This scholarship is designed for a student who places an emphasis on service to their community and can fully demonstrate personal examples of community engagement and service even in the face
of life obstacles and hardship.
Not exact matches
Otherwise, when
obstacles arise, they may succumb to fear, or they may attack you or undermine the business out
of fear, mistrust, control issues, impulsiveness or personal
life issues.
That «I think I can do it» is key — Musk's gut level faith in his ability to achieve any goal, and overcome any
obstacle, is one
of the most important aspects
of his character that has made him a larger - than -
life innovator.
One
of the trickiest parts was to maneuver yourself safely but quickly into a rope
obstacle known as the slide for
life.
It is that solid state
of mind which seemingly carries you effortlessly through
life's problems,
obstacles and difficult communications.
This is a story
of how I leveraged the single most trying
obstacle of my
life to come back stronger, refined and more focused than ever before.
The point
of this column is that we all have major
life obstacles that we face, and having the right mindset will empower you to leverage these
obstacles to your advantage.
That's why Ryan Holiday, the author
of The
Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic, created the Memento Mori medallion, a coin I now carry with me everywhere that serves as a physical reminder that «You could leave
life right now.»
With battery
life the major complaint
of many smartphone users, and especially iPhone users, that's another
obstacle to smartwatch acceptance.
(Green has also acknowledged, in what sounds like a nod to the workplace
obstacles she faced,» «We Try Harder» is somewhat the story
of my
life.»)
It's hard enough to get ahead in spite
of all the
obstacles you'll face throughout your
life and your career.
It does not matter what you're facing in
life, which
obstacle you're trying to overcome — if you are willing to generate that state
of willingness, that's your doorway to making the effort, taking the steps, dealing with the setbacks, and ultimately creating the progress and change in your
life that you're seeking.
Think
of your
life dream as analogous to your destination — if you find a boulder in the road, you're more likely to quickly find a way around this
obstacle and successfully re-orientate yourself if you have a clear picture
of where you're trying to end up, rather than if you are simply putting one foot in front
of another on the path immediately in front
of you.
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For many
of us chronic procrastinators — don't worry, we've been there too — too often it seems like
life becomes an insane time management
obstacle course.
Taking the steps ahead
of time to prepare for potential and real
obstacles can help you enjoy
life's next adventure — retirement.
They're stepping up to take 100 % responsibility in their
lives... they're gaining clarity on what their purpose is... and they're clearing their path
of the
obstacles that have held them back from creating their ideal
life.
Through the positive examples
of our mentors, we learned an essential law
of any faith
life: Complacency is the greatest
obstacle to spiritual growth.
The depths
of one's inner
life — one's loves, hates, strengths, and weaknesses, all the
obstacles one encounters in that search — became an object
of interest.
Holloway, «Slim» to most
of his friends, spent his whole
life in pastoral work but also managed, despite many
obstacles and difficulties, to single - mindedly leave a far - sighted and remarkable theological and philosophical legacy for this millennium, surely the millennium
of the harmony
of Science and Religion, in which Christ is seen as the Master
of both.
It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience
of an adult
living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part
of God that helps us through those
obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift
of salvation.
In spite
of all the destructive forces man lets loose against
life on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its p
life on this planet, the Spirit
of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its p
Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the
obstacles man puts in its path.
Rather, let us say that if an earnest Christian can write what the one quoted above did, it is solely because he shares the common presupposition
of our times: that poverty is the great calamity and therefore an
obstacle to the spiritual
life; that the real problem is how to induce the rich to aid the poor; and that otherwise preaching the gospel is hypocrisy.
The pertinent question is: What does «kidvid» offer in the way
of imitable heroes who face the kinds
of ordinary
obstacles with which real
life confronts us?
When I stumble over an
obstacle and fall, I am obeying the law
of gravitation, which has nothing to do with Christian faith or the Christian
life.
God Himself undertakes Abraham's education in order to address and to overcome the natural, psychic, and social human
obstacles to righteous and reverent
living,
obstacles amply displayed in the pre-Abrahamic stories
of Genesis.
It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are
living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic challenges
of extreme poverty create
obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.
Blake and every radical Christian seer have not only issued a violent protest against the «Christian God,» but they have likewise condemned the mystery and repression
of religion as a fundamental
obstacle to the realization
of a union with the
life and Word
of Jesus.
