Sentences with phrase «turning point in the life of»

Per THR, «All of the stories in The Turning revolve around turning points in the lives of the people of the Australian coastal town of Angelus.

This episode explores a turning point in the life of Lacie, a modestly popular young woman in a world where virtually everyone rates each other — based on a cute posted photo, middling customer service, unpleasant personal interaction, and beyond.

As intimate as it is epic, the film presents the major turning points in the life of beloved Indian leader, played by Ben Kingsley, whose protest against British rule over his country became internationally renowned.

While its exact meaning has not been established, the Pitti painting seems to represent a symbolic turning point in the life of the protagonist, who literally turns away from his companion toward the older figure, interrupting the performance.

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In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiIn an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiin the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

The biggest turning point in my life happened when I declined the security of a 9 to 5 job and decided to build a digital business on the simple principal of adding value to the lives of others.

But family lawyers and women's rights workers believe the legislation represents a turning point in the freedoms of Russian women, a dark signal from the very top of government that their lives are losing value.

While 2016 was a banner year of the country's live streaming, a turning point may be at hand for the sector in 2017.

The point in common is that the saint, like a plant that bends and twists to receive the sun, follows the course of God, always turning to the light that is the source of life.

Secular autobiography and the classic novel are unimaginable without the superior point of view of a narrator looking back on a life of errancy that will lead to a transformative experience, which will in turn produce self - understanding.

That may be more than ordinarily dramatic, but it is a kind of experience which has marked the crucial turning point in innumerable lives.

Another turning point came in 1979 when the family moved to Folkestone into the parish of Our Lady Help of Christians and became involved in parish life.

Dr. William Porcher DuBose seems to suggest in his fine autobiography Turning Points of My Life, and James Matthew Thompson explicitly said in his Through Fact to Faith — both of these books are nearly a half - century old — that the soundly biblical conception of providence serves to safeguard and to state all that the term «miracle» was once used to affirm.

In many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the pasIn many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the pasin the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the past.

Whether for the first time he was then convinced that he was the Messiah, whether he had already come to this conviction or had been coming to it and now felt that he had received the seal of God's approval, or whether he did not believe that he was the Messiah at all but considered himself only a prophet and forerunner of the coming one, his baptism was the turning point between his previous life of preparation and waiting and the active ministry in which he would henceforth be engaged.

And he takes the measure of his days best when be uses a significant turning point simply as an occasion to rethink now in the present the significance of what has always been true: That we live every moment of life equidistant from eternity.

So in reference to the orginal article and my first point, I would only echo Pascal's Wager: if I live life accepting of God and «love my neighbor,» but it turns out to be wrong because there is no God, I have no regrets; if I live life unaccepting of God and He does exist, well I guess Ghandi and I will be sharing a room...

You've spoken of turning points in your life, one of which occurred when you and your mum went to Lourdes.

But if he had the charge of a hospital, or lived in a city where the pestilence was raging, if he would be studying fermentation, the circulation of the blood, blisters, and the like, and such like excellent points, when he should be visiting his patients, and saving men's lives; if he should even turn them away, and let them perish, and tell them that he has not time to give them advice, because he must follow his own studies, I would consider that man as a most preposterous student, who preferred the remote means before the end itself of his studies: indeed, I would think him but a civil kind of murderer.

We are living at the turning point of turning points in our human history.

Sometimes the first act of commitment is more dramatic than any others which follow, and the believer looks back to it in gratitude as a turning point in his life.

Bishop Stephen Neill did not exaggerate when in 1962 he referred to Strauss's Life of Jesus (1835) as a «turning point in the history of the Christian faith».

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

It was, in the end, a remarkable turning point in my life, it was not quite the beginning, but the start of a fresh push in coming to a place where I could come to accept myself, to love myself (a journey that is never quite complete but I'm doing much better with) and to reconcile a number of contradictory beliefs that had torn my life apart, like being quartered by a horse, for many years.

That was the beginning of a whole new life for me in many ways, a complete turning point.

But, at least in the understanding of David's historian, the real turning point, not merely in the life of David but in the life of the kingdom, is in the center of David's reign.

I look back on my years of Enough and Moments and, most particularly, my year of Fearless as real God - inspired turning points in my life.

As he observed: «We now stand at a turning - point in the history of the biosphere and in the shorter history of one of its products, mankind... Man is the first species of living being in our biosphere that has acquired the power to wreck the biosphere and, in wrecking it, to liquidate himself.»

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

The category I would consider a little more closely is the interesting, a category which especially in our age (precisely because our age lives in discrimine rerum) has acquired great importance, for it is properly the category of the turning - point.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?&raquOf course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?&raquof what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?&raquof complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?&raquof self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

Then, when I was 18, God intervened in my life, the first of two dramatic turning points.

when i first stumbled on the stages in the life of faith about 9 or so years ago it was a huge turning point for me.

But if we don't find it I predict that in fifty years the irrelevance of the church will have grown to the point where most people will have turned away from the church except for the ritual acts associated with the «hatching, matching, and dispatching» events of an individual's life.

The point here, however, is to draw out implications of the narrower truth that a Christian congregation's social form is also shaped by its social space, which in turn is importantly and distinctively, if not exhaustively, shaped by the way biblical writings are used in the congregation's common life.

Sunderland will arrive on a high and look to have every chance of turning up and taking home another three points as they continue their impressive start to life in the Championship, and at 5/2 for the away win look plenty of value.

But I worry that if I leave my children to cry it out, then they will not see the point in reaching out to us if they have problems later in life and could try to deal with serious issues like bullying, drug addictions, teenage pregnancy, gambling problems, or flunking out of school on their own or turn to peers.

This was a turning point in my life, and although a difficult decision, I left my work again, to risk, and to start a magazine that filled the need of mothers like me, who love crafting, but could not easily find sources for natural materials and patterns that fit a natural lifestyle and conscious parenting, for mothers who not just enjoyed doing crafts with their children, but wanted to sit down at the end of a hard day's work and read, and create, within a community they belong to.

Birth, the first of the turning points in life, is almost always regarded as a happy event, in Turkey as in the rest of the world.

Donohue pointed out that eliminating 400 beds in the mental health system, turning violent youth over to non existent programs in New York City, shortchanging localities and some hocus - pocus with the school funding formula will not improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

As for voters, a common refrain from users of the Dashboard when they see that they live in a safe seat of a party they don't support is «well, what's the point in turning up then?».

«We began with points of light in the sky, and with the application of new instrumentation, the physics breakthroughs of the last century, and computers, we took those points of light and turned them into a narrative of star life.

They write: «While previous typologies provide important insights into lone wolf terrorism, the current literature often overlooks an important intervening variable... They fail to sufficiently enlighten the intelligence community and law enforcement officials on the process that explains the «turning point» in the lives of lone wolves.»

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

Regardless of when exactly humankind managed to make fire a regular presence in their lives, scientists agree it was a turning point in human evolution.

They report in ACS» Journal of Proteome Research that the metabolic profiles of the worms could accurately predict how long they would live and that middle age could be a key turning point.

It's also adjustable, meaning that turning it on and off can toggle the function of live cells on the spot at any point in the fermentation process (as opposed to chemicals, which generally can't be turned off once they are added.)