Zhu Xi does not appeal to philosophic reflection but recommends mindful (jing) daily cultivation and practice, i.e., being calm and focused, respectful in personal life, diligent in conducting affairs, and dedicated to upholding interpersonal relations.[14] Moreover, he considers that emotion plays a fundamental role in ethical cultivation and performance.
Article 18 of the 39 – Of obtaining eternal salvation only by the Name of Christ – could not be clearer against the multifaith agenda: "They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect that he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature.
Mr Vallely writes that Father Bergoglio underwent years of spiritual labour, contemplating his own sinfulness, before he was ready for this rapprochement.No biography, however diligent, can capture someone's interior life.
Spanning 17 years, the HBO drama sees Cohle in various different stages of life: the sober, diligent detective, the drug-fuelled undercover agent he calls 'Crash' and a dishevelled, alcoholic ex-cop.
Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs is an angry howl of a novel about a primary school teacher and thwarted artist whose safe, diligent decisions have left her life a meagre thing.
Be diligent and work on your life moment by moment.
(This did seem to involve a little retroactive retconning, since I can't believe that none of Sam's college friends or Jessica wouldn't have celebrated his birthday normally while he was at Stanford, or that Dean, so diligent in making Sam's life easier in other ways when they were kids, wouldn't have stolen him a cake or made his birthday special at some point in the past).
For "Dos Passos: A Life" (1984), deemed "a diligent job of archaeological spadework" by Herbert Mitgang of The Times, she had the cooperation of the family of the writer, an innovative contemporary of Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Steinbeck.
We were taught the values of faith, education, honesty, diligent work, family, and quality of life.
In all other things in your life, you're a diligent hard worker.
For all 44 years of my life, I've been diligent about my health.
