Sentences with phrase «life circumstances do»

Yes, life circumstances do have an effect on our emotional state, and none of us can or should expect to be happy, calm, or content all of the time.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act is great for protecting your rights as a consumer when it comes to your credit report and it gives you an opportunity to monitor your credit so that negative items on your credit report that have happened to you as a result of real - life circumstances don't become a life - long punishment.

I've always loved dogs and wanted one badly but life circumstances did not cooperate... until my late 40's.

He was ten weeks old; her life circumstances didn't permit her to continue with dog showing, so she was disbanding her kennel.

Not exact matches

People can and do change based on both immediate circumstance and broader changes in the context of their lives.

If you don't take the time to think about where you want to be, the circumstances of life and other people's agendas will determine that for you.

It's in applying the lessons and learnings from the book to your own life and circumstances — and then doing the hard work of taking responsibility for, and true ownership of, your stories — where the change starts and the results begin to show.

I do believe, however, that those who live wisely (i.e. treating their fellow creation well) will live well, no matter what their circumstances; and that those who do not....

«Life is a gift to us and if the time comes when I were to feel that I must give the gift back to Him, in extreme circumstances, I don't think He would want to take that away from me.»

There is so much we want to do and see in life, and our circumstances make it seem impossible at times.

These inner - city workers understand the «victim mentality» and «entitlement mind - set» they encounter in the devastated communities where they live, but they do not let such attitudes go unchallenged, and they expect great things from their neighbors despite those neighbors» disadvantaged circumstances.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Li Quan had a purpose to fulfill in life, but the circumstances of life did not allow him to even begin fulfilling his dreams and desires.

do not often write on open forums because of certain life circumstances.

In so far as the mental spontaneities of occasions do not thwart each other, but are directed to a common objective amid varying circumstances, there is life.

That they don't need to learn about the truth about their own circumstance, about how God works in their life by putting into practice what the prophet (as God's spokesman) is teaching.

The real issue in the use / misuse of a given drug is, «How much and under what circumstances does its use enhance or diminish the life of the user and his relationships?»

Our situational anxieties have to do with the circumstances and security of our lives, how they are to be affected by such technological advances as cybernetics, by inflation, or by war.

Straitened circumstances do make for straitened lives.

The problem many «Christians» had with this shows that they don't understand the words of Jesus when He said to His disciples, at the time they were living, in the circumstances surounding them, «Truly, I say to You, this generation shall by no means pass till all these things take place».

It may indeed seem that what I have done so far is to offer a tentative argument against the claims of an exemplarist interpretation of Christ's work, namely, that if he is offered us as an exemplar his experience is in crucial respects too relative and limited to offer a wholly significant guide - post to men and women in all the circumstances of their lives.

We do not hope that the circumstances of our lives will turn out favourably for our comfort; rather we hope that through the trials and tribulations of this life God's salvific will for us will be worked out.

Hence the salvation God wanted man to have reached him according to the divine will and permission in the concrete religion of the historical conditions and circumstances of his life, though this did not deprive him of the right and the limited opportunity to criticize and to pay attention to the reforming impulses which God's providence always inspired in such a religion.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

But focus on what Jesus Christ has done, who He is, the forgiveness of our sins against God, the new life He gives us, the victory over Satan we have, and the plethora of benefits of being a child of God... and then your perspective will shift from depressiveness to optimistic hope in God no matter your circumstances or conditions.

* Casting Crowns (They do a lot of the «I'm in love with Jesus» songs, but they also have plenty about trusting in God in the midst of the horrible circumstances of life.

The other words that go down with greater credibility are words to live by for every duty / circumstance of life (perhaps not a direct quote from scripture but)... do EVERYTHING as if for the Lord... (not to be used in a stab of guilt for a believer), just acknowledging, if you would follow a god..

We indeed must criticize and condemn immoral acts of black people, but we must do so cognizant of the circumstances into which people are born and under which they live.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

You're living under the assumption that He is in control, He cares and He can do something about your circumstances.

Joseph did not let the circumstances of his life hinder his leadership.

Theological beliefs that do not make us more empathetic, more compassionate and more willing to sacrifice to the extent that our personal strengths, weaknesses and circumstances of life permit do nothing to broaden and deepen the believer's faith.

For God to know how Peter would respond and then communicate this to Jesus, God would only need to know that the character Peter had freely acquired throughout his life had become solidified in a cowardly direction to the point that it was certain he would respond the way he did under these circumstances.

We can not control what others or life's circumstances do to us; but we can control how we respond to them.

In my opinion it takes more faith to live with the mystery, struggle to hold together all the opposites and seek to listen to the Holy Spirit for your own unique life's circumstances than it does to simply quote chapter and text as if the Christian walk is a predictable black & white / cause & effect existence.

The Sermon on the Mount does not limit politics; in the best of circumstances, it transforms public life by inverting our preference for the powerful over the weak.

If it should happen that a true reflection of life is contained in this talk, if it is so that the ability and the occasion is vouchsafed me which enabled me to set it forth; yet it may also have happened, we can suppose such a case, that the circumstances under which it had to be spoken did not seem favorable.

All stages in this life are opportunites for proclaiming the Gospel, just ask Paul who used every circumstance to do just that.

[1] John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1995), 65: AAS 87 (1995) 476, recalls that «Pius XII affirmed that it is licit to relieve pain by narcotics even when the result is decreased consciousness and a shortening of life, «if no other means exist, and if, in the given circumstances, this does not prevent the carrying out of other religious and moral duties.»

While the military does not seek to discriminate unjustly, it believes for a number of sound reasons that persons with a homosexual orientation could experience difficulty in controlling their behavior in light of the unique circumstances of military life.

I thought that the apprehension of nothingness came from out of time and circumstance, a lightning bolt of truth that had nothing to do with the day before, the house I lived in, my family, and my age.

This has been done on a magnified scale, so that man may the better become aware of, and look out for, what, in the trivial circumstances of daily life so rarely appears unmixed that it is much harder to detect than are these instances that are «writ large.»

Men do not now make a virtue of resignation to the circumstances of life.

Only in the most extreme circumstances do they permit the taking of life; both our traditions and our law, for example, forbid killing except in case of legitimate selfdefense.

Clinical depression often has to do with a chemical imbalance in the brain, and nothing at all to do with circumstances in life.

Your Grandpa is doing well, praise God, but remember the words of Paul how he «learned» to be content in all circumstances of life, and when he was in chains in a filthy cave / prison he found himself singing and bringing a testimony of God's grace to the palace guards!

Christians living in better circumstances, however, need to take up the cause of their suffering brethren: they need to educate themselves about what is happening, spread the news, ask their own religious leaders to speak out, support reputable organizations that are working for religious freedom, and appeal to their political leaders to do far more in their contacts with key diplomats and oppressive governments.