Not exact matches
But some
people are remarkably charismatic: They build and maintain great
relationships, consistently influence (in a good way) the
people around them, consistently make
people feel better about themselves — they're the
kind of people everyone wants to be around... and wants to be.
The goal is actually finding
people you can develop a
relationship with — because only with a
relationship can you expect any
kind of reciprocal favors down the road.
Well,
people have particular
kinds of relationships.
These
kinds of leading questions refocus
people's brains on resources, successes, strengths and
relationships they can tap into for motivation.»
There are three
kinds of conversations you have with
people every day: ones that build
relationships, transactional ones or opportunity development ones.
It is the nature
of your
relationship with the website and the
people behind it, which will set the stage for natural link building, the
kind that Google appreciates.
«At that
kind of level, you're talking about usually some very senior, very sophisticated business
people... and you typically will have a fairly developed working
relationship between those
people,» Dye said.
You CAN still reproduce by having relations with memebers
of the opposite gender, that is obvious, what you are missing out on is that to ensure that
people didn't prefer same gender
relationships over the opposite gender
relationships, it was made a sin punishable by death to avoid any
kind possible population reduction from members
of the church.
To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons
of principle (or valid reasons
of any
kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two -
person relationship, as opposed to a
relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.
The first is that all human societies contain a
kind of opening toward transcendence; the
relationship between the human
person and God is constitutive and unavoidable.
People have varying
kinds of experience with human fathers and, as soon as one speaks
of God as father, some are sure to project upon God the dependency, fear, hostility or resentment that has marked their
relationship with their earthly father.
But when you pray, spend time thinking about what I value, what I have instructed you, how I lived my life, the
kind of example I provided, the
people I hung out with, the goals I sought to achieve, the
relationship I had with God.
I think that it's especially important for young
people, especially those who are just moving away from home to go through that, and
kind of establish their own faith and have a
relationship with God that is their own.
The old Testament affirms the goodness
of life and sexuality, and sexual language is freely used to describe the
relationship between God and his
people, but the prophetic tradition is consistently and radically opposed to the
kind of sexual worship found in Baalism.
And
people need a practical and honest vision which can be offered as a realistic way ahead, devoid
of angry rhetoric: «The proper condition
of the male - female
relationship can not be a
kind of mistrustful and defensive opposition.
The
kind of things that can lead to churches splitting,
people leaving churches, pastors writing condemnatory blogs about the beliefs
of other pastors and
relationships falling apart.
Many
people are able to keep going in desperately difficult situations because
of this
kind of relationship in their lives.
I have a private / secret Facebook group for Christian moms
of LGBT kids who love their kids unconditionally, want to develop and maintain authentic, loving, healthy
relationships with their LGBT kids and are working to make the world a
kinder, safer, more loving place for LGBT
people.
You are supposed to be in a
relationship with the all powerful, all - knowing, all - loving creator
of the universe... that «fact» should be enough to inspire such profound humility... the
kind of humility that
people genuinely respect and are influence by.
Restraint is not a word that most
people associate with contemporary Christianity, but at Holy Communion restraint is not a spiritual avoidance tactic, but a
kind of balance that leads to a deep personal
relationship with God.
It is an agent
of impotence, as Illich has argued, and as power
of person is lost,
relationships of all
kinds become trivialized.
A second question might be the following: Will the new group
of reconciled
persons in each place be a
kind of «skin graft» growing over old divisions, or will it be simply an interim, experimental organization for developing and enhancing new
relationships among still separated bodies?
She is a productive citizen
of society, works, is monogamous in her
relationship, is raising a adorable boy, is
kind to everyone she meets and yet you have straight
people out murdering, raping, living on welfare, and yet they should live more than a gay
person.
A «vertical»
relationship with God is necessary in order for the
person to gain authentic selfhood; this makes possible a different
kind of social order, one which is based on truth rather than falsehood.
Increasingly,
people from different
kinds of families are attracted to the life
of a congregation because
of the quality
of relationships they experience there.
