Sentences with phrase «very joy of it»

There is nothing so deliciously melancholy as really rich colours in art: the very joy of colour, that can transport us to paradise, unlocks our deepest longings, and we soon realise paradise is not on this earth.

It's a simple story by modern standards, but that is the very joy of it.

4:11 - 13), because it is the very joy of the Lord that is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10).

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As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects of life, boosting joy with very little effort.

When plotting your first (or next) big career move, many of us think very abstractly, musing in solitude or in front of Google about the joys of our supposed dream jobs.

Booms, busts, stress and joy are driven by emotions and hence many investors have outsourced all or part of their investments to advisers or fund managers who are very risk aware and hopefully have risk at the forefront of their minds.

While there is no doubting the joy and privilege of being in Christian ministry, from the inside it becomes clear very quickly that it carries its own... More

It's so very difficult to rear a child that is disabled to this extent and My heart is full of joy that he has this moment in his life... Society can take a lesson from these good people.

Author: Wayne CordeiroWhile there is no doubting the joy and privilege of being in Christian ministry, from the inside it becomes clear very quickly that...

While there is no doubting the joy and privilege of being in Christian ministry, from the inside it becomes clear very quickly that it carries its own demands and dangers.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

The show was about the science and joy of the female O. Wonderfully and very tastefully produced, I highly recommend it for anyone needing to clear their mind from the nonsense presented in this annoyingly long and rather offensive religious diatribe.

All of the Sophia drawings resonate with me... The one that sits atop my bedroom bookcase at just the right angle to be seen first thing in the morning still fills me with the same joy and exhortation to keep being me — the real me — as the very first time I saw it.

This bond may very often make us deeply happy; indeed, it may have the capacity to bring some of the greatest joys into human life.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

of how you saw the face of God in the midst of fear or pain or joy and understood, really understood, Mary, not kneeling chastely beside a clean manger refraining from touching her babe, just moments after birth but instead, sore and exhilarated, weary and pressing a sleepy, wrinkled newborn to her breasts, treasuring every moment in her heart, marvelling not only at his very presence but at her own strength, how surrender and letting go is true work, tucking every sight and smell and smack of his lips into her own marrow.

It is written that God would rather have lost one of His sheep and found it again, then to never have lost Him at all, Meaning It is very easy in this world now more than ever to lose sight of God and your faith, we all sin even the most devote christian, But coming back to our faith and our christian ways after losing it is something that brings God joy..

As I learned in particular through our lost babies, one after another after another, the joy born out of suffering and longing is more beautiful for its very complexity.

For me, my God, all joy and all achievement, the very purpose of my being and all my love of life, all depend on this one basic vision of the union between yourself and the universe.

«84 Lewis ends Surprised by joy by relating, very simply, this second - order experience of Joy: «I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning.

In his book, Moltmann speaks very briefly of the joy of Christian hope and in a recent essay [1968] characterizes Christian hope which can laugh, but he has not yet productively explored the relation between a theology of hope and a theology of play 45

There was no atmosphere of expectancy or even of hope, and several times his sudden appearance struck his followers not with reassurance and joy but with a very natural terror.

This is a very healthy corrective to a great deal that has unquestionably disfigured the history of institutional Christianity; for instance, the sometimes subtle but persistent belittling of the richest and most profound of human experiences, as if the joys of human love were somehow suspect, and not among the most sheerly precious experiences that life has to offer.

At all events, we are justified in seeing this table - fellowship as the central feature of the ministry of Jesus; an anticipatory sitting at table in the Kingdom of God and a very real celebration of present joy and challenge.

The same was true of the crisis of the ministry of Jesus: for those who would accept the challenge and realize the need for «new wineskins» the possibility of a wholly new kind of joy was very real.

He's developing an argument about the significance of the doctrine of the resurrection by discussing the logical consequence of denying it (verses 12 - 19), going on a very typical Pauline digression almost as if he's overcome by joy at the positive truth and has to triumphantly proclaim it (verses 20 - 28) then finally returning to drive home the practical point again (verses 29 - 35).

Some choose paths that are so in conflict with Kingdom values, their very presence would either pollute the Kingdom or the holiness of the Kingdom would obliterate everything that was of an alien nature to the peace and joy of Kingdom life.

