Sentences with phrase «conscience accept all of»

But what is the point of staying with a religion when you can't in good conscience accept all of its tenets?

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How we discharge the duties of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism of the last two decades, or by raising our voices on behalf of the laws and democratic norms of our country — is a question of moral conscience, suitable for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

It was agreed in the Samaj that «the Vedas, the Upanishads and other ancient writings were not to be accepted as infallible guides, that reason and conscience were to be the supreme authority and the teachings of the scriptures were to be accepted only insofar as they harmonised with the light within us.»

But what matters is that in every hour of decision we are aware of our responsibility and summon our conscience to weigh exactly how much is necessary to preserve the community, and accept just so much and no more;... that we... struggle with destiny in fear and trembling lest it burden us with greater guilt than we are compelled to assume.

«But why would the very God I believe imprinted us all with a conscience — with a deep sense of right and wrong — ask me to deny that conscience by accepting genocide as just?»

The Universe we know and All that's in it is the kingdom of God and it's heavens are within Him that we know and accept that is truth and can live in Him with Him in Us, so is it mirrored to create and live in us according to our collective conscience faith collectively believed and known as truth.

Within a few months, it became clear to me that to deny the scientific veracity of an old earth required an interpretation of the data that I could not in good conscience accept.

The goal of counseling with such persons was and is to decrease the severity of their hair - shirt consciences and to help them become more self - accepting.

Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms of conscience, as a gift from the hand of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Maciel, with the spirit of obedience to the Church that has always characterized him, has accepted this communiqué with faith, complete serenity, and tranquility of conscience, knowing that it is a new cross that God, the Father of Mercy, has allowed him to suffer and that will obtain many graces for the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

Parents are in conscience bound to accept, protect, and nurture each life given to them, beginning with the moment of conception, at which time that life comes into being.

No specific alternative bishop should be provided for those who are unable in conscience to accept the ministry of a woman bishop, but there should be a means to request and receive alternative sacramental provision

The position to which America has ascended demands that we shed our outmoded pretensions of republican innocence and accept the necessity henceforth of living with an uneasy conscience.

(4) The State must use coercive power to enforce its authority; the Christian can accept some forms of coercion as right and necessary, but at others his conscience is bound to rebel.

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

The means used to carry out covert operations not only violated «hitherto accepted norms of human conduct,» they oftentimes circumvented the law, the will of Congress, and the consciences and political wishes of the U.S. public.

Can it be reasonably said that such a conception of conscience, for the doctor practicing in places where FGM is legally and culturally accepted, provide an adequate protection (let alone «maximize accommodation») for the physician conscientiously objecting to the practice?

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the civil rights movement promoted, not rage and disruption, but nonviolent civil disobedience, accepting the penalties imposed under what protesters deemed unjust laws in order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those laws.

These two types of growth often occur as such persons experience the acceptance of and then gradually identify with the more robust self - esteem and accepting conscience of the counselor - therapist.

When I became a lawyer I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, which now, as interpreted by the Court, contains newly discovered rights that, if accepted, would destroy my moral and religious beliefs and therefore my conscience.

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.

Such organization would have many allies and potential allies; it may also count on others who have enough of a bad conscience or who are open enough to accept a changed situation without continued resistance.

There is a profound need for these individual consciences to be nurtured by morality in the sense of a universally accepted ethical context.

However, once God opened up my eyes that I deserved damnation as a sinner, I finally surrendered and accepted the atonement of Christ as sacrifice for my sin by faith, and a heavy burden was lifted off my back, and I have a clean conscience before God, and I also felt the power of God saving me from my sins.

To accept this broader meaning would also remove the obstacle that still gives some Protestants — anxious to explore the experience of God — a bad conscience in using a term so connected with a too exclusive spiritual theology.

If the woman wants to raise her kids as secular, then she should raise and teach her kids to be conscience of other's beliefs and to make their own decisions about religion or the option to not accept any as truth.

Others at first accepted military service, then, plagued by conscience, either deserted or suffered martyrdom in consequence of their faith.

Confronted with such enormous offer of love, our conscience gets unburdened, not because it is literaly washed by Christ's blood, but figuratively: the realization that innocent blood of God's Son was shed FOR ME, unconditionally, makes me aware of God's love, makes me feel loved and accepted in God's eyes.

There, at Worms, in the presence of the newly elected Emperor, Charles V, the mightiest monarch in Europe, and of the dignitaries of Church and State, Luther, the son of peasant parents, declared that he could not accept the authority of Popes and councils, since they had often contradicted one another, and that unless he was convinced by Scripture and plain reason he could not in good conscience recant anything he had written.

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).

... from the Catholic viewpoint, anti-Semitism, if it spreads among those calling themselves disciples of Jesus Christ, seems to be a pathological phenomenon which indicates the deterioration of Christian conscience when it becomes incapable of accepting its own historic responsibilities and of remaining existentially faithful to the high exigencies of Christian truth.

The Anglican clergy were presented by the Revolutionary movement with a special case of conscience revolving around the prayers for the King in the Prayer Book — some continued with the full service unless or until forcibly restrained, others felt they could only perform occasional offices, and others with varying degrees of enthusiasm or regret accepted the transfer of allegiance and modified the services accordingly.

More was voicing his fundamental objection to being compelled to accept the king's new title of being the supreme head: it was an invasion of prerogative of conscience of that in part of the divine law of God since it applied man - made law to the deeply held religious conviction of the individual.

Green said that he could not «in good conscience accept a large salary increase» at a time when he was being forced to fire members of his staff and cut services for those in need.

Since a majority of Republican caucus attendees went with Helsmoortel and not Ciarlante — did he feel he couldn't in good conscience accept the Conservative endorsement since the Conservative candidate didn't get the supervisor nod?

Allow the simple compassion of accepting the situation for what it is guide your heart and conscience to help another or do good anonymously.

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

I think that it's really important to listen to your own conscience and trust what you think is a good fit for you as far as sponsors go, because it's so easy to fall into a trap these days of accepting everything that's offered to bloggers.

Julian Laverdiere A» 93, in accepting the 2014 Augustus Saint Gaudens Awards for Art said, «Most importantly, Cooper taught me to have a social conscience, to consider the political implications of what it is I do and say through art and work.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Information provided to anyone who accepted a brochure simply informed them of all the options jurors have when judging a case before them, leaving what they do with that information completely up to them and their consciences.

... The grounds for this apprehension must, however, be substantial and I entirely agree with the Federal Court of Appeal which refused to accept the suggestion that the test be related to the «very sensitive or scrupulous conscience».

The congregation of St. Aidan's voted to leave the Synod of the Diocese of Huron after the Bishop of the Synod accepted a resolution to «grant permission to clergy, whose conscience permits, to bless the duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same - sex couples.»

I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly... I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.»

The only way for a successfully double - ending Realtor to salve one's conscience, if he / she has one, is to confidentially ask each client how much he / she would have offered finally, or accepted finally, after the fact of closing, and thence give the difference to the loser back in cash, out of the double - ended commission, as a gift to that «client».