Sentences with phrase «ultimately meaning in life»

My passion is helping individuals, families and couples discover their strengths, which as a result empowers them to make the changes that will bring joy, hope and ultimately meaning in life.

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To believe with all your heart that everything in life is ultimately meaningless and purposeless, but to act like it does have both meaning and purpose is contradictory behavior.

First, what we ultimately seek in value experimenting I believe is objective meaning and significance in our lives.

Although there may be some variation on the specifics, broadly speaking, complementarians believe that women are biblically - bound to submit to male leadership in the home and in church life, which means that husbands are ultimately responsible for decision - making on behalf of their families and that women should refrain from assuming leadership positions over men in a church setting.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

One of the mysteries and marvels of intimacy in marriage is that it offers so many opportunities to find those shared transcendent meanings that ultimately make life worthwhile.

Appraisal means that each man is responsible for his life and for the decisions which he has made in the course of it; and it means also that each man must be prepared to give what traditional thinking describes as «an account of his life» — in the face of whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the whole scheme of things.

It means a life which, in New Testament idiom, is «in the heavenly places» even while it is lived here; for belief, worship, and action are seen as worthwhile, since they can never ultimately be frustrated or useless — God receives them, enjoys them, employs them, to «his greater glory», which is nothing other than His continuing loving action in the advance of the creative process towards the good.

«Better», ultimately, is life with Him... and any challenges we face are not meant to cause us despair, but rather to form our souls in virtue so that we can one day rest in Heaven.

[7] These acts ultimately aim to help persons deal with questions about the meaning and worth of their lives by helping them not only to understand their troubles in a fresh way in the light of God's presence but also actively to live through their troubles in the context of God's presence.

She's learned that you can only control what YOU can control, meaning bad calls, chauvenistic attitudes, your attitude AND response, and ultimately life in general.

We do have a spiritual perspective, and believe that while we can do our best to do what is humanly possible, most of life, birth and death are ultimately not in our control; we do believe that everything that happens is meant to happen, because it did, and that it happened for our benefit, even if beyond our understanding, as we are souls temporarily residing in bodies, and know that G - d / Spirit of our own understanding is only good.

These fifteen stories are unforgivable, because the people in these kids» lives who were meant to protect them ultimately caused them harm - all over bedtime battles.

According to the same study, «children's participation in mundane daily life activities (i.e. bathing, eating, chores) are a critical foundation upon which social relationships and ultimately cultural meaning systems are constructed.»

«ActionAid remains concerned that the proposals in this paper for aid vouchers and payment by results will turn out to yet another of the well - meaning but ultimately damaging experiments that can blight the lives of the poor.»

Ultimately, this means that while M - dwarf stars, like TRAPPIST - 1, are the most common stars in the universe (and while it's likely that there are planets orbiting these stars), the huge amount of water they are likely to have makes them unfavorable for life to exist, especially enough life to create a detectable signal in the atmosphere that can be observed.

And astronomer Zoltan Balog of the Steward Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, says he thinks the research «basically means that protoplanetary disks might be able to produce prebiotic molecules and ultimately the basic building blocks for life at the place where an Earth would form.»

It seems counterintuitive that something meant to kill or paralyze could ultimately save lives, but by studying different toxins produced by animals, scientists are gaining greater insight into how pain works in the first place.

Ultimately, operating from a survival state means your life is driven by unconscious impulses that serve only to get you away from an immediate threat, not to set you up for success down the road, which can lead to less than optimal decisions in a moment of panic.

The biggest platforms like Match, Zoosk, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish and OkCupid have millions of monthly users, but a sizeable user base and a dominant spot in the market doesn't mean they've ultimately cracked the code when it comes to solving everyone's love lives.

That Streep gives this evolution dimensionality isn't surprising, but she makes Graham's journey feel complex, emotional and exciting, transitioning from trying to appease the opposing parties she's caught between to taking a bold stand that clarifies and ultimately means something substantial in her life.

Unwilling to take the doctors» word for it, or submit to death before all avenues are exhausted, Woodroof takes to getting a supply of AIDS - combating drug, AZT, illegally, though the side effects are particularly nasty, ultimately forcing Woodroof to find a better means to prolong his life from unapproved meds and vitamins available in Mexico.

Ultimately, «Cast Away» is about realizing the true meaning of belonging, of finding home, casting away the clutter that complicates life in an effort to rediscover what matters.

