Sentences with phrase «even life purpose»

It's also not your personal mission statement, career objectives or even life purpose.

Not exact matches

And research shows not having a purpose affects not just the quality of your life — but perhaps even the length of it.

Even if you don't get paid, if you have a purpose, then you can address any challenge in life.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

(Ecclesiastes 12:13) That purpose includes the promise of life in a world free of chaos, conflict, and corruption — and even free of death.

Our prayers may not get answered when we want them answered or even 0how we want them answered, but they will be answered according to His purpose for our lives if we trust in Him.

If you don't think it does, then you are either a sociopath, apathetic to any pain or pleasure you create in the world, or you are not consistent in your beliefs and live your life deceiving yourself into believing that life is worth living even though it does not have a purpose.

Li Quan had a purpose to fulfill in life, but the circumstances of life did not allow him to even begin fulfilling his dreams and desires.

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.

A greater integration of faith and life will help us increase in integrity and purpose, and will help avoid the scandals, where even Christians, who by trying to compartmentalise their faith from their work, can become involved in fraud or the exploitation of workers.

We are beginning to see that the vast purpose of God can never be confined to individual salvation or to the welfare of any particular race or nation, or even to the necessarily restricted physical life of human beings on this planet.

Evangelicals think about it even more: 64 percent of evangelicals and 72 percent of historically black Protestants said they thought about the purpose of life weekly or more.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Great as is the significance of the emergence of self - conscious persons within the very fabric of the universe for any reflection on its possible meaning and purpose, this must not lead us to underplay the significance also of the rest of the universe and of all other living organisms to God as Creator — even though we are able to depict only in imagination the kind of delight that God may be conceived to have in the fecund multiplicity and variety or created forms.

In A Hobbit Journey, the reader has to plough through 17 pages of a rather diffuse introduction before Dickerson explicitly states the purpose of his book, and even then it is somewhat vague: it will explore the question «What can we learn from hobbits and from their vision of the Good Life, and how does that apply to our own present situation?»

Asking anyone... even Hawking to understand how the universe truly works, how it was truly created and how are lives are created and the purpose behind it is like asking a two year old to fly an F - 18.

We can know that whether we are right or wrong, whether we are living with pure motives or impure, God is at work through even our most imperfect decisions and actions to fulfill his perfect purposes.

His purpose — as even, the somewhat fragmentary Asian Journal makes clear — was to enhance the contemplative life of his own tradition.

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.

It seemed like she was finally seeing a meaningful purpose for herself and might even be able to make up to some degree for the way she had been living the last few years.

It is the purpose of this chapter to discuss the interpretations gleaned from the writings of the old schools of Muslims — mystics and rationalists, including both the theologians and the philosophers — who are not usually regarded by the orthodox school as strict Muslims, but whose influence on Muslim thought and practical religious life is felt even today.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

It serves no purpose and is probably not even posted by a living person.

Even though the individual life may be cherished by God forever, its purposes by itself are ridiculously puny.

I was more confused about marriage, about my purpose in life, about whether or not God even led me to where I am today than ever before.

But in none of these writings is there any sustained attempt to give an eschatological interpretation to the facts of the ministry of Jesus apart from His passion, death, and resurrection, even though all three writers are aware that His death was the final expression of a character and a moral purpose which displayed itself in His whole incarnate life.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

I wouldn't even consider that now, of course, (as it would be an unintended mockery) but I still think Biblical literacy is good for literary purposes in general and critical for anyone who claims to base their lives on the book.

I have written on this text before by saying it is impossible to live perfect lives, but for our purposes here, note that Jesus does not say that we will ever be perfect just as God is perfect, nor does Jesus even say that God Himself is perfect.

The evangelist implements this purpose by drawing attention to the ambiguity, the offence, the hiddenness, which characterized the revelation even in Jesus» life, as if to say: Today it is the same.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

We are still all humans, still all brothers and sisters, even if our views on creation, the universe, human purpose, and life after death disagree.

ago, before God got a hold of me, I was dead to the world and the world was dead to me, void of all emotions and life: It does not matter what we look for, what matters is that God has a purpose for those who are His and as we are obedient to Him, then we can see as even Martin sees, all is of God then:

Non-Muslims don't deserve to live, but even Muslims» lives exist for only ONE purpose: to serve Allah's goal of global overlordship in order to earn paradise.

