Sentences with phrase «circumstances of their lives with»

He frequently contrasts the dismal material circumstances of their lives with those of affluent white students who live elsewhere.

I can not match the circumstances of these lives with mine and I can not say I would identify with any of the characters.

Not exact matches

Still others are just blind to how life circumstances can change radically, with more than half saying they simply have no plan of retiring in the near future.

«I studied philosophy and law and then practiced law in big international firms in Amsterdam and Brussels for seven years before dramatic circumstances in my life brought me and my wife to consider an invitation from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and Grand Chancellor of the ITI, to come to Austria to help him with building up and professionalising the ITI, which at that time had existed for only 7 years and which was dealing with serious financial problems and battling for its survival.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

Our situational anxieties have to do with the circumstances and security of our lives, how they are to be affected by such technological advances as cybernetics, by inflation, or by war.

Whatever the circumstances of our lives, God is with us — in peace, in war, in hope, in fear, in life, in death, in joy, in suffering.

The problem many «Christians» had with this shows that they don't understand the words of Jesus when He said to His disciples, at the time they were living, in the circumstances surounding them, «Truly, I say to You, this generation shall by no means pass till all these things take place».

Lisa was thinking as a mother, considering the weight of Mary's burdens: having a child under unusual circumstances, raising that child with the knowledge that his life would make a history - making difference, and then watching him crucified.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

But nonteleologists argue forcefully that the very idea of taking or torturing or otherwise physically invading innocent human life under any circumstances is inconsistent with our deepest moral intuitions (e.g., Donagan 172 - 89).

Has life a meaning other than the meanings which you and I give to it, each of us in his own circumstances and with his own purposes and values?

* Casting Crowns (They do a lot of the «I'm in love with Jesus» songs, but they also have plenty about trusting in God in the midst of the horrible circumstances of life.

The other words that go down with greater credibility are words to live by for every duty / circumstance of life (perhaps not a direct quote from scripture but)... do EVERYTHING as if for the Lord... (not to be used in a stab of guilt for a believer), just acknowledging, if you would follow a god..

In the totality of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment, on the stage of history and in the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with God.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

The Elijahs and Obadiahs both are better able to live with each other, and particularly under straitened circumstances, when laughter is a constant companion of total ministry.

Except in cases of severely diminished capacity, the perpetrator of murder still forfeits any personal claim on life, even though society may add an injustice of its own by being inconsistent with a normally more lenient treatment of similar circumstances.

«We must be prepared to live with the vision contained in the [Rawls»] original position, mutual disinterest and all,» he writes, «prepared to live with it in the sense of accepting its description as an accurate reflection of human moral circumstance, consistent with our understanding of ourselves.»

A further problem in Brunner's thought is that his doctrine is bound up with a conception of Providence in which the irrational circumstances of life, that is, our finding ourselves in this time and place and situation, are too simply identified with the inscrutable purposes of God.25 He makes too little room for the notion which is so well stated by Calhoun and which surely belongs in the Christian view of life, that the world is an unfinished world.

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

While the military does not seek to discriminate unjustly, it believes for a number of sound reasons that persons with a homosexual orientation could experience difficulty in controlling their behavior in light of the unique circumstances of military life.

This year, it was an intersection of my own heart, scripture, conversations with mentors and life circumstances that lead to the theme for 2011.

I thought that the apprehension of nothingness came from out of time and circumstance, a lightning bolt of truth that had nothing to do with the day before, the house I lived in, my family, and my age.

A conservative attitude requires that one be equal to one's own fortune, live at the level of one's own means, and «be content with the want of greater perfection which belongs alike to oneself and one's circumstances.»

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.&raLife, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.&ralife finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

Only much later when the new Christians have the Bible in their own language will they or their children or grandchildren be able to discern what of the missionary culture and what of the traditional culture is really consonant with a genuine living - out of the gospel in their own circumstances.

Christians living in better circumstances, however, need to take up the cause of their suffering brethren: they need to educate themselves about what is happening, spread the news, ask their own religious leaders to speak out, support reputable organizations that are working for religious freedom, and appeal to their political leaders to do far more in their contacts with key diplomats and oppressive governments.

If Heidegger is right we are always dimly aware that life runs toward death, yet only in special circumstances are we able to know precisely about our own death.5 This means that every commitment in the relationship of love is made in a history with risk and uncertainty.

As I've spent the last two years reading the stories of women from the Bible, I've been moved by the courage and grace with many of the biblical women lived, despite their unjust circumstances.

Our Gospel text addresses another pastoral issue regarding faith that is still very much with us: whether the degree and depth of our faith are adequate to life's circumstances.

«When they see the child moving in the womb on an ultrasound, when they hear the heartbeat of the unborn child, when they know there are people and programs available to help them with a new baby and new circumstances, when they see what dismemberment abortion does to these precious children, the pain and agony that is involved in every chemical abortion, they look for life - preserving solutions that are better for everyone involved.»

Except in the narrowest of circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law.

By refusing to contend with others for it, they enjoy their lot in life to the extent that they believe they have everything Those who moan because of sorrow and pain and untoward circumstances receive divine comfort which more than compensates for anything that distresses them.

The Seduction of the Spirit was an effort to recount, with as much candor as I could muster, what actual life circumstances influenced my theology.

But, you see, he was not a mere thing, a robot helplessly pushed about by circumstance; he was a person with the power of decision, who could choose his own kind of response to any situation, and stand up to life, saying, Come on now, I'll show you!

Nonetheless, the ecclesial communities which emerged in these historical circumstances have the right to exist and to undertake all that is necessary to meet the spiritual needs of their faithful, while seeking to live in peace with their neighbours.

The rest have languished almost entirely unknown, whether because the records of their lives have been lost, because the countries in which they died have been literally inaccessible, or because the governments under which they were persecuted have been less than cooperative with attempts to make known the circumstances of their deaths.

«Taken together with earlier research results, the authors» findings suggest that the improved living circumstances experienced by children born after the legalisation of abortion had a lasting impact on their lifelong prospects.

Prince Buddha, despite the happy circumstances in which his life was set, became oppressed with the evil of the world and its suffering, and early became obsessed with a passion to be freed from this round of birth.

It soon became clear to me that I would have to make do with the situation and come up with some kind of idea as to how to make tomatoes shine under less than ideal life circumstances.

I pray that God would bless you with joy and hope that go beyond the darkness and despair of life's frequently overwhelming circumstances.

GK I'm content with unless Cech is there for the taking which is a special circumstance (world class player, knows the league, lives in london), and I always advocate improvement regardless of the talent we have.

The fact that he has been told that he's not tall or good enough his entire life and he's always risen above circumstance to prove that wrong gives me a lot of faith that he'd be the kind of guy that could come into Buffalo with the right attitude and be wildly successful.

If you go into a family's living room and promise them you'll take care of their son or daughter at said university, and that teenager picks your school (to benefit your program and ultimately your wallet), that comes with a lifetime reciprocal commitment barring some wild extenuating circumstances.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

It would depend on circumstances in my life and what chapter of my life I was at with my family and which club it would be,» said Rooney about his own future and his favourite signing.

I never understood how someone can honestly make a life - long commitment with a partner based on a static set of emotions and set of circumstances at a specific time period in ones life; who you are today and your state of mind won't be the same five, ten, fifteen years from now.

Q: From the results of your study, do you see any value in couples creating a written marital plan with long - and short - term goals clearly addressed with the agreement that they'd revise and tweak as life circumstances may dictate?