Sentences with phrase «about conviction in»

We are so passionate about our conviction in hydrotherapy that our name says it all!

A deeper issue is about conviction in the premise and purpose of sustainability.

Not exact matches

For whatever personal convictions that drives him to do so (not every CEO writes polemics about free - market capitalism in their spare time time) Mackey has elected himself the firebrand leader to inspire the next generation of leaders that must reverse the public perception of business.

«I've got a conviction about him that I don't get very often,» he told the Chicago Tribune (registration is required to read the story) back in 2005.

Someday soon, we should have a conversation about the complexity of corporate conviction in the face of racism and hate.

She suggests businesses be firmly rooted in their convictions and think about how they impact every exchange — «from the administrative assistant picking up the phone to the boss actually sharing a presentation.»

While stereotypes abound about entrepreneurs overflowing with confidence and conviction, self - doubt is a lot more common in the profession than most people realize.

Yet as the story progresses, she proceeds to do a number of terrible things in her conviction about the righteousness of her cause, in a way that makes her less sympathetic.

People who try to separate their private convictions about human dignity and the common good from their involvement in public issues are not acting with integrity, or with loyalty to their own principles.

Though we are a relatively young organization, our conviction at NARPP about the importance of communication in driving participant engagement is deeply held and comes from a long collective tenure in the industry.

Each own concentrated stock portfolios in deeply understood businesses, with high conviction about the business and its value.

We haven't seen such journalistic conviction about the demise of a market mainstay since Businessweek pronounced the «Death of Equities» in 1979 (the S&P 500 has since risen almost 19-fold).1 Even Warren Buffett, who amassed a fortune through active investing and entrusts Berkshire Hathaway's vaunted equity portfolio to two hedge fund managers, has recently recommended buying an index tracker.

Yea, because lets make vast, baseless assumptions about all the people pointing out the obvious flaws in the kids «convictions!»

During his tenure, Coppedge developed a «sincere interest in the scientific evidence behind life's origin,» which led to his conviction about «intelligent design.»

Rather, the Kingdom of God is about the demonstrative supernatural exploits of God; sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, the crippled and paralyzing walking again... but most of all, the acknowledgement of sin in man's heart that can only be evoked through the conviction that comes through the Holy Spirit himself.

This is entirely in keeping with the underlying convictions about knowledge and power that animate much of the new trend in theology.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

If I believed in the Great Pumpkin with such conviction that I proclaimed «I can not be anything other than convinced» to a Christian who was trying to tell me about his or her God, they would probably accuse me of being close minded.

ALL of you have such strong convictions about the Catholic Church, the Pope, Christianity and religion in general.

What I am saying is that your common sense gives you faith in your conviction about leprechauns, unicorns and God.

Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?

«I miss that evangelical fire - in - the - belly that makes people talk about their faith with passion and conviction.»

If we call ourselves Christians, but have become so enmeshed in sin again so that we no longer hear or care about the Holy Spirit's conviction, then there is a strong possibility that we have offended him to the point that he abandons us to our folly and we are no longer sealed unto salvation by his presence.

The exclamation point was stamped on our conviction to do something about our situation when we attended a talk at our parish by a monsignor who acts as a judge of the canon law tribunal in our diocese, considering annulment cases.

In another letter, when asked about his thoughts about building a monument to Gen. Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson, he said again it just wasn't a good idea: «As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.&raquIn another letter, when asked about his thoughts about building a monument to Gen. Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson, he said again it just wasn't a good idea: «As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.&raquin the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.»

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

No doubt there is some justification for their belief that the lessening of knowledge and conviction about these doctrines has left a void that leads to lack of evangelical fervor in the church as a whole.

Today's evangelicals rightly identify the loss of conviction about Biblical authority as a major source of the decline of evangelical fervor in the United Methodist Church.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

After a period in California, where his convictions about the lack of genuine spirituality in the West were further confirmed, he returned to Egypt and immediately joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, in which he became a born - again Muslim.

These theological convictions about how God works in the world through particular communities that contain in their narrative life the seeds of their own — and the world's — redemption were the first source of Hopewell's interest in congregations.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

For too long, I elevated popular culture's opinion of me over what I know about being fearfully and wonderfully made, over my logic, over my own feminist and theological convictions, over my beliefs about who I am in Christ.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

It was their memory of him as well as their conviction about him which they shared with others, so that men and women who had never seen Jesus came not only to believe in him but also to feel that they had known him.

In Mantel's case, when she began writing about Cromwell, by her own account she was «filled with glee and a sense of power,» a conviction that everything in her life had prepared her for thiIn Mantel's case, when she began writing about Cromwell, by her own account she was «filled with glee and a sense of power,» a conviction that everything in her life had prepared her for thiin her life had prepared her for this.

Some Christian doctrines might require modification, but his convictions about the supreme importance of loving God and neighbor would in no way be weakened.

In The Green Knight, the good Peter Mir confronts the murderer, and seems to have no resources with which to bring about moral conviction in the man; their several conversations end in frustration and no closure is reacheIn The Green Knight, the good Peter Mir confronts the murderer, and seems to have no resources with which to bring about moral conviction in the man; their several conversations end in frustration and no closure is reachein the man; their several conversations end in frustration and no closure is reachein frustration and no closure is reached.

Though Christians may come to different conclusions concerning their convictions about drug laws, being informed about the current state of incarceration and the long - running War on Drugs is the first step in forming an intelligent opinion.

When I saw this video of Fox News» Megyn Kelly taking on two men in a heated argument about stereotyping women, it only confirmed to me that beneath all the layers of reasoning there resides a deep - seated, gut - level emotional conviction that women must fulfill their stereotypical roles.

«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»

Just because I do not accept your conviction that those verses are the only verses in the Bible about Salvation and no others are relative does not mean I did not consider each verse you referenced.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

It was, I think, Kierkegaard who observed that the greatest misfortune for any person is to have disciples, and anyone who talks in a personal way about one's convictions maximizes the risk of disciple - making.

Especially important in contradicting missionary teaching was the traditional conviction about the wrath of gods.

Christians debate exactly what that phrase means, but we all know that it expresses the conviction that God cares about the creation and that the interconnectedness of things in the created order must be recognized and protected.

Learning about Nirvana and accepting the wisdom associated with it need not in any way weaken our convictions about God.