Sentences with phrase «as judgments about»

You internalize past failures or disappointment as judgments about you rather than seeing how you can create a different reality.

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«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»
Additionally, 56 percent admitted feeling worried about not looking as fit as everyone else there, and 46 percent were concerned about the potential for judgment.
Albert Einstein would later write about her, «Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgment - all these were of a kind seldom found in a single individual... Once she had recognized a certain way as a right one, she pursued it without compromise and with extreme tenacity.»
It also means taking responsibility for your own thinking, such as stereotypical, snap judgments and prejudices about how people «should» behave.
It allows them to talk about these things without fear of judgment from other men and to explore their senses of fashion as well as their relationships to food, wellness, and dating.
«Relative deprivation is an idea that says that when we make judgments about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with author Daniel H. Pink.
«As to whether this particular group of politicians is going to really achieve that success is not something I can make a particular judgment about
And while there is no legal requirement that underwriters like Mr. Thiel reveal their involvement to the opposing side or the jury, it is considered fair game for lawyers to ask questions about financial backing — something that Gawker Media did on Wednesday in court as part of its efforts to overturn the Hogan judgment.
Try not to make judgments about what you see: Simply pretend you're a fly on the wall, and observe as neutrally as possible.
We should not be shy about expressing our judgments as to which are the better and which are the worse traditions.
Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;
Anytime God brought judgment He warned His people as we read about Noah, God Gave Noah the exact day, 7 days before the flood, God warned Lot and his family, The Ninivites were warned etc...
The answer, in my judgment, lies in looking more carefully at Whitehead's relatively sparse remarks about societies as stable, structured environments for the emergence of successive generations of actual occasions.
Martin might respond that my criticism is unfair because he is not asking for skepticism about those points on which historians agree; he is only asking that Christians suspend judgment about the resurrection taken as a physical, historical fact.
He senses that it will not satisfy Christians, since it «requires one to suspend judgment about some truth that one thinks one knows, such as that Jesus rose from the dead.»
Nevertheless, I am convinced that rather than continue to assume that growth, as measured by Gross National Product is an appropriate goal of national and international policy, we must examine how it relates to economic welfare, and that requires that we dare to make judgments about what constitutes welfare.
He says that insofar as the aesthetic judgment «this is sublime» can be reduced to a statement about the speaker's feelings, it must be translated «I have humble feelings.»
In this complicated milieu, he remained dissident but independent, anti-regime but secular and un-Catholic, and developed further a subtlety and restraint about rendering judgments on people as objects of politics, as actors in politics.
Three: If these essays are written to deepen process theology as a mode of systematic theology on the supposition that a theology is truncated if its rootage in Scripture is not clear, then it is crucial to be clear — in ways in which these essays do not make it clear — how process hermeneutics warrants any judgments about what is normative for Christian theology.
We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.
While young people may be afraid to share their doubts and questions in evangelical churches for fear of judgment and condemnation, they may be just as afraid to share their doubts and questions in mainline churches because no one seems to be talking about those issues!
How would the grounds and the judgment about truth vary as construals of the Christian thing vary?
If we think of «theory» as the forming of generalizations or synoptic judgments and think of «practice» as requiring judgments about particular cases, then inquiry guided by these three types of questions will always require capacities for doing both.
is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»
The Justices write as if this question can be ignored or constitutes merely a «value judgment» about which reasonable people can disagree.
What is remarkable is how quickly the need of the church to make ethical judgments on many problems entered into the shaping of the tradition, as appears to have happened with the modification of Jesus» word about marriage and the injunctions concerning the handling of disputes (Matthew 19: 7ff.
As I think about stories that are centered on people like Mark Driscoll I have to keep repeating this mantra to myself: gift more grace rather than justify more judgment.
Not long ago I corresponded with him about his intent in using the phrase, and was confirmed in my judgment that he only meant to say that ministers should be as ready of access to persons burdened with guilt and other negative feelings as are Roman Catholic priests.
While his judgment about the value of the accord for the preservation of catholic life in Europe may be seriously questioned, he did not support the agreement simply to enhance his own power, as Cornwall implies, but because he felt it was in the best interest of the church at the time.
The discrepancies are overlooked, and the atypical individuals are treated exactly as if they fulfilled the a priori judgments about them.
As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).
Greed, lack of caring for others, passing judgment on others, etc — all things that are so common to Rush and the GOP are about as far removed from Jesus as one can get.
Precisely in acknowledging God's primordial will as represented by Jesus, one necessarily pronounces a truth - judgment about Jesus» revelatory function — or, to use the traditional term, office.
While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»
Say what one will about the dubious quality of Heidegger's judgment here, the problem for his interpreters seems to remain one of demonstrating that his later philosophical views are any less dubious than his earlier ones — especially as they are rooted in the manner in which he lived.
This is not so much a judgment about what is likely as it is an acute analysis of what is needed.
First, it reflected a judgment about modern warfare as inherently grossly destructive, so much so that it could never be conducted morally or be an instrument of moral purpose.
Bernstein sees Dewey's liberal, political outlook as completely consistent with his view that philosophy's main task is «to become practical, where this means addressing itself to the basic issues and conflicts that confront us, and making practical judgments about what is to be done» (PA 225).
I have purposed to emphasize these Truths so as to fulfill my obligation to my Maker to warn about His coming judgment.
When one is reflecting about a psychological, sociological, political, or economic issue intentionally as a Christian, one submits one's judgments to Christ.
Fourth, as used in most evangelical discussion, the term is a philosophical judgment controlled by categories alien to Scripture; it is a slogan based on «how God ought to have inspired the Word» which has been substituted for careful patient analysis of what the Bible does teach about itself.
And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.
Chief among them is that, as much as we may come to understand the world within which our historical forbears functioned, we must make all our judgments about them and about the past...
When we acknowledge Jesus as the center of our history, we make not only a judgment about the facts but also a confession of evaluation.
He needs to see the significance of self - involving language as he makes judgments about God, the world, and other people, as he acts in various ways as a Christian in society, and as he expresses his commitment in word and action.
Their teachings about this future event are given as a warning, an incentive, an encouragement to live for Christ now because we know that, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:10, «We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.»
As we age, we learn about God, sin, righteousness, and judgment in a myriad of different ways.
I am talking about us as individuals trying to sit in judgment on other people about the decisions they have made in their own lives.
To be sure, there is nothing new about the fact that the clear assertions or implications in scripture that God is really related to the world as Creator and Redeemer, and hence by experiences of love and care, judgment and forgiveness, create difficulties for theological reflection.
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