The revision of American thought and practice about
life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.
Not exact matches
Here are three
questions that can greatly benefit the direction and quality of your
life if you
begin asking and answering them regularly.
Jeff Bezos Even though Amazon is so successful that American cities are actively bidding to host the ecommerce giant's second headquarters, at the
beginning of the company's
life, Bezos was met with a lot of
questions about whether it could even get off the ground.
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3
Questions to Ask Your Advisor
How do I begin to draw income from my investments so I can live the life I want in retirement?
I think we need to formally revist the
question of when
life begins.
We need to all agree on the crucial
question: When does
life begin?
Seems to me that the central
question remains when
life begins.
We
begin to understand that the overwhelming problem, the looming
question, exists to expand the dimensions of the our
life.
Remember when Obama was wrong footed by the
question of when
life begins?
Although the Court purported to avoid «the difficult
question of when
life begins,» the nature of the decision effectively answers that
question.
I always
begin to answer that
question by emphasizing that although the answer is «No,» the real
question is, «Have you believed in Jesus for eternal
life?»
The
question is whether it is better to continue to disrupt
life in a way that makes people less and less able to deal with their own problems and meet their own needs, or to
begin the painful process of reducing dependence on world markets.
But in the last three years, as I have
begun to
question and challenge certain elements of how we «do church,» I decided to seriously examine Isaiah 28:10 - 13 for the first time in my
life.
It's not just a
question of how
life began, but why does it carry with it such sophistication, such intention?
At the
beginning of these comments we raised a
question about the relevance of Paul's admonitions to people who are being seriously threatened and hurt by the vicissitudes of
life.
You may not believe that
life begins before birth but that fact that there is a
question, would mean that it warrants discussion by our society.
And wherever she went, in trouble or in triumph, still she was a
living spirit, the mind and voice of the Most High, «sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them
questions,» claiming to herself what they said rightly, correcting their errors, supplying their defects, completing their
beginnings, expanding their surmises, and thus gradually by means of them enlarging the range and refining the sense of her own teaching.
The Ekklesia Project,
begun in 1999, is something of an attempt to answer that
question and close the gap between Hauerwas's academic project and the concrete
life of churches.
As I indicated at the
beginning of my answer, when people ask why there are 400 years of silence in the Bible, the unspoken
question is sometimes, «Why does God seem silent in my
life?»
We might
begin by asking a terribly simple yet exceedingly complex
question: «What is my definition of «the Good
Life»?»
In fact, your silly
questions prove nothing other than your lack of understanding of evolution and the
beginning of
life.
Joel Carpenter
begins his long - awaited and richly informative book with that quotation, gently noting that while one may
question fundamentalism's constructive achievements, «no one can deny that fundamentalism has survived» and «has found ways to influence American public
life.»
Once I got over apologizing for my curiosity and
questions, and
began accepting (and even embracing) that part of myself, the more I
began to love
life.
But also when this is assumed, the stiff - necked and tough -
lived difficulty returns, prompting the
question whether at the instant a man
began to obscure his intelligence he was distinctly conscious of what he was doing.
Rev Iain May, 57, was the group head of planning and strategy at Allied Irish Banks in Dublin when he
began questioning the lavish lifestyle he was
living.
These may include not only broad philosophical issues such as whether the universe has a purpose, but also
questions we have become accustomed to think of as empirical, such as bow
life first
began or bow complex biological systems were put together.
The verdict follows a hotly followed trial in which the
question of when
life begins was the central theme.
But apparently it's a country where good moral people can be manipulated by self - serving politicians into being distracted from the larger issues by high - school debate
questions like «when does
life begin» or «should gays marry,» or even «is being gay a choice.»
As to the
question of where the human person
begins, Judaism makes a distinction between human
life, which is everywhere and always sacred, and the human person.
We
begin to hear things like: the churches are simply out of tune with the people; the schools are so remote from real
life questions; the government is corrupt and corrupting.
The
question of when human
life begins is indisputably and very publicly settled by science.
Thus, whether we
begin with the meaning of the self - image or with the meaning of acceptance, the religious
question concerning that reality which is the context of our
lives becomes the existential
question, that is, one concerning which we have to make a decision.
The person may
begin to
question whether he is really an alcoholic, since he feels so well and is obviously in competent control of his
life.
Certainly on the
questions of
life I got to act on my beliefs in a way that I hope drew people towards the cause that
life is sacred — that it's a true gift from God and that we should protect it from
beginning to end.
What wears you down is that after the 457th time you answer the «why»
questions, you
begin to feel like you're continually having to defend your
life and your family.
Then the tradition shows that the
question began to be explored of how this might have come about; and, particularly in a Jewish environment where there was a strong belief in a future bodily resurrection, the natural explanation would have been that Jesus» physical body emerged to
life out of the grave.
While Jesus
lived, and when the disciples
began to believe that they had met God in him, as the earliest writer, Paul, and the earliest Gospel, Mark, indicate, there was no
question in their minds that God was also in heaven.
The
question of the Church's responsibility for the society in or with which it
lives has been important and difficult since the
beginning of Christian history.
Our culture is
beginning to realise that scientism and secularism can not answer the deep
questions of
life.
I came out to friends and family and
began my
life of being
questioned for my sexuality.
The author discusses two alternates to the more fundamentalist video, «Alpha:» «
Beginnings» and «LTQ» («
Living the
Question»).
The two groups differed with regard to the key
question: when does individual
life begin?
However, when a child
begins questioning illogical, contradicting precepts, the first thing they do is ask the adults in their
life whom they have trust in why that is so.
When you
begin to
live your
life for others, and ask the
question, «What's the most good that I can do in the world?»
It seems trivial to ask that
question, since differences in theology and in religious and moral outlooks and
life have appealed to different «biblical worlds,»
beginning with the New Testament itself.
Questions, doubts and fears
begin to invade your
life, little by little, threatening to overwhelm your entire existence.
Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's
beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his
life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the
questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.
However, he has already
begun to think about
life after this season, and has
questioned whether or not he'll ultimately get the chance at Chelsea to prove his worth and play in the Premier League regularly.
After having been traded to New York a week before spring training
began, Rodriguez learned a new position,
lived for two months in a hotel with his then pregnant wife (who gave birth to a daughter, Natasha, in November), contended with frequent
questions and gossip about his sometimes cool relationship with Jeter, worried what the newspapers were writing about him and tried to accommodate unending media requests for his time.