Sentences with phrase «things than poverty»

I could not bear the smell, the sights, the truth of this place, and I saw babies the age of my tinies there, naked, hollering HEY YOU snapping sass, and all of my carefully reasoned understandings about how everyone has a different calling and some of us are just called to different things than poverty relief and caring for orphans stank rank like heresy.

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Things have improved even more in the past five years, with more than half a billion people globally escaping poverty.

Following St. Francis, for example, means being «more interested in alleviating poverty and helping the afflicted than in staking out doctrinaire positions on things like contraception.»

I think Muslim community is in deep trouble for it's backwardness and poverty while we see nothing is being done to resolve that... do we no have any other more important things to discuss than Birthdays or which foot first or this or that?

Second, I'm perplexed because the things that move me to ask questions — disasters like the one in Haiti, religious pluralism, heaven and hell, science, poverty, injustice — don't seem to bother them like they bother me, and I (unfailry) wonder if it's because they are less compassionate or less intelligent than me.

Thus she went away wholly delivered from the heavy burthen of the cares and good things of this world, and found her soul so satisfied that she no longer wished for anything upon earth, resting entirely upon God, with this only fear lest she should be discovered and be obliged to return home; for she felt already more content in this poverty than she had done for all her life in all the delights of the world.»

In fact, most (63 %) said it was «diverting the church from more important things,» and, in a list of church priorities, ranked sexuality issues lower than creating disciples of Christ, spiritual growth, youth involvement, members» spiritual growth, decline in membership, poverty, children at risk, and social injustice.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

We also know three things: the U.S. has the highest rates of student poverty in the developed world; one million students are homeless; and per - pupil spending ranges from about $ 6,500 in some districts to more than $ 40,000 in others.

Keep in mind that humanity does other things than merely emitting carbon dioxide such as reducing poverty.