Sentences with phrase «only purpose of this life»

The only purpose of my life right now is to help other people with theirs.

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Money is a driving force for success and helps for the improvement of the overall work quality of the team, yet, it is not the only purpose of the «game of life» we all play.

Without taking the time to think carefully about where your notions of achievement and purpose come from and what success means to you, you're in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the point of life is something you actually don't value much at all.

This is why you must not only deny God but you must believe that your life and that of a whale have the same meaning and purpose.

In the United States more than 70 % believe in a purpose onto God and only 1.6 % (atheist) believe in accidental intelligent life that formed out of inorganic matter.

Beware guys, in my humble opinion this man is just one of many that exists or is yet to come whose sole purpose is to lead people astray in these end - times (only the true Christians know this is truly the end times we're living) and take note that it is the liberal websites like CNN that are complicit towards this endeavor.

@fred, «In the United States more than 70 % believe in a purpose onto God and only 1.6 % (atheist) believe in accidental intelligent life that formed out of inorganic matter.»

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

Our lives are so short compared to the age of the universe, we need an eternal purpose to give our lives meaning... So, the only way I see to do that is to serve the purpose of something eternal, namely God.

So because we haven't found simultaneous existence of another civilization, you can jump to the conclusion that a being not only created the universe, but also created one species of sentient life destined to fulfill the higher purpose of existing to believe in him?

Therefore, in light of the fact that God created work for humans to do and God will have work for us to do in eternity, it only makes sense that we can live now in light of this purpose for our lives.

If the Darwinist, taking up Descartes» and Bacon's project of understanding nature according only to material and efficient causes, studies the history of living things and says that he can see no organizing, active principles of whole living substances (formal causes) and no real plan, purpose or design in living things (final causes), then I accept his report without surprise.

But we can make use of it to understand not only how specific systems of matter, life and consciousness arise, but also to symbolize the manner in which cosmic purpose may be operating graciously, silently, caringly in the universe.

In accordance with the longstanding tradition of sobornost, a «spiritual community of many jointly living people,» many Russians believe that they can only fully acquire a sense of meaning and purpose as a people, not as separate individuals.

Our only hope is in his using us, in all our weakness, for the fulfillment of his great purpose, that men may have «life in him.»

But if we have here only the preparatory stage, the first working - over of the raw material, the significant beginnings but not the final endings of a vast purpose, we can accept life with a much better grace.

One would almost think that the West had only just had news of that victory, as it had just learned of the conquest of Jerusalem, and that the purpose of the company of statues that now was mustering in the glimmering recesses of cathedral porches was to reveal to men as living presences the figures of their collective dreams.4

For it is only when it is plainly seen that the great purpose is the building of the universal Kingdom of God, and that the object of human living is the development of the human spirit, that the irrelevance of such things as material success becomes apparent.

Great as is the significance of the emergence of self - conscious persons within the very fabric of the universe for any reflection on its possible meaning and purpose, this must not lead us to underplay the significance also of the rest of the universe and of all other living organisms to God as Creator — even though we are able to depict only in imagination the kind of delight that God may be conceived to have in the fecund multiplicity and variety or created forms.

In all of Mark's Gospel, this is the only time Jesus says a word about his purpose: «For the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Though there may be areas of his life or his world which take on special sanctity for cultic purposes, these sacred acts and places only represent the whole of life, the whole of his world.

Where the atheist scientist sees only physical processes and laws that give rise to illusions of morality and free will, I see real beauty, truth, love, good and evil, purpose to life, freedom to choose and ultimate hope.

Albom makes it his own by emphasizing that the purpose of life can be discovered only in an afterlife.

It is the belief of the churches that this providential ordering provides the framework within which our sexual lives can best serve not only our well - being, but also the more general purposes of God.

So I guess what she means by»... that our purpose not only in sobriety but in life is to be of service to others.»

The idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and endure for our fellow men, but who will pour new life into our too languid love, and give firmness to our vacillating purpose, is an extension and multiplication of the effects produced by human sympathy.

For arguments sake, i agree, all who say life has purpose only if you give it purpose are saying, what i beliveve is not the same as what you believe, but really, we all have a set of ideas of which we should do but never do them, or if we're thrill seekers do the opposite.

By «complexity» Ruse means «adaptive complexity,» and he sees evolutionary biology as in effect arguing that this or that characteristic of living beings can often be rendered intelligible only if we consider what function or purpose it serves.

As Victor Frankl, a psychologist and Holocaust survivor put it in Man's Search for Meaning, «life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.»

If the Living God can't use the words that come out of as female's mouth (granted that they are law / gospel words and about Jesus) for His purposes... then he really wouldn't be much of a God... but a puny twirpy god that required only certain genitalia to get his work done.

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.

These may include not only broad philosophical issues such as whether the universe has a purpose, but also questions we have become accustomed to think of as empirical, such as bow life first began or bow complex biological systems were put together.

For when our life expresses the image of God and is in touch with the infinite, life - giving, self - fulfilling love of God, when God is the source and goal of our deepest desire, then and only then do we children of God live out creation's purpose.

The value and purpose of your life can only be known by those that remain after you are gone.

«God's purpose through Jesus Christ is to deify the nature of man and thus forever make him like unto Christ, not only in outward appearance or habits of life but in nature and substance and content; in spirit and soul, and body like the Son of God.»

At the same time, only with intelligent life can there be any sense of alienation from divine creativity, any awareness of our capacity to thwart the divine purpose by self - centered activities randomly conflicting with one another.

The word believe implies a continual process of reaching out to God in faith and obedience, not only to avoid eternal destruction in hell, but also to avoid wasting our lives on earth by experiencing God's purpose now.

Some abandoned traditional religion altogether, only to find that scientific knowledge of the natural world does not in itself provide answers to the meaning and purpose of life.

but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i die i get to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.

The phenomenon of relativity not only denies the absoluteness of time and space; it also undermines the certainty of our knowledge and the absoluteness of the values and purposes by which we live.

Only one among the schools, and that one unofficially and incidentally, refers in its statement of purpose to «the American way of life.»

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

For the purposes of life, eternity, creation, redemption, there is indeed only one God, however, he is not the God of a religion, he is the God of himself.

If only 50 people a week could hear about God's purpose of redemption and their purpose of being living children of the Kingdom of God.

Do we only criticize scientists who draw inferences for the meaning and purpose of human life from their larger visions of the cosmos and our place in the grand narrative?

The notion that there can not be purpose in living without a god is only indicative of a lack of imagination on the part of the person saying such a thing.