Sentences with phrase «accepting things at»

Because this is so very easily refutable one can regard such attempts as nothing more than pure propaganda aimed at a believing audience use to accepting things at face value.

I guess I am a wolf then... certainly not one of the flock who follows where led... but i commend you on attempting to peal back the layers... We should all be like that... not accepting things at face value.

As adults, it is easy to just accept things at face value or to know that something works without understanding how.

Nicolas Cage makes the best twins since Jeremy Irons, giving a decidedly non-Cage performance in a picture that wanders around in our collective night, searching for love and the freedom to accept things at face value.

posits that we lose something when we «see through» Burt's dance with his buddies as smirkingly homosexual; when we don't think of our starlets as fresh off the bus; when we refuse to accept things at face value.

Not exact matches

I have never had a problem accepting that I am an average coder at best and there are many things I am yet to learn... Always be humble and be willing to learn.»

Stoicism is, at its core, accepting and anticipating this in advance, so that you don't freak out, react emotionally and aggravate things further.

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.

They have accepted that if they want to innovate by doing things better and more profitably, they will inevitably stumble at some point.

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.

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

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.

I unlike you can accept that there are things that I can't know the answers to at this time, and that perhaps someday we will figure it out.

I personally ping - ponged back and forth between religion and non-religion for a long time before accepting that we humans are truly only guessing at things, and likely inventing things, that are impossible to know for sure.

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...

Actually there is historical proof that he was a healer and a miracle worker, but at that time it was an accepted profession and there were 1,000's of people that did the same thing.

Funny how those people still want to reserve THEIR right to rage at, bully and make jokes of the things THEY don't want to accept though.

On the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Web Site, Wayne Grudem warns that if Christians accept egalitarianism, «we will begin to have whole churches who no longer «tremble» at the Word of God (Isaiah 66:2), and who no longer live by «every word that comes from the mouth of God» (Matthew 4:4), but who pick and choose the things they like and the things they don't like in the Bible.»

xx4zu1 - «the point that was made is that religion is the only thing that is given to you, in most cases, at birth that you can chose not to accept.»

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.

Such short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the person do things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety — things such as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so often.

The thing is though at that age my parent's didn't push me into just accepting their faith or else.

I wish people would accept that the «Bible» is not gods word neither was it wrote by god but by men who put what they decided they wanted as rules for everyone else to run their life based on, every thing from what type of fabric you can wear at the same time to what you can eat on certain days.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

At the same time, he's saying we need to respect faith enough to understand that many people will rely solely on that for their views and we should accept that doing so is not necessarily a bad thing.

For many Christians to accept evolution and reject creation hits at things much deeper than the question of origin.

It often pretends to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following hiat the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following hiAt the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little thing that people are foolish for falling into believing.

«There are things in the Jewish tradition that I can not accept at all,» Buber has said, «and things I hold true that are not expressed in Judaism.

Moore proposes instead that if we accept Whitehead's conviction that as creativity operates in living things it aims at the enhancement of life, we then will interpret human behavior in terms of the will - to - life.

Churches, by and large don't realize that this is a journey... a process... and expect people to accept the whole thing all at once and in doing so, lose them out the door.

First, «the Torah assumed» nothing at all — we either accept that «The Lord spoke to Moses» (Leviticus 6:8) and instructed him in the necessary burnt, grain, sin, restitution and fellowship sacrifices (Leviticus 6 - 7) or we dismiss that God spoke to Moses at all and believe that Moses made the whole thing up.

and also if i have and your answer is yes then if there is a way to get the holy spirit back then please tell me and also please pray for me for a few days and i also want to know that really is the unforgivable sin unforgivable and really i swear on my mother that i don't want to go to hell forever and i am very scared of it please help me urgent and also i am sending a friend request to you on facebook and please accept it so that we can talk on this matter together and also i think you will like my page and i couldn't sleep properly because of this and in my half sleep in my dreams i was just visiting your website and finding my comment missing and i as pleasing god and the holy spirit but as i was receiving my spirit again and again as i mentioned this in my previous comment i was abusing in my mind i couldn't stop abusing and i have a very good mother she tried to wake me but i told her not to do and it was happening same things again and again and i told my mother again the half truth because i don't want to break her heart and she told me that there is nothing like ghosts and they are making me fools (you all) and i am telling you honestly before this i irritate my mother a lot i just watch tv and surf the internet or play games in my pc and i eat and brush late and also don't listen to my parents but after i saw your website i became obedient for a few days and again the same i am disobedient your webpage or article ruined my life but this is not your fault and now days i am buy searching about this topic and my father (Vivek Saraf) broke his hands on the 6th May while riding at a very high speed he normally don't go at a very high speed but he had a very important work so whole he was riding a dog was running on the way and to save his life he gave a very hard brake and he with his nebiour fall down and got injuries in his legs and broke his hands and at first he walked with difficulty and then the local people helped him on his way and took him to the local hospital but the doctor told that we need to go to Kollkata (the capital of west bengal, India) and so he went with his loyal staff because he is a business man and in the hospital he got cured but he still have the fracture in his hands so i request you to pray for him and his negibour also and i will tell you the rest in facebook bye and sorry for spelling mistakes in my previous comments.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

You see, we atheists have this thing about requiring proof before blindly accepting what — on the surface at least — sound like ridiculous claims.

If it's OK for Buddists, Taoists and some Christians to believe that certain things happen to me after I die that I don't believe in, why do people throw stones at Mormons for believing that their ancestors can accept baptism after this life?

Sharing the gospel means at least two things: the essence of the gospel must be presented in such a way that it may be seen and heard for what it truly is; it must also be presented in such a way that it may be either accepted or rejected.

Our theology warns us not to accept Stout's liberal democracy at face value, and our sense of history suggests that things are not as bad as MacIntyre and Hauerwas make them out to be.

God hates evil, but He loves free will, and remember, when things go wrong, the Lord is at work, and if you are on a plane that goes down, heaven is yours should you be saved, although, if not saved, then that individual has decided not God... for Jesus dying is the only way God will accept you, and if you reject that, why expect heaven's glory... tisk tisk tisk.

I think if we simply accepted that this was the best they could do at the time, then we could focus on more important things like feeding the poor and supporting orphans.

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.

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.

The thing is that I think Brene is on to something here about how we need to embrace and accept our areas of imperfections, because they make us who we really are, and they are not imperfections at all, but are simply projections on ourselves from what we think other people want us to be.

The beliefs are just so far out there for me, that whenever I see someone in ardent support of them I have to think they're a troll, because I don't know how they could possibly believe or accept that (there are a few exceptions of people who pt things very well, cite supporting evidence, and are consistent and coherent - I don't agree with them, but I can at least understand what they're saying)

I agree that grace is limitless, but wouldn't someone who has been forgiven (and accepted) by grace at least have a strong desire to change the wrong things in their life?

Accepting this definition, we may infer that «ultimate reality» covers everything that we are all finally obliged to take account of insofar as we exist humanly at all, whatever other things we may or may not have to take account of in each leading our own individual human life.

He decided to accept the pastorate at Roseville Baptist Church in Johannesburg and opened his church to black people — a huge and precarious thing to do at the time.

'' That tells people that I am at least intelligent enough to require proof of existence» = > It does no such thing as you can not claim nor do you have evidence as to what is beyond measurement or accountability by accepted scientific method.

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....