Sentences with phrase «at understanding our purpose»

«Religion is aimed at understanding the purpose and meaning of our universe, including our own lives.

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«For our purposes, we have a character that's natural at building empathy, whose story inspires passion and understanding about the world and a desire to help and participate,» Grenier says.

Just shooting some questions at random without understanding God's plan is futile and does not serve any purpose other than branding you as being ignorant.

First, human beings are understood, for purposes of economics, to aim at the acquisition of the goods and services they desire for as little labor as requisite.

This understanding of art, now of the gallery and simply open to view rather than created with a purpose, seems to symbolise our modern era: at once a loss of God, purpose and meaning, yet at the same time a search for deeper and more lasting realities.

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

That perhaps there is logic to at least be open to consider the possibility that us, life, nature, the universe, and everything may have come about through design in some sort of fashion or another and just because you may not understand it all doesn't necessarily mean that that there is no purpose behind it all.

If you understood the purpose of what Jesus preached about and I mean all of it, you might at least admire Jesus or him wanting do something right for humanity.

In order to understand the simultaneous givenness and otherness of purpose, one may have two options: first, sometimes my own purposes conflict and I am at odds with myself, and sometimes this conflict can not be resolved except by giving up one purpose or the other.

Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz

Because we are thinking creatures we naturally search for meaning and purpose in the life we find ourselves living in this world, and nothing can be meaningful unless we are able to understand it, at least to some degree.

Any discipline, be it theology or philosophy, which seeks to understand the meaning of, purpose of, behaviour of, and relationship between the different constituent «beings» of this reality of ours should at least try to account for and incorporate an understanding of that which is observed in such a reality.

Clearly, he understood himself as playing the decisive role in the consummation of God's purpose; at the same time, however, he refused to detract from his mission by making his proper classification or title a primary matter for discussion.

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.

Rolt began his study with a rejection of the traditional understanding of power as compulsion or «brute force,» which leads to the realization that «the mind is brought at last to One Who is yet stronger than the universe itself, and Who... by the act of an almighty will, which nothing can resist, bends all things to His purposes and compels the whole material system to obey His irresistible commands.»

The purpose throughout will be to arrive at some understanding of what human becoming and belonging signify.

I can understand my universe only in terms of the purpose that there shall be otherness, which at the same time is a purposively cooperating otherness.

«[The] stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine, and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.»

«Whatever happened to the recognition that a university education has at least three purposes: helping one understand who they are and what excites and motivates them; helping understand one's relationship to the greater world; and, also, becoming prepared for a job.»

Judge Reena Raggi said: «The stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.

At first one tried to understand these new entities as particles of matter, and for some purposes this imagery worked well.

I think the best way of understanding cosmic purpose in our loose sense is to propose that it consists essentially in the aim toward beauty.3 Perhaps from the limitedness of our own perspective we can say no more, but at least we can say this much.

The purpose of the New York meetings, if I understand it aright, is not merely to seek a superficial reconciliation between the diverse forms of Faith which divide the human spirit and make it at odds with itself, but to find what they have fundamentally in common.

At this point, Whitehead's analysis is particularly helpful, for he helps us understand where the purposes of the world are, in what kinds of things, and how they are related to the intricate patterns of physical causation we may discover through scientific research.

He understood how these two disciplines are at the service of rhetoric, or «communication»; the sole purpose of language was to get across what one wanted to say.

I do have a question though — just out of curiosity because I'm trying to understand how to throw recipes together — what is the purpose of the lemon juice at the end?

«The fundamental purpose of our research is to understand athletes at the molecular level,» Shane explained.

I don't understand the purpose of singing «the greatest team the world has ever seen» song at Sutton after what happened at Bayern... I would think «Come on Arsenal» would be more suited.

The purpose of the DLS QB / WR camp is to create an environment of greater understanding of, and the proficiency with, the fundamentals, techniques, skills, motivation, and sportsmanship necessary for success at the individual offensive skill positions in the sport of football.

