Sentences with phrase «means understanding its purpose»

Find the right dog grooming table means understanding its purpose.

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The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

«Attracting great people means you have to keep an understanding of what your purpose is,» Dorsey says.

That means nearly 60 percent of employees are operating daily without a clear understanding of their company's purpose and values.

Neither this article nor that post are investment recommendations but, rather, an academic overview meant to help you understand the structure, purpose, and benefits of holding companies in certain specific contexts.

The access to real - time trading information provided by the majority of the top signal providers and trading software will aid you in knowing which assets to trade as well as the ability to fully understand the meaning and purpose behind the trade.

I think most often, it's not, where the employee doesn't always fully understand what they mean to the company and the real purpose intended by the managers who hired them.

That means a knowledge of the culture and the purpose of the writing is crucial to understanding.

I understand that our purpose in gathering here is to reflect on whether we do indeed have such a calling and, if so, what it would mean concretely to respond.

This understanding of art, now of the gallery and simply open to view rather than created with a purpose, seems to symbolise our modern era: at once a loss of God, purpose and meaning, yet at the same time a search for deeper and more lasting realities.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.

the diversity of religious faith through out the world through the ages is just part of gods will, in the evolutionary process of change it is necessary to have multiple variable inputs to achieved a sucessfull synthesis.since all religions is gods will, the purpose of such is beyond our comprehension or immediate understanding but it has a profound meaning and direction

That perhaps there is logic to at least be open to consider the possibility that us, life, nature, the universe, and everything may have come about through design in some sort of fashion or another and just because you may not understand it all doesn't necessarily mean that that there is no purpose behind it all.

But theology isn't the end, it's the means; as with a hard science in the laboratory, the purpose of gathering knowledge is to use it as a basis for further work and increased understanding.

If you understood the purpose of what Jesus preached about and I mean all of it, you might at least admire Jesus or him wanting do something right for humanity.

According to the Hartshornean understanding of perfect love, we might interpret the scriptural command — «Be ye perfect» — to mean that we are commanded to act from a social awareness that is perfectly responsive to the interests of all others, and for the purpose of promoting the greatest liberty for all.

Being so intent on trying to understand every aspect of it, but missing the simple meaning or purpose all together.

If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.

But understood in the context of our joyful «play,» this advice to work takes on a new perspective.0 ur toil is not meant to master life; it is not for the purpose of wresting the key to salvation from life itself.

Because we are thinking creatures we naturally search for meaning and purpose in the life we find ourselves living in this world, and nothing can be meaningful unless we are able to understand it, at least to some degree.

I subscribe to a «thick» view of natural law, which aspires to understand both the inbuilt purposes and meanings of the created order and the deep structure of the created moral intellect.

Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to understand the purpose or meaning of the universe.

In so doing, some sacrifice of completeness has been made, but by this means the reader will be able to understand that both these writers have a single purpose: to declare the meaning and content of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This corrective also served the purpose of presenting to the church a new understanding of itself and of the autonomous modern world, and it reminded us what it means to be a Christian in the world come of age.

Any discipline, be it theology or philosophy, which seeks to understand the meaning of, purpose of, behaviour of, and relationship between the different constituent «beings» of this reality of ours should at least try to account for and incorporate an understanding of that which is observed in such a reality.

This corrective also served the purpose of presenting to the church a new understanding of itself and of autonomous modern world, and it reminded us what it means to be a Christian in the world come of age.»

As I understand it, he meant «the primary purpose was not sacrifice, but faithful obedience.»

I do take issue, however, with Hancock when he states that the natural sciences are «for the most part... safely insulated from the questions of ultimate purpose that condition our understanding of the meaning of education.»

That perhaps it may be logical to be open to the possibility that the great complexities of life, of nature, of the universe could possibly be because it was designed, and just because you may not understand it all doesn't mean that there is no plan or purpose behind it all.

Religion is an attempt to understand the purpose and meaning of our universe.

Despite the American and democratic character of Protestant churches and the theological schools that serve them, an interpreter who tried to understand them primarily in this context would need to do violence to them, to twist the meaning of their affirmations of purpose and to misconstrue the character of the work that goes on in them.

Thus, the term «to understand» carries a distinct, not clearly conceptualizable meaning so that it is not strictly equivalent to comprehend — unless for practical purposes speakers freeze the relationship, forcing an identity on the relationship.

When the statement is understood to mean, «The only purpose of Sunday school is to teach the Bible» or «The purpose of the Sunday school is to teach only the Bible,» then it becomes yet another stereotype.

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.

Our thought and logical processes are meant to act upon inspiration to begin understanding, but the spiritual side needs to monitor that to prevent the ego produced by the logical side from turning that to misunderstanding and downright error, for its own purposes.

Heschel is, of all theologians I know about, the one who most completely understands what it means to talk about divine knowledge, will, or purpose.

I liked her line: The purpose of faith, as I understand it, is to infuse life with greater meaning.

The purpose of faith, as I understand it, is to infuse life with greater meaning.

For the purpose of this descriptive task he is concerned, in the first instance, with the impact which these writings make on himself, and not primarily with the first aim of exegesis, which is the detailed analysis of the meaning and intention of the original writers; though this does not of course mean that his individual understanding and evaluation can dispense with scholarship.

This also means that our faith must be understood as commitment to work for the purposes of God and not as a pious hope for the next life.

I find it difficult to understand those philosophers who hold that the individual's life can have meaning even if the universe as a whole is void of purpose.

You may wish to pursue the relationship between God and the natural world, or the meaning and purpose of distinctions like general and special revelation and whether they are still appropriate, or your understanding of the church.

Do you not understand that the word «one» could mean unified, one in purpose, one in faith, not literally... «one?»

Although, no doubt, an aesthetic understanding of cosmic order is less than adequate also, I think that it is superior to and broader than the ethical model as an approach to understanding what may be meant by cosmic order or purpose.

There are fundamental differences between the two regarding the nature and purpose of marriage, which in a secular society means, inevitably, that the state's understanding of marriage is going to prevail, and be enforced by coercive measures.

Although this understanding of the most basic purposes of law and government has been constantly affirmed in the tradition of papal social teaching, it is by no means peculiar to Catholicism.

As an alternative to such a disreputable point of view, however, we might understand purpose in the universe in terms of what has sometimes been called a «loose» teleology.7 By this I mean that the cosmos may be a significant, value - laden process without needing to be strictly directional in its advance through time.

That happiness of truth in God can develop from a generalized peace, and the joy of purpose in life and its meaning, into a permanent knowledge of God possessed in a peace that «passes all understanding» (Phil 4:7).