Sentences with phrase «accept those things which»

The man w / o the Spirit does not accept the things which come from the Spirit of God.

Perhaps I am supposed to accept the idea that people can argue that I accept things which they themselves don't believe, and perhaps don't even realize they don't believe?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

«If you are a conservative talk show host, which I am, if you don't accept that it's likely Hillary Clinton has taken part in multiple murders, or that Barack Obama is a Muslim extremist sympathizer who was probably born outside this country — if you don't accept those two things, it's almost as if you're a sellout.

It's those things that you push for — in which you never accept «no» for an answer.

Additionally, with more than 1,000 crypto - currencies currently in existence, even if we accept the assumption that they have staying power, identifying which one will be «the winner» is far from a sure thing.

I'd add one thing — entrepreneurs need an environment in which they can experiment and fail, and specifically, an environment in which failure is tolerated and accepted, and doesn't result in them being branded as failures.

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.

Tom tom: I'm sure you accept many things without absolute proof - for example, you probably accept that matter is made of atoms which you can not see; you probably accept that gravity is not going to disappear tomorrow; you probably believe that testing a theory over and over will yield reliable results.

I have absolutely no problem with Poligomy it is the whole «an Angel gave golden plates (which have never been seen) to Joesph Smith» thing plus the whole women as subserviant to men aspect of LDS and the «inner circle of MEN only in the temples running everything» that make it hard for me to accept.

The same reasons BC condemns the readers and contributors to this forum — that we think, question, use our own God - given intelligence and reasoning skills, don't accept the easy answers, and are accepting of differences which create no harm — are the very things that make that notion quite bizarre.

Or, take the Nazis, a classic example in which an entire society decided that genocide was a good thing (e.g. their own standard of morality) but we wouldn't accept that standard as correct or say that individual Nazis under such regime were doing the right thing when complying with the Nazi standard of morality.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

Again, may I repeat that we may not approve of this terrifying free will being given to men at all, but it is one of those things which we are bound to accept.

Conversely, if he accepts his exposed condition and remains open to those things which meet him, he has turned his exposedness into «holy insecurity.»

In the encyclical Aeterni Patris Leo XIII wrote that «a fruitful causeof the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the State, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.»

This we believe even when we can not accept some of the things which he himself may hold to be basic to his philosophy.

(f) To help them accept the things about their partner which can not be changed.

The main problem I've seen with people accepting evolution (aside from plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of time over which these things happened.

Yet if he were seriously to accept the attitude of mind which prevails throughout the whole New Testament he might come to see that, although there are many things which appear to deny the love and justice of God in this life, he is quite literally in no position to judge the final issue.

It is the process of accepting every good or bad thing which may occur to us as individuals as the same.

When the individual begins to realize that many of the things about his life for which he has been blaming himself, consciously or subconsciously, are actually the result of early experiences over which he had no control, he becomes better able to accept responsibility for making constructive changes.

But even if neither is accepted, we suggest that there are certain things which the Church ought not only resignedly to await but which she might well go forward to meet.

«Standard» (originally meaning «banner»), nowadays means something that is accepted as a model, and by which other things are also oriented, i.e., a measure, criterion or norm.

Accept for the sake of argument the logic of intelligent design, based upon the premise that things which are complicated must result from design.

Accepting things for which there is not a single shred of evidence is a hallmark of gullibility.

But it is one thing to concede the difficulties, quite another to accept the present system of educational inequality, which exists to some degree in every country in the world.

To exalt him as a great thinker, as though he could take delight in being praised for having honed his mental tools very sharp, no matter what they cut; to speak admiringly of him as an excellent orator, as though adeptness in the use of images were an enviable thing, no matter what they imaged; to do him reverence as a great student who learned from Newton and Locke and the Platonists, from nature itself, no matter what he learned — to honor him thus is to do him no honor that he could accept — or which, accepting, he would not thereafter bitterly rue.

Meanwhile he will accept things in the Bible, written and heavily modified over time, and which contains mostly folklore.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

It's a classic moment in Lost history because it perfectly encapsulates John and Jack's characters, and because it points to a predicament to which we can all relate: Some of us really struggle to accept things on faith, while others seem to find it easy.

It took a real effort on my part to keep calling myself to the truths of my faith, which says that however he was behaving, in God's eyes he was just as precious as my little girl, and that's a hard thing to accept when you're having to deal with the loss of somebody that's so dear to you.

The striking feature of this is the repudiation of precisely those good things which earlier sages had accepted as the ends of life: gold, silver, rubies, things of desire.

Perhaps the nearest thing to consensus, one which did become practically effective, was the consensus of the learned doctors of Islam; and this has been still further reduced to the agreement among the learned doctors of the four accepted schools of thought in Islam.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

The statistics are merely sets of data measured in a specific context and at least the person who posted them had the respect to allow us to make our own interpretation rather than inserting his own opinion which is what Buddha actually wanted people to do... not just accept things on blind faith but interpret for themselves and experience for themselves.

What must the case really be, so far as we today can grasp it, if people who thought and wrote and naturally accepted such and such ideas put things in the way in which they did put them?

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

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

I hope that what is said about these topics will illustrate the fashion in which other aspects of Christian thought would be handled by one who accepts the Process way of seeing things.

only the things which have been * proven * over and over again are accepted.

Claim — Anspruch — can signify two different things: undue and unacceptable pretension or an appeal which does not force one to accept its message.

Or are we to accept Hartshorne's contention that in such cases we are just ignorant of the manner in which causal conditions have rendered the thing in question logically impossible?

I think the author is displaying the best of being Jewish — critical thinking, questioning why she does things rather than just accepting everything with no questioning (which is very anti-Jewish in my opinion and seems to be what you suggest.)

The only extent to which the church accepts free agency is to the extent that you chose to do EVERY little thing that the cult leadership of that church tells you.

Not only would that allow the individual (of any age) to see things as they do, but maybe it would allow more inner peace which in turn could allow people to accept and understand one another more as well.