Africa is a culture that has been colonized and oftentimes demonized, so it was about reclaiming certain
things as beautiful and powerful.»)
When people see
things as beautiful, ugliness is created.
Bless your heart guys, you guys are also much more generous, you def deserve the beautiful
things as beautiful as you are... I cant take so much, worth no cost that what I am looking for my treats:) and I still love you:)..
There are few
things as beautiful as bringing new life into the world, and it's a day you'll remember for the rest of yours.
There are few
things as beautiful as your sleeping baby.
Not exact matches
«One
thing I always look at when I'm trying to build products is that people just like to use
beautiful things, so keep it
as dead simple
as possible and easy to understand.»
As fast - food Twitter has gotten weirder and weirder, this year was a
beautiful one for those who just couldn't get enough of their favorite chains saying bizarre
things and getting into feuds.
Can't find it discribed
as a
beautiful thing between man and man, woman and woman.
And yes,
as one respondent pointed out, there are many
beautiful things that surrounds our lives: children, families, nature, etc..
This only conditions a child's mind to notice these
things and view them
as forbidden, rather than training them for self - control through the simple acknowledgement that humans are by nature sexual beings, and that the female form is
beautiful, something to be appreciated and not objectified.
But Jesus defended Mary, calling it a
beautiful thing and predicting that this deed would be remembered
as part of the gospel story.
i see your desperate need to communicate all the
beautiful wonderous
things in your head... * deep heavy sigh * being diagnosed with a mental illness puts you in the same category
as the colorblind.
I wanted to dance in a swirl of indigo and gold, in red and kelly green, because in the midst of all the craziness of this world and all of the work there is to do it's a holy
thing to take a minute of your life to say Oh, God, you're
beautiful you're
as good
as we dare to hope right alongside of a bunch of kids.
He gave a
beautiful explanation of the universe
as founded on and animated by love, a love that was being itself and that sustained all other
things in their being.
We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship
as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing
beautiful and frail
things - innocence, early love, children — passing away
as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.
For if all
things are rooted in a being which is of the same order
as the being of God, if all
things are predicated on Christ
as the first - born of all creation, and if each
thing expresses this in a unique, and uniquely
beautiful way — then we are forced to contemplate our created order with awe and reverence.
That is such a staggering, elegant,
beautiful thing - why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy
as a God?»
Instead,
as Wilde states, «in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering
as being in themselves
beautiful holy
things and modes of perfection».
So, Oscar Wilde wrote: But in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering
as being in themselves
beautiful holy
things and modes of perfection», did he!!!! ----- The apostle Paul wrote:::» Futhermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not be done.»
I served in Iraq, and
as a Christian, I can tell you that the Muslim call to prayer at a large mosque is one of the most
beautiful, inspiring
things I've ever seen / heard.
And could it be that creativeness is intrinsic to godliness (and worship) and do we regard God
as the great artist and genius of all
things beautiful and exhilarating.
It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of
beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side
as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might
as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?
Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning
as being
Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love
as being a Motive - Power leading all
things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate
Beautiful and Good — yea,
as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6
In that spirit, then, Dionysius could affirm that love,
as applied to the Godhead, «means a faculty of unifying and conjoining and of producing a special commingling together in the
Beautiful and Good... and holds together
things of the same order by a mutual connection, and moves the highest to take thought for those below and fixes the inferior in a state which seeks the higher.»
From Dianna: You seem to have a pretty unusual faith journey, but one
thing I notice throughout each of the four major steps (Catholic - Hindu - Anglican - Orthodox) is the inherent beauty in each of those worship styles - Catholicism has a very
beautiful set routine of liturgy, the Hindu call to prayer is (to me) one of the most
beautiful sounds in the world, and Anglican services tend to be quite
beautiful as well.
As a first year seminary student and an avid lover of all
things Christmas, I've had the pleasure of learning a number of
things about the birth of Jesus that I found too
beautiful not to share.
To be the designer or craftsman of
beautiful things was to fulfill man's natural role
as what Henry called a «decorating animal.»
Some
things are
beautiful, and consoling — and it is worth affirming that for
as long
as it is slightly embarrassing to do so.
I think what's
beautiful is that sharing all
things in common is not a prescription for community, but it's a description of what happened
as the Holy Spirit fell on them.
