Sentences with phrase «disciplined by suffering»

We have to learn that if we are to see honestly, the self must be disciplined by suffering and pain (Iris Murdoch).

Not exact matches

This moral discipline informs Fredriksen's effort to present her subjects as persons who loved, aspired, and suffered, rather than as mere ciphers moved by abstract historical or cultural forces.

So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.

For if liberty is deprived of its moral soul, if it is detached from the past and from its venerable tradition, if the continuous creation of new forms that it demands is deprived of the objective value of this creation, if the struggles that it accepts and the wars and the sacrifice and the heroism are deprived of the purity of the end, if the internal discipline to which it spontaneously submits is replaced by external direction and commands — then nothing remains but action for action's sake, innovation for the sake of innovation, and fighting for fighting's sake; war and slaughter and death - dealing and suffering death are things to be sought for and desired for themselves, and obedience too, but the obedience that is customary in war; and the upshot is activism.

By articulating just needs for change, negotiation, purification, disciplined man's suffering and further negotiations he organized the expression of love which moved the empire.

When districts react to OCR threats by choosing not to enforce their discipline codes in high - poverty, high - minority schools, it's the well behaving poor kids who suffer «disparate impact.»

Despite being so traditional and so necessary to the study of musical instruments, homework by Craigslea music students suffered from a lack of discipline.

Minority teachers suffer burnout and frustration caused by on - the - job hazards such as discipline problems, school violence, and the lack of colleague support.

If it's possible, it's best to discipline dogs in this way, as we're sure you've seen on various episodes of the Dog Whisperer, rather than to cause any unnecessary suffering by using a no - bark dog collar.

However, I confess I generally value logically derived, intellectually disciplined opinions produced through a dedicated lifetime of training, thought and study more highly than opinions and screeds generated by blind prejudice (which scientists might have in plenty), warped upbringing (again, not claiming scientists don't suffer this too), and irrationality (a trifecta).

In another discussion, a bencher colleague raised the same issue worrying that the nature of discipline adjudication could suffer by the use of those skilled as adjudicators rather than by those elected by, knowledgeable about, and supportive of, the profession.