That's a film that manages to accomplish the same nihilistic worldview that Prometheus ultimately embraces («There's nothing,» a man who has put the last of his hope into some meaning to his life cries as he lays dying; «I know,» his soulless companion responds) simply by telling a straightforward story about survival in a hopeless situation.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

He's just doing his job, and ultimately the film is about work: What it means to work a job that strips one's humanity in the service of a contract, and what it means when your life's work results in those agents.

Ultimately, it feels like we've lived through a sea change in school reform, one which means reformers are increasingly inclined to behave as proud stewards of a new establishment.

Whilst increased accountability for schools and more rigorous means of ensuring that accountability have characterised academy chains it would appear that many are still searching for effective chain wide school improvement strategies and models that can ultimately lead to transformational outcomes for young people, particularly for those whose start in life too often makes educational achievement and success that much harder.

Truth in Advertising is debut novelist John Kenney's wickedly funny, honest, at times sardonic, and ultimately moving story about the absurdity of corporate life, the complications of love, and the meaning of family.

Eligibility requirements to receive the funds vary from state to state, but most only require that a recipient live in a state for one year prior to receiving the funds, meaning that there is plenty of time to move if you think that that is ultimately the right idea for your family.

Bringing in regional shelters and rescues will magnify the impact, and ultimately mean more lives saved.»

Ultimately, these offers are best for people who are debt - free, living within their means and are able to travel in the near future.

It's a fairly common misconception, one usually found on teh Internetz, but disappointing merely means that the thing in question did not live up to your expectations, whatever those may have been, therefore it's entirely possible for a game to be outstanding, but still ultimately disappointing.

In the abstract, I would say that the most difficult part of game development, especially for a self - funded independent project, is finding the means and / or time to work on the project, dedicating years of your life and an enormous amount of intellectual, physical, and emotional energy into a project that could ultimately fail completely.

In Grand Theft Auto V, players step into the shoes of three different characters — a first for the series — as they go about finding meaning to their lives and ultimately crossing paths with one another, which of course leads to some magnificent mayhem along the way.

To be deprived of this ultimate stage of training meant, in effect, to be deprived of the possibility of creating major art works, unless one were a very ingenious lady indeed, or simply, as most of the women aspiring to be painters ultimately did, to restrict oneself to the «minor» fields of portraiture, genre, landscape or still - life.

Ultimately, «vacation space» is a non-space, as it exists between one's everyday life and the life one hopes to live (or in the Foucauldian sense of heterotopia, it is an in - between space of otherness that offers a means of escape from daily anxieties).

His work forces viewers to confront their own process of creating meaning and message in a world in which they live, ultimately and necessarily, in isolation.

Beyond their humorous tone, his works, which both celebrate and challenge our behavior, ultimately examine what it means to live in a rapidly evolving society and question the ambiguity of our future.

The result of research conducted on two fronts — conservation and curatorial — the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut - outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing.

This also means that they're nearly impossible to filter out at wastewater plants and most end up in the ocean, to the detriment of marine life — and ultimately, inside humans, too, as a third of our food is thought to be contaminated by these plastic microfibers.

By that I mean one which ultimately improves the quality of life for Chinese people, in contrast to debt - fuelled infrastructure or burgeoning foreign exchange balances.

When a law firm has the proper team of lawyers, paralegals, and associates, it can mean happy and productive employees, improvement in clients» lives, and ultimately increased success.

Notably, depleting the cash value with a withdrawal may mean the policy will still ultimately need another contribution (i.e., more premiums) to sustain in the long run; nonetheless, if the cash value is in a downward spiral towards lapse anyway, a withdrawal to repay the loan will help extend the life of the policy, given that the crediting rate of the cash value is always lower than the interest rate of the loan compounding against it (which for newer policies might be a 0.5 % to 1 % spread, but on older policies can be a 2 % spread or more).

Ultimately, this means that the success of Oxford Life and its subsidiaries lies in their long - term commitment to stability, growth, and outstanding customer service.

Recognizing that each individual posses a unique life story, the therapeutic relationship moves at a pace that feels comfortable and is one in which, ultimately, clients make meaning of their lives by bringing voice to their inner emotional experience so that they can move forward with clear purpose and intentionality in their own daily life.»

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Wealth means different things to different people, but ultimately, it's dependent on the choices you make in life and what options those choices allow you to pursue.