Sentences with phrase «of gentle people»

Two areas that have earned a reputation as prime destinations for relaxation and spa services are along the beaches of Puerto Galera, and in the coastal region near Dumaguete, which is known in the Philippines as «the city of the gentle people.»

Not exact matches

Your goal at this point is to motivate them to make a purchase, so your messaging doesn't have to be as gentle and indirect as it was in the content you create for people at the top of the funnel.

For their part, the senators were generally gentler with Zuckerberg than expected during the hearing, which risked being a dramatic grilling broadcast live to millions of people at home.

In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer «a gentler capitalism» that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.

Yonder person hears himself called «most gentle» when he is inflicting tortures, or «most generous» when he is engaged in looting, or «most temperate» when he is in the midst of drunkenness and lust.

I agree with NP and Brian — we need to extend love to that person — that doesn't mean we admonish their actions — but that we deal with the reality of the situation in a gentle / meek manner (God forbid we ever find ourselves in that predicament — so be merciful).

They are likely to make clearer the gentle, nurturing aspect of God's eternal person, and to call on both men and women to reflect it adequately.

I like the new pope a lot — I am not even a christian but he strikes me as a gentle caring and honest person who is going to do good for humanity — wish all the religious leaders could take a page out of his book.

The Christian spectators of the play are flattered as members of a «gentler» people, while the Jews are left «to destruction.»

Get together a group of insecure and frequently troubled people and tell them in a sustained and rhetorically persuasive way that they are creative, unique, loving, gentle, caring, insightful, and all the other things that they, and perhaps others, have told themselves that they are not, and chances are that they will lap it up.

Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

In His mortal existence, Jesus is like Dr. Jekyll — gentle and accepting of all people.

There are two wonderful things that give me a positive wow factor every day — the increasing number of people I discover doing fantastically brilliant stuff, quietly and without fuss, living out the Gospel of Christ in gentle, caring, loving ways, most of which the church institution hasn't got a clue about because it's too dam busy running itself.

There are a number of believers who regularly post on the BB who are probably gentle people.

I have no intention of critiquing them, because it looks like they are having some loving, gentle conversations with people.

About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.

«The example of the Holy Father, and the way people of every sector of our society have responded to his message of gentle joy and compassion without pretense has set the bar for every Catholic and even for many who don't share our communion.»

I discovered that the hand of God was strong and firm, gentle and loving, in the hands, breath, and voices of the people of God.

According to his story, a tribe of beautiful, gentle black people settled in the Nile valley.

BTW — I have met Brian several times in casual settings and he is one of the gentlest, kindest, humblest, most generous and thoughtful people I have ever known.

It takes a strong person to be gentle in this way, a person who depends for their sense of self - worth not on other people but on God.

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

I was really hoping for gentle, honest discourse among people of all faiths and beliefs.

The people of Malaysia clearly have cultivated a mutual forbearance and harmony capable so far of gentling conditions that elsewhere have speedily degenerated into conflict and violence.

I wanted to get an idea of the lengths a person would go to in order to escape my less - than - gentle habits.

In an earlier column in First Things («The Rich, the Poor, and Reaganomics» [April 1991]-RRB-, I predicted that the number of poor people, after declining under Reagan, would rise under Bush despite the latter's «kinder, gentler» rhetoric.

What makes moral feelings peculiar is the logical point behind Kant's thrust — we owe dignity and respect to other persons as persons regardless of our other feelings about them, and in a moral crisis we may feel urgently the not always so gentle persuasion of God in the form of conscience.

And meanwhile some wreckers were around, creating havoc with people's faith — liberation theologians owing more to Marx than to the Gospel of Christ, crusaders for contraception who railed against Humanae Vitae and denounced the gentle Paul VI with a savagery that caused that good, wise and courageous man real sufering.

But evangelicalism asks us to believe that God (from whom we get the concept of being courteous, gentle and forgiving) can not get past those offences and will ultimately get payback by consigning the person to final damnation for eternity (regardless if hell is full of flames or just empty loneliness).