They range from the very slight smile of May Hayman of Australia to the confident joy of Janini Luwum of Uganda to the open - mouth laugh of Rómulo Sauñe of Peru.

Is not your joy in it a very vulgar glee, not much unlike the snicker of any rogue at his success?

These are the very days for the prophetic resistance of our joy, for the practice of the Kingdom of God right in the snarl of the Not - Yet.

You know the type: all justice, no joy; all the love in the world for the poor and downtrodden, but very little sympathy for friends who order Coke instead of fair trade organic soya - soda at the bar.

A group that does not experience such joy in belonging together is hardly likely to survive for very long, save by a superficial bonding of those who really have nothing in common.

This joy in being is a possibility ever hovering over individuals and communities who can discern in the pattern of events the working of a universal purpose within the very nature of things.

I've come to believe that in the very midst of the burning dumpster fire of the Not - Yet the practice of cultivating joy and happiness, noticing the good and the beautiful and the true and the pure isn't an act of betrayal of our solidarity but instead a very real act of prophesy and invitation to the Soon - Coming - And - Right - Now - Already of the Kingdom of God.

The joy of the new life in Christ includes a very sensual pleasure in life that accompanies freedom from fear of sin and death.

«The power of words as an event is that they can touch and change our very life, when one man tells another, and thus shares with another, something of his own life, his willing and loving and hoping, his joy and sorrow, but also his hardness and hates, his meanness and wickedness.»

We journey in joy and to joy on feet fitted with the peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that joy with the shield of faith, and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we abide as He makes our joy complete.

As all followers of the true King know, we are in a battle every moment of every day against the ultimate enemy of His Kingdom who comes to steal, kill and destroy anything that would lead us to worship the one true God — even, or especially, our very joy (John 10:10).

But we must hasten to add that a sense of mystery can also arise in a very imposing way during moments of deep joy.

The inconveniences which this creature occasions have become, as James Hinton says, the glowing heart of a great joy, and indeed are now the very conditions whereby the joy becomes most deep.

God is not absolute, but relative, because, as omniscient, he perceives all those events that cause him to perceive them; not unmoved and impassible, but very moved, sharing all the joys and sorrows of the creatures; not timeless, but participating temporally in all that happens.

Yes it is always sad when the actions of employees of Christian orgs (dry ice reference) don't reflect the love Christ, but what a joy to know that this is the very reason we need Christ who «came not to condemn the world but to save it»... «for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God».

When Jesus saved me, he didn't make me a person less prone to despair or less intensely overwhelmed by emotions of both joy and sorrow, and he didn't make my very stoic big - picture friend more emotionally affected by suffering.

My faith has power and authority, it is tangible and very evident to me, I have seen healings, not imagined, I have experienced the literal power of God knock me down as a sign and wonder, I have experienced joy unspeakable to the point that I could not stand it and could not stand up anymore, My God is very real and all powerful and shame on you brothers and sisters presenting a powerless gospel to a lost and dying world, REPENT CHURCH and return to the true church of the book of acts.

It might very well suggest the rich conception of a «communion of saints» in which there is a joy that is shared in «widest commonalty», in and with God, as he rejoices in the growing good that thus becomes the further occasion for delight not only to himself but to other subjects of experience.

Yet even before this de-apocalypticization of the faith, the earliest Christians, though - they made no attempt to change society, inevitably challenged it by their very example of «love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control» (Gal.

It is not merely an external covering of time, but the very meaning of time itself During the church year we enter fully into the anticipation of Advent, the joy of Christmas, the witnessing motif of Epiphany, preparation for death in Lent, participation in both the resurrection joy of Easter and the reception of Pentecost power.

Recalling Corbett's «brilliant comic timing, the twinkle in the eye», Dean of Westminster Very Rev Dr John Hall also praised the «comic genius that gave immeasurable joy to countless people»

There, understanding God was often identified with a «personal knowledge» of God that came, not so much through any particular affection such as love, but rather through the very intensity of one's emotions, intensity so great that in the surge of emotion distinctions between love, fear, guilt and joy blurred entirely.

This morning I found out that there will be a TV show about Commissioner Gordon's life way before Batman and I have to say that the idea did not seem very interesting to me at first; however, after I watched the trailer, I changed my mind completely (again, the joy of a perfectly put together trailer!).