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They align
their lives by their hope, and in that way, their lives are shaped by hope.
But as Christians
we live by hope, and our hope is that some elements of harmony will soften the horror of the apparently dominant forces of conflict.
Sometimes those of us who
live by hope and promise fail to appreciate how alluring such cosmic pessimism can be.
The Church truly
lives by hope.
Though he came to believe that we were living in the «twilight of a great civilization» (as he titled of one of his last books), he continued to
live by the hope that survives all diverted reformations and disappointed schemes for ecclesial renewal.
Not exact matches
The thing about meaning is that it's best conferred
by giving the topic personal relevance,» explains Page19, which suggests that for each new book you ask yourself what you
hope to learn, how it might change your
life, and why you should bother reading it.
Hope Hicks (played
by Cecily Strong) said goodbye on «Saturday Night
Live» this week with a letter summarizing her «semester abroad at the White House.»
I'm suggesting you retire years earlier than everyone else,
by retiring in your business — so that you can start
living the
life you love today — instead of
hoping to retire some day years down the road.
«Simply creating a level playing field for competition and then passively
hoping that growth will happen may not be the best approach,» concluded Drummond and his co-authors in a paper published
by the Centre for the Study of
Living Standards in September.
«
By studying the properties of anti-atoms we
hope to learn more about the Universe in which we
live,» says Hayden.
The PulsePoint app was created
by an eponymous nonprofit organization
hoping to mobilize CPR - trained people in the
hopes of saving
lives.
«Governments have long encouraged university - industry collaboration,
hoping to spur innovations that bring jobs, investment and
life - enhancing products,» explains an article published
by Nature.
As he struggles to rebalance his home
life with his responsibilities as Ant - Man, he's confronted
by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym with an urgent new mission.
OTTAWA - A new social media initiative provides a forum for Canadians to share how Jack Layton's message of love,
hope, and optimism
lives on.Spearheaded
by the Broadbent Institute, the Dear...
I
hope that
by sharing these monthly updates I can also prove that it is possible to take control of your financial
life and invest a high percentage of your income, even on a small salary.
«At her grave, a big yellow butterfly flew
by, and it gave us a symbol of
hope that Alyssa was OK, and we had butterflies fly out of a box today, symbolizing that
hope and strength that Alyssa is OK and she's
living, but in a different way.»
Goldman Sachs defended its action, saying it bought the bonds — issued in 2014
by state - run oil company PDVSA — with the
hope that
life in Venezuela will improve.
All in all, I
hope Personal Capital improves its overall customer service experience for free accounts and prospective clients
by connecting phone calls directly, speeding up email responses, and adding
live chat.
He's not exactly another philosopher - pope, but there are other ways of being an inspirational, evangelical, and poetically theological pope: For Augustine, the joy promised
by the Lord to his followers is given and
lives in spe, in
hope.
Heaven is a made up thought
by clergy over millinium for the masses to have
hope to carry them through the existence of
life.
I
hope that
by observing and being taught these values all my
life, I've absorbed some of them, and that my true heart lies in people and places, not things.
Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the
hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved
by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own
life.
I do not know of a single adult human being that has given their
life to the Tooth Fairy, seen the Tooth Fairy, thinks there is a Tooth Fairy, prays to the Tooth Fairy, given new
life by the Tooth Fairy, given
hope by the Tooth Fairy,
lived by the law of the Tooth Fairy, fought wars with a Fairy banner held high and last but not least Stalin, Mao and Poll Pot felt no need to eliminate and persecute those who held tight to the Tooth Fairy.
If we open a dialogue, we
hope they will see that the rest of people can
live side
by side with us.
Faithful believers in every generation
live by the memories and
hopes of the actus tradendi of the Holy Spirit: this is true whenever and wherever the word of God is faithfully translated, sincerely believed, and truly preached.
His
life is a warning to those who came after him to not follow his lead and
by implying otherwise is to hold a
hope that even the bible does not supply.
Some will do this
by the quality of their
lives, which,
lived openly in fidelity to Christ, will inspire in others the
hope for a similar faith and charity.
So each takes his own «knowing» and
lives by it... whether in faith,
hope, and love, or in any other way one wishes to pursue «it»... that is our free will to do so.
Personally, for me, I
hope that when I go, my body is given back to the earth in some way, not imprisoned in a plot to be obsessed over
by the
living.
And their instinct is perfectly sound, for the food - crank is
by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in
hopes of adding five years on to the
life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.»
When surrounded
by abandonment, the only clinging
hope is He who gave his
life for me because He loves me.
Life after death is an eschatological
hope and can only be held
by faith.
I
hope you are happy in your
life without God but I personally can not understand how simplistic some people can be as to think that the entire world was created
by chance or some catastrophic «big bang» event.
Our Lord warned enough about the experts of his day who loved long tassels, and who swore
by the gold of the temple rather than the temple, to stay us from placing too much
hope in ritual and texts to save
lives.
For example, the practice, still observed in many churches, of wearing a red flower in honor of
living mothers and a white flower in memory of deceased mothers originated in a florist jingle, promoted tirelessly
by the industry in
hopes of widening the variety of flowers associated with the day and thus enlarging Jarvis's own emphasis on white carnations.
Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this wo
Hope amidst suffering,
hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this wo
hope when men know only defeat and despair,
hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this wo
hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of
life springing from the hearts of men,
hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this wo
hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures,
hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this wo
hope for our children, for our elderly,
hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this wo
hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to
live out their
lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on
by the overlords of this world.
I am not crediting God, but I'd rather have a doctor who believes in something bigger than us all, than a cold atheist who doesn't have
hope, or pray and isn't driven
by anything in
life other than a selfish belief that he is the most intelligent thing in the universe.
He brought that
hope, that joy, that peace, that love to their
lives from the inside out and I walk in the legacy they created
by that choice.
It is the Christian nemesis: death and despair displaced
by life and
hope.
For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real
life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they
hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed
by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»
The goal is to keep families together
by supporting and empowering single moms, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty, abuse and despair and
live lives of wholeness and
hope.
Her
life, which 9 years ago, was full of
hope and endless [wonderfully good] possibilities, has been nearly destroyed
by this «whatever it is».
In A New
Hope, Obi - Wan Kenobi tells Luke that, «[The force is] an energy field created
by all
living things.
If, as Hauerwas has eloquently argued, Christians place their
hope in the Kingdom of God, and seek to embody that Kingdom
by living faithfully as church, then they need to have some understanding of the relationship of God's Kingdom to political power.
Urban Eagles teaches them that God has a plan and a purpose for their
lives by pointing them to Jeremiah 29:11: ««For I know the plans I have for you,» declares the Lord, «plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future.
Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him
by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may
hope to be raised to a share in his risen
life of communion with the eternal God.
But to the young widow with children to raise alone, to the man dying an agonizing and untimely death from cancer, to the person full of
life and
hope who is incapacitated
by multiple sclerosis, or to the child who has to start his or her
life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the average isn't what matters.
The fact that we are in the midst of an enormous transformation toward a «universal civilization» suggests that only in a new confrontation with localistic, cultural and nationalistic idolatries of all sorts, and only
by clariflying what universal realities are worth
living and dying for, can we find
hope.