Sentences with phrase «often called life»

Often called living fossils, these eel - like misfits have lungs and fleshy pectoral fins, bony plates and thick scales reminiscent of ancient fossil fish, and flag - like fins along their back that are unique.

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One of the qualities employers most value now is called grit — the fortitude, insight, and ability to adapt on the fly that often comes from overcoming adversity or disadvantage in life, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&ralife, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&raLife Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.»

Too often I get calls from business owners sending out an S.O.S. because they're too busy to enjoy life and good health.

While some businesses really can't get started without certain building blocks, Jackley insists that wherever you live and whatever your venture, with a little creativity, so - called «essentials» often really aren't all that essential.

The real - life Tony Stark, as he's been called, doesn't often kick back, but when he does, he goes big.

During our discussion Monica asked me a number of questions (in addition to the questionnaire that assess your risk profile that Vanguard emails you before your call with a Vanguard Personal Advisor) not just about my finances and tolerance for risk, but about my life — what did I love to do, how often did I travel, what kind of lifestyle do I want to live in 5 and 10 years, and then finally the most important question — when would you like to retire?

New to the third annual list are risky payphone and ATM investments, often sold by independent life insurance agents, and so - called «callable» certificates of deposit sold to older Americans despite their 10 - to 20 - year -LSB-...]

I've often called it the Iron Law of Valuation: the higher the price you pay today for a given stream of future cash flows, the lower your rate of return over the life of the investment.

Permanent life insurance policies, often called «whole life» insurance policies as a general term, are life insurance plans that are structured to last for a person's entire life.

A short phone call can often have a lasting impact on one's financial life.

In my personal life, I have what's called extra boney growths on my legs (multiple exostosis) which can often be somewhat painful, definitely a harmful mutation.

Straw men are often invoked: feminists denigrate mothers; they want to destroy family life; their so - called «achievements» have made women more miserable than ever.

«A distinction must be made,» the Instrumentum Laboris says, «between those who have made a personal, and often painful, choice and live that choice discreetly so as not to give scandal to others, and those whose behavior promotes and actively — often aggressively — calls attention to it.»

But better to seek an understanding of God's calling in our lives with the companionship of others who've engaged in the same struggle than to go our lonely and often misguided way.

Living up to the way of life to which God calls us often feels like a burden during our struggles.

The love of God, shed abroad in our hearts by His unmerited mercy, is the bedrock, the cornerstone of that work which makes us justified, righteous and ready for the very real new creation ahead — the hope that makes our days here (often scared with pain and trial) have meaning — that's the hope of our calling that allows (as Steve notes) us to live for each other.

Faith in Public Life's Shannon Sullivan said such arguments calling for greater border security before enacting reform often represent...

So when I am talking with someone, I will often take a little gospel of John, I prefer the ones called Living Water since they have little notes that remind me what verses are key, and what the verses mean, and in just a minute or two, can show a person from Scripture that to get eternal life, all they have to do is believe in Jesus for it.

But... John Paul's pleading against war often fell on deaf ears, as did his appeals to Catholic institutions to adhere to the fullness of the Catholic faith, his call to the young to live chastely, his pleas for a renewal of priestly life.

«Yet, so often in my own life, even though the «race» of a workday is over, I continue to «run» — to check email, answer calls, stress about problems at the office — when really I should be resting, relaxing, and giving my presence to my family.

You can not deny there is more than the simple materialistic side of life and to limit oneself usually has a deep reason that is often lodged in sin as Christians would call it.

We often call it «letting go of control» but really, all we are doing is trying to gain more control over our life.

The primary reason for this is that it is often women who find themselves in the midst of almost daily ethical and moral choices that they are called to make in their own lives but also in the life of their families or communities.

It is so sad that what we often call people to is less «alive» than this life right now.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

I like the down - to - earth approach which recognises that we can all too easily turn into members of the «Plum Club» («Poor Little Unfortunate Me») and that the call to the Christian life is a call to fidelity and faithfulness which often requires things that are tough and difficult.

