Sentences with phrase «who finds his purpose»

Machine Gun Preacher is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) and is based on the true story of an alcoholic ex-con who finds purpose in his life when he becomes a missionary and begins to build an orphanage for the children of South Sudan.

Turning his focus and attention toward directing, Robertson makes a good impression with his latest film, «The Dark Horse,» about Genesis Potini (Cliff Curtis), a Maori man and former New Zealand chess champion, who finds purpose teaching underprivileged kids about chess and life.

I said, «It's not every young woman who finds her purpose in service to others.»

No one of these stories is completely biographical, but there is a piece of me in every protagonist: the woman who worries if she should become a mother at all, the woman who struggles to conceive, the mother who finds purpose in her children and fears failure.

My first ever non-fiction book Leading Ladies: inspiring stories of women who found their purpose with passion was released on 30th November 2016.

Not exact matches

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that most people who use general purpose reloadable prepaid cards have used mainstream financial products in the past and may be using them now.

This world is supported by findings that 65 % of employees want to work for an organization with a powerful social conscious and by Millennials who tend to be purpose driven and have a sense of social responsibility that they want reflected in their employer.

«One of the things that is really important is having clarity around the purpose or values of your brand,» says Ersher, who founded the soup - centric chain after identifying a lack of high - quality soup on the market.

If you're one the people who struggles to find your purpose, Canfield wants to help.

From my research, I found that people who have grit share four common qualities: interest, practice, purpose and hope.

This week, three of these U.S. veterans — Army Major D.J. Skelton and veterans Stacy Bare and BriGette McCoy — along with former pro athletes Mike Richter (who won the Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers) and former NFL players Harry Carson and Don Davey, will be in New York City to talk about exactly this subject: how to find community, purpose, and growth when everything about the community you've committed yourself to ends.

Millennials are a collaborative bunch who find strength and purpose in working together towards a common goal.

For example, a recent study by Lee, the KAIST professor, found that people who turn to their smartphones for «mood adjustment purposes,» such as to relieve boredom, stress or depression, may form a habit of using their phones for those objectives, which can lead to addictive behaviors.

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If something like this happens, the cryptocurrency industry will find itself with a huge amount of real users — people who are using it not as a programmer's toy or investment vehicle, but for real purposes like investment and international markets.

It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

The next social study should determine if this attitude is found primarily in people who have had sexual intercourse outside of marriage and / or who are practicing contraception» two practices that deny the purpose of sexual intercourse, favoring selfishness over the perfect love that makes sacrifices in marriage a joy.

Or as the Second Vatican Council put it: «The Church believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of human history is to be found in its Lord and Master... who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.»

I'm convinced we'll find there are many others who were used for this purpose and didn't know it: it was unwitting, not wilful.

That's a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.»

I love Allah and everyone I swear I want to see everyone who reads this in heaven, don't get mad do me a favor and please just like we Muslims respect ur book respect ours, go and find a Quran translated in English and read read at least the first 10 pages then listen to a reciter his name Is sheikh al maher al Miakli, then ask ur self why am I hear if u will not sacrifice for god (Allah) s sake why did he Jesus say or sins our forgiven and let us do whatever we want here without purpose and give us heaven.

This Great Country was founded by people who came for that sole purpose; RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

Of course, politics is messy, and Christians who engage in it will quickly find themselves working with people and institutions whose purposes are not gospel - oriented.

So we find ourselves in a universe united around its purpose — which is to reflect in love the loving God who created it.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

I do indeed believe, but I believe as one of a great company of men and women, from many ages, of all races and classes, rich and poor, simple and learned, who in one way or another have been drawn to find the truest key to the meaning and purpose of human existence given focal expression in Jesus Christ.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

Oh for goodness sake, why do you resist the idea that someone who doesn't believe exactly as you can't find purpose, beauty, and wonder in their daily existence?

I find it amusing to watch men who have yet been able to create anything from nothing, sit around and try to use their limited logic in trying to understand the reasoning and purpose of GOD who has the ability and knowledge to create dirt from nothing.

Several months after his death and before the birth of their third baby, Lisa Beamer began a charitable foundation in his name, the purpose of which is to help other families who find themselves left to cope with disaster with limited resources and heavy hearts.

Under these circumstances, both versions of American civil religion have found proponents within the state who have been willing to exploit them for purely political purposes.

A wise man (who was religious and clearly though I'd be be better off finding belief in God) told me that all I HAD to know about God for the purpose at hand (sobriety) was that I wasn't him.

If you, my listener, should see such a man, although it is unlikely, for without a doubt weakness and mediocrity are the more common, if you should meet him in what he himself would call a weak moment, but which, alas, you would have to call a better moment; if you should meet him when he had found no rest in the desert, when the giddiness passes away for a moment and he feels an agonizing longing for the Good; if you should meet him when, shaken in his innermost being, and not without sadness, he was thinking of that man of single purpose who even in all his frailty still wills the Good: then you would discover that he had two wills, and you would discover his painful double - mindedness.

Somebody will, however, find out that I'm probably the only pastor in North America who hasn't read The Purpose Driven Life.

Religions is only a purpose to use to find excuses to start wars, in the end who ever start a war and killing others don't have God in mind or doesn't pretend to do it in the name of science either.

Late in his life he went on a journey to Asia with the purpose of finding out if those who had no contact with Christianity had also discovered the ultimate concern and its manifestation in a new being (Tillich 1961).

The new being, which Christians find manifested in Jesus, is working in the world, wherever there are human beings who are serious about the meaning and purpose of life.

He is finding a sense of purpose and joy in this, and wants to offer a message to people who are stuck in a mindless pursuit of work, consumerism or an ideal life - style that always seems just out of reach.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I'm a person of faith and I find co-opting religion for purposes of political power — regardless of who is doing it — is disgusting.

See people who live their lives separated from God are already living in a hell, they don't get the crazy love Jesus gives and the advice (commandments) that help us find purpose.

These words and the concepts associated with them were very useful for intellectual purposes, but they made no contribution to life, and Levin suddenly felt he was in the position of a man who had exchanged a warm fur coat for a muslin blouse, and who the first time he finds himself in the frost is persuaded beyond question, not by arguments but by the whole of his being, that he's no better than naked and is inevitably bound to perish miserably.16

Suffice to say: self - confessed «nerds» around the world, people perhaps a little like Hazel and Augustus, who don't quite fit in but want a full life and a better future, have found purpose and fellowship through the pioneering leadership of the Green brothers.

He wants so badly to make this a story that includes a conversion experience, a story about God using sinful people to accomplish His purposes, a story about a sexually promiscuous woman who finds Jesus, that he reads too much into the text.

The purpose of marriage isn't found in what two people can do for each other; it's in who they're becoming together.

Its covert purpose seems to be to exclude the «undeserving poor» from «handouts,» for it is based on the implicit assumption that chronically unemployed people who are neither disabled nor aged are able to find work.

We should be concerned for the mental health of anyone who thinks that it is healthy or socially acceptable to find meaning in the ownership of these kinds of tools — not just the people who go the extra yard and actually kill somebody on purpose with one.

And yet it is difficult to find many important scientific thinkers, philosophers of science or naturalists who sufficiently recognize the failure of scientific method to reach as deeply into the nature of the universe as we must if we are to respond intelligently to the question of purpose.