Sentences with phrase «conscience before»

«When we have the unanswered legal questions, I can not vote with a clear conscience before knowing whether something is legal or illegal,» he said.

It helps users do an examination of conscience before the Sacrament and to pray afterwards.

As far back as I can remember, I recall that I have had a bad conscience before God.

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.

I existed before conscience Before guilt Before morality I am the master emotion I am the internal voice that whispers words of condemnation I am the internal shudder that courses through you without any mental preparation MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

worthlessness, inferiority, and unworthiness I made you feel different I told you there was something wrong with you I soiled your Godlikeness MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME I existed before conscience Before guilt Before morality I am the master emotion I am the internal voice that whispers words of condemnation I am the internal shudder that courses through you without any

The judge Felix, although almost persuaded that the accused has striven «always to have a clear conscience before God and before man» (Acts 24:16) nevertheless adjourns the trial, keeps the accused «in custody but... allow [s] him some liberty, [does] not... prevent any of his friends from looking after him.»

«But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.»

I stand with those who do not need a perfect narrative to allow a honest and sincere conscience before God.

Not exact matches

The budget would include «tough choices» that required Mr Prentice to seek a fresh mandate before he could, in good conscience, take action.

If Paul willing not to overtly offend those still under the 613 laws, wanted to gently and lovingly proclaim the Gospel of THE GRACE OF GOD, why not do it in a way that would not shake their conscience, weak as it may have been, before God could help them and show them The Truth revealed in Christ.

One day I will stand before God and I want to do this with a clean conscience.

it is inconceivable that a God drawn along the Whiteheadian lines, with a total grasp of the possibilities unfolding before the progressive advance into chaos and with a direct pipeline to the «ear» and «conscience» of each and every emerging actual entity, could not have found for the world a way around such unspeakable suffering [as that which occurred in the Holocaust].

Your conscience (the speed limit signs) bore witness to this (speeding) fact, even before the police (minister), but when he came, he stripped away the foolishness of your actions to lay bare the reality of the matter.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views - in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

Indeed, in his anxiety to press home to each man's conscience his individual responsibility before God, he sometimes overstates his case, without sufficiently allowing for the undoubted influence of heredity and environment upon individual character and destiny.

Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.»

But they probably did it before then to alleviate their conscience or to substitute punishment for social crimes.

There is even quite frequently a certain difference between what can be justified before the forum of the Church and what is allowed or even demanded by conscience.

People need to weigh their passionate feelings with careful thought before they chip away at the inviolability of individual conscience, and those who believe it can be legislated against should beware of hypocrisy; they are often the same people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.»

Before Vatican II, conscience formation by Catholics was one - sidedly paternalistic.

Because of this fact, moral dullness often creeps up and possesses us without our being stopped by the signals of conscience that usually flash before we are tempted to other more overt and recognizable forms of sin.

I can worship how I want, believe what I want, read what I want, pray wherever and whenever I want, and follow my conscience more freely than any generation of Christians before me.

Let us seek to walk before YAHWEH in the confidence that we are of those who live in a pure conscience (a conscience turned away from evil, and SetApart unto YAHWEH), my one work is to obey YAHWEH!

Although the madness currently seizing Sudan and Algeria is not the focus of her book, one concludes Ye'or's brilliant monograph realizing how fragile the recognition of human rights can be and how long the road will be before all the globe admits what Vatican II taught: that the right to worship God according to one's conscience is an essential component to what it means to be a human being created by this same God» whom we all worship, however unawares.

«Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected, on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views — in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.»

The clean conscience we have before God now, initiates this grateful relationship of joy.

«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.

If Judaism is about covenant, then it is in equal measure about consent to obligations not all of which could ever pass muster before the bar of the individual moral conscience however situated or expanded.

Pursued with the right kind of arguments and with sufficient vigor, an escape from the «exemptions ghetto» can bring us out into an open field of religious freedom in full — and of moral freedom in full for all, thanks to the indispensable leadership role of religious conscience, and the recognition of the duty of men and women to obey God before any authority of the state.

Whatever issue may come before me as President — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates.

For both before and after he became pontiff, he has always marched to the beat of his heart and inner conscience, guided by total devotion to Christ and His Church.

Before concluding these remarks on the ethics of the inductive method, let it be urged again that the preacher make not only the content but the method of his sermons a matter of conscience and conviction.

He starts off with Turkish soldiers» impaling babies on bayonets before their mothers» eyes, then proceeds to a Genevan murderer who was reared a brute and, after his capture, is catechized so he can be guillotined in good conscience.

Loyalty to conscience and the duty before God to discern and speak the truth have not been abrogated.

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR.

Even if the truth of those Scriptures were never written down, the knowledge of the truth Jesus Christ spoke is written on every human heart, e. i. conscience, so that no one ever will have any excuses before God.

The fact that each one will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account of himself to God (2 Cor 5:10) should be enough of a reminder for us to abide by our own conscience and let others do the same.

If, on the other hand, conscience is rediscovered as the place in which to listen to truth and good, the place of responsibility before God and before fellow human beings - in other words, the bulwark against all forms of tyranny - then there is hope for the future.

When one becomes accustomed to perversions of justice with reference to those of another race, these are likely before long not to seem perversions, and the democratic conscience that should be demanding «liberty and justice for all» is dulled into acquiescence.

Once a justice has made the moral decision that he can in good conscience swear to uphold the Constitution, his moral judgments on matters before the Court are not in play.

«You people do not convince me yet that the vows of priests and monks are to be considered as in the same category... I am pretty well agreed that those who entered the abyss before or during the age of puberty can leave it with a clear conscience; but about those who have grown old and stayed on in this state, I don't know yet.»

Attempting to hold before us a yellow caution light, it in fact allows us to proceed with a good conscience: We are being careful.

Before we can move in good conscience toward whatever God's promise holds in store for us and for the universe, those whose basic needs are not yet satisfied must be cared for.

The first is an examination of conscience that's designed to help Catholics prepare for confession before stepping into the confessional, «so you don't walk in and just start making up sins off the top of your head,» Leinen said.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

And he did so with a social conscience: In 1987, 15 years before the establishment of the Rooney Rule (requiring NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for head coaching vacancies), Walsh took the lead in an NFL internship program for minority coaches, bringing prospective assistants into training camp each year and giving them significant responsibility.

Freedom of conscience is foremost, followed closely by equality before the law, deprecating the ability of grandees and members of the House of Commons to avoid the normal sanctions of law.

«They always struck me as being a happy crowd,» he said, before acknowledging that a «conscience clause» in journalists contracts enabling them to refuse to engage in unethical behaviour was a good idea.

Rothamsted researchers wrote an open letter to «Take The Flour Back» imploring them not to destroy the crops, saying: «We can only appeal to your consciences, and ask you to reconsider before it is too late, and before years of work to which we have devoted our lives are destroyed forever.»