Sentences with phrase «as much purpose»

The supporting actors like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jena Malone and Lenny Kravitz are a fine addition, but they wouldn't have as much purpose without the commanding presence of Lawrence.

Not exact matches

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The picture above shows the neighborhood I wake up to, and I hope you love your neighborhood as much as I love Greenwich Village, but these joys come from my activity, nothing external, and my morning routine needs no equipment, so I start my days with joy and purpose everywhere.

(Of course, accounts set up for different purposes, such as college costs coming soon versus retirement coming much later, may have different allocations.)

The purpose of rebalancing is to avoid having too much of your money working in a single asset class, such as stocks or real estate.

He is the author of a motivational book, «Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose,» and is much taken with the work of the Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, whose writings promote cities as incubators of creativity and profit and who proposes an ideal density - to - productivity ratio of 100 people per acre.

If, as I suspect, he lays a bit too much of the blame for our ills at the feet of that all - purpose bogeyman, capitalism, the story he tells is nevertheless a sobering and instructive one.

everthing I see around is quite the opposite, believers seems to be that much more motivated as they have a strong sense of purpose in life.

Since the show first aired, much of the cast has gone on to become superstars — including James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Busy Philipps — but Freaks and Geeks offers a look at their early talent as misfit teens trying to make sense of life, purpose and relationships.

Worse yet, much of this land is unsuitable for use as pastureland and, when used for such purposes, is gradually ruined for any future use, including forestation (Tosi).

Much better to say there is no God or, as Abraham Lincoln did, «The Almighty has his own purposes,» than to flatter ourselves with knowing what those purposes are.

Even if evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

They ignored these promises, which are not just religious lore, but are as much a part of the will and purpose of the Creator as DNA or the law of gravity or the speed of light.

We did not have much occasion to refer to C&C in recent years, but it was always there as a partner and adversary in conversation, and one always entertained the hope that it might one day recapture something of the purpose for which Reinhold Niebuhr, rightly, thought it so important.

The stuffy materialism, the lack of purpose, the uncertainty about moral values and the collapse of belief in anything beyond the tomb, are not in themselves a rejection of Christianity so much as a cri de cœur the truth of the Gospel.

As adults, we sometimes need to re-learn that we have inherent purpose because of who we are, not just how much we accomplish.

Even as a critic of ECT, I very much appreciate that it was open about its purpose as ecumenical.

But the purpose of this healing is not human improvement so much as it is the renewed God - experience it makes possible.

Neither husband nor wife was after sexual thrills, so much as purpose and a renewed sense of identity.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

[49] Our purpose is better served by the former because our concern is not so much on the theories and concepts of religion, but on the interactions between living and active religions on such central concept as salvation.

In Corinth there was much divisiveness as well, and one of the purposes of Paul's letter was to correct the issues that led to this divisiveness.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

When he thinks or wills, it is not any one or any number of his cells that thinks his thoughts or wills his purposes, but himself as an irreducible unit, as much as a unit as any cell or any atom or any electron.

First, it reflected a judgment about modern warfare as inherently grossly destructive, so much so that it could never be conducted morally or be an instrument of moral purpose.

Even though the believer has been consciously looking for something to satisfy his longings, and searching for some purpose in life, his embracing of the Christian faith does not mean that at last he has found what he is looking for, so much as the strange conviction that he has himself been found.

If the Living God can't use the words that come out of as female's mouth (granted that they are law / gospel words and about Jesus) for His purposes... then he really wouldn't be much of a God... but a puny twirpy god that required only certain genitalia to get his work done.

God purposes to influence these social aims just as much as he seeks to influence the aims of the individual members of the social fabric.

Alistair McGrath points out that «apologetics appeals to beauty and morality as much as to rationality [and] must go beyond demonstrating the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things, and speak meaningfully of deeper issues of purpose, value and identity.»

It is the sheer excess — the disproportion of our human bondages and the absurdity resulting from this excess, the grotesque pointlessness of so much of it — that undermines my sense of ultimate meaning as transcendent willing purpose.

Indeed, those you invoke besides Allah will never create [as much as] a fly, even if they gathered together for that purpose.

If man is to have any hope which may be said to partake of the quality of eternity, it must be one which can be related to the much grander vision of God's purpose for his universe as a whole.

Unfortunately for this purpose, the Hebrew thinkers, unlike the Greek, commonly left not so much a record of their processes of thought as of their conclusions.

If it fails in this task and claims too much for itself, as many states have done, other institutions may have to check it, but, as Yves R. Simon has correctly emphasized, their very existence as non-state communities is often sufficient for this purpose.

For all intents and purposes, I think it is pretty much the same as the one that Glenn Beck is making.

His purpose is to milk his followers of as much money and allegiance as possible.

I can't imagine you would have had much of a problem over here, at least in the Anglican church We're not as purpose - driven as Americans.

To pretend such for homiletical purposes has about as much net gain as is enjoyed by the young man who unconsciously addresses his date as Linda when her name is Judy.

Very much as local pluralistic churches and harried ministers, seminaries also have an uncertainty of purpose.

And they knew that in order to fulfill their purpose, they needed to have as much of God and His Word in their life as they could possibly get.

Leviticus 24:20; the much - maligned «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth» passage, actually has as its purpose the establishment of government by law, not of humans.

Isn't that much too low for a very intelligent being such as man, who has a brain and the power to go out and do so much good if he will only realize that there is a Higher Intelligence that created him for a purpose and try to figure out what that purpose is and fulfill it?

How much of this was merely ad hominem and how much represented Jesus» personal conviction concerning human destiny it is difficult to be sure, just as when Plato used demonology to serve his purpose it is difficult to know how literally he took the mental pattern he employed.

If God is really actively engaged with and in the world, adapting the divine intention to it, taking into the divine life what occurs there, and hence seriously affected by it quite as much as sustaining it creatively and working within it to accomplish an enduring purpose, then indeed God must be understood in a fashion that is most suitably symbolized by what we know of relationship at the human level — granted, of course, that we say this with an O altitudo, to use Sir Thomas Browne's phrase.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

Now we hear much about «canonical» criticism, whose purpose is to see why and how the given material has been used to establish a series of «authorized» or «canonical» books which the Christian Church has accepted as constituting the Bible as we know it today.

But this method, which deliberately leaves so much out (such as considerations of value, beauty, and purpose), has been taken by scientism as the only legitimate road to the real.

It was not taken from Him and nothing that happened was beyond His control if He so wanted, He could have called a legion of angels to stop or commanded any number to help but He was faithful to the purpose He was on this earth for much more than I could say for someone such as your self.

On the basis of this similarity, Newbigin treats science and religion as identical in form, so much so that we may, he argues, speak of the purpose in machines and the purpose in eschatological faith as ultimately the same.

Or, to take a much better illustration for our purposes, one may accept as true the story of man's creation and fall, as found in Gen. 1 - 3, without supposing for a moment that those chapters give us an accurate account of an actual happening.