Sentences with phrase «accept the things of»

1 Corinthians 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he can not understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

I would like to present to you for your consideration the following verse in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 14: «The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned».

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

He does not accept the things of the Spirit of God (willful rejection), for they are foolishness to him.

And once elected, not on a single occasion did Ed Mangano accept a thing of value in exchange for influencing a public decision.

But while it's illegal for anybody working for the U.S. government to accept anything of value from a «foreign state,» that doesn't make it illegal, unethical, or even particularly noteworthy for a «learned intermediary» to accept things of value from prescription medical product manufacturers — provided, of course, that doing so doesn't adversely affect patient care.

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«What it has to do with is the fact that the person is not humble enough to accept responsibility when things go wrong, accept that there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

Good leaders accept the humble responsibility of finding out these things by inviting feedback and then listening.

I have constraints in that I have to meet quarterly numbers, which is a good thing — it's certainly good discipline — but it's a bad thing as well because if I wanted to invest, for instance, a $ 100 million to just make my brand name more accepted for two quarters and in the third quarter I'll get traction, that's not an option I would consider without a lot of pull.

One thing I did initially was that I came in with lower prices and accepted jobs at a loss, so for a couple of years I had some pretty significant losses.

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

From investigating how their boss» Uber account started accepting rides for a stranger in Russia to their mind - blowing explanations of convoluted tweets, this show teaches listeners about things they never knew in the most engaging and entertaining way possible.

Sometimes you simply have to accept that things are the way they are and make the most of the hand you've been dealt.

Projects and deals can fall through, you can have a bad quarter of business, and you can have a few bad weeks with your diet but it's still a temporary thing because you don't have to accept it as a permanent reality.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution bars federal officers from, among other things, accepting, without the consent of Congress, payments and gifts «of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.»

What makes a «good» pair of headphones isn't as standardized as something like a smartphone, which has a generally accepted list of things (a sharp screen, the latest processor, etc.) that make it high - quality.

«I accept that a lot of the things I'm fighting for now,» Whande said, «I might not see in my lifetime... Martin Luther King didn't get to see his dream fulfilled, but it was fulfilled.»

The essence of this particular dilemma lies in answering this initial question: Even if the upside appears to be a sure thing, can you afford to accept your fate in the event that the worse - case scenario of a life decision implodes on you?

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

Apple also reportedly considered a much larger content acquisition last year: A number of news outlets said the company made a takeover bid for content giant Time Warner, which owns HBO and CNN among other things, but the latter decided to accept an offer from telecom player AT&T instead.

Conferences attract plenty of people who are doing the same thing, and once you accept that, you'll probably discover that going to events for entrepreneurs is one of the most helpful things you can do for your business.

Real leaders accept responsibility as the heads of their teams, and they're always working to do things better.

In order for bitcoin to be a real currency, Adeney claims, it must be three things: easy and frictionless for trading between people, widely accepted as a legal tender for all debts (both public and private) and stable in terms of value.

Of course, just because some people are over-concerned about their anxiety and would actually do better if they simply accepted their worrying doesn't mean that there's no such thing as excessive anxiety.

We humans don't typically agree on all that much, but there is at least one thing that an impressive amount of us accept: which hand is easiest to control.

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.

He adds, «The toughest thing is making a conscious decision to accept dilution of your ownership in order to get the capital you need.

We discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers matters that independent registered public accounting firms must discuss with audit committees under generally accepted auditing standards and standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications with Audit Committees).

As things improve, investors will accept less of a premium for the lower credit issuers.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

Some of the most accepted advice turned out to be the worst thing for me at the time.

I find myself speaking out more and more about the things I can not accept — like the failed war on drugs, mistreatment of refugees, prejudice against the LGBT community, or the fact that the death penalty still exists despite being proven to not deter crime.

One thing more, RIM should accept the fact that the number of apps make impression on the folks mind what Apple and Google are presently doing.

Maybe people have come to accept that student loans are the «thing» to deal with in order to go to college, and many students don't think about the cost of college and choose to deal with the price tag later.

However, it seems that although there are plenty of alarming signals, the market is not willing to accept that things have changed; what might have been a great investment in the past might now be so now.

Every B2B lead generation effort that produces great business leads is also going to produce a certain percentage of «unqualified» sales leads, and as long as your «unqualified» sales leads are less than 10 % of total sales leads (this percentage may be higher, depending on your industry), you should accept this as a cost of doing business and move on to the next thing on your schedule.

The company said it was being unfairly singled out for doing things that are «widely accepted as a standard component of online advertising in both the political and commercial arenas.»

One of the best things you can do as a business owner is to accept several payment varieties.

In this view of the world, markets stop falling on bad news because everyone who is still in accepts things are bad.

However, those who don't accept the gift of Christ will probably miss out on great things in this life and the next.

Real things take nowhere that long to circulate and be accepted - Newton's theory of gravity probably took around 50 years (if that) and nowadays it can take just a few weeks / months for newly discovered facts to get around.

I accept that some of the things that god says are wrong, are in fact wrong.

They'll accept Lively's claims of being «vilified» and «attacked» without taking a single moment to look at the heinous and hurtful things that he says and does.

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 universe is complicated and it can be difficult to accept that we don't fully understand many things, but isn't it even more of a stretch when you add another level of complication?

Although disliking Jews go further back, such as their exile, one of the reasons is that the Pope made a rule that Christians can't loan money (but accepting a loan is ok) so Jews end up taking the job and so long as things are going well, people probably like jews because they received money (though they probably didn't like paying them back with interest).

But what happens when one of two things occurs: when the LBGT person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be accepted as a couple?

They accepted it as the system of truth by which other things could be judged.

As for the one god being more valid than any of the other thousands, that things you attribute to him (technically to Jesus), still haven't been proven in anything outside of the bible, which no one of a scientific mind can accept as convincing proof.

At this point, it's best for all of us to just grow up and accept that fact that Hollywood is going to make a movie out of every single thing...