Sentences with phrase «express understanding for»

He failed to express understanding for those who felt compassion for the refugees.

«Whereas Marine Le Pen has expressed understanding for the British position.»

He expressed understanding for the protesters, saying: «There is still a powerful sense around - fair or not - of a whole society paying for the errors and irresponsibility of bankers.»

The archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams expressed understanding for Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Saudi Arabia proposed deleting the entire text, with the Russian Federation expressing understanding for the concerns raised.

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And I think, over time, as there has been certainly — there are more of us in the management ranks as there is more understanding of the value of diversity, I think the opportunity to be able to express ourselves and approach business in a way that makes most sense for us.

But he did express a desire to suit up with his teammates for the game, but explained that he understood why many players chose to sit out their final college game instead.

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«Understanding your millennial workforce will better position companies for success, as this generation represents our future leaders and customers», Valerie Grillo, Chief Diversity Officer at American Express.

Offering comfort by listening and allowing the dying to express their understanding of the Divine (God, for me) by talking of family and love is the ultimate expression, in my opinion, of what a real person of God should be like, especially at the end.

She also expressed that she didn't understand why it was all happening so fast and I told her that she was so fortunate to have had 99 1/2 years of being in pretty good shape and to only have to endure this for such a short short time.

The statement called for understanding, forgiveness and spiritual support of homosexual persons; expressed opposition to «the unjust and unkind treatment given to homosexuals by individuals, society and the church»; and pledged to minister to homosexuals and «to help them to change their life style in a manner which brings glory to God.»

Coercion can take countless subtle forms, but a good palliative care specialist understands that expressing a wish to die is often a proxy for asking: «Do you care about me?

Two sentences in the discussion of reason in the earlier version of the report could be taken to support the use of such analysis: «By reason we relate our witness to the full range of human knowledge and experience,» and «By our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»

For it is not clear that all, or even most, New Testament texts express an appropriate political understanding.

For Bultmann an understanding of existence is something we bring with us to the text as well as something we find expressed there.

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.

That insight had such significance for John Paul that he would return to it fourteen years later in Fides et Ratio, writing that the chief purpose of theology «is seen to be the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death can express a love which gives itself and seeks nothing in return.»

The complete statement reads: «The historic process of the world, which requires the genetic - functional interpretation, also requires for its understanding some insight into those ultimate principles of existence which express the necessary connections Within the flux» (ESP 123).

The President and others who recognize the shortcomings of the colonization of peoples by more powerful foreign nations would do well to heed the words of Pope Francis — for whom the President often expresses admiration — about the new form of colonization, holding foreign aid as a hostage when their nation's views reflect a different understanding of the human person, one held by many Americans as well.

We have framed much of the comparison of the understanding of God around «the most beautiful names» of God used in Muslim devotion, but which for the most part express aspects of God that Jews, Christians and Muslims hold in common.

That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

A number of more conservative leaders have expressed a nervousness about speaking out, for fear of being pilloried in the secular press, who certainly don't understand the rhetoric of «love the sinner, hate the sin», or getting lumped in with Westboro Baptist Church and their appalling «God Hates Fags» signs.

His lecture is sprinkled with expressions such as «the church leadership argues that...»; «the Church maintains that...»; and «the Church's position is...» We are clearly given to understand that he is not merely expressing his own views or speaking in his capacity as the archbishop of Los Angeles but is speaking for the Catholic Church.

The ultimate truth and hope of the Church, God and his Christ, will be expressed anew as though what in fact has always been preached were really understood for the first time.

Instead of despairing she came to a deeper understanding of God and humanity; instead of blaming, she expressed a strong sense of human responsibility for the suffering she witnessed: nothing can be changed in the world until we change ourselves.

Thank you for having helped me to correct my ways of commenting and sorry if I ever reacted strongly at the time but now I understand how that was too strong to express thoughts.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

Ben Sira expresses well a characteristic attitude, «Seek not out things that are too hard for thee... but what is commanded thee think thereon... for more things are showed thee than men understand» (Ecclus.

