Sentences with phrase «wholeness does»

Finding relational wholeness doesn't have to be something other couples enjoy.

The teaching of Jesus that those who follow him have eternal life means that spiritual wholeness does not depend on marriage or on becoming a parent.

Man's wholeness does not exist apart from real relationship to other beings.

Religion is a highly conservative thing because the fundamental needs of men as finite and delinquent creatures aspiring after infinity and wholeness do not change.

Not exact matches

How do you know the way forward that lets you heal, that lets you flourish, the way that takes your brokenness — and makes wholeness?

Maybe God doesn't want to be famous, maybe God yearns to bring the dead to life, justice to the oppressed, wholeness to your body and mind and soul, and bring life more abundant, in the seeds of a right - now life.

What would that child have to do to make you choose to be separated from him / her for eternity — when you had the power to heal their brokenness and restore him / her to wholeness and loving relationship with you and the rest of humanity — and eternity to wait for them to respond to your love?

(Of course, that's exactly what the «Literal Word of God» folks are doing, too, but they carry the burden of having to reconcile all those unfortunate lines about slaves, murder, rape, and so on with spiritual wholeness.)

It doesn't have to be pleasant, oh, no sometimes the things that bring compassion and wisdom and wholeness into our lives are the very things that break our hearts or make us angry or challenge us.

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].

Where else does wholeness and love feature without a lot of baggage attached.

Play having opened him up to the possibility of relating directly to joy itself, Lewis later found that joy to be fully actualized in his personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's joy cause us to «en - joy» on the tangent of play's horizon where the radical otherness of God meets the radical wholeness of humankind, but joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person of Christ.

The coverage of and commentary on these and similar stories has everything to do with profitability and very little to do with the advancement of social health and human wholeness.

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.

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.

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.

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 doing so it would become so general that it would reach a false unity instead of the genuine wholeness of the subject based on «the contemplation of all its manifold nature.»

If one does not become what one is meant to be, if one does not set out in the direction of God, if one does not bring one's scattered passions under the transforming and unifying guidance of direction, then no wholeness of the person is possible.

He does so, however, not through any attempt to recapture organic wholeness in the classroom nor through any positing of organic wholeness in society, but through the dialogical relation in which the I and the Thou remain separate and really «other» beings.

The teacher's only access to the wholeness of the pupil is through winning his confidence, and this is done through his direct and ingenuous participation in the lives of his pupils and through his acceptance of responsibility for this participation.

What do mere words matter when a human being's wholeness is at issue?

Regarding classical cultures as a dialectic of Christian theology and theoria, much work remains to be done in recovering the egalitarian and anti-imperialistic communities of reform - minded Christians, how their orthopraxis in communal experiences of repentance and inclusive wholeness envisaged an orthodoxy expressive of solidarity with the poor and outcast.

So we have to take from the traditions as well as from modern developments certain values which do justice to the wholeness of human existence and find a new way of going forward fighting against both the traditional and modern injustices.

I (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980); also his «Participatory Evolution: The Drive of Creation,» Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 40,1972, pp. 147 - 163; by the same author, «Purpose in the Universe: A Search for Wholeness,» Zygon, 6,1971, pp. 4 - 27; and «What Does God Do in the World?»

It is Christ's body, his continuing instrument whose only reason for existence is the doing of his work and the making available of wholeness of life in him.

There is no way I can do justice to this issue here, but this is my short take: as it was in the ministry of the incarnate Son of God, healing serves as a sign of the wholeness yet to come when «the knowledge of the glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the sea.»

Is that merely a title of Jesus, or does it refer to an immanent principle of eschatological wholeness in each of us?

Yet the primary context in which the ministry and theology do their work is neither denomination nor nation but the Church in its wholeness.

The truth stated theologically is, of course, the same: grace (the love one doesn't have to earn, because it's there in the relationship) + judgment (confrontation with how one is hurting or limiting the growth of oneself or others) movement toward greater wholeness.

As the chasm between our inner intentions and Outer acts, our pretensions and our practice, deepens, so does our hunger for wholeness.

Christianity is not the simple religion of God's Fatherhood and man's brotherhood, but rather the religion which finds God come to men for their wholeness of life in the person of Jesus Christ; and therefore finds in Him, in who He was, in what He did, in who He is, and in what He does, and in the consequences of those things, the whole substance.

You have felt it on occasions when you were accepted as a person just as you are, when you felt the «attributed wholeness» that society can and does give.

But we do know most certainly that it is within this community, and as members of it, that we have our assurance of God's Grace for our wholeness.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

Because the only way to really heal our pain — particularly our soul pain, I believe — is to do the work at the place of the pain, to chase it all the way down, over and over, week after week, moment by moment, to keep resetting ourselves to the truth in hopes that someday the truth will hold, to believe that all of the healing by degrees that we are doing will someday turn into wholeness.

The traditional moral code generally undergirds wholeness, freedom, and being, but not always, and when it doesn't, the quest for wholeness has come to take priority for me over the rules of behavior, at least as I deal with the lives of other people.

Do we accept the idea, strongly supported by fact, that the individual man can not achieve his wholeness (that is to say, reflect and personalize himself completely upon himself) except in solidarity with all other men, present, past and future?

Poets, on the other hand, can more easily think beyond such limits — reaching, as they do, for mythic wholeness.

I am a firm believer in the theology of Christendom's «moral» revelations and while I do so believe in God, the Father of All Cosmologic Creation (s) and I am bound by my Faith in God's Sons and Daughters who do wherever possible in the wholeness of the Cosmos make manifest all the living Life Formations as are here upon and within this earth!

I do mean the wholeness of that which Christ was, taken into, received by, enriching to, and usable for, «the glory of God the Father».

So, if you're waiting for God to answer a prayer in your life in some way — if you're waiting for health or wholeness or a relationship or a child or a job — here are four reasons to keep trusting Him, even if His timing doesn't seem to make any sense.

Each one «knows» what the other is doing not because they happen to be psychic but because they belong to the unbroken wholeness of the universe.

How often do our words silence the wild longing of the human heart for wholeness, for life, for justice, for peace, for those things which we can never give ourselves?

«Ultimately minding the body and mending the mind have more to do with wholeness — healing — than with curing.

«Perhaps the most «spiritual» thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.»

Did you know that — with the right tools, support, and commitment — anxiety is a doorway into wholeness?

It is more than the sum of perspectives, this is, building more than the algebraic sum of the parts that make it up, a wholeness that we can not totally understand, and that does not need to be understood to be (thus the dissembled, it is like not watching a complete movie and yet knowing what it is about).

How do I explain that feminine emphasis, when my theory is that romance is about the journey to wholeness?

We do not simply stumble across ruins, we search them out in order to linger amid their tottering, mouldering forms — the great broken rhythm of collapsing vaults, truncated columns, crumbling plinths — and savour the frisson of decline and fall, of wholeness destabilised.