On the other hand, even from a purely natural point
of view Christianity, properly preached and
lived, is still a match for every other powerful propagandist Weltanschanung, though men's hardness
of heart is often an
obstacle to its acceptance.
Stronger than every
obstacle and counter — argument is the instinct which tells us that, to be faithful to
Life, we must know; we must know more and still more; we must tirelessly and unceasingly search for Something, we know not what, which will appear in the end to those who have penetrated to the very heart
of reality.
This lady devoted her entire
life to helping the poorest people walking our planet, and saw poverty that many
of us Westerners can hardly imagine, but she did not say such great poverty was the biggest
obstacle to love and peace, but instead it was abortion.
Christian faith means a way
of life — a commitment
of spirit in which God and man meet for the overcoming
of obstacles and the
living of victorious Christian
life.
According to Acts
of Thomas, the sexual phenomenon is an
obstacle to the higher level
of life, and only its removal opens the way to eternal
life.
«Always and everywhere in the history
of religion, the fact that God is identified with success is the greatest
obstacle to a steadfast religious
life.»
Premised on the idea that the basic activity
of life is the inescapable pursuit
of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer
obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings
of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms
of economic growth and pervasive consumption.
In The Christian Intellectual, Jaroslav Pelikan underscored this dilemma by saying that the most formidable
obstacle to the renewal
of Christian intellectual
life is «a curious alliance between the secular suspicion
of an elite that has been characteristic
of much
of American
life and a distorted interpretation
of the Reformation doctrine
of the universal priesthood
of all believers.»
In the case
of abortion, the
obstacles will often be overcome by factual information about the peaceful, compassionate work
of pro-
life groups, the damage done to women by abortion, the increasing information on the
life of the child in the womb.
The older picture
of an inscrutable Absolute in whose hands we can nevertheless at least be sure we are held for good or ill, whether in
life or in death, has given way to the modern Bild
of a kind
of sympathetically groping, eagerly persuasive deity who does the best he can with all sorts
of obstacles beyond his control.
Only when you dig deep into the soil
of your
life, and remove all the barriers and
obstacles that have been in the way for so long will you then be able to lay the foundation.
If this can be done we shall have passed beyond the crisis
of liberal Christianity; for the liberal view
of the relation
of Christian love to moral problems is in difficulty today precisely because the philosophy
of history on which it is based does not sufficiently recognize the tragic
obstacles which are set in the way
of the
life of love.
This defense
of the accuracy
of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words
of Jesus is undertaken, in spite
of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable
obstacles, because to these lovers
of the Gospel the alternative seems to be surrendering the authenticity
of some
of the most precious and manifestly true
of Christ's reported words: «I am the bread
of life... I am the light
of the world... I am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh
of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I am the resurrection and the
life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live... I am the way, the truth and the
life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.
Common to all these thinkers (with the exception
of Marion) is an attempt to make nothingness or the continuous disappearance
of life into the void the precondition for morality, rather than an
obstacle in its path.
As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee
of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers
of the «age to come,» the work
of the
living Christ, the influence
of the Holy Spirit, the impact
of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many
of the
obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms
of this world.
charity is not a virtue, but more
of an
obstacle to
life lived to the fullest.
Whereas other techniques, like those
of science and engineering, can remove more mundane
obstacles, religions attend to the most irremovable limits on
life: fate, guilt, meaninglessness, and death.
The latter was arguably the strongest
obstacle to the development
of a properly conjugal spirituality; i.e. an ascetical approach for married persons powerful and deep enough to help them seek perfection within - and not despite - the conditions peculiar to their proper way
of life.
Our incredibly mobile society presents what can seem like an insuperable
obstacle to getting people to think
of the parish as an institution vital to their
lives, a place where they are known and loved.
The
obstacles that stand in the way
of our prayerful journeys are to be attended to, engaged, and included in the
life of prayer.
According to the Bible, the
obstacle to our spirituality is not that we pay attention to the details
of life, but that we pay too much attention to the wrong details.
Barth claimed that such knowledge was impossible and an
obstacle to true knowledge by faith (the analogia fidei), because it tempts us to substitute a philosophical construction for authentic revelation
of the
living God.