Sentences with phrase «future than the present»

Our job here is to make the future than the present, so each step moves us forward.

Not exact matches

A matter of focusing on the present moment rather than reliving the past or worrying about the future, this practice has been shown to reduce stress and improve performance.

Let's break down what an alternative finance provider needs to cover within that 30 to 40 percent factor rate (technically, this is a discount rate, which is present value cash versus future payout, rather than an interest rate), so as to come out ahead.

Thiel's support for anti-aging research is perhaps the most extreme manifestation of his being a «definite optimist» — a person who, as Thiel defines the term in Zero to One, believes «the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better.»

But that's just the way it is: The future is becoming the present more rapidly than ever before.

He mentioned his first mentor, Speros Drelles, investment chief at Pittsburgh National Bank, taught him to focus on the future rather than the present with investments, and also that central bank policy moved markets even more than earnings.

It was, in fact, the ultimate value stock because the discounted present value of the actual, real future cash earnings was far greater than the stock price at the time.

Erik C. Olson, a certified financial planner with Arete Wealth Management said it's much easier to focus on the present than to think about the future.

Although there's not much more than a bunch of pontificating palaver around hyperloop technologies now, the startup companies and their corporate backers do present an compelling vision of the future of transportation.

Because of the time value of money, money in the present is worth more than the same amount in the future.

So, this big loss should present a big opportunity for future growth as this drop will be more than made up for.

The subcomponents show that consumers have stronger reactions to current conditions than to expectations about the future, as indicated by the higher volatility of the present situation index.

Not many ex-Communists in fact posed this question, because to do so would be to undermine the presupposition that binds Marxism with all modern forms of moral calculation; «the utilitarian attention to consequences rather than to actions themselves is liable to lead to a continuous evaluation of the present only as it leads on to some future.»

More people in the world — past present & future — do NOT believe in him or his hocus pocus than DO believe.

Time especially flees from those who live in the past and the future, who can't be in love in the present and trust in others and the Lord more than Mattie ever seems to have done.

Because the anticipation of the future is a part of the present, he continues, «this double aim... is less divided than appears on the surface» (PR 23).

It is my assumption that all of you could describe in far more concrete and realistic ways than I the tension between regulations designed to encourage increased production and those that protect community, present, future, and natural.

Most mainline, liberal religion — of the sort preached from my limestone pulpit — has had as its goal adjustment to and satisfaction with the present order rather than speculation or concern about the future.

In short, the self is freer to envision ideals of a radically different future than it is to escape from its present commitments.

Although future historians will be able to isolate its most distinctive features with more precision and detachment than we can, we have the thrill of passionate engagement with the present as we reshape the church.

What Pannenberg has done, in fact, is stand Augustine on his side: God timelessly embraces our past, present, and future but now is seen to do so ahead of us rather than above us.53

Though standing behind the present shifts of mood in the country, it is of much deeper rootage than the new regime or the debates over this or that policy, and it is of much greater consequence for the longer future.

Reason not only attains the past and the present better than an animal's memory and perception can, but it alone can attain the future by foresight, faith and hope.

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

The reenactment of the Eucharist would reclaim the sorry past, but in mercy rather than vengeance; transform the future without deforming the present; and extend charity outward to the needy, the stranger and the enemy, while it presses judgment and mercy inward to that dark comer where self - pity and malice fester.

In terms of the modalities of past, present, and future, events in the past which are closer to the present are later than those which are more remote, whereas the reverse holds true for future events, i.e., those nearer the present are earlier than those more remote.

Now I can usually imagine my own future more effectively than the present or future state of another, simply because there are more data at the disposal of the imagination in one case than in the other.

Counterforce networks — often made up of faithful individuals in opposition to institutions, systems and oppressive governments — may have much more influence on the future than we can foresee at present.

John Paul II's Theology of the Body lay a long way in the future, and in the meantime, it seemed that nobody could present Humanae Vitae as anything other than negative.

This extensiveness is more primitive than the distinction of space and time, but because actual occasions are necessarily sequential, it applies infinitely to past and future as well as to the present.

The prophets from Amos on are forced to reinterpret the meaning of the present in terms of an immediate future to be charged with tragedy — but a tragedy no less the result of divine action than the great formative event of redemption from Egypt.

The present book, it must be said, is much more history and sociology than theology, and it arrives at the conclusion that Andrew Greeley's model of ethnic tribes is probably the best way of thinking about Catholicism in America, past, present, and future.

The belief that God acted became a part of the conscious, conceptual structure, but the action itself stood outside the sphere of conscious experience and was looked on as past and future rather than present.

Our God - given imagination can provide us with a vision of a possible future that is both much more just and much more sustainable than our present world.

The future may contain more of value than the past or the present, but in any event Whitehead's God lives in terms of adventure.

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

This emphasis upon the present kingdom is a more significant development in contemporary theology than the more widely publicized emphasis upon the hope for a future kingdom beyond history or a sophisticated conception of the «second coming.»

Is it more present than future?

In addition to the argument from the wonders and the apparent intelligence of the world, and from the course of human history, past and future, as he believed it might he calculated, Second Isaiah had one other consideration which is presented with such brevity that there is danger of reading into it perhaps more than he meant.

This enormously transforms his perspective upon the present life, less through hope of future reward or fear of punishment than through a sense of the enhanced worthfulness of the present as preparatory to eternal life in the presence of God.

To learn to address the current issues of the day in light of the past, present and future reality of Christian praxis is to make education a process of doing, rather than merely learning about, theology.

I would suggest, however, that theology needs to be more open to various modes of the future than Dr. Altizer's system allows: both to the impact of the future as presented in a corpus of Christian tradition under the theme of «hope,» and to the future as it presents itself to our secular world.

This translation defines God as that transcendence within which time may be differentiated, rather than as that being whose nature includes — and presumably is exhausted by — time past, time present and time future.

A new substance has recently appeared in the heart of the thinking «magma» — a new element, not yet catalogued but of supreme importance: We might call it Homo progressivus, that is to say, the man to whom the terrestrial future matters more than the present.

Guess following will be of the present Pope... and here we go each has what he wants... Well guess future it will be possible for other than the Vatican Popes to have their go on their own ways... OMG.

23.12; Luke 14.11) which refers to the future, the age to come, rather than the present.

But if they do not recognize the consequences, in both thought and practice, of the present state of their beliefs, we whose bent is philosophical rather than scientific may be forgiven for worrying about what the scientific future holds.

it is possible to assume that everything earlier than the present instant (say, 1.6) lies in its past and everything later lies in its future.

In my case God influences the present from the future rather than from the past.

I find if I am able to love myself past present and future and have compassion for myself rather than beating myself up, then I am in a better place to be loving and have compassion for others.