Sentences with phrase «feel compelled»

Why did he feel compelled to look silly and risk ridicule?

Unfortunately, too many political leaders that happen to be Christian feel compelled by their beliefs to proselytize, and that compulsion spills into their policy - making.

Aside from THAT I will bet you that there are MANY things mentioned in you «bible» that you and others of your «faith» don't follow... but yet you still feel compelled to force SOME things found in your bible on other citizens of this country.

Such notions introduce elements into the New Testament witness that strike me as artificial — foreign substances that the body of Christian kerygma will feel compelled to reject.

I am a Christian, but unlike Barton, I do not feel compelled to Lie For Jesus.

I just don't get why some feel compelled to wear their religion on their sleeve.

The only delusion is that you feel compelled to think there is a god or jesus that this woman turned from.

Allot of Evangelical Christians feel compelled to vote for someone who is a «godly» person.

I fear for good ppeloe who don't understand that it is the Word of God ITSELF that is living and active... and who feel compelled to minister what amounts to Systematic Theology in its place.Is this what results from being Reformed rather than Reforming?

Nor is their occurrence the prerogative or even the consequence of newly installed pastors who feel compelled to turn around their new congregations.

The issue in Sodom wasn't brought up so I did not feel compelled to answer it, The implication that Lot deliberately «slept» with his daughters is at issue here.

I'm here because I feel compelled to resist the onslaught of misinformation and thus illogical conclusions that are perpetuated by religion.

I'm here because I feel compelled to try and be a tiny little part of that massive change.

And to all the naysayers and people who feel compelled to criticize prioor to investigation... AA will be there for you if and when you need it.

You have choosen to purposefully ignorant about these things, yet feel compelled force your religious beliefs on everyone else.

Likewise, you feel compelled to post up your silly garbage that takes up all the room on every page you post.

Even if we did someday plant a church (which we haven't done and still don't feel compelled to do) it would be from a place of relationship and wisdom rather than a sense of «I'll just show up and show»em all how it's done.»

«I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all the priests, to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children,» the Pope said in remarks quoted by Vatican Radio.

Not only should we feel compelled to vote, we should desire to vote, joyfully accepting the civic task involved in living in a democracy.

I think tithing is one of those really difficult subjects, I am also not able to speak on that, it is something one must feel compelled to do and believe it is important to the community of faith he / she is part of...

But then, when they are on the missionary field, and not much is happening through their ministry, they feel compelled to embellish what they are doing so that it the money which people are spending on them is well - spent.

Furthermore, even though the missionary may be exhausted from working overseas, they feel compelled to visit people in their homes and go speak in a myriad of churches just so that they can maintain their financial support.

It reinforces the CONTROL that all adults feel compelled to exert on children, and each other, because they were «taught» when they were young.

Despite the fact that the Church settled the matter in Marcion's time, we now feel compelled to open the question again and ask whether our Bible does have any genuine unity.

If there are occasions when we Christians feel compelled to speak critically of Israel, we must speak with love so that we do not give aid or comfort to those who seek by their criticism to bring about Israel's demise or weaken its place in the forum of world opinion.

The song takes a heavy hand promoting «Baby Jesus... as the one and only reason that we celebrate the season...» «It is a shame that some feel compelled to fight back against the political battles involving Christmas by taking such a militant stand,» said Jeff Westover of My Merry Christmas.com, the world's largest Christmas community online.

Catholic I've heard from several Christian friends that they feel sympathy for gays wanting to get married, but they feel compelled to follow what they think the Bible says anyway.

Others, however, will feel some hesitation about accepting such an estimate; and others still will feel compelled to reject it as untrue.

Well, as an Atheist, I feel compelled through my instinctual nature as a social primate to clarify this: according to Christians, Mary was supposedly born without sin (the «immaculate conception»), otherwise god wouldn't have «gotten it on» with her.

I didn't even see His lips move... Could be, Jesus will feel compelled to rewrite the entire bible, leaving out those obviously unclear parts.

But before we open our mouths, we must ask, «Do I feel compelled to say something because I want to make this person, this work or this situation better?»

- them mentality, I feel compelled to point out that most young Christians do not fit neatly into one of these two categories.

It is natural that, by reason of the exceptional contacts which have enabled me, a Jesuit (reared, that is to say, in the bosom of the Church) to penetrate and move freely in active spheres of thought and free research, I should have been very forcibly struck by things scarcely apparent to those who have lived only in one or other of the two opposed worlds, so that I feel compelled to cry them aloud.

Should I, as a Creole, mixed - race, African American, Evangelical leader sit quietly by, not saying a word about what has transpired in Ferguson and many other cities so that your white daughter would not feel compelled to speak out and the comfort of your reality would remain.

Thus there is very little in Hartshorne's philosophy for which I do not also find a place, even if I feel compelled to distinguish it as indeed philosophy rather than metaphysics in the proper sense of the words.

The reason atheists feel compelled to say something is the same reason you believers feel compelled to share and defend your belief.You want to spread the word about something wonderful in your life.

As I am what J. Budziszewski might term a Neo-Pagan (I am Wiccan), I feel compelled to respond to his essay «Evangelizing Neo-Pagans» (March).

I would worry if your religious leader suddenly edicted that genocide was good you would feel compelled to follow along.

You either feel compelled to believe in gods or you don't.

I realize as I write this that some of you will feel compelled to write, «You are right, nakedpastor!

Yet never did the editors feel compelled to give Federal Council of Churches officials or planners for the World Council of Churches a free ride; criticism was constant.

However, South Korean border - area residents expressed fear that North Korea would interpret the Christmas displays as «psychological warfare» — attempting to bring Christianity over the border into the Communist - run north — and feel compelled to retaliate militarily.

Shalit's world, at least, is one in which many unhappy women feel compelled to settle for something less than this.

As creatives, we often feel compelled to share our work with other people, and that's okay!

Both Davis and Beegle echo the posture of P. T. Forsyth, the English theologian of the turn of the century, who said,» «We may not feel compelled to take the whole Bible, but we must take the Bible as a whole.»»

I believe just as much as we should never feel compelled to change ourselves to fit some standard of society, we should also not be stereotyped for a desire for change either.

I feel compelled, however, to point out that Paul Tillich would hardly be averse to a rediscovery of ancient Christian thought.

The intellectually honest thing to do is address these people's questions even if you feel compelled to cluck your tongue at their choice of vocabulary.

I know this is between you and Martin but I feel compelled to add my two cents.

It's because people (of their own merit) feel compelled to make a difference because it has meaning to them.