Sentences with phrase «ordinary life when»

Dennis Fritz was an ordinary middle - aged man leading an ordinary life when he was charged with rape and murder.

There is no television in the villa, a conscious decision by the owners who want to have a break from ordinary life when staying here.

Typically, these heroes venture far from their homes, leaving behind their ordinary lives when they take on the persona of a hero.

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He died east of Brest, deep in the woodlands of Huelgoat, a place that had been a frequent retreat when he was a child and where his imagination had first begun to float free from its moorings in ordinary life.

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.

It was in a period of philosophical and religious ferment, when the pagan gods failed to offer answers to the problems of ordinary life, that Christ came into the world and revealed God's salvific plan to all of mankind.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

Can we really speak of the God of the ordinary miracle of life when our lives are spent in manufactured experiences, curated for branding?

In ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualize.

«One sure mark of genuine spiritual growth, I think, is a growing preference for the ordinary days of our life with God» (Thomas H. Green, When the Well Runs Dry).

When in the middle of «sin,» in decisionlessness, the will awakes to decision, the integument of ordinary life bursts and the primeval force breaks through and storms upward to heaven.

So architectural and artistic preservation, when it values sacred space in the context of ordinary surroundings, assists in the hallowing of the rest of life, decades later.

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.

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

It is too bad when we give Satan credit for such ordinary things that happen in life.

Even or especially ordinary people know that when celebrities possess a singular artistic greatness, their lives are not for envy or imitation.

The notion that it is God who calls seems a commonplace piety when we are talking about «church vocations,» calls to «ministry» or «the religious life,» but it sounds more like an afterthought or theological overlay in regard to ordinary life.

The ordinary Christian who has prayed all his life for the coming of the kingdom when he said the Lord's Prayer, and who thought he was being called to labor diligently for its advancement may be more confused than edified if he has read thus far in the book.

Although I know with Martin Buber that «all real living is meeting,» I seldom make myself fully present to those occasions when the ordinary whispers of the holy.

While many of the questions we have been dealing with so far occur when we experience suffering, confusion, despair or simply the unexpected vicissitudes of life, this question can arise, and probably most often does, in the midst of life's ordinary routine.

James Tolhurst FAITH Magazine May - June 2007 An article in the new Harper / Collins Encyclopaedia of Catholicism caught my eye because in it Fr Regis Duffy OFM (A Professor at St Bonaventure's University in Olean NY) says that «private devotions flourish when the Church's liturgical life is poorly understood or when it does not satisfy the spiritual needs of ordinary people.»

At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans.

Goldstein's book is at its best when the conversations veer personal, and she gets to make use of clever metaphors from ordinary modern life.

A community is true when, in the ordinary circumstances of daily life, its institutions and practices enable persons to multiply the frequency of their acts of knowing and loving.

Hearing from God about things, even when major decisions (or people's lives) are in the balance, is quite ordinary.

but the last batch i bought was in maybe april or may, but when i used it gave me the runs and the drink would look out of the ordinary, since then i've been using sun warrior meal replacement and its been good, but since they stopped selling it at my local vitamin world i was thinking bout just finishing the garden of life that i havent touched,.

Check out what happens when two ordinary New Zealand women simulate what it would be like to live on the Red Planet.

Some Tories will have winced when Miliband declared of energy bill victims, «These are the ordinary people of this country whom this prime minister will never meet and whose lives he will never understand.»

The Country's voters - I talk to ordinary folk when out and about - give me the message that they are totally sick and tired of the fact that British society and life is characterised and fundamentally motivated by money and profit.

Firstly, he has to come up with an initiative which will be seen as fair to the ordinary person trying to get on in life or the «striver» (a word that I object to — when was the last time you heard someone in the pub use it?).

When you take away ordinary lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit.»

Blears outperformed them, not just because she was willing to take a pop at Palin (which was only really an aside, but which went down well with the audience), but because she was just a bit more spiky and impassioned when it came discussing about ordinary life.

That was when Labour came into power when the nation was hardly flush with cash, but had the courage to make a decisive difference to ordinary lives.

Oguine said that the president had disappointed millions of Nigerians who trooped out en mass to vote him into power, saying that cost of living had become more expensive and not within the reach of ordinary Nigerians than when the previous administration was in charge.

They foresee a time when the very fabric of modern life — ordinary materials such as plastics and concrete — will hold much of the electricity we need.

Ordinary stars also blow dust into space when they swell into red giants near the end of their lives.

It's incredible how the ordinary things in life like walking, running, and dancing become extraordinary when you're disabled - extraordinary in difficulty, yes, but also in the feeling of pride when you finally accomplish them.

It starts out by asking a bunch of information — the regular kind of stuff, like who you are, what you're looking for, where you live — and that's when you see this is no ordinary hookup website.

Australia's top 50 richest entertainers and their gross income for 2004, as estimated by BRW magazine: - Sydney Morning Herald Online Life is anything but ordinary when your mom and dad are some of the richest people in the world.

Bruce Jenner is now known as Caitlyn Jenner, she is an American TV personality, television personality, television producer, talent manager, businessperson Life is anything but ordinary when your mom and dad are some of the richest people in the world.

An ordinary guy escapes his turbulent home life when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star friend, only to discover that there's Famous Supernatural guest stars include a future Star Wars actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actors and classic horror stars.

Reality doesn't impress me I only believe in intoxication in ecstasy and when ordinary life shackles me I escape one way or another No more walls ☆

Like when the movie wraps and he's all, wait a minute, I was so boss for a few weeks there and everyone cared about me and now why is my life so ordinary?

While I've not explicitly hit their age bracket, my life is certainly surrounded by friends getting older, having kids and asking when you're going to do the same but my question is: what if that's not a decision we (My other half and I) want to make or, on the other side, why isn't it ordinary to make the decision not to.

Before I knew that I wanted to be a filmmaker though, around when I was sixteen and moved out of my mother's house — she had a new boyfriend and I couldn't be there anymore — I was living alone but I had a VCR with a tape of Ordinary People.

Living ordinary lives in Raqqah when Islamic State took over the town in July 2014, they were incensed both at the terror group's depredations and the way no one in the outside world seem to know or care about the situation.

Lonergan catches you in the minutiae of ordinary living, so when the emotion of extraordinary tragedy suddenly erupts, it is stunning.

The premise of the original short story is that an ordinary man escapes into his imagination to get away from the mundane experiences in everyday life — and honestly, at a time when unemployment is rampant and wealth disparity is so enormous, that's an idea that could be amazingly resonant to many people.

If you want to know what happens when you force a superhero to live an ordinary life, log in to your Netflix account and get streaming Jessica Jones.

But what can an ordinary child do to stay alive when the living can be just as bad — and sometimes worse — than the dead?