Sentences with phrase «very life affirming»

They look very life affirming.

As my yoga mentor once said about a difficult day that she was having, «The situation was not very life affirming».

Tamara Sandy from (unknown) wrote: «Your site is very life affirming to birthmoms who were extorted by adoption agencies, social workers, society, family and organized religion.

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We can all be clanging gongs, marching around doing the work of the kingdom without grace, living for a very temporal affirming reaction.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

The cautious conclusion arrived at by Scott is that Tillich's depiction «seems very nearly to describe Camus» affirming vision of life (AC 96).

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

There are benefits to this approach, a very for - the - people - by - the - people model of priesthood that affirms God as active and leading in our lives.

They all spoke very affirming and life - giving...

And I'm very thankful for my process because it has, like you said, allowed me to be an affirming and hopeful voice in many of my friends lives.

Their content, to describe them very simply, may be said to affirm the validity of Christianity in so far as it assures the fulfilment of life or the best possible moral living.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

A truer psychology affirms that what is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life, and that very little does get into the whole of life which does not have its roots in the early years.

It has all been very serendipitous how we've ended up indirectly in each other's lives but for her to write 6 little words that both inspired and floored me in a 1 - minute encounter all while answering questions from passers - by affirms the genuine elegance and grace that I knew she had.

While most days my job as nurse brings out lots of happy and life affirming moments, there are unfortunate times when I see children that are sick, hurting, and very unwell.

His self - deprecation and wit are awesome to behold, and there's something very life - affirming about his quest for happiness amid this mess that is life.

It's difficult at times to live in different worlds or cultures, and yet it can be a very rewarding and life - affirming experience.

Seeing first a sea snake and then a turtle on the Indonesian island of Gili Trawangan had to be two of the most life - affirming swims of my life — for very different reasons.

Hardly some juvenile punk carrying a chip on her shoulder, Barlow is that very rare thing: a mature cultural sophisticate who apparently retains a virile sense of devil - may - care adventure and a life affirming generosity of spirit.

On his very first night, we had a standoff in the living room as he tried to affirm his dominance, and I cried as he barked at me and tried to make his way to the sofa.

Her teaching is very grounded, passionate, and life affirming.

These principles have been established, affirmed, and are lived by each member of my very talented and very dedicated team.