Sentences with phrase «own ordinary life»

I've told you this before, and I'll tell you it, again: If you live an ordinary life expectancy, you will see your entire equity portfolio decline from peak - to - rough by 50 percent or more at least once, possibly thrice or more.

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.

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.

Posthuman pleasure captures the peak of human happiness, the moment just before «the softly - falling soot of ordinary life» returns to cover our joy.

In the chapter «A Literary Sacrament,» he illustrates Dubus's talent for peeling back the fabric of ordinary life to reveal the workings of grace and mercy.

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.

The truth is, the ordinary life we wake up to every day is full of its own magic, beauty, wonder and meaning; we just choose to ignore it most of the time.

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.

Many women have gone from leading ordinary lives to living in cramped, inadequate housing.

Not enough attention is paid to the concrete actualities of ordinary lived experience.

In Kekes» view, Allen's thuggery exemplifies the evil that can result from «disenchantment with ordinary life.»

Ordinary lives continue.

I think we need the humanity of laughter and Netflix and ordinary life.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Ordinary life enriches my work.

Certainly the new element can not simply be separated from one's ordinary life, but by fulfilling the precepts of the catechism and the commandments of the Church and being in this sense a good Christian, we have not yet adequately responded to God's call to our concrete and unique person.

The second is the true lay apostolate which has to be exercised in one's ordinary life.

How refreshing to find someone who, though she has met the leading exponents in a myriad of fields, genuinely seems to appreciate the beauty of an ordinary life lived kindly.

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.

That order is made up of priests who have left the Catholic Church behind and now live ordinary lives just ministering to the people without judgment and without inflicting fear upon them.

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.

How Christians have lived, whether in going to the lions under Nero's sadistic mania or in being Christian in the ordinary events of ordinary living, has been an indisputable witness.

But for the most part, they remained invisible, ghostly observers of ordinary life, which they condemned in exquisite writings distributed in plain cover editions along the banks of the Seine.

It illumines the everyday, so that we may find in it shafts of the divine glory that point to God, so that we may sense the eternal significance of ordinary life.

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.

In philosophy, theology, and ordinary life we speak of «revelation,» «insight,» and the «aha» or «eureka» experience.

Though some interpreters of Zen might speak of the reversibility of time, I believe that in Zen, as in ordinary life, time is unidirectional.

He has written several books including Future Leader and The Spectacular Ordinary Life.

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.

Along with this religious emphasis goes an understanding of science not as the leisured activity of a few whose ordinary life is secure, but as an activity devoted to serving ordinary life and enhancing it for everyone.

As the theological matrix for this affirmation of ordinary life gradually fades» as it is seen less as a Calling» the bourgeois ethic's relation to Deism emerges.

(Taylor does not, I think, give enough attention to the way in which these first two features of the modern identity» inwardness and affirmation of ordinary life» may be in tension with each other.

Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of life that makes human happiness central and sees us as beings whose dignity lies chiefly in enacting that benevolence in ordinary life.

Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.

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.

Any such hint, which might call for «asceticism» toward the goods of ordinary life, begins to be rejected.

Inwardness and ordinary life are not easily reconciled.)

Like the rest of the radical youth in arenas being called world - changers, I had assumed that being a world - changer or a leader or even just a disciple of Jesus meant that I would not have an ordinary 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.

Like them, it has a somewhat unreal air, and being there seems a pleasant but artificial excursion from ordinary life.

Such moments reveal what Christian writer C.S. Lewis called «our inconsolable secret,» our universal longing to bridge a gulf between our ordinary lives and this extraordinary life set before us.

In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable.

For most of the inner circle of followers of Jesus the step from ordinary life to an itinerant one was not attended with such great sacrifices.

One is the world of normalization, depicting disabled people not unlike ourselves, people who have been wronged by their unnecessary exile from ordinary life and who, therefore, deserve our support.

Like alcohol, these drugs afford temporary escape into a transformed psychic world, in which the stresses and pains of ordinary life are obliterated.

Inevitably they spill some of it into the humdrum of ordinary life.

One minute you are leading an ordinary life.

If we think of the entities with which we have to do in ordinary life, we can gain no analogy.