Sentences with phrase «as generous people»

Those of us who don't give regularly have our own rationale for doing so, but many Americans believe some myths about generosity that are getting in the way of not just our own personal growth and development as generous people, but also are widely blocking money to a lot of causes that could really use some.

Though our foreign relations generally are governed, as we like to say, by our national self - interest, we still see ourselves as a generous people.

Not exact matches

Even people who don't have a lot of money can still be generous as opposed to selfish or self - oriented.»

We go out of our way to hire generous, funny, well - rounded, and diverse people, and they did an amazing job with their holiday spending (which we dropped on them pretty suddenly as the Black Friday promotion started blowing up),» Temkin says.

If you're discussing someone and you describe them as kind and generous, people are more likely to see you that way too.

Many of the most prosperous companies are very generous companies as well, which makes it that much more important for people to try to model themselves after the companies that have gotten this far in their time.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

The maximums are quite generous, as demonstrated by the below example limits based on a family size between one and four persons.

Not only does he have allies in defending the teaching of the Church, but he also has people who are tuned into formative parochial apostolate as well as overwhelmingly generous in giving their time and energy to the Church.

Moreover, Greenawalt is a generous - minded person who understands that it is desirable to conduct public discussion on as ecumenical a basis as possible.

If evangelicals listen intently to the testimony of faithful GLBT persons, and if our side accepts evangelicals» prompting to admit our need and desire to be renewed, maybe we can strive together for a church as just and generous — and holy — as God's grace.

Being «generous» with other people's money is just as sinful as not caring for people with your own time and resources.

A morality which rejects this fact as too harsh to bear is not much use to anyone in practice, and tends to involve being generous with the resources of other people, either those far away or those not yet born.

We enjoy thinking of ourselves as basically generous, benevolent, giving people.

I am guilty of dismissing a person as soon as I learn that he or she is a Calvinist, and (as you may have noticed) I tend to employ a generous amount of sarcasm when I write blog posts about Mark Driscoll.

... So be generous and gracious as different people live out the gospel in different ways.

And yet, as the biographer's documentation bears witness, both father and mother showed themselves surprisingly accepting and indeed generous parents, people aware of their son's gifts and (as seen in their decision to send him into psychoanalysis) able to go outside their world to offer him help.

As a people group, generally, Christians are not known to be a generous bunch.

After all, this is a decent job, as good as most people have, and he is as generous to his employees as he can be.

Then you talked about a new paradigm that you were trying to develop to help you understand what «being a Christian means», to you it meaning being very broad, opening, inclusive and generous to other religions as well and «I wouldn't be apologising for being a Christian University»cause people know, he's a Christian but we can actually talk with this guy and they get to know that through relationship.

And finally, if poverty can truly happen to anyone, then it is in the self - interest of people not currently poor to support a thorough and generous welfare state as a prudent recognition of the universality of susceptibility to hardship.

I find the people who claim to be Christians are often trying to impress others, and usually not as kind or as generous as people think they are.

If the church is as loving and generous as we believe, why do people on the outside see just the opposite?

But I know this much is true: The love that is meant to mark us as Christians is meant to receive people in the generous and gracious way Jesus received people.

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

People who eat more generous amounts of fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, and perhaps heart disease and high blood pressure.

You can serve everything separate for people to make their own sandwiches as they please or assemble the sandwiches yourself by spreading a generous amount of mayonnaise on each slice of bread then topping with lettuce, tomato, and bacon.

He is not only generous to people who need generosity; he's just as generous to those who don't.»

Being generous with your shares a) says a lot about you as a person and a business; b) encourages relationships with other businesses; and c) introduces the lovely people who like your page to a designer they may never have seen before and may fall a bit in love with.

In the world of research, individual families are viewed as macro cultures which have the power to produce young people who are more generous than other macro cultures.

It was simply tremendously generous with you to supply without restraint just what most people might have supplied as an e book to generate some money for their own end, most notably considering that you could possibly have tried it if you ever wanted.

She was and still is, as much as she can be, an amazing, generous person.

«My top tips are: ask for help if you need it - people are so generous and always give it willingly; you and your other half need to be a team as it's too much for one person!

Bloomberg, who gave away more than $ 250 million last year, called the legislative plan to halve the charitable deduction for people worth $ 10 million or more from 50 percent to 25 percent «is as crazy as the hedge funds thing,» adding: «We need the private sector to be more generous.»

The people are generous and welcoming, but there is certainly a feeling of isolation and anger in the community as well.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said reports by the CBI and other groups that generous pensions were unaffordable, missed the point that many people in all sectors were struggling on meager pensions while executives such as Sir Fred Goodwin, the disgraced former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, enjoyed large state subsidies.

«I think Mayor Bloomberg did a wonderful thing for New York and he's been very generous and people don't realize how generous Mayor Bloomberg's been in his personal life to make the cultures of New York City sustain, for his leadership in his 12 years as mayor,» Mr. Donovan told reporters after the debate.

The claimant count - the number of people claiming unemployment benefit - is one of the more generous measures of unemployment, as it counts only those who want to, and are eligible to, sign on.

A generous measure it may be, but the claimant count is not usually used for historical comparisons as the number of people claiming is affected by the changes in the benefit rules over time.

Lib Dem voters are the most generous (# 61,000), as are people living in the south (# 54,000).

We realize that the positions reflected in this statement raise critical challenges for our health care system and insurance providers, such as that of adverse selection, but we call upon the scientific and religious communities — indeed, on all people of good will — to bring an informed understanding and a generous heart to this debate.

The volunteers who touched the hot coffee cup rated the person as being warmer — more generous, more sociable, and so on.

Jo Marchant describes people who have experienced awe as being more ethical, more generous and feeling more connected (29 July,...

For most people, a well - balanced meal (such as a generous amount of veggies plus lean protein, healthy fat, and a bit of carbs) should leave you feeling full for about four hours.

Networking can also pay off, so ditch the energy vampires and level up your social circle to include people who are as generous as you are.

With this conclusion and the fact that more and more people began to witness its glorious effects, the style has become widely accepted as one of the most generous yogic techniques for achieving instant restfulness and calm.

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AND, the fabulous people at Lost My Name have been so generous as to giveaway a customized book to one of you!

Lucky for you, Sassy Gals Wisdoms (creator of these mugs) is generous enough to send one lucky person a set of these mugs for free as a Valentine's Day Giveaway.

But as a fashion person at heart, a part of me is grateful for the generous dose of clothes to admire.