We live in an age when the very idea of truth is often called into question.

He may also have discovered that the Song of Solomon, often called the Greatest of Songs, lifts the soul beyond the «thou shalts and thou shalt nots» of our pedestrian lives and gives us courage to confront and challenge the barriers that limit women and the assumptions that limit all who are different.

We embark on life, and often refuse calls to adventure.

The pungent root is a key part of a Passover Seder plate (along with salt water - dipped vegetables, a shank bone, a hard boiled egg, a sweet paste of apples and nuts called charoset, and a bitter vegetable — often lettuce) and symbolizes the harsh lives of the Israelites before they were delivered from slavery in Egypt.

They have offered a vision that solves the problem of boredom; that solves the problem of our life in community with others and overcomes the pathologies of so - called civilized life, which finds us at each other's throats as often as not; that solves the problem of our body and our personhood, positing a body that is the one we have always known but finally glorified and without its frailties and decay; and that solves the problem of satisfying those infinite desires that nothing now on earth can fulfill.

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.

However, to say that some people are born gay, with orientation rarely, if ever, being altered, and that these people are not often suited to celibacy the way some are called, and yet they are forced to liev celibate lives has deep theological implications.

There is often pressure to be more involved in church life, but I really do my best to serve where God calls me to instead of out of obligation.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

We are called today to a similar integration of words and deeds... We repent that the narrowness of our concerns and vision has often kept us from proclaiming the lordship of Jesus Christ over all of life, private and public, local and global.

It can serve a vehicle for love, a part of what R.R. Reno productively calls «A fully orbed life of virtue» as we encounter the stranger on the road to Jericho or within the boundaries of our community, and it often transcends borders as it commits to working within their context.

Some who attain enough spiritual awareness to let their spirit, not their ego, run their life are often called master as Jesus was or Guru or enlightened.

This is refreshing at a time in the Church where the option for and call to religious life can often be presented in a rather self - centred manner.

Special occasions in a Christian's life are usually marked by religious ceremonies, which are often called rites of passage.

When one sees the way in which the vital, the ecstatic element in life has often been crushed by the mundane and the puritanical in our culture, the «charm of the Dionysian,» as Nietzsche called it, is apparent.

I resonated with much of the book because I have often walked through seasons of my life that I have called «depression» because I didn't know what else to call it even though I knew it wasn't the clinical version of this very real disease.

Because the concept of religious freedoms differ among people, often such that a person's religious ideas cause that person to try to influence the lives of others, it's important to examine what a person is calling a «religious freedom» for snares and poison for the rest of us.

Ok now I know most atheists are live and let live and couldn't care less about what other people believe, but whenever you get defensive and wonder why «theists» often call atheism just as much a religion as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc look at things like this.

Although we live in what is often called a multi-faith society, the dominant religion is clearly Christianity.

It is a matter unfortunately too often seen in history to call for much remark, that when a living want of mankind has got itself officially protected and organized in an institution, one of the things which the institution most surely tends to do is to stand in the way of the natural gratification of the want itself.

How often in extremity have we prayed, «Give us life, that we may call upon your name,» making an implicit promise to use our lives to better purpose next time, to resist the temptations to sloth, anger, pride, greed, malice and everything else that would deflect us and diminish our better selves.

We sense that God is equipping them to model lives abandoned to obedience in the way all Christians are called to live but often struggle to do.»

The way I see it «created order» or what some might call the way, the Holy Spirit what Ghandi called truth force or love force, is something prophets have connection with which often times puts them at odds with the world and some losing their lives because of it.

In his appreciative Foreword, the National Director of «Aid to the Church in Need», Neville Kyrke - Smith, calls the book fascinating and goes to the central issue in saying that Pope John Paul II's whole life and witness could be said to be like that of Our Lord Himself, often in the Garden of Gethsemane but translucent with the hope of the resurrection.