Sentences with phrase «taught the purpose of»

We rarely focus on the disadvantages of diversification in investing because we are taught the purpose of portfolio diversification is to lower portfolio risk.

She hadn't been taught the purpose of a leash, so tugged and pulled anyone who attempted to walk her and destroyed nearly every harness in her path.

Economic — teaching the purpose of money, how to make money, and how to manage it.

Not exact matches

That's part of his regime to keep fit for a higher purpose: teaching advanced skiing, which he's done since 1968.

Melissa left behind a successful career as an award - winning V.P. in marketing to be of greater service by inspiring and teaching professionals and business owners the key strategies needed to identify their purpose and discover their unique value.

Ian Brock is a 13 year old Chicago native, Co-Founder of a purpose driven startup cookie company, Beyond The Cookie ®, rookie coder (currently teaching himself how to code), «soon to be» author, and co-founder of non - profit Dream Hustle Code.

The purpose of the book is to teach the reader how to think more like Charlie Munger, the legendary thinker, investor, and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

The Spirit of God purposes to teach us what is true.

One taught for centuries by organized religion for the purpose of keeping people bound in a fear based choke hold.

While some programs also encourage abstinence or noncoital sex, most are concerned with teaching techniques for «safe sex»; offspring (and disease) are thus treated as (equally) avoidable side effects of sexuality, whose true purpose is only individual pleasure.

To me such a God exists because of the purpose I believe for us being her on this earth to live is to test us in following the teachings and that mastering those teachings brings about a state of happinessand greator personal development.

But when she went to bed at night, Sparks felt an absence of purpose: «My parents taught me to leave things better than I found them,» she remembers.

The purpose of the Book of Mormon is to testify of Christ and support the teachings of the Bible, not to replace the Bible.

The purpose of the fifteen - page statement is to «identify problematic aspects of the book and provide a positive restatement of Catholic teaching on the relevant points.»

The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».

Phillips says it's true that the Bible teaches Christians to care for the poor, sick and needy, «but the Bible also teaches that God uses and permits suffering in the lives of people for His own ends and purposes.»

The rise of Steph Curry can teach us something about calling, purpose and a «platform»: Just because you're called, doesn't mean you're not going to have to earn it.

The purpose of a canon for education is that it be able to define what must be done in order for a culture to teach its rising generation the cosmology that frames it and makes it work.

Jesus also wanted to teach the Pharisees and the other people who were present about the purpose of the Sabbath, and the purpose of God's Law in general.

«For it has been a characteristic of that ethic to teach that there are certain things forbidden whatever consequences threaten, such as choosing to kill the innocent for any purpose, however good.»

The historical records of earlier times received a good deal of reshaping, again with a view to enforcing the teaching of the prophets rather than for purely historical purposes.

Familiaris Consortio presents a wholly compassionate yet objectively truthful account of the Magisterium of the Church's teachings on marriage and the family and in its introductory paragraph states: «In a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life.»

It is also easy to lead children to sing simple songs for the chief purpose of having fun, to the extent that they get whipped up in a frenzy of enjoyable emotion, which we teach them (even if only inadvertently so) is the mark of true worship.

The single purpose and goal of attending the synagogue was to teach the Word of God to the people of God.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

It is best, therefore, to understand that Jesus is not talking about His purpose in coming, but rather, a consequence of His ministry and teaching.

The purpose of the liturgy is to gather us and teach us how to be one in Christ.

It is a mistake to use the pulpit for what we might describe as didactic purposes, however important and necessary the task of teaching may be in other connections.

Since it is about the election and rejection of Israel for God's purposes, many believe that Romans 9 teaches that even after we receive eternal life, if we fail to live according to God's purposes, we either lose our eternal life or we prove we never had it in the first place.

The primary purpose of the previous section of Matthew is to teach the disciples how to practice discipleship and to carry on the work of the Master.

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

When I look to the Bible for the purpose of developing a theology of nature, I turn to the early chapters of Genesis, the story of Noah, some of the Psalms, some of Jesus» teachings, John 1, and Romans 8.

Obviously, one is teaching and encouraging students more directly, and the other is shaping the overall life of the seminary; but the purpose of that is for the overall shaping of the many, many denominations that Fuller serves.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

The chatter around a poll released Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service will likely focus on the findings highlighted in their news release: 82 % of Americans surveyed believe that bin Laden distorted the teachings of Islam to suit his own purposes; 65 % believe the al Qaeda leader is rotting in hell; and 62 % think it is wrong to celebrate the death of another human being.

It was, Catholics were taught, a «perfect society,» i.e., complete unto itself in its purposes and the adequate means of attaining them.

The first point to acknowledge in considering this view is that the Church has always taught that it is incompatible with an authentic sense of moral responsibility deliberately to choose what is known to be morally wrong, however good and desirable one's further purpose might be.

Christ came among men with a simple ministry of teaching whose main purpose was to confirm that the kinds of ways in which God had been understood in Natural religion, and the very language used to express those insights, were broadly right.

In the case of sex, the sexual organs have an inbuilt procreative purpose, and as Humanae Vitae n. 12 teaches, the sexual act has the two inherent meanings of procreation and union.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

It will only serve the purpose of reminding the Moslem that they have failed in their teaching.

The purpose of the Bible is not to teach about the Canaanites, or even about the Israelites.

And too often we think that the way to do this is to buy them things: things that are pretty, things that are fun, things that snap and pop and whir and race and entertain — until we have taught our children that the purpose of life is to be happy and that being happy means having pleasure or being entertained.

It defeats the purpose of teaching anyone about how the majority REALLY live here and over there..

While he demonstrates that his message was not taught to him by the Jerusalem apostles, this is not the sole purpose of his narrative.

The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that new faculty — though very smart and well read (and probably better educated than most of their senior colleagues), though religiously observant and already experienced in teaching, though flexible, open and good - humored — have not found a vocation, do not know what purpose they want to serve.

(For purposes of this discussion I leave largely aside the situation of the Orthodox, who have valid ordination and other sacraments and adhere to apostolic teaching.

This purpose to teach the angels is logically prior to God's purpose of uniting Jews and Gentiles.

And the purpose of the church was to teach the angels.