Sentences with phrase «without being in relationship with»

When Ferdinand Ebner says that «to speak of God except in a context of prayer is to take his name in vain» it means that to speak of him without yourself being in relationship with him, without seeking and finding again and again, is to talk vaporing nonsense.
My use of the story of the man using Jesus» name without being in relationship with him was intentional.

Not exact matches

Wendell Pierce, who played her father on the show, just appeared on Harry Connick Jr.'s talk show, Harry, where he explained how Markle was able to get away with giving updates to certain costars who were in the loop about her exciting new relationship without giving anything away to eavesdropping ears.
This is where a person in a relationship of trust talks another into investing with them and doing so without proper legal documentation or review.
What would you do if you were in a relationship with someone who constantly stood you up, badmouthed you to mutual friends, disrespected your time by showing up late, and would «borrow» money without remembering to return it — ever?
It's this building block of trust, in Jobs» case, that crystallized his relationships with his knowledge workers that helped launch the Apple products we can't live without today.
And in that, they share much in common with Japanese culture: «To condemn someone... prematurely without sufficient justification is inappropriate everywhere but especially so in a relationship - oriented culture where interpersonal ties assume priority and being sympathetic to others is a moral imperative.
That openness is easily taken advantage of, and far too many feel entitled to limitless help without giving anything in return, or confuse the outreach with relationship building.
While Facebook is wise to scrutinize apps pulling in lots of user data, doing so without warning or even an announcement is how Facebook hurt its relationships with developers circa 2009 as it tried to rapidly reign in spammy virality.
Under Mr. Avenatti's offer, Ms. Clifford would then be allowed to «(a) speak openly and freely about her prior relationship with the president and the attempts to silence her and (b) use and publish any text messages, photos and / or videos relating to the president that she may have in her possession, all without fear of retribution and / or legal liability for damages.»
Flip Project Manager — By working side - by - side with a house flipper as the project manager, you can be involved in every aspect of the deal, learn the business from the inside, and make valuable relationships without investing any of your own money.
Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.
In a May 19, 2014 letter from Mr. Ackman to Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Ackman wrote, (1) «I find it inappropriate that Allergan's lead independent director was unwilling to speak to a shareholder without management present»; (2) «Mr. Pyott has also apparently criticized Pershing Square, explaining that our views should not be considered, as we are somehow conflicted because of our relationship with Valeant.
Fortunately, many have speculated that the trade relationship would not change drastically with or without the signing of the TPP, as previous agreements, notably NAFTA, would still be in effect either way.
Drawing upon these advantages, FinTech companies are capturing market share in numerous lines of business, despite having started without the credibility and trust associated with long - standing client relationships.
Only those who are historically uninformed believe that valuations have no relationship to subsequent returns, or place their faith in scraps of analytical debris like the «Fed Model» without examining their poor correlation with actual subsequent market returns.
Your church is a haven for those who want a deeper relationship with God without becoming one of «them» (Think pukey pollyanna Christians with a pasted on smile who declare with Jesus in your life everything is wonderful... sort of like the cartoon you posted today).
Augustine — being concerned with his «ascent» (a word used repeatedly in Book X) from sin to salvation — is preoccupied with the relationship between memory and sin: he makes a point of noting that we are able to remember our sins without committing them over again.
Also, we can come against the IDEAS they support without putting names out there (especially when we aren't in personal relationships with them) and make our impact online that way.
But if we also agree with ECE that «every Catholic University, without ceasing to be a University, has a relationship to the Church that is essential to its institutional identity» and that «[each has] a special bond with the Holy See,» then it stands to reason that those of us in the trenches of Catholic education should bend a little to realize this goal.
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
Bu tthe effort of trying to live a good christian life got to much ad i was disollutioned.Spent ten years as a backslidden barely believing christian and then in recent years as a transformed renewed Christian and i finally got it.It is all about a relationship with Jesus Christ and working in submission to the holy spirit he is the one that inspires his word he brings it to life.If you want to understand the word we must apply it to our lives then it becomes part of us thats the difference between knowledge and understanding not just knowing the word but living the word.The bible is a book useful for living not just a theoretical analysis or a history book.Jesus is the living word its through him that he opens his word to us without the holy spirit in us the carnal mind can not comprehend Gods word it a mystery.It was designed that way so only those who are truly seeking God shall find him.brentnz
* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a loving intimate relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.
* be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which is: ---- God is unconditional boundless grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ---- God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom of God.
Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoWithout the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adowithout the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.
That is, if you call time spent reading one single book and / or praying instead of living, learning to live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»
Both sons suffer from the illusion that they can be in relationship with their father without being related to each other.
