Sentences with phrase «hard way to live»

This is a very hard way to live.

Over against the wide gate and easy way to destruction, followed by many, Jesus points to the narrow gate and hard way to life, which few find.

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But that's not the best way to look at hard choices, argues philosopher Ruth Chang in a thought - provoking recent TED talk in which she offers a liberating new framework for making life's toughest calls.

While Millennials in many ways appear to be leading the charge, all generations are embracing the idea that spending hard - earned income on living is more important than having.

I learned this the hard way when I tried to rattle off some pull ups after years of sedentary living and quickly tore a muscle in my shoulder.

Forbes» Garrett Gunderson attests that this sturdy principle changed his life: «In hard times, when every extra penny went to sustaining my business, I still found a way to stick 15 percent of my income into our personal savings account every single month.

In my attempt to find solutions and coping strategies to help me raise my son, who suffers from a severe mental illness, and in dealing with a lot of setbacks along the way, I've discovered a formula for overcoming life's inevitable hard knocks: Courage plus resilience equals triumph.

If you can find a way to delay gratification a bit, you'll not only be able to keep your days filled with hard work, but you'll also be able to truly enjoy the small pleasures in life, a little at a time.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

All of which may sound a bit touchy feely to the more hard - nosed entrepreneurs, but le Menestrel insists contemplating your overall dreams for your life is of real practical benefit to business people in three key ways.

Everyone who works hard wants to be self - sufficient, but until companies pay a living wage «your tax dollars are subsidizing McDonald's (mcd), Wal - Mart (wmt), and Macy's (m),» Crawford told me, adding that she hopes to bring about improvements not only for herself but for those she has met along the way.

It's too bad Bieber had to learn the hard way just how unfair life can be.

«By working with the hardest hit in our communities and providing them with career paths and living wages, we can help ensure that people can afford to stay in our communities as they improve and that is one way that we can create lasting generational change,» Bernier - Green said.

They do not trust that hard work will get them where they want to be, or believe that the best way through life is to graduate, get a career, marry, buy a car and house, and have kids, although they know a few people who have done this.

Music: Not Impossible started with the premise of providing a better live music concert experience for the deaf and hard of hearing, however, now has advanced into a platform for those individuals to perform in ways they never thought they would before.

Our unconscious minds impact performance and the manifestation of success in many ways, including whether we think we're capable of achieving our goals, to how much support we believe we'll get, to even how hard we'll have to work to create the life we dream of.

When looked at in this way, the advantages of automated trading systems are obvious, particularly in the modern world, where it is hard to find time for all of life's commitments.

I look forward to hanging up my 9 - 5 job someday (but who am I kidding, the hours are usually way longer than that) and living on retirement funds I've worked so hard to create.

Each destination is desirable in its own way, but they all offer something increasingly hard to come by at home: A good quality of life for a reasonable price.

If you grow into adulthood unable to acknowledge your mistakes - in life, as well as investing - you will learn your lessons the hard way.

I had a hard time loving because of pain and hurt in my life... from none other than my family... but I asked God to allow me to see them through his eyes... that helped me pick up the pieces... hand them to Jesus and allow him to lead me and guide my way to him... that is the only hope of life we have.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

God is very real, but until you encounter Him in a way that changes your life and the lives of the people you come into contact with, it's hard to see that.

But while it is hard to imagine theologians writing scientific papers that use the Bible's cosmology or creation account in a literal way, as though Copernicus or Darwin never lived, theologians and clergy abound who accept the Bible's communitarian social framework as normative for political - economic analysis today.

These are hard and holy things for the the brave can rise to, but choosing to be Response - Able, is the only way to be able to live the life we long for.

It's hard to associate with your «old» friends because they are still living the way they are before he became a Christian.

When a culture puts more of it's faith in God (Christian God) they are much more honest hard working people who do not rely on their government to pave their way through life.

Some desires are harder to overcome than others, especially if we believe the lies of the enemy that they are okay and we were born that way and it is our nature and we must live with it.

She is a gifted Bible teacher and she kept putting it off and putting it off because it was hard to figure out a way to make it work in her season of life as a mother to young children and a full - time job.

«At first the physical discomfort of sitting cross-legged on the floor, sleeping on a hard board and readapting to an Indian way of life made concentration difficult.

