Sentences with phrase «total gift of self»

But the gift of self that truly fulfils must be total; and a total gift of self can only be made to one.

The current life - style of so many teenage girls suggests a contempt for virginity — in which a girl should naturally see an affirmation of her own sense of self - worth, the surrender of which signifies the total gift of self and as such is to be kept for the man she marries.

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Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive self - gift they made to one another in marrying.

Therefore, exclusive sexual fidelity is, it seems to me anyway, simply the outward expression of that total self - gift spouses make to each other.

The exclusive fidelity of marriage, at its deepest, is an image of Christ's total self - gift in love.

From this centrality flow all the essential characteristics of religious life: prayer, the liturgy and particularly the Eucharist, community life, mission to the world, total consecration and radical gift of self in perseverance.

This call to «nothingness» as a call to total service is not a loss of self; it is not a denial of personal gifts, desires, or well - being.

One gift of an authentic thought and deep emotion from a total stranger can change your self - image in previously unimaginable ways.

For The Gift, Reg certainly could've gotten an advance, but wanting total control of the prject, he chose to self - publish.

The vulnerability and total self - gift of marriage forged the deepest friendship I have ever known.