Sentences with phrase «means of things said»

Taken in this second sense, the hermeneutic structure of testimony consists in that testimony concerning things seen only reaches judgment through a story, that is, by means of things said.

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In this beautiful citation, wrongly attributed to Buddha, it is said: «In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.»

And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

«We need to complete the banking union,» he said, «Completing the banking union means slightly different things for each member of the Eurogroup.

The word «culpable» was in itself carefully chosen, Glees said, because it could mean one of the two things: That Putin did not take proper care of his military - grade Novichok nerve agent and it fell into the wrong hands, or that he willfully weaponised it on foreign soil.

He's smart and does good work, but you cringe when you see him, and his lack of understanding social cues and penchant for saying inappropriate things means you live in lawsuit fear.

If the first prototype brought in front of potential customers doesn't work, it means «you don't understand their pain point — there are five or 10 things you are not addressing,» Zenios says.

Should the decision end in a draw, the ACA could mean different things in different states, depending on federal court of appeals rulings, legal experts say.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

«This means they lose some, but it's a drop in the bucket in their process to create things that will have a real influence,» said Jon Elvekrog, CEO and co-founder of San - Francisco - based social advertising firm 140 Proof.

To us, that means things you share with those services, you are giving up or deciding ownership and control of your personal messages and photos with a large corporation,» she said.

«What that means in short is that he understands the back - end workings of the business well enough that he could rebuild them himself (well, almost), and he also cold calls customers and says things to journalists aimed to warm consumers» hearts, such as: «On Valentine's Day in Chicago, we had every driver give every woman who got in the car a rose.

Experts say the Dow's record high means relatively little in the grand scheme of things.

«I mean, I think it's a lot of things,» he said, then he paused.

But here's the thing — when you say «[w] hat we can't afford with our current asset sheet is 1K / mo premiums with virtually no restrictions on yearly rate hikes,» what you mean is that you can't afford the actual costs of your retirement.

«It's clear that the Kremlin will use any means at its disposal to spread propaganda and misinformation, and we each bear some responsibility for exercising good judgment and a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to the things we read and spread on social media,» Warner said.

I think I agree, of course he says only a part, which could mean do other things now, wait 8 years when rates might be better and buy annuity then.

When we say «margins will return to the mean,» what we are saying is the same thing that economist Joseph Schumpeter said half a century ago: the emergence and elimination of excess profits through the competitive mechanism is not simply a passing phenomenon, but is the essential fact that drives the economy forward.

There were many evil things done in the Name of Jesus Christ, but it is not really to be as surprise, becaue Jesus said that the evil one, which is the devil, will plant his seeds in the midst of God's church, meaning here «The Christendom».

Two things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this experiment, and why do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a Christian raised by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis of faith is normal in life, denouncing faith is shameful

Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

I can question them (which I often have), I can get pissed that God's way of doing things means makes my friendships difficult, and I can tell God «I wouldn't have done it that way» to which He shrugs and says, «I know.

I'd like to say though, that just because the bible mentions polygamy, murder, sodomy or incest in a matter of fact way, does not mean that it condones those things.

Sometimes we say things we don't mean and I think the comment your mum made about you was one of them.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

anyhoots to understand what Jesus meant when he said those things you have to read it in context to the time and traditions of the day, although the spiritual truths are still relevant.

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?

Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

Also, I'm sure you mean it as an insult when you say «Xians» instead of Christians, but actually the «X» in things like «X-mas» comes from the Greek letter «chi» (Which is an X) and stands for Christ.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

Guys, I say all sorts of things that are nuts, but I don't mean any of it.

It is sad how people use religion to say and do mean things, and they do it in the name of god.

Others (and the article) said he was a systems administrator, which could mean lots of things (they don't say specifically).

Basically what that means is if you don't stop doing these things, God says, «Okay, is that what you desire instead of desiring me?

Amusingly, Seppo Lehto while going far beond saying mean things, was convicted of hate speach against... wait for it... Muslims.

To say that a state of affairs (5) is valuable for a person (P) generally means one of two things:

@Theo And Jehovah's Witnesses say the exact same thing about how your brand of Christianity has gone astray and perverted the true meaning of the Bible.

This means, says Isaac of Nineveh, «the mind detached from earthly things and the whole heart pointed to that on which it hopes».

However, «Christian» means follower of Christ, and there's no small amount of people who make an open show, such as in the news, of doing all the things that Christ said not to do.

Instead, I think of an Upper Room across the street from the Vatican and what it feels like to be anointed with oil by a motley crew of people who actually believe Jesus meant the things he said.

But Fred — What does it mean to say a prayer has been «answered» if there is never a way to verify it and measure it to make sure it's not the sort of thing that would have happened just as easily without the prayer?

That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands — which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time.

The second thing that should be said regarding this meaning of the supernatural is that the surprising and frightening phenomena are really no different in essence from what is generally called «natural».

Some of what you say is true but that does not mean that all Christians believe the same things.

Recall what we said earlier about the nature of qualitative transformation.2 The notion of qualitative transformation means that a developing or evolving reality always evolves from A to non-A, since for a thing to maintain itself, it must become other than itself.

I know that freedom of speech means he can say stupid things like this, but we ALL have a right to freedom of speech — so we have the right to condemn him for his stupidity.

(Of course, as we all know, they will say that they do not want to be realists, for to be so would mean acquiescing in the very things they reject in our rationalistic civilization.)

It is meaningful to say that one thing is higher or better than, or superior to (or has more of some variable property not a mere deficiency than), another; but this meaning is not simply univocal, since x may be better than y in one respect, say in ethical goodness, and not better in another, say in happiness.

Helped me understand some of the things He said better, put some meaning and life behind the words.

A quick about Abba Pambo — a contemporary of Origen: «If we asked [him] for a word from scripture or some other thing, he would not give us an answer right away but would say, «I haven't figured out the meaning of this word yet»... It normally happened that he spent two or three whole days, or a whole week without giving us an answer saying «if I do not know what sort of fruit this will bear, whether it is a fruit of death or life, I will not speak.»»