Sentences with phrase «so ordinary life»

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come on, just admit its an old book written by ordinary men in the DARK AGES, so we can all get on with our lives and wake up from our species» infancy.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

But experiences which are so rare as to be inaccessible to ordinary persons or unrelated to the life every day can not be the basis for a universal religion.

It illumines the everyday, so that we may find in it shafts of the divine glory that point to God, so that we may sense the eternal significance of ordinary life.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

So architectural and artistic preservation, when it values sacred space in the context of ordinary surroundings, assists in the hallowing of the rest of life, decades later.

There has to be a seamlessness to our lives, a oneness so that there isn't ordinary work vs. holy work: it's all together beautiful.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

So far we have not discussed the area of human life which is known as the «religious experience», the awareness of the «more - than - human» impinging on ordinary experience.

Even as Zen repudiates all actual ways to enlightenment, so in the last resort nothing is gained by enlightenment of satori, and thus the life of the sage is no different from the life of ordinary men.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

So, for example, in his well - known essay, «Our Calling,» Einar Billing, a Swedish Lutheran theologian of the early 20th century, wrote: «The more fully a Catholic Christian develops his nature, the more he becomes a stranger to ordinary life, the more he departs from the men and women who move therein.

We must use what is familiar to talk about the unfamiliar; so we turn to events, objects, relationships from ordinary, contemporary life in order to say something about what we do not know how to talk about — the love of God.

we do not want to live as angels in ether, our bodies are us, us; and our craving for immortality is... not for transformation into a life beyond imagining but for our ordinary life, the mundane life we so driftingly and numbly live, to go on forever and forever.

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.

Liturgy speaks to the depths within us, to the world we share beyond that of ordinary life, what Peter Berger has so well described as «an infinitely vaster and «more real» world, in which and through which human life receives its ultimate significance.»

Pastors who know how to lead laity into ministry have at least two leadership characteristics in common: They talk about the presence of God in the ordinary situations of daily life, and they are able to structure the life of a congregation so that members are encouraged and able to give ministry to one another.

So the devotion had finally made its way into the life of every ordinary Catholic, beating a new life and fervour into the practice of the faith by drawing fresh attention to the true motivating love behind all of Christ's actions.

I was hoping to find a recipe for grapefruit and strawberry preserve... so glad to find this one today... but I live on Crete Greece and there is no way I'm going to find the special sugar in the pink box you recommend... So my question is... will I be able to make this marmalade with ordinary sugar... and if so, what amountso glad to find this one today... but I live on Crete Greece and there is no way I'm going to find the special sugar in the pink box you recommend... So my question is... will I be able to make this marmalade with ordinary sugar... and if so, what amountSo my question is... will I be able to make this marmalade with ordinary sugar... and if so, what amountso, what amount??

What was a swallow doing so far from the eaves and mudbanks of its ordinary life?

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The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

«Anger has been fuelled further by a perception that ordinary citizens are subject to restrictions in their own working lives which were not being applied in the same way to MPs, and by the reluctance of the House of Commons as a whole to recognise the need for reform until forced to do so.»

Comparing the image of the Conservative party now with how it was seen back in 2003, it hasn't changed to a great extent — people think it has a better team of leaders (39 % think so, compared to 22 % back in 2003), is more competent (43 % now compared to 32 % in 2003) and is more united (46 % compared to 32 %), but in things like whether the Conservative party cares about the problems of ordinary people, shares peoples values, is honest and trustworthy or understands normal peoples lives, the improvement is far more meagre.

Up until this year I was a member of a serious left - of - centre political party whose focus was to win elections so that we could improve the lives of millions of ordinary people.

Cator's Cornell colony of A. aegypti live dormitory style, 100 or so together in several metal mesh enclosures, each about the size of an ordinary fish tank, inside a large incubator that maintains a tropical clime.

Matt had grown up with little money, so saving was important to him, and I wanted a less ordinary life filled with adventure.

While Sanskrit language, mandalas, and prayer mudras might be so common in our lives that we don't perceive them as anything out of the ordinary, we need to be mindful of the fact that it is practically guaranteed that school community members, including parents, will have experiences that are different from ours.

How true that so many ordinary things or events in our lives can be turned into «sanity savers!»

Another thing would be to stay unhappy with the «ordinary» life that is so «known» and «safe»... Thanks, but no thanks!

You might say this is just an ordinary accessory that isn't so important, but in real life, this small addition can drastically change your look.

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Both regular and atypical sexual inclinations got their place in the sun with regards to dating on the web, seeing as it isn't so much that simple to simply discover somebody you could spend the rest of your life with in case you're into something unusual and by and large not considered «ordinary.»

Hollywood's scripted impression of romance is not representational in any way shape or form of a real persons life, yet so many ordinary people subconsciously strive to live up to these pipe dreams.

Like when the movie wraps and he's all, wait a minute, I was so boss for a few weeks there and everyone cared about me and now why is my life so ordinary?

His films pay great attention to ordinary lives that are not so ordinary at all.

On the best part of her career: «I just love acting so much because it's basically an analysis, an exploration of ordinary live.

It makes violence so sanitized and palatable and ordinary and easy and it's not that way in real life.

Lonergan catches you in the minutiae of ordinary living, so when the emotion of extraordinary tragedy suddenly erupts, it is stunning.

Perhaps it is by design, to show how the seemingly ordinary circumstances of our lives rest atop a fragile infrastructure of civility that can so easily be fractured.

The premise of the original short story is that an ordinary man escapes into his imagination to get away from the mundane experiences in everyday life — and honestly, at a time when unemployment is rampant and wealth disparity is so enormous, that's an idea that could be amazingly resonant to many people.

I wish Stoller had been more willing to simply throw us full bore into the train wreck that is Aldous's life — you know, like This Is Spinal Tap did with its horrifying rock star idiots we couldn't look away from — but I'm struck with a terrible certainty that Greek believes that it needs to spell out, in no uncertain terms, a cautionary tale about how the «glamorous life» ain't so glamorous and «ordinary life» as lived by us mere mortals is far better.

One reads this book with a sense of disbelief that men and women who led such privileged lives could have been so stupid and hateful, could have thought themselves revolutionaries acting on behalf of «the people» when they had nothing but contempt for ordinary working people.

I, like so many teachers across our great state, can tell you with great joy the hundreds of examples of ordinary students doing extraordinary things in the classroom; Tell you the time when tears filled my eyes, when life hit a student like a ton of bricks, and give you the names of kids who were the first in their family to go to college.

And so it was, trotting with three dogs through ordinary lanes, past ordinary tenements, past ordinary lives, a lone boy crossed a border that is, usually, impassable — not even imaginable.

Pliny also brings to life his ordinary days and the surprising comfort of his villa: «Adjoining this angle is a room forming the segment of a circle, the windows of which are so arranged as to get the sun all through the day: in the walls are contrived a sort of cases, containing a collection of authors who can never be read too often.

Sometimes at BookBrowse we're so busy seeking out books set in new and interesting locations or about unexplored topics that we overlook the tales set closer to home - the endless dramas of ordinary life that take place behind our own closed doors and those of our neighbors.

In this case, you had $ 10K in depreciation over the life of your investment, so the IRS taxes you at $ 10K of ordinary income.