Sentences with phrase «life means anything»
It'd be nice for my ego to think that my life means anything to anyone else, especially someone big and powerful and important, but I can live quite happily without it.
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Marcus» Takeaway: «She will do anything to give... [her daughter] a better life, even if it means leaving Cuba.»
Mayer says making time for both her family and her professional life means «there's not a lot of room for anything else.»
Just because there's a First Amendment doesn't mean the media has the right to do anything and everything to invade or disrupt people's lives.
And honestly saying you believe in God and self - identify as Christian doesn't mean you actually Lean on God for anything so they say they're Christian but living as an Atheist.
In order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are true.
This train is filled with well - meaning people who have long forgotten why they do anything in the Christian life — it's all just a requirement to be a Christian.
Does that mean anything in the grand scheme of life?
To see language as «the element in which we live,» or to say that our understanding of the world is «language - bound»» or, in his most famous formula, that «Being that can be understood is language»» does not mean simply that language is a medium in which we can connect with anything.
And just because he may have initially started it all doesn't mean he exists anymore or has anything to do with the universe, much less our individual lives.
My life may not have meaning, but if I try very hard, and do very well, it could have quite a lot of meaning, real meaning, that will be felt here in the real world, not in a possible reward in a realm that can't be proven to be anything other than imaginary.
Also, while you may be able to «find» meaning in life as an atheist, this meaning can not possibly be anything more than personal (subjective) wish fulfillment in denial of greater reality, that there is no meaning.
you mean like living your life hating your family and killing those who worship other gods dude Yahweh is a lair he will doing anything to rule all worlds beware his crocodile tears,..
If I possess energy (am the source of it), imagination and means of manipulating the energy, I could create the universe, life and anything.
The truth of it all is that I do have eleventy - billion chances in a day to choose love, to breathe out wonder, to love, to serve, to choose life and life more abundant, working out who I was meant to be all along and meeting something beautiful at every summit, never futile, «if anything matters, everything matters.»
Well, I don't recognize anything as «Him», but I'm still thankful for everything good in my life, if that's what you mean?
With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.
Christians are free to get together and pretend some god is paying attention to them, monitoring their thoughts and deeds, allocating them after they die to heaven, hell, limbo, purgatory or whatever other magic never - never lands they believe in and paying attention to their $ ex lives, but it must stop at the point where it actually means anything.
To believe in creationism today, however, is truly absurd, and shows that some people will believe in anything if they think it means they will live forever.
Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.
If Heidegger's philosophy of «historicity» and «authenticity» means anything at all, it surely means that life and thought can not be separated — Heidegger's least of all.
In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really mean...» when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»
If anything, this life means MORE if you believe there is not a life after this one.
I don't interpret this to mean that we can't legally own anything, since most of the disciples he was speaking to continued to earn money and live in houses.
Strings like, «There is something wrong with you if you don't speak in tongues» (a very unBiblical one that), you must have a full submersion baptism because the last baptism you had wasn't wet enough, you must sing naff choruses or it means you do nt» want to worship God, you must believe that the vast majority of people that have lived on earth are damned to everlasting Hell, you must not say anything controversial, you must not be too intellectually assertive if you're a woman, you must do as we say and believe as we say, you must force yourself to be attracted to people with a particular set of genitalia or be lonely and unfulfilled for the rest of your life.
If this is to mean anything at all significant then the purpose of the Church must be to encourage people to adopt Jesus of Nazareth as the compass for their lives.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
This concept can not mean anything close to «unique coherence» which would undermine his pluralism, though he occasionally sneaks in other adjectives like «simplicity», «elegance», and «most satisfying» (p. 79) as well as implying a uniqueness to the «meaningfulness» of Christian living (p. 204).
But people still obstinately keep asking questions about the whereabouts of departed loved ones, the meaning and purpose of their own lives, whether good will prevail over evil and whether we can know anything about the transcendent.
I want you to be strong, in every way.I want you to live out a life that is reflective of your calling, whether that means finding a career and fighting your way to the top, or finding a husband and having seven children, or anything in between.
Just because you like a book that absolves you from learning anything doesn't mean you will get anywhere in life without... wait for it... LEARNING SOMETHING!!!!!
Says the Vegetable: «Life in that worldview is just chance, there is no overarching meaning to anything.»
or does our lives have more meaning than that?this author is seriously delusional if he thinks being spiritual is a cop out if anything its the closest thing to realty that we have.
By this I mean that it is the qualifying of human life in such a way that we know ourselves to be mortal men who have no claim to anything else and who must honestly and bravely face the truth of their mortality.
you are saying (and I know you don't mean this) that you do not believe anything at all about God, you simply chose to live your life by following someone's guidelines to love each other.
@Moby» «We don't know» means just that, admitting ignorance is not a «rejection» of anything» @Chad «so, if you do nt reject a designer as one of the live options explaining the origin and fine tuning of the universe, why do nt you investigate it?
A person's life loses all meaning as he can not base his life on anything other than here he is and he might as well enjoy it.
I lived through a good many conflicts which at first I denied had anything to do with sermon composition or preaching As I lived them through... I began to put a fresh and higher value on the pulpit and its varied meanings.
Unfortunately, in the vigorous rejection of anything that smacked of magical sacramentalism many Protestants have lost the awareness of the valid role of sacraments and sacred ceremonies as living symbols (that is, communicators of meanings).
If there is no objective meaning, then the text no longer says anything at all; without existential appropriation, what the text does say is no longer living speech.
The basic meaning of that is don't share yourself... your truth... your life... anything of yourself that is...
My friends were often preoccupied with how the «unconditioned,» as Tillich spoke of «it» (although all my friends knew he meant God), could erupt and reveal «itself» in the midst of life — beyond the church, outside of religion, without anything resembling worship and in terms one could not read in the Bible or hear from the pulpit.
God means pure, god means sacrifice, god means unconditional love, god means living without anything but surviving that's is god..
Therefore, anything which affects any of these understandings or the way we live them out means something to our religion.
People who live without discerning the meanings of their lives contribute little, if anything, to the preaching encounter: they bring little conscious meaning to it, they receive little in return — and there is nothing that a preacher can do in twenty minutes to change the situation.
Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.
These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.
This means that «the Christian disciples of Aristotle were wrong in stating that God does not, and can not, make his action so relative to his creatures as to render that relation constitutive of anything in his divine life.»
I am an atheist, and I don't think of myself as a meaningless anything... Why would one think that an atheist would have no meaning in life?
It also explains why so many mistakenly think God is impressed with our level of certainty over our beliefs, when in fact the only thing that means anything to God is how faithful his people are in trusting his character and in living in relationship with him, regardless of whatever level of certainty they have, or don't have.