Sentences with phrase «living for the poorest people»

By supporting my campaign, you'll be taking action on climate change, neutralizing your unavoidable CO2 emissions, and changing lives for the poorest people on Earth!

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This false data may be partly responsible for the poor impression people have of sales, a true profession and very needed life skill.

You make a poor career choice: There are too many people out there who studied for a degree they regret or even spent their lives pursuing a career they regret.

Often people use the old formula of four times their yearly income to determine how much life insurance they need, and this is a poor substitute for actual analysis of your situations and options.

Many popular and famous speakers got a quick - start on their careers by teaching at adult learning centers throughout the U.S. People like Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Barbara Sher (Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow), Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones), and Cheryl Richardson (Take Time for Your Life) built their businesses this way.

You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

«Walmart does not pay employees enough», «Walmart is anti-union», «Walmart sells poor quality goods from China», «Walmart is for unattractive people who live in flyover and voted for Trump» are some popular responses (the last one para-phrased a bit by me, but nevertheless one that reflects a prevailing sentiment).

Unless you have concerns regarding your ability to get coverage, such as if you've been diagnosed with a life - shortening condition like cancer, our analysis indicates this is a poor choice for most people.

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

Professor Myron Christodoulides, professor of bacteriology at the University of Southampton, said: «Outside of the UK, rapid detection and targeted antibiotic treatments for eye infections are very urgent needs for many people living in some of the poorest countries in the world.»

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

In light of this ravaging of people and land in Central America, we realize that the preferential option for the poor, characteristic of Latin American liberation theologies, must be articulated as a preferential option for life.

Phillips says it's true that the Bible teaches Christians to care for the poor, sick and needy, «but the Bible also teaches that God uses and permits suffering in the lives of people for His own ends and purposes.»

They are rich, they get lots of money from big corporations, and at the end of the day, they vote for nothing that may make a poor person's life better.

Jesus eschewed worldly wealth Jesus made it quite clear that rich people must give away all their worldly possessions to enter his kingdom (Mark 10:21, Luke 14:26 - 33, Luke 18:18 - 22), he stood for the poor and underprivileged (Luke 12:33), and Jesus and the early apostles practiced communal life sharing all possessions (Luke 3:11, Acts 4:32, 2 Cor 8:13).

The people being helped see how those who are helping are just like them, couponing, struggling, being frugal; the people don't know who is being helped (churches don't reveal that information to their congregations), but do gain respect for the working poor who live, work, and worship among them.

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

This means Christians working for and advocating the redistribution of goods and services so that poor people can experience a positive, productive quality of life.

The vision of the world as God intends it to be and the reality of suffering in so many people's lives should result in commitment to serve the poor and to struggle for justice.

It was, as it were, a marvellous external sign of his having offered his life for his people, for the poor, for justice, for peace.»

It also creates in us a sense of our oneness with all other people and with all life and so it inspires empathy for the poor and a concern to break down the unjust structures of society.

But over the years, as I have personally engaged in hypocritical and sinful behavior, and as I have watched other Christians do the same, I have found that there are several excuses we give for our poor treatment of other people, and for sin in our own lives.

consider your own logic: so here's a doctor who chooses not simply to make piles of cash in the US, but goes to the poorest continent not the planet... risking his life to work with people dying from an incredibly dangerous virus... openly admitting he is motivated by his faith in a God who didn't just risk his life, but gave it for others...

Once people have seen, they feel an appropriate responsibility to make it part of their daily life to advocate for the poor,» Ward says.

The answer, of course, has been that poor people must be raised from poverty and that the expectations of middle class people for the good things of life must be met.

Sermons that make this second point about poor people tithing often transition over to Matthew 19:29 (or Mark 10:29 - 30) where Jesus promises that those who give up relationships, possessions, homes, and land for His sake, will receive one - hundred times as much in this life and in the life to come.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

The erosion of the soil in areas that have been abused for their mineral wealth, the pollution of the air where poor people live, are not just facts of nature; what we have is an ethical judgement on the exploitation of natural resources by the rich at the expense of the poor.

There is probably some incipient form of hope in all, but where it lacks intensity, life seems to be the poorer, for such a person is not reaching out to his full potential.

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

I count myself lucky that I am where I am today, and that even though I am with my deepest regards sorry for what has happened to 9/11 and other radical Muslim attacks, I am also sorry for those poor boys in Afghanistan, who believe they have no life in this world, the boys who will never get a good education, the boys who will never be thought of boys, but terrorists, murderers, and worthy of nothing but dirt by people, never to truly lead a good life.

Most of us don't need to look for people living under bridges to find the poor.

My changes and current views on these questions are causing me to be more concerned about following Jesus, making disciples, caring for the poor, feeding the hungry, loosing the captives, living on less, loving others, and making friends with people on the fringes than ever before.

This improves living conditions in several ways for the people who live there, many of whom are poor.

Your government has become the center of domination and subjugation of poor peoples of the world such as ours: peoples with an unsatisfied hunger for justice, a deep thirst for a better and more humane future, and an unquenchable yearning for life.

Or do you just hate poor people trying to find a better life for their family?

Selfishness, greed, judgementalism, hate, etc. are not the sort of qualities I would suggest you can defend on that day by explaining that those poor, needy people were deemed unworthy by you & yours for breaking the man - made idea that crossing an imaginary line on his Earth to seek a better life makes one of God's children unworthy of compassion and help vis - a-vis the lesson of the Gospels.

If you read his parable about the sheep and goats, it's easy to walk away with the impression that eternal life rests entirely upon whether or not a person cares for the poor.

If you read His parable about the sheep and the goats, it's easy to walk away with the impression that eternal life rests entirely upon whether or not a person cares for the poor.

ALL GLORY TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN Do you want me to be mute when they slaughter my people, the widowed, the abandoned, the poor and the hapless?The hurt they inflict on my people, how can a father bear his children being killed and left for dead?Therefore, to reinstate love on Earth, hope and my life to sustain my creations, I'm pushed by the unrepentant nature of my creations.

But Abraham believed precisely for this life, that he was to grow old in the land, honored by the people, blessed in his generation, remembered forever in Isaac, his dearest thing in life, whom he embraced with a love for which it would be a poor expression to say that he loyally fulfilled the father's duty of loving the son, as indeed is evinced in the words of the summons, «the son whom thou lovest.»

I think the best way to explain it is that the Church would like to see the wealth in the world spread out similar to what wealth was like in the U.S. in 1976 or so when even the poorest people were able to live modestly and had good opportunities to move up while those higher up in the wealth distribution were still being fairly rewarded for their hard work.

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

But in our context today where millions of people are in hunger and live in sub-human conditions on account of the unjust socioeconomic and political structures of our country, faith in Jesus Christ would mean to identify ourselves with the struggles of the poor and the oppressed for justice and liberation.

On the one hand, helping the poor and needy was indeed a priority for Jesus, and sometimes He helped people whether or not they believed in Him for eternal life and became His followers.

Your government has become the center of domination and subjugation of poor peoples of the world: peoples with a unsatisfied hunger for justice, a deep thirst for a better and more humane future, and an unquenchable yearning for life.

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.

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