Sentences with phrase «when modern life»

You play as a former city boy / girl who received a message from your grandfather on his deathbed: an envelope with instructions to not open it until the time comes when modern life has crushed your spirit, and you need to break free.

Not exact matches

When looked at in this way, the advantages of automated trading systems are obvious, particularly in the modern world, where it is hard to find time for all of life's commitments.

When people are not in control of their own schedules, they may struggle to manage all the different components of modern life.

My point was according to doctrine of the time, resurrections were fairly commonplace (in comparison to modern times, when we know the dead can not come back to life) and therefore not so special.

That struck a chord with me when I realized that it might mean that creationists are a better adaptation to modern human life.

I've been reading the monastics recently, and it strikes me that while much of modern evangelicalism echoes their teachings on self - control and self - denial when it comes to sexuality, we tend to gloss over a lot what this great cloud of monastic witnesses has to say about self - control and self - denial in other areas of life — like materialism, food, relationships, and hospitality.

According to Lewis, modern man lives in a tiny windowless universe, his boundaries narrowed to too small a focus.75 Through such play experiences as the reading of stories - when one could experience life «in a sense «for fun,» and with [his] feet on the fender» - Lewis believed that modern man could perhaps recapture a sense of his distant horizons, much as he once had.76 For Lewis, a story was the embodiment of, or mediation of, the «more.»

The very pluralism and agnosticism of the society they live in makes modern children keen and earnest questioners when they pass into the middle and senior schools.

This is one reason why the passing of the family altar is much to be regretted, for when it was vitally maintained, it not only enriched the spiritual lives of its participants but bound the family together with ties seldom approximated in our modern individualistic living.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

But when it comes to modern media like radio, television, and the internet, we can be guilty of a certain level of naiveté about the effects of technology on our lives, especially as people of faith.

I love how you live in a world built by science, with modern medicine, technology, etc, yet sit here and deny it when it comes to things you disagree with.

Especially when those people lived long before the modern era of science and had no knowledge of the things we now know to be true about the universe.

That a genuine social revolution can only take place from below will first become convincingly clear, writes Heinz - Joachim Heydorn, when we are able to free ourselves from the predominance of a purely political thought that does not understand the long - term problems of our modern life.

When we think of his exile from Northampton and his more inclusive exile from the company of all right - thinking modern men, we must apply to ourselves on this occasion the indictment that Jesus made of «hypocrites» who «build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, «If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets»» (Matt.

And the difficulty in our expansive modern life lies here: ever achieving new powers, enlarging our opportunities, widening our liberties and everywhere complicating our lives, we forget that, unless we correspondingly strengthen our moral and spiritual foundations, the whole overextended superstructure will come down about our ears, as did the old Philistine banquet hall when Samson broke the pillars.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Besides, Sephardic Jews are a group who spent a long period of time in the Iberian peninsula (until getting kicked out 1500 - ish), so it's hard to say that modern Sephardic Jews can be used as a baseline when trying to determine the «whiteness» of a Jew who lived 2000 years ago in a totally different place.

Another facet of this mood of the boundless is revealed when one ponders the role of technology in modern American life.

John Paul II taught us to risk truth and not be content with the modern assumption that peace can only be had when we confess power as the most basic reality of our lives.

«We don't believe that when Jesus died and rose again that old Levitical scripture applied to our modern life.

Don't worry, we won't make fun when you need modern medicine to save your life.

I vividly remember that on one occasion in the late 1970s when I was walking with Malcolm in the East Sussex countryside, he started talking about the emergence of aesthetic nihilism in modern life and literature, a phenomenon that he identified with the Bloomsbury writers, whom (except for Leonard Woolf) he particularly loathed.

I certainly get shocked looks from modern Christians when I suggest that homilies on «the Good Samaritan» should place it in modern context by renaming it «the Good al - Qaeda» or «the Good Taliban» or «the Good Hamas» — because, at the time Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth allegedly lived, the Jews regarded Samaritans the way we regard al - Qaeda or the Taliban or Hamas today.

