Sentences with phrase «did preface»

Sometimes you have to try to give people frank comments and advice, and in this particular case I did preface what I was saying by saying if they want to have a conversation about a political matter as well as a personal matter it is confidential, and you do expect people to behave in a trustworthy way, which these people from the Daily Telegraph didn't.

When I handed him this scone yesterday I did preface it with «don't expect a scone scone!»

What does a preface ever really tell us?

Not exact matches

And let me preface that by saying that I've often observed that of all the professions who also are authors, I do think that doctors are the best, if you look through history — Chekov and on and on.

Many of the proposed initiatives are prefaced by «we intend», «we will introduce legislation,» «we will propose», without providing details on what the government really intends to do.

In the preface to the German translation of Revelation that he composed in 1522, he said that he did not consider the book prophetic or apostolic, since «Christ is neither taught nor known in it.»

One of the FIF socially relevant songs «A New Hope» is presented for the listener, with Reese, giving a preface as he usually did about the meaning of the song.

When you used the word «must» as opposed to asking a question or stating something prefaced with... «in my opinion»... you, by using «must» are claiming something that you do not absolutely know as a fact, but is * opinion.

Let me preface this by saying I'm agnostic, don't believe in god, but anything is possible.

Someone will share a blog post or mention a book in a group or on social media, and they'll preface it with the same warning, «Now I don't with everything this person says, but I liked this...»

As Przywara writes in the preface to the first edition of his great book (1932), «I sought a formula that would do justice to the way the question of essence and existence appears in Thomas himself.»

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

First let me preface this by saying I don't mind anybody's viewpoint religiously... I just don't tend to believe in supernatural happenings as a rule.

Kierkegaard's own brief preface to Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing does little more than begin this process, and tempts me to suggest that one who is not familiar with other works of Kierkegaard, will find himself still better prepared for immersion in this address if he turns immediately to Section Twelve and reads from that point to the end.

Before I respond let me preface this by saying I do believe in Christ and that He is the only way.

Shuster, George N. and Ralph E. Thorson, Preface to Evolution in Perspective: Commentaries in Honor of Pierre Lecomte du Noüy.

I've always found it odd that some repeat the Disciples» Prayer at all, given that Jesus prefaced it by saying, «When you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition» (Matt 6:7).

That Buber does not feel that such a way of healing is closed to the professional psychotherapist is shown by his preface to Hans Trub's posthumous book, Heilung aus der Begegnung («Healing Out of Meeting»).

He does not ignore political and economic developments, but he pays special attention to social issues, including, as he says in his preface, «the transformation of gender relations, the regeneration of the home, the disciplining of leisure and pleasure, and the establishment of segregation.»

In A Preface to Morals, an attempt at humanistic theology, Lippman charged Whitehead with having a conception of God «which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians,» a conception which «may satisfy a metaphysical need in the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at all.

Father White's brilliant reading of one of the foundational texts of Western civilization is well - introduced by series editor R. R. Reno, in a preface that should be required reading for anyone doing serious study of the Bible.

So it is that in the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit (paragraph 11), Hegel can declare that ours is a birth - time and a period of transition to a new era, for Spirit has broken with the world it has previously imagined and inhabited, and is now submerging it in the past, and doing so in the very labor of its own transformation.

has to be used to preface the next statement, so that the listener does not take the statement in an unintended sense.

Thus, at the end of the Preface, we always respond with the three-fold Sanctus, entering, as we do, into the Holy of Holies with all of heaven, as Isaiah saw.

These words are prefaced by Ignatius underlining that no one should do anything «apart from the bishop that has to do with the church.»

Whenever anyone prefaces a statement with, «This isn't about... whatever...» that's exactly what its about and this statement of «We don't mean to inflame...» is exactly what this is about.

We don't think our book is perfect and we tell folks upfront (literally in the preface) to take what is helpful and leave the rest.

But I don't think I've ever seen that long of a preface to praying in Jesus» name.

Although this classification may be justified and of no great import when limited to the level of the history of ideas, it becomes the crucial issue of the person of Jesus when one recognizes, as does Bultmann in the preface to his Jesus and the Word, that it is in the Paessage that one encounters existentially the intention, the understanding of existence constituting the self, and thus the person.

If the blessings were only for the deserving, very likely they would be stated at the end of the sermon, probably prefaced with the conditional clause, «If you have done all these things.»

See the preface to the first edition of Paul Ricoeur, Histoire et verite (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1955).

He prefaced his thoughts — as many people do when they discuss police brutality — with the caveat that there are good police officers, those who honor the law as they work diligently to enforce it in neighborhoods like Sandtown - Winchester, where Gray was injured.

They wouldn't do so, of course, if they knew what Nadler knows» not from the preface itself but as a result of his grasp of Spinoza's entire teaching» that Spinoza doesn't really intend to exclude Judaism and Christianity from the category of superstition.

What he actually does in the preface is lament the ways in which pagan superstition has twisted and distorted the true religion spelled out in what he repeatedly refers to as the sacred books of Scripture and the divine law revealed through the prophets and the apostles.

It differs from ordinary prefaces because it does not state who the author is; it resembles them in its statements about (1) the occasion of the work, (2) its reliance on trustworthy materials, and (3) its insistence upon the competence of the author.

The worst part about the Issues sections is that each set of solutions is prefaced with a long whine about what Obama did wrong.

Yet if the abuse was compulsive, he would still think through the arguments again, as he did on 1 April in 1533 when, so Conrad Cordatus told in his «Table Talk», Luther spent most of the day re-reading Erasmus's prefaces to the New Testament.

We also learn in this preface that verse divisions in the Bible are «purely arbitrary» and «do not reflect the intentions of the original authors» (whoever they are) and that scholars agree that the «Book of J» is «the oldest strand in the Pentateuch.»

That Pratt was conscious that he was doing something new in this realm is clear from his Preface, though I feel that he was not quite clear as to what it was.

In these few chapters which formed the preface for Israel's testimony to what YHWH had done in her history, Israel strikingly portrayed the spiritual poverty and bankruptcy of the human race.

In the preface of Religion in the Making Whitehead says that his aim is»... to direct attention to the foundation of religion on our apprehension of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a stable order in the world...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 8) The point is that religion and God have to do with the «permanent» elements which produce «order» in the world.

50 Following C. H. Turner, as does Gregory Dix, who separates the preface common to the ordaining prayers of each from the prayers proper to bishop and presbyter, respectively, op.

I should preface this by saying I don't usually take reader requests.

(A preface, I don't like things terribly sweet.)

Just to sort of preface the wrap - up — 1) I write about all of the games using a statistical review; I do not see nearly enough of the games to have a decent opinion as to what is going on..

When prefacing working at summer camp, many people put «job» in quotes, insinuating that camp is not a real position, since we do not work in a cubicle or the depths of a sunless research lab.

I also meant to say that when I read this post, I immediately thought of another phrase: «No offense, but...» Just as prefacing a statement with, «Don't judge me» puts the listener on the defensive (since it appears that the speaker is expecting judgment), so does saying, «No offense» to somebody... it implies that you are going to say something rude to them.

I want to preface this blog post with the views and thoughts expressed here are mine alone and do not reflect any other birth photographer, birth worker, or the industry.

It is really not that weird, I don't know why I always preface things that I say like that.

Let me preface my sad, sorry tale of attachment parenting gone horribly awry by saying this: I do not think attachment parenting in and of itself is a bad thing.