Sentences with phrase «opening encounter with»

Recalling my own first eye - opening encounter with feminist work as a young artist, the paintings are full of forms that resonate with the strangeness and preliterate opaqueness of archaic sculpture.

This is the kind of exhibition Tate Modern should put on all the time — a serious, sensitive and eye - opening encounter with a great modern artist.

For Meeler, it was an eye - opening encounter with the opposite end of the state's separate and unequal public - education system.

Such a view in turn can impel believers to a more intense and open encounter with the living God who shares intimately every present moment and seeks to share with us the next best possibility.

Not exact matches

Ashby, a psychotherapist who turns 50 in June, played with G.I. Joes as a boy, but few survived, falling victim to encounters with firecrackers and little parachutes that failed to open.

I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and God in love peace justice and human dignity.

Thus Christ opens Christians to the encounter with others, and Buddha opens Buddhists.

His encounter with the risen Lord had opened his eyes to the fact that the salvation of Israel, as well as the salvation of the whole world, was to be appropriated through faith in Christ.

Play having opened him up to the possibility of relating directly to joy itself, Lewis later found that joy to be fully actualized in his personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's joy cause us to «en - joy» on the tangent of play's horizon where the radical otherness of God meets the radical wholeness of humankind, but joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person of Christ.

Her encounter with Christianity is as much an encounter with the pages of the Bible as it is with her husband - to - be; when she opens the book — for her, it seems, the book as well as the Book — she discovers the existence of its words for the first time.

Yet it is precisely because of this complete openness to all that is human, that the historian must open himself to encounter with humans who understand their existence as lived out of transcendence.

The intense experience of the personal encounter with God is expressed in free and open emotional language that satisfies the quest for spirituality and enriches religious expression and popular culture.

Pope Benedict was there for the opening of the conference, driving home the imperative of evangelization and the indispensability of personal encounter with God in Christ.

As to my experience with this issue, most of the non-Messianic Jewish people I encounter are very open to the idea of live and let live.

He imagined that Nazism's conjuring of the chthonic powers of blood and soil would restore life to the West, life open to an encounter with Being.

Samuel's first experience of God's call and Nathanael's first encounter with Jesus are unsettling, but both open into promises of deeper relationship and greater vision.

Just as we need to be open to the subverting and transforming encounter with Christ we must be open to the encounter with others around us, especially those outside of our protective bubble.

I think they are great ways of opening up close encounters with Jesus with humour and they remind me of the Screwtape letters by CS Lewis - anything fresh and counter intuitive can confound people.

[24] He shows Himself the true priest by opening up for us «this authentic encounter with God by becoming the man of the sanctuary who «stands in the presence of God» (Dt.

That an encounter with the Word of God makes a difference to man, whether he opens his heart to it or not, is a fact which only faith can know, the faith which understands that unbelief is a token of God's judgment.

And in Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, an encounter with a woman who strongly disbelieves in any afterlife prompts Isabel» who has an «open mind» on «all of this,» we're told» to think, uncharacteristically, about God: «We strove for God» or many people did» and did it really matter what form we gave to that concept of God?

One can only hope that the Patriarch of Moscow will also be open to a meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who has repeatedly called for such an encounter.

In our encounter with revelation, we must be open to having these longings transformed from private wishing into communal hoping.

Our encounter with him is not like an encounter with the historic Socrates, or with any other historic figure, but it is an eschatological encounter: it changes everything for us and brings our old history to a close, opening up for us a new history and a new future as no other encounter with a figure from the past could do.

with «Universalism and the Open Wounds of Life» «But what most people fail to understand is that my universalism, and most of the universalism I encounter within Christianity, isn't motivated by soteriological issues.

In Luke's view this «breaking of bread» was presumably related to the significant bread - breaking at the Last Supper (Luke 22:19) as well as to the disciples» encounter with the risen Lord at Emmaus; there «their eyes were opened» and «he was known to them in the breaking of the bread» (24:31, 35).

Arsenal on the flip - side are breezing into the title race with a long string of good results, and have climbed to second in the table having only lost one league cup encounter since their opening weekend defeat to Liverpool.

Engaging in an open game with end - to - end chances at Stamford Bridge could be a recipe for disaster for United, and so despite Redknapp's wishes, it would come as no surprise if Mourinho adopts a similar approach for this encounter.

