Sentences with phrase «come to terms with you no»

And it is no less clear that any process philosophy that can stake a cogent claim to adequacy must come to terms with them.

«The ministry helped people to come to terms with their enemies and to see a mirror image of themselves in their enemies,» says the Reverend Canon Paul Oestreicher, the cathedral's former director of international ministry.

People who believe they are trapped in the wrong body need patient help to come to terms with reality.»

Belief in a supreme being seems to be the end result of fear and the inability to come to terms with the harsh reality of our condition.

Fundamentalists tend to have a static view of reality: they have not come to terms with the ever - changing and evolving character of culture, religion and life itself.

The churches have found it difficult to come to terms with this fact, and often refuse to acknowledge that they have lost for ever what they took to be an authoritative source of religious truth.

Ought we not to think of them too as those who have come to terms with the degraded and degrading?

A family in my church has suffered the loss of a child; many of the congregation are struggling to come to terms with what has happened.

For twenty centuries the Christian faith has struggled to come to terms with culture, and with the Christian ethic of love has both informed and challenged the various expressions of civilized culture, particularly in the areas of science, art and education.

Because of the alcoholic's grandiosity and his ambivalence toward authority, the opportunity provided by a religious approach for him to come to terms with a «Power greater than himself» can be a real growth experience.

To borrow a phrase the council itself would use, the Church could rightly come to terms with modernity only by «searching her own mystery.»

We need to forcibly come to terms with our own death.

Not only has the successful management of nature diverted attention and effort from human problems and diminished man's confidence in his ability to come to terms with himself and his neighbor.

They have tried to come to terms with the fact that the Nazis who murdered millions of Jews drew on a longstanding Christian tradition of slandering Jews.

Finally, the church hierarchy has finally come to terms with their failures and are in fact turning in abusive priests when found out.

There is no question, then, that my mind has changed as I have tried to come to terms with the theologies for which I am prepared to offer such a defense — whether black theologies or women's theologies or the theologies emerging from Latin America and other sectors of the Third World.

I think that is a very sincere email not only to her friends and family but to herself maybe to help come to terms with a down syndrome child.

The incident with the man carrying the bedroll is the exact opposite to the woman caught in adultery her issue was sin the paralysed mans issue is something completely different.The incident of the man carrying the bedroll gives it away jesus highlights it because it is rediculous they have turned Gods laws in to petty man made laws.so the danger for him is self righteousness to become like they were followers of the law but not followers of God that is the danger that we all face either to come to terms with the sin in our lives and or come to terms with our pride and self righteousness the answer to both is the same deny the flesh and walk by the spirit and go and sin no more.That way we evade these traps of the flesh.

If we are not simply to clean Las Casas up and make him a modern, we must come to terms with his argument.

But this is to fail to come to terms with the work itself, which must itself determine how its own past is to be interpreted.

There are at least three major ways to come to terms with this kind of portrait of God.

As a Texan who grew up in a hunting culture, own a large collection of non-military firearms, and do my own gunsmithing, I still can't come to terms with the N.R.A..

We have not yet come to terms with sexual intimacies among peers in the clergy.

Overwhelmed by sentimentality, Asbury realizes that martyrdom is going to be denied and he must come to terms with mystery.

I appreciate that it may be hard for some to come to terms with this, but in the light of the most basic and central Christian gospel, the message and achievement of Jesus and the preaching of Paul and the others, there is no reason whatever to say, for instance, that Peter or Paul, James or John, or even, dare I say, the mother of Jesus herself, is more advanced, closer to God, or has achieved more spiritual «growth», than the Christians who were killed for their faith last week or last year.

The Century did better than many in representing the valid cause of those displaced by the new state, but only very reluctantly did it come to terms with the reality of Israel.

If nothing else, religion is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who fear death so much that they can't come to terms with the possibility that we are simply finite creatures who are not meant to exist for eternity.

That simple and uncritical acclaim should surround the advance of technology in America is evidence of the spirit that has never had to come to terms with boundaries, limits, ends.

There is the attempt to come to terms with secular views of metaphysics, as in the thought of Paul van Buren and Harvey Cox.

To ignore story, or to treat it lightly, is to miss a major way by which a congregation may come to terms with its identity and calling.

Spiritual formation in the Protestant church can help teens come to terms with sexual identity.

You don't have to feel small in order to come to terms with an idea that we will once again become part of the universe in death, and give nutrients back to the ecosystems that have helped sustain life as we know it.

The realities of «limit» and «boundary,» the spirit - educating forces that operate when one can not move on, or start anew, but must come to terms with life where it is and where it is bound to remain — these forces have not deeply entered into the American national consciousness.

Not that he ever acknowledges any regret over the pattern the relationship took, but that he needs to «come to terms with it.»

Perhaps our version is less authentic than others yet to be told, but only in relating it does the congregation begin to come to terms with its symbolization of the way things have been for it.

I'm interested in how they come to terms with it.»

The reason for its persistence is probably that it does contain one element of truth, namely, that religion is indeed concerned with each person's relationship with God, with what that person does with his or her «solitariness,» as Whitehead put it when stressing the necessity for each human being to come to terms with God.

It is meant to help the scattered Jewish people come to terms with their identity and their faith when they are in exile, when they no longer have an independent homeland or temple.

In the course of many centuries the biblical record has left us with an impressive compendium of historical testimony to God's dealings with Israel, expressed in terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theology.

A host of such issues are swarming to the surface and we have scarcely begun to come to terms with them.

As Helen struggled to come to terms with the news that this new life within her may end before it even began, she felt God speak to her.

For example, apart altogether from the more obvious meaning and purpose of the myths we have been looking at, the annual lamentation for Tammuz, Adonis, Osiris, etc., provided an annual outlet for man, however unconsciously it was used, to express grief for his own mortality and to that extent to come to terms with it.

We know he has finally come to terms with retirement when he rejects his admitted self - pity, overcomes his resentment (the «venom of the retirement bug»), gives up his backwards glance, and embraces his new life with jubilation.

Those who realize that the situation they live in has been radically changed by God are forced to come to terms with the reality that they are no longer enemies but friends who together celebrate the reconciliation wrought for them by Christ.

... Demythologizing which fails to come to terms with the ultimate metaphysical - cosmological dualism expressed in the mythology, and in fact at the root, of all Western religious thinking, is not seriously facing up to the problem of irrelevance of the Christian church in contemporary life.»

Marxsen pertinently comments, «If someone today wants to come to terms with the question as to what will happen to him after he is dead, he can of course fall back on the idea of the resurrection.

If we agree, as surely we must, that the one inescapable and inevitable fact about every man and about the whole race of men is this death, we should also agree that it is in no sense morbid to face up to it and endeavor to come to terms with it.

Failure to understand this and to come to terms with it will produce dissatisfaction and even pessimistic rejection of good already known.

How, how shall we come to terms with this thing?

If we are going to be God's comfort agents — being present with others in their pain — we need to come to terms with the mysteries that God chooses not to resolve.