Christians have said a lot of unhelpful things about the subject over the years — but that does not mean we can not
say helpful things now.
Not exact matches
«The biggest
thing that would be
helpful is just general support and encouragement and goodwill,» Musk
said.
Bill Gates has
said, «Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about
things that I think is
helpful in all domains.»
Say something like «It's
helpful for me to hear how
things went from your perspective.
«Positive critical reviews and
things like Oscar hauls I think are very
helpful for the company,» Mahaney
said.
Here are a few
things people sometimes
say that for many parents with disabled children, may not be that
helpful, along with
things which might work instead
So it is
helpful to give people some ideas of the sorts of
things that can be
said in conversation with God.
Although Smith
says many fine
things that will be
helpful especially to seekers like his former student, the book does not stand up well to a rigorous examination of its argument.
However, if it's your intention to support my (or someone else's) show, it might be
helpful to review the kinds of
things you could
say for greatest effect.
That means we will
say things that might well be true but probably aren't
helpful at that moment.»
It would be really
helpful if people on here could avoid religious cliches and try to write
things in their own words — otherwise the glibness tends to just slide over people and what's being
said is lost.
So you finally resolve to
say what feels like the most spiritual and
helpful thing you can come up with in the moment: «I'll be praying for you.»
One study (and probably the most comprehensive one) did show what you
said, but many other studies have shown that prayer was
helpful The whole
thing is inconclusive.
«Some people will
say whatever they think the politically
helpful thing would be,» Jones
said.
People who are «good» religionists tend to ignore the parts of their holy books that talk about genocide and ra - pe and murder and slavery, not because Jesus came along and
said «everyone be nice to each other,» considering he plagiarized the golden rule from a text thousands of years before him, but because we understand that these
things are not
helpful to our species.
The criticism of much present - day Christian preaching as being too much concerned with these two
things instead of having something to
say on corporate or global issues must, if it is to be both honest and
helpful, face the fact that in the foundation (and still authoritative) documents of the church precisely these were the overwhelming dominant concerns.
Of course I want to only
say things that are
helpful, honest, and true.
Chef Puck
said that, among other
things, the pasta sauce could be used to help keep the fish moist while baking — especially
helpful if you don't have a lot of experience cooking fish.
I can't
say enough awesome
things about my super
helpful Breville Sous Chef Food Processor!
He is such a nice guy, so
helpful, always wants the best for the team and obviously people write
things about him but people who actually know him know exactly what he is like and he's a great man,»
said Bale.
«They'll see that (future spending is) based on our needs, and maybe there are some
things that aren't as glamorous that do need to get done, so I think it's also just as
helpful for the community,» she
said.
It's also
helpful for parents because Steffi and Ben's parents
say all the right
things as they introduce the potty, praise results, accept backslides, and handle accidents.
To ease any anxiety you may have about the experience, it's
helpful to know a couple of right
things to do and
say.
With young children, it can be
helpful to
say things like, «If I
said the sky were purple, would that be the truth or a lie?»
Saying things like, «I'm not going to tell you again, go brush your teeth,» without a real consequence, also isn't
helpful.
When trying to get kids to see
things in a more positive way, it is
helpful to first acknowledge what they are disappointed about and then ask them how the situation can change,
says Allison J. Spinneweber, a Pittsburgh - based therapist.
«
Things like having a refrigerator to store expressed breastmilk or having space to pump breastmilk are really
helpful, but in our study the support for those wasn't as we might expect,» she
said.
Said all «the right
things» but I could tell from her eyes that she wasn't really where I was with all this and didn't
say anything
helpful at all.
My husband
said the most
helpful thing to me which I'll never forget, when I was tired and stressed and wanted to give up he
said «don't give up at the end of an exhausting day, get some sleep and see how you feel tomorrow.
One of the most
helpful things my baby's doctor
said to me was that baby spit - up is most often a laundry problem not a health problem.
«I would gently
say to those people who think they are being
helpful to Jeremy by
saying they want to deselect Labour MPs that I think that is precisely the last
thing we should be doing,» he
says.
Speaking about the survey Stephen Ratcliffe, Director UKCG,
said «Providing certainty over the pipeline of forward public sector programmes and working with the industry to get shovel ready projects underway, would be the most
helpful thing government could do in the wake of these results.
Please, either answer (please do, right now I've only one answer that addresses the question and even that then veers off into territory I
said to avoid) or comment in a way that is
helpful for answering the question, right now the ratio in the comments of that kind of
thing is low.
It's
helpful, when politicians
say such
things, to remember Orwell's maxim that if no one could possibly disagree with a statement it is politically meaningless.
«The governor's record is the governor's record, and there are
things about it that were very
helpful and there were
things about it that were not, including the tax cap and the work in terms of charters,» she
said Friday.
«Batteries would be a really
helpful thing to give you a sense that you've got something you can trade,» he
says.
Well, radical in this case are
things that are potentially very useful and very
helpful in various arenas of the big energy challenge, and I'll
say the global energy challenge that we are all facing.
«That's one
thing this kind of research is really
helpful for — showing the teleconnections in the climate system,» Gibson
says.
«If I know why it's important and that it's
helpful for society, I put my energy into these
things,» Añel
says.
«It's always
helpful to look at smaller and smaller
things,»
said Hari Shroff, Ph.D., at NIH's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) lab chief of NIBIB's section on High Resolution Optical Imaging (HROI.)
But these data suggest thats the wrong
thing to do, and that continuing enjoyable activities can be
helpful,»
says study coauthor Karen Matthews, PhD, a professor of psychiatry, epidemiology, and psychology.
Some
helpful things to
say when you want to extend that olive branch are: «I'm sorry, let me rephrase that,» «Please
say that more gently,» or «Can we start over?»
Fish oil «seems to be healthy in general, and maybe for other
things it's
helpful, but it doesn't benefit cognitive function in a person with Alzheimer's,»
says Ferris, who was not involved in the study.
Here is a list of
helpful things to tell someone battling depression, and even more importantly, what not to
say.
«For someone who is just starting to pay more attention to what they're eating, something like a Weight Watchers can be
helpful for them to start to understand
things like that,» Hogan
said.
I don't totally buy claims that lemon water detoxes your system (either way, the body already does a great job cleansing itself of stuff it doesn't need), but I will
say that water is
helpful for moving
things through the digestive tract and also stimulating urination, both of which are important parts of that natural filtering process.
This can be more
helpful for those who
say that «they are too busy» to workout or just have a bad habit of forgetting
things that are needed to go workout (leading to another reason why people make excuses to get out of working out).
That being
said, today I thought I would go over a few
things about hormonal health as well as some of my favorite healthy foods that I have found to be
helpful over the last decade of research and experimentation.
Thanks for the nice
things you have
said and I am glad you find my website
helpful to you.
«These types of
things can turn violent very quickly, so having someone who knows what's going on — and who you can stay with, if needed — can be very
helpful,»
says Parker.