Sentences with phrase «directing life toward»

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A calculator or other interactive tool that shows how your product or service will have a direct impact on your buyer's performance or quality of life is another type of content geared toward conversion.

or other interactive tool that shows how your product or service will have a direct impact on your buyer's performance or quality of life is another type of content geared toward conversion.

The behavior was clearly directed toward helping; it was very high risk, threatening life itself; it was accompanied by no external reward, according to the rescued survivors»... testimony; and it was certainly voluntary — no external coercions required it.»

While many Christian writers were directing their messages toward teenagers tempted by pre-marital sex, she spoke empathetically to singles who had already been sexually active, and were wounded by their way of life.

It is one thing to put forward a vision of the limits of this finite life if we believe that our lives are also touched by and directed toward the infinite God.

Indeed, I am inclined to think that Daniels» proposal would be safe only in a society that thought of human life not simply in terms of a normal life span but also as directed toward God.

We desire, as Leon Kass has said, something qualitatively different, «some state... toward which our earthly activities are directed but which can not be attained during earthly life.»

We are not necessarily directed toward damning Marianne for any of this: on the contrary, we admire her freer manner, her joy in living.

«[F] or in such a life my mind would be directed toward a thousand things, not one of which is myself.»

A final step toward Silence, as Scorsese sees it, was directing 2012's documentary on George Harrison, Living in the Material World.

And yet when power is in its place and directed toward appropriate ends, it has the potential for building and sustaining the fabric of life.

The irreligious life is directed toward the goals of satisfaction, acquisition, security, and power.

Every institution of education — the home, the school, the church or temple, the industrial shop or laboratory, the museum or library, the mass media — can be and ought to be an agency of religious instruction, engaged in the one saving work of emancipating persons from bondage to selfish desires and idolatrous attachments and of directing them toward the life of devotion to that in which their being and well - being are grounded.

Instead, the message of Romans is primarily directed toward believers, and specifically, how they can live and function as followers of Jesus who live according to the gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16 - 17).

Your question seems to be directed more toward the initial act of believing in Jesus for eternal life, right?

Technological reason serves us best when it becomes the servant of creative thinking and is directed toward life - fulfilling goals.

The Spirit is the vitality that operates on the frontiers of life directing it and thrusting it toward wholeness and joy.

When neurosis is viewed as the product of the impossible demands made on the individual by an overdeveloped conscience, therapy may be directed not toward helping the patient live up to his or her conscience, but rather toward bringing down the conscience to the level of behavior.

Referred to God, Spirit is that ultimate power and meaning which gives life to creatures and directs them toward fulfillment.

Such a commitment to Jesus amid the claims and counterclaims of a secular society needs to be understood rather than disparaged, and, if possible, directed toward a larger vision of Jesus and his message for the totality of human life.1

Toward the end of the decade a number of other studies, almost all directed to the ecumenically oriented sector of Protestant church life, also portrayed the church as transient institution.

Baptism, of itself, is the beginning, for it is directed toward the acquiring of fullness of life in Christ.

It's tougher in some ways to live well — to find humanly worthy happiness — in our time, when so much human effort is directed toward thinking through the «how» (technology) and so little directed toward thinking about the «who» and the «why» (who we are and what we're supposed to do).

Catholicism in America will be diminished if it does not bring the art of prudence to bear in devising legal approaches to abortion that are compassionate toward pregnant women, protective of unborn life, and directed toward the general welfare.»

The heavenly city's faith is in God; it hopes for eternal life; and its love is directed toward God and others in God.

The goal toward which Alwyn's life moved is embedded in the same social conventions which constrain and direct the lives of many other black Australians — a life of continued violence, hopelessness, and early death.

During the time interval of the ages, while men battle with weapons, their minds are directed toward love, and they exhort the hundred million living things to peaceableness.

Even so, as Augustine would advise, while living on earth we should direct our eyes sometimes toward heaven.

