Sentences with phrase «overwhelming experience of»

Panic attacks are a sudden and overwhelming experience of anxiety and fear.

I (the wife) hate the sometimes overwhelming experience of car buying - from the salesmen trying to talk you into an upgraded vehicle to the haggling over price.

It was the most overwhelming experience of my life.

Many a parent jokes about the overwhelming experience of taking a baby home from the hospital.

«Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother,» she went on.

Thrust from the close, dark womb into an overwhelming experience of bright lights, loud noises, and new smells, your baby needs the reassurance of your continued physical presence.

It was perhaps inevitable that the overwhelming experience of God's working made available to men and women in the event of Jesus Christ would lead to a less vigorous insistence on his human personhood.

Not exact matches

«It's been kind of an overwhelming experience and at the same time I'm really excited that we are seeing so much demand,» Mou says.

Outside of the summer months, he sticks to a 40 - hour work week to ensure that his staff does not experience excessive burnout or become overwhelmed by stress.

There are occasional stories of young geniuses bucking the norm to bring a revolutionary idea to market (and they truly are inspiring), but these stories are the rare exception to the overwhelming average experience.

So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a bull market as most of Wall Street has to be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists even in harshest bear markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very profitable renewals for many years to come.

Again, while this makes the service a good choice for an experienced (and accredited) investor, someone who's new to real estate investing might find all of this detail a bit overwhelming.

It's easy to become overwhelmed thinking about everything that you have to do before you open, but the corporate team helps you prioritize based on detailed timelines and an abundance of experience.

They are especially popular and successful because of the 4:1 ratio of students to mentors at every experience, which is only possible because of overwhelming support from the technology and startup communities in the cities where we operate.

They are especially popular and successful because of the 4:1 ratio of learners to mentors at every experience, which is only possible because of overwhelming support from the technology and startup communities in the cities where we operate.

The overwhelming amount of success with our program has provided us the ability to sit down with past graduates so they could share their experiences and speak to the strength of our opportunity.

«We have experienced overwhelming demand for our product in Chicago and New Yorkand are excited to bring ShipBob's capabilities to the thousands of small businesses in Los Angeles, who can use our product to take the pain out of shipping and focus on what really matters — growing their business.»

I have found that, for me, «feeling the moments» (living in the here and now), is also a rich experience... and I rejoice that at times, it is overwhelming with the colors of my peony garden, the emotions of a friend's funeral, and stunning chaos of the minnows that school within our river.

But I still stand by my original post in which I quote Torrance, in agreement: «I find the presence and being of God bearing upon my experience and thought so powerfully that I can not but be convinced of His overwhelming reality and rationality».

Most Christ - followers have experienced some form of Good Friday doubt — that overwhelming fear that maybe we've gotten it all wrong, maybe we've wasted our time, maybe all we've worked for and believed in is meaningless.

When I asked the 21 - year - old student leader of the trip what was the chief motivation behind him and his fellow undergraduates making the journey, he replied that it was primarily a spiritual motivation: «Because it is an overwhelming experience to be united with so many other young people in praying together and witnessing to the joy of being pro-life.

A person's voluntary encounter with human suffering should always be viewed as a cry of protest and a testimony of hope against the overwhelming evil that one experiences.

However, in fairness to Scott's presentation, Camus does come «close» to «accepting acceptance» at Tipasa, where the overwhelming beauty of the setting lures Camus into an experience where he feels his self is given to him by the natural beauty.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

A man can suddenly be confronted by the experience of God and find the subsequent joy overwhelming and all - determinative.

However, if we look at some forms of human experience, contrast and the intensity it evokes can be quite overwhelming, making life border on the chaotic.

The sense of presence became the experience of overwhelming love and acceptance.

If the young Blake delighted in greeting Satan as a redemptive figure, and an older Blake was overwhelmed and almost crushed by a realization of the deeper consequences of the divine identity of Satan, the regenerate Blake was finally able to name Satan as Jesus, thereby unveiling the redemptive goal of the fallen world of experience.

If I may be allowed to speak personally for a moment, I find the presence and being of God bearing upon my experience and thought so powerfully that I can not but be convinced of His overwhelming reality and rationality.

My experiences in wilderness often overwhelmed me with feelings of grandeur and mystery.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness.

Without this transcendent religious perspective, To Pimp a Butterfly becomes the difficulty that Clover Hope of Jezebel struggles with — an «overwhelming» and «suffocating» experience of a «blackness» that remains «way too vast.»

Three elements of which my colleague David Tracy speaks — finitude, contingency and transience — simply overwhelm people unless someone fosters their imaginations by retrieving, retelling and restoring something that will help them interpret their experiences.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

In all these ways I experience the intense and overwhelming presence of the Lord.

Some of the others experienced a sense of exhilaration at being part of the overwhelming majority.

He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the lonely paths of this life.»

The danger for preaching that lies in open sensitivity to the experiences of others is not in an erosion of authority by overexposure but in the overwhelming of the preacher's imagination.

Sometimes these paintings express the discontinuity of modern religious experience, the loneliness in a world that knows no limits and that overwhelms our ability to speak meaningfully of its shapes and forms.

This is exactly what I am currently experiencing in many parts of my life... It is indeed overwhelming.

We discover it at the boundary of our existence, in the experience of crisis, and in the overwhelming goodness for which we give thanks, or at the abyss of despair toward which we plunge.

Sometimes in the experience of deep grief and overwhelming anger, God seems very far away.

In our individual occasions of experience we are collectively deciding the very fate of process on this planet, and the size of this moral predicament is truly overwhelming.

Second, because the overwhelming majority of Christians come from Dalit and Adivasi communities, all of their experiences and expressions of God, world and human beings will be interpreted through the paradigm of Jesus Christ.

The life of Christian faith, says Ford, is itself the most profound experience there is of being overwhelmed.

While a small minority of larger churches do experience some success with this approach, the overwhelming majority of smaller churches attempting to be Hillsong clones continue to haemorrhage members every week because they can not offer the same quality of music, preaching or other services that their mega-mall comrades down the road are able to provide.

Speaking of tough conversations, if you find yourself experiencing those awkward feels around one of your old friends, or maybe you're feeling overwhelmed with guilt because of your «poor performance» as a friend, talk it out with whomever you need to.

In these transient and occasional «mountain top» experiences, the whole self is flooded with an overwhelming sense of being united in love with all of life and with its ultimate source.