Sentences with phrase «highest points of their lives»

Those who knew Bonhoeffer found that the development of the spiritual life as he outlined it was not exciting to begin with, but as time passed they reassessed their views and came to regard their six - month stay in the Finkenwalde experiment as a high point of their lives.

... I now add that this communion is already perfect in what we all consider the highest point of the life of grace, martyria unto death, the truest communion possible with Christ.»

I will be there when you reach the lowest point of your life, and the highest point of your life.

At most, you learn the highest points of their lives.

People often remark that the high point of their life has been the birth of their child.

Not exact matches

The percentage of Americans living in poverty has fallen for the second year in a row, but is still slightly higher than in 2007 and still 1.4 percentage points higher than in 2000.

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Defenders of high educator salaries always note that they're necessary given the high cost of living in the area, and it's a valid point.

But critics point to the high numbers of one - and - done players — who declare at the earliest opportunity under the rule — as evidence that the rule is not working as intended to prepare young athletes for life as an NBA player.

But with monthlong high - tech - product life cycles, just - in - time manufacturing operations, and overnight global currency crashes, the business world might just be coming around to the marines» point of view.

1/5 Late last night I read Talia's medium contribution and want to acknowledge her point that the cost of living in SF is far too high.

The WBEZ audio series initially focused on the 1999 murder of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee and its popularity grew to the point that fans began flocking to real - life locations that had been mentioned on the show and were connected to the alleged timeline around the murder trial that was the podcast's focus.

Until you get to this point of what you desire becoming a foundational pillar in your life, you will never reach the highest levels of success.

I am currently thinking of ways to increase my savings a couple of percentage points, but that proves to be a challenge as living expenses in Switzerland are notoriously high.

But the general point is that high terms of trade, all other things equal, will raise living standards, while low terms of trade will reduce them.»

Of the major reasons for increased spending, 32 per cent of respondents pointed to higher living expenses while 25 per cent mentioned unexpected expenseOf the major reasons for increased spending, 32 per cent of respondents pointed to higher living expenses while 25 per cent mentioned unexpected expenseof respondents pointed to higher living expenses while 25 per cent mentioned unexpected expenses.

With greater life expectancy, more retirement - aged individuals are remaining in the workforce, resulting in a higher share of older people in the workforce than at any point since before the creation of Medicare, reported Bloomberg, with 19 % of Americans over 65 working at least part - time in 2017.

In WILTW May 26, 2016, we pointed out that more Americans in the 18 to 34 - year old age group were more likely to be living with their parents (32.1 %), the highest percentage since the 1930s, as opposed to living with their spouse or partner in a separate household (31.6 %)-- the unfortunate result of too little high - wage job creation and too much student loan debt.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

They point beyond the familiar and prosaic to a higher and more noble vision of the Christian life.

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

If one has built a career, a home and family in a given community, the real world cost of outwardly contradicting the behavioural patterns of that community is too high for those unwilling to abandon not just the supernatural tenets and reliigious rites, but everything they've built in their lives up to that point.

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

As he bobbed up and down on the waves was he reminded of the low points in his life, and how quickly they came, even though he'd experienced so many highs?

For it endues us with super-vitality; and therefore introduces into our spiritual life a higher principle of unity, the specific effect of which can be seen — according to one's point of view — as either to make human endeavour holy or to make the Christian life fully human.

According to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, «The game points beyond itself: downward, to the simple, ordinary rhythm of life; upward, to the highest forms of existence.

I'm slowly getting there, but my husband has high blood pressure... Point is there are all kinds of deprivations in life.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

With this prayer, Augustine points to the summum bonum of both this world and the next: not the only good, but the highest, the one that gives life to all the rest.

The unity movement, a vocally accepted way of life in the 1950s, reached its high point in the early 1960s, at a time when society had a sense of working together.

Yet much can be done in the way of making clear the understanding of man's spiritual nature, his high destiny which points beyond this life for its fulfillment, the meaning of the Kingdom for this life and the next, the Christian concepts of judgment and salvation with eternity in their span — in short, the goodness and power of a God who, having given us this life, can give us another in which to attain to his nearer presence, enjoy a richer happiness, and do his will more perfectly.

Bonhoeffer speaks of different types: Aristotelian (man becomes a person by partaking of reason); Stoic («a man becomes a person by submitting to a higher obligation»); 4 Epicurean (man's life is heightened by pleasure, though it has a «defective concept of spirit»); 5 and the idealist tradition flowing from Immanuel Kant (the perceiving person is the starting point for philosophy).

While at their highest point such activities, particularly conceptualising, are immaterial and so are not ultimately dependent upon the body, Aquinas held that in this life the whole gamut of rational activity needs various interior sense powers that come with the body.

To a supernatural conception of the Buddha there must also correspond a supernatural conception of the discovery that marked the high point in his life.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

It would probably still violate his sensitivity with regard to his third defining point of fundamentalism by claiming — as have all reforming movements with a vision for the renewal of the church — to have some insight into a «higher Christian life» than that grasped by many church members.

The high point of people's lives seems to be crossing something off of their to - do list.

But more to the present point, it is by sacrifice — by the voluntary loss of some good out of devotion to a greater good, that the highest possibilities in human life are realized.

The tightening network of economic and psychic bonds in which we live and from which we suffer, the growing compulsion to act, to produce, to think collectively which so disquiets us — what do they become, seen in this way, except the first portents of the super-organism which, woven of the threads of individual men, is preparing (theory and fact are at one on this point) not to mechanize and submerge us, but to raise us, by way of increasing complexity, to a higher awareness of our own personality?

If Mankind were destined to achieve its apotheosis, if Evolution were to reach its highest point, in our small, separate lives, then indeed the enormous travail of terrestrial organization into which we are born would be no more than a tragic irrelevance.

With respect to the latter point, it is true that St. Ignatius conceives the intellectual life as being subordinated to the higher end of saving souls.

This dynamic is true and fruitful even if other factors prevent the specific high point of fruitfulness which is the conception of a new eternal life.

In that way prehension comprises that highest form of natural process ascribed by Aristotle to living beings and which Scholasticism conceived as motus sui, as actualization of itself through itself.15 Whitehead matches Aristotle in so many main points not least because both are mainly concerned with living beings and their self - development.

Add, then, this advantage to the transmission - theory, — an advantage which I am well aware that some of you will not rate very high, — and also add the advantage of not conflicting with a life hereafter, and I hope you will agree with me that it has many points of superiority to the more familiar theory.

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

I was simlpy making the point that in the natural world all things tend toward decay or disorder, and that any order (ie the resence of intelligent life), is a strong evidence for the existance of God (Higher intelligence).

Science has revealed God's plan of control and direction in the very fact of the laws of nature; in the unity of these laws which thus point to the oneness of God; in the developmental power of the laws which bring about all the rich diversity of the universe from stars and galaxies to complex life; and in the openness of these laws to higher synthesis and higher development within the spiritual order.

In fact Compte (one of the founders of positivism) believed that the highest elevation of human civilazation is the point where people work together and merely through cmulative observed knowdeldge, free of any external forces, lay out the logical and proper way to live.