Sentences with phrase «real point of living»

Without it, what's the real point of living?

After all, the real point of life insurance is ensuring your loved ones are taken care of after you die and do not have to drastically change their lifestyle.

Not exact matches

There's the popular image of great leaders involving lots of stern - faced seriousness and pointing confidently into the future, and then there's real - life great leadership.

As a first point of contact, it opens up networking opportunities (online and in real life) which then lead to coverage in media outlets and widely read blogs.

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

I'm at a point in my life where «wedding season» is about to become a very real thing, and I wanted something fun that would make me feel like the life of the party, even when awkwardly sitting to the side of the dance floor.

There is an endless supply of business statistics (proving most any point you want to make), research and studies (many with surprising results), and interesting real - life stories (of business success and failure), all available within seconds by doing a simple Google search.

«The rivalry points to the increasing importance of connecting our online lives to our real world behaviors,» says Deborah Schultz, partner at Altimeter Group consultancy.

The WBEZ audio series initially focused on the 1999 murder of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee and its popularity grew to the point that fans began flocking to real - life locations that had been mentioned on the show and were connected to the alleged timeline around the murder trial that was the podcast's focus.

Very comprehensive, yet easy - to - understand, this business tool offers more than just the nuts and bolts of writing a business planthe author also provides invaluable insight through real - life examples illustrating key points and avoidable mistakes as well as cutting - edge information for the 21st century entrepreneur.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

And of course the whole point is not to share with others what isn't real or true for you, a point that is not lost on super pastor Rob as we return to the dilemma of living an honest faith when you become the latest pastor in demand.

If one has built a career, a home and family in a given community, the real world cost of outwardly contradicting the behavioural patterns of that community is too high for those unwilling to abandon not just the supernatural tenets and reliigious rites, but everything they've built in their lives up to that point.

The point made was the presentation of the view that there is no real need to have belief in a God to lead a good moral and happy life.

Those who set out the moral lessons of Jesus» teaching or focus on the insights provided by his parables believe that the real point of the Gospels lies in their general lessons for our lives.

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.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

I'm not sure what my point is really, I'm kind of rambling, but I suppose it's just that I'm wondering that if it's possible for a bunch of online strangers to work out their disagreements and come to a friendly understanding (and yes endure temporary offenses and misunderstandings), it must be possible in real life church IF (a big «if») we are willing to stop being too afraid to speak up.

Instead of big arguments and point - by - point apologetics, instead of reacting to slights, imagined or legitimate, political or religious or relational, I long to get on with my Father's business, to live into freedom in my real walking - around life, and I pray there's an invitation in there somewhere.

The rule of the greatest good for the greatest number, for example, has a certain practical validity, but it implies that the greater good can be arrived at by addition whereas our principle points to the fact that the real good involves qualitative transformation of the order of life into a more subtle and complete mutual participation.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

If the imagery of his sermons is to be real he must see life as life, not as an illustration under point two.

But, at least in the understanding of David's historian, the real turning point, not merely in the life of David but in the life of the kingdom, is in the center of David's reign.

I look back on my years of Enough and Moments and, most particularly, my year of Fearless as real God - inspired turning points in my life.

You speak from the point of nothing more than, colloquially put, «book - knowledge» that has never been proven in your real life.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

In an article in Crime Writers, edited by H. R. F. Keating (1978), P. D. James defended Dorothy Sayers against that charge, pointing out that Sayers had begun to include the details of ordinary life in the detective story, placing events in a real world.

So I'd rather write a better and real story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

«The Bible,» writes Enns, «is the story of God told from the limited point of view of real people living at a certain place and time....

David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

Shadowflash, I don't recall your response to any of my posts... I usually do recall them... But I do agree with one thing you said... «human mind hates being wrong» But I see it differently then you do... I see human mind and human understanding being the stumbling block and point of pride, which prevents man from seeing the reality of his real condition, and the need to humble himself in order to be able to see himself as he is, and seek the help of His Creator without whom he is a living, moving shell, yet, without the vital part of him being alive, which would make him complete.

Claire Lilley, head of child online safety at the NSPCC, said: «Parents are the first point of call for a child when it comes to staying safe in real life and this is no different when it comes to their online life.

I need only to ask: if you wash your feet before prayer, and when the last stoning was that you attended: to get my point across... but you did say I had to answer in a coherent manner...:) Yes, the jesus story... one of those that many love to argue about, even me at times in my life have i taken the position of «he never existed»... but most of us know he did, the only real question is his divinity.

In how many Christian imaginations and theologies, private and public, does Jesus the Christ swoop through the 33 years of his life, dipping briefly into the world of matter before soaring off toward the real point, the resurrection?

... Now will you take sixty seconds to bring yourself to your present age, still a member of the other sex... notice what you do differently than you did in real life... notice how you feel about it all... (The leader waits at this point for about sixty seconds.)

But when we understand theology as having its point of departure in the real and is centered on life, then we need a method that corresponds to such an - approach.

Moreover, from the Whiteheadian point of view one has to recognize that the evolving events — actual animals and plants as we meet them in real life — are influenced by environmental factors as well as genetic.

to the idea that material advance, if it is to become meaningful and to enhance the quality of life, should recognize the spiritual real iii of eternal values towards which religions point.

Croce, who led at several points an active political life, always reminds me of the modest but real institutional successes of modern Italy.

based on a fundamental presupposition that there is a metaphysical - moral realm that is real, transcendent to the empirical world, and simultaneously sufficiently present to human reflection and experience that it can be taken as the decisive point of reference for the understanding and guidance of empirical life and historical existence.

Very good points and I concur with your non-adoption of any religion — one day, maybe, the world will wake up and see all these religions for what they are — egotistical power players in the business of convincing people the «boogyman» is real and by giving them your goods, money, life — «they» will protect you from said boogyman — been going on forever since the first priest figured out that the boogyman was power.

I'm still as much of a planner as ever, but when life hands you beautiful brown eyes and a smile belonging to someone who is smart, witty, caring, and a continuation of adjectives that will never do the real person justice, you embrace the welcome detour that takes you from Point A, to B, to C, rather than the original journey from Point A to C, and never look back.

Yes, yes, I sound all first world problems and all but seriously, what's the point of living here — with the over-priced fomo food fads and heart breakingly expensive real - estate... [Read more...]

Yes, yes, I sound all first world problems and all but seriously, what's the point of living here — with the over-priced fomo food fads and heart breakingly expensive real - estate — if not for nice summers and mild winters?

WWE is at its best when things break the fourth wall to a point of real - life seriousness, or go completely the other way and embrace the absurdity of the form.

And when Keith Smart had finished scoring 12 of his team's last 15 points, including the winning 16 - foot jump shot from the left side with five seconds remaining under massive pressure, most of Indiana didn't even care that the film Hoosiers» Dennis Hopper hadn't won the Oscar for best supporting actor just so long as this real - life Hoosier named Smart had.

If he isn't gonna Play and he's got to Henry levels of bottling what's the point of paying him real life money