Sentences with phrase «accept me as i am rather»

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Therefore, the key is not necessarily to immediately force people to act as if they're happy when they're devastated, but rather promote an overall culture and community that accepts failure as a means to self - improvement.

If you're going to live with it for decades, as Keflezighi has, it's mentally healthier to accept it as something you brought into your life to enrich it rather than as something taken from you or inflicted upon you.

But rather than passing judgment on whether globalization is a wonderful or a terrible thing, Easterbrook accepts it as a mixed bag, foreseeing «an endless tumult of improved living standards wrapped with ribbons of stress, anxiety and dissatisfaction.

In some cases, the best answer we can give is that to be most effective in your particular position, you need to accept this as a new reality and work with it, rather than fighting what's changing.»

Under generally - accepted accounting principles, the WITB should be included as part of program expenses (like the Canada Child Tax Benefit) rather than being netted against personal income tax revenues.

«The most innovative firms are using churn rate analysis as an opportunity to get ahead of losing customers rather than just accept it.»

As the housing market cools off, you may be able to get your full - priced offer accepted rather than being outbid.

Take away: Chances are these restrictions will be removed sooner rather than later, as China has conceded on the THAAD issue and reluctantly accepted that the THAAD system will not go away anytime soon, given the current tensions on the peninsula.

The Coinbase Commerce button works in a similar way to the PayPal plugin but rather than accepting fiat currencies, the new service allows for virtual currencies to be integrated as electronic payments.

The Coinbase Commerce button works in a similar way to the PayPal plugin but rather than accepting fiat currencies, the new service allows for virtual currencies to be integrated as electronic payments, offering a more efficient digital payment option.

What dismays me about Miley Cyrus is the same thing that dismays me about the current trend of instantly going to the allowable limit (and a bit over) in dress and act: I get the feeling she feels like she's proving something; that this is not an artistic statement of anything but rather, that she feels like she needs to do this to be accepted as a female singer and entertainer.

The issue in the article was not the adds themselves, rather it was that Christians made a massive stink about it and threatened boycotts etc, instead of accepting that the group had as much right to have those adds on those buses as they have a right to have their adds on those buses.

The cardinal accepted that abusing priests were routinely moved from parish to parish rather than being defrocked, and the word of clergy was often taken as more trustworthy than children claiming they were abused.

Lent is as much about accepting a form of discipline rather than simple renunciation.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

«And perhaps they'll try to love us now, but it will be conditional love rather than accepting us as we are.»

As I stated before, and as you still fail to comprehend, yes, I offer it is both more humble and intellectually honest to accept the limits of what can and can not be known rather than arrogantly confuse one's unsupported, faith - based belief as reflecting actual knowledgAs I stated before, and as you still fail to comprehend, yes, I offer it is both more humble and intellectually honest to accept the limits of what can and can not be known rather than arrogantly confuse one's unsupported, faith - based belief as reflecting actual knowledgas you still fail to comprehend, yes, I offer it is both more humble and intellectually honest to accept the limits of what can and can not be known rather than arrogantly confuse one's unsupported, faith - based belief as reflecting actual knowledgas reflecting actual knowledge.

Even if one accepts the claim that memory is an experience of the past, this is rather like saying that if we define dog as a four - legged mammal, then all horses are dogs.

If one accepts that metaphors (and all language about God) are principally adverbial, having to do with how we relate to God rather than defining the nature of God, then no metaphors or models can be reified, petrified, or expanded so as to exclude all others.

It is crucial for moral progress to diagnose this system's moral origins and inner dynamism accurately, rather than lazily to accept its systematic denigration by its hostile critics, on the right as on the left.

«We ought in humble submission to accept the real scriptures that god has provided us as they are, rather than ungratefully and stubbornly forcing scripture to be something that it is not because of a theory we hold about what it must and should be.

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.»

He describes himself as a «friend of liberalism» rather than a liberal, and so one is never quite sure which aspects of liberalism he accepts.

But Baden knows there is a paying audience for that sort of elevation of man and so he digs his own pit, and you and the others fall in too, preferring to view our Creator and His Word as pliable to man's actions and wishes, rather than accepting His absolute sovereignty, the inerrancy of Scripture, and our utter helplessness before Him.

Rather, it is (accepting) living as Jesus Christ instructed.

True enough — we have a faith now that has fully accepted Capitalism «as is» and does not seek strongly enough to «better it» — but rather we the abuses of «mammon» more and more.

To recognize this «given - ness» does not mean to accept the political or economic status quo, as if it reflected presumed orders of nature; it is rather to acknowledge that limits in knowing, as elsewhere, accompany our (common) existence as human beings.

