Sentences with phrase «encountered would rather»

Every client I've ever encountered would rather know exactly what to expect than feel left in the dark.

Indeed there has been a significant rise in personal spirituality in the mainline in recent years.Most study groups I encounter would rather be reading Thomas Merton or Henri Nouwen than Dominic Crossan.

Not exact matches

Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they feel about these parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often feel like they've let their patients down by not convincing them to vaccinate.

won't have to rely on an IT team — rather, you'll have access to industry - specific experts should you encounter any problems

Unless we observe a rather swift improvement in market internals and a further, material easing in credit spreads — neither which would relieve the present overvaluation of the market, but both which would defer our immediate concerns about downside risk — the present moment likely represents the best opportunity to reduce exposure to stock market risk that investors are likely to encounter in the coming 8 years.

After all, as the rather grisly specifics of the practice of animal sacrifice suggest, it would require a rather unnatural detachment for the members of the Court not to disapprove of any of the variety of religious beliefs or practices that they encounter in the cases they must decide.

«Prospective employers do not want a future workforce of graduates who seem thin skinned, humourless and brittle, but rather one that is composed of well - rounded people who have learned to challenge, reject or embrace some of the new and difficult ideas they encountered as students.

Donald Trump had an encounter with the gospel of Jesus Christ and rather than propping him up, it made him uncomfortable... as tends to happen with anyone who is actually paying attention, myself included.

Rather, the evidences of modern people - groups and ancient people - groups show a high percentage of humankind reaching for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.

Rather it has tended to reaffirm the working hypothesis of the new quest: if an encounter with the kerygma is an encounter with the meaning of Jesus, then an encounter with Jesus should be an encounter with the meaning of the kerygma.

The next time you encounter someone who has «left the church» or «rejected God» rather than tell them that they need to come back, instead, strike up a conversation by asking them what happened, or why they made the decision they did.

Such opportunities — a rather euphemistic term for some of the encounters a minister has with alcoholics — are thrust upon him, whether or not he wants them or is prepared for them.

It deals with people just like us, just as needy and screwed up as we are, encountering a God who would rather die than spend eternity without them.

The God we encounter there is the God in whom we live and move and have our being, the God who rejoices over His children with signing, the God who spreads Her wings over Her children like an eagle over her chicks, the God who loved the world enough to experience all of its pain alongside of us, the God who — as Nadia Bolz - Weber puts it — «would rather die than be in the sin accounting business anymore,» the God who loves to watch us play.

more recently, a couple of people in different ways have challenged me to give people a chance, to make each encounter with them a clean slate, rather than holding on to the things that have hurt me... If I could really do this, imagine the potential for understanding and goodness.

Those who evade books like this because they would rather not encounter extensive clinical accounts have no excuse to avoid this one: Frank treats the medical realities with economy and taste.

It is rather a closure of meaning that has involved an encounter with the otherness of the text.

Rather, the Now of the New Testament implies that the supra - temporal reality becomes an event for each particular individual only by virtue of an encounter in time; it has itself the character of encounter.

One of the biggest frustrations that I encounter when speaking with people about Jason's deconversion is that a number of people often come to me with ideas on how they can help rather than asking what would be helpful.

MacIntyre's position is, I think, similar to his characterization of Rosenzweig's in Edith Stein: «We do not begin with some adequate grasp of the concepts of knowledge and truth and in the light of these pass judgment on whether or not we know something of God or whether or not it is true God exists, but rather it is from our encounters with God — and with the world and with human beings — that we learn what it is to have knowledge of what truth is.»

I would not call this experience an hallucination, which I take to be purely subjective in all important respects, having no significant objective referent, but rather a vision, the encounter with a nonperceptual reality made manifest and perceptible by hallucinatory means.

In the classical sense revival is not, as some of our American brothers would regard it, a series of evangelistic meetings, but rather a phenomenal sovereign intervention from God which starts in the Church, often leading to profound repentance and fresh encounters with God.

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

Do not our congregations expect from their own ministers that they wrestle honestly and immediately with the Christian faith and the issues of human life, and preach from that inner encounter rather than give a digest of what other ministers have said?

Rather, I have begun more and more to experience for myself the «joy of the Gospel» that Pope Francis calls us all to proclaim, and which shone out in the lives of the priests who inspired me as a young man: an extraordinary sense of peace, happiness and purpose which comes from encountering Jesus and handing your life over to him.»

Instead, the film would be about a clown who comes riding into town on a donkey; he's with a rather motley circus; he experiences the human failings of the circus people; he encounters Magnus, who wants to dominate and control; he substitutes himself for a poor human - puppet and is killed by Magnus.

