Sentences with phrase «accept the situation of»

I hope those crazy selfish people accept the situation of a world in peace without any one Power above the rest.

Not exact matches

In effect, creditors agree to accept just a portion of what they're owed (which is more than they might get if someone is forced into a personal bankruptcy situation).

You want to have a can - do attitude about work, but maybe 2017 wasn't exactly a shining example of finding a balance between accepting every dictum from on high and coming across as rude, difficult, or just slightly coffee - deprived in these situations.

It's a lot better to accept your part of the responsibility in any situation gone wrong.

New Delhi has questioned if China would accept an identical situation in Tibet or Taiwan, or if this is a new phase in Chinese policy with China accepting Pakistan's claims as opposed to the previous stance of viewing Kashmir as disputed territory.

Once you've accepted what the worst possible outcome of a situation could be, then you can actually start thinking about how you actually might create a better outcome.

For most businesses, be able to accept money is an integral part of the operation that is ready right from the get - go, but the murky regulatory situation and Bitcoin's disruptive nature have scared most banks off.

Since the beginning of the year, the broadly accepted view now is that the global economic situation has deteriorated and that at best we can expect a modest, uneven and unpredictable global recovery.

Not that I simply accept the situation in the Vineyard or don't think it should change, but I haven't let it push me out of what is a very welcoming congregation.

It is a courageous outlook on a difficult situation that accepts the brutal facts of reality while maintaining an unwavering faith in the future hope and a commitment to prevail despite the brutal facts.

Mainline leaders see the overseas - mission - oriented evangelicals as unwilling or unable to accept a radically changed situation, as clinging to an «old style» of mission activity, closely associated with a now discredited imperialism.

It expresses a situation in which a man's fundamental self - definition is ethical, or humanistic, or scholarly, or secular, but in which he secondarily accepts the designation of himself as Christian also.

Sölle accepts also from Bultmann the analysis of the hermeneutical situation.

I would argue that many people who are pro-choice are not big fans of the mandate, but they accept it as a better situation than having a significant portion of the population with no benefits (and no choice).

Surely we ought to have the courage to let our heart be seized by God's grace and to accept the scandal and absurdity of our inescapable situation as «the power of God and the wisdom of God» by looking up at the Crucified and entering into the mystery of his death.

These thinkers, on both the left and the right, accept Marx's description of «capitalism» as our present situation without endorsing Marx's revolutionary hopes.

The data indicate that NRLC members strongly accept the self - designation of «pro-life» and tend also to accept the label of «anti-life» for their opponents, rejecting the «pro-choice» definition of the situation which is preferred by NARAL members.

When I accepted the invitation to join the faculty of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge I had two compelling reasons: Aware of the Vatican's repression and removal of creative theologians in West German universities, I anticipated a similar development in the U.S. I made therefore a conscious decision not to remain in an academic situation where I would have to spend the rest of my career fighting ecclesiastical backlash.

It is accepted and welcomed as a significant and essential feature of life — as a necessary ingredient of the human situation.

I call a great character one who by his actions and attitudes satisfies the claim of situations out of deep readiness to respond with his whole life, and in such a way that the sum of his actions and attitudes expresses at the same time the unity of his being in its willingness to accept responsibility.

A certain number of Jews, principally those of aristocratic priestly families, accepted the situation, and tried, by a cautious subservience to the conquerors, to preserve such partial autonomy as Rome allowed, under their own leadership.

Society is not expected to be stratified with respect to labor and leisure, for work is accepted as an intrinsic and universal component of the human situation.

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

The fact of God indwelling us through His Holy Spirit is going to make a change in our lives and will have much relevance to everyday life so I don't know where you get the idea that «if we accept that the Kingdom is now a «spiritual» Kingdom only, then that leads to the situation where the Kingdom becomes a religious idea that has little relevance to everyday life, very interesting to theologians, pulpiteers and pew audiences, but no dynamic to transform people into action».

