Sentences with phrase «in matter of life and death»

Doctors are among the society members who help others in matter of life and death, as police officers and firefighters do.

No one can be forced to donate a kidney, even in a matter of life and death, yet you think that somehow women be forced to remain pregnant against their will?

6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.

«Mad scientist» narratives can also show us the dangers of giving in to self - idolatry and attempting to supplant God in matters of life and death, creation and destruction.

Bearing in mind that we are speaking not of isolated statutes, but of authoritative renderings of the fundamental law, such laws would be laws (1) that deny protection to the weak and the vulnerable, especially in matters of life and death, and (2) that systematically remove the legal and political ability of the people to redress the situation.

How might Christians begin to rethink what it means to be the body of Christ in matters of life and death?

• In matters of life and death, such as the effectiveness of screening for cancer, women are more responsive to negative presentation (how many people will die) as opposed to positive (how many will survive).

Not exact matches

Pinkerton urges us in no uncertain terms that «building your village — building it and sustaining it — is a matter of life and death.»

In doing so, the court failed to address a recurring question, one that's often a matter of life and death for police officers and the public.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooLife Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooLife and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die soolife were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

One of the few instances in which I have ever seen logic and rationality overpower the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is in instances in which life or death matters immediately dominate the discussion.

But in contrast to the internet giants, who could weather this additional burden, for smaller retailers it could be a matter of life and death.

I said to her «Mom you can go if you need to» and she just slipped away... she had Alzeheimer but the last two weeks of her life she was very lucid and talked of my father (they had been married 59 years but she had spoken of him in the last four years after his death... family, bio, adopted, inherited... no matter what we all strive to get to them when we leave this earth.

In decisions from Roe through Casey, the Court has precisely left matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.

Apparently you just ignored the whole point that there is a difference between the concepts of «immortality», where everyone will be resurrected and become immortal no matter who you are since physical death came abut through Adam and the fall, and «eternal life», which is living with God or in other words it deals with the quality of that immortal life.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

Dealing with the death of a loved one really puts things in perspective and makes you realize the love of family and and friends is all that really matters in this life.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

At the very least, in the matter of life versus death, the compelling evidence [in videos] of responsiveness to commands and of puberty warrants giving life the benefit of the doubt.

To my mind, it accords better with what we know about the laws impressed upon matter by the Creator that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual... There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one...»

Um nope let me believe there is life after death it is much easier for me to get up in the morning and not commit mass murder because it doesn't matter we are all going to die anyhow and no one is going to punish me once I'm dead anyhow might as well take a bunch of you with me.

Because, Lord, by every innate impulse and through all the hazards of my life I have been driven ceaselessly to search for you and to set you in the heart of the universe of matter, I shall have the joy, when death comes, of closing my eyes amidst the splendour of a universal transparency aglow with fire...

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

Thus, Wieman was convinced that in the matter of the empirical nature of this creative process, «We are discussing, not logical inconsistency, but life and death» (SHG 31),

For babies and young children selfishness in that context can be a matter of life and death.

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

However what does your life matter to you after you are dead if your soul (assuming the soul is mortal and simply vanishes with a death of physical body) is no longer in existence.

Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spilife according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of SpiLife, Truth and Love, of Spirit.

The care of souls was a matter of personal admonition and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend in penitence and confidence the forgiveness of sin, the great love of God extended toward them, so that in life and death, in sin and sorrow, they knew they were in the hands of a holy, loving God.

As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.

It is a matter of life and death to our civilization that we recover what it means to possess freedom in community.

Religious believers are dismayed by evolution theories because, by locating the origin of all things in the brute indifference of matter, these theories seem to destroy the eschatological hope for that perfection and perpetuity of life beyond the grave in which we are reunited with loved ones and freed from the curses of sin and death.

When I'm listening to something that is Word, it is a matter of life and death and I take it all in like a hearty meal saving me from the brink of disaster.

Suddenly, not only are you coping with that tragedy, but you find yourself in a dispute with doctors or other family members over your loved one's care, a literal matter of life and death.

Every organism, in its activity, its potential, its joy - seeking and its limitations, its life and death - indeed every thinkable system or sub-unit of matter, every «thing» - is defined and administered from that vast, dynamic Unity.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

In thanks to God it goes: «Your hands made from clay a more excellent likeness, which a holy fire quickened within, and a lively soul brought to life throughout its idle parts... You snatched us from perpetual death and the last darkness of hell, and gave mortal matter, put together from the liquid mud, to your Son and to eternity.»

On one page, Gordis lauds Begin's father for telling his daughter to write on the Sabbath because getting an education, in his opinion, was a matter of life and death and justified violating the sanctity of the day.

In a part of the world where religious and political identities are matters of life or death, the world of the gospel, so familiar and yet so distant, has never seemed more immediate.

In Milton's day, suppression of truth was a matter of life and death.

When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to gossip and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable of forgiving to the point of death, to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.

Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in our culture, because it is, quite literally, a matter of life and death.

I gave a talk some years ago in which I mentioned that the Christian faith was a matter of life and death.

Now I live with death, not with horrible loathing, but using it as a criterion to determine what is important in my life; as a stimulus to cheerfulness, for through it I shall recover those I love; and as a way of giving meaning to my work, since my efforts, no matter how minor and unimportant, may serve God's final goal [John Knox, 1974, p. 63].

The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».

As for number 3, it is ethically suspect to exaggerate the benefits of breastfeeding, pretend that that breastfeeding is a matter of life and death in the US, mislead women on the state of the scientific evidence and above all, to shame and scare women about formula feeding.

And although it's not the same matter of life and death in the United States, women who choose to breastfeed know how challenging successfully nursing after birth can And although it's not the same matter of life and death in the United States, women who choose to breastfeed know how challenging successfully nursing after birth can and death in the United States, women who choose to breastfeed know how challenging successfully nursing after birth can be.

The mayor adopted what has become a rallying cry for demonstrators in protests and on social media following the deaths of unarmed black teens Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown — «black lives matter.»

Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make and the operations he then undertakes — in both cases, often quite literally a matter of life and death.