Sentences with phrase «do with humility»

Something to do with humility and suffering, or something to do with worldly power.

And can we vow to do this with humility and a willingness to admit that our version of «truth» may not be the only valid one?

It has nothing to do with humility or lack thereof.

I'm not saying it is wrong to ask for money but you can do it with humility, just explaining the needs of the church or ministry without putting pressure or telling people they will receive blessings if they give...

And if there is any admonition that flows from this confounding conclusion, perhaps the admonition is that whatever we do, we should do it with humility.

The idea is not so much to pray to God for help in finding a way out of an alcohol problem; it has more to do with humility — «cleaning house» so that the «grace of God can enter us and expel the obsession.»

Intelligent discourse, even with people with whom one disagrees, should be done with humility and respect — even if the other side is not exhibiting the same humility and respect.

After spending many months working on the virtues, Franklin's friend asked how he was doing with humility.

The trick is doing this in a way that is true to the basic religious tenets without anxiety, ie, if this can be done with humility and without constant fear of persecution, maybe we can truly learn how to COEXIST (my favorite bumper sticker these days!).

Not exact matches

It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.»

Any replacement rule will be done carefully, properly, and with humility, by listening to all those affected by the rule.»

Bezos does an incredible job of balancing his accomplishments with humility, and provides himself the option to keep growing, learning and trying new things.

But if you truly want to do great things in this world, you need to compliment knowledge with wisdom, expertise with inner strength, logic with guts, and confidence with humility.

Once the whole startup team internalizes this growth mindset, they can do their best work with humility, reaching the company's biggest goals.

Many great teachers reacted to students that didn't listen with patience and humility, not anger and certainly not with infinite, unbounded punishment.

A word comes to mind here - humility» a term one certainly doesn't associate with the Jean - Paul Sartres of the world.

Our role as parents, I believe, is the same as our role as Christians: to do the best we can with what we have and what we know; and, after that, to live our entire lives in a constant state of humility and repentance.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

I don't care if a woman has hair on her face, under her arms, on her crotch, or on her legs, give me someone with lots of personality, good sense of humour, intelligence and humility and I'm a happy man!

If I were advocating for unqualified blessing of same - sex unions in the church, I would hope that I'd have the humility and charity and intellectual honesty to grapple with Scripture and the church's tradition in a way that didn't dismiss it as simply «homophobic» or hopelessly benighted.

Like the Church in Jerusalem listening to Paul and Barnabas, we must listen with a certain humility to what God has done.

Answering these accusations with anything less than humility and grace only furthers the harm they have done.

So Christians, both clergy and lay, who address these issues out of faith must do so with appropriate humility.

The process is not an inherently godly one, although I believe it can be done in a godly way — with honesty and humility and with the needs of others in mind.

I don't believe in treating them with pitchforks or a with any lack of humility.

Instead, let us spend time learning the heart and mind of Jesus so that our prayers can match His prayers, and then, when we pray, pray with the humility of faith, knowing that God will do what is best for us.

What we are dealing with is the attempted explanation of an infinite universe by a finite mind, and while we do need, and I am convinced can have, a confident assurance about our faith in God, humility must be mingled with our confidence in any formulation of that faith.

We do so through our brokenness and thus get it wrong time and again, but with humility, chastened certainty and the grace of a forgiving God, we continue to pursue Him.

So the virtues of humility and resignation are rejected as despicable, and every effort is made to show that they have nothing to do with Christianity — in spite of all the biblical passages to the contrary.

to my letter, what do you think we can actually do to bring our perspective forward within the context of the Church — with humility, love and a heart to learn?

The agape which redeems and reconciles does one of its greatest works in the infusing of the sexual life with the spirit of humility and charity.

The gloomy pitcher's count facing Protestant denominations did not prevent Orthodox Presbyterians from celebrating their seventy - fifth with humility and gratitude.

That's why it's crucial we keep our eyes upon the truth, read and meditate upon the Bible, pray with humility and ask God for forgiveness and insight into our hearts and His, and act in ways that He leads us no matter what other people do or say.

Much of what we do as a church body is out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty tomb.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

To the degree we do have a Christian heritage in America, that understanding should be marked with humility more than pride.

«Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves» (Philippians 2:3).

Such humility does not exclude the ecstatic joy of receiving the Spirit of God, or the peace of agape with God and the neighbour, but it is joy and peace made possible within love's work of forgiveness.

We can do it, let us hope, with a humility that still loves and relates well to the doubters who, for many valid as well as invalid reasons, sit in the back pews or do not even darken the church's doorway.

My endorsement really doesn't do this book justice: «Annan has put into words the questions many of us wrestle with in silence, and done so with such humanity and humility, it's impossible to walk away unchanged.

When Paul says, «Husbands, love your wives, do not be harsh with them,» he's asking for humility.

I can't add much to this flood of advice except to submit, with humility, that in my view we don't have much choice about our fundamental emotional attitude; it is a matter of personal character (body chemistry and the close culture of family and schooling), but this need not affect our choice of creed and code if we have independence of mind.

But in Western culture, Bowman explains (echoing Nietzsche), primitive honor did battle for centuries with the Christ - ideal of inner virtue, humility, and turning the other cheek.

More strength doesn't work, but undermining them with humility.

And what it fosters is an arrogance that doesn't appropriately position Christians today to be self - critical, to look inside within the context of the network of churches and networks of denominations and with humility admit the fact that 1) they don't know everything and 2) they've made some mistakes.

Things like «doing justice, loving mercy, walking with humility» (paraphrase of Micah 6:8) or «loving God with all you've got and loving your neighbor as yourself «(paraphrase of Mark 12:30).

The funny thing about those Geico commercials is how rabid that Gecko is to get his message out, and he does it with grace, humility, and humor.

I have in these pages tried to give expression to my own dawning yearning, but I do so with modesty and in humility.

To learn to put up with this empirical church is the way both of Christian humility at its best and of Christian growth in God's grace, not to mention the patent fact that such cooperation may do much to make the empirical institution more conformable to its intention and significance as the Body of Christ.

So please pray that I do my part to set the right tone, listen well, and respond with humility.