«By surrounding
yourself with objects you love in your favorite tones, you can subconsciously create an environment that's enjoyable for you and your family.»
Surround
yourself with objects you love — showcase treasured collections, display family photographs.
Not exact matches
This may all be less problematic
with simple, concrete
objects («chair»), but is far more difficult
with abstract concepts and ideas, particularly about God, religion, politics, metaphysics, etc. («
love», «faith», «nature», «sacrifice», «purity», «freedom»).
The first act of this faith is the uniting act; and in its exercise the believer cordially receives Christ; is sincerely pleased
with him,
love those things which Christ
loves; desires and seeks those
objects which he seeks, and in affection becomes one
with Him.
And yet he is the
object of the God's
love, and the God desires to teach him, and is concerned to bring him to equality
with himself.
In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.17 Into the hands which broke and quickened the bread, which blessed and caressed little children, which were pierced
with the nails; into the hands which are like our hands, the hands of which one can never tell what they will do
with the
object they are holding, whether they will break it or heal it, but which we know will always obey and reveal impulses filled
with kindness and will always clasp us ever more closely, ever more jealously; into the gentle and mighty hands which can reach down into the very depth of the soul, the hands which fashion, which create, the hands through which flows out so great a
love: into these hands it is comforting to surrender oneself especially if one is suffering or afraid.
He then utilized terminology that for decades informed the basic stance of process theology on the nature of true power, though, as we shall see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the world by an act of suffering
with the kind of power which leaves its
object free to respond in humility and
love.»
Krishna in the north become the
objects of bhakti's impassioned devotion, and bhakti poetry, brimming
with love for the Lord flowers in the vernacular languages which, to some extent, take over from the language of «high» culture, Sanskrit.
They may
object, for instance, to the proposition that God
loves the creatures on the ground that it is a strange
love which expresses itself by acting as God does, inflicting upon the
loved ones numerous sufferings, the well - behaved ones being victims along
with the wicked or unkind.
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision
with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the
objects of His
love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»
Therefore, if people of a particular faith wish that their
loved ones also of that faith be remembered
with a short statement of that faith — then I would say that anyone who
objects to that is being bloody
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If God
loved me while I was dead in my sin, ignorance and unbelief, then this is the only basis of community for God: God's choice
with a divine disinterest in the
object of the
love.
Certainly, the free act is always also concerned
with a finite
object which one considers, which one desires, realizes,
loves or rejects, destroys, hates and so forth.
«The
object of Jesus» command is always the same — to evoke whole - hearted faith, to make us
love God and our neighbour
with all our heart and soul.
Spirituality is intimately related to sexuality because of the natural human desire to seek union
with the
object of
love.
The relation of
love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same
object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape
with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.
He persuades the world by an act of suffering
love with the kind of power which leaves its
object free to respond in humility and
love.
Creation is called to
love, as it is infused
with the
love of God, and it is fitting that the highest
object of creation's
love should be God himself, for nothing within creation could be a more fitting
object of
love than the God who lovingly created.
Natural
objects were glorified, my spiritual vision was so clarified that I saw beauty in every material
object in the universe, the woods were vocal
with heavenly music; my soul exulted in the
love of God, and I wanted everybody to share in my joy.»
There was a Talmudic - era rabbi by the name of Akiva ben Joseph (who argued plenty
with another rabbi, Simeon ben Azzai) who argued that the greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to
love your neighbor as yourself (to which ben Azzai
objected primarily due to neighbor not being clear enough and then said that the greatest commandment was within Genesis 5:1 — that man was created in G - d's image and thus if you hate any person, you are hating G - d).
In actual practice we constantly confuse this ultimate
Object of our loyalty and
love with more proximate and relative
objects.
Second, it is a violation of
love to treat somebody else as an
object or thing, to be manipulated as one likes, rather than as a person
with whom one is always concerned as a person.
This is to be done, not just by ascribing or withholding, analogically, certain adjectives of him, but rather primarily in making him the sole
object of religious devotion in accord
with whose will we seek to direct every act of our lives, however small, and whom we seek to
love with all our heart and soul and mind and strength.
