Sentences with phrase «does seek understanding»

Did they seek understanding and forgiveness?

Not exact matches

Reporters who sought clarification were made to understand that «my Button works» didn't constitute a sufficiently specific threat, and that the company's past presumption that presidential tweets are newsworthy enough to merit the benefit of the doubt also figured in.

First do your own research, create your own business plan and then seek outside help to fine tune the plan, and coach you thru understanding not just an overview but each and every detail of your business inside and out.

You have to engage the other side, and sometimes accept partial solutions «that will advance the gains that you seek, understanding that there's going to be more work to do, but this is what is achievable at this moment.»

Evans rings off some simple rules: don't buy anything you're pressured to buy or don't understand; ask the seller for their qualifications and track record, and if they don't give satisfactory answers, don't buy; don't invest more money than you can stand to lose, and never invest it all in one deal; avoid anything with an offshore element to it («That means your money's never coming back»); and seek out an unbiased second opinion, say, from your accountant or bank manager.

Facebook also says it will continue to seek answers «to understand exactly what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.»

They have created «a customer - centric culture where you seek to understand and welcome «the voice of the customer» to the table and where you are defined by the level, quality and breadth of service provided to customers and the experience they have doing business.»

The real issue is do the businesses understand the challenges and goals they are seeking to achieve by their marketing technology strategy.

«So while we seek to understand what the new Administration's policies mean for us and our business both domestically and around the world, I can assure you that we will do whatever it takes to support you, our partners, to realize your own dreams and achieve your own opportunities.»

While talking about engagements between Glass Lewis and the companies we cover, Aaron pointed out that Glass Lewis does not meet as a representative of our clients but seeks to get a better understanding of the unique governance situation at each individual company.

To do the research appropriately, marketers need to understand the triggers for need for a specific category, their personas mindset (which some of your questions get at), their priorities, values, how they seek information and learn about products and services and more.

If an investor does not understand the risks associated with certain securities, he / she should seek the advice of an independent adviser.

Good startup CEOs: ▪ Do what they are passionate about ▪ Make sure intentions match emotions ▪ Test concept before they raise money ▪ Make sure they want the success they are seeking ▪ Raise money from value - add investors ▪ Assume they will be successful and work backwards ▪ Recognize when they are the problem Additionally, they understand the qualities that make a good CEO.

I've found that the number one reason that executives seek so many opinions is that they don't clearly understand who their customer really is.

Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams.

I have found that whenever I do feel confused about a «God» issue or Bible passage, the more I seek out an understanding or interpretation, the worse it is.

Simple, Because Thomas repented and seeked Forgivness but the Judas did not not and that shows how much he understood being a disciple of Jesus.

«Does the American Conservative Union really think the liberties and values they seek to preserve can be maintained when they partner with individuals and organizations that are undermining the understanding that our liberties come from God?

He had long sought, he writes, an argument that «would suffice to demonstrate that God truly exists» and grant understanding superior to faith: «I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.»

In any case, I will do you the honor of assuming that you are interested in hearing what those who speak such a language have to say, and I will also suppose that a faith which seeks understanding may sometimes find it.

santa, isn't it an arrogant and ignorant heart that keeps saying why does God allow this, without seeking to understand and refusing to understand that these things happen because we (mankind) allow them to happen.

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

Just because we assume someone wouldn't understand our love of Jesus doesn't mean we shouldn't seek to build a friendship and understand their point of view.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life, of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some of the arguments against the criminalization of abortion, like that banning abortion does not necessarily reduce the abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out abortions through unsafe, illegal procedures anyway.

Seeing people as seekers, it tries to stimulate others to ask, seek, and knock, while understanding we don't know it all ourselves.

They sought a new philosophical understanding of the Christian faith, and in doing so they seemed to be moving even farther left than the liberals

Through his suffering he conquers sin and dispels our misery.12 In his mercy, Jesus frees us from sin and enables us to live in the freedom of God's children.13 But it is important to understand that the freedom of God's children is lived in harmony with the truth; it does not seek to subordinate truth to itself.14 This truth includes, obviously, the truth about marriage revealed in Christ.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

One aspect of God - talk, for example, which is overdue for elimination is that which tries to look for evidence of God in the areas of human ignorance, and which seeks to use him as the explanation of all we do not understand.