The suffering inflicted on some people by the social disapproval of homosexuality is so intense and so destructive that I believe the primary moral implication of examining the current situation is that society should become much more accepting.

The same situation looks quite different to people who accept the possibility of a creator outside the natural order.

It was characteristic of Israelite life that the liberal - minded did not throw up their hands in despair, nor yet accept the situation with pseudopious resignation.

Why not accept the situation now for what it is and join the many other non-believers who are actually trying to make a positive difference in the world, instead of just trying uselessly to pray away our current crises?

In him there is the appearance of a novel response to a complex situation; and as such, he brings about new ways of understanding and new kinds of adjustment to the world which then may be shared and developed by those who hear him and accept his message.

The allusion again is to a situation in which outcasts are accepting forgiveness and other Jews are finding offence in this, and thereby blinding themselves to the reality of their own situation.

If you accept these qualities of history, you must submit to its laws and try to learn from them; you are foreclosed from treating each new historic situation de novo, as a unique occurrence to be disposed of by one radical action similarly unique.

Niebuhr labeled this perversion «Harvard orthodoxy» — to accept the Christian analysis of the human situation without accepting the Christian remedy.

By analogy, if God accepts some on the basis of merit and others on the basis of forgiveness, the situation is similarly intolerable.

And it is for that very reason that a man must accept the blood and sweat and tears of the human situation.

Nevertheless, God is there, not here or elsewhere, but everywhere in secret: where the ground of all silently confronts us, where we encounter the inescapable situation of responsibility, where we faithfully do our duty without reward, where we realize the blissful meaning of love, where death is accepted in the midst of life, where joy no longer has a name.

He accepts «the request made of me to find a way of exercising the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation.»»

A model of arbitration was set up in which the women from warring sides of a conflict would arbitrate the dispute, with the women from the aggrieved nation defining the situation, while the women from the aggressor nation would accept and announce this criticism of their own government.

Tillich has written of the courage to accept acceptance as essential in the life of faith.7 This courage appears in the therapeutic situation.

It is this dramatic situation whose urgency I wish to stress in the form of three essentially related propositions of which each of us carries the substance in his heart, without choosing, or without daring, to acknowledge them and accept their inexorable pressure and their natural logic.

Such organization would have many allies and potential allies; it may also count on others who have enough of a bad conscience or who are open enough to accept a changed situation without continued resistance.

Twists are better recognized when they occur in concrete situations than when they are defined or described in generalized theories about change, because, by their nature, twists contort the accepted definitions of things.

This implication of Whitehead's view must be fully faced and accepted, and it is this kind of situation which poses the moral dilemma for God.

Whitehead tells us that the philosophy of organism embraces what he calls the «reformed subjectivist principle,» which doctrine, in turn, «fully accepts Descartes» discovery that subjective experiencing is the primary metaphysical situation which is presented to metaphysics for analysis» (PR 160 - 243).

However, I used the term «poor» in its other accepted form: as a term of pity for someone in a difficult situation.

Poor people and poor nations who passively accept their situation are not guilty of any crime.

I likewise «used the term «poor» in its other accepted form: as a term of pity for someone in a difficult» as well in unfavourable and vulnearable situation.

Of course, he also teaches us that resentment can express itself in envy, which is itself the expression of an inability to accept the actuality of a given and particular situatioOf course, he also teaches us that resentment can express itself in envy, which is itself the expression of an inability to accept the actuality of a given and particular situatioof an inability to accept the actuality of a given and particular situatioof a given and particular situation.

Of course Catholic moral theology has always known that there are concrete moral situations in which the application of universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous resultOf course Catholic moral theology has always known that there are concrete moral situations in which the application of universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous resultof universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous results.

The dialogical communicator, on the other hand, knows that they are there, accepts them as a part of the communication situation, and is confident that the barrier, if rightly dealt with, can in the end become a carrier of meaning.

This can divert attention away from the our responsibility to accept the situation we find ourselves in and to take the contemporary fostering of vocations seriously.