Sentences with phrase «living with difficult people»

Still visiting at the hospital, still living with difficult people on the Vestry, still looking up the right page for the Collect of the Day, Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.

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According to the study, being slightly more difficult to get along with may come with monetary benefits, but people who are agreeable by nature tend to have stronger friendships, are liked more by their peers and are more satisfied with life in general.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

It would have comforted me on those dark, difficult nights of trying to figure out what was wrong with my life and gently guided me in the right direction to become the person I am now.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Some people exist in a world so unlike our own that it's difficult to imagine them being bogged down with the concerns we have — concerns like breathing or living.

Divorce, and affairs, are a particularly difficult subject for me and I've experienced my own hell over the competing violently clashing truths that force people to take sides with broken lives and relationships in the wake.

Their conviction raises a very difficult issue, a thorny and uncomfortable problem: how to live with people with whom we disagree on basic issues of human life.

Shocked as we have been by well attested stories of unspeakable tortures and degradation's, by the mass exterminations of the gas chamber, and by the living death of such places as Belsen and Buchenwald, many people find it difficult to react with proper indignation to contemporary cruelties such as the Communist slave camps in Siberia, or the callous indifference of most people to the plight of millions of refugees.

But His yoke becomes easy and His burden becomes light when we look to Him for wisdom and guidance, when we lean on Him for strength to sort through the difficult choices in life and when we see people how He sees them — with loving, eternal lenses.

If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.

«Strawberry Field has the potential to bring that vision to life; changing the lives of young people with learning disabilities, who find it difficult to find gainful employment, as well as encourage more projects similar across the UK.»

I believe he does have a shepards heart, but Im starting to develop empathy for shepherds because you guys are in a difficult calling on your lives dealing with difficult people.

This book is for pastors and Christian educators who wrestle with the difficult issue of how to include people from traditional and nontraditional families in the life of a congregation.

It's good to ask lots of questions and to talk with close friends but theological legalists (ironic since that term has been used by aforementioned organisation for its own ends) inevitably exist who will make life difficult for people who don't fall into line.

Biology seems to suggest that, for all of our empathetic features we still operate with a fairly instinctual pulse toward survival and self - serving fulfillment (or to at least live long enough to reproduce), so it's difficult for me to envision peace coming from within; but, I can submit myself to the communal disciplining of a peacemaking body of people who may, through rigorous training, shape me into the kind of person who can live peacefully amidst the insanity of never - ending traffic.

Living in a small city with a somewhat tarnished reputation as a pastor and a Christian has made things difficult in some ways because people want to know exactly where you stand.

Like many urban young people today, they had to endure that scandal, and to make life even more difficult, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee their hometown with their son to a neighboring nation as immigrants to escape persecution and genocide.

The Jewish people, more faithful than any similar group in the keeping of the moral laws they share with the Christians, more assiduous in the practice of repentance, more diligent in forgiveness, have indeed survived to this day and so demonstrated in a fashion the social relevance of their faith; but it would be difficult to describe the sort of existence the Jewish race has enjoyed as «fullness of life.»

It has been hardest with the people in my life that I find quite difficult, and yet God has still told me to interact with them with humility.

This does not necessarily mean it is the will of God for us today, because we are different people, living in difficult places, with different cultures, at different times.

Ideally, the help line would be live by the holiday season, said Morehead, which is often a difficult time for people struggling with religious doubts.

Both books are essentially arguing that because (a) Christian living is quite difficult, and (b) lots of people have rejected the faith, we should get with the existentialist fashion and jettison the bits which people say they find tooinconvenient.

Life is difficult enough for those in poverty without the further handicap of lack of contact with an institution capable of instilling values with which a person can achieve a heightened sense of discipline, dignity, and hope.

I hate difficult people with allergies and suddenly I am one too — it's only happened in the last 5 years, it's very very irritating, as I've been caught out so many times (crabmeat is the latest one, but I'm not too worried about that as I utterly love crabs as living beings, they're so cool) Sorry for the essay.

