Sure, there are lots
of perfect bodies, but just as many imperfect ones.
Some of the bodily distortions are at odds with the images
of perfect bodies that abound in our physical and online environment.
Every day, whether we notice it or not, we're bombarded with airbrushed images
of perfect bodies and made to feel like willpower weaklings or simply inadequate and unlovable if we don't match the images that we see.
The pursuit
of the perfect body takes a toll on boys.
However, good nutrition is the foundation
of a perfect body.
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At its core, an eating disorder is an addiction, either to food or to the pursuit
of a perfect body.
Not exact matches
Smith, who started Taser in 1993 after two
of his friends were shot and killed during a road rage incident in Arizona, says
body cameras are a
perfect next product for his company.
In the
body of the e-mail, Yaffe wrote «Just wanted to follow - up with you and put this to bed ASAP... In a
perfect world would love to have you wire him back $ 170,000 and gift him 15,000 shares
of Retrophin stock and that would fulfill the note obligation and more importantly doing the right thing and manning up as we spoke about.»
The Ouroboros, a Greek word meaning «tail devourer», is the ancient symbol
of a snake consuming its own
body in
perfect symmetry.
As companies realize that content publicity and link building must be a core part
of online marketing, rather than just the latest SEO fad, those same companies are faced with the challenge that there's no consensus or
body of research to help them pinpoint the person with the
perfect skill set to do that job.
I've yet to meet anyone who is the
perfect human being, the
perfect physical representation
of the idea
of the human
body.
Seventh and finally, the song
of redemptive hope,
of the resurrection
of the
body;
of our
bodies that encompass the stuff
of the creation
of which we are part;
of our
bodies that participate in the
body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that
perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.
It is a looking forward in Christ's presence, with Christ who is present, to the
perfecting of his
Body, to his definitive coming.»
In that case, looking at the naked human
body would be just like gazing upon the
perfect form
of god?
yogi talks about using the
body as an end to a means
of perfect enlightenment
of the spirit, death
of self for selfs sake.
I know there is no
perfect church, leader or
body of believers.
Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most
perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way
of salvation necessarily leads from the
body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm
of pure spirit.
The
perfect adoration
of God is when we give our
body as a living sacrifice, that means when we overcome our selfish nature through Jesus» love which he can give us.
No amount
of pinning or planning will guarantee the
perfect wedding, the
perfect body, the
perfect baby, the
perfect home, the
perfect life.
And, in her Assumption into heaven
body and soul, she is its completion, Therefore, through Jesus's life, death and resurrection, she is the
perfect foundation
of the Church.
The greater man becomes and the more humanity becomes one, conscious
of its power and able to control it, the more beautiful creation will be, the more
perfect adoration will become, and the more Christ will find, for the mystical extensions
of his humanity, a
body worthy
of resurrection.
At this moment, St. Paul tells us (I Corinthians XV, 23 et seq.), when Christ shall have emptied
of themselves all the powers created (rejecting that which is an element
of dissociation and super-animating all that is the force
of unity) He will consummate the universal unification by delivering Himself, in His entire and adult
body, with a capacity for union that is at length
perfected, to the embrace
of the Deity.
Controlling the reproduction
of the social
body and individual
bodies, controlling the quality and quantity
of the next generation in order to form a more
perfect union — these impulses remain part
of American culture.
Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center
of all the universe, created in the image
of the most
perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more
of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because
of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our
bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck
of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater
of the universe.
The four positions» first base consists
of an individual's mind and
body which, when their «give and take» are centered on God, produce as the fourth component a
perfect individual and thus a stable configuration.
Another reason why it is important to demonstrate that we have souls is that the Council
of Chalcedon explicitly said that «the same (Jesus Christ) is
perfect in his humanity, truly God and truly man, the same
of a rational soul and
body, consubstantial with the Father in his deity and consubstantial with us in his humanity, «like us in all things but sin».
She is the Mystical
Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People
of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits
of the Kingdom
of God, through which the work and the sufferings
of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its
perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.
