A few years before she died, she observed: ``... the second wave of feminism has told women that, to find
true fulfilment, they must have a career.
By which I mean the level of consciousness that medals and cups can bring only fleeting pleasure, and that
true fulfilment comes only from within.
In our day, Pope John Paul II, in his theology of the body and other writings, has given us a more profound understanding of
true fulfilment so that we can answer the questions Ibsen raised in a way that does not undermine marriage but supports it.
We need to question ourselves as to where we could find
true fulfilment of human life?
A young Catholic should be aware that each person has a mission in life and should fulfil it, and that
true fulfilment involves looking at the whole of life's responsibilities - home and family and community as well as just work.
The freedom of the Gospel, the capacity to entrust oneself to eternal love, far from «cramping our style» or «stunting our humanity» is the only access - route to
true fulfilment, by means of a genuine participation in the divine life.
Not exact matches
Both attitudes are, however, for the sake of transforming the culture so that in Christ it finds its
true centre and
fulfilment.
Secular sterility The Church's vision of marriage and family is so hard for young Catholics to encounter, yet it offers them the key to
true human happiness and
fulfilment.
What my mind glimpsed through its hesitant explorations, what my heart craved with so little expectation of
fulfilment, you now magnificently unfold for me: the fact that your creatures are not merely so linked together in solidarity that none can exist unless all the rest surround it, but that all are so dependent on a single central reality that a
true life, borne in common by them all, gives them ultimately their consistence and their unity.
A modern novel, based upon a
true story of persons who defied Hitler's tyranny, so perfectly expresses the
fulfilment of eros in the love of justice that it has been vividly un my mind throughout this discussion of family love.
Neverthe less it remains
true, indeed it is of decisive importance, that the most essential lay apostolate consists in the
fulfilment of one's family, professional, and of course also one's civic duties.
It indicates that God, though he is continually being shaped and conditioned by the world, nevertheless remains sufficiently free of the world so that he can ever be
true to himself in the
fulfilment of his purposes for the world.
However, if he remains
true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or
fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».
They are «spirit and life,» revealing the face of Christ, and bringing
true joy and
fulfilment to our lives.
In a society where money rules, Steve Chalke wonders if giving and serving is the
true route to
fulfilment
And it may be said that it was He Himself Who restored the manifest innermost depths of the goodness handed down by the Father; and He revealed the
fulfilment in Himself, by which creation has won the beginning of
true existence.
That is to say the essential relationship of life to the environment within which it finds its law, and therefore the
true joy and
fulfilment of its being.
You can't laugh at something you don't recognise from your own life, so there's something to be said in preaching for addressing what people currently believe to be
true, what they struggle with, what they desire and hope for, and then showing that Christ is the
fulfilment of, or response to, that component of their existence.
I shall concentrate on how Jesus,
true God and
true man can be the
fulfilment of humanity's deepest yearnings.
Can money buy respect, or God's good pleasure or the sense of
true human
fulfilment?
The line of the Unity - Law, or in older language the
true Religion, must be able to prove itself by demonstration of the need for its existence, and of its own unique
fulfilment of the type of Divine Environing that constitutes its life.
True friendship, with its sincere elements of mutual self - giving, can be a step toward
fulfilment.
Yet to rise above self is the only way to
true personal
fulfilment.
It draws them on to
true personal
fulfilment, and involves them in the great enterprise of rehumanising our modern world.
If that's
true, then without focus, there can be no
fulfilment in any sexual encounter.
The Internet seems to offer so much with its often hyped - up headlines proclaiming that all your dreams will come
true (whether those dreams are in the area of getting rich, finding
fulfilment in other ways or even indeed, in online dating).
But they don't always acknowledge the deeper reasons behind the employee's motivation for looking for another role elsewhere, such as a lack of
true workplace
fulfilment, a passion for what they do, the opportunity for personal growth, and a sense of purpose.