What I'd rather do is tell you about the alternative, about just a few of the people who treat me and nearly everyone they encounter with respect, openness, and humble teachability, even as they carry around an armful of credentials.

Though the curtain of secrecy is drawn over such meetings (one of the abuses that Boff had criticized in his writings), Boff emerged from the encounter smiling, believing that he had made the point that, when dealing with liberation theology, the church ought to consult people directly involved in the struggle, rather than relying solely on European theologians who, as he told reporters, «look on poverty from the outside, from a position of security, in a paternalistic way.»

Of course we Arsenal fans are hoping for the same result when the final whistle blows, but I would rather it does not turn out to be such a nerve wracking encounter.

Plus, without the previous day's incident between Khabib and Lobov, which by all accounts was a random encounter in a hallway, this attack would have felt rather bizarre.

Georgians who had claimed that L.A. was the abbreviation for Lovely Atlanta rather than Los Angeles had their fervor dampened as the Hawks were winged in three of their four encounters.

To extend the rain - delayed tournament into overtime, McGirt needed a birdie on the 72nd hole, a rather critical piece of data he might have overlooked had it not been for a chance encounter with Woods at the 2012 PGA Championship.

Having stealthily clawed their way to 9th in the Premier League table, with a sequence of effective rather than spectacular performances, West Ham will seek to build on the resurgent air of optimism at the London Stadium by stamping their authority of today's encounter with West Bromwich Albion.

Then we have Bolton's miserable record at Craven Cottage, having been victorious on just one of their last twelve visits to West London — that rare success story coming in a rather meaningless Carling Cup encounter in 2007, while their record on the road this season also spells disaster.

Considering Bolton haven't kept a clean sheet in league competition at The Reebok since the opening day of the season and Blackpool's rather bizarre pattern of scoring and not scoring in alternating away fixtures — Scoring in one away fixture one week before firing blanks in their very next away match — we should be in for an entertaining affair what with the Tangerines playing out a 0 - 0 draw at Upton Park in their last away encounter.

Breasts are another body part made intriguing by the fact that children have yet to develop breasts themselves and if a child encounters breastfeeding and had it explained to them without shame, they are going to understand breasts as a food source rather than identifying breasts for sexual pleasure.

At a Labour focused conference earlier this year, where Labour Humanists was exhibiting, I had a rather unpleasant encounter with a rising star in the Labour party, who had seen our rather tongue - in - cheek leaflets proclaiming «Still not doing God!»

Meanwhile there are reports that Sajid Javid, the home secretary, had a rather chaotic encounter with the press in Brussels today after a meeting with Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament's lead Brexit spokesman.

He said that in his Tottenham constituency the professionals, like doctors and nurses, did not live in the communities where they worked and that as a result we were creating a compartmentalised society, rather than the «encounter society» he would like to see.

When we think about, for example, what the state of unemployment is in the US or the extent to which the average American encounters crime, one relevant source of information is this perception of society as a whole: If one's impression is that America as a whole is doing badly, then one would infer that the situation for a specific issue would be rather negative as well.

I hoped that encountering them up close would resolve a question I've long harbored: Why do we, as animals, uproot ourselves rather than maintaining the stately fixity of trees?

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

The young people described positive encounters as those in which they received «treatment as usual» or non-discriminatory care, delivered with kindness, which had the potential to challenge their negative self - evaluation rather than perpetuate it.

While the American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists (ACOG)'s recent update now recommends that postpartum care should be an ongoing process, rather than a single encounter and that all women have contact with their ob - gyns or other obstetric care providers within the first three weeks postpartum is a start, we need MORE.

There are plenty of women available that might be thinking about casual encounters so find the correct spot to be to obtain what you would like rather of confusing souls which have a totally different plan so far as the connection goes.

Ideally we would prefer an ongoing friendship, if compatible, rather than one off encounters.

It has a different approach to millionaire dating as it promotes casual dating and encounters rather than long term relationships.

Leaving the box, so to speak, they encounter uncontrolled situations and therefore instinctive actions and emotions they would rather not deal with.

Along the way they encounter Kitty (Kelly Wenham) and Lulu (Georgia Groome), two girls who seem rather too interested in Jim and Alex, as the plot unravels it becomes clear that Kitty and Lulu have a mission of their own, and it's not pretty.

But the filmmakers adhere too prominently to the tropes of the sports genre, all leading up to the big, dramatic encounter at the end, whereas tonally it felt the film may have benefited from avoiding such an approach — for while a necessity Billie Jean King took place in the match, the entire endeavour was more about putting Bobby Riggs in his place rather than to prove herself as an athlete.