Sentences with phrase «accepted a life of»

It can not be denied that a similar belief underlies the practice of sacrifice in the Old Testament — the belief that God will accept the life of a substitute when the offerer's own life is forfeit.

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So what are us non-prodigies to do, simply accept our modest level of creativity and get on with life?

That is, we all accept, in theory, that no one lives forever, while avoiding thinking about the prospect of our own deaths.

When someone starts to give you advice, look at the fruit they have in that area of their life before you blindly accept their opinions as truth.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

By defining our Living Dream, tackling challenges such as our fears of money, seeking balance, loving our families, learning the fundamentals of building and growing a business, and finally accepting the challenge to do whatever it takes to create the life you want — you too, can find success.

You don't have to love them, or accept them back into your life, but forgiving them will bring much needed resolution, allowing all of you to move on and forward.

Right now, accept that businesses go bust and even though this has happened to you, it is not going to ruin the rest of your life.

If your investments lose significant value as you are preparing to tap them, you may have to work longer than you had planned or accept a drastically lowered standard of living in retirement — or both.

He said no to working a nine - to - five; accepting money from investors in return for shares; living a life without purpose; and following the rules of any industry or tradition.

At one time, the thought of dining solo carried with it a connotation of isolation, but it is now an accepted part of modern life, with 47 percent of all adult eating occasions occurring alone.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.»

He feared that he wouldn't live up to their intellectual height and yet soon found that he truly was a peer and his life's course had been permanently altered as society now accepted him as an elite member of the professional class.

The essence of this particular dilemma lies in answering this initial question: Even if the upside appears to be a sure thing, can you afford to accept your fate in the event that the worse - case scenario of a life decision implodes on you?

But perhaps the best answer may be for you (and me) to accept waiting as an essential part of life.

The premise is that it is all about living in the present, accepting change and having a simple set of principles that guide you through life.

By creating proactive guidelines that explicitly spell out when, how, and why you will (or will not) engage with your device, you are accepting personal responsibility for bringing your goals and priorities to life, instead of being bossed around by your phone.

But rather than passing judgment on whether globalization is a wonderful or a terrible thing, Easterbrook accepts it as a mixed bag, foreseeing «an endless tumult of improved living standards wrapped with ribbons of stress, anxiety and dissatisfaction.

As a marketplace, Airbnb not only has to make it easy to pay its hosts — who in this case live in Brazil — but also accept methods of payments that are convenient for guests.

Many of our clients have told us they accepted a candidate who looked good on paper, but who they «had a bad feeling about» — and they lived to regret it.

«Money is a pretty serious part of everyone's life, whether we choose to accept it or not.»

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Simplified issue life insurance doesn't require a medical exam and accepts a wider range of health problems than fully underwritten coverage.

Perhaps the greatest mistake of my professional life was accepting a position in November 2004 at Portus Alternative Asset Management.

Author Charles Steindel explains that when the U.S. personal saving rate took a negative turn in second - quarter 2005, it raised concerns that Americans may have to curtail spending and accept a lower standard of living as they pay off rising debts.

«Indigenous peoples are being forced into long and costly court battles to defend their traditions and ways of life because governments in Canada still refuse to accept the need to work collaboratively with Indigenous peoples on important decisions about environmental protection and resource development,» said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

In exchange for the ability to fund these early - retirement adventures, many retirees are willing to accept a potentially smaller lifetime benefit, even if it also means accepting a declining standard of living in their later years.

Romano Guardini had already foreseen this: «The gadgets and technics forced upon him by the patterns of machine production and of abstract planning mass man accepts quite simply; they are the forms of life itself.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

«This is about us begging for our lives; this isn't about the GOP, this isn't about the Democrats, this is about us creating a badge of shame for any politicians accepting money from the NRA and using us as collateral,» Kasky said.

ChildFund's decision to accept bitcoin brings this innovation in payments together with a history of improving lives.

Everyone's at it, and while most people aren't breaking the law in the pursuit of profit, there's a case for saying that manipulation should simply be accepted as part of life.

Now one of the most famous, popular and powerful sales trainers in the world, Ben accepts and conducts just 24 live «The Closers Sales Training» seminars a year and writes / publishes / produces «The Closers» series of books, audios, videos, newsletters, and teletrainings... a series that is considered «The Foundation of Professional Selling.

Jeanne would thus have an ongoing source of cash to live on in her last years, and the lawyer would get an apartment cheaply, with no money down, in return for accepting the uncertainty as to when he would take possession.

Parkland activists brandished orange tags with $ 1.05, the amount of money Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has accepted from the NRA divided by every student in Florida — the price of each student's life, activists said.

The highlight was working on a whole - of - life data project that involved constructing networks of environmental monitoring stations in the Australian outback, and then using the collected data to empirically model groundwater dynamics — which doesn't sound all that interesting, but was actually quite a departure from the generally accepted contemporary methods.

As a client, you can use one of the following currencies that are accepted for opening a live account: USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, CHF, and RUR.

Live, because deciding for or against it was obviously relevant and important; forced, because one either accepted Christianity or refused it — there was no getting out of the decision; and momentous, because, on the chance that God does exist, the decision would have eternal ramifications.

I'll stick with accepting Jesus as my savior thank you In the eight years of making that choice, life has been awesome!

There are some agnostic theists, who are not sure about a god, but lean toward accepting one or another of them, but I think that the majority of agnostics live without belief and conduct their daily lives atheistically.

Undoubtedly, Jesus still loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is by accepting God's truths as they truly are in the bible and by leaning on His grace for empowerment to walk in them in our personal relationships with him.

However, those who don't accept the gift of Christ will probably miss out on great things in this life and the next.

But perfect love casts out fear... if he perfectly loved, there would be no reason for him fear that we are destroying America... no fear for us to teach sunday school... and no fear of the future when homosexuals are accepted as equals, even in Alabama (where I live) or in whatever southern state fishon is in.

It is the perfect waste of time and energy, and gives great comfort to the masses unable to accept that this life is the only one your are going to get.

given the correctness of those two statements, why does god allow those who will not accept his son (including the vast majority of people who have ever lived or will live) to be born?

This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one who unthinkingly accepts every facet of my Doctrine of choice.

Think of your own family, surely you don't all see eye to eye or agree completely with each other's way of living out your life... but you love and accept each other because you are family.

Accept Christ and everything will be wonderful, you will be blessed every day of your life.

If (and when) I believed that, I doubt I could have accepted having someone in ministry in my congregation that I believed was living a lie, accepting something sinful as a central part of their lives and identity.

Where Obama's grandparents lived it was a legal and accepted way of life and had been for centuries.