Sentences with phrase «by its conscience more»

Convicted by its conscience more than by its foes, it joins the penitents at its own altars, asking, «What must we do to be saved?»

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So - called variable pay plans have been around for more than a century, and were first used by industrial magnates including George Eastman and William Procter out of sense of social conscience, writes Rutgers economist Joseph Blasi in this Huffington Post story.

Each letter is also a literary treasure, and the editor's introduction explaining what More meant by «comfort,» «company,» and «conscience» is simply splendid.

All they are saying is they should not be forced to compromise their conscience by facilitating contraception to women, when these women can get the pill on their own by simply writing their insurance companies — insurance companies would gladly even pay the shipping of this pils to women, rather than paying for more expensive birthings, pre and post natal care, and even abortions.

Unless amended by the Senate, the law's conscience protections will be more meager than those currently afforded in the case of abortion.

Because of this fact, moral dullness often creeps up and possesses us without our being stopped by the signals of conscience that usually flash before we are tempted to other more overt and recognizable forms of sin.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

As he contemplates these alternatives, Rodrigues must discern whether he is being guided in conscience by the Lord, by his own psychology, or by more diabolical voices.

An essay on the catholic Luther will by definition not make that mistake, and Yeago shows that the young Luther's quest was more to find the true God for God's own sake than the gracious God who would appropriately console his conscience.

And by the same token, if we ignore and abuse our conscience (alethiometer) then it won't work properly any more, and may lead us into darkness and loneliness that could even last for ever.

More important by far than an assault upon the theory of communism is the vigorous working out of Christianity's criticism of capitalism and the development among Christian people of a Christian judgment and conscience in economics.

Hotairace, by performing civic good works the satisfaction you feel is your conscience, proof of your soul, and it is telling you that you have more value and purpose than a random collection of atoms.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Since any change to that status can only be brought by state legislation, the task of church becomes more of a conscience raiser and an advocate for change of state policy based on its own faith perspective.

More of them are frustrated revolutionaries who hate «the world» which outrages their consciences and denies their faith but who know of no way in which they can make their rebellion effective or by which they can reconcile themselves to the situation.

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dignity.

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

No, there will be no excuse for any man, because God has put in every human heart certain knowledge of Himself, so that by that knowledge man would be lead to seek to know Him more, but those who by love of their own sins, their self will, and pride and rebellion that's in their hearts have extinguished that knowledge written on their consciences... So what ever comes to those who reject it, it is their own doing... George Carlin knows that now very well.

Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that of an intense spiritual nature with a keen imagination and a desperately sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering of the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures; (c).

One can only admire the author's willingness to accept the sometimes radical demands of conscience: to acknowledge these demands is ever more important in a world where pressures on people of conscience multiply by the day.

«These and many more evil customs which had sprung up in the night of darkness and general apostasy from the truth and true religion were now, by the inshining of this pure my of divine light in my conscience, gradually discovered to me to be what I ought to cease from, shun, and stand a witness against.»

Among many other more obvious things, apartheid is also an attempt to restore the legal and social bondage of the darker - skinned that had been self - righteously diminished by the long arm of Victorian conscience, eager to «improve» natives.

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

The whole world may come to participate more or less imperfectly in the universal mission of Christ and the Church: the Eastern Orthodox churches, Protestant ecclesial communities, the Jewish people, Islamic monotheism, the great world religious traditions that are not always explicitly monotheistic, and even secularists through the workings of the moral conscience by which human beings are led to seek the true and the good.

He accepts, despite his rigorous Jewish upbringing, the insight of Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean (Rom 14:14; cf. Acts 10:9 - 16, 28; 11:5 - 10); in discussing the question of meat offered to idols, while respecting the tender consciences of the more scrupulous brethren, he makes it clear that for himself, with his robust Jewish monotheism reinforced by the revelation of God in Christ (1 Cor 8:4 - 6), there can be no problem, for «the earth is the Lord's and everything in it» (1 Cor 10:26 - 28).