When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.

the letters of Paul in the NT speak of «you» over and over, not singular but plural «you»... Revelations speaks of the myriad of believers around the throne... all this to say that being a believer is not a «Lone Ranger» endeavor... I can sit under a tree and worship him and yes God speaks to me singularly through his word, but if I am to become more «patient, kind, gentle, faithful, loving, submissive» it is usually fulfilled by living out my life in a community of other people, ie.

According to food historian Waverly Root, the first recorded mention of its use in England was in 1640, where it was considered a crude food, eaten by «country people and strong laboring men... [but] too strong for tender and gentle stomachs.»

Some people have a lot of success with acne and oil cleansing with coconut oil, others find a gentle soap cleanser and then moisturizing with coconut oil works better.

While these dishes are a undeniably on the extreme end for a country of people that lust over the meat and three veg main, something like pâté is a much gentler place to begin your love of variety meats.

Yesterday evening, my husband and I had quite a scare as out littlest one tumbled down our steep flight of city steps (hard hard wood that's not the most gentle on teeny tiny noggins), thankfully only leaving a few loose teeth, a bunch of bruises and a little blood, but it left every single person in our house shaken up.

The land itself seems to exert a gentle, undiminishing influence on the people, imbuing many crass, latter - day prospectors with the instinct of the old Polynesians to share the pleasures of the land with all comers.

There are some things where I don't have quite as much confidence - gentle discipline, for instance, because of less support for it in person and the fact that it has so many variables (working w / a child's behavior has much more grey area than «I always comfort my baby when she wakes up in the night,» which makes it more of a challenge)- so somethimes I do feel judged for my discipline choices, and sometimes I don't live up to my own standards - making me more suseptable (sp?)

I am a fairly strict parent and this has been remarked upon several times by people who are decidedly not AP — but I teach through gentle discipline and I meet what I believe to be the needs of my children at their stages of development.

The combination of nature and strength indicates that Koas are generally both gentle and bold, and are adventure - loving people.

Here at Little Hearts our readers have BIG hearts full of love for little people and have joined together to Give the Gift of Gentle Parenting and Give the Gift of Life, raising funds to donate gentle parenting books and resources in bulk to hospitals for new parent bags, to children's hospitals, and to crisis family centers and also to help with author L.R.Knost's medical expenses as she battles a rare neuroendocrine cancer.

They decided to treat their little guy like a person instead of a possession and communicate with him instead of punishing him... and then they were gentle discipliners!

Good nutrition may not be the first thought that pops into people's minds when they think of gentle parenting, but studies have shown that many behavior issues and sleep problems have their root in unhealthy eating habits, nutrient - poor diets, and food additives (dyes, preservatives, etc.).

It's about a kinder, gentler, more wholesome way of life that will heal you of your anger and frustration, your nightmares, your chronic sleeplessness and make you a better, more patient, loving, compassionate person.

It's nice support for the rest of the AP world, and may help bring some more people into the fold and help found a gentler world:).

For me, the gentle aspect of this birth was the fact that I could be this raw, this vulnerable, this naked — literally and metaphorically — in the comfort of my home with people I knew and trusted.

And then I have a reality check and think about all the clinicians I know, and while they're human, and subject to human error, they're good and kind and gentle people not capable of this conspiracy to cover up all the deaths.

For those commenters who were asking about books to read on early (er) potty learning (i.e., not potty learning from birth, usually called Elimination Communication, but earlier than is usually done today in North America and Britain) I recommend Jill M. Lekovic's «Diaper - Free Before 3»: http://www.diaperfreebefore3.com/excerpt.html She can be a little intimidating (if I remember correctly her chapter on «later» potty learning covers starting after 6 - 9 months, which could freak many people out, I know), but her methods are gentle, respectful (of child and parent) and quite Montessori in many respects (going back to Hedra's comments above).

Very quickly, I found like - minded people, mothers who breastfed past six months, parents who coslept, fathers who were wholeheartedly involved in parenting, parents who believed in gentle discipline and, best of all, parents who admitted that, yes, their babies didn't sleep through the night and that it was okay, they would in their own time.

While some people may use a breast pump, a paper published on the website, American Family Physician, explains that the most commonly used technique of nipple stimulation for induction is gentle massage of the breasts or the application of warm compresses to the breasts «for one hour, three times a day.»

They are also two very aware young people, who are kind and gentle and sensitive to the needs and feelings of other people.