Sentences with phrase «changed by believing in»

I can't change it by believing in it or not believing in it.

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Jim Koch said attitudes are changing, at least among beer industry insiders, and he believes American craft brewers can bring something new to a market that hasn't seen much innovation in recent years, limited in part by the Reinheitsgebot.

«I want to compliment the Chinese for the changes they've made in the last three months, they've supported both of the resolutions passed by the United Nations Security Council and I believe they're working hard to enforce the sanctions,» he said.

Separately, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt wrote in a company blog post obtained by Politico that «we believe climate change should be addressed on a global basis through multi-national agreements, such as the Paris Agreement.»

It also plans a «step change» in aviation security following the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt last month, which Britain has said it believes was brought down by a bomb.

Management believes these measures offer the ability to make period - to - period comparisons that are not impacted by certain items that can cause dramatic changes in reported operating results, to perform trend analysis, to better identify operating trends that may otherwise be masked or distorted by these types of items and to provide additional transparency of certain items.

The Board believes that its current leadership structure, in which the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are held by Mr. Musk, together with a Lead Independent Director with broad authority, is appropriate at this time and provides the most effective leadership for Tesla in a highly competitive and rapidly changing technology industry.

In light of Mr. Oman's years of service to the Company and his significant contributions to the growth of the Company's mortgage business, we believed it was appropriate to enter into this arrangement in 1998 to address the impact on benefits payable to him under these plans caused by certain prior internal job changes and amendments made to these planIn light of Mr. Oman's years of service to the Company and his significant contributions to the growth of the Company's mortgage business, we believed it was appropriate to enter into this arrangement in 1998 to address the impact on benefits payable to him under these plans caused by certain prior internal job changes and amendments made to these planin 1998 to address the impact on benefits payable to him under these plans caused by certain prior internal job changes and amendments made to these plans.

We believe that AbraPlata is now well positioned, and due to our recently oversubscribed Offering, well capitalized to take advantage of the converging factors of renewed interest by investors in the mining sector and the positive changes in Argentina at the start of a new economic / political cycle.

In part, that's likely because Parker finally took their concerns to heart and is taking action to change Nike's culture by dismissing what he seems to believe were the most problematic executives at the company.

Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.

After years of inaction by the old Progressive Conservative government, it is refreshing to have a government that believes in climate change and has actually presented a policy to address it.

We believe that decentralised digital currencies like Bitcoin will fundamentally change how the world views and uses money: cheaper, faster and safer transactions; more privacy and financial freedom; a significantly better user experience; and ultimately, more equality by giving everyone in the world access to the same financial system.

While we do believe the New York Agreement (NYA) and Segwit2x proponents have the best of intentions in attempting to improve Bitcoin's protocol and have contributed so much to the development of the Bitcoin industry as a whole, we do not agree with the process by which they chose to enforce these changes.

You can make yourself feel better by imagining other suffering for not believing in your bogus god, but it doesn't change the fact that you have no facts to back up anything you believe in.

I realize that non-literal nuances are difficult for those who NEED to only think in simplistic childish term, but that doesn't change the fact, the Hebrews did not believe in immortality the way it's thought of today... «By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.»

If physics proves right about the nature of reality itself (and the concept the universe is a simulation), you're short - changing yourself by not believing in a loving high intelligence.

People, I believe, can change for the better by the number of people involved (strength in numbers).

An attempt by campaigners to challenge a change in the law, which they believe will make assisted suicides... More

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

But here's what you should consider: if we can understand what it means to have our world - view changed even briefly by believing in a movie long enough to get creeped - out by the zombies in it, we have to see what Peter was saying to the Jews — because he wasn't asking them to suspend their disbelief: he was telling them things they had witnessed for themselves.

Mormon fundamentalists believe that these and other principles were wrongly abandoned or changed by the LDS Church in its efforts to become reconciled with mainstream American society.

A lot has been changed by philosophers, scholars, and creeds, but I still accept all good people who believe in the Biblical Jesus as Christians.

Then you continue to justify that easy out conclusion by putting God in the same category as Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, or the Flying Spagetti Monster since you can't prove that they don't exist and it's ridiculous to believe in those ergo that automatically means that is just as ridiculous to believe in a God, like a one conclusion fits all scenario even though that scenario still doesn't change the fact that you are concluding something that can not be proven.

I have had some changes in my theology regarding church, and I now believe that we don't plant churches or go to church, but we ARE the church by loving the people around us whom God brings into our lives.

