Sentences with phrase «value of all living things»

Do you believe a conscious artifact would have the value of a living thing?

Through passion and purpose, trial and error, and a belief in the intrinsic value of all living things, the founders prevailed.

Humane Education is defined by the National Humane Educators Society as «teaching people how to accept and fulfill their responsibility to companion animals... to understand the consequences of irresponsible behavior and finally, Humane Education encourages the value of all living things.»

It explains the consequences of irresponsible behavior and encourages people to see the value of all living things.

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We had a lot of trepidation early on around Facebook Live and wanting that to be a responsible channel — where it wasn't a channel being used to just broadcast violent things or things that we found don't align with the values of our brand.

We're not delivering on our promises, not living up to the values, expectations and capabilities of our team, things are falling apart and that's heavy.»

We live in a time when it's easy to research the monetary value of certain things.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

Even though some of the best talent working for small businesses these days is young and doesn't always see the value in things like healthcare or life insurance, business owners will be better able overall to attract and retain good employees by offering those benefits.

You Have to Watch Out for Yourself It's one of the first things they tell you in business school and you hear it for the rest of your work life: Your role in management is to enhance shareholder value.

And part of both of those things — creating value and communicating better — means that we are also focused on hearing from creators about how we can help them, how we can create new tools that use our platform to help them find new fans, connect with those fans, learn about their audiences, get them to live shows, and more.

And even those of us who believe fervently in the value of free markets can see that it's not a good thing that a CEO can afford to build a $ 50 - million home while others living in the same country can't afford a roof over their head at all.

I hope I have instilled in each of you the values that have blessed me in this life and rewarded me with this extraordinary sense of accomplishment and a confidence that you can break rules and make things work for the better.

Its a combination of doing the right thing, living our core values, being guardians of our culture, and the willingness of everyone to get involved if it means getting the job done and providing an exceptional experience.»

[24:40] Most entrepreneurs attempt too many businesses in the beginning [24:50] Find your flagship, that you will commit everything to [25:20] Business is also about your own psychology [25:30] Master one thing at a time [26:30] Massive focus and big risks [27:00] The 3 beliefs you must have when starting a business [28:00] Learning how to maximize [28:20] The business you're in and the business you're becoming [28:50] The 80 % of what I do [30:00] The business you are in and the business you are becoming [30:20] Intertwining your personal and professional brands [31:30] The importance of intent [33:20] Tony's take on social media [34:00] Why Tony prefers audio over text [36:40] The value of Facebook Live [37:20] Tony's social media director weighs in on Instagram Stories [38:00] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [39:00] Learning how to master the mind [39:40] What's a magnificent life for you?

I hope that by observing and being taught these values all my life, I've absorbed some of them, and that my true heart lies in people and places, not things.

He opposed discriminating among living things in terms of more or less value, although in practice he was forced to engage in such discrimination.

The confrontation scenes are very hard to watch; and, as with many things in the life of faith, their difficulty is their value.

If a mild coronary or other physical illness forces them to slow down for awhile, and if this gives them the occasion to take stock in themselves and they realize that they have been forsaking the important things in life for the unimportant, then any physical pain and any damage done to their career would be more than offset by their recovery of a proper sense of values, by their recovery of their self.

none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier with those who don't value the material things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods happiness

We have forgotten its devastating disregard, or even reversal, of current worldly values, and have allowed what we call «Western civilization» or «the American way of life» to become more or less God - fearing substitutes for the real thing.

Close contact with the living Spirit of the living God, whether it be by conventional religious approach or not, is the only thing that will reveal to us the lunatic topsy - turvydom of many of our current values.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

The final stage of satisfaction, in life as well as in learning, stems from the fact that we bring value into the world, that each of us has a unique contribution to make to the overall scheme of things.

All things considered, it is always best to allow life to flourish in its diverse expressions, respectful of the fact that each living being has intrinsic as well as instrumental value.

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

It is the ability to see that there are many things of value in our lives, some of them more suited to one time than to another.

Maybe the worst thing is that it can run on its own and the need to rely on the Lord for resource in him gets lost cause mega has enough of its own... production values and preacher performance can become such a feature that no one notices that the living presence of God is missing.

Second, one central value of God's way of doing things is that life should be protected.

The pessimistic attitude of the Semitic mind toward the world as a fleeting shadow, the notion that it has value only as a place in which man prepares himself for a more permanent life, led to the conception that God is the absolute sovereign power which rules all things, including man and his actions.

«Oh how terrible it is that I have to value all of my «wonderful» things (which are probably making life miserable and hopeless anyway) less than I do living in the kingdom!

This means that there is value in all things as they are, and that all things contribute to the richness of the life of God.

And the thing about religious value experiments, why they are different from others is, of course, that the payoff isn't even in this life.

But human life together, like the life of each one of us, is a becoming, not a static thing; it is a direction taken, a routing of experiences, toward a goal that is valued as important.

We are mistaken if, with the fundamentalists, we deny or ignore the fact of this transfiguration and imagine that things always were as they later seemed; but we are likewise mistaken if, in the manner of modernists, we deny or ignore the value and truth of this transfiguration and thus fail to recognize the unity and transcendent meaning of the whole event and the exalted significance of the earthly life as a part of it.

The problem is when people start taking things that are fundamental to the Bible, like male / female duality and the preciousness of human life established in Genesis 1, and saying, «Eh, these things don't matter,» and then go on to support causes that contradict these foundational values (e.g., gay marriage, abortion).

This value challenges every individual to strive for excellence in their life and choose a greater story, like perhaps one that stretches into eternity and joins God in the redemption of all things.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

The Church teaches many things about the way in which society should work: about the laws we make, about how we treat one another and respect each other's rights, about behaving justly with our money, about the value of human life and the duties we owe to the communities in which we live.

The ultimate end of all our actions is not simply ourselves or our fellow creatures, but the everlasting life of the One to whom no thing is merely indifferent because each thing is known and valued forever for exactly what it is.

But regardless of which way we believe, God or no god, perhaps one thing we can all agree on is the value of Love in our lives.

What a tragedy it would be to have gone through your whole life and at the end of it, look back, and realize that you spent all your time, money and energy on things that were pointless and had no value or worth.

We should then expect either a condition of «no change» beyond simple elements, surviving very nicely as principles of intense energy, or else a riot of physical «mutations» having neither «survival value» nor any principle of control by «survival value», a Universe in which so stable and inelastic a thing as complex life could not survive.

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.

If every living creature is a subject, then each has intrinsic value to itself and to God, in addition to any instrumental value each may have in the scheme of things.

To be the only chaplain in a 170 - bed hospital filled with a great number of people who are quadraplegic; to try to help these people rediscover and / or redefine a life value and quality that they often feel has been lost; to grow to care greatly about these people; to do all these things and yet deep, deep inside, to feel that you would rather be dead than be quadraplegic — that's hard to admit.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

All things being equal, something of value in this life is preferable to the comfort of wrapping one's self in a nice, warm delusion.

It emphasizes that everything has its value to life.33 Existence of each and every thing, whether it is small or big, is important for the continuation of life.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.