Sentences with phrase «of better marriages in»

We are currently the President couple of the Winston - Salem chapter because we are grateful for the nurture of Better Marriages in our lives.

Most central to the study's goals was the test of the moderating role of a good marriage in the link from vision to quality of life.

Not exact matches

According to a study done at the University of Utah in 2015, the best time to get married in order to have a long, successful marriage is between the ages of 28 and 32.

She received her masters in marriage and family therapy, but discovered the best therapy was laughter and found she could bring lots of laughter to a large amount of people at once through social media.

In 2015, Beijing's office of marriage registration caused an uproar when one of its posters saying: «Being a good wife and good mother is the biggest achievement of a woman,» began circulating online.

Eli Finkel: We have arrived at a moment in history where the best marriages are better than the best marriages of earlier eras, while at the same time, the average marriages are getting a little bit worse.

The marriage of ASX listed Azonto Petroleum to the unlisted Calima Energy is essentially a story of money meets management experience with the marriage consummated at one of the best addresses in town, the Montney oil and gas play in Canada.

Since its 2008 debut, the toy's innocuous curve has graced sponsorship banners for an annual sexuality conference at the University of Guelph and the feminist led Momentum gathering in Washington, D.C.. There, couples in search of a bedroom rejuvenator learn that open sexual communication — aided by the We - Vibe, of course — leads to stronger marriages and better dispositions.

But in that moment Orr opened the door to a nine - year struggle during which his marriage would end, he would take a company public and then sell it, plunge into depression, drop out of the workforce, and take another company public, all while searching for a way to be a good boss and a good person.

Rogers weaves a tale of Harding's rise in figure skating, her abusive upbringing by her mother (Alison Janney, who received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination), and her abusive relationship and eventual marriage to Gillooly.

Diaper bags and TVs might seem like an unlikely marriage for Best Buy, but the company has been desperate to expand its business in Canada to counter sliding sales of products like video games and notebook computers, according to company financial statements.

And there could be no doubt of his progressive vision on other fronts as well: South Africa's post-apartheid constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the first country in Africa to do so, and the fifth in the world to legalize same - sex marriage.

It isn't that a lot of marriages don't fail and a lot aren't made in Hell and all that, but considering how difficult the world is, it's your best chance for most people.

And that's the happy marriage of smart beta and fixed income: using factor based insights to potentially create better outcomes in fixed income portfolios in a cost effective and transparent way.

In its intrinsic supernatural reality, marriage includes three goods: the good of exclusive, personal, reciprocal fidelity (the bonum fidei), the good of welcoming children and educating them to know God (the bonum prolis), and the good of the indissolubility or indestructibility of the bond, the permanent foundation of which is the indissoluble union of Christ and the Church, which is sacramentally represented by the marriage (the bonum sacramenti).

But I am game to hear how you defend such a position of being anti-gay rights in the church (and it seems in society as well — ie: marriage).

As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage — and they don't even need to be involved in that conversation — straight people are doing a good enough job in that department (50 % divorce rate)... marriage is taking a hit in the respectability department... but it's not because of gay people.

Thus Sullivan notes that the existence of gay marriage would be an «unqualified social good» for homosexuals in providing role models for children coming to terms with their sexuality.

Whether you are currently single or married, it's important to prepare yourself for the realities of marriage by understanding that each of the six categories above will come with a set of obstacles in some way, shape, or form; and then do your best to learn and prepare for those times.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

I once found a old book that said gay marriage was good for the soul, it had a lot of outdated infromation in it and im not even sure who wrote it.

Bishop Mariann Budde decided to allow the rite, since same - sex marriage is legal in the District of Columbia and now in neighboring Maryland as well, Hall said.

«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

If anything, any thinking person who reads the Holy Bible, will come to the conclusion that the best version of marriage is the original one that God created in the Garden of Eden, one man has one wife.

At an age in which our government seeks to widen the gap between the religious and the secular maybe the State would be better off the back off the idea of regulating plural marriage.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

1) they just don't want gays to marry, in which case they are bigots (every single one of them, the reason doesn't matter) or 2) they truly believe that gay marriage will harm society, in which case they may be well meaning, but they are fools (however well meaning)

He speaks of the good marriage, of how fortunate that man and wife who are like - minded in their own house, a home maintained by their enlarging love which gives comfort to their friends and disquiet to their enemies.

According to Muchembled, author of previous histories of the devil and of the orgasm, violence in traditional European society is best understood as the effect of a system of honor among bachelors who required outlets for their pent - up sexual energies while awaiting marriage.

He starts off the treatise by stating that marriage is an unequivocally good thing, that God willed to create man and woman in friendship, and that the first natural bond of human society is man and wife:

From this heavily fortified definitional base George and Bradley reason that sexual acts of the reproductive type typically further the good of marriage, and persons (whether married or not) who engage in sexual acts of the nonreproductive type «necessarily treat their bodies and those of their sexual partners (if any) as means or instruments in ways that damage their personal (and interpersonal) integrity.»

But in the very next chapter, he praises celibacy as a higher calling — a better way of serving Christ — than marriage.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

Reacting to the result on Wednesday, Archbishop of Sydney Dr Glenn Davies said in a video posted online: «Although this won't prevent me from continuing to teach that marriage, in God's good design, is between a men and a woman... the reality will be, in a very short period of time, our Parliament will legislate for same - sex marriage.»

Rachel: Ultimately, in terms of our marriage, we're both flourishing in what we're doing, and so that's a good thing.

Even late in the 20th Century, fundamentalist inst / itutions still opposed miscegenation «Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man.»

It's almost like we looked around and said, «Well, marriage is really difficult, and a lot of folks never experience intimacy, joy or happiness in their marriages, so let's just tell them marriage is supposed to make them holy instead.»

If you are two consenting adult human beings and you desire to have a loving, committed relationship in which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a good choice.

We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.

The alternate vision that marriage benefits are a right, and that the lifestyle choice under marriage is irrelevant compromises the inst - itution of marriage as I argued above, and puts us in a position where marriage benefits are arbitrary and may as well be abolished.

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

«Because the friendship of marriage results in children, and it is a burden of sorts to raise children, and because society benefits greatly if this is done well, it is usual for society to separate out the friendship of marriage from other friendships, to give it special recognition, and to award it distinctive benefits.»

Chastity and fidelity Our young people deserve to be taught the importance of chastity before marriage and fidelity within for the good of their souls and their life in Christ.

Feminism also harms women: one of its pernicious effects in law and society has been to put a lot of men off marriage to the detriment of many good young women who would like to find a good husband to marry.

Well - known Christian author Rob Bell, a graduate of Wheaton, came out in favor of gay marriage in mid-March.

It was Sunday school teachers who said that girls who had sex before marriage were «broken,» that no self - respecting Christian man would ever want them after that, and it was the Christian books and conferences that consistently portrayed good Christian girls as helpless princesses in need of rescue.

Perhaps it was because what we actually had in practice was a marriage of two best friends and companions — but the ideal still lived in my mind as something to strive for, and something we were inexplicably falling short of.