Sentences with phrase «given purpose which»
We are not giving ourselves a purpose which is why I suspect that we (Miliband) are seeking refuge in abstraction.
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Then they must deploy two supporting characteristics: first, lead to leave a legacy, which holistically supports better relationships through reciprocity; and second, work with a generous purpose, which requires a commitment to collaboration, sharing and giving to grow.
Given the last of its published principles, it will be interesting to see which executive Facebook chooses to send to testify in front of Congress — to explain things like how it failed to protect the privacy of ~ 50M users nor even inform people their data had been siphoned off for illicit purposes.
Although these statutes typically contain no express limit on the size of permissible gifts, courts interpreting the statutes require corporate charitable donations to be reasonable both as to the amount and the purpose for which they are given.
For purposes of determining the vesting of matching contributions, participants will be given credit for their participation in the Officer Deferred Compensation Plan, which was the predecessor deferred compensation plan in effect prior to February 1, 2012.
With some effort — and good online security practices (which we're taking as a given for the purposes of this article, but one quick tip: Enable 2FA everywhere you can)-- you can also make it harder for the web's lurking watchers to dine out on your data.
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
When you read through the Bible chapter for chapter one will get a broader view or the full context about what happened, maybe where it happened why it did happen and for which purpose it happened but: «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:..»
(Ex 3:15) Thus, God gave himself the name Jehovah, for he becomes whatever he needs to be to fully accomplish his purpose, and of which transforming the earth into a paradise is at the «top of the list».
As if I'd give ANY credence to a mouthpiece for a so - called «church» which was LITERALLY founded for the purpose of providing Biblical justification of slavery.
In a passage worth pondering, Whitehead explains that the self - creative contribution of the freedom of each actual entity consists precisely in the subjective emphasis it lays upon the factors which are given it, including its own purposes and subjective aim:
When the Assyrian invasion seemed about to overwhelm the whole kingdom, Isaiah steadied king and people with the assurance that it was God's will to give them a respite during which they might turn to Him, and that for this purpose He would protect Jerusalem from imminent destruction.
It is because there is a reason and purpose for the division of human nature into male and female in God's plan, which gives men and women different and complementary, but equally valuable, roles in the Mystery of Salvation.
Sex itself has a given meaning, a purpose which is natural and fundamental to the human species and which we can deliberately and unnaturally frustrate.
Romans 10:4 «For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given.
Before I gave my life over to Christ for Him to show me all things in myself that were contrary to His purposes (which He is still lovingly working on), I would try to justify that what I was doing was okay because He must of made me this way because I couldn't overcome it.
Wise application of the Word of God to our life situations, our identity and our purpose was the powerhouse that gave 19th Century African - American theologians the foundational truths upon which historic and modern «blackness» was built — theologians like Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Rev. Alexander Crummell, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner to name a few.
We have one purpose toward those who seek us out and grow and maintain our membership, (which is NOT documented anywhere) we pass on for free what has been freely given to us (this is a manifestation of God's Grace!)
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And return not thither but water the earth, Making it bring forth and sprout Giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me empty, But it shall accomplish that which I purpose, And prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
It would seem right to regard as truly «saved» anyone who has been given the grace of a high and noble purpose which draws him out of preoccupation with self into a full creative life which serves the development of community.
This hope, however, lays an obligation also on the authorities of the Catholic Church to be critical of themselves, to respect the conscience of every man which is responsible directly to God, and to avoid anything that may give the impression that the exercise of this ministry may have other purposes than the preservation of the one faith.
There are statements of fact which reflect the transcendent purposes of God, but these are often given figurative, poetic, or ironical expression.
The only indication of his purpose for the visit is given in the verb i s t o r e w, which carries the sense of «visit to inquire of or get information from».
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?
Clearly, the datum self's own purposes are given to it, but this can not contain the «otherness» of which Brightman spoke, nor can it exhaust the positive relationship between God's purposes and the datum self.
