The secular proponents
of a healthy tolerant civilization are thus those who really set the terms for Niebuhr's analysis.
Before my conversion I watched a large amount of pornography, and believe that and promiscuity have damaged me and my views
of healthy sexual relationships.
The capacity of our eyes to see is not a prize and a reward, but a natural condition
of healthy eyes.
The Church's vision is at the heart
of a healthy approach today.
We had, essentially, objectified our fellow human beings, which struck me as the opposite
of a healthy, Christlike engagement of sexuality.
The openness and integrity of his own relationship with God will determine his effectiveness as a facilitator
of healthy relationships with God.
As Brene Brown has so thoughtfully brought to our attention over the last few years, vulnerability is at the heart
of healthy, authentic relationships.
The adolescent must achieve a sense
of healthy separation from his parents — inner and outer independence.
A saint is a man or a woman who is open to the inrush
of the healthy life of God.
It wasn't until much, much later, like in my thirties that I began to realize that I'm not one broken soul among thousands
of healthy souls, but rather I'm one broken soul among thousands of other broken souls.
I love what you said «I'm not one broken soul among thousands
of healthy souls, but rather I'm one broken soul among thousands of other broken souls.»
(19) The foundation of faith (and the cornerstone
of healthy personality), is basic trust, the growth goal of the first life stage.
With
all of the healthy children in foster care as we speak, do you honestly believe that children with these kinds of issues really have a air shot at adoption?
We speak publicly
of healthy marriages because we love our neighbors and seek their well - being.
We advocate, as the bishops do, a great increase in the participation of everyone in the vitality
of a healthy economy.
But now we may be seeing the rise of white - collar and blue - collar countries, where the differing legal systems prevent the development
of healthy workplaces and labor relationships, especially in poorer countries attempting to live at the whims of the wealthy West's consumption choices.
You believe that your god will cause anyone who does not accept your Bronze Age stories to suffer a penalty an infinite times worse than the death penalty (burning forever in excruciating torture) simply because
of their healthy skepticism, yet maintain that god «loves them».
In the interest
of healthy dialog and fruitful correction I would like to offer five principles
of healthy criticism throughout the week.
Boundaries — it revolutionized how I understood myself, relationships, and the concept
of healthy — Tamryn Weber
One of the goals that my company talks about and includes in their interoffice corespondence is «creating enablers» — I think that is one of the outcomes
of a healthy church community.
There is a tendency to overlook interdependency as a part
of healthy human relations, both those of husband and wife and also those of people in general.
As well as learning from the past about the importance
of a healthy diet, we might also reflect upon a point made by one of the contributors to «Sunlight» (a journal of the 1920 - 30s concerned with promoting healthy living): that we have minds as well as bodies, and behaviour depends upon «whether one's mind is fed on treasure or on trash».
The vibrant mind comes from years
of healthy physical & mental culture.
Here is one of the simplest possible type, an account of the conversion to the systematic religion
of healthy - mindedness of a man who must already have been naturally of the healthy - minded type.
To accept this fact gladly, even joyously, is part
of healthy human living.
These groups absorbed the new converts, but there is no evidence
of the healthy evolution of these communities into organized churches.
Without that context, there is the danger that the family and its like will become so focused on itself, so inward - looking, that it becomes a cell of unhealthy life, not
of healthy and developing life.
At the same time, in the devotion to a common good — in this case, to the particular subject in which both have an interest — there is a fine instance
of healthy and enriching ways of promoting for each the fullest realization of selfhood that is possible.
A family grouping of any sort should be a cell
of healthy and joyous caring, where warmth is felt and where love is experienced.
As preaching had been one of my favorite parts of pastoral ministry, and even today seems to be a hallmark
of a healthy church, I had great trouble dealing with what the teaching and preaching activity of a church should look like.
If drinking represented «displaced» actions
of a healthy nature, I found that acting in accordance with God» swill produced the very results that God promised would be forthcoming.
You believe that your god will cause anyone who does not accept your Iron Age stories to suffer a penalty an infinite times worse than the death penalty (burning forever in excruciating torture) simply because
of their healthy skepticism, yet maintain that god «loves them».
When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are
those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.
Douthat himself points to the need for «a deeper process of discernment,» acknowledging that a form of liberalism «is fully compatible with doctrinal orthodoxy, and indeed, its flourishing should be regarded even by those who differ with its politics as a sign
of a healthy Catholicism, one not imprisoned by partisanship and ideology.»
Cobb also points out that «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 351) leads not only to theoretical problems for theodicy, but to practical problems in the church, «because particular providence has often been appealed to as justification for many actions on the part of believers that are disruptive
of the healthy life of the church» (TIP 14).
She thinks the key question isn't so much about size, but whether a church is healthy: «What's the perception
of healthy?
I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction
of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.
In my beginning conception
of a healthy community, I envision (and have somewhat experienced) a process in which a person is guided strongly by the convictions they have ascented to in their community.
Called «The Religion
of Healthy - Mindedness» by William James in his classic work, Varieties of Religious Experience, New Thought is a spiritual and philosophical movement associated with the founding of a number of ideologically - related churches in the late 19th and early 20th century United States.
Third wheels can be a great indicator
of a healthy relationship.
But if I were to speak
of a healthy book or a healthy rock, you wouldn't know what I meant.
To speak
of healthy rocks is number three; there is no clear analogy, so it is meaningless.
If we refer back to our three ways of using a word, to speak
of healthy dogs and people is number one above, the normal use.
As the Good Book has warned, there will come an age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image of noble and holy existence, instead do de - basing themselves out
of a healthy and happier existence even on earth.
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.
Abortions in cases of deformity, etc., are a very small fraction of the total and, because they introduce special factors, do not cast light on the direction of our culture as do abortions
of healthy pre-borns performed for convenience.
In the growth
of a healthy group, openness and honesty of communication are essential.
And although happiness is often a very real byproduct
of a healthy relationship, marriage has a far more significant purpose in sight.
Therefore the unified study of the world is for him a normal part
of the healthy living of every human being.»
The early Greeks are continually held up to us in literary works as models
of the healthy - minded joyousness which the religion of nature may engender.