Sentences with phrase «rather than heal»

You cope by over-indulging: whether it's food, work, exercise, shopping, gambling, sex, alcohol or drugs (including prescription), over-engaging in certain activities can be a sign that we're trying to escape, rather than heal from intense mental and emotional challenges.

Anyway, if good health means some animal food, so be it... but let it be untainted, humanely raised animal food, or it is likely to hurt rather than heal.

So these metaphors reinforce rather than heal the divides in the NHS.

However, rather than heal the nation, Buhari used his own hands to polarise the nation through his words, actions and appointments.

I really question if it can be done within the context of church because the goal of church is often the maintainence of being the most right, rather than healing and sustaining people through love, where ever that takes them.

Furthermore, the tannic acid in the tea can act as an astringent causing drying and cracking, rather than healing.

This means the artist could find creating the work traumatic, rather than healing, although the work may be successful in evoking healing for viewers.

Not exact matches

And, ever since stocks and bonds in emerging markets erupted in turmoil in January, investment banks native to Asia, Africa and Latin America have been forced to take a defensive posture to heal themselves rather than an entrepreneurial one to raise money for their clients.

All the people Our Saviour touched He actually healed, but has the pope healed this man, no, he did not and that is why this is a show rather than truth as the pope can not heal, and if he had any compassion he would allow the immigarnts in Italy to be fed and live at the vattican so until this pope does this he is misleading people.

The Vision document has four main elements: equipping children academically and emotionally for the world; providing places of healing for children who have mental health problems or who've suffered bad experiences; providing a welcoming place for all rather than just Christians, and; upholding the dignity and respect of each individual, who is made by God.

But alas, we're like the Israelite of Jesus day, unaware of the time of visitation, collectively assuming that His healing's and miracles are signs of His winking and tacit approval, rather than an attempt to soften our callous hearts so He can deliver a harsh and penetrating warning to His beloved.

The man's faith follows rather than precedes healing.

There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide loving support, into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is best forgotten rather than a broken relationship which will exert continuing influence on their lives.

I've prayed for the sick enough that now I'm more interested in who is still healed after a week, rather than who felt better in the moment.»

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

I would also limit the term «shepherding» to those situations in which it is possible for the minister to concentrate on the healing, sustaining, or guiding of the person or persons, rather than having primarily, at that point, to protect the interest of the group or the institution as perhaps against that of the person.

If people are actually healed and he is listening to the Holy Spirit to do something, though, we'd have to look at the fruit rather than the action taken.

But it would be better to heal these sick people rather than put them out of my misery.

I'm being healed, but it's from things that happened to me rather than what people normally think of as sin.

Does that call the Latin / Western Church's emphasis on guilt and justification rather than shame and psychological / spiritual healing into question?

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

And rather than make a simple request that God heal you, and then leave the matter with Him, some of the teachers say that we should demand healing, since it is our right.

Whenever we read stories of Christ healing, it was on his terms: his was the gift, he chose when to give, and the healing served a purpose to demonstrate something: rather than just for the sake of it.

And... IF my community members show the need for the second site (TLS), that is, the willingness to actually engage in a real exchange of communication, the willingness to listen, and to write with a careful choice of words... to heal rather than to take advantage of the wounded... then, I may consider recommending the TLS site.

Bishop, thinking that fixing our dysfunctional political system rather than trusting God's Grace to heal humanity's social ills is not only heretical, it is also apostate, IMO.

It immediately eliminates any possibility of anonymity, which is a penitent's right in Canon Law, turning the priest into a guru rather than the minister of God's healing grace.

It is moralistic in that it encourages the psychological equivalent of works - righteousness approaches to salvation — that is, it encourages the attempt to pull oneself up by one's own rational bootstraps rather than opening oneself to the healing - growth resources in good relationships.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Only thus can they be gardens and hospitals, places of growth and healing, rather than museums.

It is rather the fullness of justice, leading to that tranquility of order which is much more than a fragile and temporary cessation of hostilities, involving as it does the deepest healing of the wounds which fester in human hearts.

Yet God calls us to look forward — to see the new things that He is doing in our life rather than to dwell on the old; to focus on hope, healing and potential instead of wasting our life on regrets, judgment and unending analysis.

Although his parents were afraid of being ostracized simply because their son had been healed, he was willing to endure criticism and mistreatment and even expulsion from the synagogue rather than disparage Jesus.

If you still doubt why did nt Jesus just heal all who were around Him rather than a some in each town?

Rather than extend them the compassion and healing for their wounds, they are treated harshly, told they are going to hell and offered no effective ministry.

Rather than representing a breaking in of some power from «outside», faith healings represent the tapping of a power that is present in our world and in us.

If someone can be brought to the place of accepting God's love... JUST AS THEY ARE... and are allowed to bask in that love... their healing will have begun and they will come to you rather than you going to them to tell them how wrong they are.

Indeed, you could argue that Jesus» entire life — from being born in a barn in the midst of a genocide, to hanging out with prostitutes and drunks, to healing on the Sabbath and touching the untouchables, to riding into Jerusalem on donkey rather than a war horse, to healing the ear of a Roman soldier after it had been cut off by Jesus» allies — was a stinging indictment of religious and political power.

The shepherd's healing orientation finds its focus in understanding rather than in adjusting another person.

I think it would be a good idea, rather than to condemn Steven Hawking, for believers around the world to join together and ask God in prayer to heal him.

We have come more and more to mirror our culture, or certain strands within it, rather than to speak to it an effective word of judgment or healing.

The Christian message is frequently distorted in ways that cause it to hurt rather than to heal, to block rather than to stimulate personality growth.

Christ heals us from within, organically, rather than extrinsically like some judicial pardon..

She has made the Gospel shine appealingly in our time; she had the mission of making the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, known and loved; she helped to heal souls of the rigours and fears of Jansenism, which tended to stress God's justice rather than his divine mercy.

When the church becomes more concerned about its own institutional survival, rather than the liberation and healing of people, this is certainly true.

Facing a life of chronic illness I made a conscious decision to take responsibility for my body and my illness; rather than waiting and expecting doctors and their medicine to pick me up and make me feel better, I instead began to look at things that I could do myself to help my body to heal and live the best life that it can.

I tend to view them as a healing experience rather than simply a meal.

Jürgen Klopp himself presents a rather intriguing prospect too, he is very much focussed on the concept of team building, and a collective ethos and spirit, in which the sum of the parts is greater than the value of the individual parts themselves — maybe Klopp will go some way to healing the hurt left from Suarez's departure, as he himself is also immensely popular amongst the fans, but his players will certainly have a key role in that becoming a reality, as ultimately it is performances on the pitch that mean the most to the fans.

When you buy insurance, you should be buying peace of mind so you can focus on healing rather than finances.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

There's a unique healing power to writing your birth story, of not having an audience, of getting raw and going to the deep places, rather than just sharing the version suitable for light conversation.