Sentences with phrase «meant as a good thing»

(I don't know what that means, but I mean it as a good thing.

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As you probably already know, it's very easy to obtain information over the Internet, and while this is a good thing most of the time, it also means that if you're not careful, cyber criminals can get their hands on your financial credentials.

Which usually means that you don't do as good a job at those things in the long run.

Bureaucracy is «pretty transparent» as well, meaning «there are no bribes to get things done,» says Skinner, and policies remain fairly consistent.

But that doesn't mean jobs will come back because [things are] made in America, because the labels may as well say made «by robots» in America.

Jim Cramer tracked Conagra Brands» comeback to see if it means good things for the frozen food space as a whole.

And as Kowitt pointed out throughout her questions, sometimes consumers say one thing and do another — meaning they say they want to eat more fresh produce and incorporate healthier foods in their diets, but still spend billions on snacks and beverages they know aren't good for them nutritionally.

How often do you think the good things such as being on time, or signing a new client is simply how it's meant to be?

I mean you do everything, so they want people that have all these different skills and abilities to do other things, and work well together as a team.

Of course, just because some people are over-concerned about their anxiety and would actually do better if they simply accepted their worrying doesn't mean that there's no such thing as excessive anxiety.

«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.

This means that, all other things being equal, it's better to have one or two positions as number one than it is to have dozens of positions on the second page or lower.

If by «elite» you mean smart and well spoken, and by «liberal» you mean open minded and thoughtful, then I'd count those as great things.

do you mean things you see written in the bible and then try to apply as best you can?

I mean if your issue is paying for things you do not use then your issue is much bigger than just contraceptives and I hope you are speaking out against the rest of it as well.

If I were you I would avoid these types of places as people talk about many, many topics and if this nice man and his well meaning article angered you, being around other people talking about things may be too much for you to handle.

Perhaps it seems a little pedestrian to describe the burning - bush moment as «getting to the balcony,» but Heifetz means that Moses had to step away in order to get a better look at things.

People are slowly going mad, trying to push homosexuality as a positive, good thing and a means on which to build society.

I could much more easily go with «Christian» as «follower of Christ» but... the term is so loaded, and everyone thinks you mean one of the other three versions of what «Christian» is, and besides, while there is a lot about Jesus that works for me, there is some that doesn't and I believe it is likely stuff inserted in after the fact to make things fit, but... * shrugs *... then that is speculation as well.

They don't really believe what he said, saying such things as, «Well, that's a difficult passage to understand, I don't think he really meant that.»

For what the mythic pattern, the heightened renditions of good and evil — the Gandalf rescuers and the Sauron evil lords — allow for is what Tolkien elsewhere has called «recovery,» seeing things as we were meant to see them.

Telling people they are sinning for being LGBT or for having an abortion or using birth control or trying to impose your specific set of beliefs upon others in the public square is not a good thing and certainly doesn't show that you have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect.

The franchise has managed to do one thing better than almost any other animated movie: Weave in laughs written for adults with just as much frequency as the stuff meant for kids.

Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason.

So Jeremiah's companions in disaster asked him to pray that «God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do» (Jeremiah 42:3) With God conceived as infinitely wise and good, reasonable prayer must be conceived not as a means of forcing on God the bidding of man, but as a means of releasing through man the purpose of God.

On the other hand, the fact that we can serve as means to ends can be a good thing if we do not overlook this.

That he chose intuition as a mode of apprehension best calculated to seize such true images of things as they are in their living context simply meant that, of the tools available, this, in his judgment, was best suited to accomplish the intellectual task in its most realistic and vital sense.

BUt if you mean other things as well... then lets study and find out

Well, one thing we can say with certainty (and in full agreement with Paul), is that the Law was never given as a way to gain eternal life, or a means of pleasing and appeasing God.

The context of Genesis 1:26 - 27 gives us the best clues as to what is meant by «image» and it probably refers to the things that set us apart from animals — our intellect, emotions, will, authority to rule over creation, desire for relationships, and other non-physical attributes and characteristics.

