Sentences with phrase «meant everything in the world»

And each one had a family to whom they meant everything in the world.

Not exact matches

Now that doesn't mean there was not divine intervention through man with guidelines, but just like everything else in the world that mankind has touch, God got pimp for various agenda.

Is it easier to believe that the matter in our universe evolved from nothing, or has been eternally existing, then created everything, including our souls that search for meaning in this world?

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

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.

Those who are seeking for the «secular» meaning of the Gospel could well turn to Whitehead's doctrine of the secular functions of God.51 God holds the world together by offering his eternal structure of value to every particular experience so that everything happens in significant relation to the world order and the community of beings.

The phrase «Paschal Mystery» presumably means everything involved in our Lord's passing over from this world and entering into his glory: his death, the descent of his soul to Limbo, his preaching to the spirits who were in prison, the freeing of the just souls, the Resurrection, the Ascension and perhaps also the sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

(p. 99) «Nietzsche's atheism is thus a corollary of his basic commitment to question all premises and to reject them unless they are for some reason inescapable... To escape nihilism — which seems involved both in asserting the existence of God and thus robbing this world of ultimate significance, and also in denying God and thus robbing everything of meaning and value — that is Nietzsche's greatest and most persistent problem.»

Indeed, on the basis of Matthew 25, ordering our attention and overcoming our addiction to distraction has everything to do with our ability to recognize Christ in one another and to learn what it means to be the body of Christ, a people formed by habits of good attention, giving and exchanging the gifts of attention in a world of distraction.

In John 18:5 - 6 Jesus sais «I AM he» and The power of his declaration of BEING GOD brought them to their knees... This clearly coincides with Exodus 3 when God appeared to Moses and Declared that his NAME was «I AM who I AM» Do you REALLY think that that is not by design??? Is this not also a very clear foreshadowing of the future (Romans 14:11, and Philliapians 2:10 - 11) Please oh please see how the Bible is so intricately intertwined and full of the The masters handiwork... Everything, all of life's questions are all within this book, not other sources, if one but will accept them, pray over them, and get the Lord's guidance... This is why I brought up 1 Cor 2:14, Which you took EXTREMELY out of context in the way I meant it to be discerned, which the verse itself explains I might begrudgingly add... John 8:24 after he tells them I am not of this worlIn John 18:5 - 6 Jesus sais «I AM he» and The power of his declaration of BEING GOD brought them to their knees... This clearly coincides with Exodus 3 when God appeared to Moses and Declared that his NAME was «I AM who I AM» Do you REALLY think that that is not by design??? Is this not also a very clear foreshadowing of the future (Romans 14:11, and Philliapians 2:10 - 11) Please oh please see how the Bible is so intricately intertwined and full of the The masters handiwork... Everything, all of life's questions are all within this book, not other sources, if one but will accept them, pray over them, and get the Lord's guidance... This is why I brought up 1 Cor 2:14, Which you took EXTREMELY out of context in the way I meant it to be discerned, which the verse itself explains I might begrudgingly add... John 8:24 after he tells them I am not of this worlin the way I meant it to be discerned, which the verse itself explains I might begrudgingly add... John 8:24 after he tells them I am not of this world.

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.

We live in a world where many of the things the Bible says — God made everything, human beings are responsible for the world's problems, God chose Israel as his special people, sex is only meant for one man and one woman in marriage, Jesus is the only way to God, the wages of sin is death, God is going to judge the earth one day, and so on — are profoundly unpopular.

If God created everything, doesn't this mean he created sin, the devil, and generally everything which is evil in the world?

Just as Israel, as God's elect nation, was elected to serve God in a specific task, but this does not mean that every individual Israelite was regenerate, so also, election elsewhere in Scripture has nothing to do with whether or not someone has eternal life, but has everything to do with what role God wants them to serve in His plans and purposes for the world.

Is it not taught in Christianity, that everything in this world has God essense, meaning in our most basic of forms, we are God.

When we realize Him to be all in all — to be the meaning and content of everything that all creation is about, then all the nonsensical issues that we make Christianity about (i.e., denominations, docrinal differences, Christian culture, saving the world... the list is endless) will fade away.

With all the advances in technology and everything, that does nt mean anything when the spirits and hearts of many people around the world are the way they are.

It does mean that God is the name applied to a set of definite and intelligible aspects of the world made apparent in the experience of everything in it.

And what can this mean except that, like those planetary orbits which seem to traverse our solar system without remaining within it, the curve of consciousness, pursuing its course of growing complexity, will break through the material framework of Time and Space to escape somewhere towards an ultra-center of unification and wholeness, where there will finally be assembled, and in detail, everything that is irreplaceable and incommunicable in the world.

And this means, if we are not to regard the world as having become suddenly meaningless and contradictory, that we are entitled to attribute the value of experimental and physical reality to everything, within us and around us, which shows itself to be a necessary condition for the preservation and heightening in Man of his powers of invention and purposive thinking.

For, in a world without some transcendent truth and good, where everything is just chance, how can any small part of it have any meaning at all?