With 5 assists in the opening 3 Premier League encounters, the Armenian was on track to break all sorts of records for Manchester United, but what actually followed was a serious dip in form which has completely stalled his career under the Portuguese.

But with Crystal Palace now in desperate need of points, we're expecting this encounter to be a more open affair.

Facing one of the surprise on this early part of season, La Viola were not having things easy though Vincenzo Montella's men did made a bright start on that encounter with Borja Valero opening the score after just five minutes of play.

The Robins opened their season with a home loss to Wakefield Trinity but put in a much - improved display when they lost to champions Leeds Rhinos last Thursday night at Elland Road where they dominated most of the encounter only to lose in the last quarter.

The home crowd cheered on and the game was wide open now, with both sides looking to get the win and take back all three points on the night from this crucial encounter.

Each of the last nine matches featuring Ghana have seen less than three goals scored in them, whilst Mali's opening encounter finished 0 - 0 with Egypt.

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The fourth day of the World Cup sees one of the contenders for the coveted trophy, the Netherlands, take on Denmark in the Group E opening encounter, with Cameroon and Japan scheduled to play the next match.

However, those were extremely tough opening fixtures and they soon made amends for their poor start by picking up points in their following two home encounters, drawing 0 - 0 with West Ham and defeating Wolves 3 - 1 at the weekend, both at Ewood Park.

There were a number of difficult fixtures that Blackburn could of began with and a home encounter with Everton is certainly one of them, but Rovers were particularly strong at home last season and if they can mirro that form this season, starting with a positive result on the opening day, then it could ultimately be what keeps them in the Premiership.

The Uruguayan helped Barcelona to a 3 - 0 victory at the home of rivals Real Madrid with the opening goal of the La Liga encounter.

The Gunners did manage to reverse that defeat a few weeks ago at Ewood Park, although not without a typical Blackburn fight, and even though Rovers have begun the new season with a whimper; winning just one of their opening four encounters, no - one has really yet to batter Blackburn into submission, with their two defeats so far both coming by slender one goal margins against Arsenal and away at Birmingham, who rarely lose at home anyhow.

The manager is «proud and pleased» with that sequence of results but nevertheless appreciates the scale of the task his side will encounter in trying to subdue a City team that has scored 85 Premier League goals this term and opened up a 16 - point gap on the rest of the division.

Considering Bolton haven't kept a clean sheet in league competition at The Reebok since the opening day of the season and Blackpool's rather bizarre pattern of scoring and not scoring in alternating away fixtures — Scoring in one away fixture one week before firing blanks in their very next away match — we should be in for an entertaining affair what with the Tangerines playing out a 0 - 0 draw at Upton Park in their last away encounter.

They will, though, be slightly disappointed with the start they've made at home, drawing their opening two league encounters at The Reebok with Fulham and Birmingham City, but Bolton fans were left delirious as they beat West Ham 3 - 1 at Upton Park, their second win over the Hammers in successive seasons.

Marcus Rashford has enjoyed an impressive start to his season — coming off the bench against Swansea in the last Premier League encounter to score the all - important opening goal and following it up with the winning goal against Slovakia for his country in midweek, in the World Cup qualifiers.

Our only concern is whether complacency creeps in on Saturday what with a home encounter against an evanescent Blackpool undoubtedly one of their easiest on paper, but like those which have slipped up on the Tangerines skin before them, if Bolton underestimate Ian Holloway's side then they leave themselves wide open for a spanking.

Flying high in the league and enjoying a tasty bit of form, Bolton will undoubtedly be a popular choice with the punters this weekend as they play host to a Blackpool side who play such an expansive yet open brand of football that the Tangerines are bound to encounter trouble on their latest visit to the north of England.

The Tangerines have scored Exactly 2 Goals in two of their opening five away encounters this season, with 0 occurring the same number of times.

As a mother of a child acquired through an open adoption, it has come to my attention how misunderstood and feared open adoptions are in this world from the questions I've gotten about my son's adoption and through encounters that my son's biological mother has shared with me.

Keen Berger opened her report with an anecdote about a homeless panhandler she encountered on the F train while she was with her grandson.

And after the Labour leader opened with a couple of questions about nursing, it seemed a repeat of yesterday's bruising encounters between Jeremy Hunt and Andy Burnham was on the cards.