Sentences with phrase «modern life means»

February 26, 2013 • We'd all like to live the Norman Rockwell scenario, but for some families, the hectic pace of modern life means dinners are often more likely to channel The Simpsons.

The loud and fast paced nature of modern life means that only a very small number of people have ever experienced true silence let alone understand its value.

The frantic pace of modern life means that finding time to exercise is always a problem.

Modern life means so many new mothers struggle to find their footing alone, without the community support, wisdom — or even the bathroom break — that a village would have once provided.

Today, however, the increasing pace of modern life means breakfast is normally grabbed on the go, in the form of a bagel eaten on the train or a muffin scarfed down at one's desk.

Not exact matches

«Just because the factories look modern on the inside does not mean the workers inside are being treated fairly — being paid a living wage, or are provided with health care or an education,» Palacios said.

That struck a chord with me when I realized that it might mean that creationists are a better adaptation to modern human life.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

Therefore, what this passage meant for Paul is not necessarily what it should mean for man living in the modern age.

he also meant «life» and not «soul,» in our modern sense, as the translation suggests.

The trend of modern thought, with its concentration upon making the most of this present life and the tacit assumption that death means extinction, makes it particularly easy for people to disbelieve in, or to ridicule, life after death.

One might say that the modern discipline of political science is meant to overcome this bifurcation — it is meant to make our political - moral lives, and the satisfaction of interests, a purely and irreducibly rational affair.

You really helped me to understand what it meant in the time it was written for and how it can be applied to modern life.

Yet these modern Saints who have elected to live in plural marriage as the most dramatic and satisfying means of demonstrating total commitment to the fullness of the gospel are clearly a part of the picture.

Whereas Walsh began twenty years ago with the view that modern philosophy was complicit in «ideological madness» and nihilism, his intensive studies of the moderns has convinced him that «the death of metaphysics in thought has meant the return of metaphysics in life.»

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

Niebuhr said that modern culture does not have a principle of interpretation that adequately takes into account the unity of man's self - transcendence and his physical life, the meaning of individuality, or the origin of evil.19

The resurrection of Jesus is just as difficult for modern man, if it means an event whereby a living supernatural power is released which can henceforth be appropriated through the sacraments.

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

In the early days, before modern means of communication were available, the religious center was especially important, but even today it serves as a means by which Muslims learn to live together in unity and diversity.

A great deal of our modern aesthetic turns to transgression as our best hope for the restoration of life, a call for that which is below to rise up and restore meaning and vitality.

Modern sermons, however, seem to be directed chiefly to the end of communicating the conviction that the truly good life can be attained only by means of belief in God.

Nor is he satisfied to set the arts, as an inspirational resource, over against daily life, and to say that religion must use the sources of the Spirit — meaning Beauty, Poetry and Imagination — over against the prosaic and utilitarian world in which modern men live.

In modern urban life, many people seem to have lost any sense of purpose or meaning in life; this was surely true in East Harlem.

Joanne Whittering, a consecrated virgin and Oxford theology graduate, shows how such consecrated living is seen by the modern magisterium as a powerful embodiment of a key meaning of femininity.

I don't think this will work, because the deeper dynamic of modern liberalism is toward the public provision of meaning and security for atomized individuals otherwise vulnerable and uncertain about life.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

Whenever a strong public mandate or enormous wealth or present power is taken to mean freedom from all those responsibilities and constraints which living together requires, we are in the grip of a modern version of an all - virtuous chosen people or of a latter - day Puritan elect.

In a similar manner, Ellul has shown earlier that we have preferred the wrong sort of revolution (Autopsy of Revolution, Changer de révolution), given ourselves to the wrong sort of prayer (Prayer and Modern Man), allowed the idolatrous city to dominate our affections (The Meaning of the City), and substituted facile belief for vital faith (Living Faith).

If people want to isolate words written long ago and live by them, if they choose to live according to a doctrine of hatred, then they only prove my skepticism of what Christianity really means in the modern world.

This means that affirming something passionately enough — in this case the full reality of the profane, secular, worldly character of modern life — will somehow deliver to the seeker the opposite, the sacred, as a gift he does not deserve.

Scripture is not meant primarily to fit or foster individual inner lives — not in the modern sense, anyway.

What do you mean by your statement, «Modern churchgoers haven't properly worshiped God even once in their life.»

This means, specifically, strengthening home and family life, taking a responsible role in politics and participating in the union movement as it strives to recover its role as an ethical force in modern society.

Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being «anti-modern,» which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and capable of formulating a vision for modern political and economic life — the Church does all that — but instead means adopting liberal attitudes toward moral truth.

It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.

The existentialists make an ethical obligation of the notion that death is all and that «living in the face of death means living such fashion that life can be broken off at any moment and not be rendered meaningless by such an accident,» to quote Glenn Gray's «The Problem of Death in Modern Philosophy» (in The Modern Vision of Death, edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. [John Knox, 1967)-RRB-.

The reordering of life according to such principles of rationalization resulted from the tendency of corporate capitalism and the modern liberal state to expand their power, which they accomplished by means of a bureaucratic structure and paternalistic ethos.

Suggestion: SOMEBODY might want to clue in the apparently well - meaning Pope of the theological mechanics necessary to rectify the spiritually - bereft condition resulting from embracing the aforementioned «modern - day prophecy» which include these key steps FOR A BELIEVER - IN - CHRIST (vis - a-vis a «believer in Mary») having since become a Matthew 9:16,17 DEFEATED believer for reason of having erroneously elected to attempt to live the Christian life sans the Power and Presence of the Enabling, John 16:8 - 13 soul - convicting, 2 Cor.

Even if some modern Jews could trace their ancestry back to some ancient Hebrews, do descendants of a people that lived in a particular region 2,000 years ago have a right to return, particularly when this means evicting people who have long resided there?

The modern agnostic, who is by no means unaware of the mystery of life, is not nearly so arrogant as he appears.

Modern living often means you'd like to be able to switch between the breast and the bottle with minimum of fuss with as little disturbance to your baby's feeding routine.

We live in a society today that is in constant overdrive fight or flight mode without a means of release and reset; we are storing more and more stress energy in our bodies, and this one of the main causes of modern chronic physical and psychological illnesses.

Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less by Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest is a simple introduction to what it means to be «minimalist» when you have kids but don't let the word scare you off, minimalist can mean many things to many people.

While means of communication have proliferated and sped up in the modern era, current media do not always live up to their «social» classification.

Speaking on the theme, «One Vision, Many Lives,» the President noted that a society that aims to transform itself into a modern, productive player in the global market needs an educated workforce; and that means it must get its educational policies right.

He mentioned the upgrading of Zuarungu market, construction of modern community library, construction of CHPs compound, improvement in water supply, building of school blocks in Gambibgo, Nyokoko, Dubila and Kumbosco as some phenomenal development he has pursued and said they were all meant to improve the living standards of the constituents.

In the village of Villianur, where 1500 people were dependent upon fishing and had no modern means of navigating their boats, villagers began using the network to obtain the U.S. Navy's wave - height predictions for the Bay of Bengal, and they believe such information continues to save lives today.

The find means the branch on the tree of life that contains modern birds is now surrounded by animals with four wings, says Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, which suggests the four - wing condition may have been an important step in the origin of birds.

Nearly everything we do generates signals, and eliminating them essentially means eliminating modern life.