Sentences with phrase «of taking each other for granted»

Couples with marriages rich in habits, rituals, and traditions will be better suited to avoid the trap of taking each other for granted and will keep the positive side of the relationship nurtured over time.

The good news is that you're re-awakening the deeper part of your love and now neither one of you takes the other for granted.

Not exact matches

And of course most of us could not do what we do without the help and support of our family and friends - the group we probably take for granted more than any other.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

It would seem to be offsetting safety gains from other technologies, including not just new automatic collision avoidance systems, but even now taken - for - granted features like anti-lock brakes, which are equipped on a greater percentage of the U.S. fleet with each passing year.

Yet we take it for granted that our society produces machines and teaches people to do exactly that — and do it safely, statistically speaking, more often than any other mode of transportation.

Every piece of business infrastructure that any other startup can take for granted, we can't at MakeLoveNotPorn, because the small print always says, «No adult content».

Unlike most other Indian entrepreneurs who take social media growth for granted, Mahesh is actually quite sceptical of social media growth in India.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

Outside of one's immediate family, responsibilities for others that were once taken for granted are abandoned, unless they are narrowly defined as part of a job and legally insulated from onerous rights claims.

President Paul Kagame said his country had «a reason to celebrate the normal moments of life, that are easy for others to take for granted.»

The rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes this for granted.

No, in that no general formulation would take the place of hearing the special insights that come from those who suffer in varied ways and who are pressed by suffering to reexamine much that others take for granted.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

Sanitation and other forms of preventive medicine are certainly significant developments which many now take for granted.

On the other hand, in most of the conventional ways of understanding resurrection, such a dichotomy is presumably taken for granted.

The overwhelming support of economists and those many other academics who follow their lead can not be taken for granted for a brazen American imperialism.

But as long as the basic self - centeredness of feeling was taken for granted, man's primary attention could be directed away from himself toward others and toward his relations to them.

And third, we give thanks not in order that God will know that we are thankful but precisely in order to make ourselves thankful: to help ourselves realize not only how lucky we are in comparison to so many others (which is part of it), but how fortunate we are just to be in this world; to help us appreciate the many blessings which each and every one of us enjoys; to rekindle in us the sense of wonder and awe and gratitude in response to all that we so often and so cavalierly take for granted.

Some of the comments are shocking, we are taking religious freedom for granted here while others are willing to die for what they believe in.

For can I, as a Christian, simply take it for granted that others are not in the grace of GoFor can I, as a Christian, simply take it for granted that others are not in the grace of Gofor granted that others are not in the grace of God?)

The «overwhelming evidence for naturalistic evolution» no longer overwhelms when the naturalistic worldview is itself called into question, and that worldview is as problematical as any other set of metaphysical assumptions when it is placed on the table for examination rather than being taken for granted as «the way we think today.»

We often take the value and services of others for granted.

Oppressed Black Americans and other members of marginalized social groups can not afford to enter into the discussion with a take - it - for - granted attitude that the Whiteheadian metaphysical foundations are applicable to their experience.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Even around the surface of the planet we can still take them for granted — there is only a momentary delay when we telephone someone on the other side of the earth.

Jesus» teaching is eschatological» in outlook, but it is not necessarily «apocalyptic»; that is, it did not take for granted the visions, dreams, chronological calculations and symbols, the vast array of angelic and other supernatural figures, or the mechanical and deterministic schemes of history which were characteristic of the apocalyptists.

Again the other day, one runs across an article that observes in passing, as though it is taken - for - granted knowledge, that the conservative trend in our political culture reflects Americans» rejection of the civil rights movement of three decades ago.

How do we take for granted the unequal treatment of women and the blasphemy of absorbing a woman's life at lesser pay for the convenience of others, moralizing about that kind of institutionalized domestic servitude in the name of God's will?

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

We recognize, of course, the relatively late emergence in the Old Testament of a positively and precisely articulated belief in Yahweh's universal creation, and that it is not, indeed, until the time of Second Isaiah that such a belief is taken for granted.24 On the other hand, the J story of creation in Gen. 2 reflects an early if imprecise creation faith25 while the eighth - century prophets clearly stand upon a thoroughly practical though untheoretical belief in Yahweh's creative function.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Those critics who say that other countries are ahead of us in «guaranteeing quality health care for everyone» overlook the fact that the definition of quality in those countries does not include the panoply of high - tech medicine increasingly taken for granted in America.

We can be Bible - believing Christians without foisting our positions on others, taking them for granted or disregarding the views of people with a different epistemological framework.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

It was founded upon freedom of religion, speech, and other liberties that we all take for granted.

Others will take the existence of community largely for granted and immerse themselves in their scholarship or art.

«When you take concern for helping others and add that to intrinsic motivation, people actually become more creative,» said organizational psychologist Adam Grant, author of the best - selling Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, in an interview with Christianity Today.

Americans are the most kind, generous and caring people in the world, and we want to help others, but too many people take Americans for granted and take us to the cleaners while we have serious needs of our own that need to be addressed.

And this is just the sort of way in which cardinal philosophic advances are in fact made; by being more perceptive and more realistic than others are about something which is always taken for granted.

Third, all but one of Niebuhr's options take for granted that Christians have a common identity with the surrounding culture, that church and culture will mutually support each other, and if there are problems in the culture, Christians are responsible to fix them.

In fact many of us do not believe in many far right issues but do believe in religious freedom, freedom of speech and other freedoms that we take so for granted, and what was fought for us future generations to have.

This was its linking belief in God with belief in posthumous careers for human persons, in spite of the fact that, in the Book of Job for instance, although the divine existence is there taken for granted, there is not a whisper about Heaven or Hell, or about posthumous rewards or punishments, or any other prolongations of a person's experiencing after death.

On the other side there are certainly many passages which run counter to O'Connor's theory in that they take for granted the centrality of signification for St Thomas's view of the Mass as the representation of Calvary, as anyone reading the Summa on the Eucharist will quickly discover.

And whether that's because of salary cap parity, ruthless marketing or even fantasy football, don't take that for granted: Every other American sport needs a strong show pony, a story or star that builds to the narrative to a marketable norm.

If you're somehow wondering why Indians fans might not take this lead for granted, please recall: in addition to the franchise's streak of not winning a World Series since 1948, the last two times the Red Sox and Indians faced each other in the playoffs, Boston pulled out victories following 2 - 0 and 3 - 1 Cleveland leads.

Taking each other for granted is not part of a marriage vow as far as I know, thankfully.

Taking each other for granted is not part of any marriage vow as far as I know.

I wouldn't necessarily suggest that you do what my mom did, but living with someone 24/7 can create all sorts of conflict, disappointments and resentments, not to mention that couples start taking each other for granted.

Growing up amid such abundance, it's easy to take for granted that there will always be gifts under the Christmas tree — and not notice that, for many others and through no fault of their own, such abundance is not the case.