Sentences with phrase «than a father at»

Was the question this: is it better for children to have a mother at home rather than a father at home, generally speaking, not a hard and fast rule?

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The U.S. Census Bureau said that there were an estimated 199,000 stay - at - home dads and 1.9 million single dads in 2015, but even happily married fathers with full - time office jobs still want to devote more quality time to parenting than their fathers and grandfathers did.

For example, if you persuade your father and your rich aunt to purchase shares in your business at $ 20 per share, it doesn't mean that future investors will pay more than $ 20 per share - even if your business grows and prospers.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

At a time when there are more women and children crying out for rescue than ever before, God has placed within the DNA of every man a father, a defender and a protector.

Wilcox reports that Christian conservative fathers, at least the ones who attend church frequently, are actually far more affectionate with and emotionally invested in their wives and children than are their counterparts among either mainline Protestants or the unchurched.

It is better to stay at home and bask in the Father's love than to join with a group of power - hungry, controlling Christians.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

Do you think that I can not appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

At one point I believe that I am closer to Teilhard — or, at least, to the Teilhard whom I understand — than Father Heisig admitAt one point I believe that I am closer to Teilhard — or, at least, to the Teilhard whom I understand — than Father Heisig admitat least, to the Teilhard whom I understand — than Father Heisig admits.

It is a distinct pleasure to respond to the critique of Father Eric C. Meyer, who was the first Catholic theologian to respond seriously to my work, and who in many ways knows my own position, or, at least my route to it, better than I do myself.

In purely aesthetic terms, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than which Father Ed Tomlinson and his family and flock must have felt four years ago when, as a group, they left their Anglican parish church of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pembury.

We are inevitably reminded of Jesus in Gethsemane: «Do you think that I can not appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?»

Considered in this light, Mantel's mother's sins, which set Mantel at odds with the Church, may have been less important for her spiritual development than the loss of her father, which estranged her from God himself.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

As the whole story suggests, Abraham, newly a father of the promised - son - of - the - covenant and newly the founder of a new nation, understood that the true father and true founder must devote his offspring and his people to something higher than offspring and peoplehood, even at the cost of losing them.

Hebrews 1:1 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.

(For link fans, the video & notes may be found at http://www.calvaryccm.com/teachings/main/video/GS49.aspx) He made a very valid point: if the crucifixion was all there was to life in Christ, Jesus and His Father could've «done it over the weekend,» rather than take 33 years... especially that last week.

Similarly, Pastor Mark Driscoll has called stay - at - home fathers «worse than unbelievers» and has recently released a book claiming that men who fail to be the exclusive providers for their families are a disgrace.

The historico - cultural context in which the papacy finds itself at the beginning of the twenty - first century has significantly more in common with the era of the great Fathers of the Church such as Athanasius, Ambrose or Gregory the Great than with more recent centuries.

One often finds that the Fathers of the early years of the Church are more direct and better at this than modern writers.

Still, the design inference seems to have a lot more punch than Father Oakes allows, at least as judged by the reaction of many who oppose it.

Father Fichter, professor of sociology at Loyola University of the South, New Orleans, is the author of The Catholic Cult of the Paraclete (Sheed & Ward, 1975) and a yet - to - be-published study of more than 400 alcoholic clergymen.

This is attested by a number of Jesus» sayings: «Do you think that I can not appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Social nights at the ballpark would bring fathers together to build more dynamic interpersonal relationships than are formed during the after - school wait in the parking lot to pick up kids.

He was highhanded and arbitrary at times, yet not more so than many a father unfortunately has shown himself in his own family, and he manifested little inclination to enlarge the prerogatives of his office by encroachment on traditional rights of his people.

He was a more impressive figure than our own Founding Fathers in at least three respects: He had been a slave for most of his life; he was a famously devout Christian; and his accomplishment remains unmatched to this day, for the Haitian Revolution is still the only successful slave revolt in history.

Rather than looking at the money, when our Father is richer than we can imagine anyway, we should be looking at what we're doing with the facilities God has given us.

