Sentences with phrase «many problems of life»

Residents of Puerto Rico are facing the reality that it may be months until the power grid is restored, and the problems of life without electricity range from the obvious (severed communications and no way to combat the oppressive heat) to the potentially catastrophic (parents unable to provide respiratory treatment for an infant with pneumonia).

He seems, however, to write from the point of view that looks first to government for the solution of the problems of life, and to imply that Lutherans are not doing their share for the common good because they are underrepresented in the upper echelons of politics.

If you expect a «man in the sky» (to quote «The Invention of Lying») to fix the problems of your life or to give you a mansion when you die then you're being foolish.

Given this confinement, they have had little direct access to the great social questions of the day... [They are] encouraging nostalgic attachments to former ways of life... and abandoning the victims of social dislocation in rapidly changing urban environments... They appear more interested in maintaining secure spaces which can sustain them in their attempts to cope with the daily problems of living.»

His approach to the problem of life and the beginnings of his «theology of crisis» were made when as a minister he first realized the utter impossibility of communicating to his hearers the faith by which he himself was animated.

There are many aspects of AA's program and philosophy which can be applied to other problems of living.

If a person has difficulty coping with the «normal everyday» problems of life we may call it emotional illness.

Without it the glaring injustices, the inexplicable tragedies and the unsolved problems of this life make nonsense of the idea of a loving God.

This is the old faith, just as the last problems of our life remain the old ones: that we should become loving and unselfish, that we should bear the darknesses of existence, that we should finally come to terms with death, that we should do our duty also when we can expect no earthly reward, that we should follow our crucified Lord and Saviour.

As long ago as 1953 in his study of Heroes, Highbrows and the Popular Mind (Bobbs - Merrill), Leo Gurko discerned «signs of a movement away from [brawn and] egotism,» at least in the movies, to a new type of hero who was aware that the problems of life perhaps could not all be solved by a breezy manner, a gun, or a punch in the nose» (pp. 192 - 193).

Belief in immortality is philosophically suspicious because it represents no solution to the «fundamental problem of life's transience, of which death, as we usually think of it, is merely the most extreme instance.

For Garaudy, religion is an opiate only (1) when it devalues the problems of this life as relatively unimportant, (2) when it conceives God as jealous of the autonomy of man, and (3) when it has recourse to a God of the gaps who supernaturally intervenes to solve human problems (RE 115 - 17).

Therefore, contemporary increases in the number of divorces, nonmarital births and fatherless children are just new wrinkles on perennial problems of life.

Such an enduring entity, with its binding of any individual entity to the line of its ancestry, is, taken by itself, as irrelevant an answer to the problem of life, which is a bid for freedom, as is the doctrine of substance» (1:403).

Many of these victims might — and eventually do — welcome it as a solution to the problem of life.

responses and the problems of living within «our new found longevity,» they reported: «There is no time limit drawn by the advancing years to female sexuality.»

Karma and rebirth are said to solve one of the great problems of life.

In consequence, the next decade will enable the churches to bring together that which, at their best, they tend to do well (providing persons with a faith perspective from which to cope with the enduring problems of life) and that which they do less effectively (corporate and social ministry).

A discounting of the importance of disciplined human effort in meeting the problems of life will enfeeble any faith or religion, and it is not Christian.

Our capacity to deal with what we call the realistic problems of life would be weakened without this element which contains something profound in spite of the romantic and even absurd ways in which it may be expressed.

But the hero appears as a man of distinguished patience only in the relatively brief prologue of the work; and the sensitive reader of Job may well wonder whether the primary concern of the writing is the problem of suffering or that one vast, central problem of life under God, the life of faith.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

From the moment Levin saw his beloved brother dying and for the first time looked at the problems of life and death in the light of what he called the new convictions that between the ages of twenty and thirty - four had imperceptibly taken the place of the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he was horrified not so much by death as by a life without the slightest knowledge of where it came from, what it was for, and why, and what it was.

So of course the real problem of life is not that all the structures and molecules in the cell appear to comply with the known laws of physics and chemistry.

Brunner has recently published a monumental work on ethics which takes full recognition of the concrete problems of living.

It undermined my earlier assumption... that there could be no conflict between true ends, true answers to the central problems of life.

Alas, they have also fooled everyone (including doctors) into the wrongheaded notion that the fundamental personal problems of life and death — bonding, growing, developing, becoming, being, declining, leaving, and grieving — are also open to technological fixes.

The tragedy of the use of alcohol as a solution to the interpersonal problems of living is twofold.

When he embarks upon the difficult problem of life after death in the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, he expressly groups what he has to say upon certain historical facts about Jesus Christ which he says «were communicated to him by persons who were in a position to know.»

With the increasing discrimination of the individual, however, as a center of keen interest, it became clear that the problem of life's justice to him is a much more complicated and difficult affair.

Both are crucial to the problem of living out our faith in everyday life.

So vivid and obsessing did the expectation of an imminent Messianic age become, and so did the imagination of judgment day with its awards fill the popular mind, that the solution of the problem of life's injustice was seen mainly through apocalyptic hopes.

Job, a virtuous man, suffering incredible afflictions and so facing in acute form the problem of life's injustice, blazed tentative trails toward a solution.

And in less deontological kinds of situations, a person conceives himself as having a unique life, a career, with problems of life - style and of leading a meaningful life.

This effort must continue to the point where the child can see the problem of a life role more clearly as a sexually differentiated individual emerges from within.

These groups help the teen - ager to understand the nature of his parent's illness, to experience the group support of peers who share many of the same problems, and to apply the Twelve Steps to their own problems of living in an alcoholic home.

The vision of the ever - living and ever - present Jesus Christ gave him the right perspective from which to look at every event and every problem of life.

For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of living rather than merely on psychoses.

The reply to all these questions is that in a measure at least all of these things have been done in this year of grace 1925 at the beautiful city of Stockholm, when seven hundred delegates from all about the world met to consider the problems of life and work which confront the Christian Church.

The revelation of an ultimate friendship, however, is not without its own kind of injunction or demand But the demand is simply that we surrender any attempt to solve the big problems of life all by ourselves.

Whether we are liberal or conservative Christians, we must confess that the central problem of our lives is that we are torn apart by the conflict between our attraction to the good news of God's abundance and the power of our belief in scarcity — a belief that makes us greedy, mean and unneighborly.

Yet I am not persuaded that the hope of another life answers the problem of life's unfairness and suffering, and if it diverts us from addressing those injustices, it offers us comfort at the expense of the agony of other people.

It is often supposed that preoccupation with metaphysics makes one's work irrelevant to the real problems of life, to matters of public policy, for example.

I can remember perfectly that when I was coming to manhood, the half - philosophical novels of the time had a deal to say about the young men and maidens who were facing the «problem of life.»

These stories deal with the problems of living with Alzheimer's Disease or stroke damage, the abuse of the elderly by their children, nursing home horror stories, the cost of long - term care, and the problems of those who must work, care for their children, and also care for elderly relatives.

Precisely the fact that the tradition of his words is silent regarding many problems of life is proof to us of this sign quality.

Therein lies one of the biggest dietary problems of life for those who still consume dairy.

Being positive gives you and your partner the strength to work through the inevitable problems of life and marriage together.

«The children and families I chronicle in «Collateral Damage» have long suffered from the health problems of living in violent neighborhoods,» McDaniels said upon learning she had won the award.

Using the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (CANWSH), a national sample of Canadian workers, the researchers measured proficiency, or mastery, by asking study participants how much they agree or disagree with statements such as: «You have little control over the things that happen to you» and «You often feel helpless in dealing with problems of life.»