Sentences with phrase «seeking meaning in your life»

You do not believe in religion because you honestly think it is true, you believe in it because you fear mortality or are seeking meaning in your life.

Lisa Kendall will educate on how early trauma is associated with increased incidence of chronic illness and depression in Elderhood, a time when Elders seek meaning in their lives and to resolve long - standing issues.

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We are driven to seek routines in our daily lives because they're predictable, and predictable means safe.

So, while millennials are looking for meaning in their work life, the generation Z workforce may be more likely to place job security and remuneration as their primary considerations in seeking and accepting a job.

In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer «a gentler capitalism» that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

It's important to seek out the sacred in the secular, but it's also equally critical to recognize when the secular is interrupting the sacred in our lives — to dare question the assumption that «new» and «cutting - edge» always means better.

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.

«Absurd heros,» such as Don Juan, know that there is neither meaning nor enduring excellence in life, so they seek to increase the number of their adventures to compensate for the absence of any quality.

It is rich in theological insight, profound in its penetration into the meaning of life itself, and exciting to seek to understand.

Instinctively we know that our best preaching comes about when we have discovered the ways in which the biblical writers sought to change minds, hearts, and lives and then have taken those «available means of persuasion» with us into the pulpit.

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.

On the other hand, criminal punishment may not always contribute to a just society As argued eloquently by Donald Shriver in these pages (August 26, 1998), «living with others sometimes means that we must value the renewal of community more highly than punishing, or seeking communal vengeance for, crimes.»

For example, even though the laws in the Pentateuch probably emerged gradually over the course of centuries as people sought ways to live in community, what does it mean that these laws became viewed as stemming directly from God at one point in the life of Moses?

You do not believe in religion because you honestly think it is true, you believe in it because you fear mortality, seek comfort or are trying to find meaning in your life.

It must keep its eye on heaven, but it must not fail to see the world at hand and seek to enable persons to wrest meaning and significance from their lives in it.

The pastoral ministry in all its dimensions requires the recognition and the sensitivity to help people who feel isolated, without a purpose for living, but who still seek peace in the midst of violence; meaning in the midst of overwhelming personal emptiness; honest relationships; the joy of celebration; and life in a community of believers.

We are committed to Scripture and we seek to find in it meaning for our lives.

Also, if Jesus shows us fundamentally what it means to live from God and for God, we can seek to find what it means in our situation to live from God and for God.

Among other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to human lives and help people seek the common good.

They saw that if life had any meaning it had to be sought within the intricate web of history being spun by men in the world of here and now.

First, what we ultimately seek in value experimenting I believe is objective meaning and significance in our lives.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

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.

Jesus said repent which means you pay for your own sins, and as Jesus spoke of in the Parable of the Lost Coin, doing work like cleaning and seeking diligently is all a part of repentance... Also, note that correcting something as small as a lost coin shows Jesus's views on repentance and sins (devations from «the way, the truth, and the life — economic health of life for a lost coin).

I applaud those people who are greedy for life, who seek its meaning openly and honestly, who are willing to taste its sweetness, who luxuriate in its beauty, experience its depths, and scale its heights.

We may interpret the biblical record as God seeking to further this aim first with all mankind, then with his chosen people Israel, then with the faithful remnant, finally with that individual person willing to embody in his own life the meaning, hopes, and mission God has entrusted to Israel.

Further, if we live by such a vision in this life, it means we are seeking the most creative, novel, stimulating, intense experience in virtually everything we do.

I can not here investigate why language in our time has become flat, nonallusive, and impoverished, but simply to observe that it has and ask what this means for our churches as they seek to recover ways of worship which shall be more adequate to the object of worship, and more fully reflective of the long history of the people of God in their life of worship.

The meaning which is discoverable in the everydayness of marriage and family life should be sought by a couple throughout their experience.

He dedicated his life to reforming the church by restoring access to the genuine meaning of scripture so that the common people and the unlearned might be guided by the learned to seek Jesus Christ in scripture and be led by Christ to the freely flowing fountain of every good thing found in God the Father.

Up to now, spouses who really sought to live their conjugal relationship as God wished, to sanctify themselves in and through their marriage, received little orientation from the teaching of the Church, aside from the idea that a certain abstinence is a recommendable means not just of family planning but of positive growth in married sanctity.

The emphasis on religious experience means also that in seeking to commend Christianity to others I have tried to start from people's often half - glimpsed awareness of a deeper dimension to life.

Altizer is aware that for Brown «unrepressed life would be timeless or in eternity,» and he notes that «Brown seeks a libido that is unaffected by the Oedipus complex; and this means a libido that has not murdered God, a libido that is unfallen and still in union with the sacred» (p. 174).

They sought the meaning of life in visible, tangible, ephemeral phenomena.

We can reject and resist the tide, seeking by every means to slow it down and even to escape individually (at the risk of perishing in stoical isolation) from what looks like a rush to the abyss; or we can yield to it and actively contribute to what we accept as a liberating and life - giving movement.

In answer to the tradition epitomized by Epictetus» statement «If I am not Socrates yet I ought to live as one seeking to be Socrates» (The Meaning of Stoicism, by Ludwig Edelstein [Harvard University Press, 1966], p. 12), Cullmann offers the alternative example of Christ — a Christ «greatly distressed and troubled» (Mark 14:33) at the prospect of death.

Philosophy: the affective side of life seeks meaning in understanding, which is the cognitive and purposive side of life.

Hence once he has recovered the events, the real historian must himself seek to enter into and live through those events, and in his writing about them he must seek continually to relate the meaning which they contain to the life of those who followed and indeed to man's continuing experience up to the present day.

Being a man or a woman is «very good» and life is meant to be a joyful adventure, finally celebrated in the great Wedding Feast of the Lamb which we all seek to witness and in which all our earthly explorations and ponderings of these profound issues will reach their utter fulfilment.

In January 1981, the author wrote to five broadcasters seeking clarification from them of what it meant to become and live as a Christian.

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

Judge Miner, writing for the majority in the Second Circuit, asked: «What concern prompts the state to interfere with a mentally competent patient's «right to define [his] own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,» when the patient seeks to have drugs prescribed to end life during the final stages of a terminal illness?»

That is why we continually seek the meaning of love within our present experience but also in the intention and hope which lives hidden in the human spirit.

When we seek the meaning of our lives in participation in history, we are driven to despair.

And turn all your efforts and energy to seeking God's kingdom; and then, and only then, will you find true contentment and everything will fall into place and have meaning and value in your life.

But if the Vinaya - pitaka holds little general - reader interest, it is fundamental to an understanding of Buddhism, for the very genius of Buddhism, in its original form, was to take man out of the common life of the world and set him apart on the way to enlightenment, which was the end of all his seeking, for this meant escape from the wheel of birth.

This message, however, does not mean, as it has often been interpreted, that the Judgment no longer means anything to him who believes in Christ, but rather that he alone survives the Judgment who has become a new man through faith in Christ, who has «passed from death to life» and hence belongs among those who «by patient continuance in well - doing seek for eternal life.»

Lauren generously brings us along for an amazing ride as she seeks, and then finds, meaning and connection in her life.

It means parenting without violence, relying instead on respectful communication and seeking to see your child not as someone lesser or weaker than you who you can and should control, but rather as a partner in your life and a source of potential joy and loving interaction.»