Sentences with phrase «seeking an understanding from»

In other words, what is required is a committed and «long - haul» approach that values relationships with communities, seeks understandings from clients and communities about the sources of injustice, and analyzes what approaches the community takes to anger and healing.

Not exact matches

By going deeper and understanding the reward Tad was seeking from his behavior — feeling successful — Perlow was able to engineer an office environment that provided this feeling while sparing Tad the physical and psychological toll that constant connectivity can bring.

New York magazine made a similar case in a recent post, saying tens of millions of Facebook users «were served up or shared emotionally charged news stories about the candidates, because Facebook's sorting algorithm understood from experience that they were seeking such stories.»

Evans rings off some simple rules: don't buy anything you're pressured to buy or don't understand; ask the seller for their qualifications and track record, and if they don't give satisfactory answers, don't buy; don't invest more money than you can stand to lose, and never invest it all in one deal; avoid anything with an offshore element to it («That means your money's never coming back»); and seek out an unbiased second opinion, say, from your accountant or bank manager.

Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood from the beginning the need to partner with car companies and early on sought to imagine how that collaboration might work.

Understand your company, competitors, and the venture firm from which you are seeking investment.

If you're seeking alternatives because you expect low returns from traditional asset classes, you have to understand that a lot of these funds are fishing in the same low - return pond.

In the new - ish Michael Lewis book, The Undoing Project, about behavioral psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Lewis discusses how these two sought to understand people by looking at our decision - making process from another angle.

You choose your own path, and you decide what is best for you, and where necessary, seek help from a financial advisor that understands your individual personal needs.

This demand for more information is a two - way street — potential investors and entrepreneurs from China are also seeking more informational resources to help better understand how to best tap into the Canadian market, and to get a glimpse into the development of the Canada - China business relationship overall.

Good startup CEOs: ▪ Do what they are passionate about ▪ Make sure intentions match emotions ▪ Test concept before they raise money ▪ Make sure they want the success they are seeking ▪ Raise money from value - add investors ▪ Assume they will be successful and work backwards ▪ Recognize when they are the problem Additionally, they understand the qualities that make a good CEO.

Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams.

Also, there are things that can only be understood about God from seeking a true and comitted relationship with him.

«Does the American Conservative Union really think the liberties and values they seek to preserve can be maintained when they partner with individuals and organizations that are undermining the understanding that our liberties come from God?

2 The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Man's world will continue to crumble from within, and man's solutions always ultimately fail, but the good news is that God provides peace to those who continually seek to understand and strive to serve His Kingdom, and part of that for us is trusting that any hardships we encounter on the way will ultimately bring us closer to Him, our perfect and loving Creator.

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

Once we see the mythological imagery of spiritual warfare in the heavens between God and the waters, and we understand from Genesis 1 that from the darkness and chaos of the water, God is seeking to bring beauty and order, we are then in a position to understand Genesis 6 — 8.

It is not a retreat from social or political action to seek to get to the bottom of things and to understand the truth, which is about all we have left anyway.

Jesus understood shame and our tendency to hide from vulnerability, so he sought to guide with acceptance.

The best way to counter that spiritual fatigue is to seek solace from those who've been there before and understand what you're going through.

When we see that there can be no self - understanding apart from some grasp of Origin and Destiny, an understanding which certainly includes an acknowledgment of what is unknown in both Origin and Destiny, then the counselor with whom we seek self - understanding takes on a new significance.

This, combined with our understanding that we can seek wisdom from other world religions in addition to our Christian roots, puts us outside generally recognized boundaries of Christianity.

... A new understanding of religion is re-emerging... one that emerges from the intrinsic coherence of the logos - which is exactly the real faith in the gospel that the gospel itself sought and proclaimed»

Such a view is plausible only on the assumption that the school's practices of teaching and learning through which it seeks to understand God are relatively disengaged from its practices of governance and self - maintenance.

Through his suffering he conquers sin and dispels our misery.12 In his mercy, Jesus frees us from sin and enables us to live in the freedom of God's children.13 But it is important to understand that the freedom of God's children is lived in harmony with the truth; it does not seek to subordinate truth to itself.14 This truth includes, obviously, the truth about marriage revealed in Christ.

