Sentences with phrase «by precepts»

As the child of Indian immigrants living in New York, Ganesh's art responds to the dearth of her native South Asian culture by formulating a language that is not curbed by precepts of any kind.

Christian missionaries carried the Book to our savage ancestors and by its precepts and example slowly tamed their rude cultures.

«Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited!

«line by line, precept by precept, here a little, there a little»

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

To insist a little on this Conclusion being the product of all the former the truthe hereof will appeare both by precept and patterne i. John.

«The right of holding slaves is clearly established by the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.»

«Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men» Isaiah 29:13

Apparently, the Inquirer and mayoral candidate Jim Kenney find it morally problematic that some Roman Catholics believe that those who are happy to take pay checks from Roman Catholic organizations and to use the Roman Catholic name to promote their institutions should actually uphold by precept and example the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Modeling disciplined behavior, teaching by precept and creating consequences all have a part in helping your child become more self - disciplined.

Not exact matches

Indeed, its precepts have come to be widely regarded as a model for «good governance» and for the brand of investor activism illustrated by the Allergan story.

Meanwhile, 26 percent say the Bible is «a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.»

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

Our age has lost none of its appetite for fables of personal liberation, and it tends to side with the rebels Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, or with the precepts of Emersonian self - reliance, or with the antinomian moral fables offered repeatedly by movies.

When I was a pastor, I often quoted Isaiah 28:10 - 13 as proof that God's preferred method of teaching was also line by line, precept upon precept.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear: «The natural law, present in the heart of each man and established by reason, is universal in its precepts and its authority extends to all men» (1956).

It is by no means clear that only that form of the Mass is most marvellous and personally most authentic which disregards all the precepts of the Church including those of the Second Vatican Council.

The Christian must normally adopt an analogous attitude in theory and practice in regard to teachings and moral precepts of the Church which are put forward authoritatively by the Church, even if not as irrevocable dogma.

The reason is not that a moral precept is binding even if it is not proclaimed by the Church with sufficient clarity, although the Church could and should do so.

Certainly the new element can not simply be separated from one's ordinary life, but by fulfilling the precepts of the catechism and the commandments of the Church and being in this sense a good Christian, we have not yet adequately responded to God's call to our concrete and unique person.

These spontaneous factors of a free decision not articulated in propositions, not explicitly focussed, not recoverable by introspection, can of course ex supposito never be critically judged and elucidated by reflection and theoretical verification, by express confrontation with the explicit precepts of the natural law, the Gospel and the Church.

While the exhortations of Leo XIII and the precepts of Pius X were duly noted by Benedict and his successors, rigorous enforcement proved to be the exception rather than the rule.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

To illustrate by a few examples from his precepts, note the reason given for the course of action that is enjoined, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven» (Matt.

Among the precepts of Christ in the Gospels, and the precepts with which they are illustrated and supplemented in the Epistles, there are few which could be applied as positive rules, to be followed mechanically, and enforced if necessary by legal sanctions.

In Old Testament usage it means instruction in the ways of God and His demands upon men, whether given by means of positive precepts and statutes, or by other means.

Furthermore, the degree of certainty of such historical aetiology can be increased by the fact that the rational inference is drawn under the light of faith and of inspiration, as of course happens in recognition of more precise precepts of the natural moral law.

This paradoxical thrust is evident in Jesus» intention to fulfill the Law by, at times, violating the specific precepts of the Law.

(p. 23) THOMAS JEFFERSON: «I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by himself to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

For the Scholastics it is the act by which a subordinate submits his will and conduct to the legitimate precepts of a superior, out of respect for the latter's authority.

He preached the Word, book by book, line by line, precept upon precept (cf. Isaiah 28:10 - 13).

It is indeed this capacity to exist, by belonging to a system of freedoms, which is postulated here; thereby is concretized «that perspective» (Aussicht), evoked from the beginning of the Dialectic, that view «into a higher immutable order of things, in which we already are, and in which, to continue our existence in accordance with the supreme decree of reason, we may now, after this discovery, be directed by definite precepts» (p. 112).

most people can be taught methodically, based on precept upon precept and step by step approach.

Just as metaphysical first principles are discovered in a mode of enquiry, so the precepts of natural law are those «presupposed in any situation in which learning and enquiry between rational individuals about their individual and common goods can be advanced and by any relationship in which individuals can conduct themselves with rational integrity.»

Sufism seeks to strengthen that love by showing the disciple the means by which he can purify his actions and thus purify his character, and then elevate his soul to sublime heights — which is accomplished under the continual supervision of spiritual educators who are true mystics following the rules and precepts of Islam.

It's «How can Conservatives be such hypocritical D - Bags that they claim to be «Christian» while embracing a woman who, BY HER OWN ADMISSION, absolutely loathed Christianity, and was diametrically opposed to every single precept of it?

By living according to the precepts of Islam they counter white America's stereotype of black men as on drugs, out of work or in jail.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

«It must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same - sex marriage should not be condoned,» writes Kennedy in a paragraph that will likely become the focus of scrutiny by church - state experts.

Not infrequently parallels to the actual precepts can be found, and have been set out at 1ength by scholars.

If it was not Jesus of Nazareth who taught these teachings and through his life and death gave impetus to this movement, if it was not this Jesus of Nazareth who was revered by the early Church as it passed on his precepts — within the lifespan of those who knew him — then who was it?

The goal is to allow the coexistence of the most contradictory interpretations: maternity, contraception or abortion; voluntary sterilisation or in - vitro fertilisation; sexual relations within or outside marriage, at any age, under any circumstance, as long as one abides by the triple precept of the new ethic: the partners» consent; their health security; and respect for the woman's right to choose.Reproductive health is the Trojan horse of the abortion lobby and of the global sexual revolution.

Such endorsement would be disastrous — most especially for those who would be taught by their pastors to ignore the saving power of divine precept.

The gap between precept and practice is often attributed to man's sinfulness and somehow or the other explained away by Church people.

The lack of the authenticating thread for genuine natural law - the nonnegotiable insistence that there are some universally valid precepts derivable by nature and unable not to be known (however much we are tempted to overlook them or pretend we do not know them)» is most clearly evident in the sections of each chapter where Porter sketches what contemporary moral theology can discover from her medieval labors.

Mesmerized by current trends, Porter turns patronizing when the Scholastics seem to her to get something like the subordination of women within marriage wrong, noting that they «did not have the kind of historical / critical perspective on Scripture that would have enabled them to relativize these precepts.»

They violated no moral precept by moving to a better school district.

It would obviously be a complete misunderstanding to take these «But I tell you» passages as formal legal precepts of an external authority, which can be fulfilled by outward behavior.

However inapplicable to immediate conditions in this present age some precepts in the New Testament may seem to be, the ethical ideals of the New Testament as a whole have gone ahead of the race like a pillar of fire by night and of cloud by day.