Sentences with phrase «years of our lives trying»

I spent YEARS of my life trying to prove that Christianity was the ruth, and the conclusion I came to (not at all an easy one, and one that took a long time to accept) was that it was not truth.

He spent the last 20 years of his life trying to disprove his own theory.

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?

Babies should drink breastmilk or formula for the first year of life Try to avoid introducing juice until child is a toddler.

I spent almost 4 years of my life trying to get the funding for that Point of Sale system — we applied for grants, we looked for a private funder, we approached the city — until finally we were able to get it funded through a parcel tax which was sold to the voters as a pay increase for our hard working and underpaid teachers, but which also contained a small portion vaguely dexcribed as «technology.»

Honestly, I've never had this thought before sitting here with you, but I think I spent the first 20 years of my life trying to be somebody else, so I just don't have the energy at this point.»

He was on 6 heavy meds at the time after having spent the first 6 years of his life trying all types of holistic therapies which weren't enough.

It's easy to waste years of your life trying to lose weight with pseudoscientific fad diets, avoiding certain foods, and only letting yourself eat at certain times.

These are the big questions that Steven Farr, chief learning and knowledge officer at Teach For All has devoted the past 13 years of his life trying to understand and explain.

«You can spend 10 years of your life trying to write that novel that's great enough to get a big deal and get a huge push, and you might have to write six or seven novels before you write that book,» Howey says of the traditional publishing industry.

Instead, I spent an entire year of my life trying to figure out how to get feature parity with Halo 2 in the online feature set.

On average, a woman spends 30 years of her life trying to prevent pregnancy.

Not exact matches

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

His performance Wednesday revealed his willingness to bite the hand that feeds, ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks who tried to pinpoint how he'd live up to his promises to build more Model 3 sedans and generate cash in the second half of the year.

I learned this the hard way when I tried to rattle off some pull ups after years of sedentary living and quickly tore a muscle in my shoulder.

Referencing the story of a 26 - year - old woman who admitted to going into debt to try to keep up with the lifestyles she saw on Instagram, Klontz said that she was smart to hold herself accountable to a blog while she committed to living below her means in order to pay off her debt.

One of the most trying times of my life happened six years ago when my mother lost her courageous battle with Stage IV colon and liver cancer six years ago in November.

The New York Times bestselling author and radio show host of The Cardone Zone also talks about how he looks and feels younger than he did 20 years ago — because he stopped trying to please everyone and started living his life for himself.

Surely there will be some footage from the next Halo game, expected next year, and possibly an early look at an upcoming Gears of War installment, but beyond that, will the company refocus on games or continue trying to position the Xbox One as a living room device that the whole family will want?

«I began to try to create [stevia sweetened] chocolate, which is my favorite food, and for the first couple of years I tasted some of the worst chocolate that I've ever tasted in my life.»

Rather than looking forward, trying to set goals through the lens of your current hectic situations in life, pretend like it's one year from now and you are actually looking backwards at the best year of your financial life.

The behaviors the company is trying to address are fundamentally different than those of 10 years ago because broadband Internet has become a much more significant part of our life since then.

Imagine trying to live the decades of your golden years on such a small nest egg.

My severance package was large enough to pay for 5 - 6 years of living expenses, which meant I could save / invest 100 % of all after - tax income earned between 2012 — 1Q2017 to try and «catch up» to the 20X target.

By helping you consistently make smart financial decisions across all aspects of your life we can add far more to your wealth than we ever could by trying to guess which stock is going to beat the market next year.

The start of a new year can often be a time of stress as we are often tempted to try new challenges and take on more responsibility in our already busy lives.

I can't possibly work longer hours than I already am, I've been killing myself for years in that department and I'm actually cutting back some to try to preserve my health, but we've been living lean for awhile now and still looking for ways to save, so I'm also looking for ways to increase my income without adding a ton of extra hours and labor.

I want the ladies to love my clothes as much as I once did, to realize how important these items were to me in my life — my nostalgia, my years of trying to change myself, and this final moment of release as I let all of that pressure go.

This surgeon was one of the best in this field and had even successfully tried a treatment on this exact cancer for other patients that tripled the five - year - survival odds — from 5 percent to 15 percent — albeit with a poor quality of life.

«After nearly 50 years of success for Title X, the Trump administration is trying to undermine it by shifting to a narrow and ideological vision of how people should live their lives,» said Clare Coleman, CEO of the national family planning association.

This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one who unthinkingly accepts every facet of my Doctrine of choice.

Jewish writer AJ Jacobs tried living according to the Old Testament law in The Year of Living Biblically (Simon & Schuliving according to the Old Testament law in The Year of Living Biblically (Simon & SchuLiving Biblically (Simon & Schuster).

Reality... his bones would have been produced and marveled at as proof that he did not resurrect the Jewish leaders at that time for sure would have produced them... providing of course that they were available... why do nt you take the time to study, read the evidence for yourself before spouting like so many other bitter atheists (that I once was for many years)... give love a try you might enjoy it, it gives live meaning and true purpose, everything finds its place in Christ... I hope you find hope some day...

As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of time trying to live exactly as the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

@Austin, I tried asking for the first 10 years of my life.

Those 10 years were laced with so many failures: quitting many times over, re-writing the edits of my re-write, working back in a cubicle, working back at the dream, trying to live in a retirement home to film a documentary, relationship debacles, a fire that almost burnt down my house and every other twist and turn of «God, where are you in this?»

I am a proud American who chose to become Baha'i around 20 years ago, and I am very proud of the strength and resilience that the Baha'i community in Iran is demonstrating, while attempting to live their lives in obediance to Baha'i principles, which include obediance and loyalty to their government even when it is trying to destroy them.

In this tenth anniversary year of Fr Edward Holloway's death Fr Kevin Douglas delineates the character of the «new synthesis» which Holloway spent much of his life trying to foster.

So if I were a rich man and left all of my possessions behind and lived on the street for a year as a homeless person, is the hypocrisy that I could go back to being rich or that I tried to see how someone else lives?

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

They not only welcomed me, and treated me like a valuable person right from the start, but they got me through two of the hardest years of my life, when I had to leave the job I had to take 10 and a half weeks post op from my second open heart surgery in less than a year, (couldn't get disability) and try one more time to get SSDI.

Over the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the aspirational / inspirational billboards sponsored by The Foundation for a Better Life, an organization that promotes common - ground character virtues while trying at the same time to avoid being a partisan in our contemporary....

In the Year of Living Biblically, A. J. Jacobs spent a whole year trying obey every commandment in the BiYear of Living Biblically, A. J. Jacobs spent a whole year trying obey every commandment in the Biyear trying obey every commandment in the Bible.

Disillusioned with romance after my second divorce, I decided to take a year off from conventional dating to try to figure out how to succeed at finding a wife with whom I could spend the rest of my life in unspoiled domestic bliss.

In the book I'm reading, The Year of Living Biblically, author A.J. Jacobs is trying to figure out how to handle the Bible's capital punishment laws, and has taken to tossing pebbles at adulterers and Sabbath - breakers.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

In fact most of us would be trying to scratch out a living on a farm with no modern equipment, hoping for enough rain to produce food for the next year, and dying at 35 yrs old from diseases now cured by drug companies.

A good book to try is «a year of living biblically» by A.J Jacobs.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Based off my years of experience people who have faith generally waste their precious moments on earth by praying and trying to feel a connection with something that doesn't exist vs. the people who have rejected the notion of god who go and live their lives to their fullest because they know of the limited amount of time they have.