When we talk about insurance, it always doesn't say
the real meaning of life insurance.
A simple lady who until now keeps on finding
the real meaning of life, its wonders and magic.
Most of this bewildering assortment of denominations, cults, and societies claim to offer
the real meaning of life and the true meaning of the Bible.
How has this article made you ponder
the real meaning of life?
There are so many things we do in life that define
the real meaning of our lives.
Not exact matches
In the context
of this study that simply
meant more anxious subjects tended to feel more irrationally negative about the neutral word puzzles that accompanied stressful images, but in
real life this effect could cause actual trouble.
These instant notifications can use the phone's GPS as well,
meaning you're occasionally notified that someone nearby is interested in meeting you right now — it's almost like
real life, without the risk
of face - to - face rejection.
The video shows off the device's camera, search and map functions, as well as a language translator,
meaning, yes, we may finally have a
real -
life Babel fish
of sorts.
The buttons cost $ 4.99 (
meaning that in theory, the ability to buy with one click in
real life can add up quickly), but Amazon will credit Prime members for the cost
of each button provided they actually order something with it.
For
real estate, Owen talks about purchasing in premium locations (even if that
means paying extra, and always think long term) and gives
real life examples
of properties in Vancouver and how they have appreciated over time.
Thus, while the overall CPI may be -2 %, the worker's own cost
of living may only decrease.5 %, which would
mean a 2 % pay cut is not breaking even, but rather a 1.5 % decrease in
real wages.
By all
means take a swing at «Panama vs. Costa Rica» — but be ready to trade the bat for a magnifying glass as soon as you figure out exactly what kind
of weather, scenery, population, infrastructure, cost
of living, and
real estate prices make up your ideal location.
I can understand people being hostile towards Christianity, many Christians are
mean spirited, but Jesus was a
real man that
lived and died and was literally 2000 years ahead
of his time.
So if you have one kind
of growth — booming financial fortunes in the stock market, higher
real - estate prices and more expensive
means of living — then you are going to have slower growth in the
real economy because money is diverted from peoples» pay - checks away from buying goods and services to just having to pay the banks.
But somehow equating that belief with the
real physical danger
of playing on the freeway...
means that «belief» has gotten an inordinate place in
life.
So, although it had been preceded by an exemplary
life of compassionate giving, it has very
real meaning by itself.
wait wait wait... you're using the Babble... I
mean buy - bull - oops I
mean bible as some kind
of «evidence» as to our «past
lives»??? I'll bet you're the kind pf person that thinks the TV shows about hunting ghosts are
real docu - mentaries!!
My
life may not have
meaning, but if I try very hard, and do very well, it could have quite a lot
of meaning,
real meaning, that will be felt here in the
real world, not in a possible reward in a realm that can't be proven to be anything other than imaginary.
What we
meant to model was the sending
of one
of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities
of affluence and to
live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest
of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language
of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities
of affluence and
living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical
of Christian spirituality until it sees the
real thing on display.
The actions and events in this story should not be construed to
mean promotion or approval
of those actions in
real -
life situations by the author.»
Now this might seem like an insignificant part
of the story or that I am dragging out this time in a young Midwestern girl's
life, but this was
of most importance because this also
meant I got my first
real bible.
And I have a lot
of «
real life» ahead
of me — that
means that God is waiting for me there.
The love
of God, shed abroad in our hearts by His unmerited mercy, is the bedrock, the cornerstone
of that work which makes us justified, righteous and ready for the very
real new creation ahead — the hope that makes our days here (often scared with pain and trial) have
meaning — that's the hope
of our calling that allows (as Steve notes) us to
live for each other.
He vetoed the consumption
of prawns, those bizarre other - worldly creatures which no member
of the faithful had ever seen, and required animals to be killed slowly, by bleeding, so that by experiencing their deaths to the full they might arrive at an understanding
of the
meaning of their
lives, for it is only at the moment
of death that
living creatures understand that
life has been
real, and not a sort
of dream.
The daughter represents the
real world which must be met, and the relation to her involves the
meaning of the mother's
life.
Thus the universal religion
of the Church transcends even the goodness
of notional theology and
lives in the individual heart; and it is only through this
means that we can be in any degree sure
of falling in love with the truth to give it our
real assent.