The problem however is believing that this higher power is intervening in your life to change you is not by definition atheistic.

believing that the same, very personal, means by which his own life had been soundly established should work for all, and ignoring the need for structural changes in society.

You become an overcomer when you allow your heart to be changed from worldly to heavenly, by believing and following Jesus, in spite of all the inevitable mistakes we will all make.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

God's governance comes by no other method «but a change in what people believe, how people act, and how people relate to each other.»

Does this new finding prove an invisible, all powerful, magic man who lives in the sky had an evil talking snake tempt a woman, made from a rib, to disobey him, whereby he put a curse on all future humanity, then later changed his mind and decides to lift his curse by impregnating a human woman with himself and having himself tortured, killed, and raised from the dead, so that if you believe all that, you get to live forever in heaven after you die, but if you don't, he will torture you forever in hell?

Look as closely as you want, it won't change the fact that all you believe that is written in that book was said by man, and man only.

I agree with you Jeremy in a sense, but I also agree with what Chrissy says, «I believe God is calling His bride out of the Harlot system and these pagan festivals are instigated by the Roman Catholicism, just as the changing of the Sabbath day was too.»

Whenever you believe in something without evidence, believe that this thing is ordained by the most intelligent being in the universe, and that no amount of reasoning or discussion can change your mind about it, then you make a culture war completely inevitable.

nah — they believe that grocary store bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand live happily ever after if I follow some rules laid down by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

The Second Council of Orange in 529 decreed, «If anyone says that it was not the whole man, that is both body and soul, that was «changed for the worse» through the offence of Adam's sin, but believes that the freedom of the soul remained untouched and that only the body was made subject to corruption, he is deceived by the error of Pelagius.»

However, most Christians have believed that Jesus affected a change in the human situation not only by instruction and example but also in some other way.

The essential matter, which has not often been seen by historians, is that by claiming to represent the true God, in whom Israel believed, by pretending to visualize him, they signified by that very act that they had changed gods.

When he left, the Republican right was «unleashed,» poised to drive the party in its own direction (and that of the Reagan presidency) by capitalizing on widespread hostility toward the cultural changes of the 1970s that many believed had been foisted upon America by ideological liberals.

John 3 in Greek reads that we can change our lives into ones that are closer to God by deciding to believe the opposite of what annoys us and then act on that.

The other side of the picture, and at the moment the far more important side, is that, while there have been real wounds, there are today powerful men in our country who specialize in reopening those wounds, not to help them to heal more completely, but for quite other purposes — to gain a partisan political advantage or to secure personal publicity; but most often in order to discredit by insinuation, if not by direct charges, all who believe in some changes in the economic order.

It is with the idea and in the hope of advancing towards a solution of the problem that I here venture, basing my argument on the widest possible zoological and biological grounds, to put forward a coherent view of the «thinking Earth» in which I believe we may find, undistorted but yet embodying the corrections required by a change of order, the whole process of Life and of vitalization.

Believe it or not, certain aspects of my theology have been radically changed by what I read in some books of fiction.

The preacher is right everyone should be who they are... but then again the Bible does state that it is an abomination to God... But get this... before God can judge you Jesus has to judge you... the BIble says NO MAN COME TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME... we have no room to judge others or talk about them because no sin is big or small they are all the same... the only big sin is not being saved and believing in God... if we are saved and if we believe we have nothing to worry about... but again we have no room to say who is right and who is wrong because it's not our place all that we can do is pray and prayer can change things...

I believe in evolution by natural selection, because the fossil record (literally millions of fossils) and genetic record both show a branching tree structure of inherited characteristics which slowly changed over time.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

I believe that people want to love and be loved by God just as much now as ever before, but the church does everything in it's power not to change.

I have had a change of heart on this and i believe that jesus means what he says for us to go and sin no more.Why because the women caught in adultery is us it is a universal message for us sinners judged and condemned by the law if we do nt want to be under the law then the only way is to follow jesus but not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.Because if we walk in the spirit we will not gratify the desires of the flesh.Which means we will not sin that sums up the message once having been saved by jesus we follow him and walk by the spirit the message is clear and he provides the means for us to do it through his holy spirit.For sin shall not have dominion over us we are more than conquerers overcomers through Jesus Christ.

Uh, no one is suggesting they can't express their view - say you don't believe in Christ, but don't attempt to change the whole meaning by interrupting those who do and stating they are silly or ignorant.