Sentences with phrase «not only a joy»

Spiritually as well as emotionally, childhood years require not only joy and nurturing, but also suffering and growth, if the young person is to face adulthood maturely.

Pregnancy — is a wonderful event, completely change the life of every woman.Adjusting to the beat of a small heart, the mother tries to do everything to make your child feel comfortable during all nine months.Unfortunately, for many weeks, forty expectant mother has to experience not only the joy of emergency meetings with the baby, but also a lot of unpleasant sensations that accompany pregnancy.Some of the inevitable companions of pregnancy do not carry any hazard to the fetus, while others require constant medical supervision.One of the most serious complications in the waiting period is a child gestational diabetes — a condition in which increased levels of glucose in the peripheral blood.

«Creating our handbag collection with Paris - based designer, Myriam Schaefer, is not only a joy within itself, but also knowing we are offering different kinds of women variety, functionality and beauty, feels really special.»

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is not only a joy to play, but it's a surprisingly astute return to what made the SNES series so great in the 90s.

A well mannered dog is not only a joy to live with, but also helps to create a much safer environment for both the people and the dog.

We wish to bring not only joy into the lives of those who come into our café, but embody the spirit of Speedy and deliver an exceptional product with urgency and efficiency.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is not only a joy to play, but it's a surprisingly astute return to what made the SNES series so great in the 90s.

I believe doing what you love for the sake of passion is like meditation, it brings not only joy but peace of mind too.

Not exact matches

I get this joy several times a day — first in the morning in the bathroom mirror when I'm wearing only shorts, preparing before my morning calisthenics, second in the mirror after my shower while toweling off, and third after my evening calisthenics (I have a playful rule not to look before the calisthenics to help motivate starting and as a reward after).

These may sound like slightly airy fairy (if quite pleasant) suggestions, but science shows that adding small does of joy to your life can have big impacts not only on your mood but also on your productivity.

They find great joy in random acts of kindness that lift the heart of not only the receiver but also the giver.

He says that it not only helped keep his energy up, but brought spontaneous joy to his coworkers and helped him meet people he probably would not have otherwise.

... Besides creating a book that is rich with content, he also built in experiences with joys and pleasures, resulting in a book that you not only want to read, but also experience.

Christmas not only holy, but especially season of wonder and joy..

i have wept tears of joy at seeing family members and friends being immersed in water; only immersion, cause sprinkling doesn't count;

When we know how much God loves us, this not only frees us from fear of punishment, but it also frees us from the desire to sin, because we know that God only wants what is best for us, and His instructions are not to destroy our joy or ruin our lives, but to increase our enjoyment of life, and help us live better, longer, healthier, happier lives.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Because if joy is a matter of gratitude, and gratitude is a matter of perspective, then giving thanks changes not only your perspective, but also changes your life.

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of how you saw the face of God in the midst of fear or pain or joy and understood, really understood, Mary, not kneeling chastely beside a clean manger refraining from touching her babe, just moments after birth but instead, sore and exhilarated, weary and pressing a sleepy, wrinkled newborn to her breasts, treasuring every moment in her heart, marvelling not only at his very presence but at her own strength, how surrender and letting go is true work, tucking every sight and smell and smack of his lips into her own marrow.

«82 Not only do we «enjoy,» but God, who is Lewis's ultimate reality, expresses his joy toward us.

Jesus was not only «acquainted with grief and sorrow» but was also full of joy and laughter.

Play having opened him up to the possibility of relating directly to joy itself, Lewis later found that joy to be fully actualized in his personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's joy cause us to «en - joy» on the tangent of play's horizon where the radical otherness of God meets the radical wholeness of humankind, but joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person of Christ.

In Lewis's view, however, joy is not only the player's experience.

But balance and proportion between the different constituents of love is not automatic, and is usually attained only within that persistent effort which is one of the joys and responsibilities which lovers share.35

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

So if we do connect with each other we do experience love peace, joy etc but we do also experience suffering at times and the only way to not suffer being to not have connection which if we allow our hearts to harden will happen.

Life was not for us without its joys and graces, but we expected from it only imperfect fulfillment.

Humor, on the other hand, is born from an altogether higher recognition: that tragic contradiction is not absolute, that finitude is not only pain and folly, and that the absurdity of our human contradictions can even be a cause for joy.

And Hartshorne does just that: «The eminent form of sympathetic dependence can only apply to deity; for this form can not be less than an omniscient sympathy, which depends upon and is exactly colored by every nuance of joy or sorrow anywhere in the world (DR 48).

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

It is interesting, is it not, that most of the things the world longs for — never - ending life, overwhelming joy, unconditional love, satisfaction, power — all of these things are already found... and only found... in the Christian life.

All of this manipulative meanness not only takes a lot of effort, but actually robs us of the joy of giving.

Put differently, it won't do to say that God is only found in moments of obvious health and beauty and joy.

We are not only to play but to find joy also in our labor (Eccl.

However, let's not miss that God designed marriage not only to stretch us beyond our selfishness to become more like Jesus through trials, but also to bring great joy to our lives with the myriad of gifts marriage provides.

If they are not capable of a healthy heterosexual marriage, they are told, the only lifestyle open to them that is «compatible with the gospel» involves lifelong sacrifice of the joys of sexual intimacy.

Such teaching not only saps classrooms of joy and spontaneity, Kozol argues, it does violence to children and teachers.

«This is such a proud moment for us as parents knowing that Lucas has a platform to spread joy, not only to those he interacts with every day, but to people all over the country,» said Lucas» mom, Cortney Warren, according to a Gerber press release.

It is important to note that these themes not only mark a life that succeeds in being faithful — which is what it is all about — but these are also the ingredients we need in our lives in order to achieve a deep sense of satisfaction and meaning, to experience joy in the wonders of the world, and — dare I say it?

Rom 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

In this «sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving,» singing together the Christian songs of joy and kneeling together to receive the gifts, they find not only Christ's presence made real but also that since «he is in us, and we in him» they may themselves «be perfected in one.»

But what I experienced as I read O Me of Little Faith can only be described as the relief and joy that comes with knowing you are not alone.

He alone not only knows but feels (the only adequate knowledge, where feeling is concerned) how they feel, and he finds his own joy in sharing their lives, lived according to their own free decisions, not fully anticipated by any detailed plan of his own.

Only a moment before she was sitting in her chamber in all her beauty, and the lovely maidens had conscientiously adorned her so that they could justify before all the world what they had done, so that they not merely derived joy from it but envy, yea, joy for the fact that it was not possible for them to become more envious, because it was not possible for her to become more beautiful.

It is an infectious joy in Christ which best summons and convinces, and you must be able to say «if I had my time over again, I would make the same choice again, only with less hesitation: I can not be so sure the good Lord would say the same for his part, about me».

The joy derived from their trusting contained power, power not only to gladden but also to heal and redeem.

A sense of the sacred, celebration of the liturgy, wonder and gratitude: these are the things in which we need to be re-educated not justfor the joy of living in an enchanted «Liturgical City» but because it is the only way to keep our education humane and our life civilised.

The hand of God on a person is not pleasant when we don't want to change but in the obedience to change there is much joy and happiness not only because of the victory but because of the rewards God gives to those that by faith follow Him.

Gil if we only received one blessing in this life and that was eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be with the Lord there is no fear in death for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?