Sentences with phrase «most ordinary life»

Although most ordinary life policies do not permit withdrawals, as such, if a withdrawal of cash values is permitted or the policy is partially surrendered, the amount distributed is taxed under the cost recovery rule.

Most ordinary life policies are issued with an automatic premium loan provision that authorizes the company to automatically pay the premium by borrowing against the cash value if the premium remains unpaid at the end of the thirty - one - day grace period.

For example, with most ordinary life insurance policies, the policy owner and insured are the same person, and the beneficiary is usually a spouse or other family member.

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The truth is, the ordinary life we wake up to every day is full of its own magic, beauty, wonder and meaning; we just choose to ignore it most of the time.

Through the most ordinary things — books, for instance, or a postcard, or eyes or hands — life is transformed.

Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and sacred moments of my life.

Most Eye - Opening: «A Country Divided: Stunning Photographs Capture Lives of Ordinary Americans During Segregation...»

Now if we turn from the life of Christ to our ordinary experience of people, most of us would probably agree that there are certain types of men and women who need to be shocked or jolted out of their self - love and complacency before they can begin to see and appreciate what we and constructive love is trying to do.

But for the most part, they remained invisible, ghostly observers of ordinary life, which they condemned in exquisite writings distributed in plain cover editions along the banks of the Seine.

The deeper point is that the ordinary is the stuff of most of our lives most of the time.

On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

Most Americans don't need expensive rehab to perform the ordinary responsibilities of life.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

Instead, the most ordinary realms of life — what the ancients would have regarded as realms that have «an infrastructural relation» to the good life — can now be sanctified by a God - fearing spirit.

Writers like Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas all speak of the most ordinary things, yet find in a weasel's stare, a swollen river, a snail's strange life something far more than...

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Abortion is not the only life issue, but it is the one that bears most directly on the lives of ordinary Catholics as they fight against the current to preserve family life.

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

For most of the inner circle of followers of Jesus the step from ordinary life to an itinerant one was not attended with such great sacrifices.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Their theories do not directly «create a framework of interpretation which can provide an overall orientation for human life» for most of us ordinary people.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

While many of the questions we have been dealing with so far occur when we experience suffering, confusion, despair or simply the unexpected vicissitudes of life, this question can arise, and probably most often does, in the midst of life's ordinary routine.

For physical science you have in these lives merely ordinary examples of the operation of the principles of physiological chemistry, and of the dynamics of nervous reactions: for religion you have lives of the most profound significance in the history of the world.

We are meant to live in Ordinary Time, and to help redeem the time being from insignificance, by making it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary waysOrdinary Time, and to help redeem the time being from insignificance, by making it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary waysordinary, but holy in the most ordinary waysordinary ways of all.

Silence was obligatory for most of the day, and a series of signs were used to substitute for the ordinary business of life, asking for the butter at table or enquring what the time was.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

Pilgrimage breaks the rhythms of ordinary life, calls people out of their normal surroundings, invites them to gather with people of distant tribes who they don't see regularly and to experience the most transfigurative experience imaginable: meeting with the living God, suggests author Dr. Todd Johnson, a professor and theology scholar.

Ordinary families in parishes are the «place» where the Christian mystery is lived out most vividly.

Most of them came to their call through some phase of their ordinary work - a-day life.

Most of the portraits capture ordinary moments in the lives of people.

He said the Mahama administration is not heartless to introduce any new tax that will burden the masses and most especially the aged unlike the NPP, which has a track record of imposing taxes that made lives unbearable for ordinary Ghanaians for which reason they were voted out of power in 2008.

«For most ordinary Nigerians, if you give them good roads, railway and stable electric power they will be happy to carry on with their lives,» the President said.

For most of his life these voices have plagued him and prevented him from living an ordinary life.

Piper, Phoenix and Parker are not ordinary children — they are super heroes that travel the land helping other children learn about living the healthiest, most exciting, most super lives possible.

Lyn Slater founded her website and blog Accidental Icon in September 2014 because she was could not find a fashion blog or magazine that offered an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic but also spoke to people who live «interesting but ordinary lives» in cities; people like herself, who are not famous or celebrities but who are smart, creative, fit, thoughtful, engaged, socially responsible and most importantly, clear and comfortable with who they are and reflect this in how they dress.

And we aren't the most motivated or excited to get back to the ho hum of ordinary everyday life.

Getting into that seven figure earner's life won't be that easy as you think as in most cases they'd rather live surprisingly ordinary lives.

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One of the best films of the decade, Yi Yi, Edward Yang's most accessible (and very last) film is a fluent, charming and precise family portrait that celebrates ordinary life with all its joys and chaos.

It's not surprising that the trailer for Columbus plays up its most conventional elements, the scenes (and dialogue exchanges) that make it seem like an ordinary indie melodrama about two strangers whose lives intersect during a confusing time for both of them.

The extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends (Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history.

Most Underrated: A Life Less Ordinary.

In the extraordinary and thrilling true story, the 31 - year - old American Horror Story actor plays one of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.

Not only does this French drama pass the Bechdel Test with flying colours, it also goes to show that the ordinary lives of ordinary people can be the most moving thing to watch.

The simple pleasures of a twisty plot work in concert with Soderbergh's fascination with the visual textures of ordinary human spaces, resulting in a film that feels lived - in, even at its most cornily artificial.

It gives us men of very ordinary goals with whom to relate and further imbues them with the most honorable of motives: to provide a tolerable life for one's family, to stay loyal to old friends, and to find a reason to wake up every morning.

«Watchmen» focuses on the contradiction shared by most superheroes: They can not live ordinary lives but are fated to help mankind.