That insight had such significance for John Paul that he would return to it fourteen years later in Fides et Ratio, writing that the chief purpose of theology «is seen to be the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death can express a love which gives itself and seeks nothing in return.»
Thus, there are purposes which have being in spite of the fact that they are not given in experience — and since God has a datum self, or a shining present, as well as an illuminating absent (e.g., God's past), then one may assume that there are purposes which are not given to God (ours for example).
The problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicization we're confronting the purpose of which is to give one American political party a strategic governance position while ignoring the reports from US Border agents as to who is coming over the border.
The Bible itself gives the purpose of prophecy, «Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done...» (Isaiah 46:9, 10, NASB).
For arguments sake, i agree, all who say life has purpose only if you give it purpose are saying, what i beliveve is not the same as what you believe, but really, we all have a set of ideas of which we should do but never do them, or if we're thrill seekers do the opposite.
In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days of the Civil War, we find a level of experience which does the seemingly impossible of making us firm in the right, «as God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»
Meanwhile Jesus has from the first been gathering disciples, to whom he imparts fuller instruction about the parabolic teaching which he gives to the multitudes; he tells them that the purpose of this method of teaching is to hide its real meaning from them that are without (4:11 - 12) but that to the disciples is given the mystery of the kingdom of God.
But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.
But its main purpose is to be recognized in the comprehensive and systematic account which it gives of the teaching of Jesus Christ.
That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz
The evangelists are genuinely authors, authors using traditional material but nonetheless authors: they write for a definite purpose, they give their work a distinct and individual structure, they have thematic concerns which they pursue, the characters in the story they each tell function as protagonists in a plot, and so on... If the...
For as rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall be my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Throughout the last two thousand years, Christianity and Judaism have provided the religious ethic which gave meaning and purpose to the attempts to ease...
Our purpose was to encourage New York City to give permanent recognition to its Muslim community by adding two holidays observed by Muslims to the public school calendar: Eid ul - Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting and Eid Ul - Adha, which celebrates the end of the Hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca.
Yall are literate with internet access and wan na tell me a personal caretaker up in the sky cares about you and gave you a «purpose»... which is most of the time to repeat biblical nonsense to anyone and everyone and «spread the word».
Refused to give dying patients appropriate pain medication, consorted with known felons and dictators to get huge donations, never built a state of the art hospital despite raking in millions in unaccounted for funds, which went into the Vatican's general expense account despite being designated specifically for charitable purposes?
Just as a commandment is best fulfilled when a Jew understands why God gave each commandment the way he did, so the Jews» chosenness is best lived for — and died for — when we understand the uniquely divine purpose for which God chose us.
Sandel contrasts this «voluntarist» view with a «cognitive» one, in which «the ends of the self are given in advance... [and] the subject achieves self - command not by choosing that which is already given (this would be unintelligible) but by reflecting on itself and inquiring into its constituent nature, discerning its laws and imperatives, and acknowledging its purposes as its own.»
Thus to pose «conciliarism» as an all - purpose tool with which to fix what ails the Church would be, to Newman, an implausible idea, given the historical record.
You have been given life to grow into the purpose of creation which is the expression of Gods goodness.
For the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the world.
Just as we depend for physical existence on the forces of the natural world, so to find meaning, fulfillment and purpose in life, we depend on the culture which continues to shape us, on what we receive from one another and on what we are able to give back in return.
The Qur» an instituted the fast during the month of Ramadan as training in piety and patience and an opportunity to express thankfulness for divine blessings; the Prophet added the requirement that alms be given at the end of the fast of Ramadan as an act which is an additional means of accomplishing those purposes.
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.
To cite two texts: In a 1929 article, «Birth Control: The Perverted Faculty Argument», Henry Davis says, ``... the contraceptive act between a husband and wife is mortally sinful, chiefly, it would seem because it is a grave abuse of a faculty, a gross perversion of a means — the act of marital intercourse - which is given by Nature, that is, God, to man for the immediate purpose of generation».