People accept the things they hear at face value.
Another approach is helping
people accept things that are out of their control and learning to ride the waves of life.
Not exact matches
«What it has to do with is the fact that the
person is not humble enough to
accept responsibility when
things go wrong,
accept that there might be better ways to do
things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.
As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the
things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to
accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that
person just did that really weird
thing.
The most wonderful
thing about this change in me is that I am able to
accept people for who they are now and who they will become, mostly because I've
accepted myself — and who I am now and who I will become.
Conferences attract plenty of
people who are doing the same
thing, and once you
accept that, you'll probably discover that going to events for entrepreneurs is one of the most helpful
things you can do for your business.
In order for bitcoin to be a real currency, Adeney claims, it must be three
things: easy and frictionless for trading between
people, widely
accepted as a legal tender for all debts (both public and private) and stable in terms of value.
Of course, just because some
people are over-concerned about their anxiety and would actually do better if they simply
accepted their worrying doesn't mean that there's no such
thing as excessive anxiety.
I hope for two
things: 1) that you both hold true to your sincerities and commitments to this cause for the long haul (David already has proven that), 2) that enough
people will put their indifferences aside to listen to your messages and
accept the inevitable changes that are to come, and quit chasing this impossible infinite growth concept that has blinded so many.
Maybe
people have come to
accept that student loans are the «
thing» to deal with in order to go to college, and many students don't think about the cost of college and choose to deal with the price tag later.
The suggestion that there's such a
things as a «demand for money,» comparable to the demand for, say, heating oil, is one that many
people find hard to
accept.
Obamas religion however is straight up christian and it won't really do much good to follow him around with a moving billboard that lists death tolls from christian persecution or other
things about the dogma that
people already know and either don't care or already
accept.
Although disliking Jews go further back, such as their exile, one of the reasons is that the Pope made a rule that Christians can't loan money (but
accepting a loan is ok) so Jews end up taking the job and so long as
things are going well,
people probably like jews because they received money (though they probably didn't like paying them back with interest).
But what happens when one of two
things occurs: when the LBGT
person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be
accepted as a couple?
People have in themselves, to varying degrees, the ability to do
things outside of the range of what another
person, or society, would
accept (the ability to do evil).
This is not something that all
people can do, as some
people can not
accept things without the verification that the
thing is true, and if there were proof, then it isn't faith.»
S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish
thing that
people often say about Him: «I'm ready to
accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't
accept his claim to be God.»
Actually there is historical proof that he was a healer and a miracle worker, but at that time it was an
accepted profession and there were 1,000's of
people that did the same
thing.
But it makes me CRAZY when
people still, after more than 100 years, seem to refuse to
accept that Mormons and Polygamists are not the same
thing.
I recognize that is a hard
thing to
accept for many
people, not just myself.
I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who
accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who
accepted and led all sorts of
people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about
things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.
I
accept your right to disbelieve, but you should distinguish between the (in) ability to prove something historically or archaeologically and the existence or non-existence of that
person or
thing.
The sad
thing is, even if this guy did commit these horrible crimes, he just has to repent and a bunch of
people will be willing to
accept him again.
In this case you have too much of a good
thing when
people can't
accept that they can not or do not know something.
The concept of
person, however, extending all the way back to its Latin roots (persona),
accepts the social nature of the human individual, and the necessity of social recognition, without ever regarding the individual as reducible to these
things.
Funny how those
people still want to reserve THEIR right to rage at, bully and make jokes of the
things THEY don't want to
accept though.
As a
person who believes in God, I will say this; faith explains the importance of
accepting that we do not know or understand
things beyond our brains.
I would like to present to you for your consideration the following verse in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 14: «The natural
person does not
accept the
things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned».
Such short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the
person do
things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety —
things such as
accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so often.
14 The natural
person does not
accept the
things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
The main problem I've seen with
people accepting evolution (aside from plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of time over which these
things happened.
But the most amazing
thing to me is that there are
people who think that the universe is too complicated to exist without having been created, and yet
accept that there is a God who exists without having been created, and yet who is more complicated than the universe!
It might be argued that the failure of thinkers to
accept the data as they really are has been due to special factors such as their preoccupation with forms or essences and that common
people have always viewed
things as finite existents.
Any
person who does this I can respect whatever conclusion they reach, it's the
people who have always been one
thing or another and their cognitive dissonance and absolute refusal to
accept disbelief in god as an alternative in any capacity that I have beef with.
I wish
people would
accept that the «Bible» is not gods word neither was it wrote by god but by men who put what they decided they wanted as rules for everyone else to run their life based on, every
thing from what type of fabric you can wear at the same time to what you can eat on certain days.
God now
accepts behavior that was unthinkable and yet, if you ask any
person who believes in their specific god, they'll all tell you that he (maybe the one
thing that hasn't changed is his gender) is eternal.
Only when
people take courage to face fear, heal from past hurts, as as considerate of others as self,
accepting differences where they are debatable and are motivated by love then shall we see less of this kind of
thing.
People who
accept things on faith, without evidence, won't be swayed by evidence.
At the same time, he's saying we need to respect faith enough to understand that many
people will rely solely on that for their views and we should
accept that doing so is not necessarily a bad
thing.
Since the Bible says no such
thing, and the minister knows it, what does he do or say after first trying to understand Mr. Jones's meaning and
accepting Mr. Jones as a
person?
Intelligent
people acknowledge evolution is actually a real
thing and
accept that we are animals.
Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make
things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that
people would refuse to
accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.
Where most Bible translations accurately translate the Greek as saying something along the lines of «The natural man does not receive the
things of the Spirit of God,» the NIV reads Calvinistic theology into this verse, and assumes that the natural man does not even have the Spirit, and so translated the verse this way: «The
person without the Spirit does not
accept the
things that come from the Spirit of God.»
Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we
accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of
things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these
things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell
people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of
people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these
people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,
Why is it so easy for
people to regard thousands of other Gods as fictional man made
things (like Odin, Zeus, Horace...), but not even
accept the possibility that theirs is also?
This
person is willing to
accept the legal consequences of his / her actions because it it the moral
thing to do.
I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to
accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little
thing that
people are foolish for falling into believing.
God is the God who has done these
things; God is the God who has
accepted his
people in their covenant with him made after their deliverance; God is the God who can never be understood as existing save seen as related to, and worshipped as the One who is their God.
The
person without the Spirit does not
accept the
things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and can not understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
Leon went on to discuss how John the Baptist's heralding did not first go as expected but that it was a good
thing because it taught
people to
accept reality.