First of all to my parents, my father, Remus Muray, and my mother, Marianna Muray, for their part in bringing me into the world, and their love, understanding, and encouragement throughout my life; to John Cobb, my theological «godfather» who first introduced me to process thought, and to whose friendship, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation I am more grateful than I could ever express; to David Griffin, who taught me how to think critically; to Jay McDaniel and Kevin Clark for their enduring friendship since our student days and perpetually intellectual stimulating conversations; Nancy Howell, without whose encouragement this project may not have been undertaken; William Dean, whose work has proved to be so liberating; to David and Rosanne Keller, for their friendship, the opportunity to work and play with them, and for their living relationally; Josephine Bates, for her friendship, encouragement, and support in this endeavor; the Rt..

I want to express a special note of thanks to my publisher, Professor Herbert Richardson of the Edwin Mellen Press for his confidence in me and asking me to write this book; to Maureen Muncaster, also of the Edwin Mellen Press, for her support and facilitating the process of publication; Lois Holden, Production Manager; and Marguerite Rupnow of Lewiston Business Services, for her understanding and making the arrangements for the final typing possible.

Feuerbach, for example, was one of the first to understand the positive value of religion in society, even when religion is understood as a human creation and expressed in naturalistic terms.

But, allowing for considerable oversimplification, I can at least try to make clear the essential point: the understanding of reality expressed in this kind of metaphysics is one for which all our distinctive experience and thought as modern secular men is negative evidence.

In a sense this is the key not only to understanding something of the Trinity (what grounds the «possibility» for the Trinity is that the One who understands or expresses God must be God) but also to why its full meaning is beyond us.

We have seen that Paul's understanding of the realities of the human situation apart from Christ could be expressed only in mythological terms, and the suggestion has been made that, in the nature of the case, this must be true, not for him only, but also for us, if our understanding is at all adequate or profound.

Terminally ill or mortally wounded individuals who «have been irretrievably lost as a result of illness or injury, who fully understand their situation, possess and have somehow expressed an urgent wish for release.»

See for instance Raimon Panikkar, On Catholic Identity (University of Tulsa 1991), p. 2, where this becomes clear from what he says on the identity of a Christian: «We may agree that a Christian is somebody who acknowledges a special relation to Jesus Christ, but the understanding of this relation can not be expressed in any univocal way and the analogy can not go beyond the formal or structural contents of the word «relation»

In today's culture the language of spousal love is unlikely to be the most obvious way in which a young woman will understand or express her love for Christ, much less His relationship to her.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

The paradox of agape expressed in Jesus» words that «He who saves his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake and the gospels will find it» is explored both in the critics of Christian self - sacrifice, including Fromm, Camus and others, and in the more traditional understandings of agape including the monastics, Luther, Kierkegaard and others.

The author explores this thesis in the light of Christian tradition, new understandings of sexuality, and the meaning of faithfulness, and suggests a sexual ethic that expresses justice, especially for women.

More than this, her patience and understanding has been for me a demonstration of love deeper than any words can express.

For this reason they understand their viewing of religious programs as both an act of protest against the «evils» of general television and an affirmation of their support for the worldview expressed within the electronic - church prograFor this reason they understand their viewing of religious programs as both an act of protest against the «evils» of general television and an affirmation of their support for the worldview expressed within the electronic - church prografor the worldview expressed within the electronic - church programs.

A summary necessary for those of slow understanding but before those who have eyes to see is it uncalled for as is the challenge to pay attention to or remember what has been expressed.

The acceptance of this not - knowing is nothing new; rather, technocracy has refused to accept what the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing understood and expressed for us so beautifully.

We have only to open our eyes, to understand how dearly we are loved by a creator who is not malevolent, who understands our human condition, who despite our sad history continues to express faith, hope and love for us by these daily decision to create life in the form of innocent children and then to entrust them to us.

My own trinitarian conception of the God - world relationship, as expressed in previous publications, lends itself even more dramatically to a field - oriented understanding of the God - world relationship since it makes clear how the three divine persons of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity can be said to possess a field proper to their own divine being which likewise serves as the «matrix» or ontological ground for the field of activity proper to creation (see, for example, The Divine Matrix 52 - 69 and «Panentheism from a Process Perspective»).

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowshFor still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowshfor human fellowship.

They had been Jews writing in Jewish terms largely for Jews, or for those brought up in the Jewish tradition; but John was in Ephesus and he had to find some way of expressing the truth of the Gospel in a way that a Greek could understand.