The crowd trouble — For the life of me I can not understand the mentality of individuals who support any football team, that show such hatred towards opposition fans, that they need to throw coins and seats at them with the sole purpose of causing injury.

That's the real purpose of looking at triggers — to help your child better understand them so he learns to respond differently the next time he gets angry or frustrated.

Download one chapter at a time due to the very large file size Chapter One Waldorf Education and Education Reform Chapter Two The Waldorf Understanding of the Purpose of Education Chapter Three Research Objectives and Procedures Chapter Four How Waldorf Teachers Set Learning Goals Chapter Five Teaching and Making Assessments in a Waldorf Classroom Chapter Six Formal Assessments in Waldorf Education Chapter Seven Learning - centered Assessments: Waldorf Methods in Concept Chapter Eight The Preparation, Profession, and Practice of a Waldorf Class Teacher Chapter Nine Teacher Evaluation in Waldorf Elementary Schools Chapter Ten Waldorf Education and the Future of Assessment for Learning

The overall goal is to provide a new way of looking at milk production that will help us to understand our clinical situations better for the purpose of present and future strategizing.

At this point, parents either figure that they are doing something wrong, which they can't understand, especially if they have another child that behaves well, or they take it personally and think that their child is «doing it on purpose.»

No activity or discussion at any Association meeting or other function may be engaged in for the purpose of bringing about any understanding or agreement among members that may violate or appear to violate the antitrust laws, including but not limited to raise, lower or stabilize prices; to regulate production; to allocate markets; to encourage boycotts; to foster unfair trade practices; to assist monopolization; or to in any way violate federal or state antitrust laws.

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A more sensible solution would be for all parties to get around the table, with the Electoral Commission and others, and understand where the weaknesses in the current regulation is and work at updating and improving legislation which today is unfit for purpose.

He can not begin to understand how the machine works as a whole until he learns how the elements are wired together and until he has at least some idea of the purpose of the machine, of its subassemblies and of their interactions.

«Our study suggests most patient information materials are not fit for their intended purpose, and that organisations are producing materials that may be too difficult for their intended audience to understand,» said Angela Webster, lead researcher and an Associate Professor Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney.

«Developing an in - depth understanding of what drives delinquent and criminal activities — and ways that sports and other leisure activities can be used for prosocial purposes — can help create more effective prevention, intervention and rehabilitation programs for at - risk youths and young offenders.»

«A phylogeny and taxonomy is fundamental for all fields of biology that use lizards and snakes, to understand how to classify the species being studied, to interpret biological patterns in terms of relatedness, and even at a more basic level, to count how many species are in an area, for example, for conservation management purposes.»

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

For now, neurobiologists hope to use the device, described this week at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, for a humbler purpose: understanding how nerve cells grow and communicate with each other.

First, it can be used for practical purposes;, also there is a theoretical part, which is about fundamentally better understanding these phenomena,» said Tibor Durgonics who is a Ph.D. student at DTU Space and the main author of the new article in Radio Science.

With over two years of research, the purpose is to understand at a genomic level the differences between these fungi.

The Dalai Lama has received this year's $ 1.7 million prize from the John Templeton Foundation, a Pennsylvania - based charity that supports research in the sciences, philosophy, and theology aimed at understanding «big questions of human purpose and ultimate reality.»

Extensive studies have been conducted for the better understanding of the purpose behind this seemingly altruistic behavior, and our website will attempt to take a deeper look at the significance of the behavior from the biologist's perspective.

Crowding out is a concept that I learned while studying to be a health coach at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and it's an important concept to understand for weight loss and weight management purposes as well.

My podcast, The Highest Self Podcast, is my favorite medium and where I share deep spiritual wisdoms to understand your soul's archetypes, radiate at your highest frequency and find your purpose on this planet so you can live out their missions to serve this planet.

Mission or life purpose is the specific ways that you desire and feel inspired to contribute, to serve and to expand your understanding or who you are at your core.