Even the images of fantasy, dreams, delirium, draw their material from this foundation; our speech and our thinking are rooted in it and can not withdraw from it without losing their tie with life; even mathematics must concretize itself ever again in the relationship with it.
Thus the individual essence of turquoise blue is quite aloof from the relational essence of turquoise blue and can characterize the specific definiteness of a particular actual entity without involving necessarily the specific individual essence of any particular geometrical shape, though through its relational essence it does specify the range, and the «how» relationship, of all possible geometrical figures, x1, x2,... x11, which have the requisite status to possibly merge with that individual essence turquoise blue in constituting the complex synthesis of forms which is the peculiar, concrete definiteness of an individual actual entity.
Being a Christian is practicing generosity and hospitality; living non-violently without vengeance; living here and now as one family where all are invited, welcomed, and included without exception or qualification; living in constant relationship with God; and living here and now — not later and not someplace else — living here and now a life transformed by resurrection.
But first, it «strongly encouraged» the girl to sign a confession, without her parents» knowledge, that she «participated in a physical relationship with Dr. Don [sic] that transgressed God's Word and was not pleasing to him.»
Without a proper understanding of the Hebrew words behind our «Faith» then we will never be able to properly understand our relationship with God or anything else in our «faith» for that matter.
First, Malcom Muggeridge (5), a veteran English communicator with a long career in the world of radio and television, thought that one should do without television because it is a medium that traffics in fantasy, that creates images and ideas that are not true and does not have and can not have any relationship with truth.
1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.
The reason is that without a belief in Yahweh, acceptance that Jesus Christ is the only «way» to a relationship with the Creator, and measuring results in terms of Biblical truths, there would be little universal help to Christians, Jews, Moslems, atheists, and others at all.
The «will of God» — what God wants for us — is for us to: * Be Free and Independent * Think * Be Curious * Be Intelligent and Wise * Value Knowledge over Ignorance and Compassion over Knowledge * Grow * Live Long Healthy Satisfying Lives * Live Non-Violently Without Vengeance * Be Hospitable * Be Generous * Heal and Reconcile and Rehabilitate * Be Good Stewards of all Resources * Live Here as One Family * Live in Relationship with God * Be Transformed through Resurrection
I believe that God can be in control without controlling and that he desires a relationship with his creation that involves some degree of freedom.
Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).
Vanier, the founder and inspirer of L'Arche communities, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share daily life together, is particularly interested in relationships, human vulnerability and fragility.
You mention the value or disvalue of Sunday sermons; contemplating reinventing Christianity without a Sunday service is to deprive yourself of those people who would never come into contact with your thoughts and wisdom of your very own personal growing relationship with Christ... which in my opinion would be a waste of an opportunity.
In view of his supposed rejection of any static logic of identity and contradiction, it is not without interest that Altizer can not acknowledge a dialectical relationship that comes to terms with a coincidence of real opposites but only with such an understanding of dialectics as will lead to its own destruction by the annihilation of the polarity in a final, posthistorical, permanent identitIn view of his supposed rejection of any static logic of identity and contradiction, it is not without interest that Altizer can not acknowledge a dialectical relationship that comes to terms with a coincidence of real opposites but only with such an understanding of dialectics as will lead to its own destruction by the annihilation of the polarity in a final, posthistorical, permanent identitin a final, posthistorical, permanent identity.
I always knew I wouldn't be able to stand being in a relationship with the alpha; I'd just convinced myself that I could play with fire without being burned.Now I figure I need to find a guy who's set at the right temperature for me.
A religious ritual without a relationship with God is of little to no value at all... she feels uncomfortable with explaining her kosher / non kosher because there is no God in it... just rituals.
It is important to note that Jesus» blood, which ushers in the New Covenant, is what reconciles Gentiles to God as they never had a relationship with Him: Ephesians 2:11 - 19 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called «Uncircumcision» by the so - called «Circumcision,» which is performed in the flesh by human hands — remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Again, as in the case of life, person, and property, reputation may not be falsely violated without also violating God and the aggressor's own relationship with God.
As I see it, to claim that the faith spoken here does not involve what is called «saving faith» is mistaken; if one's faith is dead — that is, without works — how can one be in a saving relationship with God by «grace through faith»?
Christs blood is what washs us white as snow thats in the word without the blood there is no forgiveness of our sin no relationship with our father in heaven.He died that i might live There is power power wonder working power in the blood of the lamb..
Without your personality disorders, you might not have developed as intimate trust relationship with God; so, maybe, it is one of those «blessings in disguise.»
Btw, I am one of the young 20 somethings spoken for in this article, and I very much enjoy the access to information about the Bible I can find online, and the connections to local and global ministries and connecting on facebook with my * real * church friends, but I am 100 % committed to my real life church and know that I can not be an authentic Christian without authentic relationships!
Chelsea and Arsenal have had a fair working relationship in recent years, despite being strong league rivals, with the likes of Petr Cech and now Giroud moving between our clubs without hostility.
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