If
love as normal human concern dominates our lives, all too often it will be ourselves who are its
object, and the long and tortuous process, whereby ethical thought and feeling have led us beyond preoccupation
with ourselves, may be undone.
If some who
object to abortion work to diminish the number of unwanted, inappropriate pregnancies, or to make bearing a child for adoption by persons able to be its
loving foster parents more attractive than it now is, and do this
with a minimum of coercion, all honor to them.
For many years ministers had preached
with the primary
object of convicting people of their sin and of showing the forgiving
love of God in Jesus Christ.
If I think of my wife as an
object I am sinning against her.I have very rarely experienced
love making
with my wife even for a moment outside of lust, I find it difficult to even focus on her much of the time.
Indeed the
love command is described by Furnish as a duty independent of feelings, as being measured by comparison not
with self -
love but
with divine
love, as unrestricted in nature and scope, and as requiring the whole person including our feelings, and as not able to pick and choose its
object.
But apart from physical
objects such as the pretty stones Juan picked up for me from the shore; or the large brown hat
with a ribbon tied around it that I bought from a beach - side vendor; or the one too many bikinis I'd added to my collection; recipes are what I
love to acquire.
«We
object to opening up a new trade
with China when there is still so much abuse going on in our existing markets,» says Katrina
Love, the campaign manager for Stop Live Exports, a community action group.
Says Faria, «We want the store to be a place for people who really fall in
love with their
objects.
Beautiful, amazing, odd, strange, fascinating and sometimes sad
objects; a whole lot of interesting people; tired bones (from walking and hefting all day) and tired eyes (from looking at so much stuff); a lot of quick decision making and haggling (neither of which are skills I excel at); and what I
love most of all - an entire day of uninterrupted conversation, laughter, food, and stories
with a dear friend.
And
with the push from «experts» and algorithms to turn
love into a science and a rational process,
love has become «the
object of endless investigation, self - knowledge and self - scrutiny.»
This isn't a book for people who want slick, clean, minimal kitchens, although there are glimpses of those too; Kitchenalia is designed for people who
love details and
objects with a history.
Prior to this age, keep a soft
object next your baby when you cuddle
with her, so she'll associate the
object with your
loving touch.
It is known that babies
love to interact
with every
object around them.
Babies
love to look at things
with strong contrast like black and white
objects.
Another approach we find effective is to distract her
with a toy, a song, flying
objects (she
loves airplanes, balloons and helicopters).
Toddlers also
love to manipulate
objects, such as stuffing a box
with blocks, or pulling pegs out of a pegboard.
Before drop - off time, fill the
object with your
love.
Step 5: Your baby will
love the action of throwing or tossing soft
objects or balls, retrieving them, and hearing you respond to her actions
with your exciting words!
Babies need social interactions
with loving adults who talk
with them, listen to their babblings, name
objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.
Kids
love to learn by engaging all of their senses (which is also why I have a slight obsession
with sensory play), by touching
objects and using gross motor skills while acquiring information, their little brains are just firing like crazy.
Your baby may
love objects with parts or pieces that move, and will spend lots of time staring at and manipulating these things, trying to figure out how or why they work.
The
loved object is anthropomorphised, that is attributed
with human feelings.
He sees my breasts as a source of
love and comfort, not a sexual
object as people
with no understanding think.
I
love seeing his chubby little fingers grasping new
objects and turning them over and around,
with smiles and looks of awe.
Now, if money is no
object and you want the ultimate custom - made mermaid tail, you will fall in
love with Finfolk Productions.
In our research, children absolutely
loved the many planets, stars, nebulae, and other celestial
objects they could see
with these scopes.
Sure enough, when I asked Russell Howe, a staff mathematician who had taken the test years ago, to try it again
with a new batch of
objects, he radiated something akin to joy as he plucked out one item after another, describing their functions in
loving detail as he pulled, twisted, bent, and manipulated.