When we're influenced by these two deep truths of conscience our feelings are astonishingly changed from being egocentric into joyful, more enduring peace which gravitates around and unites with others.

The Puritan had found his major support through the emotional response awakened by his preaching, and he came to stress more and more the paramount importance of an awakened conscience and the work of grace in the heart of the believer.

It is not so easy a matter to perform this task aright; to stand in the presence of God and to speak in his name, with that plainness and simplicity, that seriousness and gravity, that zeal and concern, which the business requires; to accommodate ourselves to the capacity of the common people without disgusting our more knowing hearers by the insipid flatness of our discourse; to excite and awaken drowsy souls, without terrifying and disturbing more tender consciences; to bear home the convictions of sin, without the appearance of some personal reflection; in a word, to approve ourselves unto God as workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.21

Some of the comments made by our great manager this month have been really laughable BUT i expected nothing different as he will not sign anyone of note AS USUAL!!!!! The Yaya Sanogo signing looks even more ridiculous in the gran scheme of things BUT that's wenger for you, i also hope he has a conscience and understands that we need to win something this year and if not the league title then we must at least finish second NOT 3rd OR 4th to show some improvement anythingt other than that and he should not renew his contract.

Sathyananda — I follow your free lessons — My view on what the troubled lady is getting very upset about is — Reiki is a beautiful energy that can do no - one any harm, it is for the highest good of all — and when give or sent the higher self of the other person will accept only what is good and right for them — As for displaying the Sacred Symbols — well we must live and let live and not judge what others do - we must do what our own conscience lets us do — personly I do believe to keep them quietly sacred and only seen by us as Reiki Healers - but I do not get so angry and judgemental as it seems the Lady does — sorry just one more thing — Reiki symbols seem to have different forms of interpretation when drawn — there again I believe and trust that it is intention when using them — thank you for your time

A documentary / fiction hybrid that's more effective as the former than the latter, Woodpeckers deserves to follow up its appearance in Sundance's World Dramatic competition section by serving time at festivals with a social conscience.

Surely I'm watching the same film, I marvelled, although Emilio Estevez had somewhat more charisma than Martin Lawrence, and the lead child who will appeal to the misguided coach's conscience (and provide a mother for him to lust after), was played far more convincingly by Joshua Jackson than Oren Williams.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

In the hands of the ever - ruminative Pacino, the exploration of Danny's morality and conscience; addiction, abandonment, manipulation of and by the industry, would have rooted his moral transition from self - obsessed, pitying crooner into worldly-wise family man, all the more tangible had his character been given the multi-textured attention Pacino is renowned for but is instead carpeted over with sugared - coated fluff.

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

PURE and MTAS ask CPS to respect the decisions of parents to protect our children from test misuse by opting them out, and to honor the teachers who are refusing to give the tests as a matter of conscience and from a sincere desire to provide children with a real education, not just more test prep.

By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as welBy high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as welby lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.

Told by three resonant and evocative characters - Jess; Adelaide Lyle, the town midwife and moral conscience; and Clem Barefield, a sheriff with his own painful past - A Land More Kind Than Home is a haunting tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

They'll clean their consciences by sending a handful of solar panels to Africa, or more likely they'll offer India a subsidy on a windmill parked in some Indian politicians back yard where the wind never blows and count that as a «reduction in CO2 emissions from BAU».

Even other immigration lawyers, including Charles Kuck, an Atlanta attorney and president - elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, question whether the motivation of the firm is motivated more by «cash or conscience».

The English Court of Appeal allowed her appeal on the basis that the claim was more in the nature of a constructive trust, as opposed to a resulting trust, and by whatever name it is described, it is a trust imposed by law, whenever justice and good conscience require it.

In an ideal world donation, of course, should be prompted by altruism, but if financial incentives or the introduction of some form of controlled market, eg one run by the NHS in the UK, lead to the availability of more organs for transplantation, can one in all conscience marshall valid objections to such a market's creation?

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