Sentences with phrase «life than a relationship»

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From personality and IQ to success in work and relationships, birth - order theorists believe your family position influences more aspects of life than you'd like to admit.

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

Some of us have it worse than others, and for some people it's a very serious problem that messes up their lives, work and relationships.

It requires you to answer a foundational question of living with an entrepreneurial spirit: How can I nurture and develop a relationship that invests in mutual success for the future rather than what I need now?

Men's relationships at age 47, he found, predicted late - life adjustment better than any other variable.

It builds a personal relationship - no matter how short - lived it may turn out to be - for far less than their competitors pay to achieve the same goal.

And the information that they'll need will not only cover the basics but also emphasize «more relationship - oriented and life - stage topics than bottom - line transactions,» says Liz Davidson, founder and CEO of Financial Finesse, a company in San Francisco that's dedicated to serving women's investment needs.

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

Undoubtedly, Jesus still loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is by accepting God's truths as they truly are in the bible and by leaning on His grace for empowerment to walk in them in our personal relationships with him.

and having the most important relationship in my life recognized and accepted as something greater and more beautiful than an offence comparable to theft and murder.

= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance with the plan of creation for the salvation of souls.

We settle for the comfort and pleasure of the lesser goods in life rather than pursue the Greatest Good, which is a transformational relationship with God.

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

A community of stable families has fewer problems with crime, antisocial behaviour and isolation than a community in which short - lived relationships are the norm.

The one relationship, which means more than life itself, has been violated.

When you understand Scripture and theology as God meant it, you are freed to live life in relationship God, rather than under the control of religion.

Crouch's life reflects a different model of the relationship between Christianity and culture than the activist approach that tends to define Christian engagement in terms of its social impact.

She did mention in the video that even her atheist friends were telling her that her philosophies were actually more Christian than atheist, so I rather think she was latently religious all along, sort of like gays who live for years in hetero relationships, then finally realize what they are, after years of saying something else.

There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide loving support, into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is best forgotten rather than a broken relationship which will exert continuing influence on their lives.

Emmanuel Levinas says, «Life is love of life, a relationship with contents that are not my being but more dear than my being; thinking, eating, sleeping, reading, working, warming oneself in the sun.&raLife is love of life, a relationship with contents that are not my being but more dear than my being; thinking, eating, sleeping, reading, working, warming oneself in the sun.&ralife, a relationship with contents that are not my being but more dear than my being; thinking, eating, sleeping, reading, working, warming oneself in the sun.»

But all this is nothing more than a fatuous rationalization for a selfish way of life if we do not have a commitment above all to live faithfully, to deal with the challenge of right relationship with God and neighbor.

But, they can be helped to greater adequacy in living by varied counseling approaches involving the selective use of guidance, authority, instruction, along with a focus on improving interpersonal relationships (rather than effecting major intrapsychic changes) and seeing one's situation from a more constructive perspective.

if you recall, God said, «Let us make man in our image AND after our likeness...... yes, every man still bears the image of God and deserves respect, but every man deserves to be pitied for the likeness of God which he has lost and which can only be restored through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is more than a book, He is the Living Word of God, and any relationship with Him demands an obedience to the Word He represents, thus, how can a man «walk humbly with God» while at the same time rejecting the His very Word?

That is, if you call time spent reading one single book and / or praying instead of living, learning to live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»

Directly relating my Bible reading with my longing for relationship with Him... sitting alone in my living room, no worship music, no lights, no bulletin, no 3 points... it was really a blessing, and felt a lot more like worship than most of my Sunday morning experiences.

A Benedictine priest and a distinguished physicist, Jaki spent his life at the forefront of orchestrating a friendly relationship between science and religion, penning more than two dozen books on the subject.

And when women, dancing Sarah's circle, affirm the importance of relationships in human life, they are doing more than reflecting women's psychology; they are showing all Christians what it means to be created in God's image.

She is a productive citizen of society, works, is monogamous in her relationship, is raising a adorable boy, is kind to everyone she meets and yet you have straight people out murdering, raping, living on welfare, and yet they should live more than a gay person.

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.

Many couples would not need to divorce, or to live in a de facto divorce of a dead relationship, if they could face and resolve their angers rather than let them accumulate.

Hasidic teaching is like psychoanalysis, writes Buber, in that it refers one from the problematic of external life to that of the inner life, and it shows the need of beginning with oneself rather than demanding that both parties to a relationship change together.

