Sentences with phrase «little meaning in their life»

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This image of what it means to be decisive may be appealing (who doesn't want a little clarity and surety in his or her life?)

Even if you don't have kids, getting older and having the desire for a little more convenience go hand in hand, which means that eventually at least some millennials are going to see the appeal of living in the suburbs.

And when things go wrong between co-founders, as with most things in life, a little planning up front can mean the difference between a catastrophic vs. merely painful outcome.»

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«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Yet when I now reflect on all 52 interviews in my podcast, this makes complete sense; the grit and hustle that comes from moving to a foreign country - often with very little means - and persevering through hardship lends itself to starting a company and overcoming the unexpected bumps of early startup life.

Christians believe that a mortal person has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to live for all time with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

Yet the way he lived in the light of the «truth about life» meant his life was a «little flag of hope» for which we can only be grateful.

There were few shout outs for God from the artists, the oddest being from Sean Carter (Jay - Z): «I want to thank God — I mean a little bit for this award — but mostly for all the universe for conspiring and putting that beautiful light of a young lady in my life,» Jay - Z said, looking at Beyoncé.

So when I am talking with someone, I will often take a little gospel of John, I prefer the ones called Living Water since they have little notes that remind me what verses are key, and what the verses mean, and in just a minute or two, can show a person from Scripture that to get eternal life, all they have to do is believe in Jesus for it.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

but I disagree... I see miracles all my Christian life... just cause it sounds outlandish doesn't mean it isnot true... you seem to be putting yourself in a «safe little box» and not looking around

One can not gain even a little acquaintance with the early church — which means, one can not do even a little reading in the New Testament — without recognizing not only the importance of what the word «Christ» stands for in its life, but also the richness and manifoldness of this same reality.

two things first the term Christian means little Christ it was meant as in insult at first, as a Christian it should affect every part of my life, as a true follower of Jesus there is no way I could say I believe this is wrong (but because I am in politics) I will vote another way.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

In archaic religion each man finds meaning by repeating the creation, or to put it the other way about, he finds meaning by projecting the pattern of his own little story into the great story which explains not only his own little life but how things are.

Even in its more sophisticated guise, such as the argument of Immanuel Kant that life in heaven is to be a due adjustment of affairs after the obvious evil known and experienced in mundane life, there is for many people little meaning.

But Christianly understood death is by no means the last thing of all, hence it is only a little event within that which is all, an eternal life; and Christianly understood there is in death infinitely much more hope than merely humanly speaking there is when there not only is life but this life exhibits the fullest health and vigor.

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He makes it known in all its splendor, with a sense of awe and wonder and with all its meaning for the faltering lives of Christ's little ones.

Jesus Feminist is really a story — a story about how I am learning to set up a little outpost for the Kingdom of God in my real right - now life, as a sign and a foretaste of what it means to be human in God's kingdom.

«Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

I protect kids for a living, do everything I can to help ALL people, respect all life and give everybody their dignity, give my time and resources to help others, complain little, hurt nobody, want minimal things for myself and often go without, sacrifice for family, friends and community, but because I do not think there is a deity in the sky, I'm going to Hell while some selfish, ignorant, mean, destructive, abusive and hateful person who says, «Sorry» to God at the end of their life goes to Heaven.

In studying the Jesuit tradition, Garfield learned a little more about what it means to live a life beyond service to only yourself.

This will probably not mean that I will end up at «the other sides» position (I certainly hope I won't) or that they will end up «on our side» but maybe we will both be a little wiser and maybe even change some things in how we live.

Anyone with a little bit of sense understands that in the context of Matthew 27:42, the word «save» does not mean escape from hell and entrance into heaven, or receiving eternal life.

Certainly many believe that a man can search out and grasp the Truth just as well, creatively express the Beautiful just as well, vitally perfect the Good just as well, even if, in order to win some advantage in the world, he was secretly a little unfaithful to himself, even if he did shift the boundary stones of his inner life a particle by Just a shade less scrupulousness, so that even though he had won this material advantage by doubtful means, yet he «can truly work for the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.»

In the case of the brother who committed suicide, it might mean that his experience of life and of himself turned out to be so empty, so undesirable, so negative that very little can be gleaned from it to offer as a stimulus or as new possibilities for others.

people and congregations are blown to and fro by the winds of secularization, but unlike the students they have little or no experience of historical consciousness applied to faith, hence must live in a changed world by means of antiquated pieties and timeworn concepts of authority, morality and the Bible.

We know a little about Elizabeth and Zechariah: he was a priest; they live in a very poor region so they are not well - heeled by any means; and we also know that they are upright in the eyes of God; blameless in his sight.

At the depths of the deep lake, Harry discovers what success means to him in comparison to the lives of innocent victims — in this case, Hermione and the little sister of another contestant.

What «quality of life» really means and what a person would agree to in a political situation where one can have little trust that one will be fairly treated are of course open questions.

It's all I know to do, really, in the face of this life: one small «yes» to God, to keep saying «yes» to Love, to refuse to give in to fear and apathy and numbness, and make space for God, and push back a little more darkness, then right foot, left foot, right foot, each of us bringing our small portion of grace, until we end up where we were meant to be all along.

Up to now, spouses who really sought to live their conjugal relationship as God wished, to sanctify themselves in and through their marriage, received little orientation from the teaching of the Church, aside from the idea that a certain abstinence is a recommendable means not just of family planning but of positive growth in married sanctity.

If we have so little control over the world in which we live, can our lives, and the lives of those we love, have - any meaning?

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.

For you and many good people of means the situation calls for a supreme act of selflessness, and let us be honest selflessness is little rewarded here in this life.

* I am indebted to Terry Eagleton for the use of this word «pointless ``, although he uses it in reference to life in his wonderful little book, The Meaning of Llife in his wonderful little book, The Meaning of LifeLife.

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

While Christians choose to live by a certain set of rules, that does not mean they should not be engaging in the larger world, even in parts of it where they have little chance of «saving» others.

We like to think our lives have greater meaning and purpose but once we teach our little rug rats how to make their way in the world our purpose is complete.

Don't worry little kids, you won't die when you die, I mean not REALLY REALLY die, you'll still live, and you'll live in paradise, and daddy will be there to hold you and love you and tell you that you are such a good little Human etc etc etc..

But if the Vinaya - pitaka holds little general - reader interest, it is fundamental to an understanding of Buddhism, for the very genius of Buddhism, in its original form, was to take man out of the common life of the world and set him apart on the way to enlightenment, which was the end of all his seeking, for this meant escape from the wheel of birth.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

«Cage Free» - Similar to «Free Range» this means that the birds may not live in wire cases per say, but they most likely live in a large enclosure with thousands of other birds with very little space.

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