I find it difficult to understand those philosophers who hold that the individual's life can have meaning even if the universe as a whole is void of purpose.

Even though one finds his life by losing it, by letting go of his present self, and even though one can not realize his greater fulfilment by attempting to control the process of creative mutuality for his own purposes or by concentrating his attention upon his forthcoming reward, surely the vision of perfect love of man can not be conceived normatively in terms of extinctEven though one finds his life by losing it, by letting go of his present self, and even though one can not realize his greater fulfilment by attempting to control the process of creative mutuality for his own purposes or by concentrating his attention upon his forthcoming reward, surely the vision of perfect love of man can not be conceived normatively in terms of extincteven though one can not realize his greater fulfilment by attempting to control the process of creative mutuality for his own purposes or by concentrating his attention upon his forthcoming reward, surely the vision of perfect love of man can not be conceived normatively in terms of extinction.

The RE syllabus is too often dictated by the needs of public examinations, but even within this some fine work could be done, and the Faith communicated for what it is: essential knowledge, rich and deep, that opens wide the whole of life's meaning and purpose and sets it in the context of centuries of God's revelation and 2,000 years of Church history that is thrilling to discover.

Note also in the reading that this is the word, it is what God said to Moses; that the quality of divine compassion and mercy and grace here comes through as it has not previously in Exodus; that this is a recital of faith in the nature and purpose of God (see the emphasis upon the divine «I,» even more pronounced in Hebrew, and compare the same feature in Joshua 24); and that all of this is an expansion of the single, simple, eloquent theme which opens and closes the recital: «I am the LORD,» conveying in the very name all the essential meaning of the divine Life.

They approached the holy life in the way they did not only for the purposes of escaping the entrapments of this world, but even more so because «such denials... afforded very tangible real «life benefits.

In many radiant lives known to him who even now are bearing what Paul called the fruits of the Spirit, in thousands of whom he has read who across the centuries have displayed those fruits, and in the many millions who, passing, have left behind them no written records but presumably have also been characterized by these fruits, the historian sees the beginnings of the fulfillment of that purpose.

Indeed, even on an institutionalized scale, there are incipient encounters where the specified purpose is the needed but difficult matter of the groups» simply learning how they may live together in mutual respect and collaboration.36

It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.

The previous chapter ended with the affirmation that we can have assurance and hope without precise knowledge of the nature of the final consummation of God's purposes in the coming of the kingdom, even as we can have a similar assurance of the individual's life beyond death.

[5] He takes «soul», psuche, to signify whatever it may be that distinguishes a living thing from something non-living or inanimate (our word «inanimate» in fact means «soul-less») and enables it to see and hear, to move or stay motionless on purpose, even to perform such biological functions as digestion and reproduction.

When it was revealed that rehabilitation efforts were also stopped with the decision to end the tube feedings and that even antibiotics were now considered «life support,» an editorial in the St. Louis Review (the archdiocesan newspaper) pointed out that «In a situation where the health of the patient depends not only upon food and water, but on other forms of care and treatment, the purpose of providing food and water should not be undermined by a neglect of the other forms of care.

Whoever wrote the exhibit seemed to think that the main purpose of exploring space was to find life, even if all we find is a germ deep beneath the ice of one of Jupiter's moons.

Further, the distribution of the peoples of the earth is represented as being in accord with divine purposes; even if not ethically determined, at least it was an expression of that impulse which the writers believed to be the ultimate authority in human life.

«Just as the entire life and passion of Christ was directed primarily and comprehensively to the glorification of God, and as even the salvation of man is subordinated to this goal, likewise in the liturgy the soteriological purpose of the rite (santificatio hominis) is totally subordinated to its latreutical purpose (cultus divinus)... The two inseparable objectives of the liturgy, sanctification and homage, do not simply run side by side, but have an ordered relationship to one another; the act of grace is subordinate to the rite (David Berger, Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy, 2004, pp.73 - 4, 87).»