The Sportswriter's real subject is the modern American's search for integrity: through sports, through art, through religion,, through simply living up to one's day - to - day obligations, through the little commitments we make to one another in friendship and love, even when our marriages fall apart.

If, like a modern atheist, you believe that life has no purpose except personal enjoyment, you use your life for selfish enjoyment and put an end to it when the loneliness such a life induces seems to outweigh whatever satisfaction it formerly gave you.

Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being «anti-modern,» which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and capable of formulating a vision for modern political and economic life — the Church does all that — but instead means adopting liberal attitudes toward moral truth.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

Therefore, on those infrequent occasions when we admit that even pleasure can cloy and we a experience fleeting desire for a richer spirituality, deep down we suspect that that desire is merely a matter of our looking the gift horse of modern life in the mouth.

Goldstein's book is at its best when the conversations veer personal, and she gets to make use of clever metaphors from ordinary modern life.

Even if some modern Jews could trace their ancestry back to some ancient Hebrews, do descendants of a people that lived in a particular region 2,000 years ago have a right to return, particularly when this means evicting people who have long resided there?

There was a time in my life when I seriously considered trying to find a way to gain entrance into their world, but I came to realize that while I'm far less «modern» than many I know, I'm still probably too «of the world» to survive happily living as they do.

In this modern new world of the internet and instant information flying around the airwaves, not to mention live Arsenal football games beamed to the TVs of nearly every country in the world, it would appear that Arsene Wenger has only just realised that there are Arsenal fans everywhere that get upset when the Gunners lose...

Despite the modern world of football, especially when dealing with a big club like Arsenal, being a lot more intrusive into the personal lives of the players, we still do not really know too much about what our stars are like away from the training and playing of games and the interviews they give to the media.

In this modern new world of the internet and instant information flying around the airwaves, not to mention live Arsenal football games beamed to the TVs of nearly every country in the world, it would appear that Arsene Wenger has only just realised that there are Arsenal fans everywhere that get upset when the Gunners lose...... Read the full article here

When it comes to our modern way of life, so many people want their results immediately.

Ramsey has the qualities needed for the modern box to box were as wilshere doesn't really he is ok over a short distance with a short burst but beyond that he is quite static in the middle, but is excellent technically and can play a quick pass when he is on form use him as a springboard to launch counter attacks from any new manager that comes in will either help him improve or he will be a casualty of the new regime, unfortunately that reality of life in football i hope for one both of them stay and help us win trophies in years to come COYG

This story of expulsion from a modern - day Garden of Eden captures what happens when lives that were only designed to acquire more suddenly face the prospect of a great deal less.

Living up to the brand name, Angelcare aims to be the family's guardian of this modern day when it comes to monitoring your baby.

Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less by Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest is a simple introduction to what it means to be «minimalist» when you have kids but don't let the word scare you off, minimalist can mean many things to many people.

But if you truly can't co-sleep at all (which is very rare — families do it when they all live in one - room places; it's our modern lives and expectations of how things must be that make it hard) then you do have to do what you have to do.

And when our lives are full of the hectic everyday busyness that is modern life, plus the unexpected curve balls that life lobs at you every now and then, well, who couldn't use some stress relief?

In fact, when these kids were interviewed after returning home to their modern lives, they all expressed feelings of emptiness and depression despite their TV's and CD players and Game Boys and action figures and full refrigerators.

If all of us could do that, it would be one thing but since modern women have to try to juggle so many different things, a lot of times people are pumping in that first month or two of life, when it can sometimes kind of create that issue of an irregular or overly large supply that the baby can't really empty the breast necessarily all the time, or leave the breast partially full.

She is a shining example of how our young modern apprentices can succeed when they are given the chance to get on in life.

Modern media prurience, especially when mixed with censorious judgmentalism, does public life no favours, with many decent people ruling themselves out of politics just because they want to protect their private life.

ITEM: When Bill de Blasio says «I think investigations are unfortunately, in modern American public life, they are part of the [inaudible] now.

Perhaps the social histories of Britain will record the second decade of the 21st century as being the time when one of the biggest taboos of modern life was finally broken down.

They foresee a time when the very fabric of modern life — ordinary materials such as plastics and concrete — will hold much of the electricity we need.