The introverted despairer thus lives on horis succesivis [successive hours], through hours which, though they are not lived for eternity, have nevertheless something to do with the eternal, being employed about the relationship of one's self to itself — but he really gets no further than this.

In Psalm 63, David immediately exclaims that God's «faithful love is better than life» (Psalm 63:3), clearly showing that he already has a relationship with this God he «faints» and thirsts for.

It is difficult to see how, if God's relationship to the world is «wholly other» than the relation of creative spirit to its actual working in time (chronos), we can avoid discounting the Christian significance of creative effort, patient workmanship, and that careful assessment of conditions and consequences which make up so large a part of the wisdom of life.

Too many people cared more about the quality of life based on human relationships than about the hoped for increase in income.

time for me to leave my country for 5 years study (medical field)... and while i am i that country (China) once i intercourse with a prostitute (i am really shamefull)... then after few times i found another girl in facebook (from my hometown only) then fall in love with her and that loves get stronger day by day (she is a christian) and i told her that im not virgin and i had this girlfriend and i did with prostitute so she forgives me and ask me to lie new life... but still i havent leave my e girl friend (i found difficult to leave her, i do nt love her much, but i do nt know how i love her in first place, she is much older than me), my ex gf came to suspects about my new relationship via facebooks post, comments, likes and all and sometimes i did told her that i have this new friend... as time passes by, she realised it and she do nt talk to me anymore till now... and last time i went home i met my new girl friend and we intercourse....

They develop a larger capacity for contribution to the Divine life than they would be capable of without those experiences and relationships.

However, God wants more for you than to just have your guilt removed from you; He does not want sin to reign in your body; He does not want sin to rule over you, to destroy you, to ruin your life, your health, your finances, and all your relationships.

It would have a close relationship to the pietism of the Protestant sects, to Wesley and Edwards; but it must be far more realistic in its understanding of the continuing limitations of the life of the Christian than former theologies have been.

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....

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

«Life is not fair life is never fair What our faith gives us is not protection from the unfairness of life What our faith gives us is something far more precious than that What our faith gives us is God a relationship with God It is only God's grace that sustains us in good times as well as bad Life is not fair Life is never fair YetLife is not fair life is never fair What our faith gives us is not protection from the unfairness of life What our faith gives us is something far more precious than that What our faith gives us is God a relationship with God It is only God's grace that sustains us in good times as well as bad Life is not fair Life is never fair Yetlife is never fair What our faith gives us is not protection from the unfairness of life What our faith gives us is something far more precious than that What our faith gives us is God a relationship with God It is only God's grace that sustains us in good times as well as bad Life is not fair Life is never fair Yetlife What our faith gives us is something far more precious than that What our faith gives us is God a relationship with God It is only God's grace that sustains us in good times as well as bad Life is not fair Life is never fair YetLife is not fair Life is never fair YetLife is never fair Yet....

Just for the information, I'm a gay man living in a relationship who accepted that he will probably always live in the «maybe» of this question but who decided to live from grace rather than from «being right».

If I selfishly love my frozen yogurt, microbreweries, and Pinterest, or dislike tattoos, noise, slow decision - making, or fill in the blank, more than my brothers and sisters who are different; if I prefer this church, or neighborhood because of the schools, the safety or because the worship resonates with me; if I am committed to my ways of doing life; if I let me self - comfort, self - enjoyment, self - security, or self - convenience guide my decision making; I will never experience the gifts that accompany thriving relationships with people who are different from me.

At the same time, I grew more in my relationship with God during those difficult years than I had in the previous years of my life combined.

Even in gay loving relationships which by the way are a mere quarter of 1 percent of the US people are we giving in and changing the definition of marriage for all and allowing these who define marriage by their own rules and ways rather than saying you need to live up to this standard.

After an excess of outrage against the hazards of commercialism, this statement by church leaders offers no other Gospel to those it has condemned than phrases like these: «the spirit of Christmas,» «making Christmas real,» «invest in renewing our own spirits, our relationships, and our natural environment,» and «the spiritual and life - affirming potential of the season.»

The need for a trustful relationship with life, the universe, with God — is insistent in the so - called «golden years» (which actually are more like lead than gold for some people).

People now seem, on the whole, less sure of the meaning of their lives and less skillful in their relationships to one another than people of many earlier times.

At any rate, if process - relational thinkers can work through fundamental systemic problems relating to the nature of the self and the God - world relationship, perhaps we might solve as a by - product the question of a realistic envisioning of the resurrection life; if we can't, then this mode of thought has problems more foundational than those at issue in this essay.