Sentences with phrase «often mean things»

After making a countless adjustments to fit this new lifestyle, I can say with confidence that change can often mean things are going to get better.

My favorite thing is to find a way to make everything in the house earn its keep while looking cute or stylish at the same time, and that often means things need to do double duty.

Not exact matches

The major issue is this: People often believe that artificial means fake, but there's no such thing as fake intelligence, and knowing this is important — for reasons I'll come back to.

Investors often ask about advisors» investment philosophies but the term means different things to different people.

This often means trying new things — things at which they're often terrible at first.

Words, phrases, and slang that mean one thing in the UK often mean a totally different thing in the US - and vice versa.

«Signing up for a credit card or opening a bank account can often mean signing away your right to take the company to court if things go wrong,» said CFPB Director Richard Cordray in a statement, adding «many banks and financial companies avoid accountability.»

How often do you think the good things such as being on time, or signing a new client is simply how it's meant to be?

A guaranteed minimum income often means different things to different people, but at its core it can be described as a no - strings - attached benefit that governments provide to citizens instead of various targeted social benefits.

The thing is that business owners are often just as guilty when it comes to using phrases they think mean one thing but are not entirely appropriate for the situation in which they are being used.

The man also says that «often I can't figure out just what Goldwater means by the things he says.»

As workforces have become smaller, remaining employees are all pushed for time, and the demands of the business can often mean they lose track of keeping up to date with things such as blogs, newsletters and their website.

The businessman and former reality star has often claimed that China regularly devalues the yuan as a means of facilitating its exports, and analysts are expecting things to get worse once Trump takes office.

Just like a bicycle, if you are struggling, if things just don't seem to be coming easily, that often means you are on the right track.

One of the things we often confuse in business and life is the difference between means, ends and byproducts.

Everyone is talking about it, but the term often means different things.

Again, the mantra with property management for passive income is to take excellent care of a facility (meaning, fix things more often for the renters than you do for yourself) and expect the same in return.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

as i've often quoted here: «Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as science without presuppositions... a philosophy, a «faith» must always be there first, so that science can acquire from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist... It is still a metaphysical faith that underlies our faith in science.»

I can question them (which I often have), I can get pissed that God's way of doing things means makes my friendships difficult, and I can tell God «I wouldn't have done it that way» to which He shrugs and says, «I know.

Similarly, those in the Church often have the idea that true sanctity means waving bye - bye to the enjoyment of life's good things, and learning to love things which are painful, boring, or painfully boring.

For one thing, it tends to treat them (indeed, by legal requirements of equal protection, must treat them) as interchangeable units of the citizenry, and too often this means impersonally.

I also think many well meaning Christians are often distracted by a few social issues (things that I believe are personal and have more to do with our precious American freedoms than religion) and lose site of the larger picture.

I love all those things and I'm often informed by well - meaning people that if I were honest with myself I'd realize I'm ambitiously and greedily going after those things.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

And too often we think that the way to do this is to buy them things: things that are pretty, things that are fun, things that snap and pop and whir and race and entertain — until we have taught our children that the purpose of life is to be happy and that being happy means having pleasure or being entertained.

the Bible explicitly teaches otherwise (God often uses people / secondary means to accomplish things).

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really mean...» when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»

I mean, it is very very hard to take anyone seriously who says absurd things like «The «6 days / 6, 000 year - old - earth» meme is either propaganda to distort and mock Christianity, or often well - intentioned assumptions by new or superficial christians.»

Bearing the cross has become trivialized in our day; it can often mean simply being brave when things go wrong.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

Sure, calling people out of the world into the Kingdom is biblical, but it seems that too often Christians think that means calling people to come to church, which is not the same thing.

I protect kids for a living, do everything I can to help ALL people, respect all life and give everybody their dignity, give my time and resources to help others, complain little, hurt nobody, want minimal things for myself and often go without, sacrifice for family, friends and community, but because I do not think there is a deity in the sky, I'm going to Hell while some selfish, ignorant, mean, destructive, abusive and hateful person who says, «Sorry» to God at the end of their life goes to Heaven.

He is more often encouraged to find the thing that he is «with» and that does have durable meaning for him.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

Like Thomas Jefferson, who did not live up to the Declaration of Independence's lines about equality — Jefferson did not mean women, did not intend to and did not free slaves — but who did provide a charter for equality, Luther was often a person of contradictions whose mixed legacy left some things worse.

That often means they make us face the very things we've been avoiding.

His principal concern was with building a healthy and unified mainstream culture to which socially progressive Christianity might make a contribution.10 Today o there is much more awareness that «culture» means different things to different people: Often people define themselves against the mainstream culture by defining themselves in terms of a sub-culture.

Mediating between the contemporary situation and the gospel did not mean, for Holmer, that the gospel was not often a «very disturbing thing,» to use Luther's expression.

You need something to measure, and you need to know (from previous data from previous experiments) what that measurement means and if there's any way your measurement could be off (and by how much and how often) and what measurements might confuse things more and what measurements are accurate and how accurate..

Shane Claiborne put it this way: «' Leaving things in God's hands is an often abused and quaint phrase that many seem to think means «don't bother with doing anything, because Jesus will come someday and undo all your work anyway»... Leaving things in God's hands» should rather be used to mean «do what Jesus did.»

That meant that often he found things that others missed; he did so at the risk of appropriating other writers for his purpose rather than listening to them on their terms.

I don't agree with Ellul that accepting mediated security is a repudiation of our security in Christ, God often provides for his people indirectly; but I do think that fear / panic at the loss of these means is a repudiation of our trust / faith in God to provide either temporal or Eternal security for us, whichever he sees fit in his grand scheme of things.

If you love all things mint and have been meaning to make your drinks at home more often, these Iced Mint Lattes are for you!

However, the good news is that being «unbleached» and «unbromated» means that your flour hasn't gone through various chemical processes that are often considered somewhat unhealthy — so that's a good thing!

So often we spend our days without meaning, doing things we do not love or even feel good about; and our life trickles on by without us building a legacy to leave behind.

It need not be elaborate in fact it is often the small things that mean the most.

I know what you mean, I feel the same about Polish cuisine, quite often it's really fatty and full of meat But I also noticed that people do like vegan versions of really traditional dishes, so it must be a thing (technical term)!

I have to admit, I am often guilty of buying more than I need, and restocking before I need to, which means sometimes veggies and other things get thrown away.