Sentences with phrase «of affirmation from»

If you lean toward the tangible side of gift - giving, listen carefully for words of affirmation from a mate whose Love Language places these way above blenders and Snuggies ®.

A transparently honest senior attorney from a large firm told me he was concerned about the loss of affirmation from clients once retired.

You seem to be demanding some kind of affirmation from me that you have suffered tremendously so here it is: yes you had a very bad experience.

That said: you will also receive a great choir of affirmation from this statement and your latest cartoon.

Blake's fusion of the holiness tradition of ministering to the poor and oppressed with concern for national issues has garnered a statement of affirmation from Catholic scholars.

Husbands may be worried about slowing down in the sexual area and need the same kind of affirmation from their mates.

What is the role of self - examination and of affirmation from others in discovering spiritual gifts?

Not exact matches

When the results of the folks who had recorded a positive memory — an intervention known as «self - affirmation» in psychology lingo — were compared with a control group from the same soup kitchen, they performed markedly better.

For all these groups, the IQ boost from self - affirmation seems to come from calming worries around failure and stigma that can get in the way of clear thinking.

And the reason that I had for that at the time was if I picked out a positive quality about myself from that list or an aspirational quality of myself from that list, then every time someone referred to my business, that would be me getting that affirmation over and over and over again.

That was the daily affirmation of Stuart Smalley, Al Franken's defining character (you know, before he became a U.S. Senator) from Saturday Night Live's 1991 season.

Another announcement that will benefit Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Members is today's affirmation that the Provincial Government will cut the small business corporate income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, which will make B.C. the second-most competitive tax environment for small business in the country.

Some Christians would suggest that Islam had heavier pagan influences, but Islam's resounding affirmation of monotheism obviously derived from its Abrahamic roots.

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

Among the many blessings resulting from this cooperative effort, we note especially our common affirmation of the most central truths of Christian faith, including justification by faith, in the 1997 statement, «The Gift of Salvation.»

This interpretation is grounded in biblical themes — the vision of the Hebrew prophets of a branch growing from the seemingly dead stump of the Davidic royal line, and, of course, the central Christian affirmation of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Not until the last - written book in the Hebrew Bible» the Book of Daniel, from the second century b.c.» do we find a biblical affirmation that God will raise the dead to eternal life.

Because they draw their affirmation from others, they'll never stop to question it, even when the hurtful consequences of their actions become obvious.»

At all periods of Biblical history and in diverse strata of the Biblical materials we find the affirmation that what characterizes Yahweh in disfunction from the objects of men's worship which are mere vanity is his ability to hear the cry of the oppressed and to save him from his oppressor.

From this perspective, the time has come for the affirmation of value systems of other worlds, such as pre-Colombian America, Islam, or Asian mysticism.

That Jesus was of God was a swift affirmation, needing the support of only two brief quotations from the psalms; that Jesus was of the people seems to call for repetition and elaboration.

There is no biblical reason to exclude the covenantal bonds of gay Christians from that affirmation.»

They turn to the usual remedies, using their resources to buy love, affirmation, approval, and most importantly, an escape from burdens heaped on by the demands of a success - obsessed culture.

In this fearless, funny, and refreshingly relatable chronicle of her own metamorphosis from the insecurity that once held her captive, author Kayla Aimee unfolds the blueprint for women to identify the deep - seated sources of our assumed inadequacy and replace them with steadfast truths of affirmation and replace our need for approval with the promise of an enduring acceptance.

Many women have responded by listening, and with affirmation and encouragement, jus as Sian has done with saying she longs to be critiqued, does not want to have critique held back from her for her being a woman and was appropriate in affirming the critique of the «feminist» interpretation of scripture I made as described.

There is an affinity between total negation and total affirmation that separates them both from all qualified forms of affirmation and negation.

«26 The inner harmony resulting from affirming one's story needs to be matched by an outer harmony resulting from an affirmation of one's body.

It is perhaps the greatest irony of Christian history that the affirmation that alone distinguished the first Christians from other Jews may have been after all contrary to Jesus» own intention and belief.

In the light of these judgments about Altizer, this volume is an attempt to shift the focus of attention from his negations to his affirmations.

From a Whiteheadian point of view, both are correct in their affirmations, and these need to be formulated so as to complement one another.

Liberalism differs from pluralism, he says, in two ways: first, in its insistence on the neutrality of the state toward moral values, and, second, in its affirmation of overriding values.

In conclusion, I emphasize that the differences between Wesley and this affirmation of evangelical essentials differentiates him from the mainstream of current evangelical teaching far more than from today's Wesleyan evangelicals.

And, for my example, I get a lot of my needs / wants / affirmation from TLS, but some other affirmation of my worth as a parent seems to come best when my children and grandchildren drive 1.5 hours to visit us.

I have already indicated that I believe the data on which Thomist theology bases its affirmation of God are derived historically from Christian revelation.

1 If it can be demonstrated that world affirmation is implicit within the way of identity, the Eastern approach need no longer place a negative value on change but can learn from the West that there is no necessary conflict between change and the divine, nor is there any need to view the dimension of the sacred as antagonistic to the phenomenon of change.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

When you experience conflict in your marriage, try these steps as a way of interrupting the negative cycle: (a) Clarify, in your own minds and with each other, what you aren't getting from the marriage (e.g. affirmation, affection, sexual satisfaction), (b) Concentrate, not on the areas in which your needs are mutually exclusive or contradictive, but on the «areas of overlap» (20) of your two need systems.

Is an affirmation of the original and primordial identity of God inseparable from an acceptance of or a submission to the finality and solitude of individual suffering and death?

Logion 51, on the other hand, is clearly a development from logion 113: it has the same expression, gosht ebol, which, indeed, has become the central theme, the original affirmation having disappeared and the Kingdom question having been replaced by that of the «repose of the dead».

In Human Rights in Religious Traditions (Pilgrim Press, 1982), Rabbi Daniel Polish concludes that the idea of human rights «derives in the Jewish tradition from the basic theological affirmation of Jewish faith.»

It is with an affirmation of relational selfhood of the sort Callicott proposes that Christians have much to learn from Buddhism.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

The primary affirmation of Dalit theology is that it is a theology about Dalits, for Dalits and originated from them; «the theology which they themselves would like to expound.

Whatever our final assessment, we ought to be able to separate the trivial and sometimes truly ridiculous from what is potentially worthwhile in this literature: the affirmation of embodiment, the recognition of suffering, the hopeful quest for healing and the special attentiveness to women's lives and stories.

The declaration's negation, following immediately upon its affirmation, makes this clear: «We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church could and would have to acknowledge as a source of its proclamation, apart from and beside the one Word of God, still other events and powers, figures and truths, as God's revelation.»

They cured thousands from Emotional Deprivation Disorder — a source of depression - through affirmation, and wrote many books on their procedures.

The «special strength to persevere in sin» which God grants the sinner when He «hardens» his heart is a counterpart, we may surmise, of that absolute self - affirmation with which the «wicked» closes himself off from God.

The absolute affirmation of the self in the second stage of evil is an extreme form of man's hiding from the «signs» which address him.

We have questioned how a book as cynical and pessimistic as Ecclesiastes could have found its way into the canon, failing to see the text's central affirmation of our work and play as gifts from God to be enjoyed.

It does not necessarily follow from these affirmations that all matter or all energy have in them some bits of life or protolife, or that the primordial amoeba or the primordial virus possessed some rudiments of human consciousness or some embryonic minds.