:
in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the
necessity of rebirth,
in the substitution of the human claim to immortality
for the Christian hope and fear of an after -
life,
in the glorification of religious heroes, and
in the efforts of religious men and societies to become saviors.
Begging the question of whether an animal has a right to
life in the face of a «
necessity» that is neither economically nor medically established, it can most surely be argued that if an animal's destiny is to be slaughtered, this should be carried out with some respect
for the creature.
A minimal ethic of bodily consumption might embrace the concept of reverence
for life — Albert Schweitzer's maxim that only when faced with the utmost
necessity is one justified
in taking the
life of another creature or,
for that matter, inflicting any manner of cruelty.
In speaking of the momentous significance of the fact of death, not only as the finis or clear terminus of earthly life for every man and for the whole race of men, but also as the event which qualifies and colors each life, we introduced in our conclusion the possibility and the necessity of lov
In speaking of the momentous significance of the fact of death, not only as the finis or clear terminus of earthly
life for every man and
for the whole race of men, but also as the event which qualifies and colors each
life, we introduced
in our conclusion the possibility and the necessity of lov
in our conclusion the possibility and the
necessity of love.
It emphasized the
necessity of choosing between evils, and there was a genuine emancipation
in the idea of taking responsibility
for the lesser evil and
living under the mercy of God.
Why couldn't we have evolved a conscience out of
necessity for living in a successful society?
I'm trying to, number one, clarify
for folks what resistance is and the
necessity for that as just a means to
living a sane
life; and number two, I'm trying to share with them the various directions that resistance might take
in their
lives.
If only the individual can be converted, it is said, he will make his Christian witness felt
in his vocational
life, eliminating any
necessity for the church to become directly involved
in the messy issues that plague society.
But this is not
for Jesus the essential meaning of human
life;
for him its meaning is that man stands under the
necessity of decision before God, is confronted by the demand of the will of God, which must be comprehended
in each concrete moment and obeyed.
It is sufficient
for a man to know that God has placed him under the
necessity of decision
in every concrete situation
in life,
in the here and now.
The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making
for growth
in the halakhah» — is, first, the «
necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them
in the
life of the people, even if there [is] no change
in objective conditions.»
All these items are part and parcel of appropriate development
in poor countries as well, with the addition that they still need to produce more things
for food, housing, clothing and the other physical
necessities of
life.
The strength of my belief
in the «rightness» of the choice of an abortion given the context of my
life and
in the
necessity for women to have the legal right to make the choice that I exercised enabled me to carry out my decision; but these convictions do not protect me from suffering the consequences of my choice.
Yet it is clear that it is
in this direction — towards a more temporalist biology, utilizing a mathematics more suited to the «sinuousities» (CE 212 - 213) of
life — he believed biology could most profitably proceed.20 An adequate answer is suggested, however, by Bergson's statement
in Mailer and Memory (quoted above) that levels of consciousness (hence breadths of duration)
in each organism are precisely commensurate with the organism's capacity
for movement — more precisely,
for its capacity to employ a wide behavioral repertoire, coupled with
necessity of having to choose between specific acts.
We will also realize that this entails the construction of a society
in which the natural
necessities of
life are provided
for all as easily and freely as possible so that the needs of survival will not dominate human activity.41
It has also learned from Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann the
necessity for theology to engage
in a
living dialogue with the actual world and history which theology confronts.
I'm sure it's not going to resolve anything overnight, but I believe if we push, through the use of media and psychology the idea that the
life of our fellow human deserves respect above anything else it will reduce gunfire
in general and perhaps the
necessity for guns.