But it was pure agaony until he finally was willing to
simply live the question rather than seek an answer.
Not exact matches
All of which is both interesting and useful, but it begs the
question: Why is
simply paying attention to the good things in your
life so powerful?
And this research insight appears to be bore out by the real -
life experiences of young entrepreneur Thursday Bram, who recently pondered the
question, «Are people misjudging you
simply because you appear young?»
From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work -
life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult
question of what constitutes a
life well
lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor
living but
simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.
«He was
simply asking the
question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people
living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»
The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every
question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others»
lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God...
simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»
This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the
lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into
question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or
simply anti-abortion.
This is why there is
simply no such thing as a profound
question in American public
life, an astonishing thing when one stops to think about it but so obviously true that it is easy to miss.
Science does explain all your
questions, you just
simply refuse to believe that evolution, over millions and billions of years, could result in the wonderful world we
live in.
For mechanical explanation, especially in biology,
simply can not answer all the
questions that arise concerning the origin, evolution and behavior of
life.
Living the
questions is
simply the willingness to accept things as they are.
All of them thought Job's
questions were a waste of time, and Job should *
simply * get on with the activities of
life.
While his judgment about the value of the accord for the preservation of catholic
life in Europe may be seriously
questioned, he did not support the agreement
simply to enhance his own power, as Cornwall implies, but because he felt it was in the best interest of the church at the time.
This is a travesty of Christian theology, which is not
simply an answer system but is, instead, a way of connecting real
life questions with fundamental and ultimate answers — which are by no means achieved or given overnight.
Thus, well - being could be said to derive
simply from the sum of responsibilities performed in everyday
life, quite apart from broader
questions about the purpose of one's
life.
Where the taboos were
simply pushed aside by reason, as in India and Greece, rational reflection on the nature of the good
life became possible, but the sense of ought, expressed so powerfully in the taboos, remained unrationalized, whereas among the Hebrews the
question of what one ought to do preoccupied rational attention.
It was not
simply a
question of more men going into the monastery (Cistercian monasteries did experience a phenomenal growth in that period), but the avant - garde journals of the day were filled with articles about liturgical prayer, Gregorian chant and experiments in community
living.
«Logically prior to every particular religious assertion is an original confidence in the meaning and worth of
life, through which not
simply all our religious answers, but even our religious
questions first become possible or have any sense.»
When we are drifting through
life, or being cynical, the
question arises: Can we
simply will to change our ways?
I was happy to see fellow bloggers raise some good
questions: Was this list
simply a manifestation of inequities inherent to American church culture, or did it fail to reflect the very real influence women and minorities have, both online and in the everyday
life of the church?
You want answers to
life's aggravating
questions yourself, and you are obviously not yet in possession of those; I can't help but wonder whether or not this article was written precisely to provoke those you see as your opponents,
simply to challenge them to give you something higher (you are the one who is searching, it seems)- than you have received through your own beliefs.
Sometimes the word indicates
simply descent with modification, leaving open the
question of how the staggering changes in
life forms could possibly have occurred.
Like a turd in the sewer you
simply slide along a predetermined path of poop not ever wanting to
question why and how you came to believe what you believe, but the fact is that there is only one destination for you and it is neither a fiery torment or eternal bliss, it's the bottom of an outhouse in the cycle of
life.
We begin to hear things like: the churches are
simply out of tune with the people; the schools are so remote from real
life questions; the government is corrupt and corrupting.
However Schweitzer did not radicalize this insight into a
questioning of the objectivity of historical research as such, but himself presented a reconstruction of Jesus which he regarded as objective,
simply because it lacked the Victorianism of the classical
lives of Christ.
In describing and accounting for the
lives of the Religious Right, which we define
simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial
questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
The preacher today may at times have
simply to
live with the
questions and problems of human
life, aware that God is dead, certainly for many people, if not for him.
While many of the
questions we have been dealing with so far occur when we experience suffering, confusion, despair or
simply the unexpected vicissitudes of
life, this
question can arise, and probably most often does, in the midst of
life's ordinary routine.
It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is
simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious
question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for
living, and the like.
It is a
question we
simply must ask, and the answer we discover will determine the course of our
lives.
Many people are indoctrinated into the religions of their families or communities, or they they
live in a part of the world where a certain religion (such as Islam in the Middle East) is dominant — and they
simply never
question the beliefs they were raised with.
I have a
question it said believing in Jesus for eternal
life means that u are convinced that Jesus guarantees eternal
life to those who
simply believe in him for it.
«Postliberal» Christian thought and religious
life might be
simply an avoidance of the
questions, not answers to them, that a Troeltschian «liberal» Christianity asked.
Modernity, in its naturalistic myopia and «hyperpluralistic» array of governmentally protected competing and incommensurable claims, has
simply failed to provide socially cohesive and engaging ways to ask and answer the
Life Questions.
Instead, his admonitions by no means deal with all the
questions that
life presents, and many of the problems of human
life are
simply not considered.
I
live in Chicago, and I
simply don't want to face the 28 - 3 criticisms /
questions about my team.
Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and
questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is
simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its
simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond
living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.
Granted, it's much more complicated than that but for me, I have chosen to help educate those around me by being a resource to answer their
questions and
simply by
living by example.
Jailing the 13 - strong gang of baggage handlers, mules and dealers today for a total of 139 years Judge Michael Hopmeier said: «Millions of people use Heathrow each year and depend on the honesty and integrity of baggage handlers to do their job properly, but it is not
simply a
question of confidence in flight so far as a passenger getting his bag on arrival, but there is a security concern also, particularly in the times we
live in.
Some reviewers
questioned whether dwarves survived longer
simply because they were eating less and reaping the
life - prolonging benefits of calorie restriction.
But an explosion in powerful «gene - editing» techniques, which enable relatively easy and selective tinkering with genomes, raises a niggling
question: why go to the trouble of making new
life when you can
simply tweak what already exists?
He was the first to seriously
question Aristotelian ideas that plants don't have the stuff of
life that animates us and other animals,
simply because they...
Although perks like these may be great tools for recruitment, they are often
simply giving lip service to the work -
life balance
question.
His first collaboration with Moffitt involved a
question that had long intrigued him: Do dramatic
life events change people, or
simply cement who they already are?
If it does, keep going — regardless of that little voice in your head causing you to
question yourself — this is
simply the necessary yin and yang creating balance in your
life, forcing the self - assuredness that at times wavers.
On balance, therefore, with the narrowing of gender bias bands, the
question simply is: why can't mature, cougar dating women in the UK have what they really want — after all, many such women are professionals with good careers and extensive
life and other valuable experiences to offer a younger, handsome virile man?
However, as the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them start to
question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their
lives is
simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream.
There's more to the official synopsis: «As the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them starts to
question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their
lives is
simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream.»
In the end, Putnam raises the
question of whether schools contribute to growing disparities, or whether they are
simply the sites where these disparities play out in the
life of a child.
The six - year - olds don't
simply chart their height; they also answer the
question «How does measurement affect my
life?»