Sentences with phrase «yearn so»

A funny thing about many teenagers is that they yearn so deeply to be in charge, yet they often rebel against the responsibilities they do have.

It boggled the mind: How was I in an objective state of mortal sin when my heart yearned so for God?

More than any other character, Pierre embodies the spiritual yearnings so central to War and Peace and the rest of Tolstoy's canon.

It's about a quest, a yearning so deep it rules the characters» lives — sports is just the handiest metaphor to make it vivid onscreen.

Still, if sparks of these are experienced, a yearning so poignant arises, so superior to what is accessible, that it can only be called «joy,» in C. S. Lewis» sense of the word.

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So the adventure doesn't always have happy endings but it's not the happy endings you should yearn for, it's the adventure.

How come we yearn for the gratitude of others but so rarely share it ourselves — even when we know it'll feel good?

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Psalm 10:4 The wicked one in the pride of his countenance will not seek, inquire for, and yearn for God; all his thoughts are that there is no God [so He never punishes].

Nevertheless, my point is not so much a nostalgic yearning for the innocence of that short period, (then again, who wdn't be) but an awareness of how I eventually became more divisive, proud and that I - know - more - than - you attitude.What happened to me?

Most Prophetical Christians yearn for the word so to speak but they do not truly follow thru with much Inspired Truths.

People tend to dispute and become riled up and write sarcasms of ill will towards one and others who write their yearning's desires to be so heard in hoping's way.

How wonderful a life, all sorrow and all love: to yearn to express the equality of love, and yet to be misunderstood; to apprehend the danger that all men may be destroyed, and yet only so to be able really to save a single soul; his own life filled with sorrow, while each 7 hour of the day is taken up with the troubles of the learner who confides in him!

The minds of men so often yearn for might and power, and their thoughts are constantly being drawn to such things, as if by their attainment all mysteries would be resolved.

So we made coffee, and we talked about book writing, about stories that yearn to be told.

With Augustine, Lincoln recognized the lust to dominate that is so inextricably entangled with yearnings for peace and justice.

We are created with a spiritual soul as well as a body, and so material things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly spiritual.

As the sea is made pure by yearning for heaven alone; so may the heart become pure by yearning only for the Good.

All of us are yearning for community so much we'll become Christians, Budists, Islamic Jehadists, whatever, just so we know there's a «community» out there supporting us.

As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good.

So when they experience this universal, timeless yearning, they are likely to envision the therapeutic ideals of deep consolation and genuine human flourishing — two worthy goals that the forces of this world and the conflicts in our hearts do not seem to allow.

Truly, I yearn to have this one so I'd better keep an eye out on your Etsy shop.

Being so brilliant, yearning for the recognition you are due, yet always just a dancing squirrel, blathering to strangers on a web forum.

We are created with a spiritual soul as well as a body, and so material things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly...

So... Krehator, you mean that a religion that is not responsive to the feelings and yearnings of the people is somehow more likely to be «true?»

I have been tortured with longing to believe — am so, indeed, even now; and the yearning grows stronger, the more cogent the intellectual difficulties that stand in the way.

In life as it is given to us to live, there seem to be permanent conditions which stand against the order of mutuality so that this world yearns for a good which in its very nature it can not embody.

Contemporary erotic etiquette, even among the young, has so drained physical love of its enticingly forbidden and urgent quality, and so dispelled its atmosphere of rapturous risk, moral uncertainty, tantalizing mystery, and irresistible yearning, that the actual quantum of pleasure in the transaction is often, one imagines, diminished to a very transitory set of neural agitations.

If we can not know God, then it is understandable that good people who yearn for asustaining relationship with Him turn in desperation to weird, and frankly kooky, forms of spirituality in order to fill the void left, so they imagine, by God's unattainability.

I know these days can be hard for so many of us — you may be tired, heartbroken, estranged from loved ones, yearning for more, settling for less, broke, afraid, betrayed, rejected, struggling, addicted, disillusioned, lonely, isolated, thwarted, doubting, numb, any or all sorts of things that aren't showing up on the easily resolved Hallmark Christmas movies or the shiny - happy - Jesus - people.

I have in these pages tried to give expression to my own dawning yearning, but I do so with modesty and in humility.

This yearning is more obvious in the young, but it can also be found here and there among the not so young anymore.

Like Bonhoeffer, we yearn for unities and integrities that elude the grasp of so many faithful people in the world that one can easily conclude such yearning is pretentious.

, a question deriving not so much from the Catholic tradition as from the dilemma of cradle Catholics caught up in the maelstrom of collapsing social norms and carnal yearnings unleashed by the sexual revolution of the «sixties, of which we can say, in Lady Bracknell's words»... I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?»

The psalmist sings of this: «As the deer yearns for running streams, so my soul yearns for you O God».»

I went to Bible study and not a single woman there said a word about The Bachelor, they prayed for one another, and it felt real, like everything I've been wanting and yearning for, a bit of a mess, and so full of Love.

If there is one motif that is common to all forms of romanticism — and here I am speaking of romantic theory and not of the actual poetry of the so - called romantic poets — it is a nostalgia for the lost innocence of a primordial beginning and a yearning for an original and undifferentiated form of consciousness.

So when I think of the Church, I think of a bunch of people that are yearning for meaning, for purpose, for hope.

That thirst for an encounter with the living God, that hunger for the Word of God to consume and reshape our lives with the same electricity so evident in the halls of Yeshiva University, those yearnings still burn in each of us.

Are the reachings out for spiritual community with sincere believers of other faiths to be one - sided, in that the insights of Western Christianity alone are to be held true and sufficient, and the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter) simply yearnings toward fulfillment in Christianity, as has been held for so many years?

And yet the great themes I have been probing here were present, not in any articulate form but present in the uncertainty, the groping, the yearning for something that has so slipped out of memory as to be almost without a name.

Raised above This scene of bleeding spirits, I can make No sign of recognition or concern Except to speak out from My wooden stake And give them to each other, for I yearn To show the world how caritas unties The bond of blood and flesh, and doing so, Entwines a new knot even as it dies.

It would be unusual to hear anything in these churches so morally daring as certain songs of the Grammy - Award winning Indigo Girls, or anything so ironically and astutely probing as a song on ecological spirituality by James Taylor («Gaia,» from Hourglass), or music as alert to alternative spiritualities — African and South - American — as Paul Simon's Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints or as achingly yearning in overall effect as k. d. lang's «Constant Craving» (Ingénue) or U2's «I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For» (Joshua Tree).

Just because the articulation of our need is a yearning for God's rule to become concrete, so with the oppressed I protest the structures of oppression.

So, you reject the laws and const i tution of this nation and yearn for the church to rule this land?

In fact, some become so attached that they yearn to be with their pets throughout eternity.

This time of year always seems so frenzied just when I am yearning for peace.

Veronica (Vonnie) is a widowed Catholic mom and a Coastal Virginia based food writer, a not so perfect Weight Watcher follower and animal wrangler, with a constant yearning for freshly baked bread, Krispy Kreme donuts, fried chicken and setting off the fire alarm in the pursuit of the perfect recipe.

So, I can confirm these muffins to be an excellent substitution for those on strict diet yearning to enjoy a muffin every now and then.

I was yearning for a softer sauce to go with marinated beetroot and feta so I simply blended cashew cream with tomato purée and some spices.