Sentences with phrase «think of these things consciously»

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«Prayer,» as The Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it in matchless simplicity, «is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will...» (Question 98) It is the attempt to become consciously aware of God's presence, to discover his will for our lives, to surrender our vagrant thoughts and self - centered desires to his controlling purpose, and to find in him power for living.

And this is what I have found myself doing, at first almost by accident and now more self - consciously, both because I think that literary criticism can do some things that historical criticism can not do and because I find it to be of compelling interest.

If we are unconsciously thinking about negative things, we may not even realize that those thoughts have the power to echo back from the universe conflicting with all of those good thoughts we are consciously thinking.

«I don't think any of these things are things that people are thinking about consciously — except maybe the price thing,» says Saltsman.

Some ideas, things that interest me, are so basic to my work that I hardly think of them consciously at this point.

Our instinct might be to think that a shiny new toy will make us happy, but if we know that it rarely works that way, we could consciously try to do more of the things that truly make us happy instead (even if they aren't always the things we would have predicted).