Sentences with phrase «things in spite»

Self - regulation could be seen as peace, but here is the rub: self - regulation is the power of the will to do things in spite of how you may feel.

She did many things in spite of EPI, double hip dysplasia, elbow surgery, autoimmune disease and bloat with volvulous last summer.

Fortunately, they were independent enough to make a go of things in spite of this.

«There are many really, really positive things in spite of material hardship that go along with being from the so - called lower classes, and you are asked to give up all that.»

And don't do these things in spite of your child, do these things for your child.

While Raikkonen seemed to be able to just get on with things in spite of it all, Vettel's mind just went to hell.

Check out «Diary of Ann Frank» «The Hiding Place», «Weapons of the Spirit» and «Au Revoir Les Infants» All true stories of real people doing the right thing in spite of great personal risk.

Not exact matches

All of those things happened not because of, but almost in spite of commercial and government interests, and that's the really remarkable thing: it was people who made the Internet great.

Doubts are an inevitable part of succeeding.The important thing is that you act in spite of them.

One thing which surprised me was that it appeared on there in spite of a single outbound or inbound link and being a blogger.com blog.

Peter Levine It may sound a bit ungrateful, especially coming from someone who invests in these things, but many early SaaS companies in many ways have been successful in spite of themselves.

It may sound a bit ungrateful, especially coming from someone who invests in these things, but many early SaaS companies in many ways have been successful in spite of themselves.

Even more disconcerting is the fact that the relative strength of the XHB has remained below its falling 200 - day moving average in spite of the broader equity market recovery and the fact that the Fed has backed off its hawkish interest rate stance — two things that would normally translate into higher confidence for homebuilders.

In spite of the terrible odds against such a thing, the prophet responded adroitly, «O Lord God, you know.»

and many things missing, that were «edited» out, in spite of the threat that we all read about in Revelations, of what happens to those who do this?)

Those things are all well and good, and so it is an even stronger indication of the problems of religion that atheists are intent upon challenging it, in spite of all the good it does or claims to do.

Yet, in spite of doing these things, have you noticed that most visitors never come more than two or three times?

The «membership» of this corporation, in spite of the anger of a certain Americana78 expressed throught out this «blog», has to this minute been POWERLESS to do any thing except say, «Yes, Father» and put some more money in the collection plate.

Her history books are written almost as an «anti-ideology»: a glorying in the fact that things worked out in spite of how screwed up she was.

It is made even more extraordinary by the reality that though we don't know what the Queen thinks about a great many things — Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and, in spite of reports, Brexit — she is remarkably, one might say uncharacteristically, open about her belief in Christ and his impact on her life.

I never said I disagreed with your worldview, or that these fields contradicted your worldview, or that there are * some * things in each of these fields that * could * be viewed as supporting * some aspect * of your worldview, or that your worldview might be correct even in spite of these fields.

«To support the Ins when things are going well; to support the Outs when they are going badly,» the latter wrote in 1925, «this, in spite of all that has been said about tweedledum and tweedledee, is the essence of popular government.»

Good things happen in spite of the cynics.

There's still a lot of Christians in the world, in spite of Russia and some of the others, and it would be a hell of an appealing thing from that angle.»

Although the whole Bible is revelational and thus inerrant in fulfilling its intention (something Fuller repeatedly affirms in spite of criticism by some like Lindsell), 45 those things in Scripture which are incidentally related to the completion of this revelational intention can be labeled «non-revelatory» matters.

I'm in the process of a business start - up after doing the same thing over and over again for a boss that wasn't grateful and was successful in spite of himself.

We misplace our faith in wrong things, we love conditionally, we judge unfairly, our mercy is mixed with spite, and our truth is gray.

But now if the individual, yes, if you, my listener, and I must admit to ourselves that we were far from living in this way, far from that purity of heart which truthfully wills but one thing; must admit to ourselves that the questions demanded an answer, and yet in another sense, in order to avoid any deception, did not require an answer, in that they were, if anything, charges against ourselves which in spite of the form of the question changed themselves into an accusation: then should the individual, and you, my listener, and I join together in saying, «Indeed our life is like that of most others»?

