Sentences with phrase «often think of the things»

When we think of fiber we often think of things like grains, wheat and vegetables.

When we think of well - designed and attractive written documents, we don't often think of the things lawyers write.

I often think of things to try, to muddle through, and wonder if anyone else has figured out a better way.

Not exact matches

It's easy to laugh at, but I think the first version of so many things looks like a toy and often has something to do with cats.

That often doesn't leave a lot of mental bandwidth for thinking things through or making thoughtful long - term plans.

I think for women, we often get tangled up in what people think of us, what's going on and we worry about things that are outside of our control.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

When people think of franchising, fast food is often the first thing that comes to mind.

So when thinking about quotas, it's often best to start thinking of them as a function of capacity — and then start thinking about things like revenue and closing ratios.

Striving is often thought of as a good thing, and no doubt Cowen would agree that some kinds of striving are good.

People often look at a company like SpaceX, a private entity that is doing some incredible things in space, and I think sometimes they don't recognize that for some of what SpaceX does, NASA's in partnership with them, supports them.

I often say the best part of my job is that I get paid to meet great people and learn cool things... but I think your job might be even better.

«I think part of the reason, a big part of the reason, is that when our minds wander, we often think about unpleasant things, and they are enormously less happy when they do that, our worries, our anxieties, our regrets,» he said at a TEDxCambridge event.

As Rudiger Dornbush said of financial crises, they often take much longer to come than you expected, but then things fall apart much more quickly than you thought they would.

Yes, momentum can be a self - fulfilling prophecy; if things are going well, investors often expect the market to continue to go well, so they buy more stock — which, naturally boosts values even higher (even though the only real upward force is a bunch of investors who think the market is going to do well!).

A quote that I often reference is from Albert Szent - Györgyi who said, «Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.»

When I see things like this I think of Nick Murray who often says «That's why god sent advisors.»

It is true that people often believe things for bad reasons — self - deception, wishful thinking, and a wide variety of other cognitive biases really do cloud our thinking — but bad reasons only tend to work when they are unrecognized.

But in the real world, I think atheists and people of varying faiths probably work together on various things for the good of mankind — often not really knowing fully about each others» beliefs, yet still accomplishing good things together.

Our stress is often the process of fretting as to whether things will turn out as others think they should.

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.

It's a shame that tf can't understand an alternate view a bit more, because in the end, in a general time and a general place, for key things most of us, regardless of belief system, I think are often aiming for the same thing.

Rather than a mere observation that feminine things are this and masculine things are that, people often leap from the description to the prescription — because you are «feminine,» you must be x, y, and z. And I think when people hear feminists rejecting the prescriptive part of gender divides, they hear that we're rejecting a gender divide altogether.

The minds of men so often yearn for might and power, and their thoughts are constantly being drawn to such things, as if by their attainment all mysteries would be resolved.

I think a big thing about being spiritual is believing in something higher than yourself without being tied to some arbitrarily specific moral code created by people (not God (s)-RRB- in the context of their times that often has horrifyingly backwards and incredibly immoral rules.

I was provoked, though, to think about how often we, as the Body of Christ, do the same thing.

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.

I was thinking there were more differences, but in many ways, the crux of it (pun intended) is often what is left when you burn away (pun intended) all the other differences or versions of things.

We often get buried under a pile of should, that is, things we think we should be doing (or not doing).

I've often thought that the Bible is deliberately vague on a lot of things.

The world is often thought of as consisting of things.

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 think it's one of those things were God does not treat us, nor does He view us as enemies (Christians), but we often view God as an enemy.

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.

From Kerry: I often think of Bonhoeffer when I think of pacifism... he talked about sometimes having to choose between one bad thing (Hitler) and another bad thing (killing Hitler).

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

The view that it is morally wrong to have nice things when others are starving often accompanies thinking about responsibilities to the poor — but when other kinds of religious involvement are taken into account, this view becomes relatively insignificant as a determining factor.

No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.

One last note on this: I think our hearts are often better than our minds on this sort of thing, and our prayers better than our articulated theology.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

And my reason for thinking this includes, among other things, the fact that my scientific friends in a great college of a great university (among them many agnostics and self - identified «atheists») are the very people who often seem to me most aware of mystery in the world, even in the scientific research that they carry on with such devotion and yet with such humility.

He saw that «new occasions» not only «teach new duties» but that they also «make ancient good uncouth» and that our responsibility, granted the relativism that attaches to all our experience and our statement, is to think afresh, on the basis of the general apostolic witness and with due regard for earlier Christian teaching, as well as in the light of our own experience of «newness of life,» so that what we have to say is nove (newly said) and often is also nove (the saying of new things).

Whether one looks at a Church of South India congregation in the «Harijan Wadi» of a village in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, or at a New Life Pentecostal congregation in the suburbs of Mumbai, whether one looks at a Syrian Orthodox community in Chungom, Kottayam, or at a Mizo Presbyterian Church in Mission Veng in Aizwal, whether one looks at the worshipers at the Indian mass celebrated at the National Biblical Catechetical and Liturgical Centre in Bangalore, or at a newly set up Baptist congregation among former estate workers in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, one thing that would strike even the most impartial observer is the reality of hybridity, hybridity which manifests itself not only in things external, but very often in terms of attitudes, thought - processes and historical self - understanding within the overall identity discourse.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

Often, as we try to defend the practices and traditions of the church, we find ourselves talking in circles and arguing from the basis of the way things have always been done, which keeps us from thinking about how things could be done.

Thanks for your civility and thoughtfulness, for shedding new light on things I thought I'd already figured out, for opening cans of worms that often made the discussions much more interesting than my original posts, for listening to my occasional rants, and for bringing your own unique backgrounds, studies, experiences, and links to the conversations.

Our opinion and our thoughts do not work in that area often referred to as the things of God.

Often times kids do things like this and because of their age, they have no reason to think it is wrong doing, and yet they do.

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.