Sentences with phrase «so life affirming»

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If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

We are to affirm the fundamental goodness of life but not so as to acquiesce in the power of evil as it thwarts and destroys life.

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

But Christians affirm that in fact God works through other means, the worldly means of politics, economics, family life, and so forth.

The peaceful protesters in Ferguson seem to have been motivated by the violation of their life - affirming sensibilities, and rightfully so.

Just as God is appreciative and affirming of life, human and nonhuman, so an «ethic of life» is appreciative and affirming.

The Christian will affirm that at any given moment the natural world as a whole is gathered into the experience of a single ongoing Life, a divine Self, who feels the whole, «declaring it good,» or at least potentially so, both in its particulars and in its complex unity.

So, after affirming a whole range of ways in which various roles and occupations and professions can contribute to our common good she said, «To all of you on this Christmas day, whatever your conditions of work and life, easy or difficult; whether you feel that you are achieving something or whether you feel frustrated; I want to say a word of thanks.

But whether supernatural agency, affirmed as a line item in the creed, so to speak, was all that crucial in the way that the two groups actually lived their lives, day by day, may well be questioned.

in opposition to me, put so much weight on ethics, sanctification, Christian life, practical decision, and the like, now in part openly affirmed that heresy and in part took up a strangely neutral and tolerant attitude toward it.

People who lay claim to the word Christian should be those who are affirming uniqueness in every human life so that all of us human beings may eventually discover that we are all chosen people.

Indeed, few people know any particular person well enough to judge the excellence of these quiet decisions, much less the whole pattern of someone's life, so those few of us who can affirm a person in these respects surely ought to do so.

Smith urges Christian churches to assume their prophetic role with dignity and humility so that they can affirm their theological principles, put aside sectarianism, and live in the gospel.

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

The second benefit of a word of encouragement is that it strengthens both the believer and the fellowship by supplying that positive, affirming force that is so often missing in the routine of life.

Christianity promotes negation in so many ways, how is that even life - affirming?

But if basic democracy means the attempt to order the common life in such a way that these conditions are met — and I believe that basic democracy can be so defined — then the positive relationship between the Christian ethic and political and social democracy is here affirmed.

Either those who affirmed that the tomb was empty lived so far away from Jerusalem or such a long time after the burial of Jesus that their statement could not be verified or else no verification was ever possible because the tomb of Jesus could not be identified.

(35) They call us to what Sam Keen calls an «incarnate existence» in which we affirm the sacred in the so - called secular, and thereby gain a new and profound respect for our bodies and for all living things.

I cried over it because it's so life - affirming.

And, even on the brink of damnation, amid a roiling phantasmagoria — ghosts of his victims, devils, the living statue, hell's fire — he expresses neither fear nor remorse but goes to his perdition proudly affirming his unshakable loyalty to himself, with a courage so insane it almost deprives hell of any significance.

They were transformed from abstractions (that I affirmed so that I could keep belonging to my tribe) into meaning - rich narratives that I had to wrestle with to understand if and how they informed my life.

Their content, to describe them very simply, may be said to affirm the validity of Christianity in so far as it assures the fulfilment of life or the best possible moral living.

Yet she dedicated Women and War «to the memory of John Lennon,» because the Beatles» music was so «life - affirming,» she says, and because «the solemnity of the academy gets to me.»

So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).

If economism implies that economic life ought to be arranged so that the poor get poorer and the natural environment continues to be degraded, and if earthism affirms that we should try to organize economic life so that global poverty is ameliorated and the health of the natural environment is protected and sustained for future generations, then we all ought to become earthists and so ought the World Bank.

People are religious, not secular, so religion has to be given an orientation that is life - affirming and value - based.

In the age of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram there are so many opportunities for Christians everywhere to put something hopeful, life - affirming and Christ - centred into the newsfeeds of their friends, family and co-workers.

So there is the patina of an intellectual claim allowing a priori dismissal of religious truth claims — «all truth is relative» — there is the moral claim that seeks to silence and exclude — «if you affirm objective truth then you are perforce intolerant and therefore immoral» — combined with the easy - going neglect in daily life of the implications of the first two currents.

We need, then, only say that through them, as through so many diversified channels of expression, the eternal Spirit of the Universe affirms and realizes its own infinite life.

As for church - I am grateful to have found a church that loves a not - always - so - lovable - Kimberly and a denomination, The United Church of Christ, that affirms and welcomes me into the FULL life of the church.

So, in conclusion, let me say: be faithful, affirm life, have confidence, stand fast in a Christian vision of reality, enter more deeply into Christian existence, be assured.

More concretely it means to support values, practices and institutions that affirm and enhance life and to denounce systems and structures that diminish and extinguish the lives of so many.

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Here's a video to help everyone understand why so many people are making this life affirming choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr4HZ7ukSE

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

The former governor affirmed that he holds no grudge against the government for fighting corruption, urging Nigerians to team up with President Muhammadu Buhari to stamp out corruption from the polity so as to give Nigerians a new lease of life.

Pouring energy into your passions makes you vibrate at a higher frequency, and it is so life - affirming.

Here's a short video to help everyone understand why so many people are making this life affirming choice and why the number of vegans has doubled in the US in less than 3 years.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr4HZ7ukSE

Here's a video to help everyone understand why so many people are making this life affirming choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr4HZ7ukSE

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Most fans of film — whether they be filmmakers, film writers, or just fans — have that one special, life - affirming film that reminds them why they feel so strongly about the medium.

So, it's a film of two halves - both equally devastating but also life - affirming.

Just 10 days ago, on the 56th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Arne Duncan claimed that the «civil rights issue of our time» affirms «our collective commitment to providing a high quality education to all children regardless of race or background so they can succeed in college and careers and prosper in life.»

«In all these places,» write the Lappés, «we discovered people who are not accepting corporate global capitalism as it is but are evolving it so that growing and eating good food — and economic life itself — is again embedded in life - affirming values and community.»

The Romance: The Waipi'o Valley, on the northeast shore of Hawaii's Big Island, is so named for the Ali'i, or ancient Hawaiian Royals, buried there, but it's the life - affirming beauty that will have you feeling the love.

It's life - affirming to do something for the first time; even more so to do it with moderate success thanks to genuinely lovely, patient and gifted instruction.