Sentences with phrase «only value in life»

New moms are not only adapting to life with their tiny babies, but also life as milk - making machines and near - sleepless creatures whose only value in life often seems to be as a caregiver to their new darlings.

I mean, you can imagine the most special thing being taken away from you — not that that was your only value in life — but something that de-valued you?

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«We remain very confident, not only in the value of our business, but also in the value Yahoo products bring to our users» lives.

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.

Cash value life insurance refers to any life insurance policies that not only have a death benefit but also accumulate value in a separate account within the policy.

Beef farms make up about one - quarter of all farms in Canada, second only to field crops, while the dollar value of live cattle exports ranks just behind spring wheat, canola and durum exports.

Aligning your ducks in a row, understating a venture is a marathon with hundreds of sprints in between, and knowing how to make other people feel successful are not only applicable to founders of start ups but are values of life we should all integrate.

Anytime the largest member (bitcoin) gains 30 % in value and still ends up being the weakest major performer, the crypto bull market is not only off life support, it is alive and in recovery.

God only wants the best for us but we in our hard hardheadedness, wrong values and wrong persons to call on for help, we mess up out lives.

We value gracious flexibility, not only in terms of how we think, believe and live, but also in how we function as a community.

My beliefs have value because, in my belief - set, there is an afterlife, there is a way to look back on your life and consider it... Without afterlife, there is no looking back, only non-existence.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

But the concept of the personal and personal values can be taught only where they can also be caught in community life where one can «speak the truth in love» and learn and assimilate it in that process.

none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier with those who don't value the material things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods happiness

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

These are moments of intrinsic value, and in too many lives they are largely isolated occasions, few and far between, connected only by long chains of life lived instrumentally.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

In a 1932 essay «Christianity and Communism» (The Listener), Eliot argued that only the Christian scheme made a place for those values «which I maintain or perish, the belief, for instance, in holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raquIn a 1932 essay «Christianity and Communism» (The Listener), Eliot argued that only the Christian scheme made a place for those values «which I maintain or perish, the belief, for instance, in holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raquin holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raquin sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.»

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

Since that pastor has to pay the full 15.3 % for social security with no help from the church on not only the $ 25K but also on the value of living in the house his cash income was just reduced to less than $ 18K.

No, but it will put more guns in the hands of people who value their freedom and will only shoot another when life is in jeopardy.

Unencumbered, he could indulge in generalities that committed him only to his own opinion: «Novelists must be heroic in affirming life»; there are such things as «human nature,» «universal values,» and «a universal human morality.»

In that case, Grobstein writes, the unborn «need only be assessed and valued for its then - existing properties without reference to what it might have become in a normal human life history.&raquIn that case, Grobstein writes, the unborn «need only be assessed and valued for its then - existing properties without reference to what it might have become in a normal human life history.&raquin a normal human life history.»

This implies a recognition not only of the central importance of valuing in human life but also of the way in which the values of the psychologist and the social scientist affect their methods.

The pessimistic attitude of the Semitic mind toward the world as a fleeting shadow, the notion that it has value only as a place in which man prepares himself for a more permanent life, led to the conception that God is the absolute sovereign power which rules all things, including man and his actions.

But their actions contradict this denial and their attitude toward themselves and others makes that contradiction apparent, Even the person who decides to commit suicide, because he or she has been disappointed or frustrated or rejected, is really asserting a sense of value, if only in the implicit assumption that by ending life one can give it a meaning.

Lacking both faith in an afterlife and trust in a Lord of life, those who exclude God from their temporal horizon are left then only with the pain, never with value or meaning.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

That is a contradiction, because they are the only group of imigrants in the world that want to change the values, traditions, way of life of any country that have the bad luck to be thier host, I recommend and pass the word to read: The Islamisation of America, and Londondistan, where the plans of taking over are in march.

All our lives are consumed in possessing struggle but only when the struggle is cherished & directed to a final consummation outside of this life is it of any value.

• Marriage vows should be for life because only this commitment of the totality of one's attention, of one's time, can reflect the Christian belief in the unlimited value of the other person.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

For we shall be inclined, if not certainly driven, to put temporary and proximate «goods» in the place belonging only to the absolute Good which is God; and as a result we shall attempt to live without regard for that last and ultimate environment which is the only «safe» context for all other values and goals that we may set ourselves.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

In a situation where I imagined only desperation, there exists an inexplicable hope — an uncanny ability to value not only the basics, but even the little extravagances of life.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

The values that determined mid-twentieth-century life in America were at their best only faintly Christian.

He performed countless miracles to help convince non-believers, he carried the message of God's love for us, repentance and forgiveness and some where a CNN editor thinks there is any value in writing about the possibility (albeit an unprovable opinion only...) that Jesus was dirty living in the dust bowl of the eastern mediterranean?

To be the only chaplain in a 170 - bed hospital filled with a great number of people who are quadraplegic; to try to help these people rediscover and / or redefine a life value and quality that they often feel has been lost; to grow to care greatly about these people; to do all these things and yet deep, deep inside, to feel that you would rather be dead than be quadraplegic — that's hard to admit.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The only path available today is, either the domination of the majority religion or secular ideology as the established framework of the State suppressing the rights of others using State coercion or open democratic secularism in which a consensus is sought regarding the values and directions of the common life of society and the State policy related to that common life, through peaceful but active dialogue among religions and ideologies.

Those values, like faith can only be acquired in this life.

The Christian calling is not only to service, not only to self denial, not only to a nature that is foreign to the status quo — it is a calling to life, abundant life — to express realities in the here and now that affirm the true value of creation and redemption as the work of the Father, Son and Spirit — to serve and give ourselves up in a manner that truly allows that to be made evident, that the world may become aware of the true fragrance of God — Jesus Christ.

This sounds good from the perspective of modern Christianity David, but couldn't it also be the case that in the primitive polytheistic world of the author, they felt that worshiping «their god», and «only their god» was of greater value than even human life?

Thus, the principles of esthetic value here discussed may serve not only as guides in creating and appreciating what are called «art objects» and as criteria of qualitative excellence in curricular matters outside of the arts, but as attributes of the good life and as a source of general educational aims.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

And turn all your efforts and energy to seeking God's kingdom; and then, and only then, will you find true contentment and everything will fall into place and have meaning and value in your life.

Does not this statement, he asks, mean today «that human life in society, liberated as far as possible from alienations, constitutes the absolute value, and that all religious institutions, all dogmas, all the sacraments and all ecclesiastical authorities have only a relative, that is, a functional value?»