Sentences with phrase «lived by the wisdom»

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With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

As you mature, and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves.

By becoming one of his 6.2 million Twitter followers, you can get a look inside his daily life and learn from his pearls of wisdom.

His insight and wisdom was certainly something to be valued by every woman or man who is looking to make an impact in the world of business and in life.

How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life - Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem by rod dreher regan, 320 pages, $ 29.95 In 2011, Rod Dreher returns to his hometown in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, after years living elsewhere in pursuit of a (highly successful) journalistic....

Mary, Seat of Wisdom: Reflections on the Intellectual Life Monday, April 9 Join the Thomistic Institute at Yale for a lecture delivered by R. R. Reno of First Things.

the problem with some Christian is they don't know god... even just by acknowledging God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your name and God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom...

If 90 % of the country believed in the tooth fairy and thought we should all live by laws originating in the tooth fairy and run our country according to the tooth fairy's wisdom, you'd probably be on blogs dealing with the tooth fairy and arguing against the use of her existence as a basis for running society.

There's a lot of wisdom in the teachings of Jesus that I try to live by.

I have been enlightened by the life and wisdom of Gandhi, but I have not experienced intimacy with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that there are Hindus that have spiritually experienced the intimacy with God that I as a Christian have experienced.

If wisdom is to be ours, it must grow in us slowly like a tree — a tree of life — and at the end of the long growing we have its ripe fruit, sweet to the taste, which is the knowledge of good and evil — the kind of knowledge by which a king may rule well, and any of us may govern our lives well.

If you marry my wise daughter and settle down in the household, you will - by virtue of a family life lived well - gain all the wisdom that you are seeking.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

Begin by praying for God to show you who they are and where they live and work, and then, pray for the courage and wisdom on how to do more than just put some money in a plate or write a check to an organization.

The poor man may be clinging (with a wisdom he himself by no means understands) to that which is his life.

Rather, he or she lives a life punctuated by «deeds of gentleness born of wisdom.»

However, without a doubt, we can affirm that much wisdom about healthy family life, based on the experience of generations, has been taught by the churches.

Driven by her conviction that «the practices of living religious traditions have great wisdom to impart,» Dorothy Bass examines Christian practices in «both their ancient grounding and the fresh and vibrant forms they take today.»

And he maintains that human wisdom is a reflection of Divine wisdom: «the wisdom by which man is expected to control and direct his life reflects the wisdom by which God's laws govern all nature» (REN 30).

I do nt know what some of you haters are talking about... but the the Glorious Qur» an says: take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.»

For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle.

Perhaps the Eastern Christian Tradition can provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when Religious Traditions experienced Grace more deeply by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other.

Words of wisdom in books and preachings can be of help in our searching but they are not the truth as it can exist only in living a life in harmony by listening to the inner voice of our hearts.

The book includes subplots of love stories and conspiracies, along with interludes of a peasant life marked by a spiritual wisdom and uncomplicated human decency that the sophisticated have discarded with contempt.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

(See, for example: 1 Corinthians 1:30: «But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption»; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - 10: «For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come»; 1 Peter 2:24: «Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed..»)

Thus the danger: What was once a noble venture has become a temptation to a false transcendence, one that involves a utopian dream of public life governed by moral universals rather than political wisdom.

Simplistic growth models such as unfolding flowers are deceptively attractive but inadequate when applied to the complexities of human life The recognition that «dying» precedes rebirth is a valuable part of ancient Christian wisdom (expressed symbolically by crucifixion preceding resurrection).

If we can say: «The Wisdom that creates the whole cosmos, from its tiniest structures to its greatest, the Wisdom that enables the human mind to grasp and use these structures, has lived on earth to enable us to live in a divine way, now and for ever» - then we have a Gospel worth preaching, a truth to offer that is attractive by its beauty.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

He is, and He always was the Life of their spiritual being, and by giving his whole self, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, under the appearances of bread and wine, He gave his whole being which is quickened by his Divinity, to be the nourishment and growth in wisdom and goodness of us his people.

Well, it seems to have been «not so muc... a supernatural external miracle but... the dawning internal realization that this life of Jesus reflected a new image of God, an image that defied the conventional wisdom, an image that called into question the exalted king as the primary analogy by which God could be understood.»

Why in this country do we seem to teach that having faith in god is more important then having knowledge and wisdom based on lived experience rather then stories based on 2000 year old morals and ethics???? Lets grow up and start living up to our const.ituation, or is that just another truthless notion to which people claim to live by?

Becoming a Better Confessor Baltimore, Maryland July 7 — 9 Guided by the wisdom of the Thomistic tradition, this fourth annual summer conference will consist of practical talks and roundtable discussions on issues of immediate relevance to the life of contemporary priests.

Life control, birth control, death control — there is a controlling logic here, a gnostic «worldly» wisdom that does not like the world we have been given and by supreme effort seeks to construct a world that can be controlled.

Ruth is not identified as a woman of valor because checked off some Proverbs 31 to - do list by keeping a clean house and producing children, but because she lived her life with incredibly bravery, wisdom, and strength.

The modern world has underestimated the wisdom about the inner life gained by human beings over the centuries and embodied in the religious traditions.

It sought a solution of the problem by way of personifying the concepts of God's Word and God's Wisdom, identifying, as I said just now, Word and Wisdom with a pre-existent Son of God, and asserting that it was this divine being, this personal projection or offspring of the mind and purpose of God who took human nature and lived and died and rose from death.

If they wish to show their wisdom, let them do it by a life of good works.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

So a Christian life that takes that seriously would be a life lived by the alternative wisdom of Jesus.

Life seems to make sense mostly on the mediocre dignity achieved by Vicki's family, and especially in Franks loyalty to the pathetic Walter, whose impulsive kiss he brusquely rejects and whom he really doesn't like very much, but to whom he represents integrity and a little wisdom.

When He says wisdom is justified by all her children, He means that whether He is right or the Pharisees are right will be determined by the lives they live and kind of disciples they produce.

Life is not simple and our response to the challenges surrounding mental health needs to be seasoned with the same wisdom and honesty shown by Warren: «In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit.»

The holy spirit is real to me he speaks to me he leads me he gives me wisdom he comforts me and he empowers me to do the work i am called to do.the evidence that you are walking by and with the holy spirit is that you are walking no longer walking according to the flesh but by the spirit of God.One of the things i used to struggle with was sin but no more it is the holy spirit that empowers me to live a holy life and when tempted i admit that my flesh is weak but that in Christ i am an overcomer and in the holy spirits power he strengthens me to be like Christ.To God be the glory great things he has done.brentnz

This appears to be what happens, however unintentionally, when issues raised by pluralism and by fragmentation are dealt with by construing theological schooling as a movement from «source of wisdom» to «wise living,» or from «basis - of - theory» to «application - of - theory,» or from a mode of «inwardness» or «subjectivity» to «outward manifestation and expression.»

Since humans are aware that their lives will end, and they are not at all thrilled by this fact, they then seek an imaginary leader who will provide the same wisdom, benevolence and protection in a much hoped - for afterlife.

In his infinite wisdom, he has created such intricately complex, and self sustaining living beings, and planetary systems that could not (even by any strech of imagination or clever postulation) be honestly construed to be an accident.