Sentences with phrase «thankfulness rather»

That's beautiful... it speaks of humility and thankfulness rather than narcissism and «taking control.»

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Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

If we are led to Jesus Christ so that he might offer us access to God, then our relationship with God does not command cowering prostration before the power and might of a distant, omnipotent God; rather, it invites trust, joy and thankfulness in the presence of the fountain of every good thing.

I was in a rather agnostic period of my life, but when it was my turn I prayed in thankfulness to my own (rather more traditional) God.