Sentences with phrase «material things of life»

This should have freed us from preoccupation with the material things of life.

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What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

I just mentioned tonight to my apartment mate, that it seems bizaar that any number of simple things, like «love one another», «do no harm», «material riches seldom bring fufillment», «a life of moderation is usually the healthy choice»....

When you visualize what you want you are more likely to get it... and I'm speaking about anything in life, least of all material things.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

If the Darwinist, taking up Descartes» and Bacon's project of understanding nature according only to material and efficient causes, studies the history of living things and says that he can see no organizing, active principles of whole living substances (formal causes) and no real plan, purpose or design in living things (final causes), then I accept his report without surprise.

Wonderful teacher... get out your Bible and start reading... this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing leading millions to an eternity in hell... the prosperity gospel he teaches is contrary to the teachings of Christ... Christ talked about abundance in life but he was speaking of spiritual abundance not material things... Scripture and Christ said in this life you will have trouble... Christ suffered in this life as did each of his Apostles... open your eyes before it is too late for you.

When Jesus speaks of having life more abundantly, this, I think, is the life he means: a life that is not reducible by division, category or degree, but is one thing, heavenly and earthly, spiritual and material, divided only insofar as it is embodied in distinct creatures.

none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier with those who don't value the material things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods happiness

They do find coherence in the interactions of material things, but they think that the laws of matter are an all sufficient explanation of life.

For it is only when it is plainly seen that the great purpose is the building of the universal Kingdom of God, and that the object of human living is the development of the human spirit, that the irrelevance of such things as material success becomes apparent.

We need more positive things in this world instead of the negative news media that constantly gives us negative material to make our days so delightful, and yes, they happen to make a living off of doing that.

A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge can not understand the meaning of chastity; a man who ranks the amassing of material things as the supreme end of life can not understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world can not understand the things of God.

Not only land, people and culture has transformed into raw - materials, labour and tourist souvenirs, but all symbols that provided meaning to life has turned into commodities Those realities that refused to assume itself in the form of a thing (commodity) have rendered valueless.

This is not a way of acknowledging the simple fact that we live among people as well as things, or that we choose our own associates, or even that much of the material world is now the product of human construction.

In the epistemological sense, all things (living or dead) are reduced to their material aspect by an act of the intellect.

It was mainly from the study of living things that the great idea of evolution sprang — an idea that appears to be applicable to everything, living and nonliving, natural and man - made, material and nonmaterial.

The important thing today is that we should be able to discern from the fragment of our life how the whole was arranged and planned, and what material it consists of.

All materials made have a seam, so the earth has seams, it is not a solid thing like a rock, it's like patched up, it took him 7 days to patch up this planet into a ball, which you can compare to a football, which have patches of two different colors (white and black), the people that are living on this «ball» the earth, is also mixed with black and white people, who try to live in harmony with everybody, why disrupt it with foolishness.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

6 - Firstly, living things are made up of the living material or the protoplasm while non-living things are made up of dead material.

Receive instruction; choose the better things of life; final satisfaction can not be found in material things, but only in the uncharted region vaguely known as the spiritual realities of life.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

12 It may well be a legitimate and well - founded thesis of the philosophy of nature (and in what follows we will confidently take it for granted) that infra - human living things are not reducible to purely material factors.

7 - If we defined growth as adding new material to our bodies, then DNA is living, because in the process of replication it add new sequences to its structure, but even in this case we have say it is non-living because DNA is not showing development which is the second part of growth, and simply development is the changes in structure living things undergo as it grow and age.

In a sacrament, a material and visible — in brief, a «sensible» — thing or action is taken and used by God, in accordance with the will of Christ (whether that is by direct institution, as with the eucharist, or through what Christians believe to be by the Spirit in the life of the fellowship, as with baptism), to convey and to effect a spiritual, invisible result.

At the level of subordinate, mutable, material causes, then, there is plenty of room for the unintended, though always because there are already definite purposes in play; but from the vantage of the ultimate Cause, who knows and wills all that has being, motion, or life in any way, there is no such thing as chance.

The great majority of all the material things we use today have been developed in the last of these 800 life - spans.

The stories of Jesus were the material things and moments of our lives: bread, wheat, weddings, parties, work, all of it blessed by his very embrace and presence within them.

They are continually beset by temptations which assailed the Messiah - to live by material things rather than by the Word of God, to seek the cheap success of the market place rather than the «well - done» of the heavenly king, to establish an empire by force and fear rather than to win the nations by sacrificial love.

Usually used in the context of a positive turn of events or the receiving of some material blessing, the «God thing» phrase gets under my skin because it implies that God is behind every stroke of good luck in our lives.

The evolution of the living thing is only an aspect of a process traceable over the whole order of material being.

Finally, systems which we consider worthy candidates to be granted the name «living» differ from things like clay minerals in that they contain instructions, not only for copying, but for the elaboration of structures which can actively Operate on surrounding materials.

Insisting on the imaginative factor in the projection of sense — objects in no way implies that they are illusory — a consideration that everyday life gainsays, since often fatal material consequences ensue from representing things wrongly.

The crucial point was that a living organism is more comparable to a molecule or atom among inanimate things than to a mere unorganized aggregation of materials like a stone.

Oprah offers tools for living your best life: books to read, people to emulate, material things to help (an eclectic assortment of goods that make up a monthly «O list» of belts, shoes, vases, towels and other accessories).

He is not one of the many religious teachers who believe that matter is inherently evil, that the spiritual life should avoid material things so far as possible.

The biblical material stresses the material world, the bodily condition, the time - and - space reality, which we all know and in terms of which we exist as men and women; it does not take flight into some supposedly more «spiritual» realm where these things are of no importance and where presumably life is lived, at the creaturely level, without any genuinely created order at all.

Still, the show's island is at the least a purgatorial landscape — it's no coincidence that several of the characters are Catholic, lapsed and otherwise — where the things that the castaways carry from their previous lives provide the raw material for suffering, struggle, and growth.

For this is what we are faced with: a dehumanised, devalued, civilisation where, having stupidly mortgaged our life's possibilities, sinking them in the acquisition of material things, we see society totter on the verge of bankruptcy.

Paying for things like website design and maintenance, and associated fees along with all the baking materials for developing and testing recipes, along with literally hundreds of dollars in hosting fees every single month, to keep the blog live — and loading fast.

But for everything else, babies seem to need lot of material things to help them through the first year of life.

We choose a life of simple things on the material level and offer you the deepest grace we can muster in the realm of what matters most.

The material shows students that washing machines, clean drinking water and other things that improve their lives are the result of scientific advances.

If you take a planet that has water and organic material, which you can't really avoid having in some sense, and you let that thing evolve for a couple of billion years, how are you going to stop it from forming life?

Tissue engineering is like other kinds of engineering, except instead of using steel or computer code to make things, living cells from skin, muscle or cartilage are the raw material.

Because RNA can do many things at once, those studying the origins of life have long thought that it was the first genetic material.

So whether or not you locate the damage in the kind of climate change that comes with that material standard of living or the [loss] of community that comes with it, that's one of the things that makes it possible to imagine a change.