Sentences with phrase «giving people some hope of»

Not exact matches

She is also one of the most giving, passionate, and friendly people you could ever hope to meet.

Seeing fellow entrepreneurs throw themselves wholeheartedly into such good causes gives me hope that people's attitudes about the social responsibilities of business really are changing.

But the company is hoping to give those investors a boost through a sort of mathematical illusion: A recent study of Acorn's customers found that people were much more likely to agree to set aside $ 5 per day than $ 150 per month, even though they'd end up contributing the same amount either way.

Given what is happening in the last few days, let's hope not a lot of people are paying too much attention.

«We're investing in the middle of the conflict because we believe it gives people not just hope, but it gives them more reason to say, «We want this conflict to end.»

While the GDPR will only directly impact Europeans and those who do business with them, given the scale of the market — about 508 million people live in the European Union — there is hope that it will force companies to emphasize privacy for all of their customers» data, worldwide.

Governor Haruhiko Kuroda tried to counter the view that the BOJ was running out of options, while dismissing the idea of «helicopter money» - where people are given cash handouts in the hope they will spend it.

It give the people of that religion a sense of participation in hoping for their wishes to come true.

«This decision shows one thing: Our desperate need for the next Great Awakening and the hope of the Gospel given to all persons.

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.»

God still revealed his Word through holy souls, raising up the his chosen People to give the world hope of healing and salvation.

She has learned to lie as a survival mechanism, to give hope in the face of despair just to make people «better.»

As politics is governed more and more by the wealthy, masses of people have given up hope in democratic policies and do not even vote.

They reached the hearts of the people who heard Lincoln speak, they, gave shape to the hopes and actions of the black community and the «fellow citizens» in King's time, and they still have some effect today.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

It is because their clergy really had been given an apparently well - founded hope that they would be able to «cross the Tiber» with their people (possibly under provisions made by Pope John Paul for the reception of whole Anglican parishes in America): and because of the sense of massive betrayal they felt when some of our bishops confronted Cardinal Hume, who had originally been inclined to respond positively, and forced him to back down.

I would give people hope that their church could die with dignity in a way that advanced the cause of Christ.

In fact, however, the Christians as the pilgrim people of God have been given the absolute command to hope, and this includes that they must always abandon also fossilized social structures.

The substance of faith, precisely, is the eschatological hope that eventually the rhythm of darkness and light will give way to an eternal day, when God will be his people's light (Is.

It is hoped that the socialist society, as visualized by Marx, gives people more social justice and security, more human dignity, more free time, better standards of living etc..

But I found myself now in a place were I found the Jesus that I always preached to other people for about 15 years including 8 1/2 years in as a missionary in a Third World Country with my wife and three children (two of them born overseas), the Jesus that speaks to you, the Jesus that wants to make you happy and give you hope, the Jesus that saved me and I knew but not to this level of intimacy.

The Jeffersonian hope for America was a society where the freedom of each person and family was reinforced by their possessing and working a small plot of land, giving them at least partial independence from the larger economic system.

One person commented, «I have come to realize that the meaning of the resurrection, in all of its hope, comes only by giving voice to the brokenness.»

After the president's alleged intervention, the platform was changed to include this sentence: «We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God - given potential.»

Whether it be a shrine, or as simple a thing as the clock found in the rubble of a town that stopped at 3:20, the moment the tsunami crushed the hopes and dreams of a great many people, each is a symbol given to us as a method of rememberance of something most of us will never endure.

For hermeneutics lives or dies by its ability to take history and language seriously, to give the other (whether person, event or text) our attention as other, not as a projection of our present fears, hopes and desires.

«They come here thinking they're going to give something to us, but many discover that instead they receive, from people who have almost nothing, a new experience of hope, faith and love,» says Dámaris Albuquerque, executive director of the Nicaraguan Council of Churches.

Now the shrine stands to give the People of Otsuchi hope to rebuild.

Peoples can and need to struggle together, inspired by their religions and moral ideals to safeguard themselves and the world from such dangers and improve their quality of life according to the genuine values that can give hope and happiness to all.

The Israelite who did not joyfully rest from his work on that day was one who put his hope in his own work rather than in God's election.22 According to de Quervain,»... when our minds are illumined by faith, we see the Sabbath in Israel as grounded not in a sociological event, but in a theological one, the deliverance of God's people from bondage into the rest which he gave them as a token of the final rest.

Mark from Middle River Some people find that the swastika gives them a sense of «hope» too, but we've put a limit on that one being displayed in public.

And while we would hope and expect that people who have eternal life will live lives of increasing holiness and obedience, the fact that God has given us freedom means that a life of good works is not guaranteed.

In my own ministry I have talked with a number of thoughtful people — mainly young people — who accept belief in God as giving meaning and joy and hope to this life but reject, or are at best highly doubtful about, any concept of personal resurrection or immortality.

It takes a lot of courage for me to speak out like this and if all this does is give hope to one person so they man or woman would be enabeld to got help for healing and / or someone who is mistreating think twice about what they are doing then I will have provided a service.

«I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security... More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: «Give them something to eat.»&ragive us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: «Give them something to eat.»&raGive them something to eat.»»

I feed people, I clean, I walk, I gather people, I sing, and the whole time a corner of my soul is crying out to God in braided grief and hope and longing: strengthen us, embolden us, light our hearts on fire, show us we belong to each other, break down the barriers between us, give us eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to understand.

People want to talk about how I've managed to hold onto my faith or what gives me hope as part of the global church.

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

I do respect the way you think, the proof that I can give you is that when you die you will go to hell, it is not an option, because you don't believe in my God, hope you have a good time there with your own palI, I know that you kind of people will love to find out for yourselves that what it was said all along was the true

I felt that she of all people deserved the chance to take advantage of my undivided attention, something I hope to give more willingly even after this experiment is over.

That also gives a great sense of the responsibility, as people do look to their bishop to be a source of hope.

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

After Jesus rejected the offers of Satan, Jesus announced that His mission was to find the people in chains and set them free, to seek out those who were living in darkness and bring them to light, to discover the prisons where captives were held and break their bonds, and to come to those who were broken and enslaved by the enemy and give them healing, hope, and freedom (Luke 4:18 - 19).

I must admit, the amount of atheists on this forum really do give me some hope that people are starting to get the hang of things in the world.

I love to do treasure hunts by asking the Lord to highlight someone for me to be on the lookout for that day, such as a description of clothing, or a name and then I ask God to give me a word of knowledge about that person (such as Jesus «example with the woman at the well), and then as the conversation opens up, I can share the hope to which I «ve been called.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

In the face of this horrible oppression, Jesus holds out a message of hope to his people Israel: God will liberate Israel from oppression, placing the vineyard into the hands of tenants who know how to care for it lovingly, and who will enable it to fulfill its mission; only non-Jews who are willing to protect Israel and encourage it to bear fruit will be given control over it.

In one of the most important passages in the Education of Cyrus, Cambyses (Cyrus's father) gives Cyrus the following advice: «If someone deceives often, instilling the expectation of good things, such a person ends up not being able to persuade even when he speaks of true sources of hope... One must, as much as possible preserve trust in one's own encouragement in the face of the greatest risks.»