It does not do away with the culture by condemning it, but it redeems what is good and
beautiful in the culture,
as well
as what is bad and ugly, and points all
things to Jesus Christ.
For
as they live among his works they keep searching, and they trust in what they see, because the
things that are seen are
beautiful.
Beliefs, like opinions, can not be right or wrong
as these
things are personal,
as in, «that painting is
beautiful and that other painting is ugly».
I didn't want to volunteer to shut out romantic love from my life — the
beautiful union of physical and spiritual intimacy that straight people took for granted
as a potential blessing life might grant them — by committing to celibacy, and I thought the positive, self - loving
thing to do was to accept myself.
This can not be done wilfully, of course, but emerges spontaneously from a particular way of appreciating the world:
as an objective and
beautiful thing, a symbolic reality whose fabric reveals, in a great variety of ways, the forms or archetypes of the world's order (pp. 13,125).
If beauty — not a particular beauty, but any
beautiful thing — is a metaphor of the sacred, then there is no such
thing as a uniquely «religious» or ecclesiastical idiom in architecture or in the other arts.
interesting topic.A lot of damage was done in south africa by white missionaries.they didn't come to bring messiah they came to bring western culture into africa.there are so many
beautiful things about indigineous cultures that have been robbed and destroyed.so
as a follower of messiah i tend to stay
as far away from «missionary» work and i just try to listen to people's stories.
Is it possible to put into words why
things strike us
as beautiful and why some
things strike
as more
beautiful than Whitehead's thought provides the concepts for just clarification.9 First of all, beauty entails a synthesis of contrasts.
As I watched the image on the computer screen develop into some
beautiful butterfly kind of
thing, I thought, «That is math.
Luther on The Gospel Reading for Oculi This is a
beautiful Gospel from which we learn many different
things, and in which nearly everything is set forth
as to what Christ, his kingdom and his Gospel are: what they accomplish and how they fare in the world.
As a non Believer, what I find amusing is the attributes people choose to equate with their God, for instance, all the good and
beautiful things in life are a results of Gods «love», and all the bad and ugly
things in life are a results of mans choices, not God's dislike for us.
Humans rising up to comfort one another in the wake of a tragedy is a
beautiful thing and I view it
as slightly insulting to have someone label it with a ridiculous label like «god».
Christianity can be a
beautiful thing as long
as it is not hijacked for someone's own agenda and does not spout «holier than thou end of the world repent or else the devil is gonna get ya» fearful rhetoric!
As such, when it is used in the context that he has ordained it for, which is marriage, it is a very
beautiful thing.
wow i hope this isn't what my taxes go to write here this is the dumbest article in the world why would you even bother to publish this cnn its plain and simple people God created sex a
beautiful and amazing
thing that a husband a wife could come together
as one ann have covenant together and if you look in the old testament and study out the blood covenant you will see that one of the steps of the blood covenant is sharing blood and if the girl is a virgin that you marry trust me she will have no problem sharing her blood with you.
It appears clearly in the touching and
beautiful characterization of Pausanias, whom Hoelderlin has depicted
as a companion to Empedocles: the only person who is close to the master, to whom the master inclines himself lovingly and trustingly, and yet whom he must so often instruct and correct, who can not understand the highest and final
thing — the necessity and the loneliness of the sacrifice.
It's one of my favourite vegetables
as there are so many amazing
things you can do with it — grate it down and stir through spices and coconut milk to serve with a spicy curry, roast it in olive oil and cumin for a
beautiful side or even cut it into cauliflower steaks and bake it in the oven for a really delicious main dish.
Just
as quantum mechanics is needed to, and does perfectly, fill the gap between the atomic structure of crystals and their
beautiful shape in space, so too it will be needed to link the biochemistry of genetic code and cellular processes to the growth and shape of living
things — provided, that is, that such a link can be found at all.
I think
as much
as it's important to show the
beautiful and inspiring side of
things, it's also important to show the behind the scenes too!
When you've spent thirty minutes mixing up batter and an hour baking the
thing, it can be disheartening to see what should come out
as a gorgeously - shaped cake come out less than
beautiful.
So, I'm keeping an eye on the piggy bank to purchase a few
things to help make my food look
as beautiful on my blog
as it does in real life (to me anyway).