Sentences with phrase «wisdom of women»

I love the wisdom of women farther along in this life journey.

If anyone can convince you of the innate wisdom of women's bodies and your ability to birth your own baby naturally, he can.

Seek out the advice and wisdom of women who have had similar experiences and rely on the strong network you have built for comfort.

For women dissatisfied by the stale bromides of secular feminism and the frothy, girl - power messages peddled by today's pop culture, the wisdom of the women saints is a bracing and provocative antidote.

Over the next 15 years, as I grappled with everything from my father's battle with Alzheimer's disease to my own journey through infertility, I found myself turning again and again to the wisdom of the women saints.

It is time for practicality, common sense and the wisdom of women to come back into fashion

She smiles easily, with the wisdom of a woman who has lived, lost love, and loved again.

So much so that I must draw on the wisdom of another woman, a person from North Carolina who also believed in poetry: Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you / Give birth again to the dream / Women, children, men, take it, this dream, into the palms of your hands.

There are always younger women who could use a compassionate ear or a few kind words or the wisdom of a woman who has been in their shoes.

Not exact matches

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

His insight and wisdom was certainly something to be valued by every woman or man who is looking to make an impact in the world of business and in life.

Their inspiring words of wisdom also contained similar themes of perseverance, passion, resiliency and fearlessness — qualities that have served those 14 exemplary women business leaders well throughout their careers.

Charlie Munger is on the very short list of men and women that you can legitimately argue has a breadth of investing knowledge and wordly wisdom on par with Warren Buffett.

If humans are the result of so - called «intelligent design» then why do we have too little room on our jawbones to accommodate wisdom teeth (unless this alleged «god» intended our teeth to rot out since we're not supposed to have learned science, and therefore that the presence of bacteria plus acids are a bad environment for tooth enamel), and that so many of us are near - sighted, and that women can have FACIAL HAIR (is that a cruel joke?)

Accompanied by a troupe of dancers with gongs, drums, and banners, and by Australian aborigines in paint and loincloths, she invoked ancestor spirits and indicated that the best «image of the Holy Spirit comes from the image of Kwan In... [who] is venerated as Goddess of compassion and wisdom in East Asian women's popular religion.»

The more I read «christian» books, the more I realize no can be MY Holy Spirit.Me + The Holy Spirit + The Word of God = Wisdom and Knowledge.I can not «trust man (0r woman for that matter)» for my interpretations of the Word.

In response to my recent article, When an Oasis is Really a Mirage, one individual commented about the work of Pomegranate Place, that «We believe that all truth is God's truth, and that all women have truth and wisdom to share.

«We named Sophia after Woman Wisdom, the feminine personification of God found in the Old Testament, particularly in Proverbs.

We named her after Woman Wisdom partly because She's a pretty kickass biblical character, and partly because our lives were such a mess at the time of Sophia's birth.

I think of Sarah as a big sister in the faith, a woman whose wisdom and maturity challenge me, but whose honesty and vulnerability remind me that she's walking by my side in this journey, one arm over my shoulder.

In man and woman as God made them there was one harmony of natural law and peace in the spiritual wisdom of God through grace.

Pairing feminist theory with women's local wisdom, Jones exposes not only the potential pitfalls of classical doctrines, but also how, with some skillful feminist remapping, doctrines prove capacious enough for new generations of women to inhabit in grace - filled ways.

She edits «The Monastic Way,» a monthly periodical of daily meditations, and is the author of several books, including The Story of Ruth, Twelve Moments in Every Woman's Life; The Friendship of Women: A Spiritual Tradition; and Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

All men and women are to seek knowledge, belief and practices of God's realm, peace, unity and continuing growth in wisdom (1 Timothy 2:3).

Feminist revision: «Having had a spiritual awakening a result of these steps, we are more able to draw upon the wisdom inherent in us, knowing we are competent women who have much to offer others.»

As a woman who has spent her whole life in search of Wisdom and raging against the machine called «Patriarchy,» the woman, Sophia, in your art speaks to me.

(besides, a wisdom - seeker as a woman makes plenty of sense seeing that is how wisdom is portrayed as a woman - character in multiple religious literature, including but not limited to the Old Testament...)

The Decade has gathered together the voices of women globally — it is now the responsibility of the Church and of the ecumenical movement to stop and listen... for wisdom flows from here...

Statesmen should, therefore, be chosen from among the best of men and women, as persons of unusual wisdom, integrity, and vision.

Many men and women believe that God is all mighty and may do all, and that he is all wisdom and can do all; but that he is all love and will do all — there they stop... Of all the properties of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.Of all the properties of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.55

Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... One could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them.

Another approach to increased awareness of your higher Self is to picture and carry on an inner dialogue with your Wise Teacher or the Wise Woman or Wise Man within you, or image and consult with your «inner light,» as the Quakers and Mahatma Gandhi refer to the inner source of wisdom.

This is another installment in the mysterious «Sophia» series... the graphic chronicle of a young woman's courageous journey to wisdom and independence.

I've sat in elder meetings and listened while godly women brought wisdom and discernment to bear on complex issues of church discipline.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

This is my latest in my series of Sophia drawings... the story of a courageous young woman's journey towards her independence and wisdom.

The Wisdom of Jesus Christ opens by describing a group of faithful followers composed of 12 disciples and seven women.

All through the world's history we find that the men and women who have entered into the realm of true wisdom and power, and hence into the realm of true peace and joy, have lived in harmony with this Higher Power (Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite: Or Fullness of Peace Power and Plenty.

In this allegory full of poetic images, wisdom is personified as a woman — a kind of hostess with the mostest.

Birth stories told by women who were active participants in giving birth often express a good deal of practical wisdom, inspiration, and information for other women.

With feminist theologians and advocates of creation centered spirituality, mutually transformed by the encounter with the new physics and the new biology, process theologians have sought a vision of the relational matrix of creativity, and to learn from the wisdom of the earth and the embodiment of that wisdom in the all too long suppressed and neglected traditions of women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, of Africa and Asia.

Kumar preaches that Sunday from the life of Solomon, noting how the king of Israel «went wrong on wisdom, wealth, and women.»

There must be a time when the woman of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in her life she has ever prayed, when the woman of resolutions puts her resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and she learns a different wisdom:

Janie finds it by being true to her own poetic, creative consciousness; in The Color Purple Walker's characters discover it through the strength and wisdom available in the community of women.

The subject of a twenty - two - line poem found in the last chapter of the book of Proverbs, the «woman of noble character» is meant to be a tangible expression of the book's celebrated virtue of wisdom.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge Nelson, 224 pages, $ 14.99 The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine by Sue Monk Kidd HarperOne, 272 pages, $ 13.95 Chasing Sophia: Reclaiming the Lost Wisdom of Jesus by Lilian Calles Barger Jossey - Bass, 256 pages, $ 18.95