It has a strong message about seeking and finding
meaning in life without thumping you over the head with the message.
There are ways to find connection and
meaning in life without believing in something that's existence is about as proven as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy.
Hey just because you're too weak to find
meaning in life without a fictional character telling you what to do doesn't mean that the rest of us are the same way.
Not exact matches
I thought
living in New York City
without a car
meant I polluted less.
Family and our personal health frame our
lives in meaning,
without which none of the sacrifices of a startup matter.
These instant notifications can use the phone's GPS as well,
meaning you're occasionally notified that someone nearby is interested
in meeting you right now — it's almost like real
life,
without the risk of face - to - face rejection.
Without taking the time to think carefully about where your notions of achievement and purpose come from and what success
means to you, you're
in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the point of
life is something you actually don't value much at all.
A
life wothout God is a
life without truly knowing love and that
in turn
means you were always dead.
and being aware of your environment, being respectful of those of all beliefs and none beliefs, and of our world, and its about personal responsibility, with that said why is is such a bad thing to believe
in something greater than yourself, how can somebody
live there
life without believing
in something, what kind of
life is that,
life is
meant to be discovered, its one big mystery, and all the science
in the world can still not prove how we exactly came to be?
In Eliot's poems, «the confusion of life will be reflected in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raqu
In Eliot's poems, «the confusion of
life will be reflected
in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raqu
in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear
meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raqu
in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds
in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raqu
in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past
in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.&raqu
in the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically,
without comment.»
Religion is one lie after another: the lie of original sin, the lie of eternal
life, the lie of hell, the lie of answered prayer, the lie that
life can have no
meaning without religion, the lie that religion is the source of morality, the lie of creationism, the lie of a spy -
in - the - sky who hears your every word and reads your every thought.
In fact, the question of
living life without any evident inherent
meaning is the core of Albert Camus's great essay, «The Myth of Sissyphus.»
Another condition of us being
in this
life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this
life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead
without any
means to overcome death.
Without such a
means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation
in the
life of the parish.
«
Without any doubt,» the Pope Emeritus taught, «a first
meaning is that it is Our Lady, Mary, clothed with the sun, that is, with God, totally; Mary who
lives totally
in God, surrounded and penetrated by God's light.
This would
mean «appropriate technology,» that is introducing into villages forms of technology that would improve the
lives of those who used it
without destroying their independence, that is, technology they could understand and service, and,
in many cases, produce locally.
The Christian
life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth
in love... tolerance
means accepting everything
without judgment... we can not do that
in this society
in the midst of moral decay.
Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not
live a christian
life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing
in my
life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his
life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it
means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.
In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work
in my
life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz
My
life does have
meaning without a belief
in a god.
«Only he reaches the
meaning who stands firm,
without holding back or reservation, before the whole might of reality and answers it
in a
living way.»
We just have to say that that is fine for him, but for you,
without belief
in God you would not know how to
live and your
life would have no
meaning.
With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political
meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who
lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending
without expecting anything
in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.
The foremost
meaning of a sacrament is «that the divine and the human join themselves to each other,
without merging themselves
in each other, a
lived Beyond - transcendence - and - immanence.»
It is only when one loves
life and the earth so much that
without them everything seems to be over that one may believe
in the resurrection and a new world; it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace; and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it
means to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.
My
life has
meaning without the belief
in a hereafter.
I put this question out to some of my Rabbis
Without Borders colleagues, and
in addition to seconding the Bereshit Rabbah idea, they recommended Searching for
Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday
Living by Michael Katz and Gershon Schwartz and Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Rabbi Burt Visotzky.
It's also incredible that you believe that by having faith you can find
meaning in life, but people
without faith lead shallow
lives.
Forty states enacted truth -
in - sentencing statutes, which require felons to serve as much as a full 85 percent of their prison terms
without any chance of parole;
life sentences now truly
mean life.
The word has this rich and varied
meaning, not because one wants it to have it, or believes that it ought to have it, but simply because on can not talk about the Christian
life without using the term «Christ»
in this manifold way.
