Sentences with phrase «years of life»

He spent the last few years of his life insane, and had one of the most influential followers in human history (Hitler).

I am so sorry I lost those prime years of my life after falling for the seduction of lust.

In how many Christian imaginations and theologies, private and public, does Jesus the Christ swoop through the 33 years of his life, dipping briefly into the world of matter before soaring off toward the real point, the resurrection?

I remember this hymn from the earliest years of my life.

His captors persuaded him to curse Christ and to confess Caesar as Lord, but he never accepted it; for in his thought, Jesus Christ is faithful enough and had done «no wrong» to him in his eighty - six years of life.

Erasmus (c. 1466 — 1536) spent the first 30 years of his life in the schools of the Brethren of the Common Life before becoming the greatest of the humanist scholars.

It is sufficient to note that he came from very humble origins — a carpenter's family in an obscure village; that he attracted no particular public attention during the first thirty years of his life; and that he then set forth to proclaim the advent of the «Kingdom of God» — the rule of God on earth which the prophets had said would be established by the Messiah.

Instead, the last fourteen years of his life were spent in an energetic and amazingly creative papacy.

As is true in the case of physical nutrition, deprivation of adequate emo tional food is the most damaging in the earliest years of life, when growth is the most rapid and personality the most plastic.

Once more, withdrawing to the small but beautiful estate of Tegel near Berlin, he turned scholar and hermit and devoted the remaining years of his life almost exclusively to the comparative study of languages.

I did, however, waste (Oops, spend) 4 years of my life and parents money majoring in philosophy / religion with a minor in biblical languages.

He discovered that the foundation of the building of personality is created during the first six years of life by the quality of a child's close relationships with need - satisfying adults.

«We know that the first years of life are the most critical for the life chances of every child.

At the same time, I grew more in my relationship with God during those difficult years than I had in the previous years of my life combined.

The two, however, drifted apart when King became more radical during the last three years of his life, says Adair, Rustin's biographer.

For the first 40 + years of my life I thought I had a «relationship» with Christ, but I finally had to admit that I was talking to myself and there is no - one up / out / over / around there.

The way we were taught language in the first few years of life limits our ability to conceptualize what other people think.

Because, before him he sees fifty years of life ahead, and all the drama and achievement, and all the sorrow and pain of human life, from springtime to the grave.

I will probably get to those at some point, however, as I sought the Lord and other good counsel, and when looking back on my experiences through almost 40 years of life, MANHOOD just jumped out.

For the last 50 years of her life, Maria Durand de Perez was the matriarch of an extended family that straddled the international boundary.

As he was later to admit, Colson had no moral compass for the first 41 years of his life.

We're all born single and called to steward our singleness for the first 20 - 30 years of our life.

This self proclaimed prophet organized around 65 military campaigns in the last 10 years of his life and personally led 27 of them.

My child, do not forget my Torah, but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of life and abundant shalom they will give you.

If a gain of fifty years of life expectancy during the past thousand years — and a thirty - year jump in the twentieth century alone — has immeasurably improved the quality and security of our lives, why shouldn't we envision similar benefits from much longer lives?

You have more money than you know what to do with, you don't have to work and you think, «Did I just have the best years of my life before I was thirty?

And during those last years of his life, one phrase was constantly on his lips: «My little children, love one another.»

Many of Mordecai M. Kaplan's contemporaries and students — he had plenty of both over the 102 years of his life — considered him a brilliant religious thinker, perhaps the greatest that American Judaism has produced.

I gave the very best years of my life to God and his people and then it was finished.

Thanks for the best two years of my life.

He must serve at least 35 years of the life sentence and half of the other sentence, Strickland said.

When he's looking through the book for Wally and then, after Rupert informs him that Wally isn't actually in EVERY single book, he ruefully admits that he's lost years of his life to searching for Wally then.

For six years of my life, I've fed my babies from my own body, and now my last baby is a busy toddler, and she isn't interested, I'm nearly finished with this part of my life.

I have a personal interest to declare here: I spent five years of my life, in the late fifties and early sixties, first as an undergraduate then as a postgraduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, still a firmly protestant institution.

For most of human history, people simply worked until their bodies gave out and then depended on their children to care for them in the last years of life.

In the last years of his life his influence was further underscored in that others began to write books about him — a trend that was to intensify after his death so that now we see a steady stream of theses, monographs and studies coming out each year, though we still await the authorized biography to be done by his old friend John Howard Griffin.

Known for such legendary songs as «Ring of Fire» and «I Walk the Line,» Cash, particularily in his final years of life, brilliantly expressed the Christian mystery of suffering and redemption through his work.

Under the leadership of the late Roy Burkhart, that church took as its aim the guidance and spiritual enrichment of life «from birth through all the years of life in the tabernacle of the body.»

They're constantly told that these are the best years of their life, and they don't believe it.

Hundreds of millions of years of life on Earth boiling down to a belief in something that happened 2000 years ago makes so sense to me, and never will.

We do not know why there should be millions of years of life upon this planet before ever Homo sapiens appeared.

I have spent some 40 some years of my life trying to figure out anything of importance to say, and now I must comment on events and ideas at least twice a day in order to be a blogger?

It's not uncommon to hear college referred to as «the best four years of your life.»

Santayana spent the last years of his life in Rome, in a nursing home located in a convent where a religious sister tended him.

Steve I spent 40 years of my life listening to fundamental sermons.

I was convinced for most of 50 years of my life that I could never be forgiven and loved by anyone much less God!

It's also interesting that he mentions Darwin and his research because in the last few years of his life Darwin discounted his own theories and said evolution was not true.

It's no secret that C.S. Lewis fought for the British Army in his early years of life.

For the first 16 years of my life, my parents worked in Germany.

In my eight years of life I'd never met a self - identified Republican.