It's pretty difficult being a young person surrounded by friends and family who do not understand food issues, but with the knowledge that is out there on the internet, people like us can live fairly functionally in a society based around wheat.

It's difficult for us as separate individuals just to figure out how to live our lives like this — but Comté has figured out how to do this with thousands of people together all at once.

«It was very difficult to leave West Brom because I had spent nearly a third of my life there and had made a lot of good friends and worked with good people.

«Today we live in a period where people are very demanding and I can understand that but I know as well that I have guided this club through very difficult periods with very, very, very limited resources.

Biggest point is here that he one is getting his bread butter along with trophies very easily then why that person would leave that job and make his life difficult??? Arsenal is not Man United or Real Madrid where managers join them because they hold a dream to manage that clubs....

Even in Arab countries, with their heat and traditional distrust of dogs, many people live happily with all sorts of pets, and it is not difficult to find a helpful veterinary clinic in Dubai, for instance.

It is really difficult to connect with people at a certain stage in their life, unless you have been there.

People with T1D are doing amazing things and living full lives, but most people don't realize how difficult it can be to People with T1D are doing amazing things and living full lives, but most people don't realize how difficult it can be to people don't realize how difficult it can be to do so.

This is probably why so many people feel the need to hide their messes and present a clean living room, however, with Jessa Duggar having a lot of followers, it makes it difficult to hide these types of things.

The difficult part of growing up with this technology dependence is that we seek out acceptance and friendship from people who only see part of our lives online.

Unfortunately, this lack of understanding from the general public can make life difficult for people with aut...

I think right now we can get away with not asking these hard questions because enough people on earth still live in relative poverty and are not creating the waste that we as a country create, but when that changes (and it will), or when we have created so much waste ourselves as to arrive at that critical tipping point, we will need to have difficult conversations about these things.

Many of these issues are difficult to talk about but, on the whole, I find myself engaged in discussions with young people who are passionate about the positive impacts of technology on their lives and how they are learning to address problems they face, mainly against a dearth of formal education on the topics.

The Tories will continue to press forward with labour market reform making real people's lives increasingly difficult and unsustainable.

That's why, thanks to the Liberal Democrats, the Government has been helping people get through these difficult times with measures to make life fairer and easier.

Their view of morality is based entirely on scripture and the people they admire, so it's probably difficult to understand why we'd care about the lives of people that we are unaffiliated with, so they attack us where it hurts.

«He's got a network of people around the state that have a lot of experience with the taxing policies of the state of New York — the small business guys, people who are trying to make a living running small businesses and they run up against the policies they think make life difficult for them,» Cunnginham explained.

«What I would say about him - and actually all newspaper proprietors who have this difficult relationship with politicians - I don't think I've ever liked or disliked these proprietors they are just people you have to deal with,» the foreign secretary told BBC Radio 5 Live.

«This programme will explore how a community faces up to the choices involved in living in an era of cuts, and examine the way in which people act as a group when confronted with limited resources and difficult decisions.

... These are difficult times, and this is a very expensive state to live in with very high taxes, so I think you're missing the point if somebody thinks the only passion [ate people] are the protesters who show up.

«It can literally follow them for the rest of their lives and saddle young people with challenges that for many are very difficult to overcome,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The second principal theme was that schools seem to find it difficult to accept that some of their students are sexually active, leading to content that is out of touch with the reality of many young people's lives and a consequent failure to discuss issues that are relevant to them, say the researchers.

Between one and five people in every 100 with Barrett's esophagus go on to develop esophageal cancer in their life - time, a form of cancer that can be difficult to treat, particularly if not caught early enough.

«How people cope with difficult life events fuels development of wisdom, study finds.»

Thirty percent of people infected with the parasite develop life - threatening symptoms like heart rhythm abnormalities and difficult eating or passing stool.