Sentences with phrase «comforting to believe»

It is very comforting to believe that we understand climate, and that those who don't are shills of powerful malevolent forces.

It is so comforting to believe we can have our cake and eat it too.

If we think there's nothing to be done about how we are — even if it's very uncomfortable for us to be that way — we hope it will be comforting to believe it's not in our control, and therefore not our fault.

Letters: It's comforting to believe that the country is in favour of universal welfare and high taxes.

It would be comforting to believe that when Sullivan, Bilic and Henry get together in the Chairman's hot tub to discuss the latest transfer targets, over a bottle of crème de menthe and a packet of Hamlet cigars, that there is a detailed specification as to exactly the type of player required to complete the tactical jigsaw master plan.

I am at a place in my life where it is more comforting to believe in a god that doesn't intervene.

It may be comforting to believe that you have the one true church started by Jesus Christ, but IMO it's just not that linear.

How comforting to believe that a process that would enrich you and immiserate others is just part of the great wave of history.

I know, it is so comforting to believe that some higher power is guiding it all.

It's so comforting to believe that you can do anything, the fittest will survive and this is all it matters.

If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created....

We can get many things out of this, mostly, however, the invitation and the comfort to believe that this is «for me», «pro me».

Not exact matches

Your leader believes in your ability and challenges you to go far outside of your comfort zone.

But I believe this is an ideal time to discuss the end - game, because in today's uncertain world, it's comforting to know you'll have options when the time comes to exit your business.

«While we believe the split will ultimately be positive for [Alcoa] shareholders, we need to gain comfort with the capital structure and state of the upstream portfolio before getting off the sidelines,» Sullivan wrote in a note to clients.

However, I do believe that all retail outlets have a duty to provide their customers — all of their customers — with the same level of courtesy and comfort.

The consensus on the post-election rally seems to be that market watchers believe the new president won't pursue his most outlandish campaign promises, and have drawn comfort from that.

In my view, this is one of the most important moments in a generation to examine all of your risk exposures, the extent to which you believe historical evidence is informative, your tolerance for loss, your comfort or discomfort with missing out on potential rallies even in a wickedly overvalued market, and your true investment horizon.

While the oil industry waits for the worldwide petroleum glut to decrease — something the International Energy Agency believes might occur by the end of the year — frack sand investors can take comfort in the knowledge that 70 %, 88 %, and 87 % of US Silica's, Hi - Crush Partners», and Emerge Energy's respective current and medium - term production is protected by highly profitable contracts.

I get it, people want to believe in something larger than themselves, they take comfort in something that never actually provides solutions to their problems.

You tell your kid not to believe in their imaginary friend... yet grown up, educated adults still can't process their rational thought and hang on to their teddy bear GOD for comfort... like Linus who can't give up his blanket.

Church attendance is also for my benefit (omnipotent God already knows i believe in Him), a way for me to take comfort in the shared faith of my neighbors when my belief in the goodness of people starts to slip.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

Atheist's seem to find comfort in the logic and factuality of science and I used to believe that as well.

I know it is comforting to think that, and by all means, if it makes life for you easier, then fine, believe... but you can not logically argue with Atheists and expect not to look foolish on the subject matter because your belief is not based on logic.

I am guessing that perhaps though we are very different about what we believe and hold to be true, we are very much alike in our passion and our comfort our individual systems of thought and belief.

But I do know that I can answer to the idea that we believe only because it gives comfort or security.

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

I believed that what mattered was how we reacted to things and that God was there to comfort, support, and provide guidance — not to wave a magic wand and make it go away.

If people find comfort in looking at a mock execution device, believed to represent the torture and death of their mythological savior, that's fine with me.

Conservatives can not push enough Democrats and wobbly moderates toward greater comfort with originalist - like its - the - only - Constitution - we've - got thinking, can not get them to sacrifice the judicial avenue to what they see as policy goodies, or get them to really censure the kinds of unconstitutional short - cuts Obama is modeling, if they think that folks like you and I believe that Real originalism would ban hours - laws, collective bargaining, etc..

Isn't it better to face an uncomfortable truth than to believe a comforting lie?

The way this works out for me is that when I don't believe Jesus is enough, I try to fill the void with the approval of others, or by comfort in material things, or by power over others, or by controlling others.

If your imaginary friend brings you comfort, you are welcome to your own personal fiction, just as the others who believe just as strongly as you do but in a different god.

Unless you are a child, you are far too old to still believe comforting lies.

The end rest is a very comforting fictional narrative you've chosen to believe, while people in some other part of the world have chosen to believe a completely different fictional narrative.

You wanted to believe the comforting narrative.

Your belief in God is based on nothing more than a simple desire to believe a comforting narrative because the alternative is to believe harsh realities about your existence.

Okay, but I don't believe in Christ and think religion is a way to comfort humans about their own mortality.

The only reason to believe in God is that you prefer a comforting fairytale over harsh realities.

That would depend on whether you think it's better to believe comforting fairytales to avoid dealing with harsh realities to accept reality for what it is, even when it's harsh.

Even though there is no reason to believe any of the god narratives, billions of people throughout history have chosen to embrace any of thousands of such narratives because a comforting fairytale is preferable to a harsh true.

Without any reason to believe there is any truth to what you believe, and believing instead that you've just brainwashed to embrace a comforting fictional narrative, what's my incentive to give any of it any credence at all?

They believe in eternal security because it is comforting to them.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

then to not believe, not take comfort that there is a better place waiting for me, denying the existence of a Supreme Being..

I'd much rather spend my life believing, living my life as if there IS a heaven as a reward, having the comfort of thinking that God will be there when I draw my last breath, and being comforted with the thought as I watch the world go to hell in a hand - basket... and not be aware after death that I was wrong because, as Hawking says..

But it is easier, more pleasant, more comforting, more moral and pious to believe that violence has been properly reprimanded and carefully hidden in a corner — to believe that kindness and virtue will always triumph.

In some cases, it is used to comfort others who they feel need to believe in an external source that controls their destiny.

These words may be of little comfort for the young woman who still struggles to believe that her feminine qualities are valuable to God, or to the young man who has been made to feel shame because he'd rather visit an art museum than watch a cage fight.