Sentences with phrase «true life experiences of»

Not exact matches

The first time I heard this military adage I thought it was just another one of those feel - good sayings that had little to do with reality, but the more I experienced army and corporate life, the more I realized it is absolutely true.

If we were persecuted for the amount of sh — that's been said about us that's not true, our lives would be over... The experience of making the movie was so outside of that, it was fruitful for the two of us to go on with it.»

Finally, from the true - life experiences of a highly - successful entrepreneur, comes a how - to book that is more than an academic compendium.

It is important that Benjamin says this of the true storyteller: «It is granted to him to reach back a whole lifetime (a life, incidentally, that comprises not only his own experience but no little of the experience of others; what the storyteller knows from hearsay is added to his own).

You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.

«The point is speaking and sharing a message to people that actually you're experiencing and living and believe is true because it's becoming more and more the story of your life... you know what I mean?

The biblical good news also tells us about how God wants to rule and reign over all aspects of life, how there is nothing beyond the scope of redemption, how there is hope for the future, a source of joy and gladness to be had, true community to be experienced, and peace to be introduced.

It is true that the cosmos was at one point a swirling mass of gas and dust out of which has come the extraordinary complexity of life as we experience it.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

I agree with you that our society does seem to recognise «deep down... that family life is good, beautiful and true» and it is certainly my experience that «there is something special and uncompromising about the Catholic vision of the family».

OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the experiences of a people who tried to be true to him, certain moral principles, failing again and trying again, people looking for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming for justice, teaching each other, defending their families, lives, cities, and governments.

In spite of this, it is still true that universal religion must be based upon universal experiences which can be successively illustrated in actual life situations.

I've experienced and have known, privately and in the lives of my peers, the Bible's teachings to «ring true» and demonstrate themselves as true, time and time again.

Sometimes social media allows us to «connect» with people for the sake of connecting rather than for the sake of living — gratifying an urge inside of us momentarily, while preventing us from experiencing true intimacy in its most fulfilling context: real life.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

That life, they say, is an everyday life, centered in the here and now, capable of experiencing the entire range of human emotions, all the while devoid of a spectator self, and all the while connected to the world as part of the true self.

Personally, one of the most moving and lifting experiences of my life was to hear the late Bishop Paul Bentley Kern read these great affirmations, so simply stated, so profoundly true, and so compelling in their witness to the ground on which we as Christians must stand.

We have vast knowledge as humans but if we don't have God in our lives and live the accordingly to his will, we will never experience true peace and security in this system of things.

In this chapter I have attempted to present an understanding of our human existence which is true to the facts, so far as we know them, which makes sense of and gives sense to our experience, and which indicates what is meant when we speak, as we do, of the worth and value in our lives.

But if it is such we must remember always that our Christian ancestors were using what for them was the best available wording to express their, and our, deepest conviction when we are true to the continuing witness of experience of life in Christ.

he deliberately sought human experiences which (1) in their complexity were «true to life,» (2) that touched directly on problems of religion and mental health, and (3) that encouraged free and independent thinking.

With a distinctly human touch, he takes us through true - life experiences of his late father, friends, and patients, documenting the conundrums they faced coping with serious illnesses or age - caused decrepitude.

Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.

The only true interpretation of eschatology is one which makes it a real experience of human life.

If one believes the Bible to be inspired or a guide for Christian living but doesn't necessarily believe it is inerrant or the literal word of God, that doesn't have to mean we just throw it all out... it doesn't have to shatter your worldview (i.e. it's either all true or all false — fundamentalists love to think this way and teach others to do the same) Use the Episcopal 3 - legged stool model (Scripture, reason, tradition) or the Wesleyan Quadrilateral (Scripture, tradition, reason, experience).

At that time the founder «enlightened by inspiration from God, indicated the path of true belief and his practical solutions, based on his own spiritual experience, brought relief to people suffering from disease, misfortune, and all other miseries of life.

This may sound simple, but in reality, our true belief that we can be successful at life is built from a complex set of factors, including our previous success, vicarious experience from watching others, beliefs we've developed from the feedback of others feedback, and our own temperament.

True, Hook never understood that bit of data as Maritain did, or accepted the interpretation of human life that went with it, but his experience of the movement of human intellect to utter thanks remains a phenomenon to be explained.

Although it is sometimes forgotten that a worthy human life can be lived by those who do not work, or do not work for pay, it is still true that work is one of the most fundamental of human experiences.

These are: (a) articulating a clear and compelling case for God's plan for the family; (b) presenting witnesses who can testify that they have experienced that this Good News is true and that responding to it bears good fruit in their lives; and (c) offering support in meeting the challenges that come from walking the Gospel way of the family.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

In a sense it is true that laity have a responsibility to pull the preaching out of the minister by the urgency of their questions, by their sense of excitement resulting from their experience of the meeting of meaning in their lives, by their devotion to their work in the world, and by their regular participation in the worship - preaching dialogue.

For out of his narrow prison and his own hard experience Paul had sent them one of his greatest expressions of the principle of the Christian life: «Brethren, whatsoever things are true, honorable, just, pure....

True, when we are in the presence of the living God and experience the power of the age to come, we don't «have» the divine reality, as if it were something that we can grasp and handle.

We can just as well read it as speaking of the double nature of human experience as men exist in «true faith» and as they seek after «right living».

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

And what's more, I find things this way not only in my own experience of life but also in the descriptions of it recorded in the Bible, which is exactly true to life.

But true faith is about this connection we develop with Jesus (via the teachings of our Rabbi) and what we do with them in our life experiences.

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

Living in this set of fragmentary experiences — which alone deserve to be called «concrete» — we form conceptions of unity, order, wholeness, etc. «It is not true that we are directly aware of a smooth running world.»

The justification of that interpretation is that it makes sense of the traditions about him, that it is true to the living experience of his presence and power, that it illuminates the whole field of history, and that it throws light on all nature and life.

It is the fusion of these three elements in his representation of Jesus» life and teaching that makes it a matter of the greatest difficulty to distinguish in any particular discourse between what rests upon a deep understanding of the true meaning of Jesus» actual words and what is read into them in the light both of experience and of preconceived ideas as what the Word of God should fittingly proclaim.

While the debates rage on about whether Noah is biblical enough, Heaven is For Real true enough, and God is Not Dead profitable enough, Philomena delivers a quiet, understated, and powerful portrayal of the actual human experience, where clear - cut lines between good and evil, heroes and villains, right and wrong might be good «story-wise» but don't reflect the reality most people of faith actually live in.

The man has 50 years of experience supporting our great club, lives locally, a true Gooner, and all you can do is chuckle.

After thirteen years in the not - for - profit sector, where she supported people through the transition of living and working internationally, Gesa discovered her true passion was in helping women through the exciting and empowering experience of being a new mother.

If you've experienced intense stress, emotional pain or any type of trauma, this program is a must - it represents true hope that saved my life and the lives of countless others.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

Truly feeling each contraction, feeling your baby move toward birth, gives me a true sense of what a life - changing experience this is.

However, let's not set them up to feel like total failures because they were not made more aware of the true - to - life range of experience, signs to watch out for, and go - to resources for challenging or doubtful moments.