Sentences with phrase «sense than nothing»

You'd have to think there was at least one offer on the table that would have made more sense than nothing at all, though.

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«At the end of the day, when everything is working the way that it should, there is nothing greater than the sense of accomplishment in watching your family succeed,» says Hillenmeyer.

Clearly this is easier said than done, but even if the business has gone broke because of our own mistakes, nothing can be gained by holding on to a sense of failure.

In the end, nothing matters more than your sense of security.

Sensing its growing social influence, the Church aspires to achieve nothing less than the re-Christianization of the Russian nation.

This is nothing more than an attempt by your mind to make sense of the natural world which apparently it can't comprehend.

Nothing has resulted, other than a sense that I'm giving the attempt to connect with whatever runs the universe my best shot.

= > I cant puzzle out what you're trying to say with «this question has nothing to do with evolution other than it the most cosmetic sense that dna worked because it everything else didn't.»

However, this question has nothing to do with evolution other than it the most cosmetic sense that dna worked because it everything else didn't.

There may very well be another answer but other than an unknowable, omnipotent creator nothing else yet proposed makes sense.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

Choices of profound importance had to be made, not only by clans and tribes as a whole, but by minority groups and individuals, and nothing more imperiously calls out the sense of personal worth and dignity than the exercise of moral choice.

The psalmist recalls times when his sense of the divine presence was so immediate and full that he felt as if he were beholding nothing less than the face of God.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

in a true sense the arms and the heart which you open to me are nothing less than all the united powers of the world which, permeated through and through by your will, your inclinations, your temperament, bend over my being to form it and feed it and draw it into the blazing centre of your infinite fire.

While I'm more of an atheist than anything else and respect Mr. Hawking's vast knowledge of the sciences and believe he's probably correct in his assertions I also believe that NO ONE really knows what's in store for us after death... most likely nothing at all since that's what makes sense to me, but all the brains in our world put together don't really know for sure.

But pointing out that Thomas's physiology is antiquated does nothing to impugn the basic insight that there is a difference between the intellect and the senses that has to do somehow with the intellect's being less directly linked to the physical world than are the senses.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

Even if, in some sense, I exist, I don't know what I am — and it turns out, so some modern materialists have begun to argue — that nothing I do or even say and think is more than the motion of material parts (and so subvert even the notion of rational argument itself).

It's why things make sense — the reason cause follows effect — the law of noncontradiction — the creative mind that accounts for why there is something rather than nothing.

I think what I should have said was that «it» was better than nothing meaning to find out and get some sense of direction to take on whether to accept or not accept the existence of God.

If we are trying to revive our lives and get on track with God, there is nothing better than a sense of God's unconditional acceptance, infinite love, and undying grace.

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

I've seen humans as nothing more than highly evolved primates, but I've also seen them as made in the image of God; I've seen children suffering and been convinced there is no God, but I've also sensed God's presence as I've reached into that same suffering; I've convinced myself that doing whatever I wanted was the most exciting way to live, but I've also found abundant life in being humbly obedient to Jesus.

It's nothing more than folk tales of desert dwellers and their sense of morality.

The sense of «being affected» is certainly nothing other than, in Whitehead's terms, the «consciousness of the causal efficacy of the external world» (PR 184).

A small amount of logic and common sense proves athiest belief to be nothing more than a belief which is a religion that does not believe in a god, nothing more, nothing less.

That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.

Aspiration is more than hope in the ordinary sense which Cicero defines as expectatio boni (expectation of the good), insofar as one can hope for something while sitting around in an armchair doing nothing to bring it about.

It is not the nothing of negation in the sense of being something which, as something, must be other than another thing.

For in the sense in which he uses the term «literal» in the other passages in which he affirms the same categorial terms to have a literal rather than either a symbolic or an analogical meaning, it means nothing other than «univocal» (although, as we shall see presently, this is not the only sense in which he uses the term «literal»).

The American Christian debate about just war theory is in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.

If a popular and influential televangelist publicly questions the beliefs of 143,332,282 of Americans using nothing more than common sense and reason this could threaten the all important revenue generating engine behind religion.

And curiously, as we relax, we find that we are much more than we thought we were, and become much more, starting from where we are, and with no sense of being bullied or made to fit into schemes which really have nothing to do with us.

But his very posing of the question makes no sense unless he is asking us to give him nothing less than «reasons» to explain how we reason about things when we disagree.

For the psychologists the tracing of the organic seat of such a feeling would form a pretty problem — nothing could be more natural than to connect it with the muscular sense, with the feeling that our muscles were innervating themselves for action.

Nothing is more inadequate than this idea for making sense of what the term Torah has signified within Jewish experience.

Rush Limbaugh is nothing more than a loud noise at both ends, a foul smell at both ends, and no sense of responsibility at either end.

Their religion was like a dried flower pressed in a Bible, and often seemed to consist of nothing more than a desire for peaceful feelings, a vague longing to be connected with something that transcends the self and a sense of obligation to be decent to their fellows — all positive stirrings, but hardly the vigorous plant that could flourish in a nurturing religious community.

This should not surprise us because the entity's power of creativity - characterization emerges out of, and, in a sense, is nothing other than the creativity - esse God bestowed upon that entity.

When faced with undeniable evidence, when shown that there was no historical Jesus, when proven that the myth is nothing more than a compilation of a number of older deities, Christians refuse to accept the obvious and come back with some goofy retort that makes no sense.

A course in music that leaves the student free to study nothing but hip - hop is more liberal, in one sense, than a course that insists on harmony, counterpoint, and a study of the classics.

This is in partial agreement with the entire «idealist» tradition, much older in Asia than in the West, according to which «matter» is a form of manifestation of «mind» (in the broad or nonanthropomorphic sense) and is nothing simply on its own.

Yet the biblical promise demands nothing less than the widening of our social visions and our sense of justice so as to include all those elements that we normally suppress.

Hume, building on insights of earlier empiricists, showed that sense experience gives us nothing more than sense data.

Meyer lemons, blood oranges, sweet limes, and more — there is nothing more refreshing than citrus season to chase away dreary skies and awaken the senses.

There is nothing more multi-sensory than food and drink, stimulating our sense of taste, smell, touch, vision, hearing and on occasion even pain — just think [Continue Reading...]

The presence of easy recipes gives me a sense of security, and creates an illusion that I have everything under control And nothing can be easier than a salad like this one.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

And, by the by, they are finding that the sense of entitlement that Premier League clubs like to engender in their fan bases is a hollow thing designed to do nothing more than milk money gently from their wallets; that when it comes down to it, their club is — with a few honorable exceptions — the exclusive property of a few idiosyncratic rich men in suits.