Sentences with phrase «accept reality for»

The only thing childish here, is your reluctance to accept reality for what it is.

In a way, you admire Farrell for refusing to accept reality for so long.

Its ok if you want to believe in an all powerful being, but you have to live in the world around you and accept reality for what it is.

That would depend on whether you think it's better to believe comforting fairytales to avoid dealing with harsh realities to accept reality for what it is, even when it's harsh.

That is, rather than accept reality for what it is, they continue to believe the same disproven beliefs.

By simply allowing yourself to accept reality for what it is, instead of fantasizing about human nature in such a way that you could be «rescued» from your daily circumstances, you're making a tremendous step forward.

How about accepting reality for what it is?

It is also a way to accept the unacceptable by stating it is god's will rather than accepting reality for what it is, usually random in nature.

Not exact matches

I said, «Forgive me for dealing with reality here, but it doesn't seem like you are going to send me business or buy from me again, even if I do accept your return.»

While it may seem hazardous for a retailer to sell on Amazon, many companies seem to be accepting the reality that the online retailer is an incontrovertible way to reach customers at a time it is behind about 50 % of the growing in U.S. e-commerce.

For me I think that investors have got to accept the new reality in pricing if they want to remain competitive in markets like we're seeing now.

In this more nuanced (and arguably more insidious) form of climate denialism, our politicians assure us that they understand and accept the scientific warnings about climate change, but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for policy.

preacherlady: you are a wise woman trey: listen to what she says & stop trying to get everyone to accept you Reality check 1: not everyone has to like or love you for you to be happy Reality check 2: as long as it is true for me I am going to say what I believe so I am going to have to let the rest of you do that too, even if I think you are wrong Questions: what part of «love one another» don't you guys understand?

those are all parts of life... we deal with them as they come and realize that as tough as those things may be, it is a reality that we must face... we accept that this life will bring us ups and down's... emotions are a wonderful thing and we do not see the need to plead with an unknown deity to get solace for those.

My own story can be taken apart theologically using the Bible, or not, it is a journey of searching for reality and finding that I can not change it, I can only accept it, even if it sounds childlike.

Hartshorne's program seems to presuppose also that the «backbone» of metaphysics is neutral to the «flesh» (content) of reality, so that when we say coherence or consistency, these words mean, or should mean, the same for different philosophers.2 It is true that some metaphilosophical principles are almost universally accepted (e.g. noncontradiction), but others are strictly connected with given systems.

Maybe it is time for God's people to accept the reality that God has not called everyone to marry.

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

It would be like the seed demanding that for it to accept the existence and reality of the ground, it be seen as another seed or as a plant.

In reality, there is a growing number of clergy who accept this teaching and are seeking to show it in its positive and life - giving fullness in their pastoral work: many of them have had the opportunity to be involved in movements which embrace the Church's teaching and / or have come into contact with Humanae Vitae for themselves and subsequent Magisterial teaching.

There can be little question that Whitehead himself accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus» life and death are in fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality who is the chief — although not the only — principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.

Surely the Christian — and only the Christian — should be able to exercise this clarity of vision and thought because the Revelation has to some degree given him an understanding of the world, and also because, terrible as the reality may be, he can accept it without despairing, for he has hope in Jesus Christ.

Death sinks into our lives, it slowly becomes accepted reality but we always carry a homesickness for the ones we have loved, the ones who created us in a million ways.

His metaphysics provides a structure for understanding both the unity and the variety, the independence and the interrelatedness of things; it allows us to accept the fleetingness of an experience of value and yet to grasp its eternal significance; its understanding of process recognizes the reality of both being and becoming.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

For those who accept Jesus message, who participate in the reality to which the symbol of the Kingdom points, crucifixion is to be expected, though not sought.

I guess it's easier for you to believe a lie, Allen, than it is for you to accept the reality that you really aren't the special child of god.

If our human existence is not that of some supposedly substantial and indestructible soul to whom experiences happen, but is rather those experiences themselves held together in unity and given identity by the awareness and self - awareness which makes it possible for us to say «I» and «you», then the enduring reality, which God accepts and values, is precisely that series of events or occasions which go to make us what we are.

For in the reality constructed by human imagination, the reality of a thousand national identities, foundational myths, bogus perceptions of «our» innocence and «their» wickedness, who could ever be a judge whose impartiality would be recognized and whose arbitration would be accepted?

All confirm the need for some concept with an accepted common name, some notion whose reality can be debated, then affirmed or denied.

Nor for that matter can a faith accepting the reality of the Fall seek an unfallen sacred or a primordial moment of time.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

Before I state it, however, I must say that there is no reason why the more traditional position, both about life beyond death as a subjective (and hence personal) reality for each of us and also with respect to the traditional portrayal of the «last things» (including an intermediate state), may not be accepted by those who find it compelling.

For anyone who is not already predisposed to believing that the imaginary is real, if his attention is called to the distinction between reality and imagination and he is explicitly reminded that the imaginary is not real, he's not likely to accept claims about imaginary things as truth.

Ward shows that modern cosmology provides good arguments for the existence of a wise Creator, but considers that such arguments are only convincing if we accept the existence of Spiritual Reality in the first place.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

Your hate makes it impossible for you to accept reality.

Yup, not beliving in a god for which there is zero evidence is much worse than accepting fairytale mythology as reality....

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The easy dismissal of death, or the assertion that «for those who believe, there is no death», is taken to be, what it often is, an easy evasion of the dread reality itself — escapism, childish refusal to face facts, and above all (in our special interest) unwillingness to accept our human mortality.

I am not sorry to say there will always be blind (to the truth), naive (to reality) and ignorant people who will accept anything and everything in the church because for them it is easier to remain in the dark than to come to the light.

He had consulted with the older counselors, who apparently retained some sense of political realities, if not actual memory of events in the reign of David; but he accepted the view of the young fellows of the court, his boon companions reared, like himself, in the diseased artificiality of the harem - infested court and doubtless for long anticipating the day when with his enthronement they should do as they pleased.

For example, you say they would never accept a spiritual answer to reality.

Here is the necessity of overt, clear, decisive proclamation, which announces the accepting reality present in therapy as a reality that has chosen to make itself bodily known once for all in history.

A clearer conception of the self - disclosure of the accepting reality may help us hold together both sides of a seemingly paradoxical answer: The Christian good news is that God is with us and for us, which is the implicit basis of effective therapeutic empathy.

That is what I have tried to do, and it has led me to accept, however improbable they may appear, the reality and the consequences of the major cosmic process which, for want of a better name, I have called «human planetization».

But if Jesus proclaimed the forgiveness of sins as a reality for those who accepted the challenge of his proclamation, then this proclamation must be accompanied by a ministry of exorcism and healing.

It is for those who are too weak to accept the reality that: (1) there isn't a being who will make sure, in the end, justice is served to those who cause harm and suffering to other humans, (2) there is a powerful being who will take care of us, (3) our lives have a purpose beyond us, (4) we are alone.

Accepting credit for the following, when you and Reality just started using the terminology.

Hume showed that once one accepts the empiricist idea that knowledge of what is not our own experience comes to us only through the senses, there is no cognitive basis for affirming God's reality.