One can not gain even a little acquaintance with the early church — which
means, one can not do even a little reading
in the New Testament —
without recognizing not only the importance of what the word «Christ» stands for
in its
life, but also the richness and manifoldness of this same reality.
God allows satan to afflict others biut he sets limits
in Jobs case he was not to kill him remember that all things work for good to those who love God does nt
mean that bad things wont happen as we
live in a sinful world.We can trust him with our
lives and
in his son we have peace but not
without struggles or trails.
In our weakness we are made strong.brentnz
@Civiloutside, It
meant something to Hitler and thousands of Nazis
in that society to
live in a world
without Jews — is the action they took then permissible?
«
Living without a why»
means that you don't ask, What's
in it for me?
To have an opinion presupposes a sense of ease and security
in life, such as is implied
in having a wife and children; it is a privilege not to be enjoyed by one who must keep himself
in readiness night and day, or is
without assured
means of support.
His
life never attains to a
meaning, for it is composed of
means which are
without significance
in themselves.
The pastoral ministry
in all its dimensions requires the recognition and the sensitivity to help people who feel isolated,
without a purpose for
living, but who still seek peace
in the midst of violence;
meaning in the midst of overwhelming personal emptiness; honest relationships; the joy of celebration; and
life in a community of believers.
We may, that is, be «
living beyond our moral
means»
in trying to retain such demanding, universal standards of morality
without the metaphysical and religious substance that once underlay those standards.
We are «secular»
in the sense that we pursue the immediate goals of
life,
without asking too many ultimate questions about the
meaning of
life and
without being too disturbed by the tragedies and antinomies of
life.78
I long for a society
in which modernity would have its full place but
without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society
in which the diversity of ways of being, of
living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate,
without allowing this diversity to be diluted
in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society
in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their
meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society
in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place,
without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns
in a power struggle.
I did not say you were wrong about what Christians are saying that is unloving and unkind toward other Christians I just
meant there is an extreme that can drive us
in the wrong direction if we
live just by our emotions because we can not fully trust them
without leaning on the Word of God.
All I can do here is to suggest that there is a place today for a general concept of resurrection that sees permanent
meaning and value
in our
lives without depending upon belief
in individual
life after death.
I believe that his role
in my
life meant that I was able to be around the young people
in my area
without fully conforming to their ways.
For, if faith is «trust
in God's love alone for the ultimate
meaning of our
lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our
lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith
without being identical with it.
Just because you like a book that absolves you from learning anything doesn't
mean you will get anywhere
in life without... wait for it... LEARNING SOMETHING!!!!!
Your difficulty is that you want to try to
live in history
without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom of God on earth ends
in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace of tyranny
means, at least, the absence of war (Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.
I protect kids for a
living, do everything I can to help ALL people, respect all
life and give everybody their dignity, give my time and resources to help others, complain little, hurt nobody, want minimal things for myself and often go
without, sacrifice for family, friends and community, but because I do not think there is a deity
in the sky, I'm going to Hell while some selfish, ignorant,
mean, destructive, abusive and hateful person who says, «Sorry» to God at the end of their
life goes to Heaven.
But others (and yours had the sense of this
without really saying it directly) seem to use it to
mean a time of spiritual drought (unrelated to other occurances
in one's
life).
Without Christ, man is meaningless; without man, all life besides is meaningless; without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their
Without Christ, man is meaningless;
without man, all life besides is meaningless; without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their
without man, all
life besides is meaningless;
without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their
without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have
meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness
in their being.
It can't be done except by
means of reference to another sort of experience than is contemplated
in statements about «fullness of
life»; it can't be done
without reference to a resurrection.
Nevertheless, God is there, not here or elsewhere, but everywhere
in secret: where the ground of all silently confronts us, where we encounter the inescapable situation of responsibility, where we faithfully do our duty
without reward, where we realize the blissful
meaning of love, where death is accepted
in the midst of
life, where joy no longer has a name.