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.