If telescopes make it clear that heavenly
bodies are not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating around a planet, then the old notion
of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for
perfect circular motion on the part
of perfectly spherical
bodies, no longer has a role to play.
The souls
of the righteous, being then made
perfect in holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face
of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption
of their
bodies; and the souls
of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment
of the great day.
O Thou who art
perfect, light
of the Soul, the Supreme God, my beloved, my soul and
body.
12 For the
perfecting of the saints, for the work
of the ministry, for the edifying
of the
body of Christ:
This distinction between essential or
perfect, and unessential or imperfect, features in the church mitigated somewhat the bad effect
of the division
of Christianity and
of its radical separation into two
bodies which, by practicing an irreconcilable hostility, might endanger the cultivation
of the Christian religion as such.
The sense
of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish
of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory
of the mystical
Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His
perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial
of the passion and death
of our Head.
Instead
of the selfish male ideal
of regular pornography, i.e., the
perfect -
bodied female delivering the ultimate sexual climax, women reading Twilight can find themselves craving a different and equally selfish fantasy: the perfectly «intense» male delivering the ultimate emotional climax.
Of course, I assume you do believe that Christians are not
perfect until God gives us our glorified
body.
As the human nature
of Christ is the
perfect image, in the Son
of Man,
of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in
body and soul through God, so in the order
of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and
perfect spirit, is the mirror image
of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.
Ethically, because the
body was the center
of personal particularity and difference, it was vital for early Christians that this flesh, which bears the marks
of persecution, suffering, sainthood and merit in general, be preserved and
perfected in the resurrection.
He receives the mission to
perfect the
body of Christ that it may acquire the divine likeness, particularly through the celebration
of the Eucharist:
That
perfect response is one which she, free from original sin, is able to make perfectly, but which we can only make by the redeeming grace
of God, through our incorporation into the
Body of Christ in its sacramental life.
We know that Man is a
perfect meshing together
of spirit and matter so it is inevitable that sin will affect our
bodies, too.
Indeed, as a result
of the
perfect freedom and the voluntarism born
of pluralism, the American church boasted a vital, generous membership served by a necessarily vigilant and attentive
body of priests and religious.
Come to think
of it, I can not think
of a verse anywhere in the Bible which says that in our glorified
bodies, we will be perfectly
perfect in every way, including all our mental, moral, emotional, spiritual, and physical capacities.
So many
of them show the inadequacies
of «the church» and the «pastors» (the brainwashing, the control, the pressure to conform) and your «
Perfect Christian
Body» is doing the same; so your intent to be in defense of the opposite of «the body» suggested to me you may be in defense of the opposite of these various «church - ly» situations your are satirizing, or criticiz
Body» is doing the same; so your intent to be in defense
of the opposite
of «the
body» suggested to me you may be in defense of the opposite of these various «church - ly» situations your are satirizing, or criticiz
body» suggested to me you may be in defense
of the opposite
of these various «church - ly» situations your are satirizing, or criticizing.
We will all be resurrected (our spirits being reunited with a
perfected, immortal
body) as a result
of the Atonement
of Jesus Christ.
Many people point to god being
perfect because
of the human
body, or the beauty
of the world, etc...
And so, they were led to suppose that Heavenly
bodies should express the perfection
of their nature by moving in what they thought to be the most
perfect of geometrical figures — the circle.
It reads For the
perfecting of the saints, for the work
of the ministry, for the edifying
of the
body of Christ.
We are to strive toward our goal, or end, for which we were created, the
perfect man, the mature
Body of Christ, which is what Paul describes next.
«The Presbytery
of Springfield, sitting at Cambridge, in the County
of Bourbon, being through a gracious Providence in more than ordinary bodily health, growing in strength and size daily, and in
perfect soundness and composure
of mind; but knowing that it is appointed for all delegated
bodies once to die, and considering that the life
of every such
body is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our call
body is very uncertain, do make, and ordain this our last Will and Testament... We will, that this
body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our call
body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the
Body of Christ at large; for there is but one Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our call
Body of Christ at large; for there is but one
Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our call
Body and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope
of our calling.