Sentences with phrase «of gift of self»

Mgr Burke offers a profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and of gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.

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Market to that consumer mindset by capitalizing on the idea of self - gifting.
I do not disagree completely with the naysayers who call this self - aggrandizing or counter to the selfless and festive nature of holiday gift giving.
Ask for help, in part because you realize the person who provides you with that help will automatically feel greater self - respect, self - esteem, and self - worth, because they've received one of the greatest gifts of all: knowing they made a difference in another person's life.
While we tend to think that smarts equals IQ, Harvard research shows there are actually six other types of intelligence, including everything from the «bodily kinesthetic intelligence» of gifted athletes and dancers to the «intrapersonal intelligence» that gives us the self - knowledge to understand and manage our own feelings, preferences, and quirks.
It is certainly possible that the unethical favours at the expense of of a third party might just be construed as the cost of gifts in the eyes of the giver and the receiver and hence become indistinguishable from other forms of self - interest.»
Giving yourself small gifts will make you proud of yourself, increase your self - esteem and therefore, stay positive.
Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.
Again, from Scruton: «[A] vow is a self - dedication, a gift of oneself» — open - ended in its commitment to a shared destiny between parties.
If she (and you and I for that matter) understood the love within the Most Holy Trinity and how that love is life - giving, one can begin to understand what love is, the gift of self involved, I do not believe she could remain in her present position.
For Griffiths, the Church is a place, through the sacraments and the works of mercy, for learning the practices of receptivity and gifting, and thereby of conformity to Christ's self - giving love.
In Ephesians the bible says,» by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not of your self, it is a gift from God, not by works so no one will boast.»
If one is a Catholic Christian in particular, one can look at Christ's body on the cross to know the kind of self - gift you and I are called to.
Yes, we have a human nature with a desire for s * x. However, we also have the gift of self control, which most people today don't use anymore.
The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.
To Jefferson, the self - evident truth of equality was an unearned gift of the Creator to the nation's citizens that must be respected but that need not apply to slaves in bondage or to native savages.
In speaking of the process of constant self - creation, of our continuing need to «reconceive ourselves» — a gift of the Bard to humans — he is echoing phrases that sprout from the lips of those who insist on a «multiplicity of subjective positions,» «potential identities,» and the like.
I was given a gift of being completely humbled by my destructive lifestyle and strong self will.
From these diverse stories of «thinking Christians» a common theme emerges: the search for truth demands (to paraphrase contributor Kathryn Wiegand) a willingness to die to self» even to the hopes bequeathed by one's most cherished intellectual gifts» in order to be reborn in Christ.
Joyce Meyer: a supremely gifted, faithful and passionate preacher of the word, or a proponent of a prosperity - gospel message and teacher of self - help?
The conjugal act, profoundly unitive, isa procreative kind of act, and the gift of the child is to be profoundly linked to the spouses» incarnate gift of self in that conjugal, not merely copulatory, act.
Eve teaches Adam how to go out of himself and thus find himself: how to become a loving gift of self.
It can not force couples into the heights of self - giving, but it can encourage them to be on the trajectory of self - gift.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the punishment meted out after the Fall, that place where the nakedness which once bespoke trust and mutual self - gift now becomes an object of shame and concealment.
Sarah Bessey makes me want to get to know Jesus all over again, but this time specifically through my womanly flesh, embodied as Christ self was embodied, engaging God with the glorious gift of BEING a woman rather than in spite of it.
What is left out is not the pleasure, not the togetherness, but an openness to something beyond the couple that places them on the trajectory of self - gift, rather than on the trajectory of self - indulgence.
What is the role of self - examination and of affirmation from others in discovering spiritual gifts?
They place individuals on the trajectory of self - indulgence, not of self - gift.
This how John Paul consistently maintained that through her gift of self, Eve teaches Adam how humanity is to find its fullest realization.
Priestly celibacy, then, is the gift of self in and with Christ to his Church and expresses the priest's service to the Church in and with the Lord.»
Jesus also makes it possible for us to give a true gift of self - by his redemption he heals and elevates our natures.
Although it took the sensitivity of John Paul II to draw out the role of woman here more explicitly, this is nonetheless the key anthropological insight of the Second Vatican Council: the human person has been created so as to become a gift of self.
A critical step into participatory theonomy needs to be taken: we can only be genuinely free and happy if we give the gift of self to others.
It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience of an adult living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift of salvation.
-- Those that need «power» (reaffirmation of their personal self - worth among billions of humans) go to a preacher that preaches the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, special «gifts of the spirit» just for the unique you, a purpose - driven life, or a progressive gospel that is «the answer for our times».
His profound knowledge of ancient Judaism, his deep insight into the subject matter, above all, perhaps, his gift of self - expression - all this combines to make the careful reading of this work an unforgettable experience.
The author explores the notions of feelings, virtue, shame, loyalty and forgiveness, as well as the gift of self and the meaning of the body.
If the radical self - assertion which makes it impossible for man to achieve the authentic life of self - commitment is identical with sin, it must obviously be possible for man to understand his existence altogether as a gift of God.
Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive self - gift they made to one another in marrying.
So the marriage contract or covenant means that each spouse undertakes to give his or her own self, and each undertakes to accept the self - gift of the other, as she or he actually is.
Christians believe that in Jesus who is called the Christ God's gift of self to the universe is bestowed definitively and irreversibly.
But the cosmos in its finitude is unable to receive the boundlessness of God's self gift in one instant.
The significant aspect is the personal dimension: God in self - giving, in self - relating to the world, placed himself in a state of gift.
The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»
The paradox is that the autonomy of man's free response is God's gift of self to man.
He states that true love means we must have control over our feelings, and that eros can only be raised to a gift of self if a man respects the dignity of woman.
Modesty acknowledges that we are able to make a complete gift of self and that we are all worthy of dignity.
Revelation is the self - gift of the promising God to the universe.
We turn now to an examination of the historical situation through which God's revelatory self - gift to the world is mediated.
In this way, God through his own act of self - giving constitutes man whose genuine free response completes God's gift.
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