In spite of much that still needs to be done, we had better rejoice and be thankful, not only for more comfortable living with the vast range of things technology has produced, but for more recognition of race and sex equality and advances toward implementation of these principles; better education; better health; minimum wage, unemployment and social security provisions; and a large network of social agencies that we sometimes fume at as being bureaucratic and expensive but which few of us would want to see abolished.

One nice thing about postmillenialists is, in spite of their twisted Kingdom - now dominionist theology, they really contend for a change on the earth NOW.

Let us begin then by looking at some reasons why the Bible, in spite of the mass of printed matter that comes pouring from the presses, is still the most important book in existence and why reading it is one of the most important things that any person today can do.

So in spite of how things appeared with rejection, I had a sense of being honoured and experiencing what Joseph ans Jesus had.

This is in spite of our diversity, our frequent mutual animosity and our all too common fear and distrust of all things foreign.

They found that, in spite of the anger and distance between them,» there were still some things they liked about each other.

After the acute hurt and anger are reduced, I ask: «In spite of all the pain are there things you still like in the marriage or in your spousIn spite of all the pain are there things you still like in the marriage or in your spousin the marriage or in your spousin your spouse?

The Revelation lays it down that in spite of the place of the Church in the scheme of things, in spite of the challenge to the individual Christian, in the last analysis the end can only come by the action of God.

In spite of all that can be said, in spite of every secular argument to justify money and the state and science and technology, to show that we are right to use these things, it is quite unbiblical to appeal to these agents of political poweIn spite of all that can be said, in spite of every secular argument to justify money and the state and science and technology, to show that we are right to use these things, it is quite unbiblical to appeal to these agents of political powein spite of every secular argument to justify money and the state and science and technology, to show that we are right to use these things, it is quite unbiblical to appeal to these agents of political power.

I assure you that in spite of how things may appear, I am somewhat less than perfect

Dread, however, is a perilous thing for effeminate natures, hence they forget it, and in spite of that they want to talk about Abraham.

But I also happen to believe in a God who is gracious enough to respond to his people in spite of those things, and in spite of my scepticism too.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

Here there is no claim to privileged access to the ding an sich, for any such dichotomy between noumenal and phenomenal is absurd — what a thing is is known in, and consists of, what a thing does; or, in Christian terms, we know God in terms of His activity in the world, working towards communities or societies of shared good in spite of the recalcitrance, the back - waters, the negativities, or compendiously «the evil», with which he has to deal.

I don't know how the existence of gravity, in spite of the role it plays in the way things are organized, can prove that God doesn't exist.

The fact is that, in spite of all the criticism against the church as institution, I have never seen a better alternative to a church that really works and does things in a Godly way.

Because God in Jesus Christ became human and is linked with us in spite of our godlessness, human well - being and dignity will be a criterion of all things.

In spite of the vast differences in languages and cultures among group members and between them and us as leaders, remarkable things happeneIn spite of the vast differences in languages and cultures among group members and between them and us as leaders, remarkable things happenein languages and cultures among group members and between them and us as leaders, remarkable things happened.

In spite of his fascination with theory, Jung observed: «It is a remarkable thing about psychotherapy: you... can cure only from one central point; that consists in understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.&raquIn spite of his fascination with theory, Jung observed: «It is a remarkable thing about psychotherapy: you... can cure only from one central point; that consists in understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.&raquin understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.»

And in spite of this they sang joyous songs about a child and about shepherds and angels and some people called Wise Ones, not to mention utterly impractical things like frankincense and myrrh!

Bad things do happen to good people, in spite of their faith and trust in God.

He explained, critically, that in spite of the Safe Conduct on his way to Worms, he found his books had been burnt and banned: «These things could have frightened and held back this poor little monk»; nevertheless, he had put his trust in the Emperor's Safe Conduct.