Sentences with phrase «promise of a better life»

Can you imagine leaving your home, risking it all for the promise of a better life in a new country?

They're not brought in shackles and chains but they are brought across the southern border with false promises and lies and the promise of a better life.

It has to do with public standards that allow for all persons to participate in a just social order and in a community in which the promises of a good life may be a realized hope for all.

What happens to those who work their lives and never obtain the promise of a better life.

«Contrary to the promise of better life for the people and the community, the mining operations in our province only brought suffering,» said Elmer Bolusan, a farmer - leader from MASIPAG in Nueva Vizcaya.

People soon realize how much further money goes in a miniaturized world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in Omaha in order to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life - changing adventures.»

«The Immigrant» is about many things, chief among them the promise of a better life in America, and that optimism of the era is beautifully captured in cinematographer Darius Khondji's golden - hued visuals.

No, it's not holiday sweaters or Halloween treats — it's the promise of a better life.

we hit the ground running with resolutions, promises of a better life and planning to make it all happen.

Brannon's stylish prints combine the promise of the good life with cryptic advice on how to live it.

Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.

According to the Icelandic sagas, Erik the Red named it Greenland in an attempt to lure settlers in search of land and the promise of a better life.

As an example, Dolan mentions a partner at a large law firm for whom the promise of a better life during her early retirement, still eighteen years away, kept her going.

Not exact matches

But the promise of intelligent voice assistants goes well beyond bringing inanimate objects to life; it will change how and when we use technology, and perhaps more importantly, who uses it.

OPINION: Being serious is a way of life — deliver on your promises, be committed, organised and serve your customers well.

Get outside your own head, your own view of the world, think about making someone else's life better, and they promise yours will soon start feeling that way too.

«Maybe it's me wanting to do something where, OK, I am promising something, but I'm fulfilling the promise as well,» says Hull, who lives north of Manchester, England.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

The inviolable core of Toms is a promise to the consumer that each purchase translates into a better life for someone halfway around the globe.

Rising housing prices raise the cost of living, while rising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their promises.

RWJF, a $ 10 billion mothership for healthcare philanthropy, is pulling every lever it can to advance this goal — with grantmaking to fully realize the promise of universal coverage, improve the efficiency and quality of the U.S. healthcare system, look upstream to address the underlying causes of poor health, and pursue a wide range of efforts to help Americans eat better, move more, and lead healthier lives.

By the end of the semester, he'd raised another $ 5 million and was standing in front of the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, promising a world in which education was nearly free, available to poor people in the developing world, and better than anything that had come before it.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

I do not need to promise of an after life to be a good man nor do I need the threat of some horrible suffering to keep me on the straight and narrow.

The outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas, the subject of much discussion in this year's presidential campaign, is part of an economic movement that promises a better life — indeed, a new beginning — for many people in developing countries.

In such circumstances the fundamental gospel promise of forgiveness and eternal life is heard as genuine Good News.

It is helpful to know that not all of God's blessings and promises are reserved for the afterlife, but that many forms of deliverance and salvation are for this life as well.

America's No. 1 power couple is officially hitting the road, taking their respective most recent releases on tour together for what promises to be one of the best live shows...

Someone Who Is Holy isn't pacing down the grocery store aisle with three tinies hanging off the cart and coupons in her purse, she isn't running the dryer again to «fluff» the clothes that have sat in there too long, she isn't snorting while she laughs at television shows on Netflix, she isn't on her hands and knees wiping up someone else's vomit, she isn't locking the bedroom door and throwing a saucy look of promise at her husband because clearly good sex isn't included in the holiness life, she doesn't sweat, she doesn't turn on cartoons for three - minutes - of - peace - for - the - love.

And by you saying he ruined your life, is very bad to say, he changed my life, I have lived through alot of this, all because I did ask, and I lived, I am getting through, and its thanks to God, he can get you through anything, all things are possible with him, and that is true, my anxiety and depression have gone down (I am still human), and I just am an all around better person because of him, and you should get rid of your Facebook as well, and devote every hour minute anything you can towards God and Christ, turn the tube off, and just devote it to him, I promise you won't be sorry, good luck and God bless!!!

