Sentences with phrase «than comfort in»

Lu, yes, it is sad that so many find pain rather than comfort in places that call themselves churches.

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And rather than comfort, Canadians in the pre-Trump period might have heard menace in those words.

Perhaps increased vigilance is paying off in that respect — but it's hardly much comfort, since targeted attacks are more than filling the gap:

«Parents who respond to their children's emotions in a comforting manner have kids who are more socially well - adjusted than do parents who either tell their kids they are overreacting or who punish their kids for getting upset,» child psychologist Nancy Eisenberg of Arizona State University said in an interview.

Think about it: Wouldn't you rather Mom and Dad be safe and in the comfort of their own home rather than in an expensive institution with revolving care?

It's a lot easier to exist in relative comfort than recognize an unnerving call and answer with yes.

Craft beer lovers can take comfort: The Brewers Association reports that there are now more than 4,000 active breweries in the U.S., so Big Beer buyouts can't possibly match the pace of new businesses.

And obviously it's much harder to find the right words in real time than it is to pick them from a computerized list in the comfort of my own home.

This boat's many luxurious amenities will almost make you forget you're traveling by sea, rather than lounging in the comfort of your own home.

Being known as the father of modern economics used to entitle him to greater respect than he now gets in some quarters, where his «invisible hand» is portrayed as more sinister than comforting, and the self - interest that drives the butcher, brewer and baker to prepare our dinner gives the food a bitter taste.

When you're running around like a crazy person, nothing is more comforting than putting something important in the hands of someone for whom you have 100 % confidence it will be handled well.

On average, American men tend to be more animated, outspoken and affectionate than the lads in Britain, which is either a pro or a con for a date, depending on your comfort level.

Rebecca Schreiber, a Certified Financial Planner in Silver Spring, Md., says the key is to determine your comfort level with a bank, rather than focusing on the institution's size.

Chang says in Ugly Delicious that Dominos is really more of a food distribution business than a restaurant (even though he says their pizza is comfort food for him that he enjoys eating it).

The shareholders of Citigroup who are still nursing stock losses of 85 percent from the bank's pre-crash days aren't going to be too comforted by reading about Rubin's musings about existentialism in coffee shops around Harvard when he should have been cramming for finance courses that might have led to his questioning the more than $ 1 trillion bucks that Citigroup held off its balance sheet in the leadup to its crash.

Mr Joyce says: «We've added a very high level of comfort in each of the cabins and a lower seat count than most of our competitors.

Due to technological advances in computing, working remotely is more widely accepted than it was 5 - 10 years ago; and it's not uncommon for entrepreneurs to start and manage entire empires from the comfort of their homes.

Alexander Brangman finds comfort in remembering how long his daughter lived - 26 years, 11 months, 9 hours and 15 minutes - rather than the horrible and needless way she died.

So many would prefer to do things in the comfort of their own home rather than venture outside and into a brick and mortar store, or even talk on the phone for that matter.

We've distributed more than 1.1 million relief items like diapers, bug spray, cleaning supplies, coolers, and comfort kits containing deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste and other hygiene items, in Texas and Louisiana.

If you have a talent for the written word, what better way to work from the comfort in your own home and have extremely flexible hours than to become a freelance writer.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

I get it, people want to believe in something larger than themselves, they take comfort in something that never actually provides solutions to their problems.

Today, the California - native, who's married (he's a doctor), makes music in the comfort of her own home, and by the sound of it — Paper Skin is her latest independent offering and is available at her website and on iTunes — the very talented Kendall Payne is closer to being herself than ever before.

I find comfort in anyone who realizes that there is something bigger than them regaurdless of there religion so long as they are not an extremist from any back ground.

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

It was heartening to learn that in the end, that most people chose to talk about what was was truly important to them... family, rather than wasting the last minutes of their lives discussing the comforting fantasies, but fantasies nonetheless, of god, jesus, heaven, etc..

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

My point being that no one human being is worth more than another or deserves more comfort in life than any other no matter where he lives.

We settle for the comfort and pleasure of the lesser goods in life rather than pursue the Greatest Good, which is a transformational relationship with God.

Even back during my most fundamentalist / evangelical / pentecostal years I felt that, rather than being for the purpose of entreating God to intervene in circumstances or change others, prayer was a way to draw strength, comfort, courage, and wisdom for dealing with those circumstances.

Your belief in God is based on nothing more than a simple desire to believe a comforting narrative because the alternative is to believe harsh realities about your existence.

Religious charlatans will always have a willing audience in people who'd rather hear comforting fairytales than a harsh truth.

Filling in what we don't know with demons and angels has no good for people other than comfort born of ignorance.

«I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.»

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

In the long run, these ways of reducing our use of exhaustible resources and our contribution to pollution also save us money, and this can be used to meet human needs that are more urgent than our comfort.

However, the call / challenge to live like God inhabits you is far greater than to live like you left God high and lifted up in the comforts of the sanctuary.

The third term is affectus» a term referring to those movements of our feelings that kindle within us admiration for our beloved and a desire to be with her, feelings of compatibility and comfort, feelings that tend to have a longer run than hotter passions, and yield in daily life a quieter security.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

I take comfort in knowing that there is indeed an afterlife and there is more than just this... 20 minutes after my brother died in a car accident 1500 miles away, my 2.5 year old asked me who was standing next to me in our kitchen — it was just my son and me so I thought — believe what you will but I know my son saw my brother's spirit in our kitchen that day.

Though younger students are much less likely to be married than older ones — and although marriage in this and other Auburn studies is closely and positively associated with students» economic comfort levels — younger students are much more likely to be full - time students.

While this certainly brought him comfort «he had chosen to stay in his room rather than die in the hospital «it also brought comfort, joy, and faith to those of us in the piazza.

Working - class people in the 1960s, an era of less material comfort than today, when surveyed largely expressed satisfaction with their lives and their communities.

While its sad that many Christians forget this fact in our culture today, bowing into the world and compromising the truth of God for comfort, its also said that some groups are hated for speaking «the truth» rather than displaying the radical love of Christ.

My father - in - law has been a minister for more than sixty years and I have seen how many hundreds, if not thousands of people he has brought comfort to in their darkest times.

You feel a lot more secure, and indeed a deep comfort, in this knowledge, than you would in trying to yoke yourself to some quasi-hope from Bronze Age Palestine that every part of your intellect tells you is untenable.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

We find comfort and consolation in the sure conviction that God is always doing «more than we can ask or think», as the old prayer phrases it.

This is a comforting thought, but severed from any religious context, there is more than a touch of wishful thinking in it.