Sentences with phrase «build lives of meaning»

We must reduce the barriers to violence prevention and mental health treatment for all Americans and provide the community supports so that our citizens can build lives of meaning and purpose.»

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Just because you are building a business does not mean that you should neglect the rest of your life.
Developing true interest in team - building activities means making such activities a living, breathing part of your company's culture.
And I believe understanding this element of human nature — which I'll discuss in the next section — is key to building a life that: a) involves ambitious striving toward goals and having impact in the world, which contributes to a sense of meaning, and b) gives you a shot at realizing true happiness by avoiding a soul - sucking competitive rat race.
If you are 30 years old today, that means your retirement dollars can be put to use for decades to build the kind of world you want to live in.
Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.
This means that a sustained rise in its living standards will require spending much of the international savings it has built up.
It seems to me that Notre Dame has done an outstanding job not only of teaching him to think, but of building a perspective on the meaning of life.
They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?
For example, consider the molecular level, a protein (being called the «fundamental building block of life»), with some 20 different amino acids (called proteinogenic, meaning «protein building») folded in a specific three - dimensional arrangement that are guided by the subtle interaction of the protein with water.
BTW, I wanted to mention, I really like the title «prayer from a cell» because of the different meanings of «cell»... imprisoned, small group of people, smallest living building block, etc..
Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.
I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.
In a letter, Director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office Anthony Horan said: «To build a more just world we need to ensure that every individual is afforded the right to life, this means a world free of abortion.»
You mean the building of enormous churches and mosques (etc) that cost tens of millions of dollars - of those who attend them who are living in huge houses with expensive cars that go on exotic vacations several weeks a year - all who worship someone who said to give everything (that is all) to the poor?
Youth ministry will become what it should be when the churches start asking what the gospel means in our time, in our own neighborhoods, and starts practices that build a distinct way of life.
It follows that one dimension of the meaning of the Christian life is our share in world - building.
... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»
Being men means building the lives of those we are responsible for on the bedrock that is Christ.
Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.
To take the first live a life full of risk and insecurity To take the first option is mediocrity enslavement to the whims of an inhuman option means following Christ in his tribulations, holding fast to his mission, resisting the forces of destruction, sharing in the building of a new world, in which all human beings will actually be free.»
To «abide» means to remain in and not depart from, and this we do as we ask Him to satisfy us in the morning with His steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days (Psalm 90:14), fixing our eyes on Jesus, who is Himself the very Word of God on which we meditate and build the foundation of our lives as a rock enduring the storms (Matthew 7:24 - 27).
If we think that the word «save» in James 1:21 means receiving eternal life, then James 1:21 is teaching that in order to receive and keep eternal life, we must get rid of sin and build our lives upon Scripture.
Raines exposes the often forgotten positive aspects of grief and the benefits of the grieving process, reminding us that good grieving rescues us from self - pity and other life - denying attitudes by enabling us to preserve our past with solidity and depth, by opening us to new meanings in the future beyond anger and regret, and by building compassion into our lives for all who struggle to make their grieving selves a friend of life.
But, if we believe that the principle of creation and the principle of redemption are the same, then we can be absolutely sure that life is out to make us and not to break us, that «it means intensely and means good», and we too can say: «God, thou art love, I build my faith on that.»
And it means that faithful Catholics who believe in colorblind equality before the law, the dignity and value of every human life at all stages and in all conditions, marriage rightly understood, and an ethic of love that recognizes the truths built into us by the Creator and confirmed by reason will be considered... well, deplorable.
Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.
has brought us insights into what it means to build heaven into our everyday lives, to try to realize the realm of heaven here and now.
This means that the same God who gave us life in the beginning gives newness of life through Christ and builds us up in it through the Holy Spirit.
Fortunately the company that manages their building is legit and started the drying out process and repairs before mold could start growing, but that meant removing drywall and the wood flooring, noise, dust, and total disruption of their lives.
I am currently in the design phases of building a tiny home, which means I need to pare down my LIFE.
Grimm is an amateur poker player — which means he plays poker for money but not for a living — and an amateur would have as much chance in the big poker game at the Horseshoe as Cadillac Jack would have of bringing in a wildcat oil well through the floor of the First National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil Company is located.
«Recreation is one of the means by which we try to build a Lockheed community, to establish ties that enable Lockheedians to work and live together more pleasurably.»
In all facets of school life, students are encouraged to reach beyond their comfort level, and while this sometimes means they may stumble along the way, it always means that they are building valuable life skills.
The East Bay Waldorf School can offer you and your children a community of teachers, parents, and students who strive to build creative lives that are filled with meaning.
«I mean I didn't move down here and spend 17 years of what's left of my youth to bring a building back to life and reutilize it you know if I had know they were going to do this,» Cerini said.
He mentioned the upgrading of Zuarungu market, construction of modern community library, construction of CHPs compound, improvement in water supply, building of school blocks in Gambibgo, Nyokoko, Dubila and Kumbosco as some phenomenal development he has pursued and said they were all meant to improve the living standards of the constituents.
«New Yorkers of modest means who are dealing with the challenges of everyday life will have a place to live in dignity and comfort in a building that will add vitality to the neighborhood.
«This 56 - unit residential building is unique in that even in our nation's inner most cities, where homeownership rates sit well below the national average, hardworking people of modest means have the opportunity of owning their own homes to improve not only their lives, but the lives of future generations that follow.
That element is produced in small amounts in nuclear reactors and has a half - life of less than a year, which means it takes years to build up enough for an experiment.
La Frenierre first came to Ecuador as part of Engineers Without Borders to help build a water system, and soon started to ask what changes in the mountain's glacier coverage would mean for the irrigation and drinking needs of the 200,000 people living downstream.
But it means astronomers need to recompute their models of how galaxies evolve, because a different mix of stars affects how rapidly a galaxy builds up life - giving heavy elements.
«So it means that the building blocks of life were delivered to other points in our solar system.
And astronomer Zoltan Balog of the Steward Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, says he thinks the research «basically means that protoplanetary disks might be able to produce prebiotic molecules and ultimately the basic building blocks for life at the place where an Earth would form.»
And just because a region receives above - average deposition doesn't mean that it will have high levels of methyl mercury, the form that builds up in long - lived predatory fish such as trout, pike, tuna and swordfish.
This means seeing how proteins, the building blocks of life, work in a few quadrillionths of a second.
Of course, this doesn't mean that these planets will actually be habitable — that depends on whether they're made of rock and iron, have protective atmospheres and ingredients like water and other chemical building blocks for life as we know iOf course, this doesn't mean that these planets will actually be habitable — that depends on whether they're made of rock and iron, have protective atmospheres and ingredients like water and other chemical building blocks for life as we know iof rock and iron, have protective atmospheres and ingredients like water and other chemical building blocks for life as we know it.
Not to mention an increase in the rate of C - sections, which means baby doesn't get the first inoculation of bacteria in the birth canal needed to build a healthy microbiome and immune system; a lack of breast feeding that colonizes a baby's gut flora; and unknown implications of so many vaccines in the first year of a baby's life.
I was 19, which means I probably had the largest amount of testosterone (the hormone that plays a huge role in building muscle) in my blood stream ever in my life.
Probiotic literally means «for life,» and probiotics like lactobacillus, plantarum and bifidis help immune cells fight disease, prevent diarrhea and constipation, protect the mucous lining of the intestine, assist digestion and provide nutrients for building blood.
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