Sentences with phrase «work is meaningless»

Their work is meaningless because we don't know the natural sources, amounts or variability, so it is impossible to determine the human portion.

So, your works are meaningless but your acceptance of Jesus Christ is your only action that will remain in eternity.

and good works are meaningless without Christ's sacrifice.

I left my job in recruitment and K - 12 education because I felt my work was meaningless when I realized large numbers of our students were graduating from college without the skills they need to participate in today's economy.»

Not exact matches

When employees feel like meaningless cogs, their work is unlikely to matter to them and they soon look for a job that's interesting and fulfilling.

The necessity and challenge of paying the bills is great but work that we know is meaningless is another sort of poverty entirely.

«All of this great work in iOS 10 would be meaningless if it came at the expense of your privacy,» he said on stage at the event in San Francisco.

If I had focused I'd still be programming little subroutines into their meaningless databases along with half the people I started working with there over 20 years ago.

If it's not what is going to make you do your best work in your particular niche, then it's meaningless,» he says.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

Most Christ - followers have experienced some form of Good Friday doubt — that overwhelming fear that maybe we've gotten it all wrong, maybe we've wasted our time, maybe all we've worked for and believed in is meaningless.

It turns the universe from a meaningless chaos into a designed place in which there is justice and there is hope and, therefore, we all have a duty to discover the nature of that justice and work towards that hope.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

«Everything - in - God» tells us that God is not so exalted that he becomes meaningless to human life, but rather is operative in the whole creation at every level, moving through it, working upon it, accomplishing the divine goodwill in it.

as an actual scientist, it's more important to ask «how things work» than to ask empty meaningless questions like «why are we here» or «what happens when we die».

For some scientists, continuing absorption in the laboratory may be a sign of total dedication to their work; for others it may be in part an escape from impoverished human relationships or a drab and meaningless everyday life.

That the continuance of social memory and the ability of man to better himself based on the work of others who came before are simply meaningless constructs?

The result: work is more and more meaningless, more and more alienating, more and more dehumanizing.

As technology makes jobs increasingly specialized, work is becoming meaningless, alienating and dehumanizing.

Yea... one nhilist commented that even the work of people like Einstein was meaningless because in the end the Sun will devour the earth.

Fact: you don't understand how carbon dating works «Furthermore you can claim 4.5 billion all day long but SCIENCE states that is a meaningless number unless you state what that number is in reference to» WRONG.

If punishment is meaningless, then she is also right to work on reversing what she calls the «punitive turn» to the prison.

If there were no God, all our works would be as meaningless as the ground of nothingness out of which they arose and into which they would otherwise sink.

as the bible is a complete work of fiction, and is totally meaningless in how we live our lives, there is no relevance to be placed on one word of that book.

In that same novel, someone comments to Jenny, «Maybe you think that it's only women who find life meaningless or feel their hearts frozen and empty when they don't have anything but their work to love?

May your research and entire body of work over your life be on things that are trivial and useless so that your inevitable mistakes and misgivings will be meaningless to the world and to humanity.

Overall we worked hard today and got the win so I'm happy more for the fighting spirit rather than this meaningless competition.

This is a man who thinks your life is meaningless without religion and who also believes that men and women can't work together because of women's sexualization.

I think everyone here acknowledges he's been prone to breakdowns in crunch time (Game 5 against OKC comes to mind), but if his lack of «clutchness» renders all of his work for the rest of the games and season meaningless to you, well I'm not really sure what else to say.

Efforts to fill potholes or completely repave streets are arguably meaningless if the work is undone too quickly.

The definition «working class» is now meaningless in political terms.

I know it's just «blogs» but these comings and goings on political campaigns are meaningless and not very interesting, except maybe for consultants looking for work.

Try justifying your ridiculous slanders against the Left in the Labour Party rather than hiding behind your completely meaningless «I'm just so very working class, me» excuses.

It was Razin, working with fellow biochemist Howard Cedar, who showed these attachments weren't just brief, meaningless affairs.

«If you feel angry going to work every day,» she asks, «is it because work seems meaningless?

While we were doing generally good work, we had a tendency to overuse the word diversity, possibly even rendering it meaningless.

Otherwise, the work you put into feng shui is meaningless.»

This conversation works for me, because I'm not pressuring the other person to do more than he / she can, but I'm also not doing what our government and the media does all the time — try to soften the message about what is truly healthy to the point that the information about what foods are healthy becomes meaningless and causes great confusion and misinformation.

It's not until the film segues into its action - heavy midsection that Battleship truly becomes an unwatchable piece of work, as director Peter Berg has infused such moments with an unreasonably over-the-top sensibility that immediately proves both disastrous and exhausting (ie it's all just so meaningless).

I did my best to level her up outside of story missions by collecting power - enhancing crystals and talismans, but the game was all too happy to periodically render that work meaningless.

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

But to consider it a failed experiment, or a quixotic folly, would be meaningless because the film works on terms that are entirely its own: if it resembles anything at all, it's the uncategorizable, uncanny extraterrestrial artifacts left behind on Earth by the alien visitors in the Strugatskys» Roadside Picnic.

Those numbers beside your weapon are not meaningless, so allow us to explain what it is you're working with.

By avoiding assigning meaningless work, you can ensure that everyone's time is spent optimally.

Teachers who use applied - learning techniques don't need to work so hard to motivate students since the curriculum is no longer abstract, meaningless, and disconnected from their experience.

These tests are meaningless unless students use school success in a way that is consistent with what Bill Gates views as the role of school: to prepare students for college, work, and citizenship.

With the theoretical premise of OTES (besides labeling teachers) being to improve student learning by helping teachers to improve their individual practices, the mandated inclusion of measures that contain absolutely ZERO connection to the majority of teachers» actual work make the results even more meaningless (and that's truly saying a lot).

I am saddened that my efforts researching and negotiating the work of public education seem meaningless in the face of current policy debates — and that last year's nationwide struggle over teacher tenure or this week's «debates» over teacher evaluation in New York arrive forcefully, demanding immediate reaction rather than initiative from educators.

Many are afflicted by low admission standards and meaningless course work.