Sentences with phrase «did on the conscience»

Put another way, I think Teilhard's vision was Cuomo's means of countering the number the Vincentians» Irish priests did on the conscience of an Italian boy from Queens.

Not exact matches

Just as some impact investors focus on supporting businesses in the developing world, investors with a conscience would do well to fund minority - owned businesses in the U.S., Bradley argues.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

And getting used to doing the wrong things and not being corrected or reprimanded about it, we get used to it and our conscience has a very little or no effect on us anymore.

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

Based on the context of this verse, causing a fellow Christian «to fall» means causing him to do something that violates his conscience by imitating an action he believes to be wrong.

BUT, to stigmatize all those who are poor and pretend that if they are poor and have fallen thru the cracks, is their own fault and the consequences of their own doing or lack of providing for themselves,, is the SIN that this country will not shake of, it is a dark spot on this country's conscience, and it will not go without dire consequences....

Even though I was clearly conservative, and still am on many issues, I recognized that people of good conscience can and do disagree on many of these issues.

God started to work on Paul, and he began to have a conscience about some of the things he was doing.

And, why does Paul belabor the idea of conscience early on in this epistle?

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

Moreover, in responding to this truth in faith we find that it snatches us from ourselves, as Luther put it, «and places us outside ourselves, so that we do not depend on our own strength, conscience, experience, person, or works... (12)

How others choose to see or use this date is up to them, but my conscience is very clear on what I am doing is not «sinful».

Romans 2:14 - 15 14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.

Anyone of good conscience should agree with what I have said and ban together, so we can bring this country the very world we live on into the 21st century free of these groups hold on our minds and revel in all the promise this century has to offer so our children's children's children will look back in pride an see we did what we did for them and there posterity.

He gave everyone the Creation (it's only logical that you look around you and realize that we aren't an accident... order doesn't come from an explosion nor does something come from nothing... plus it would break the first law of thermodynamics) and a conscience so that we all will have no excuse on Judgment Day.

On this issue it is possible to experience such contradictory jolts of conscience that one finally doesn't know whether to list oneself as a member of a society of the courageously righteous who are mature enough to face up to life's ambiguity and do the difficult things that freedom requires — or simply a society of moral failures.

The Bible says that «mans inclination is toward doing what is bad», so we still need to rely on something more than our own conscience.

Luther in his 1535 lectures on Galatians declared that the gospel of God «snatches us away from ourselves, so that we do not depend on our own strength, conscience, experience, person, or works, but depend on that which is outside ourselves, that is, on the promise and truth of God, which can not deceive.»

To do so will require special appreciation of the church's subtle and symbolic influences on its members consciences.

-- Check Ancient Egypt hieroglyphs for a start, particularly the Weighing of the Heart ---- In the pictograph, on a scales, is a heart weighed equal to a feather — the feather equals truth — the heart being a decision making process (a conscience), which equals truth ---- How does a conscience equal truth?

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Today's church is notorious for preaching on topics from A to Z, but rarely do they prick the conscience or disturb the peace.

I admit, I do love how she's taking on the role of the «care - er» — it reminds me of Donna and her role as Ten's conscience particularly after he had been on his own.

Such a concept is opaque, for it does not cohere with any exercise of «freedom» as we know it on earth, nor with that inner sense of joy in obedience to God as «loved Person» which we sense when we obey the voice of conscience.

Freud does not help us understand the more mature, autonomous conscience, whose values are based on the ego's perceptions of what is authentically good for oneself and for others, rather than on the dictates of one's superego.

«For when Gentiles [nonbelievers] who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.»

No, there will be no excuse for any man, because God has put in every human heart certain knowledge of Himself, so that by that knowledge man would be lead to seek to know Him more, but those who by love of their own sins, their self will, and pride and rebellion that's in their hearts have extinguished that knowledge written on their consciences... So what ever comes to those who reject it, it is their own doing... George Carlin knows that now very well.

I imagine this places a lot of stress on your conscience, but don't you dare go threatening others.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

When conscience has become abnormally focused on the self, fears of doing wrong can become obsessions and we like to be a problem to ourselves.

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

Don't let your conscience hit you in the rear on the way into or out of the Convention.

Animals don't know it, don't have it, becaue they don't have a conscience on which this knowledge is written.

King did not simply speak to the passions of his followers; he addressed the consciences of his detractors, as well as those on the sidelines who were overhearing it all.

As for the integrity of family life on a monogamous basis, Malachi's protest against divorce bears eloquent testimony to Israel's developing conscience: «And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

If they don't check their actions and get on the right path... they will find themselves unable to recognize sin for what it is due to not listening to their conscience for too long.

The resulting story, «The Awful Privacy of Baby Doe,» was published in The Atlantic and marked the awakening of Hentoff's conscience on abortion.

The reason we need «full - time» anythings is because the majority of believers aren't doing «any time»; just paying other guys (that responded to Christ's commission: «As you go your way make disciples of all...» - Mt28: 19) to appease their consciences whilst they carry on with their lifestyles.

And the cause for this shameful, dark spot on the conscience of this country lies on the hands of those who sit in the seats of power (government), but have done NOTHING to prevent this crime against the citizens of this country.

On the one hand, it seemingly does no harm as long as all participants are free to follow reason and conscience.

«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.»

A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.

I just don't want any broken teeth on my conscience.

you have millions of people on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you don't want to have them on your conscience!

I want to say that it is my belief that were I to continue insisting on my conjugal rights, knowing / believing that my wife is not a very happy participant, then I regard that to be rape in marriage and in good conscience I will not do that.

This time in childhood, sometimes called «the age of reason,» is also when kids begin to form a conscience, differentiate between right and wrong, and act not just on impulse but because something is the «right» thing to do.

I think education and intelligence in and of itself will make the majority of university educated midwives say, ok fine but I don't want to have the homebirth disaster on my conscience.