Sentences with phrase «through much reading»

Most are former theists, and most got to atheism / agnosticism through much reading and studying.

I left the church around 18 and then in my 30s through much reading a circumstances came to a belief that was mine and not something I was taught and brought up in.

Not exact matches

Much of emotional intelligence comes down to social awareness; the ability to read other people, know what they're about, and understand what they're going through.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

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I think the message «we haven't thought this through» was heard by the Gap since I read recently that they also retracted the statement put out by Forest Ethics... it appears they are not boycotting Alberta oil so much as trying to source greener energy.

I am tempted to say this is the least important feature, but after all of the time I just spent reading through my archives, I know that little things like logos and look - and - feel matter just as much as the words on the page.

I've spent much of my time looking through history to read up on how the failure to wipe out the debt overhead led to the collapse of Rome's imperial republic, and to the Ottoman Empire as what was known as «the spoiling of Egypt» and «the ruin of Persia» toward the end of the 19th century.

Because he knows his base doesn't read much, would never go through dozens of pages of a transcript, and can be made to believe anything in 140 characters or less.

You can only learn so much by reading and it dawned on me that rich dad taught me through repetition.

But there's much more we can learn from the survey findings: What struck me as most compelling as I was reading through the responses was the potential asset allocation ideas they suggest.

The Department of Homeland Security, ever the least controversial branch of the US Government, is developing a new laser - based scanner that can scan targets at a molecular level to read what they had for breakfast, how much adrenaline is pumping through their body and whether you they have any trace amounts of drugs or gunpowder on them.

Sorry was only here now, and there's much too many comments to read them all through!

Much of what I read on depression, on suicide, on homosexuality, seems written by people who begin with a Christian conclusion and who, in fact, have never been through the anguished steps that are the familiar path to a person struggling with depression, suicide or homosexuality.

I appreciate very much the perspective of Moses «polemic» as a way to read through these scriptures.

According to Lewis, modern man lives in a tiny windowless universe, his boundaries narrowed to too small a focus.75 Through such play experiences as the reading of stories - when one could experience life «in a sense «for fun,» and with [his] feet on the fender» - Lewis believed that modern man could perhaps recapture a sense of his distant horizons, much as he once had.76 For Lewis, a story was the embodiment of, or mediation of, the «more.»

We must read the Old Testament through the lens of Jesus, and see that Jesus shows us what God is truly like, even though much of the Old Testament portrays something quite different.

(Much of my own appreciation of this passage comes from reading Jean Vanier's book Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John.)

I keep reading through Rabbi Michael Lerner's Tikkun, Jim Wallis» Sojourners, and the parallel writings of the far Catholic left, and I fail to pick up much hankering for the old essential characteristics of socialism: the abolition of private property, the government - managed economy, and at....

By the way, my blog is pretty much based on my reflections as I read through the Bible.

a christian who is born again and knows Gods presence knows Gods love and just how much God loves us, by reading the bible we see how God loves us, i think its better to focus on how much God loves us than on how much our sin was so bad, cause God saw through the sin!!

Now, after you have read and studied through the entire Bible, you can pretty much do a variety of things after that.

If you read it through and withold judgement till the end (neccessary for learning; if you judge it as you read you will have a much harder time understanding it as your mind will be closed to the information and will be busy rationalizing the information away), you might learn why your statement was incorrect.

He spent SO much time in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God (most of volume 1) defending the idea that the crucifixion of Jesus should be our guiding lens through which to read the entire Old Testament, including the violent portions of the Old Testament.

It seems to me that neoclassical criticisms of classical theism misunderstand the theology of Aquinas by reading him through a too conceptualist rendering of his writings common to much so - called «Thomism.»

It's actually been through working with Wycliffe that my perspective on Christianity and reading the Bible has been broadened as I've come in to contact with people from very different cultures, and I've realised how diverse the world is and that God is so much bigger than we often think, especially when we're in our Christian bubble...

Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.

If with due attention to this difficulty one were to read through the works of particular authors most celebrated for their genius, it might in barely a single instance perhaps be possible, though with much pains, to discover a little.

He sent it back the same day by return messenger as requested: «I have read through Master Philip's Apologia which pleases me very much; I know of nothing which needs to be corrected or changed, nor would this be appropriate since I can not step so softly and gently.»

If we are honest and we take a moment to read through them, it doesn't take much to see that everyone has broken at least one of them at some time of our lives.

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.

All of which is to say at the very outset of our study of Exodus that through all the centuries of the life of Israel, the people of the Old Covenant (Old Testament), and equally of the life of the Church (the New Israel, the people of the New Covenant), the events and episodes told in the Book of Exodus have been read and reread, told and retold, not so much for their «was - ness» as for their «is - ness.»

The «we - they» theme runs through much of his writing on Islam, coming perhaps into clearest focus in a paper read to the Conference on Near East History held at the School of Oriental and African Studies London University, 1968, not yet published.

Hippy, yeah I get what you're saying about not learning anything new in school, and not much from the teachers you had, I also read constantly and learned more through my books and travel than in classrooms.

But I defy anyone to attempt to read through a translation of the Qur» an, the holy book of Muslims, and come away saying, «Well, Jesus and Muhammad are headed in much the same direction.

I've traveled through different theologies, read countless books and commentaries, and have reached a point in my own personal journey where I honestly feel that way too many «serious» committed Christians put far too much emphasis on theological principles than they do basic human decency.

As I read through those old notes, I was amazed at how much my thinking has changed in two decades.

I believe my biblical understanding has grown so much this year, and through the pages of Scripture the call for community — the call for belonging to the body of Christ — has been so apparent that I think anyone who actually reads the word will be challenged to no longer live their faith alone.

Dear Ella, I have been struggling with my health and diet for a while now and through desperate dietary research «I stumbled upon your blog.I have found it incredibly difficult to give up eating the things I love (wheat, dairy, etc), but reading your blog you are so full of enthusiasm and wonder and this has given me so much inspiration.

Interstellar got announced last November, exactly one year before its release, and it being a Christopher Nolan movie I got immediately interested — there wasn't much to read about the movie and the teaser did not reveal much, either, so my curiosity went through the roof.

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A pleasure reading through the much looked for recipe!

I had to have a read through the rest of your recipes on Breakfast, for me it is a typically light meal with boiled eggs (fresh from the chickens or ducks) with a little toast but it is amazing to see how much effort some go to cook breakfast.

I've read through pretty much all of the comments and I haven't found the answer.

I tried to read through all the threads and cant find an answer (not a good detective), how much almond butter should I substitute for the hemp seeds?

memories of childhood - and yes, Christmas, come flooding back... not to mention the vegan grilled cheese... so much to read and cook... a fabulous blog - I can hardly wait to work my way through your recipes.

Filled with beautiful photos of their travels, plus incredible recipes inspired by what they ate — this book is truly something wonderful to sit and read through as much as to cook from too.

I don't quiet remember how I got there, but I do remember spending pretty much that entire afternoon reading through every single post and drooling over every single recipe.

We've read through every single email and very much enjoyed learning about you, our reader.