Sentences with phrase «do about the conviction»

Do you mean «exactly nothing the client can do about the conviction» or «exactly nothing the client can do about the attorney's career»?

Not exact matches

Don't waver on your convictions about what you want as long as it doesn't harm others.

For whatever personal convictions that drives him to do so (not every CEO writes polemics about free - market capitalism in their spare time time) Mackey has elected himself the firebrand leader to inspire the next generation of leaders that must reverse the public perception of business.

«I've got a conviction about him that I don't get very often,» he told the Chicago Tribune (registration is required to read the story) back in 2005.

Likewise, even if people are not fond of a particular post, object, person or view, the simple act of clicking like, even when done with no profound intention or conviction, can lead to a rationalization process that will subconsciously make them feel positively about that post, object, person, etc..

Considering the possibility that maybe we're a rare civilization who made it past the Great Filter through a freak occurrence makes him feel even more conviction about SpaceX's mission: «If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if civilization is tenuous, then we must do whatever we can to ensure that our already - weak probability of surviving is improved dramatically.»

Yet as the story progresses, she proceeds to do a number of terrible things in her conviction about the righteousness of her cause, in a way that makes her less sympathetic.

I don't have a ton of conviction about interest rates.

Entrepreneurs should stay true to their conviction and do what they want to do, and not worry about the investors.»

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

It is one thing for Christians to understand and appreciate Jewish convictions about the Messianic Age, and hence of the restoration of the Land of Israel, and therefore to acknowledge that one strand of biblical religion did not «spiritualize» the biblical promises.

Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?

The exclamation point was stamped on our conviction to do something about our situation when we attended a talk at our parish by a monsignor who acts as a judge of the canon law tribunal in our diocese, considering annulment cases.

When Christians must choose between obeying church rules and their convictions about what God calls them to do, a good many will follow God's call.

«So it gave us an opportunity to talk about their conviction and why they don't eat pork and what that means, and it really opened up some great opportunities of dialogue and conversation — just really over cuisine — all of us sitting down and talking about what our beliefs are.»

It does not share the fundamental Catholic convictions about sacramental marriage: an exclusive, lifelong union of man and woman that is open to new life, a faithful and unbreakable bond mirroring God's love for humanity and, specifically, Christ's love for the Church.

May we all be inspired to speak with more truth, more conviction, more care, and more bravery about this difficult topic, so that our awareness doesn't end here, but continues to grow, until the day when all things are reconciled to the source of love, and the story of abuse is only a memory.

Just because I do not accept your conviction that those verses are the only verses in the Bible about Salvation and no others are relative does not mean I did not consider each verse you referenced.

An atheist or agnostic, on the other hand, who has sampled many religions, knows a superficial amount about many of them but no conviction about any, could easily do better.

This brings with it the conviction that such a God — the only God there is — can be trusted to do what is necessary if that phrase about his losing «nothing that can be saved» is to be meaningful.

Talk about freedom does not carry much conviction when school personnel have to work within an autocratic system.

But from this article, I understand (correct me if I have understood you wrong) that your conviction is that God doesn't have the knowledge about future events that will ACTUALLY occur.

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

I'm of the conviction that Christians don't pray enough, especially about difficult issues such as this.

However, modern scholarship does not always support the conviction of the early Church about the authorship of New Testament books.

(4) do none of the above and maintain his conviction that there is a god, prayer works and Texas is special in god's eyes while maintaining a stony silence about what went wrong in this case.

It is my conviction that if a theologian doesn't know the culture and times well enough to speak and write in ways that people understand, then the theologian doesn't know the first thing about theology.

None of this can prove anything about William Shakespeare's own private convictions, but we do know that his daughter was fined for recusancy and that William and his fiancée Anne Hathaway married not in his Stratford church but in Temple Grafton, five miles from his birthplace.

Do our moral convictions connect in a reasonable way with what we think about human origins?

Do we abandon our convictions about what the Bible says is sin?

First of all, I firmly agree that the Gospel of Jesus should be central, but in contrast to much of the Christian Music (and most of the evangelical culture) of the 1980s, that doesn't mean that the Gospel can, or should, be reduced to a few basic convictions about Jesus.

You say you don't care about their core convictions — but that in and of itself IS a core convictions.

I do not want to suggest that these concepts are ridiculous, but I do not myself find them meaningful and I do not think they throw any real light on what Christians believe, as a matter of conviction, about God.

I know full well that there are opposing arguments and evidence that lead to different convictions about what ought to he done.

Nevertheless, some of my own convictions about what Christians and churches should do with respect to particular political and economic questions have been clearly implicit in these pages.

Hence, whatever role our religious convictions tell us the churches should play in society, common sense compels us to be realists about the role mainline churches actually do play.

I don't care about her gender or religious convictions.

Buddhists and Christians have convictions about the real needs of people that they do not derive from what is currently most popular.

I found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

In voting for someone who I think will help reduce the number of abortions, I vote for someone who does not share my conviction about the sanctity of human life.

For example, if two groups affirm that they hold these «fundamental» convictions in common and yet don't cooperate, doesn't this imply something about what they do consider most basic?

Did Paul's convictions about the Gentile mission arise from some ancient seed of modern, Western egalitarianism and social justice?

I am committed to an ecumenism of conviction, not an ecumenism of accommodation, but I do believe that all of Jesus» disciples have much to learn from one another, even about controverted matters such as Mary.

He did not know that Peirce, Willard Gibbs, and Clerk Maxwell were, at about that time, coming to the conviction that strict determinism was not necessary, even to classical physics.

If one thinks of synonyms for «civil religion» — for example, belief in the good intentions of one's nation, optimism about the future of that nation, faith in the legitimacy of its historic institutions, conviction that its errors can and will be corrected — then it is obvious that many events could and did trivialize the American civil religion.

This may well leave you feeling better about your beliefs, but it doesn't change God's words on the subject, nor will it stop the Holy Spirit's conviction of sin.

Do our convictions about why our lives are meaningful really find concrete expressions in our daily tasks?

I spoke about this with a former Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney yesterday and after watching the videos he said it was odd that McGregor wasn't charged with felony assault counts because even if you don't actually want a felony conviction, you always charge high and plea down.

About half way through writing this book to my kids, I started to have such a passion for the idea that I began to develop a website to make it easy for other parents to do the same thing, and I've heard from many other parents who share my conviction that this is a wonderful gift for children.

I understand that different tactics work for different families, and when asked I don't really have strong convictions one way or the other about how someone should feed their multiples, or handle middle of the night wake - ups, or divide up baby duties.