In this
kind of society, small, lively groups in a church offer sorely needed opportunities for
persons to drink deeply from the fresh springs
of relationship, discovering the reality
of the New Testament experience
of being «members one
of another.»
We have said that it is in a new
kind of relationship among
people to which we are to look for the distinctive mark
of the Spirit's presence in the Church.
The Holy Spirit, then, is present in and to the church as the Spirit
of God's Holy Love, bringing his
people into a new
kind of relationship to one another and to him.
I hope he eventually came to see that recognizing the
kind of person one likes does not represent the full range
of skills necessary for a good
relationship.
The
kind of dating or marriage
relationship that encourages the single
people in its sphere speaks to an understanding
of its purpose, God - given community and gospel - reflecting interaction.
If God demanded the death
of an innocent and blameless
person before forgiving anybody, if God turned away even from those who repented until someone else suffered for their sins, if God demanded the pain and blood
of the cross before admitting anyone into right
relationship... what
kind of blood - thirsty, sadistic being would this be?
The death -
of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way
of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those
persons with whom I enter into
relationships of various
kinds and intensities and patterns
of communion and brokenness.
Kind or ironic when
people who think the universe was designed for the sole purpose
of God planning to have a
relationship with them accuse
people of being arrogant because they claim science is a better way to understand the natural world.
The presence
of power is manifest wherever two or more
people are gathered together and have any
kind of relationship.
As a fairly deep and serious
person, these
kinds of friends and
relationships sometimes balance me out.
By downsizing their expectations
of material affluence,
people are able to discover and invest in what really matters to them, whether that is family,
relationships, community involvement, environmental responsibility or a new, more satisfying
kind of work.
He does this by the
kind of person he is, the quality
of his
relationships, the sort
of people he attracts to the church, the motivational influence
of his leadership, and his own passion for making that church a need - satisfying fellowship with a dynamic concern for helping lift the load
of humanity.
If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the body and mind are; and this condition would deny individual
persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the
relationship between one's body and mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between human minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation
of vibrating particles
of air and other
kinds of «matter.»
Although I know you were speaking
of social
relationships, I'm a
person who likes to make everything clear, to eliminate ambiguities, so that's why I include other
kinds of relationships.
Although I know you were speaking
of social
relationships, Iâ $ ™ m a
person who likes to make everything clear, to eliminate ambiguities, so thatâ $ ™ s why I include other
kinds of relationships.»
What's broken my heart is that the friends I am losing are
people where I thought I had this
kind of relationship.
Thus, during active alcoholism, as the
person is cut off from nurturing
relationships including his
relationship with God, he is forced into a
kind of idolatrous position in which he is his own god.
Indeed, God often uses marriage as an analogy
of the
kind of relationship He wishes to have with His
people.
It's like telling gay
people that they can get right with God if they just decide to forgo the
kind of relationships to which they are naturally inclined for the rest
of their lives.
Cultural understandings, for example about sexuality and marriage, structure the
kinds of people we become and the
relationships we form.
And yet, there are many wonderful
people in my life who seem to have a different
kind of relationship with God — one in which he gives them very specific orders about what to do.
What is in essence remembered, and rightly remembered, is that the institutions
of Israelite prophetism and priesthood were present in the
people's history from the very earliest times, and that they developed together in the closest
kind of relationship.
Rather, it resides in the
relationship with God which such existence may and does enjoy, whether this is realized or actualized in a vivid manner or is present only as a
kind of Leitmotif which runs through the whole history
of the human race and the personal history
of each and every human
person as a member
of the society
of men and women.
But when two
people commit themselves to a
kind of relationship which necessarily excludes many other sources
of personality - feeding, they have an obligation to do all within their power to provide the interpersonal food the other needs.
Christine, that is a really powerful way to convey that
relationship, and one that portrays my
relationship not to the bible, but more to the «feeling / knowing / hearing» god... Even at my most believing, I never had the experience
of God talking directly to me and telling me what to do, but so many
people I knew seemed to have this... I always had my doubts and confusions; the times where I truly felt god or heard god, it was at a deep sensing level... not anyting spoken or any
kind of instruction.