Sentences with phrase «through the friendship of»

The breed was saved from near extinction after World War II through the friendship of two concerned Norwegians, but even today it is an extremely rare dog.

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You can get that sense of connection or love through intimacy, or friendship, or prayer, or walking in nature.

Phillipson's emphasis is on restoring Smith's work to its original context — the intellectual upheaval of the Enlightenment — and to show how his ideas developed, particularly through his friendship with David Hume.

When those hoops had finally been jumped through, mostly by Kate but at my relentless direction, the only retaliation I was left fearing during my engagement with El Chapo Guzmán and the Sinaloa cartel was the potential wrath of a Mexican actress toward an American actor who had single - mindedly abused his friendship with her to retrieve the needed video.

On the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, Canada and Japan can look back with satisfaction on a long - standing friendship that was restored and revived, following the disruption of the war years, primarily through strong trade ties.

There is truly a sense of camaraderie and friendship that is formed through Pure Barre.

«The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.»

The added bonus of fun, upbeat choreography, and the Pure Barre friendships she made through attending class, lead Lauren to want to become an owner / operator of her own Pure Barre studio, so that she could share her experience with others.

Those types of friendships are only crafted through the nitty gritty life moments that we'd all be too embarrassed to divulge on Facebook.

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

In our world of increasing isolation and infidelity, Thin Blue Smoke stirs our imaginations with the hope of the reconciliation that is possible through deep and tenacious friendships.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

When we release our grip of unforgiveness on those who have failed us, we are free to let God meet those needs in new and healthy ways — through our relationship with Him, through friendships and through our own communities of faith.

There is still a fear of the Lord we live under today, but there is also an intimacy and friendship we can have with God through Jesus Christ that was never before available to God's people.

Not knowing where to go, he stumbled through the wilderness until he was saved by a band of Indians whose friendship he had won while in Plymouth.

Christians can engage with our Muslim neighbors through acts of friendship, sharing meals, and opening our homes and churches to refugees.

Dating, it seems to me, is an opportunity to develop a strong and beautiful friendship, built through honest communication, patience, prayer, mutual respect and understanding, and on a commitment to grow the fruits of the Spirit through lots of circumstances.

All this work brought her into contact with many people at both the centre and the fringes of parish life, and through it she exercised her characteristic gift for friendship — becoming for some like a sister or mother.

The Church must «get it right» concerning the use and seeking of erotic pleasure not only in marriage, but in the formative friendships of puberty, and through the teens to the early twenties.

I see more vividly than before that our redemption requires that this power come to us, and through us, in healing and liberation, advocacy and friendship, love and sisterliness, in the most badly broken and frightening places of our life together and as individuals.

Within a few years, Bishops were asking for Madonna House staff to open houses in their dioceses, to live the Gospel of Love through soup kitchens, prayer houses, houses of hospitality and friendship.

And I believe the richness of our friendship will only increase as I continue to walk with Him through the thick and thin of life.

There are, of course, diseased forms of friendship which turn inward and do become a distraction or even an obstacle to God's desire to love the entire world through each of us.

In 1934, at the age of 28, Bonhoeffer became a member of the governing council of the ecumenical World Alliance for the Promotion of International Friendship Through the Churches.

For her, to pray for another is a sign of friendship: «You, my Lord Mayor, and all those whose prayers — fervent, I hope, but not too frequent — have sustained me through all these years, are friends indeed.»

Todd is not my style and his antics do more to offend me than motivate me, but I can not ignore the fruit of Christ's ministry through Him in people I ended up hanging out with that would not have come to faith in Christ through my mostly cerebral, jovial and friendship - seeking approach or through other types of evangelism.

It is through female friendship that women have come to consciousness of the pseudoreality of heteroreality.

Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center chronicled his successful work bettering the media's coverage of religion through education, friendship, and a few days at the beach.

It also can be an experience of intimate friendship that lays foundations for deeper appreciation of expressions of God's love through the sacraments.

Through his growing world - wide friendships, Bonhoeffer received a letter of introduction to Gandhi and hoped to travel to India to study the methods of pacifism.

Having been through the pain of a broken friendship, I'm more proactive about seeking healing.

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

But as soon as the blue light of dawn seeped through the windows in the morning, the women rose and, in an act of radical friendship and faith, went to the tomb anyway...»

But prisoners are truly transformed not because of punishment or prison but through the love and grace of Jesus expressed through the friendship and care of chaplains and volunteers.

Through his own joyful spirit, and by encouraging that virtue in others, through healthy friendships and innocent diversions, Philip laid the groundwork for souls to advance in virtues of everThrough his own joyful spirit, and by encouraging that virtue in others, through healthy friendships and innocent diversions, Philip laid the groundwork for souls to advance in virtues of everthrough healthy friendships and innocent diversions, Philip laid the groundwork for souls to advance in virtues of every kind.

This leads Christian anthropology to a Moral Realism which recognizes the Human Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organization.

Participants will explore substantial texts and questions of great significance through a dialogue that is animated by a spirit of friendship and a common purpose.

Anyone who aspires to prophetic ministry in a congregation will need spiritual direction through friendship with some group or person who is not a member of the pastor's family or congregation.

They may not have personal experience of what other Christians mean when they talk about «friendship with God,» or of «intimacy through mutual ministry in the church.»

I think when we have «checklist» of things we MUST get through in the first conversation with someone, the conversation is fake and people sense that, which makes it nearly impossible to have another conversation with them or build a friendship.

«I will not deny that the friendship has strengthened, and, while it has remained morally pure at all times, I have enjoyed the company of someone who has also gone through the trauma of a painful and public divorce,» Hinn said in a statement at the time.

Female friendships are so dear to me — I can't fathom going through my life without women alongside of me and ahead of me.

In this way, discipleship is not something we have a program for, or something we can force on anyone, but is rather a product of God being at work in and through our genuine friendships with other people.

Moreover, the Christian conviction that our «happiness» is the gift of a God who determines all existence through the cross of Christ requires a radically transformed understanding of happiness, the virtues and friendship.

10For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.

Thus, to understand the meaning of love to an ancient Greek expressed in English it is necessary to look at how the people of the day conceived love - a conception that we can see most definitively expressed in the culture itself through the expressions of friendship, eroticism, charity, and brotherhood.

In Centesimus Annus, he designates solidarity as «one of the fundamental principles of the Christian view of social and political organization,» tracing it back to Leo XIII's notion of civic friendship as the enduring bond that unites the often antagonistic relations of labor and capital in modern society, through Pius XI's concept of social charity and Paul VI's evocative phrase «civilization of love.»

If I'm accountable for you through advocacy, then there are no limits to my friendship and care with you — regardless of your offense.

In recent years, both through theological - ethical reflection and through personal friendships with some remarkable gay persons, I have become increasingly convinced that the positions of both Barth and Thielicke inadequately express the implications of the gospel on this issue.

Through Marthe's friendship with a priest, Father Finet, the Foyers of Charity came into existence.