But the best thing we can expect in this life — and it is already promised and given — is a good dose of forgiveness.

Can we imagine ourselves seeking together the good life in this land of promise?

Just admit that the flood is a story probably written a while after a severe local flood, and that the theological point is to credit God for the saving of life as well as the promise not to destroy again.

It happened because those first Christians met a young rabbi who promised that, should they believe in him, each of them would become «a spring of water welling up to eternal life» [John 4.14].

a reality... so there really is no «nicer way» physical death isn't nice... it isn't all good stuff... with the exception it is the vehicle for thos of us who believe in Gods Promises to eternal life..

What does it matter when we die what is important is what we do with our life now.The struggles people find themselves is because of living a sinful lifestyle you cant play with fire and not get burnt there are consequences.Jesus wants to bring forgiveness and healing and remove the guilt and shame that you are feeling.Ive have been there i was just as guilty i do nt believe theres a big screen that replays our life if it is it, it will be about what we have done for God as our sins are covered under the blood of Jesus.The judgement for christians is that we must give an account of what we did for Jesus while we were here did we make the most of opportunities given to tell others to reach out others with his love.Mat 25:14 - 30 the Parable of the talents talks about judgement and for me it is all about what we do for Jesus the ones who are faithfull in the small things are set over much.The one who did nt use his talent that God gave him was punished for his lack of faith.So for those who are struggling with sin and life Jesus loves you and has a plan for your life just trust him to help you and he will.To be fair its wont be easy you will have to make some hard choices but he promises to help you through its all about choosing him over choosing what we think best because he knows whats best for us.Its important the choice you make as it will impact your life for eternity.brentnz

Anyone of good conscience should agree with what I have said and ban together, so we can bring this country the very world we live on into the 21st century free of these groups hold on our minds and revel in all the promise this century has to offer so our children's children's children will look back in pride an see we did what we did for them and there posterity.

Promises of eternal life, of prayers answered, your own planet, virgins, an end to suffering, and so forth are all things that people can become greedy for as well.

Education is the attempt to fulfill the high hopes and fervent expectations which center around a child at his birth; it is the effort to make good the promise of a new life in its boundless potentiality.

Thus it is tempting, especially in the light of revelation by which we view the cosmos with the eyes of faith as well as science, to hold that the material dimension of our cosmos was shaped by the promise of life, consciousness, and faith from the time of its earliest formation.

Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't make me feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't make you think life is worth living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to feel safe, I want to feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.

Well, how are you preparing your personal life, your actions, even your finances to see the promise of a spouse or family fulfilled?

There was a time in life where I felt God call me out of youth ministry and promise me a career that would better fit who I was as a person while getting to actively serve Him in ministry.

Some of the promises were for peace, prosperity, long life, good health, etc..

The first five chapters of the Wisdom of Solomon deal with the promise of immortality for those who are just, and the author attacked the view of those who, seeing no permanent meaning in life, decided to enjoy the good things of life while they could, no matter what suffering their self - centered actions might bring to others.

In no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharing.

From the title track «Children of Promise» to «Better Than Life» and «Salvation», we are reminded of the promise that we have both now and for etPromise» to «Better Than Life» and «Salvation», we are reminded of the promise that we have both now and for etpromise that we have both now and for eternity.

The world needs Spirit - inspired celebrators who can rejoice with every evidence of the coming of the expected kingdom, never ceasing to live in the faith that God loves and never finally loses, always loving the life that God has given, and always hoping for the good future he has promised.

Where hope is born in the expectation of a good future, of a consummation of life in which its promise is fulfilled, the Spirit is the source.

Peace to all that would rather have love and peace in their heart and who ask guide daily to guidance, those who believe in the day of judgement where true justice is applied and who have traded good deeds in this short life for a heaven that GOD promised them where we hear nothing but «Peace» from angels.