Sentences with phrase «life relationships take»

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But growing up, I found that the more I took responsibility for my actions and how they affected others, the better my life, especially my relationships.

about a «tough time» in his life, which many took to mean his relationship with Selena.

Key takeaway: Take an honest assessment of the relationships in your life.

It affects how much risk we're willing to take in life — in our jobs, in our investments, and in our relationships.

They're the most important relationships in your life, but you should never take your parents» career advice, and I'm using parents as a proxy for all the pressures in the world.

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Nate lives in the small town of Grande Prairie, Alberta (population: 68,000)-- a four - hour connecting flight from Vancouver — and we'd spent our entire relationship dealing with the toll the long distance was taking on our hearts and bank accounts.

«Building personal relationships with our clients is fulfilling, and we take pride in knowing that we make a significant, positive difference to our clients and to the communities where we live and work.»

For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.

I see life fall apart around me and I have no worries for myself — becuase I incorporate those teachings of Jesus in all my friendships and relationships — and I deal with the hard stuff — I take responsibility — I can say I am wrong — and I am accountable for my actions and the values I adopt.

God commands Hosea to take Gomer, a prostitute, as his wife to draw a larger picture of the relationship between God and Israel, asking Hosea to create a story within his own life.

That's quite sweet in a way — it takes all the responsibility off of you and puts it on God — name another relationship like this you know about in real life (whether with family, friends, or wife)?

NO, the only book that is that for me is the Bible, but I did take some of the insights to heart and am applying them to my life, my relationship with Christ and my role in my church.

-LSB-... this] ought not be surprising — except to those who carry a burden of false assumptions about love, celibacy, and their relationship... As a mature man, he took the decision to express his [proven] capacity for love as a celibate in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the gift of his life in service to others.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

Divorce, and affairs, are a particularly difficult subject for me and I've experienced my own hell over the competing violently clashing truths that force people to take sides with broken lives and relationships in the wake.

But nobody can live on a relationship with their spouse alone, give or take a few watercooler chats, alone.

A man is taken from among the people of God, transformed into a living icon of Christ and given back to the people in this new relationship.

Key to such an appreciation will be taking note of the always uneasy relationship between theory and practice, or principle and action, in the life of a society.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

To a notable degree even yet, the unmodernized Indian's life is corporate, and the individual exists only in his tribal relationships and functions, so that when the Government, even with good intentions, has tried to serve the Indian on a different basis, taking him away from home for education, discouraging old folk - ways as heathenish, assuming individualistic thinking in his treatment, the result has commonly been the disintegration of the Indian's life.

He may want to take a shot at making a big difference, both in the lives he saves and the relationships he changes.

Though such controversies ostensibly offer me a simple test for identifying who is for me or against me based on who takes which side, the complexity of lived relationships seems to be frustratingly resistant to such a dichotomy.»

The person acquires strength, not by achieving depth insight, but by the exercise of making decisions, taking responsibilities (often small, at the beginning), and handling the stresses of his life - situation while in a supportive relationship.

Following James Gustafson, I have taken as a central concern the task of finding the most appropriate means to articulate how Christians have understood, and do and should understand, the relationship between Christ and the moral life.

Here the implication is that such an interpenetration of flesh and spirit takes place that the marriage relationship constitutes what Karl Barth called «a full communion of life.»

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

We can assess how healthy our relationship with God is by taking stock of the fruit in our lives.

That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.

Theology must never take the place of a living, vibrant, loving, genuine relationship with God.

It also prevents us from making real our relationship to God, for the meeting with God takes place in the «lived concrete,» and lived concreteness exists only in so far as the moment retains its true dialogical character of presentness and uniqueness.

A false security prevents us from making real our relationship to God, for the meeting with God takes place in the «lived concrete,» and lived concreteness exists only in so far as the moment retains its true dialogical character of presentness and uniqueness.

As Niebuhr took on international prominence as a molder of opinion he developed working relationships with people in the left wing Democratic party and the major news media, notably Eleanor Roosevelt and the Luce publications Time and Life.

Or arguing in the other direction, if we take Jesus as significant for human life and history, He must also be seen as having some relationship to the setting of that life and history — the natural order — and hence be as much a «disclosure» of that as He is of man's existence.

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

Being «pro-life» means defending innocents» rights to life, and I take it that I have a different relationship with enemy combatants.

For me it has become the Living Word of God, speaking to me very deeply — though it took some time in my relationship with God for this to happen.

i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....

I explore ways in which Jacob's work reflected life as it was in the beginning in my booklet Work and the Christian Family.3 Here, though, we take as our starting point the text from the third chapter of Genesis that focuses on the entry of suffering into our family relationships.

Sir Thomas first begins to discern Henry's attention to Fanny, and speculates about their future relationship; Fanny speculates about life at Mansfield after Edmund has left to take up his pastoral charge at Thornton Lacey; and Henry indulges in speculations of his own, mainly about the «improvements» that could be made to Edmund's future home.

Very often, the people who are this second soil look very promising to begin with, but since they do not take care of the sin issues in their lives, they fall away, and eventually end up addicted to sin and destroying their life, their health, and their relationships.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

He constantly directs us towards understanding our relationship with God as a living and lived reality, always nudging us to take this understanding out into the world in service of our neighbour, which in turn leads us into a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Christ.

Since in him there has been established a relationship of obedience between God and humankind, others are taken to share in that newness of life.

William J. Everett takes up the East German case in the context of a wider study of the relationship of covenantal theology to social life, with comparative analyses of India and America.

But by those who have become sensitive to the fact that their freedom is a gift of God's self - absenting, a new and invigorating relationship of love and gratitude, and one of deep, mature dependency as well, may take over their lives and shape them into the new creation of which St. Paul speaks.

But they take comfort in knowing they have been living focused on what matters most to them: their relationships with the ones they love, their relationship with the God of the universe and the fulfillment of their unique purpose on this Earth.

Hopefully he will benefit by being able to: (1) Get to know himself better; (2) Become more keenly aware of how he needs to change; (3) Recognize danger signals to his sobriety before he takes the first drink; (4) Live more comfortably with himself and others; (5) Have the door opened for a more personal and meaningful relationship with God.

We all know that this is made much harder by living in a culture which takes it for granted that in such circumstances they will actively seek a new «relationship», and this attitude is found among fellow Catholics too, as often as not.

Dialogic preaching, in which the preaching - listening relationship is taken seriously, breathes new life into this pastoral function.