Sentences with phrase «rather than reading a book»

Rather than reading books, surfing the web and looking for step - by - step guides, one of the best ways to learn is by observing others.

I'll bet you just believe what your preacher tells you rather than reading books and recorded studies about evolutionary biology.

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

This leads to advice for parents «to increase the intelligence of your child and yourself,» though Nisbett focuses on such «21st - century» skills as «problem - solving» rather than reading books, acquiring knowledge, and gaining understanding.

He's a hilarious writer with a very inviting — I would even say gregarious — style, as if you're in conversation with him rather than reading a book.

Some people prefer to get their information by sitting back and listening rather than reading a book.

As the day comes to an end and the two of you are in bed or relaxing on the couch, cuddle rather than reading a book or typing away on your computer.

Not exact matches

How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

It read: «Book rooms with locals, rather than hotels.»

From great online content to endless book recommendations and must - read lists, most of us struggle to fit in all the reading we want to do rather than locate cool stuff to check out.

Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

The Internet giant recently announced it would pay certain authors based on the number of pages read in a book, rather than the number of times that a work is downloaded.

Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors — large and small — should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.»

I have found the more esoteric finance books that I sometimes read now would have me go rogue rather than stay the course.

So I feel strongly that the usual article on «best investing books» has far too many entries and ends up suggesting good books you might read, rather than recommending great books you must read.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

I am reading a book called Mystery of Emptiness & Love by Domo Geshe Rinpoche, and in the first chapter it says «The purpose of this book is to help you uncover the view that is holding you, rather than the view you are holding».

he has a very detailed chapter on your worm... I think if you read real science text books on evolution you will get the facts rather than just a rebuttal based on biblical stories.

As this discussion has been going on for more than 5,000 years you might want to go read some books on the subject rather than expect a stranger on the Internet to do it for you.

I am a Mormon who has actually read the Book of Mormon, and I encourage anyone with doubts or questions to actually read it for themselves and study the churches teachings from primary sources — the scriptures, words of the prophets, the church itself — rather than trusting 3rd party interpretations or claims of understanding Mormonism.

There is no reason why Jacobs should not lampoon a book after a brief glance rather than dignifying it with a review, but it is a bit much to accompany the caricature with advice to the author on the virtues of close reading.

Why indeed should students be reading these books at all, rather than preparing for their future careers?»

In his book, The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns invites Christians to read the Bible as a conversation or dialogue, rather than an infallible text or guide.

If an election comes down to a vote between a d.ouche and a t.urd (as it almost always does), I'd rather stay at home touching myself / watch a blu - ray / read a book (Cormac McCarthy at the moment) than vote between two idiots.

Easily the best «Jesus book» of our time, this has to be read with the consciousness that its author was writing for the general public rather than specifically for theologians or theological students.

When one goes to a concert [or reads a book or even watches television] to relax after a busy day, the result can be a mild drowsiness - in itself pleasurable enough - rather than any spiritual uplift.

That's a big part of what my new book tries to do: propose (by example rather than argument) new ways of reading the Bible, new ways of imagining church gatherings, new ways of inviting rather than suppressing questions and dialogue.

Donald notes that Lincoln's contemporaries «attributed prodigies of reading to him, but books were scarce on the frontier and he had to read carefully rather than extensively.

With electronic culture, he suggests, the resonance of sound has become the dominant mode of communication and conveyor of truth, rather than sight (as in reading books to discern ideas).

If I had decided to chime in I would have recommended reading Ian Bradley's fine book Abide With Me: The World of Victorian Hymns (1997), where he details the heated debates in 19th century England over whether to have choirs, and if so, if they should be kept at the rear of the sanctuary in order to «back up» the congregation in its worship rather than being a visual distraction in the front.

Rather than attacking with your talking points, fed to you by people adamantly opposed to evolution, why don't you sit down with a book by an expert who LIKES evolution and read their perspective?

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

Also, I'm not against reading books written by biblical scholars, I just started down this path because Jeremy stated that this is the best book about Jesus, rather than applying that attribute to the bible itself.

If you have ever read Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ, this book is very similar, except that rather than the research performed by an investigative journalist, the research is done by a cold case detective.

So rather than completely stop reading, I just put the book aside to finish later.

I later read the book, and the basic argument to the book is that the Catholic church, in cooperation with the government, has duped Christians into meeting on Sunday rather than on Saturday.

Crowder is probably the most controversial and has many critics but if people take time to read his book rather than slurring his character, they will then see the meaning of salvation.

It would have been better, easier and best to for them if to read the most recognized holy books of the Three dominant religions and choose out a faith out of them taking the positive for life and society and leave out the negative for life and society rather than having it shoveled down your throat to take it as it is a be extreme on some thing that is mystic unexplainable or meant for different ages and unsuitable or scientifically disapproven.

If you spent half the time reading other books that have true knowledge in them, rather than reading small passages at a time of 1 book, you might know that.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

The various reading strategies that Seibert proposes in the book go a long way toward helping Christians view others through the lens of Jesus Christ, so that rather than view them as enemies to be killed, we see them as people for whom Jesus died.

Some of us actually read the Book rather than listening to nutjobs like this guy.

Moreover, he contends that reading this early book as Ford does makes the text «less rather than more intelligible» (WPSP 11).

It was the Light because the knew creator was of Light but searched for it in the wrong sources, or made an idole of light sources to worship rather than reading and looking in to ones self by reading the light that is within the books that was meant for them to read thing and believe in to submission!.

But each time I read books, blogs or articles about the topic (granted that I am more inclined to read stuff written by people who are really serious about their relationship with God rather than people complaining merely because they can — and thereâ $ ™ s plenty of them), I come to one conclusion: The complaints are mostly about what the church has become (or how people perceive the church to be) than against the church itself.

How distinctive to the Movement these meanings turn out to be, and how central the concept was to Tractarianism as a religious rather than an intellectual movement, remain open questions, but FrPereiro has undoubtedly written a book that every serious student of the Oxford Movement will have to read.

Harned has done it, however, in a beautifully written book that probably needs to be read and pondered rather than summarized.

I'm reading a book right now called To Be Told by Dan Allender and it has really helped me view my life as a coherent whole that is going someplace (I don't exactly know where) rather than just a string of events while I'm in a holding pattern for heaven.

Since the language of the denomination's Book of Church Order already reads «persons» and not «males» in its rules governing ordination to the ministry, what is at stake here is really the repeal of a 400 - year - old interpretation rather than of a specific law.

I also find it a shame that I read more social media now rather than books.