Sentences with phrase «on ordinary lives»

A new play provides an all - too - realistic dystopian vision of the financial crash's impact on ordinary lives.

It impinged on ordinary life only at the points of religious belief and personal morality.

Joseph's work focuses on ordinary life scenes, mixes them with element that we do not expect to see and images from a Los Angeles that people are not familiar with.

In the cityscape, «Montgomery Block» (1956 - 59) and the genre painting, «Woman Getting a Haircut» (1962), it is evident that Bischoff has looked carefully at the work of Edward Hopper and other artists who were focused on ordinary life.

Not exact matches

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

Jay and Shel put legs on the ideals and give examples of how ordinary business owners around the world are discovering just how effective the Golden Rule really is in their business and personal life.»

And yet the tax code continues to give preference to capital gains over ordinary income — a major advantage to investors but not to people who rely on paychecks for their living.

Drawing on his life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience of what it means to be human.»

Unlike life insurance, annuity death benefits are taxed as ordinary income on any gains above the original investment amount.

Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms.»

We transcend ordinary life, as it were, in moments of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power of nature, and sometimes by the power of love, or even by the power of what is ugly or evil.

Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesses.

Paul that shed light on the beauty and mystery of ordinary and ephemeral moments in life and nature.

Stay around until 8, and you can be stunned by the eloquence of the world's greatest neurosurgeon and profund commentator on the spiritual dimension of ordinary life, Ben Carson.

come on, just admit its an old book written by ordinary men in the DARK AGES, so we can all get on with our lives and wake up from our species» infancy.

Someone needs to ask Romney if he thinks God used to be an ordinary man and that God lives on Planet Kolob.

In 1973 I met him again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary people.

At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.

There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery of daily life.

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

Certainly in the United Kingdom we can no longer presume that the ordinary parish structure is sufficient to credibly communicate the life - giving truth of Christ's teaching on sex and marriage.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

A band of ordinary dudes traveled on foot to show and tell of this upside - down way of life oriented around Jesus.

Ethics can be reconstructed on the basis of these features of ordinary life, Glover believes, without recourse to disputed rational axioms or religious beliefs.

They also know that ordinary living imposes strain enough on a marriage, without inviting the additional difficulties occasioned by trying to bridge two subcultures which the majority of society are determined to keep separate.

The gang kid who commits his life to God and goes on to lead others out of the gang... the prostitute who gives up the life and becomes a missionary... you and I who have given up the ordinary life for a life of service to God through serving man... these are the real miracles.

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

I wondered why an indigenous Korean understanding of the impact of the gospel on the lives of ordinary people, i.e., a Korean evangelical theology, had been jettisoned in favour of a second - hand Western evangelical theology.

In an effort to press their faith into the crannies of ordinary life, Puritans of old and new England wrote books on everyday activities with titles like Husbandry Spiritualized and Navigation Spiritualized, Trading Spiritualized and Weaving Spiritualized.

The ordinary pleasures of life give us just an inkling of what true pleasure must be, and Lewis is a master at using them to depict the happiness God will one day bestow on those who love him.

On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kinOn the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kinon the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Abortion is not the only life issue, but it is the one that bears most directly on the lives of ordinary Catholics as they fight against the current to preserve family life.

Rather, it's a suspicion based on an insight that is in some ways both premodern and postmodern: Language expresses experience; therefore, its truth always has something to do with its usefulness in ordinary life.

They drew on symbolic aspects of life closer to their ordinary experience — eating, lactating, suffering.

Life on its grandest scale comes to him who opens the door to the ordinary.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

Things like this don't take away the terrible and horrible things of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carry on.

So far we have not discussed the area of human life which is known as the «religious experience», the awareness of the «more - than - human» impinging on ordinary experience.

In his commentaries on the Upanisads, Shankara referred to «the knowability of the Unknowable» and to «the whole real - unreal course of ordinary life.»

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

At the one side he was the ordinary carpenter Jesus, Joseph's son, from Nazareth living in Capernaum at Lake Tiberias, on the other side supernatural power came from him, he was sacral.

Drawing on examples from the past and present, David Parish explains why our ordinary lives are important... More

If in the course of an ordinary day we are not struck in the face or accosted by beggars or taken to court or hit up for a loan, there are plenty of other demands on our time for faithful living!