One ought to seek such light from a trusted counselor as will help him understand self and the situation better, but he ought not to intensify his troubles by talking generally about them.

The policies that would follow from a better understanding of human beings would seek the wellbeing of individuals primarily through supporting the health and wellbeing of the communities that form them.

Hence, if we wish to understand the meaning of manhood we must look to the movement from potentiality to actuality; we must seek to understand something of what psychologists would call «the dynamics of personality».

2 The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

No doubt my way of seeking it is very different from process thought, such as that expressed in the writings of John B. Cobb, Jr., but this does not preclude the possibility that Cobb's di - polar theological understanding can not only challenge but also enrich a quest for total dialectical understanding and vision.

The philosophical «God» is understood, if not independently of religious intuition, then definitely beyond its singular appearance (RM 88) 43 Over against the philosophical approach, Christianity developed the double strategy which we have analyzed as «religious intuition» contributing finally to the formation of revelational theology:» (1) Christianity proceeded not from any metaphysics, but it «has always been a religion seeking a metaphysics» (RM 50).45 Christianity strove for theological rationalization, 46 (2) Christianity, however, did not follow any certain metaphysics (PR 66 - 68), but «has been true to its genius for keeping its metaphysics subordinate to the religious fact to which it appeals» (RM 69).

Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.

Psa 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

It was not distorted as it was given, nor need it be distorted as we seek to understand it many centuries later in contexts far removed from those in which it was originally given.

We can understand and sympathize with those who sought to protect faith from scientific knowledge in this way.

The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

They must thus seek to understand the plain meaning of the text, but that meaning can not be fully grasped apart from metaphysical clarification.

The founding generation eschewed any hypostatizing derailments, particularly the abandonment of the divine communion, and sought to transfer the responsibility as «carrier of the order of history» from the empire to the republican citizen who understood that «revelation» acted as «God's appeal to man to place himself under his order...»

She understood humanity enough that, while she advocated her idiotic and wrongheaded sense of aesthetics to groups of intellectuals, and while she did seek approval from those same groups and hoped to change a few minds, she did not care (nor did she ever expect) the rest of us lowlifes to ever pick up the banner of Objectivism and run with it.

Gnosticism is here understood as that movement of the later Hellenistic world which sought salvation from the whole cosmos regarded as, in principle, an alien and evil power.

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

It is to be ascribed to a fact of which the Socratic view itself was aware (though only to a certain degree) and sought to remedy, that it lacks a dialectical determinant for the transition from having understood something to the doing of it.

As his mind turned increasingly to philosophy, the physicist in him sought to understand the whole of reality and not only man, whilst the aesthete in him interpreted all reality by extrapolation from human experience, thus finding aesthetic value in all actuality.

But only our own specious present is directly experienced with any vividness; and it is from this direct experience that philosophy must, according to process philosophy, seek to generalize its understanding of the non-human world.

It's wonderful to see a work that starts from the Ultimate Reality and seeks to understand the Council from this depth in which we live, move and have our being.

My point is that a close reading suggests a multiplicity of ideas and beliefs that we are priviliged to witness while it's under construction, the Jerusalem controversy being one good example.Furthermore, the fact that we're able to understand that each of the synoptics significantly differ from each other and we can observe contrast and similiarity between them and John's gospel, as well as Paul's letters suggests a process that speaks loudly of how religious narrative develops in communities that seek the meaning of the «core events».

Faith, which is trust in God without reservation not belief without proof, then seeks understanding (which is quite different from proof) through theological inquiry.

As I stated earlier, liberal Christianity is a middle road between Christ and culture in that it seeks to understand culture, not remove itself from modern science or the arts.

Novels are particularly rich in their explorations of these issues, though such understanding need not be gained only from novels: In The Therapy of Desire (1994) Nussbaum seeks» not always successfully» to discover in certain Hellenistic thinkers a distinctively philosophical account of the value of the emotions.