In John 14:12 more or less at the beginning of his long Farewell Speech, Jesus issues a startling pledge to his disciples: «Amen, amen, I say to you, the one who believes into me will do the works that I do, and greater than these she or he will do because I am going to the Father.»

Her home discussions while growing up set a standard that was hard to match afterward; the church leaders that she knew at Heath were more interesting than those she met afterward: she agrees with her father that the generation that succeeded him fled into the «cellars of irrelevance.»

People too often talk about Jesus aside from his words, about his compassion towards all, while they fail to wrestle with some of his steepest moral teachings: «Whoever divorces his wife... and marries another, commits adultery; Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart; If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; I have come to bring not peace but the sword; Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mt 19:9, 5:28, 5:30, 10:14, 10:37).

Some Christians continue to characterize fathers who share parenting responsibilities or stay at home with their children as «man fails» and «worse than unbelievers,» instructing women to intentionally avoid earning more money than their husbands, even if it is less practical for their family to do so, or else they will injure their spouse's ego.

This relationship is of some importance, for Weiss developed a point of view that is steeped in New Testament textual and historical criticism but is more far out than that of his father and much at variance with the nineteenth - century liberalism of Ritschl.

Still, there is no way that, for this Jerusalemite and all other Israeli husbands and fathers» along with students at university who miss their exams, and beginners in new jobs or careers who are one way and another bound to be set back» the burden of yearly, as I like to think of it, «fulfillment» is not at the least a nuisance and more often than not downright onerous.

If anything agreeable offers itself to your senses, yet does not at the same time tend purely to the honor and glory of God, renounce it and separate yourself from it for the love of Christ, who all his life long had no other taste or wish than to do the will of his Father whom he called his meat and nourishment.

According to William Wordsworth, «The child is father of the man, which is to say that a grown person has no more at his disposal than what he has acquired in the process of growing up.

No doubt, but he would surely have a better reason than that; all that Jesus ever did was at the direction of his father in heaven.

Even when the two sets of scripture speak of the same figure — such as Abraham, supposedly the common father of all three traditions — they tell some different stories and draw markedly different lessons, and this makes the term «Abrahamic religions» more problematic than at first seems the case.

In the brutal politics of a region where the withdrawal of American power has led to seven demons worse than the first, Chaldean Catholics are especially at risk because, as Father Bazi put it, they «can't play the game the way the others do» — they can't indulge in revenge killings because their faith forbids them to do so.

When, little more than a century ago, Man first discovered the abyss of time that lies behind him, and therefore the abyss that lies ahead, his first feeling was a tremendous hope, a sense of wonderment at the progress our fathers had made.

Even when I was a wee bit younger than the target audience, I loved reading Father Neuhaus's warm or trenchant reflections in the «While We're At It» section he penned month - in and month - out.

Stay at homes are not «full - time moms» any more than women who work outside the home — as if breadwinning fathers were «part - time dads.»

Looking at the bible, God says that if you love your father, mother, sister or brother more than his word and him, then you can not be apart of the kingdom.

Father Martin perhaps knew little more, or perhaps even less, than all this about Wittenberg when he was suddenly told, to his astonishment, that he had been appointed to go to the little Augustinian Friary at Wittenberg.

At the end of the day after the blood was spilled & death made it's grand entrance; the people of God, the Christians gathered for prayer, not because we had the answers or that we are somehow better than those who don't believe what we believe, but because even at the center of despair, we feel an undying need to taste our Father's grace when all else seems to be losAt the end of the day after the blood was spilled & death made it's grand entrance; the people of God, the Christians gathered for prayer, not because we had the answers or that we are somehow better than those who don't believe what we believe, but because even at the center of despair, we feel an undying need to taste our Father's grace when all else seems to be losat the center of despair, we feel an undying need to taste our Father's grace when all else seems to be lost.

The essential thing, of course, however hard it may seem at first, is to see this marginalisation not as a sign of defeat but as the opportunity predicted more than 40 years ago by the present Holy Father:

People may generally be unaware of the historical lack of agreement among the fathers of the Church on when the fetus possesses a soul, but they likely sense at some level of their mind that their pro — life stance is personally based more on passionate belief than on demonstrable fact.