The function proper to the first organ is that
of receiving [percevoir] each particular impression, of attaching signs to it, of combining the different impressions, of comparing them with each other, of drawing from them judgments and resolves; just as the function of the other organ is to act upon the nutritive substances whose presence excites it, to dissolve them, and to assimilate their juices to our nature.
So 1 Corinthians 9 can not be used by pastors to defend the practice
of receiving a salary.
I hope that you can rebuik all evil that makes you upset about someone saying that to you and I ask God to bless you out of that fight
of receiving a simple wish of people asking God to continue to bless u!
A man can use responsible freedom to murder even when he is certain
of receiving the extrinsic consequence of the death penalty.
Hospitality — the quality
of receiving and treating guests and strangers in a warm, friendly, generous way.
Accordingly, the primary experience
of receiving with emotional and purposive subjective form the causal influence of other actualities tends to be only dimly illuminated in consciousness precisely because it is primary.
Instead
of receiving accolades, the celebrated Italian officer now stood condemned before the bar of history.
Fast with the intention
of receiving and not just giving.
Every gift of God to His creatures must necessarily be givenaccording to the creature's way
of receiving things - that is, mediated through the creaturely nature.
As in any relationship, it is the blend
of receiving and giving that strengthens mental health.
The former Cardinal Ratzinger has been deeply concerned with this question ever since the former Bishop of London, now Mgr Graham Leonard, first asked for the possibility
of receiving communities into the Church together with their priests, a request the then prefect of the CDF supported (as, at first, did Cardinal Hume).
Hawaiian spirituality, as a story chanted to the sound of drumbeat and ocean waves, offers a compelling way
of receiving the truth that Pacific peoples have to share.
The practice
of receiving communion in the hand often engenders disrespect for and indifference to the Host.
To us Americans, the experience
of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar.
It was also to this woman, Janet McKane, that O'Connor wrote
of receiving communion and the sacrament of the sick (formerly known as extreme unction).
The Church's concern for her children who are divorced and remarried can not be reduced to the question
of receiving the Eucharist, and I am confident that, rooted in truth and in love, the Church will discover the right paths and approaches in constantly new ways.
If you had to do the hard work of offering forgiveness, then they need to do the hard work
of receiving it.
Ritual is participatory, so it is not just a question
of receiving messages.
If someone has never been to a hospital for severe illness and tries to only use his home remedies to maintain health, someone who knows the goodness
of receiving the best in health care would want to direct a very ill person who is near death to seek help.
These are only a few of the many authenticated examples of miracles, other than the great miracle
of receiving the revelation of the Qur» an, which were performed by the Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of God.
No, Jesus is getting to the heart of what it is to be capable
of receiving the Divine Mercy when he says that «everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.»
Probably most of us have had the experience
of receiving, right out of the blue, a gift from someone we really don't know all that well.
It is only because
of receiving and accepting real love through Christ that Christians are the righteousness of God.
In the context, Paul is pointing out that Jesus is a certain and sure way
of receiving eternal life.
It seems obvious that we should accept that as Israel was in the process
of receiving the revelation of Yahweh, some unavoidable assumptions were made.
It was in the process (and the still ongoing process)
of receiving the promise that I have been prepared, shaped and molded to receive that promise.
But these types of death bother us because an actual person who was capable
of receiving violence or who actually had hopes for the future (hopes which existed in the present) was cut down.
I had the privilege
of receiving an advance review copy of Torn, in which Justin shares his story.
This meant that parishioners had no way
of receiving the sacraments, including the Eucharist.
The answer here is the revelation you had
of receiving a revelation from Holy Spirit (conviction) that you realised you harboured negative thoughts, envy, anger, jealousy and dark thoughts about God.
project, directed by Mason, the first female dean of the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley, found that women who had children within five years
of receiving their doctorates were far less likely than men who had done so to acquire tenured professorships.
Instead
of receiving self - improvement nudges or engaging in conversation with strangers, I watched the founders fret (a lot) over technical glitches with the web streaming, talk about how hard they had worked to pull the service off, and try to sell me Sunday Assembly swag.
In an address prepared for delivery at Harvard University, June 13,1974, on the occasion
of his receiving an honorary doctorate in recognition of his defense of human rights.
When we take conscious experience as our basis for understanding what experience is, we think
of receiving and responding to stimuli from the body and the environment, of emotion, purpose, and thought, of the significant organization of data and the influencing of action.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25999778 «God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience
of receiving communications from God.»
[O] ur Fathers have rightly and wisely distinguished three ways
of receiving it.
After 15 years
of receiving a paycheck from a church, I left the ministry 9 years ago (my choice) and found myself in a deep struggle for about three years.
Let us forsake our expectations
of receiving our rewards from men.
Such humility does not exclude the ecstatic joy
of receiving the Spirit of God, or the peace of agape with God and the neighbour, but it is joy and peace made possible within love's work of forgiveness.
He regards the world as given over to the power of judgment until the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ brings mercy and redemption, and he regards man as by nature vile and as incapable
of receiving pardon from God until the advent of Christ.
It is said of Addai that instead
of receiving gold and silver, he himself enriched the church of Christ with the souls of believers.
This is because the stress in the pictures is on the divine all - sufficiency, total control, demand for moral rectitude, and active self - assertion, none of which fits in very well with the focus on Love — for love is always a matter
of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of them.
Appreciation for the priest and his uniquely venerable hands; belief in the Real Presence; the habit
of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue; frequent, transparent confession — all these go together.
When we asked the seminary deans about God as defined by Leuba, 92 percent accepted the definition: God is one «to whom one may pray in expectation
of receiving an answer.»
The funeral was conducted by a rabbi and the Winehouse family will sit shiva - the Jewish custom and tradition
of receiving guests in their home - starting Tuesday night, Winehouse spokesman Chris Goodman said.
By this distinction of two modes of passivity —
of receiving forms - Aristotle sets off the world of conscious experience from the world of nature, but in such a way that not only the objects but the very workings of nature are included as part of what is felt.
Gone are the days
of receiving block grants, and North American churches generally have less money to give.
On top
of receiving local recognition, the Deputy Mayor, Cuma Özdemir, also paid him a visit and gifted him with a new blanket, clothes and food.
It is very sad that so many have a Ministry
of Receiving, always seeking money and never give one thought to serving the poor!
What this means in practice is that the Bible is unable to deliver to us its cargo because the twentieth century has made us incapable
of receiving it.