Sentences with phrase «seeking meaning of life»

I do accept that there are massive people are seeking God, seeking meaning of life and so on, but if we just concentrate on the «Religious life and sciences» only we will be stuck and not be able to move ahead.

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

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

Not exact matches

It still means seeking out employees with different cultural and educational backgrounds, but also people who have had a variety of occupations and life experiences.

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.

Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a very long time.

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.

We don't just investigate the world at a scientific level: We also seek to give meaning to our lives, and to connect our own small narratives with the larger narratives of the world around us.

If faith means living according to some venn diagram which outlines what lies within the bounds of «truth» and what doesn't, which seems completely oppressive to anyone sincerely seeking to discover what the truth actually is, then I have no faith.

His whole life was a life of knocking, seeking to understand the meaning of the Christ event.

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.

Parenthood becomes idolatrous when we seek meaning through the lives of our children.

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.

This means that God's transcendent power is a lure within the hearts of the poor to seek the fullness of life for themselves and others, and a lure within the hearts of the privileged and powerful to identify with the aspirations of the poor, thereby relinquishing our power and privilege.

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?

After Sinai they begin the self - conscious history of seeking to live out what it means to be the Covenant people.

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.

All mature people need to find a meaning for their lives that goes beyond the survivalist minimalism of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain.

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.

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).

It's profoundly rational to ask what our lives mean; to acknowledge the limits of our reasoning and senses; and to hope for and seek something more than this life.

But «we have the Christian and moral responsibility to seek to discover the meaning of these words, and to discover how we can live out this command.»

Others were restored by Rabbi Akiba.35 Besides the manifest intent of providing a rationalization for the exegetical program of the rabbinic scholars, this tradition also reflects awareness of the problem of forgetfulness of those very questions and their answers on which full human life depends, and the continual need, by means of exegesis, to seek their recovery for contemporary life.

Last week, Pat Robertson told his viewers that he believes Alzheimer's disease to be a «kind of death,» a basis for the un-afflicted spouse to seek divorce and move on with their life — so long as they act mercifully and provide a means for care of that spouse.

God is the near God; that can only mean, the very sense of insecurity which characterizes the life of man separated from God arises from the fact that God is seeking man.

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 oppressed struggle for participation at all levels of life, for a just and egalitarian sharing while respecting the differences between persons and groups; they seek communion with other cultures and other values, and with God as the ultimate meaning of history and of their own hearts.

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.

Martha had been seeking to give some new kind of meaning to her life.

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.

Great to have people dedicating their lives to seeking God and sharing their experiences with the rest of us, but a long tradition of seeing those people as either infallible, or personal servants is going to mean that people expect, and demand, far more than that... or else.

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.

Certainly every priest or pastor worth his or her salt will be one who himself — or herself — seeks to live as a Christian disciple; and that means having the habit of prayer and meditation.

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.

Both seek to expose the lack of meaning at the center of the cosmos, even while they explore ways by which men and women can continue to live.

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.

Religious people have strong intuitions, deep convictions, and ultimate commitments which provide meaning and guidance for their lives, but often even they are hard pressed when they seek to support their own way of looking on God and the world.

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.