Sentences with phrase «not direct my life»

But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

Not exact matches

For example, drone strikes are similar to Special Forces in their direct targeting ability in remote locations, but are less likely to create domestic opposition to the use of force because they don't put U.S. lives directly at risk.

A look at the life of a Southern black woman (Whoopi Goldberg) over 40 years directed by Steven Spielberg received 11 Oscar nominations but didn't win a single one.

At the same time, Google has been careful to initially position Plus as an added bonus to our online social lives, not a direct competitor.

It is incredibly rewarding and motivating to work for an organization that strives to improve the lives of people with disabilities, even if one's own work does not have a direct impact.»

Although most do not have the desired agronomic characteristics — such as high yields of seedless, nonacidic fruits with long shelf life — that would make them a direct substitute for the Cavendish, they are an untapped genetic resource.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

I really wanted a job that had direct positive impact on people's lives and without that, I couldn't be happy.»

** MC, if you want to contribute to a more direct stimulus plan to inject some life into a lifeless economy, I can not think of a better way to do it — this is it!

Just this weekend, he echoed that statement, with a more direct jab at Facebook, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, telling the audience at a conference in China, «The ability of anyone to know what you've been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life — from my own point of view it shouldn't exist.»

You'll provide the public with ongoing, verified information regarding hiring, wages and provision of community benefits throughout the life of the project, not just for your direct employees, but for contractors, sub-contractors and temp agencies.

Our vision is to one day see a world where degenerative brain diseases do not exist and science and technology play a direct role in extending the healthy lives of ourselves and our loved ones.

If they can't make that jump... then I direct them to a step that would be more helpful for where they are in their lives.

They do not like to call it their god but it is the core of their belief system and directs their journey in life.

Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

The line from nineteenth - century Evangelicals to the New Deal — era embrace of the idea of the living Constitution is not as direct as Compton's intentionally provocative title suggests.

These are men greeds and are unrelated to religion nor it is in favor of religions... religion is a direct spritual connection between the Servent and his GOD... that was what most of us knew before we were spoiled by the «Islamic Belt Idea» that the West had introduced and marketed it in our MidEast area towards encouraging youth to join militants in «Jihad» establishing that belt surrounding and fighting the communists in Afghanistan and some Asian countries... Well now that has spoiled our life coming back on us and you but I do not see why should we innocents pay for your «Political Games»...!?

Would Judaism and the Jewish people have fared better or worse if they had not found themselves for the most part living in a civilization dominated by the Christian religion, which has claimed from the beginning to be the direct descendant and fulfillment of Judaism and the life of the Jewish people?

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

Without getting to imagine there was an invisible wizard directing things Dan doesn't feel like life is worth living.

Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science as it progresses is gradually uncovering a sort of organic unity within the universe in which atoms become molecules, molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve into more complex life forms, and so on.

We don't just live in nature, we control it and direct it...

At the same time, it would be in direct competition to the increasingly influential view that the dignity of any individual life is dependent upon the competency of the individual, as though a self with a poor quality of life has a life not worth living.

If all it is about stories to understand God alone — to study God but not to have any direct relevance or influence in our lives then that's theology without applying theology.

We don't just live in nature, we control it and direct it to our own purposes, and we look for deeper fulfillment than Nature alone can give.

If we treat the bible is a collection of stories about trying to understand God and doesn't have any direct relevance to or influence on our lives then that significantly reduces the relevance we let it have to our lives.

Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science describes a sort of organic unity within the universe in which atoms become molecules, molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve into more complex life forms, etc..

In so far as the mental spontaneities of occasions do not thwart each other, but are directed to a common objective amid varying circumstances, there is life.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

This stands in direct contrast to the Scriptures, the Fathers, and the saints, whose premise is that suffering is not something to be avoided at all costs — one can learn to live through it.

I might be gullible on occasion, but not regarding important, life directing concepts.

To be «saved» is not to go to heaven when you die (though that is part of it), but is to follow God in a new way of living life, a life of restoration and blessing directed at others.

We will here not discuss in detail in what sense and with what reservations the liturgy is to be called the first and neces - sary source of the Christian life and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the litulife and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the lituLife, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the liturgy.

If you do not live in some out - of - the - way place in the world, if you live in a populous city, and you direct your attention outwards, sympathetically engrossing yourself in the people and in what is going on, do you remember each time you throw yourself in this way into the world around you, that in this relation, you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibility?

In full knowledge that the God we imagine is just the God of our imagination, we can direct our spiritual lives towards as C S Lewis» Screwtape advised Wormwood to beware of — «Not to who I imagine Thee to be, but to what Thou knowest Thyself to be.»

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

Others cared for their needs, so that they could direct all their thoughts to God and not be distracted by the complexities of worldly life.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

Indeed, I am inclined to think that Daniels» proposal would be safe only in a society that thought of human life not simply in terms of a normal life span but also as directed toward God.

I didn't say I hated anyone and if you could bother to actually read and live in reality you'd see my comments weren't directed at Christians, just at about one third of Christians who are extremists.

For Whitehead the speculative reason, which functions to promote the art of life (FR 4), «directs and criticizes the urge towards the attainment of an end realized in imagination but not in fact» (FR 8).

We desire, as Leon Kass has said, something qualitatively different, «some state... toward which our earthly activities are directed but which can not be attained during earthly life.»

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

We are not necessarily directed toward damning Marianne for any of this: on the contrary, we admire her freer manner, her joy in living.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

CHRIST DID NOT SAY TO LIVE FOR OTHERS He said to live for Him which includes laying down our lives when He directs us to doLIVE FOR OTHERS He said to live for Him which includes laying down our lives when He directs us to dolive for Him which includes laying down our lives when He directs us to do so.

«[F] or in such a life my mind would be directed toward a thousand things, not one of which is myself.»