I am still seeking a higher understanding and I study and ponder all the issues of life but NOW I do not join up.

Because of the «ism» at the end, making it appear as if it were an ideology, and the fact that they do not understand the definition of the word... and many seek to use a «false equivalency» in a bid to bolster their failed arguments, too.

Genesis tells what God intended and it was God created them male and female — man needed a mate and that was a female — The bible used to be very hard to understand but I sought the Lord with all my heart and I read it now and it does not contradict itself — Many prayers have been answered and I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior — I can not imagine living in this world as it is and not having that anchor that holds me together day after day.

We can say that Whitehead sees his interpretation of the doctrine of God's being within the pattern of St. Augustine's «faith seeking understanding», provided by faith we do not understand the acceptance of dogma; but the religious intuition born out of the impact of Jesus upon the world.

No doubt my way of seeking it is very different from process thought, such as that expressed in the writings of John B. Cobb, Jr., but this does not preclude the possibility that Cobb's di - polar theological understanding can not only challenge but also enrich a quest for total dialectical understanding and vision.

The philosophical «God» is understood, if not independently of religious intuition, then definitely beyond its singular appearance (RM 88) 43 Over against the philosophical approach, Christianity developed the double strategy which we have analyzed as «religious intuition» contributing finally to the formation of revelational theology:» (1) Christianity proceeded not from any metaphysics, but it «has always been a religion seeking a metaphysics» (RM 50).45 Christianity strove for theological rationalization, 46 (2) Christianity, however, did not follow any certain metaphysics (PR 66 - 68), but «has been true to its genius for keeping its metaphysics subordinate to the religious fact to which it appeals» (RM 69).

Psa 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

We must seek to understand what God was doing in Israel by looking at what God did in Jesus.

I don't understand why atheists follow articles about faith, only to seek to offend people who may agree with one or more points of the article.

Furthermore, it could also be argued that when Paul says the natural man «does not» receive the things of the Spirit of God, «nor can he know them,» he is not referring to an inherent inability to do so, but rather to an antagonistic mindset that refuses to seek the truth and understand these things.

She understood humanity enough that, while she advocated her idiotic and wrongheaded sense of aesthetics to groups of intellectuals, and while she did seek approval from those same groups and hoped to change a few minds, she did not care (nor did she ever expect) the rest of us lowlifes to ever pick up the banner of Objectivism and run with it.

No, while understanding the Scriptures certainly takes serious effort and years of study, it can be understood and grasped by anyone who seeks to do so.

And so they don't seek treatment, those who love them can not understand their symptoms, and victims suffer for decades.

Jesus» teaching reprimand the corrupt uses of falsely justifying violence / killing and the evil in our nature that seeks violence for it's own sake, but He does not remove sound established theological truths and teach that God as we understand Him in the Old Testament (the one He calls Father) is false.

Placher cites Frei's Barthian - like emphasis on the factual historicity that the gospel narrative contains, and, with Lindbeck, Placher argues that the relativity of our understanding does not negate or preclude the reality of that which we seek to understand.

And I take it as established that Hausman has shown a means whereby we can understand Bergson's approach as both metaphorical and rational2 As I am certain the reader does, I have questions I would like answered in light of their important insights and these interpretations of Bergson, but the issue I will examine presently is how Gunter's thesis and Hausman's elaboration might affect our understanding of Bergson's influence on Whitehead.3 The view of Bergson Gunter seeks to supplant is very widely held, and indeed was held, (if not really defended) until recently even by Professor Hausman (see the «Dialogue» below).

It is to be ascribed to a fact of which the Socratic view itself was aware (though only to a certain degree) and sought to remedy, that it lacks a dialectical determinant for the transition from having understood something to the doing of it.

Without getting beyond our own perspective, we can't seek to bring change to systems that we do not understand.

Rather it is to seek ways which will give to all of us an opportunity to live in fellowship despite our differences, and to understand those differences in such a way that the fellowship can increase even though the differences do not decrease.