Let us rather accept the fact: Mankind, as we find it in its present state and present functioning, is organically inseparable from that which has been slowly added to it, and which is propagated through education.

Woe to you oh person who can not accept the world as an open concept but rather one of malice and conformity, I feel saddened for you that you are unwilling to be open to other options yourself just because your too hard headed to accept mistakes.

In a recent paper Rogers defines a person as a fluid process and potentiality «in rather sharp contrast to the relatively fixed, measurable, diagnosable, predictable concept of the person which is accepted by psychologists and other social scientists to judge by their writings and working operations.»

We are told that members of a community can disagree about some rather fundamental issues; nineteenth - century chemists did not all have to accept atomism as long as they all accepted the laws of combining proportions.

Rather than accepting as authoritative Scripture's total witness, the interpreter uses either his subjective experience with the Christ, or his contemporary sensibility, or the church's traditional understanding of the gospel, or perhaps some combination of these to judge what reasonably the «whole Bible» might be saying.

If I do accept myself, seeing myself as I am rather than as I wish I was, I will see things that I will weep over, but acknowledge my helplessness, give up on the holiness project and gratefully depend on grace — I am less likely to do the things I wish were different.

I'm still working all this out in my head, but as a woman who has grown to accept her ambitious spirit rather than resist it (perhaps because of my upbringing, perhaps because of Dan's influence and support, perhaps because of that whole Enneagram Type 1 thing), I offer just a few observations that I hope we can discuss further in the comment section:

We must accept it as a whole or none at all because if the book or collection of books which I would rather say the Bible is wrong in geology then what good is its theology?

And he offered his thesis as a way of keeping the direction of inquiry open rather than closing it at the point at which the origin of laws are accepted as ultimately unexplained.

R. E. Hume's book, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, 29 contains a translation of those which are rather generally accepted as basic to a study of Hindu religion and philosophy.

Clearly, it is one question whether certain psychical terms can be coherently established as theological analogies rather than frankly accepted as only symbols, while it is another and far more serious question whether any such terms at all can be coherently classified as truly analogical rather than merely symbolic.

It was this naive positivism that Kaplan accepted, rather than, for example, the much more sophisticated views of his philosophical mentor John Dewey, as the basis of his argument for religious naturalism.

In all cases, however, to accept such statements as true is to challenge the full autonomy of science and history within their own proper spheres; and it is this challenge to a genuinely secular outlook, rather than any particular statement in itself, which makes classical theism so widely unacceptable to contemporary men.

If the majority of society put half of the effort into developing their intellect and forming their own beliefs that many put into living a life controlled by what any random man who claims they are spreading God's message, perhaps people would actually come to their own conclusions rather than simply accepting the ones presented to them as the one and only truth.

7:7 - 11) But again the goodness of God is not under human control, no universally valid fact on which one can reckon; rather, only he who is willing to accept such goodness as a constituent factor in the reality of his own life and let it dominate his life can assert it, can trust it.

Unlike midrange families, people are often accepted in their differences, and understood to be struggling to do right rather than as inherently hostile or destructive.

@ Ivan the people you refer to as the ones who would rather «just be atheist and forget about it» are the ones that are rejecting «just accepting god» and doing the opposite of forgetting about it.

Wouldn't you rather accept things as they actually are rather than as you wish them to be?

I pretty much agreed with most of what you have said and i think that the sinners prayer has been misused as a get out of Jail free card.A couple of things that people miss is that God is in charge.As soon as you offer yourself to God and accept Jesus Chris the holy spirit has liberty to work on you.Because he loves us he will discipline us so that we do repent of our sins.The downside of living a walk like that you are a hypocrite until you admit your sinfulness the holy spirit can not help us because of our pride.The second part was you talking about disciplining the flesh personally you cant discipline that which is corrupt our hearts are deceitfully wicked we need new hearts no amount of effort on our part will transform our hearts that is the work of the holy spirit he changes our hearts so that we no longer desire to sin we would rather serve the Lord with all our hearts instead.brentnz

Conversion is... not the joining of a community in order to procure «eternal salvation»; it is rather, a change in alliance in which Christ is accepted as Lord and centre of one's life.

The bottom line is that Jeremy wants to take Yahweh off the hook for his murderous acts rather than accept the fact Yahweh's own words betray him as a genocidal maniac and a being not worth of worship, if he does exist.

At first they tried to be comforting, interpreting Job's trouble as disciplinary rather than punitive, but soon, with the hard rigor of convinced logicians accepting an unquestioned premise, they were arguing back from Job's misery to his antecedent and corresponding sin.