Sentences with phrase «thought as i attempted»

UU is fuzzy on the divinity of Jesus, I think as an attempt to lure non-Christians in as well.

There have been periods in my life where I was lost in thought as I attempted to gain insight into some mathematical problem.

I don't mean the history of reputations and publicity and shocks to the solar plexus, but the history in which we can trace an artist's thinking as he attempts to comprehend both the artistic past and the art of his own contemporaries for whatever may be usable in extending the range of his creative endeavors.

Not exact matches

I think of that happy place often, lately, as more brands attempt to manifest themselves in physical space.

In addition to the internal challenges you might face as an entrepreneur, you'll also face pressure from your family, who may think of entrepreneurship as a distraction and discourage you from attempting it.

Looking back to the early days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.

Conrad dismisses the ADP lawsuit as «an attempt to shut us up,» adding, «I think ADP expected they would block us, and we would sulk off and curl up in a corner and die.

Makers of everything from cars to video games now think of their businesses as attempting to establish such ecosystems.

«[T] argets of cyberbullying were almost twice as likely to have attempted suicide» compared with peers who were neither victims nor perpetrators, and also far more likely to think about suicide, according to Pennsylvania State University's Charisse L. Nixon.

In recent years Whole Foods has attempted to stress value, and even launched a lower - priced Whole Foods 365 line of stores, but for the most part it is still thought of as an expensive place to shop for groceries.

However, while many business owners are making valiant attempts to position themselves as thought leaders, their efforts often fall short because of one key reason: credibility (or lack thereof).

Even more people called the hotline to report suicidal thoughts (as opposed to those who attempted suicide).

We think more opportunity may exist abroad as banks in some regions attempt to clarify their business models, a process that took place in the United States more than five years ago.

I was intrigued by what is happening in Iceland, so the following is a piece I've written on it. It has some introductory macro-economics in it,  which I think it is good to keep in perspective as we consider the frantic attempts being made to prevent an economic depression.

In an attempt to appease those who think Messenger is too complicated, Facebook rolled out Messenger Lite for Android in 2016, a slimmed - down version of the original app that contains just the bare necessities: users only get primary messaging features and none of the bells and whistles such as GIFs, reactions, and Stories.

In January, she wrote — largely favorably — about Peloton's attempt to be known as «the Apple of fitness», while noting wryly that «we think that perhaps Apple intends to be the Apple of fitness».

The average uneducated dolt stands up on its hind legs and spews venom at «socialists», labeling progressive attempts to limit pollution as top down intellectual dominance of their tiny minds, and by golly nobody is going to tell them how to behave or think!

As a central banker, I think it's very important to be patient and let events and policies unfold, and not attempt to prejudge them — not to prejudge them because you know they may unfold in a way that we can't predict.

There are already plenty of examples of wealthy individuals attempting to advance their political agendas by supporting unaccountable lobby groups, as was the case with Calgary's infamous Sprawl Cabal «s plans to throw more than $ 1 million behind Preston Manning «s «Municipal Governance Initiative,» and the anonymous donors behind the shady «St. Albert Think Tank.»

If in doubt, do not click on links presented in any message you think is suspicious, rather attempt to authenticate any requests via trusted communications channels such as calling a company representative.

As the street attempts to «buy the dip» (or catch a falling knife), the current environment has given us some pause for thought.

It seems as if since the religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.

GodPot doesn't actually have a brain, and like most atheists, it thinks that masquerading as a Faithful and attempting to make us look bad is funny.

Give no thought to it, it is nothing more than a vicious germ attempting to sicken what we know as a healthy body.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

And, as the normal way of thinking about moral obligations was to understand them as the commands of God, the first defense or justification of this belief was an attempt to show that this is what God commanded.

I just don't think the incidents cited are supported by the text as attempts to control decentralization.

St. Anselm, for instance, puts in his Proslogion what a typically modern reading takes as the «ontological argument»: an attempt to prove, by examining the meaning of the word «God,» the existence of a useful transcendental guarantor of thought, whose existence is itself guaranteed by thought.

now as far as science it seeks the most realible and testible idea about everything in the universe to attempt to explain what we are dealing with; it would be a sad world to live in if science simply said «GOD DID IT» GIVE THAT SOME THOUGHT;

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

I say that because if someone is attempting to prove a point by using a math equation that doesn't align with observable reality, then I think that qualifies as a retreat into mysticism.

This liberalism — again, liberal in a religious and not a political sense — isn't a cynical attempt to hollow out and destroy the Church, as many of us are tempted to think.

Our attempts at this dying will succeed only if we men share in God's dying, just as our thinking can succeed only because it is a drop out of the ocean of His intelligence: but we can not share God's dying unless God dies; and He can not die except by being a man.

I think he was offended by the gay remarks, as in, he believes there was an attempted insult fired in the direction of his people.

I think to a certain extent even President Obama framed his campaign as an attempt to end politics by means of rational and competent technocratic planning, a sign that this narrative is one that appeals to a considerable segment of the voting public.

It's recounted as one incident (told twice), but scholars think it was likely a pattern in which he antagonized the priests and attempted to take more power than they wanted him to have.

Me as well devin, but at base level I do think you would rather attempt to have an honest discussion, I think you and I just butt heads a bit hard at times.

I say that simply to point out that so far, as I attempt to adjust my thinking regarding the authority of Scripture, I have not found a universal command for all people everywhere throughout time.

I think it's cute though... your attempt to educate us as if it were simply not possible that we have studied these bible passages (at great length in fact) for ourselves.

@tru — Yes, you got the gist of what I was wanting to say, except that I attempted to explain as best I could what you summarized in the first two points, but as for the «don't ask» part, I still think this is a very important question.

In another letter, when asked about his thoughts about building a monument to Gen. Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson, he said again it just wasn't a good idea: «As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.&raquAs regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.&raquas is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.»

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

The only people who think there is a religious vote is the meida and left wing liberal nuts who attempt to portray all conservitives as rolling in the pews religious nuts.

- Numerous well - meaning white Christian friends and acquaintances attempting to provide wise counsel as I thought about marriage.

He can thus be regarded as standing in the line of that Aristotelian tradition that attempts to think of «form» — yes, even «form» in its relation to «matter» that it informs — simultaneously as «spirit.»

There is, therefore, a certain irony, and perhaps even infidelity, in the attempt to pen a systematic, comprehensive presentation of Soloveitchik's thought, as Reuven Ziegler, director of research for the Toras HoRav Foundation, which holds Soloveitchik's manuscripts, does in Majesty and Humility.

I have felt the struggle and the uncertainty as I have attempted to organize my thoughts.

I think scripture is a rich metaphor created by human in an attempt to understand the presence of evil in the world, as well as to express their hope that it will end.

Since I'm in Indiana, I think I'll write this off as a poor attempt by CNN to make something controversial out of Prof King's research and go have some lunch.

I prefer to think of it as learning from history, so we can attempt not to repeat it.