Sentences with phrase «not life commitment»

Often friendships offer some good support and interests, but not life commitment.

Not exact matches

There are no hard and fast rules but obviously if you aren't paying the interns, and if they are not living at home, you need to allow them sufficient time to work a part - time job above and beyond their commitments to you and to their schoolwork.

CEO of New Age Beverage Corporation based in Denver, CO, Brent Willis not only seeks to bring all - natural and organic healthy beverages to consumers, but he literally puts his money where his mouth is in living out this commitment.

Not only did Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, both 50, celebrate 21 years of marriage this year, but they did so by releasing a joint album «The Rest of Our Life,» inspiring others both in their career moves and their commitment to each other.

AI and marketing automation does its part to make the connections, but this is not an excuse to get lazy with your messaging and commitment to creating real - life relationships.

In the town - hall event that was streamed on Facebook Live, Zuckerberg said that a side project not only sets one apart by demonstrating commitment and interest in a given area, but also helps them pick up new skills.

We should not be denied the opportunity to take a chance on ourselves, on our commitment to better our lives and share our passions.

And while the company obviously doesn't recruit specifically on their parental leave policies given the personal nature of applicants» family situations, Siegel believes that ZipRecruiter's overall commitment to work - life balance, of which this policy is a part, is a huge help when it comes to winning talent for the company — particularly senior talent.

Sure, we liked the excitement of making $ 16 an hour, but most of all we just wanted to be part of the magic for longer — and that trade - your - life - away commitment was probably why Disney didn't mind paying out the overtime.

This matters because Canada has already spent nearly three decades burnishing a nasty reputation as a place that doesn't live up to its climate change commitments.

There are many things in your life that you always want but you are not in a financial position to possess you wanting because of the various commitments you have in your life.

That commitment does not have to last for the life of the loan.

An increase in national income should reduce mortality not just because it is usually associated with lower poverty and better nutrition but also because growth can be a proxy for other good things: more sensible economic policies; more democratic, accountable governments; and a greater commitment to improving people's living standards.

China, for example, has not only made a broad commitment to improving people's daily lives but also signed on to domestic and international legal obligations that support human rights.

A free, unlimited demo account as the name implies is a virtual trading account which does not require a commitment by the trader to deposit funds into a live account before a demo account is provided.

I would go to this thing if I didn't have work commitments and live in the heartland (my city is a nice place, but not close enough to DC to make it to the coming out party).

«Tribalism,» as he defines it, is «the commitment of individuals and groups to their own history, culture, and identity, and this commitment (though not any particular version of it) is a permanent feature of human social life.»

The best way to prepare for a lifelong commitment is not living together; it's learning how to deal with relational conflict.

People «should have compassion for the person whose life is messed up by this and not make her an instrument for our idiosyncratic, theological commitment,» Kushner said.

In the light of such support from Biblical study and the analysis of the dynamics of capitalism, the call of the Living God to revolutionary commitment can not be silenced.

The meal they prepare every Sunday for the neighborhood is not an expression of their social or ethical commitments in distinction from their liturgical life; the meal they prepare and the Eucharist they celebrate are parts of a single story.

But these churches are not able to present a sufficiently convincing vision of what faith is, or of purposes worth living for, to evoke more than fragmentary commitment.

It's great to be in love, and there are many ways of expressing that love — but unless you can honestly say that you want to give yourself entirely to the beloved in a life - long commitment in marriage and want to be parents, then sex will not deepen the generosity of your loving and living.

A youth who is not sure of his or her identity, perhaps his or her sexual orientation or what his or her main commitments are to be, may find life anything but fulfilling.

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.

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

If the authentic life of man is one of self - commitment, then that life is missed not only by the blatantly self - assertive but also by those who try to achieve self - commitment by their own efforts.

But beyond the power of the institution we oppose, there is another danger: We who defend life must not allow our commitment to the truth to be compromised.

«Moore provides a primer on how our commitments to Christ and his kingdom (as opposed to our political, social, and cultural agendas) should shape not only how we live our lives, but also what our lives should say to a watching, listening world.

«The essential ingredient for marriage is deciding to make a mutual life - long commitment and not sliding or drifting into cohabitation with little or no planning.

Beyond the power of the institution we oppose, there is another danger: We who defend life must not allow our commitment to the truth to be compromised.

But all this is nothing more than a fatuous rationalization for a selfish way of life if we do not have a commitment above all to live faithfully, to deal with the challenge of right relationship with God and neighbor.

Make a commitment, here and now, that you will not let the self - defeating attitude that says, «When this happens, I will be happy» take hold in your life.

On the other hand, his adult life shows a commitment not to a transferable Anglican «ideal» — as if one could live as an Anglican while belonging to a Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian church — but to the concrete life of, first, the Church of England and then, subsequent to his relocation, to the Anglican Church of Canada.

(Of course John doesn't just mean mentally accepting that this is true, it implies that one is willing to trust Jesus and make a complete life - changing commitment to him — to follow, obey and serve him, no matter where that leads.

Radical commitment is an important concept, but it is not what the Christian life is all about.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

Above all, churches should ask for justice from religious institutions that continue to ignore Hispanics» existence: monocultural denominational and ecumenical agencies; theological institutions that refuse to hire Hispanic professors (and even discourage Spanish - speaking students from working toward doctorates); religious journals and magazines that fail to publish materials dealing with the life and faith of Hispanic churches; and mainline churches that do not make an all - out commitment to ministry among Hispanics.

They claim that one's commitment to a certain way of life is not contradicted, much less eroded, by a series of premeditated violations of that very way of life.

For the conduct of life and the guidance of learning we need a firm commitment to truth and goodness which men and their processes subserve but do not create.

The ability to sing a gospel, song with feeling is not to be equated with transformation of one's life nor with continued commitment to the One who is Lord.

Beyond the obvious question of how well the school actually can assess relevant background knowledge and experience is the fact that the system does not take into account other worthy commitments in a student's life, like work or ministry responsibilities outside the school.

Some will feel that it undermines his, and others», commitment to living celibate lives to suggest that the Bible says they don't have to.

This is especially so if one understands by the Single One not Kierkegaard's man, who finds truth by separating himself from the crowd, but Buber's man of the narrow ridge, who lives with others yet never gives up his personal responsibility nor allows his commitment to the group to stand in the way of his direct relationship to the Thou.

He can suffer the defeat of his private plans because the meaning of his life is contained not in them but in his commitment to the good, which is neither made nor justified by him.

The reason that's important is because, in every area of life, we understand that preparation is the key to success, but when it comes to relationships, we think that, no, commitment is the key to success: I don't need to prepare for a relationship, I just need to meet the right person and commit to that person.

As a nation, Lincoln implicitly promised, we will do our best to redeem your private loss, not by restoring your sons to life but in and through our commitment to justice and freedom.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

Neither is it soft pacifism to believe that a commitment to justice in the way we live and affect the world is part of the consideration of whether or not our military operations are to be judged «force» or «violence.»

As the person who is unwilling to take the plunge into the water will never learn to swim, so the man who holds back from commitment to the Christian heritage can not hope to learn what it means to live by Christian faith.