Thomas Merton was himself a man who lived on the edge: the edge of great realization and great compassion, the edge of the future that was also the edge of his own growth — a growth directed toward ever - increasing personal and global apprehension of the depths of God.

Historical study in theology, when theology is directed toward its chief objects, is always more like a conversation with a large company of similarly concerned and experienced men than like the tracing of a life history, whatever values there are in the latter procedure.

The classical view (both Protestant and Catholic) held that theology was «the queen of the sciences,» that all knowledge was directed toward knowing God Theology dealt with ultimate questions and all of life.

Our trust is directed toward God as well — trust that in Jesus has been truly disclosed the truth about human life and the truth about God, so that if we entrust ourselves to God through Jesus God has truly shown us the «way and the truth and the life» (John 14:6), that in Jesus we truly perceive the «pioneer and perfecter of faith» (Heb.

Merton was himself a man who lived on the edge: the edge of great realization and great compassion, the edge of the future that was also the edge of his own growth — a growth directed toward ever - increasing personal and global apprehension of the depths of God.

Part of the suffering of discipleship derives from the fact that our trust and obedience are directed toward a being who, as the Living One, always moves ahead of us.

This is the only kind of worship that transforms lives because it directs us toward the true and living Jesus!

The source of the love that Jesus demands is God's love, revealed in Jesus» message and Jesus» life, in so far as both are signs of the divine Kingdom: God's love directed toward the unworthy — for all are unworthy, the good and the bad.

Determined to start a successful business and help cultivate a better way of life for conventional essential oil farmers in disadvantaged Indian villages, Mudar began the enormous task of organizing these laborers and directing them toward a more profitable agricultural pursuit: growing certified organic plants, which by their very nature command higher prices than their conventionally grown counterparts.

«We need to direct even more effort toward making sure mothers have the support they need in hospitals, workplaces and communities to continue breast - feeding beyond the first few days of life, so they can make it to those six - and 12 - month marks,» says William Dietz, director of CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.

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When a decision has been made to withhold or withdraw life - sustaining treatment after birth, the newborn should receive individualized compassionate care that is directed toward providing warmth, minimizing discomfort, and allowing the family to spend as much time with their newborn as desired.

As state lawmakers huddle with the governor this week to hash out a final spending plan — the final budget is due on Saturday — both the Assembly and Senate proposals include an initial $ 45 million toward a six - year plan to create a living wage for direct care workers.

It allows for some blue - sky discussion about the merits of a life spent in science that benefits the small farmer in Africa or a career directed toward a cure for a disease.

Yet we are dismayed by his disregard for the most basic scientific findings regarding the human embryo, namely, that from the single - cell stage of development onward, the human embryo is a distinct, determinate, self - directing, integrated, human organism — a living member of the human species who, if given a suitable environment, will move along the seamless trajectory of biological development toward maturity.

And likewise, if your career, home life, and the greater political climate are stressing you out, would a more effective use of your daily fitness time slot be directed toward chilling you out?

The poor understanding of the underlying etiologies of irritable bowel syndrome make it very difficult for us to direct the treatment toward it thus we try to treat * the annoying symptoms thus improving * the quality of the patients» life

Her teaching style is directed toward the therapeutic applications of Yoga to the life of the individual.

Just as the doctor prescribes medicines or procedures or life style changes to direct the patient toward health and well - being, so does the yoga teacher / therapist practice and teach postures, breathing practices, life style changes, and meditations to integrate body, breath, heart, mind, and spirit in such a way as to bring well - being and freedom for himself and for those with whom he comes into contact.

The first step toward resolving this problem is to tune in to your breath, since the breath is a way to harness and direct the prana (life force) that's within each of us.

Listening with your heart can sometimes be the direct route toward enabling you to empathize with someone that you might consider different in real life.

Turning his focus and attention toward directing, Robertson makes a good impression with his latest film, «The Dark Horse,» about Genesis Potini (Cliff Curtis), a Maori man and former New Zealand chess champion, who finds purpose teaching underprivileged kids about chess and life.