Why we can not learn by being told and while we live under their rule is a long question; but, for most of us, we must separate ourselves from our parents in order to learn the hard way, before we can, in returning, step up to take their place.

Have you ever tried your hardest to live your life for God, but when you look around, it seems like nothing is going your way?

It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of way.

For others, it's a nagging thought — as you work out your faith on your own, you keep coming back to this Jesus, and you can't make sense of him all the way, but you also can't accept everything he says because it seems somehow too hard to live that way, or too complex, or too simple, or merely out of your grid of experience.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Amando i do nt get the battle you either trust God to save you and live your life for him or wallow in self pity and despair.Do you want to be saved or just talk about it.Trust God and he will save you but give up your old lifestyle tell God you blew it and that it is hard for you to live a christian life you need his help.The holy spirit is the one who is our helper insteaqd of choosing sin we choose to walk in the spirit.You need to surrender your life to him because you are making a mess of your life living your way be sincere.If you are not serious about this discision walk away and live your life for yourself theres is no other options.You need to decide but choose to follow the Lord with all your heart that is the right decison you cant have both.

But it seems to be harder and harder for many to even realize that other ways (in science and life) may be possible.

But this is the narrow road which we are called to go down; and while the way is «hard it leads to life, and those who find it are few.»

and also if i have and your answer is yes then if there is a way to get the holy spirit back then please tell me and also please pray for me for a few days and i also want to know that really is the unforgivable sin unforgivable and really i swear on my mother that i don't want to go to hell forever and i am very scared of it please help me urgent and also i am sending a friend request to you on facebook and please accept it so that we can talk on this matter together and also i think you will like my page and i couldn't sleep properly because of this and in my half sleep in my dreams i was just visiting your website and finding my comment missing and i as pleasing god and the holy spirit but as i was receiving my spirit again and again as i mentioned this in my previous comment i was abusing in my mind i couldn't stop abusing and i have a very good mother she tried to wake me but i told her not to do and it was happening same things again and again and i told my mother again the half truth because i don't want to break her heart and she told me that there is nothing like ghosts and they are making me fools (you all) and i am telling you honestly before this i irritate my mother a lot i just watch tv and surf the internet or play games in my pc and i eat and brush late and also don't listen to my parents but after i saw your website i became obedient for a few days and again the same i am disobedient your webpage or article ruined my life but this is not your fault and now days i am buy searching about this topic and my father (Vivek Saraf) broke his hands on the 6th May while riding at a very high speed he normally don't go at a very high speed but he had a very important work so whole he was riding a dog was running on the way and to save his life he gave a very hard brake and he with his nebiour fall down and got injuries in his legs and broke his hands and at first he walked with difficulty and then the local people helped him on his way and took him to the local hospital but the doctor told that we need to go to Kollkata (the capital of west bengal, India) and so he went with his loyal staff because he is a business man and in the hospital he got cured but he still have the fracture in his hands so i request you to pray for him and his negibour also and i will tell you the rest in facebook bye and sorry for spelling mistakes in my previous comments.

One of the things I try very hard to do is to teach Scripture and theology in a way that makes sense to people and is easily applicable to their life and situations.

At moments Sweeney seems to be trying too hard to be gentle with his heritage, but he offers a memorable look at the way fundamentalism — for good and for ill — shapes a life long after its tenets have been left behind.

The problem, of course, is that it is hard for one person to live in ways that are not touched and shaped by the larger patterns of her culture, and ours is still a culture unfriendly to modesty.

It is hard to market Christianity to post-moderns when its founder made comments like: «I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.»

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

His Way can seem narrow and hard, yet his «yoke», the burden of commitment to him, is light and easy when accepted and lived with the love he elicits.

Readers of Al - Jumuah deal pretty ordinarily with the ordinary vexations of family life in America: How to stay connected with your kids, how to raise good kids who know the value of study and hard work, how to improve a marriage, all these from a Muslim perspective are explored, more or less in the same way they are examined in a Christian family magazine.

Whenever the government gets too involved, it gets in the way of a lot of these things, making it harder to live out Jesus» calling.

We know the lies we tell to others; the lies we tell to ourselves are a bit harder to discern; but the only way really to grasp the lies we don't even know we are living is to get outside our own cultural setting.

They seem to be an integral part of the American «way of life» — a vague phrase, but one which does signify something to the feelings of Americans even if hard to analyze in terms and propositions.

For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few» (Matthew 7:13 - 14).