I believe the spiritual, the internal, will always overpower the external but in order to experience that we have to have an upside down view of everything in that the physical is not ever as important as the spiritual — and this is something special a gift a freedom that is amazing and in our world of Ugg boots and cars with amazing technology, with the million catalogues that drop through the door or show their wares on our screens... to discover and experience the joy of the internal spirit life is nowhere near as easy as it sounds — and once experienced it is an effort to hold to it and feed it for it to grown and be the power it is meant to be.

What this means is that election has nothing to do with who has eternal life and who does not, and everything to do with God's choice of certain people and nations to perform certain tasks and purposes in He plan for the world.

It does not mean the embodiment of everything evil in the world, or the objectification of the ungodly.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

Oh, I love everything you write and was surprised to see that you do not believe in universalism (christian universalism I mean, which is salvation of the world in Jesus Christ - restoration of all things)!!

15 I do not mean to argue that there is a «given» to be defended, nor that frameworks are not operative; but only to suggest that the reduction of everything to cultural frameworks can not work in a two - option world, for that reality to which a framework argument can apply would then be missing.

18 If everything in the world were relative, the word «relative» would be empty of meaning.

He wrote, «From the most essential and most fundamental about oneself to every single thing or affair in the world, even the meaning of one word or half a word, everything should be investigated to the utmost, and none of it is unworthy of attention... There is no other way to investigate principle to the utmost than to pay attention to everything in our daily reading of books and handling of affairs....

Everything else we take our chance on; everything else, including man's relative insignificance in the world, is mere probability:» If one believes in the world - embracing love of God, what does this mean for human relationships, for the dignity of women, for the plight of the economically, politically and racially Everything else we take our chance on; everything else, including man's relative insignificance in the world, is mere probability:» If one believes in the world - embracing love of God, what does this mean for human relationships, for the dignity of women, for the plight of the economically, politically and racially everything else, including man's relative insignificance in the world, is mere probability:» If one believes in the world - embracing love of God, what does this mean for human relationships, for the dignity of women, for the plight of the economically, politically and racially oppressed?

You have to admit though — everyone believes something and I using the word believe to mean not fully able to know all knowledge about everything in the world, and so we guess based on the knowledge of what we know, and assume we are right until some other data comes into our life to prove us wrong.

It means that all that I have lived, experienced, and done «in my body» — and that is everything I do, experience, and live — is so much a part of my total self that in the re-creation of that self by God there is some continuing instrument or organ of experience which makes possible for me both personal existence and also participation with other men and life in a world which is more than just personality.

Further, even if God is perfect (and I don't think that this is necessarily the case) it does not mean that everything else in the world we live in is perfect as well.

This is a man who worked to create something of value and meaning in our world (Minecraft), and now feels isolated and unmotivated because he has everything he ever wants or needs (at least as it pertains to money).

But, when you're in it, and it's your world, the opinion of your peers mean everything.

It seems like people think spotting talent is easy.In fact when it comes to Wenger it's almost as if spotting talent is his talent.He can bring in a young player who looks so average to everyone but with time the player seems to develop into a star.It's just that not everything is meant to be.I can also say that if Wenger had signed certain players he wouldn't have been looking at a young Kante and Lemar.I still expect an unknown young player who has the potential to be one of the very very best in the world to be signed before he leaves.

When a sports team dominates your life, affects your language, assumes the role of family, and offers a means through which you can make sense of where you belong in this world, everything that has to do with that team absorbs the weight of meaning.

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I did everything I could, but a string of injuries at the worst possible time means I will be unable to defend my world title in London,» said Rutherford, who opened his long jump season with a leap of 8.18 m at the Arcadis Great CityGames Manchester in May.

For example, part of the political support at the World Summit reflected an understandable but erroneous desire to use R2P to mobilize more support for root - cause prevention, including investments in economic and social development... if R2P means everything, it amounts to nothing» (4).

Increasingly, and likely irreversibly, to be engaged in the world means leaving detailed digital records of almost everything we do.

In the food world this means everything suddenly gets flavored with pumpkin.

For the one who loves to travel — Because traveling with a good pair of sneakers is probably one of the most awesome things in the world, why don't you show her that her comfort means everything to you and get her one of these pairs that are comfortable yet versatile.

Their values and morals differ greatly from the female gender in the Western world, therefore, everything you thought you knew about impressing pretty Asian ladies takes on a whole new meaning.

-- Photos do not mean everything: Russian women are beautiful and this fact is known throughout the world, but try not to fall in love with her photo, it could be old, out of date, she could have changed her hair style or colour, if a photo is important to you, then you should ask to see her most recent photos.

Being a millionaire doesn't mean someone has experienced almost everything in the world.

«Everything else,» in this case, means an exploration of this undiscovered world, and Garland lets his imagination run wild in it.

The other single parents band together to get him out in the dating world and make him realize that being a great parent doesn't mean sacrificing everything about your own identity.

From there the story enters into a familiar world of angst, slow - pace, and conversations that mean everything and yet mean nothing — in other words, the world of the prototypical indie - movie romance.

A lot of folks don't like the ending, but it ties up all the loose ends (certainly not in a way we hope for and expect) and solidifies everything that has come before it as one man's fruitless search for meaning and decency in a world that seems to deny us sense and civility on a daily basis.