Sentences with phrase «live at the edge»

They already understand how to live at the edge of economic and social chaos.

Books which give a sense of a new age include Bede Griffiths, A New Vision of Reality (Collins, 1989); Leonard Swidler, The Meaning of Life at the Edge of the Third Millennium (Paulist Press, 1992); Charlene Spretnak, States of Grace (HarperCollins, 1991); Keith Ward, A Vision to Pursue (SCM Press, 1991); and Hans Küng, Theology for the Third Millennium (HarperCollins, 1991), and Global Responsibility, to which reference has already been made.

Ours is a society that lives at the edge of normlessness, and on the other hand, we are a society that reacts to normlessness with a heavy - handed emphasis on conformity.

In fact, given the degree to which the «early followers of Jesus... suffered Rome's punitive regime, living at the edge of prison,... risking torture and execution,» Taylor finds it exceedingly peculiar that «Christians today are so accepting» of Lockdown America.

Finally, Brueggemann contends that God lives at the edge of such violence — war is not central to divine activity.

As the Church, we believe we live at the edge of the eschatological horizon, meaning we are a people who live in a tension between what we preach and the broken world around us.

It's as though they live at the edge of a looking - glassworld where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near - human qualities.»

We live at the edge of the woods... and with leaves it makes for a beautiful fall.

Set in 2093, Nightflyers tells the story of a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who set off on an expedition aboard the spaceship Nightflyer in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system.

It makes vivid the gap between «children born to educated parents who are more likely to read to them as babies, to drive them to dance class, to nudge them into college themselves — and children whose parents live at the edge of economic survival.»

My guest post today is by C. Lee McKenzie, blogger and author friend, who has a new middle grade book out that looks awesome: Alligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors... not unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville.

Although we live at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, our weekend adventures often take us inland to enjoy the lakes and streams of California and her neighboring states.

Amy Irvine's memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, won the Orion Book Award and the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award.

Room Description: Feel like you're living at the edge of the world in one of these Key West accommodations, offering panoramic views of the Island from your private balcony.

Its a well established fact that artists frequently live at the edge of culture, fashion, and education.

, who blogs over at http://www.grasslandsgallery.com/blog-2/ Her stories of her life and experiences as an artist living at the edge of a national park in Canada never cease to compel me.

Life's too short for mediocrity, so live at the edges.

More black than white, more activated surface than blank paper, the monumental «drawing» by Richard Serra comes to life at its edges.

But even without the threat of hunters and poison, life at the edge of the Arctic Circle has its challenges.

Can species survive climate change when they are living at the edge of their ideal niche?

-- Ground - level view of the visible climate change in Greenland: «Gundel says that for 2,000 years, the Inuit — formerly known as «eskimos», which to many is a derogatory term that means «eaters of raw meat» — have lived at the edges of the Arctic ice.

In fact, paleontology shows us that dinosaurs were highly adaptive and complex life forms, living at the edge of chaos.

Nevertheless, I suggest that law firms, like other corporations, can be characterized as complex systems that follows a similar evolutionary path as complex systems that are alive, adapting to their environment by living at the edge of chaos.

Not exact matches

If your emergency fund doesn't have sufficient cash to cover at least 30 days of living expenses (three - to - six months is recommended), then you are living on the edge of financial oblivion.

However, doctors and scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are developing cutting edge prosthetics to improve the lives of amputees.

Two of the leading scientists at the edge of the medical revolution believe that our life expectancy could start creeping up toward the triple digits.

When I worked at Intel, we used to say that we live in a bleeding edge of technology.

We're living in a time of risky geopolitics, right at the edge of true war.

At a time like this, where many life insurers, particularly ones facing credit risks, and those having variable policies, where profitability has declined along with the stock market, the surcharges could have kicked additional life insurers over the edge, and who knows how big the cascade would have been.

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I love how you're living on the edge with only $ 20K in your 401k at 42!

Have you ever thought about what it means to be living at the very edge of evolution - the most highly developed expression of a cosmos becoming aware of itself?

Let us read history, our history, as a living account of what we once were, with the double - edged consciousness that all of this has gone forever and that, in spite of everything, that period of youth and every moment of our lives remain mysteriously present at the wellsprings of our soul in a kind of delectable eternity.»

We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.

(CNN)- In the past, at times like these, when his life foundered and frayed around the edges, Ryan Bell often prayed for help.

He can CLAIM he is a «prophet» operating at the edge, but if your living is made strictly by books, tours and on - line courses within the «emergent empire», you are not a prophet, but rather a «profit».

New York Times bestselling author Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks:

We are made in Gods image and thus we need to reflect this image and His character outwards into the lives of people... at their edge of life and personal hell reflecting Gods grace, mercy, justice, compassion and forgiveness.

Those others who stand at the edges of our lives at such times can not realize the sense of deep, deep isolation that comes when life as we have known it has been suddenly extinguished.

The younger Hinn completed a restoration process and was «re-ordained» Sunday at Orlando - area Church on the Living Edge, just eight months after he resigned from his position at Gathering Place Worship Center in Sanford, Florida.

His life ends on the cross which stands at the edge of history showing man what his spirit ought to be, at the same time that it discloses what man as man can not be.

And at present... more and more patterns of worship and shared life are appearing on the edge of our mainstream life that cry out for our support, understanding and nurture if they are not to get isolated and unaccountable.»

The conflict between the mothers who choose not to abort a Down syndrome child and these who do is salient at the Web site «The Ragged Edge,» where the mother of such a child expresses her disgust with «A Heartbreaking Choice»: «In other words, their fetuses had no value as imperfect living beings.

Granted, we have a (very beloved) baby - sitter for our littlest girl two mornings a week while the older two are at school, so that I can make phone calls, do interviews, and work uninterrupted for a bit of time, but I am usually at home, trying to get in a full - time job at the edges of our life.

Slowly: out of that sleep that numbs the knife edge, I come home to a various world, to faces and voices, To a blur of angels at this keep, awaiting.Vague prophecies of life somewhat lasting, A testing of steadying heartbeat, of firm susperation.Such is the welcomed review of my waking, I, who long....

Long story short, the capitalism that can raise standards of living around the world, is NOT the same capitalism at work in negotiating with people who are living on the edge of survival.

Wolford wanted to travel to the radical edges of Christianity, where life and death gazed at him every time he walked into a church and picked up a snake.

Despite all our frantic efforts at the diminishing «ragged edge» to extend life and defeat death, Callahan notes, «death always wins.»

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

You never saw anything so purple in your life, and the cloth was some shimmering fabric that reflected light in remarkable ways, so that staring directly at even the edges of the rippling brilliance of his robes was mesmerizing, which is probably the whole point, robewise, when you think about it.