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

Early on, having admitted the difficulty of speaking of ultimate mystery at all, he adds, «This does not mean that it is not worth saying, that it is just empty talk... I do have some things to say, but... I want it understood from the outset how problematic all of this is, how uncertain; but however uncertain, these are matters worth attending to, worth trying to understand as well as we can.»

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

There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»

In that spirit, then, Dionysius could affirm that love, as applied to the Godhead, «means a faculty of unifying and conjoining and of producing a special commingling together in the Beautiful and Good... and holds together things of the same order by a mutual connection, and moves the highest to take thought for those below and fixes the inferior in a state which seeks the higher.»

As for a «talking snake»... God used many means that are at his disposal to use as he sees fit since he created all things and then at times he uses symbols to represent spiritual things to better show us the spirit behind somethinAs for a «talking snake»... God used many means that are at his disposal to use as he sees fit since he created all things and then at times he uses symbols to represent spiritual things to better show us the spirit behind somethinas he sees fit since he created all things and then at times he uses symbols to represent spiritual things to better show us the spirit behind something.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

Rick i struggled for over 20 years as a christian in the end i said whats the point of struggling i feel powerless and useless so i gave in to sin that did nt work either but i was so sick of struggling and seeing the same results i became more miserable and even more powerless in my struggle with sin.I decided one day no more enough was enough i needed to get my life back in order.That was years ago and it was a process over 5 years that God dealt with all those things in my life that needed fixing most days i just said to him Lord i cant do this i just do nt have the strength and he said thats okay you cant do it anyway just trust me.So now now i l know what it means to be an overcomer in Christ sin does not have the victory over me anymore because Jesus is my strength in my weakness.I know i cant live a christian life in my strength but i certainly can with Christ in me he is my strength and in him i am an overcomer.If this is speaking to others just want to let you know that you to can be an overcomer you do nt have to struggle or battle with your walk or feel miserable because you give in to sin there is a better way.Just admit that you cant do it and ask for his help for the holy spirit is in you and he is the one who helps us in our weakness.regards brentnz

(Now, I think they meant that we weren't as loud or communicative as they would like, they prefer a big show of emotion and we weren't very good at that kind of thing, you see.

It means among other things respecting other religions as well as other people and trying to learn from them, without giving up conviction in one's own.

Does that something is just the way things are mean we should therefore just accept them as being that way, and not address them and move to change them for the better?

Following a rule of good manners may mean doing something you do not want to do, and the weird rhetoric of our self - indulgent age resists the idea that we have such things as obligations to others.

By «perspective» I mean the realization that things will never be perfect In this world, that the ultimate good is unobtainable, that there is no such thing as a human cause or human institution without error and sinfulness, that only God deserves our ultimate loyalty.

I mean grant it were not going to agree on everything in life, but it would be a step in the right direction to at least make good use of our time, especially if we actually cared about such things as solutions.

God's natural order can still be grasped at by the common sense of men of good will, but the full truth and meaning of creation, the separation of the sexes and of human nature, will only ever be in part and obscurely viewed when the determined and determining purpose of the mind of God is recognised in creation, holding all things relative to Himself — and to His plan to enter creation as its Lord and King.

It would have been better, easier and best to for them if to read the most recognized holy books of the Three dominant religions and choose out a faith out of them taking the positive for life and society and leave out the negative for life and society rather than having it shoveled down your throat to take it as it is a be extreme on some thing that is mystic unexplainable or meant for different ages and unsuitable or scientifically disapproven.

What I mean by that is that we all have unconcious bias resulting in stereotyping and prejudices (good or bad) influenced by things such as our childhood experiences.

(2) Even if the «Bible» is a credible guide for such a thing as living the good life, this doesn't mean that it is the only such guide.

By sacrificing himself, God allowed sinful man to be made pure (through Christ's blood), not through doing good things but by believing in him (here I mean * true * belief, as Christ taught it, not the watered - down meaning it has today).