Sentences with phrase «things in their good books»

The Pioneers could and did read those things in their Good Books.

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The book provides a practical guide for how to understand what's weighing you down and how to rearrange and let certain things go in order to live your best life.

I was able to accomplish great things while in prison, including writing my first book, learning Korean and getting in the best shape of my life.

You heard it from Steve Jobs» 2005 Stanford commencement speech, you heard it from me in my new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow, and now you're hearing it from Kagan: Getting fired can be the best thing that ever happened to you, but only if you take a cold, hard look in the mirror and face the truth.

According to Goodman, your book should have three things upon launch: social proof, i.e., a number of Amazon reviews; an «intangible,» e.g., a quote from a renowned expert in the field, say a New York Times bestselling author; and lastly a good book (which may seem obvious, but...).

It brings together small gatherings of people who want to learn the same thing in private videochat rooms — taking the best features of book clubs into the digital era.

In his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines, Kurzweil foresaw things like the internet's fast and widespread adoption, wearable devices, the cloud, and the ability of artificial intelligence to beat the world's best chess players by 2000.

«There really is a best time to do just about anything and everything, and that's especially true when it comes to buying things,» writes Mark Di Vincenzo in his book, «Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon»

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

While the production side of the economy is making necessary adjustments for the changing commodity demand outlook, in our book, lower commodity prices is ultimately a good thing!

This is one of the things Heap's Komanoff over and over again is developing good habits and then doing them consistently over and over and optimizing those habits and that's how he starts off the book and he says in short the compound effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small almost minuscule Smart Choices day in and day out.

So I started writing the book and essentially what I quickly realized was that in trying to describe these things most people were probably not going to have a good idea of what I was talking about.

I've made a decent profit selling old things I had, valuable books that people placed in the compactor room as well as some items found at deep discounts either at thrift stores or the clearance section.

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..

So religion is not really a good thing, but placing one's faith in the only begotton of the Father, is what truly covers all our sin. - P.S. Someone said that God believers should read a few books and then reread the Bible... I did that....

It may be silly, but then getting paid minimum wage to read books when one is 18 years old ain't a bad gig, and this man and the library he led and the town which made this library possible are irreplaceable factors in both making and preserving important things like the opportunity to read good (or not so good) books in quiet solitude.

In contrast to Orthodox «getting things right» books, Everyday Saints depicts the Church as people with warts and flaws through whom God nevertheless works for good.

So both fine arts music and great books education are left in the dust, but with vague aspirations for higher things... er, better make that avant things, left festering in the soul.

Birch: So destroying Christian groups is a good thing in your book, right?

The fact that First Things published a long article on my book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Existence is an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» March).

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

In such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your child away from his games with a good book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the flooIn such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your child away from his games with a good book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the flooin the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the floor.

And that is exactly how Slate editor David Plotz cooked up a carefree pot of blasphemies in his recent book Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the Bibook Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the BiBook: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the Bible.

Maybe you might want to read a science book one day, they do a good job of proving things with FACTS, something your god hypothesis is sorely lacking in.

I reviewed that book and said good things about it, but with the knowledge of what was going on behind the scenes in EV.

As I argue in my new book «Gray Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism & Liberty,» there are many perfectly good things in the world that can go wrong when we consume them recklessly.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reaIn the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to reain the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

Cf. Lewis's remarks in «The Weight of Glory»: «The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was not in them, it only came through them and what came through them was longing, these things - the beauty, the memory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken far the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols.

Joy: I want to tap into that ever - present source of infinite joy by stopping long enough to find it in the little things — the bird's next in my carport, the Book of Common Prayer, long talks with good friends, the sound of Dan breathing (but not snoring!)

And if things don't move in that direction - well, you might find he has nice friends, or he might turn out to be right for one of your friends, or you might just have a pleasant evening, or he might introduce you to some new ideas, books, music or interests.

The story of creation and the story of the fall, for example, like the account of the last things in the Book of Revelation, may properly be called myths, since they are concerned with absolute beginnings and endings or with universally predicable truths, about which no precise conceptual statements can be made and which are best expressed in pictorial language.

It's a good thing that the book is in the Bible, in face of all those who believe that the restraint of passion is Christian (where is there such restraint in the Old Testament?)

In the second book of The Republic he asserted confidently that «things which are at their best are also least liable to he altered or discomposed.»

Unfortunately, both of these books are pointless because 90 % of people do nt use the books for the good teachings, only how we need to destroy and create havoc because another group does nt believe in the same thing we do..

Of the making of such reference books there is no end in sight, and a good thing that is.

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

As we will see in the book of Esther, God is at work in all things for the good of those who have been called according to his purpose — even when we can't see Him.

Lightfoot (1658) summed the need of one seeking true understanding (and not interpretation) up well: «For, first, when all the books of the New Testament were written by Jews, and among Jews, and unto them; and when all the discourses made there, were made in like manner by Jews, and to Jews, and among them; I was always fully persuaded, as of a thing past all doubting, that that Testament could not but everywhere taste of and retain the Jews» style, idiom, form, and rule of speaking.»

With every unnecessary detail, which Orwell observed is the «outstanding, unmistakable mark of Dickens's writing,» he shows us what Augustine observed in book 7 of the Confessions: Whatsoever thing exist are good.

He suggested that I would find some of the answers to my questions in his 1994 book, The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life (Norton, 1994; reissued 2001 by Xlibris).

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

We do good because that is the right thing to do, not because some ancient book tells us what is right and wrong — especially when those books are so often so wrong in what they teach.

Marty's new book is a resource for people of conviction who want to be good citizens in a pluralistic society: «You want to do the right thing by your God, your tradition, your country, the public order, the law and the courts, and your fellow citizens.

it is a good thing the vast majority of americans are christians in name only — cino — and prefer not to know or just ignore the uncivilized contents of their so - called book.

The myth of the divine consummation (found in books like Revelation in the New Testament and suggested by the picture of resurrection, as well as by the «last things») is an assertion that the divine purpose can not fail, that God will take into the divine self what is achieved in the world, and that in some fashion, obviously beyond our imagining, God will be disclosed as all in all.

The background assumption of this book means, finally, that so far as its content is concerned the best hope of saying things of general relevance to persons involved in all types of theological schooling today lies in making some particular and fairly concrete proposals that may turn out to be directly pertinent only to a few types of theological schools but may provoke and help other persons in other types of schools to think through these issues for themselves.

Kaiser thinks this is a bad thing (I think it is good), but what Kaiser fails to understand is that it is exactly the kind of theology he presents in this book which has caused most of those people to leave the church and give up on God.

Rabbi Harold Kushner's popular 1981 book When Bad Things Happen to Good People, though not written with Whitehead or Hartshorne in mind, is in its essentials a process theodicy (Griffin, Evil 229).

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

In even our best acts, we humans seem to have an inescapable self - centeredness that causes us to deify ourselves, our cultures, our religions, institutions, sacred books, the things we make....