Sentences with phrase «if old traditions»

If old traditions are too painful, create some new ones.

Not exact matches

If a company seems old school or values tradition, they will probably appreciate a handwritten note as well.

Maybe it would be easier to get people to convert to Christianity if Christians went back to their old tradition of killing those that do not want to convert.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

In the first place, we may become better attuned to the ways that older, seemingly irrelevant or even harmful bits of the Christian tradition may be worth preserving, even if their strengths aren't immediately obvious in late modernity.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

In a world of such rapid change, it is something of a comfort that Professor Kurtz and his friends keep alive an old, if eccentric, tradition.

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

So Dave, you asked how is an old tired argument a bad one: if it is appealing to tradition, then it is.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

’24 E. Schweizer writes, «that the exaltation really dominated the thought of the early church is also shown by the fact that the oldest tradition barely distinguished between Easter and Ascension... It may well be asked if the reports of the first appearances (I Cor.

For this we must ever be grateful; if Mark had edited his material more severely, he would only have cut away these old roots and presented us with a dry stock instead of a living tradition.

* Most, if not all, of the stories of the Old Testament are incomplete and inaccurate records of an oral tradition.

If Moses or earlier oral tradition was not inspired by God it is all most likely just a good old tale.

Now one might expect that this pattern of interpretation would have been retained by Paul, if historical — that is, if set forth by Jesus himself or found in the earliest tradition of his sayings or expounded in the early church — or one might even think it possible that Mark derived from Paul some hint of this system of exegesis of the Old Testament and of interpretation of the career of Jesus as a heavenly being appearing upon earth prior to his exaltation and his dying (as a heavenly being) upon the cross, though unrecognized in his true nature until the Resurrection.

If I have dealt at some length with this old tradition, it was to show that for Christians to take a position in favor of violence is nothing new at all.

It is important to remember that we stand in a spiritual tradition that is 2,000 years old, and longer if we include our Jewish heritage.

Having said this, Arsenal also needs to abandonee some of these old «traditions» Arsene keeps talking about if they wont help us improve the team and keep our best players.

• If your kids are old enough, try explaining the ceremony to them and some of the traditions.

If you do not have enough budget to buy a high - end model, there are plenty of cheap baby carriers choices as well as the ten thousand year old tradition of DIY baby carriers that you can choose to make.

If you haven't started this tradition for your older children, you can still include them by planting a tree to recognize a special occasion like kindergarten graduation, a birthday or a holiday.

Today, we often think of massage as a modern - day stress - reliever, but if we go back to the roots of massage, we can find many benefits to sharing this age - old tradition with our baby.

If you're stuck on the old tradition of not wearing white after LB, this is one of many perfect ways to introduce white in the fall season.

If you have never been to this 31 year old tradition and live in Chicago, keep this in mind for next year.

As times change, old - school traditions aren't always needed — especially if something isn't important to the couple.

Although the tradition of romance is going strong, it's out with the old and in with the new, especially if you are trying to impress a woman!

Since Catholic schools must not abide by restrictive government regulations, they have an opportunity to be among the first to make creative use of broadband, 3 - dimensional visualization, adaptive learning, and much more, if only they can find a way of welding old traditions to new circumstances.

Amid all the historic cars it's easy to breeze past a tidy display case carefully protecting an empty magnum of champagne, but if you pause for a moment you might realize that among all of Dan Gurney's accomplishments and inventions, the tradition founded with this 50 - year - old bottle of Moët might be the most lasting.

If Mr. Fowler, often regarded as the final arbiter of modern English, is correct, then I am pretty sure I have captured the ultimate irony — or at least the automotive version of it — when I opine that the mainstream automaker most likely to carry on the ages - old tradition of powering its luxury sedans with a naturally aspirated V8 is going to be... Hyundai.

As a first generation American, I wonder if it has to do with immigrants needing / wanting to stick together to keep their old traditions and cultures alive.

[In the grand old Maoist tradition, please feel to comment below if you can point out the true error of my ways!]

The Choo Choo is the Umgeni Steam Railway's main stream of revenue with which they fund the restoration and maintenance of their incredible collection of locomotives and rolling stock, and it makes the already exciting trip — particularly if you have children who are totally enthralled by the occasion — that much more worthwhile to think that you're keeping an old tradition alive.

If that modernist innovation collage is 100 years old, so also is the tradition of speaking of visual abstract works in terms of the musical structure of the fugue.

I would accept if the data would show this way or that, without looking for excused, in the old tradition of «if the data do not fit the model, so much worse for the data».

If a company seems old school or values tradition, they will probably appreciate a handwritten note as well.