Sentences with phrase «exhortations like»

It is quite yummy in everyway as is your incredible home — WOW — but I especially love your Scriptural exhortations like the ones from this post — ahhh — so nice and refreshing...

Despite formal exhortations like this, there's a growing feeling in the legal community that Groia has been treated unfairly, and that careful review of what actually happened shows his conduct was not egregious.

It is hard to avoid the explicitness of typical exhortations like those described by Paul in I Corinthians: «I appeal to you... that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you..

Not exact matches

Like (Episcopalian) Joseph Fletcher, who taught Situation Ethics in the 1960s, the exhortation suggests that there are exceptions to every moral rule and that there is no such thing as an intrinsically evil act.

Like, for example, the recent apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the meaning of which seems to have the College of Cardinals currently at odds.

And if we could stick to our discipline for a few more weeks until then, he would like us to read Familiaris Consortio, the 1981 papal exhortation of St. John Paul II, our «pre-Cana,» as it were.

The parable begins like Matthew's parable of the talents, and the closing exhortation resembles several sayings quoted by Matthew and Luke in connection with other parables (Mt 24:42; 25:13; Lk 12:38, 40).

In his apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis explained that he wanted «to listen to everyone and not simply those who would tell him what he would like to hear».9 This is exactly what he has done by using the synod's preparatory document to seek input from a broad range of the faithful.

Like the old - line leaders, a considerable segment of the agency professionals consider their lay brethren uneducated, miseducated, or in need of exhortation.

But the common Christian believer may intuit the threat of the historical consciousness in something like this crude way; the perceived threat can not be conjured away by unsupported exhortations for the believer to accept the modern world view.

Now I would like to elaborate the larger rationale for such an exhortation.

Unfortunately, instead of reading the exhortation I wrote, «Act like men — be a man of God,» some seemed to read, «You should adhere to some cultural norm of hyper masculinity and this verse does not apply to women.»

In other treatises, too, like On the Veiling of Virgins (De virginibus velandis) and Exhortation to Chastity (De exhortatione castitatis) continued on the theme that «the Church was a somber assembly.

One would like to think that each of us, at one time, might have been, before being saved, a «hard nut to crack» — so that spreading the gospel is not simply «putting out a statement» but, indeed, providing impassioned exhortation to the unbelievers to believe on Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

We have sharp rhetoric about social justice, but the preferential option for the poor is an open - ended exhortation, not a precise moral demand like the condemnation of taking innocent life as an intrinsically evil act.

In what feels like an increasingly volatile climate, that some of us are surprised by and others are less so, how does Jesus» exhortation to love our enemies find real traction in our living?

Though the use of «enemy» in the Old Testament often did refer to a nation - state enemy of Israel, Jesus» exhortation was never meant to refer to a public enemy — like another nation's military force — that would let me off the hook.

It is still commentary, but it doesn't read like a technical commentary, but more like an exhortation.

But happiness is a surprisingly contentious subject, and at least some psychologists argue that «think positive» exhortations should be left to pop purveyors like Norman Vincent Peale and Tony Robbins.

Having arrived at what sounds like a surreal moral — an exhortation to remember the Sixth Commandment as part of the «Let's Whip Choriocarcinoma by the Year 3000» campaign — it's time to take a step back.

It means reformers need to sweat things like perverse incentives and whether a policy is likely to actually, you know, work as intended, even when they'd rather focus on moral exhortation or larger causes.

Bearing in mind the sagely exhortation of Michael Pollan to always «eat food» as opposed to food - like substances, this should be reason enough to think a while longer about that meal that can evidently stay happy for a lot longer than anyone thought.

In fairness to the press, they have, variously, tried to address this with the addition of the new metrics and exhortations to look beyond the headlines (eg the Lawyer and Earnings Per Partner), but the PEP genie (efreet, more like) is out of the bottle, and it ain't going back in.