Speaking personally, it
means the grievous loss
of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle
of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter
of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a
real force in their
lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.
Process doctrines can go the whole way with existentialism in recognizing that man in his freedom may plunge into self - worship, or self - destruction; but this is because the
real world has this risk within it, not because God wills that any creature should lose the
meaning of life or decrees that any person should lose his possibility
of knowing the good and doing it.
For it can surely not be seriously denied that, according to Mt 25, a man may encounter Christ in his neighbour more truly and decisively as his Saviour than in a eucharistic communion which, despite the
Real Presence and its sacramental efficacy ex opere operate is but the sign and the
means of that union with Christ in the Holy Spirit which happens in the difficulties
of our daily
life even unto our «dying in the Lord».
This is often our approach to liturgy and social
life: we try to «read» the liturgy for symbols and
meanings that we take out and apply in the «
real world» — the offering
means we should give
of our wealth, the kiss
of peace
means we should seek peace in international relations, and so on.
But lets talk about the
real issue — the
real issue is that much
of mankind refuses to see his reality around him through a Creator lens because then it
means he must be accountable for how he
lives — and man doesn't like that.
This is a travesty
of Christian theology, which is not simply an answer system but is, instead, a way
of connecting
real life questions with fundamental and ultimate answers — which are by no
means achieved or given overnight.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception
of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the
means of achieving
real if limited justice for human
life in the world, and a corresponding theory
of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus
of injustice and the goals
of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement
of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms
of the United Nations system is proposed as the best
means to those common goals.
The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about
real -
life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare
of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they
mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance
of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.
There is a
real danger that we might come to equate success in the economic system with a successful
life, that we might come to identify the material rewards
of the system as our goal in
life and the source
of meaning for us.
The
real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which
means the bond
of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality
of the
lived concrete — to the immediacy
of real meeting with the beings over against one.
The
real conflict for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which
means the bond
of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality
of the
lived concrete — to the immediacy
of real meeting with the beings over against one.
The directness
of the relationship is established not only through the mediation
of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting
of real living persons, but also through the mediation
of the «word,» i.e. the mediation
of those technical
means and those fields
of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.
This Presence and power include three things: «the whole fullness
of real mutual action,» «the inexpressible confirmation
of meaning,» and the call to confirm this
meaning «in this
life and in relation with this world.»
By this he
meant that for a great many people the whole function
of their faith is to provide them either with a keen awareness
of what God does for them and in them or with a way
of escape from the
real facts
of life.
Its
real meaning is that the
life and the death and the Cross
of Christ are not, as it were, parts
of some isolated incident.
This single statistic
means that, aside from eating, sleeping, and working, most people in America spend about 80 %
of their entire
lives in the world
of television rather than in the
real world.
God «s revelation through
real people and events signifies that genuine
meaning must be related to the
life histories
of actual individuals.
And in fact in the course
of this book we have seen how we can develop a theology (which is an explanation
of our religion, a conceptualization
of that which gives
real meaning to our
lives) that is consistent with both our faith and our common sense.
Jesus Feminist is really a story — a story about how I am learning to set up a little outpost for the Kingdom
of God in my
real right - now
life, as a sign and a foretaste
of what it
means to be human in God's kingdom.
Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way
of looking at
real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the
meaning of life, the self, etc. in a new way.
The road led Adam and Eve from a fairy tale existence into the world
of real life, where they had to toil hard just to exist, watch one
of their sons murder his brother, and experience the terrible pain
of what it
means to be human.
Why believe in
real truth - that actually confronts the deep multiplicity
of what it
means to be human, and actually change your
life - when you can believe in your own shallow truth that simply adds to one's self - justification and denial
of reality, and remain the way you are?
The divine call to us men, and our response to it,
means that we are responsible for doing here and now in the situation in which we stand whatever will serve the work
of God who is seeking to bring all
life to fulfillment in that universal community
of love which is the
real good
of every creature.
The humble act
of self - examination; the opening
of the closed self to the cleansing and healing work
of God; the sealing
of moral resolve in dependence upon the power
of God; all this is what
real prayer can
mean in the moral
life.