You internalize past failures or disappointment
as judgments about you rather than seeing how you can create a different reality.
Not exact matches
«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.