Sentences with phrase «wholeness as»

Our goal is to provide a supportive and constructive environment where couples can know they are heard and understood as well as find wholeness as a person in order to find intimacy within their relationship.

But with information and tools, and a re-building of safe connection, conflict can open doors that help both people move into deeper love and advance on their road to wholeness as passionate partners, and allies.

Remembering and coming back home to our wholeness as we were as an infant, before life traumas fractured and wounded us in a way that caused a split from our highest self.

In the quiet moments of practice and savasana I began to glimpse greater wholeness as a person; peace, joy and acceptance from within.

Just as the demands of production had fragmented people into interchangeable jobs and skills that fit the system, so the demands of communication to «reach» people in the mass further fragmented their understanding, yet without touching them in their wholeness as persons.

Only I - Thou sees this wholeness as the whole person in unreasoned relation with what is over against him rather than as a sum of parts, some of which are labeled objective and hence oriented around the thing known and some subjective and hence oriented around the knower.

Here the term «psycho - synthetic» is clearly used in conscious contrast with «psychoanalytic» to suggest the procedure from wholeness as contrasted with the procedure from isolated parts and complexes.

To become aware of a man, therefore, means in particular to perceive his wholeness as person defined by spirit: to perceive the dynamic centre which stamps on all his utterances, actions, and attitudes the tangible sign of oneness.

Not exact matches

I see it as the work of God's Kingdom, (although my brother might not use that kind of language) and his life is coming to a remarkable wholeness.

As we walk with purpose toward wholeness, He brings peace.

I never have to look at my stuff, own my stuff or deal with my stuff as long as holiness / wholeness is about busy programs or ecstatic experiences.

The problem with the evangelical purity culture, as I see it, isn't that it teaches saving sex for marriage, but that it equates virginity with sexual wholeness and therefore as something that can be lost or given or taken away in a single moment.

The Cross was an instrument of death but I think as a symbol it represents wholeness with it's different dimensions in which the celts were able to expand on its significane.

I needed her to teach me about breastfeeding and bonding with my babies, I needed her as the wind at my back moving me further into my wholeness.

I don't care what anyone claims to believe, whether they can recite doctrine and verse, whether they hang with the right crowds, write the top - selling books, whether they can work up a quivering lip and an impassioned voice at the conference as they call us to repentance or wholeness in Christ or [fill in blank].

What is surprising in the context of this book is the desire of both «life - liberators» and «world - changers» to explore the phenomenon of play as a possible means toward their respective visions of wholeness.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

For Keen, the dis - eased person as Homo Faber is the individual who has destroyed both human wholeness and the possibility for new life by denying the «feminine» in favor of the «masculine.»

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

And the finality of Jesus Christ, in whom true God is active for the wholeness of men, consists in his endless fertility; as a modern saint has put it, «He is adequate,» and his adequacy is not for us alone but for all men everywhere and at every time.

Thus, congregation members perform the healing function of pastoral care as they come together in the midst of chaos, offering hope and wholeness in the midst of fragmentation and despair.

We must take pains to show that acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord does not carry with it the three - storey universe; that to be a Christian does not imply that one believes that God is the immediate cause of all that happens, however true it may be that he is «first» and «final» cause; and that the findings of modem science as to how God in fact works in the world only illuminate the central truth that in Christ he has worked with a singular intensity and (as we might say) directness to bring to men wholeness of life.

They truly are a prophetic voice for peace and wholeness and the kingdom of God as a sisterhood.

That true version of yourself — the one that needs the wholeness of creativity and work and service altogether — exists in a family and in a community and as part of God's love letter to the world.

Thus the desire for wholeness is understood as a basic human characteristic.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

The pastor encouraged Justin to be a part of a community like that, where «it's about the church being the church, as we all struggle toward wholeness.»

Not only does the completion of creation in six days correlate with and support the religious calendar and Sabbath observance (if the Hebrews had had a five - day work week, the account would have read differently), but also the seventh day of rest employs to the full the symbolic meaning of the number seven as wholeness, plenitude, completion.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

Isn't being single just as much an expression of wholeness?

Reaching for the wholeness of Scripture is to read each text in the canonical context, not to see it as an atomic unit all alone but as a member of the divinely willed body of the canon such that the light of every part is shed on all the rest.

Through biofeedback we can see our brain waves as we welcome new wholeness into our lives, bringing the two hemispheres of the brain together as religious mystics have taught us to do in prayer.

So long as our understanding of the nature of God and the nature of personhood lack wholeness we will continue to destroy ourselves and others.»

He sees contemporary persons involved in what he describes as a process of oscillation: at those times when people have their bearings, there is a sense of wholeness, power and integration that encourages creativity and expression; at times of anxiety or weakness in the face of difficulties, there is a need to reach beyond the resources available in oneself to regain a sense of well - being and to «get it together.»

As we begin to value women and the «feminine» attributes (love, compassion, caring, service, nurturance) equally with men and the «masculine» attributes (strength, courage, power, assertiveness) we may begin to achieve the wholeness which is our only salvation.

As therapists know, «insight» is often not a sufficient condition for «wholeness and healing.»

Social change as a result of personal growth toward wholeness is inevitable and

The wholeness (shalom) of human existence is already present as the promise of God's blessing on those who seek life.

The ethical consequences of such a christology are manifold; for it at once denies us, as a paradigm of wholeness, a Christ - figure morally impeccable in his unique and lonely perfection, and it gives us a model of moral integrity achieved through an ongoing struggle towards depth and truth in all of his relationships.

We need to learn from his prayers in Justice and Mercy (edited by his wife, Ursula M. Niebuhr, and, unhappily, out of print), as well as from his analyses in The Nature and Destiny of Man (in print, one hopes, in perpetuity) Since it is wholeness that we seek, Reinhold Niebuhr can be pre-eminently helpful in our quest, not only as guide but also as exemplar.

Salvation is found as the people recognize and actualize the potential for wholeness already inherent in the created order.

Only as a partner can man be perceived as an existing wholeness.

This is no intuitive perception but a bold swinging into the other which demands the intensest action of my being, even as does all genuine fantasy, only here the realm of my act «is not the all - possible» but the particular, real person who steps up to meet me, the person whom I seek to make present as just so and not otherwise in all his wholeness, unity, and uniqueness.

In our sexual lives, as in all other areas, we know that while we may be on a journey toward wholeness, we are a long way from our destination.

Yet it is also the case, as the next section will seek to show, that to men and women who need a Lord whom they can adore, a «Pattern» (as Kierkegaard put it) they can follow, and a Savior who will bring them wholeness of life when they know and acknowledge their selfishness and sin, Christ is God's supreme Deed for us and for our salvation.

The wholeness of the religious person includes thought «as an autonomous province but one which no longer strives to absolutize its autonomy.»

This question will be used as a searchlight in exploring the untapped resources for wholeness which exist so abundantly in that living, interpersonal organism which is the local church.

Such an awareness is impossible if and so long as the other is for me the detached object of my contemplation or observation, for he will not thus yield his wholeness and its centre.

It is as ancient as the Christian concern for wholeness in persons.

Only by looking at the world as a world can man grasp being as a wholeness and unity.