Sentences with phrase «benevolence makes»

To think that thousands of pathetic losers flock to his sermons just to hear his mealy - mouthed, child - like wispy fairy tales of his savior's sweet benevolence makes me ill.

6 In short, achieve an attitude of sublime indifference toward everything outside your own being.7 Be benevolent toward others, certainly, but without any expectation of your benevolence making any difference in the flow of the universe.

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The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.

Show them how to make a hospital visit, conduct a brief counseling session, and assess benevolence needs.

761) or, as the anonymous Office of Christian Parents puts it, two who are made one by marriage «may joyfully give due benevolence one to the other; as two musicall instruments rightly fitted, doe make a most pleasant and sweet harmonie in a well tuned consort».7

Doug Sloan makes a case for the opposite, but that calls into question the benevolence and omniscience of a god who would send such confusing and conflicting directives to his creations in the first place or for sending such messages that could be «lost» after millemnia of translations.

The cross makes it clear that I am * no better * than anyone else, and equally deserve hell, while simultaneously demonstrating God's benevolence to save * his enemies * and make them family.

Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of life that makes human happiness central and sees us as beings whose dignity lies chiefly in enacting that benevolence in ordinary life.

We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.

The separation of religion and state might make sense where a tiny Jewish minority needed the benevolence of an overwhelming Christian majority but, wrenched from American context, the terms of accommodation to Christian norms were starkly exposed.

For instance, one may plan sympathetically for the welfare of others long after his death through such actions as making a will or buying life insurance, and he may enjoy these actions; but he does them not just for his own enjoyment but also for the future recipients of the blessings of his benevolence.11 However, Hartshorne maintains that such universally common altruistic actions can only be fully comprehended rationally by appeal to God as superhuman mind who ultimately unites all persons and entities in his infinite awareness and memory.

When you research (and it is difficult because most churches really are «shy» about publishing their budgets) how much a church gives to benevolence, it is many times even less than 10 % with the rest going to «stuff» that makes us better Christians.

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

Marriage vows make fulfilling the minimum requirements of a stable household a debt of justice to one's family and set the bar of spousal behavior at benevolence rather than desire.

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The same happens to Sawyer, in a way, who makes one friend (played with welcome benevolence by Jay Pharoah) and one enemy (a harrowing Juno Temple), and who all along just wants to figure out what the fuck is going on.

Respect is typically the most sparsely gifted of all human qualities, doled out so infrequently that it makes altruism, charity and benevolence seem as common as the trinkets at...

* made possible by the combined benevolence of Burr Dodd of Brooklyn Fire Proof and Arts in Bushwick.

In order to save tax, many taxpayers show benevolence by making donations for philanthropic purposes or by contributing to National Relief Fund.

Trustworthiness evaluations (i.e., ability, benevolence, and integrity) represent attributions that the trustor makes regarding the trustee.

It seems that those good CREA, et al, bureaucrats who Realtors pay to promote Realtors to the public at large are falling down on the job by not reporting actual true benevolence whilst at the same time using up Realtors» money by trying to convince the public that Realtors are indeed benevolent folks via overpaying for goofy TV ads that make Realtors look like superficial lightweights catering to cartoon characters.