Sentences with phrase «look upon a life»

But it helps enormously, indeed it makes a fundamental change in our thinking, if we look upon the life we lead upon this small planet as temporary, as only part of a whole, the quality and extent of which we can only very dimly perceive.

«We look upon life these days from two opposing points of view,» writes Carl F. Von Weizsäcker, «from man, and from physical science» (The History of Nature [University of Chicago Press, 1949], p. 122).

O Lord Chief of the gods Who alone art exalted on earth and in Heaven,... O Merciful Gracious Father in Whose hands rests the life of the whole world, O Lord, Thy divinity is full of awe, like the far - off Heaven and the broad ocean O Creator of the land... begetter of gods and men who dost build dwellings and establish offerings... O mighty Leader whose deep inner being no god understands... O Father, begetter of all things, who lookest upon all living things... Who is exalted in Heaven?

While this may certainly discourage certain people who might look upon life insurance as an investment, it definitely provides peace of mind to someone who does not have adequate savings to secure his / her family financially in the event of his / her untimely death.

Not exact matches

«1 Second Everyday makes it easy to look back on any given year of your life and relive it in a way that's instantly absorbable and easy to reflect upon,» says creator Cesar Kuriyama.

He identified the three main problem areas these people faced - financial aid, academics and a social life - and looked at what solutions already existed and how they could be improved upon.

Upon reflection, a major piece of advice that sticks with me in life and business is his advice to «remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.»

Mark from the Middle you reflect poorly upon Christianity when you sink to hateful name calling «Atheist garbage» and «filth» You might want to take a look at your own life and remove the log from your own eye before commenting on the splinter in your brother's.

They talk about their families because that is what really matters in a person's life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important in that individual's life

Such a view might make you look upon the daily «annoyances» of life a little differently.

I totally agree with you and I am thankful to come upon this article and especially your comment.And yes your earlier experiences in life WERE real.I believe you.You are not mentally ill.Keep on praising God, looking for God in all things.Have an awesome new year.

It looks upon the daily work to support one's family and to improve the life of the community as an obligation as important as prayer.

He ended, «I am sure your sons will look back upon Yale as a better place to have lived and learned because of the controversies, including the draft resistance controversy, which so tax the patience of so many of their elders, including their president.»

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.

The Resurrection made it possible to look back upon that human life with fresh insight, so that in later years St. John could write a Gospel in which, though the subject is still the events which took place in Galilee and Jerusalem, the deeds and words of Jesus are reinterpreted in the full light of his risen glory.

28 He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.»

In a satirical magazine launched in 1721, the school's self - appointed jester sneered, «I have known a profligate debauchee chosen professor of moral philosophy; and a fellow, who never look'd upon the stars soberly in his life, professor of astronomy... and, not long ago, a famous gamester and stock - jobber was elected professor of divinity; so great, it seems, is the analogy between dusting of cushions, and shaking of elbows; or between squandering away of estates, and saving of souls!»

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

By way of criticism, I simply note that, despite his emphasis on the inner life of Cod as a process of self - giving love, Jüngel, like Moltmann and Mühlen, continues to look upon the Spirit as the bond of love between the Father and the Son.

Surely feel that you are not aware of the proper way of how to preform ablutions or keep your A$ $ as clean...!?! So please speak of no superior or inferior we are all of Adam & Eve and are as equal only those who fear God most are more superior but as I see you are not God fearful since you look upon his creations and Worshipers as if inferior to you although they might be remembering, worshiping and praying to God more than you do... or will do in your life...

She looks with sincere respect upon those ways of conduct and of life, those rules and teachings which, though differing in many particulars from what she holds and sets forth, nevertheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men (John 1:9).

To look upon the beauty of Oregon is to understand what people mean when they say this is God's country, and that's exactly why Brother Gregory lives here.

True believers (and I am not one of them, but I have seen what they are) preach love and comfort, doing good deeds without looking for recognition, connecting with something because it helps them deal with their life, loss, love, and insecurity, without trying to force it upon others.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

The religious are always looking to put religion front and center in public life: displays and signs on public property, laws based upon their religious beliefs, their beliefs taught as science in schools, bells on Sunday, etc..

The fact is that we always think we are right from whatever angle of vision we look out upon life.

I hope I live to see the day when those who believe in Iron Age Judeo - Palestinian mythology are looked upon as a numerically insignificant cult.

God's stamp upon the universe and on our lives looks indisputable.

The story of Jesus is what the eternal trinitarian life of God looks like when it is projected upon the screen of history, and this means not only on the screen of human history but...

He has «come» to man in a human Life, using as the vehicle for His self - expression «that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled.»

The story of Jesus is what the eternal trinitarian life of God looks like when it is projected upon the screen of history, and this means not only on the screen of human history but of sinful human history.

Look around and see all the wonders of Life here upon this Heavenly World of many splendored species!

We live in a time where taking a stand, especially on biblical truths, is looked down upon.

Living in Salt Lake City, I know exactly how women are looked upon by the LDS church.

One of the epigraphs in Paul Mariani's book is from Flannery O'Connor:»... if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself.

They were looked upon as an expression of the power of papal universalism; the popes and churchmen who sponsored these enterprises hoped that they would demonstrate to the whole world the strength of the church's control over the lives of the believers.

But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and won the consideration of all who now had turned their attention to him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of the philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life in future upon that of Apollonius.

It is these little nuances with life that points to something that science and atheist can not fully explain no more than the Pastor of the local church, after a storm, looks upon his town and has to field questions of «why my house» while at the same time having to field «Thank the Lord my house was spared.»

The great hermeneuts of suspicion taught us to look upon truth with this posture, and it is difficult to free ourselves from it — to abandon ourselves to the possibility that truth might be more basic to our lives than the will to power.

But look at the victim dead upon the cross who, nonetheless, is strangely alive and life giving, and then observe the victors who gaze upon his lifeless body and do not seem to recognize that they are the ones who are dead.

Even Harnack, in his Luke the Physician, could write: «Whoever confessed Christ as Lord (Kyrios), and renounced both the good things and the burdens of this life, and looked upon the Old Testament as God's revelation, and looked forward to the resurrection, and proclaimed this to the Greeks without requiring them to be circumcised and to observe the ceremonial law - such a person was a Paulinist.»

Although the strategy taxed its resources, the immigrants came to look upon the church as a legally protected repository of national or ethnic identity, and upon the faith as a taken - for - granted — even a necessary — part of life.

And the Chronicler, who sees only the glories of Solomon's rule, informs us that Uzziah's greatness was the reward of faithfulness to Yahweh (v. 5) Be that as it may, at least two Yahweh prophets, Isaiah and Micah, look out upon the life of Judah in the decades following Uzziah's reign with bitter reproach and with condemnations that must fall, in part, upon Uzziah.

There can be only one reason and that is because many of us have been conditioned by years of misguided church teaching to look upon gay and lesbian individuals as morally inferior, unworthy and therefore undeserving of that which we uphold as good and sanctified in our lives.

With Paul and against the millennarians, must we not look forward to a great human reconciliation at the end of time more fervently than to a great divine vengeance upon all the sinners who have ever lived?

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

So with that being said, why would anyone who believed its fundamental teachings look condescendingly upon living the religion to an extreme?

If the great religions continue to waste their energies in a fratricidal war instead of looking upon themselves as friendly partners in the supreme task of nourishing the spiritual life of mankind, the swift advance of secular humanism and moral materialism is assured.32

Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.

We must now look more explicitly at the way in which the Christian outlook upon family life is rooted in the ethics of Jesus.