Sentences with phrase «influence on the lives of»

Unless these clearly powerful and increasingly well defined influences on the lives of church members are met by equally powerful and well - defined influences of grace for living the Christian life, the role of clergy is in danger of being reduced to the role of chaplains, summoned for brief, emergency ministrations to a life cycle unfolding in complete isolation from the life of faith.

The sacred arts exerted a formative influence on the lives of the faithful as well as on those not of the Catholic faith.

The other half are pessimists, convinced they're losing influence on the life of their countries and mostly not persuaded that things will be better for Christianity where they live in the future.

While the arrival of immigrants was the beginning of Persian influence on the life of the Indian Church, it was not a wholesale acceptance of Persian traditions.

Cole was a powerful influence on the life of the young Harold Wilson, whom he taught, worked with and convinced to join the Labour Party.

And recruits would hear, from day one, that poverty is a devastating influence on the lives of students, and that no «superhero» teacher can solve the problem through data - driven instruction alone.

Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America's most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including

Writing assignment can have a huge influence on the life of a student as it affects their grading system.

Social media and electronic gaming strategies can have an extremely positive influence on the lives of impoverished families, a study of The University of Queensland's Triple P Online program has found.

As a result, parent — adolescent relationships become more equally balanced with respect to power (De Goede et al. 2009; Furman and Buhrmester 1992) and parents start to have less influence on the lives of their adolescent child.

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In fact, the huge influence he had on my business, and on my life in general, derived from a screensaver photo of him on my cellphone, which I consulted in times of need.

P&G: Pick Them Back Up — Continuing to tug on our emotional heartstrings by emphasizing the influence of «mom» in all of our lives, the spot clearly romances mom by letting her know how important her role is in her children's lives.

While a majority of professionals and managers say they work overtime with the help of mobile devices and their workloads have increased as a result, most attribute that to the accompanying productivity increase and regard the change as a positive influence on their lives.

Ben Wyatt's short - lived challenge for leadership of the Labor Party has highlighted the influence of the key powerbrokers, namely unions on both the right and left.

The smartphone company didn't elaborate on the specifics of the new VR exhibit, only to say that museum visitors will be able to see a «fresh perspective into Modigliani's life and influences» and parts of Paris that inspired the contemporary of Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris.

The MOX project, at the Energy Departments Savannah River Site in South Carolina, has been kept on life support by Congress thanks to the influence of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and other lawmakers.

At 49, as a grad student at Fordham, I will open my life to a new network of smart professors, students, and alumni who will expand my perspective and sphere of influence, bringing new opportunities and friendships, the value of which I can only speculate on.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Steve is gone, but his influence lives on through the amazing company he created that impacts millions of lives everyday.

That location would be one of the top three factors influencing our happiness should not be surprising - after all, place in many ways affects many other areas of our lives: what jobs are available, what people we'll form or keep relationships with, how stressed or relaxed we are, our health, what hobbies we can pursue and so on.

The House's move is part of a broader GOP agenda - such as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - to reduce the size and influence of the federal government on everyday life.

When we talk or read about design, it is usually about the positive qualities of «good design,» but bad design has just as much, if not more influence on our lives.

Self - comparison can be a strong influence on human behavior, and because people tend to display the most positive aspects of their lives on social media, it is possible for an individual to believe that their own life compares negatively to what they see presented by others.

The particular sequence of market returns that you'll enjoy throughout your lifetime starts when you're born, ends when you die, is entirely outside of your control, and, if you're not careful, will heavily influence when you start investing, how you'll do it, and your outlook on life when you turn those investments into income.

Four - in - five say US made wrong decision in voting to removing internet protections April 4, 2018 — While the internet has grown in scale, influence and importance in the lives of most everyone on the planet over the past few decades,

In nearly every walk of life, goals are a major influence on what we do, think, feel, and the actions we take on a daily basis.

Most research is far from the ideal experimental model, yet we have good evidence on the influence of traumatic abuse on children and the life of George Washington.

Alternatively, many sociologists predicted that, with the increasing emphasis on individualism and the therapeutic in American culture, religion would have an increasingly marginal influence on domestic life, and the traditional family as the 1950s knew it would gradually disappear in the face of «family modernization,» as some theorists called it.

One result, atheism and the reduction of religious influence on our lives.

I have heard deeply thoughtful religious leaders acknowledge that they came late to an appreciation of the pandemic, that preconceptions influenced their initial reactions, that some leaders have taken harsh stances (for example, refusing to bury people whose families acknowledge that they died of AIDS), and that their focus on ideal behaviors can obscure what is real and live.

Our President is famous for his concern about the ethics of campaign finance and professes to share with the Occupiers a concern with the influence of corporations on our political life.

They are compelled to live in segregation from the «upper» castes and to use different water sources on account of their «polluting» influence; their educational and career opportunities are often greatly limited by their caste.

So yes, Islam was an influence on him for a while, but he was more interested in the origins and the life of Muhammad than actually the tradition itself.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

That makes a difference to me, just as not living my life on drugs or under the influence of some other delusions.

@Rachel, Many Atheists are simply trying to counter-act the influence of Christians in their lives, such as science in science class, gay marriage, stem cell research, women's choices on reproduction.

If we treat the bible is a collection of stories about trying to understand God and doesn't have any direct relevance to or influence on our lives then that significantly reduces the relevance we let it have to our lives.

She will also shortly co-present an EWTN series on the influences that shaped the life and work of Blessed John Paul II.

, that can only be true if you redefine «saved» to mean «nothing in their lives was bettered significantly and there was no detectable influence of a deity on them nor on their well - being.»

It might not have influenced him, but it situates him in a particular era in the history of silliness, with the 1890s still an incense - drowned memory, and such figures as Baron Corvo — whom Williams quotes with approval more than once in his writings — hovering on the borders of literary life.

You live in a country where a prime minister has appointed half of his leaders to be female, not based on merit, so it's not surprising that this has influence on the rest of the culture in your country.

Given the inventions of our day, life might be even worse if there were not the leavening influence for peace, which shows itself in the renewed determination, on the part of millions, to try to make a world in which war is no longer a recurrent phenomenon.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

It was particularly disappointing to me since I've talked to Bart (though I doubt he remembers our short conversation), he was encouraging to me, I love the idea of Mission Year, and, like so many evangelicals, his father was an influence on my life and ministry.

While three out of four Americans (72 %, a record high) believe that religion is «losing its influence on American life,» a majority of Americans (56 percent) also believe this shift has been for the worse.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

The group then divides into two subgroups, led by the minister and her co-facilitator, for experiential and feeling - level sharing, including debriefing on such between - session assignments as: «Talk to three people about death, being aware of how they respond» or «Imagine that you have only a limited time to live and try to say how this awareness influences your feelings about your lifestyle and present relationship.»

Instead of fighting over the amount of money that was spent on who - knows - what, shift the focus toward what really matters: (1) your fear of not having influence in important issues impacting your life, (2) your fear of not having security in your future, (3) your fear of having no respect shown for your values, or (4) your fear of not realizing your dreams.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

This should be done not, indeed, because these might be worthier of eternal life or even easier to influence, but because the salvation of all will depend on the acceptance of Christianity by the leaders of society.