Sentences with phrase «for good conscience»

If China (or indeed any country) has little use for good conscience now, its global aspirations and connections mean that it has lots of need for good face.

«Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.»

Not exact matches

I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Every member of President Trump's advisory councils should wrestle with his or her conscience and ponder Edmund Burke's famous warning that «All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.»

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

This is about as condescending and arrogant as Mitt Romney at Liberty University saying: «there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.»

Can I root for him in good conscience knowing that the very plays I'm cheering - across - the - middle catches and countless hard blocks and collisions - could give him a condition that one day might lead him to take his own life?

I could not in good conscience baptize my daughter in the RC Church (after doing so for my sons), knowing that she would be raised as a second class citizen in that church.

«We can not in good conscience justify the presence of the Confederate flag in this house of prayer for all people, nor can we honor the systematic oppression of African - Americans for which these two men fought and died.»

But in good conscience, if Mitt Romney gets the GOP nom., I can not vote for him.

She suggested taking what has been shared on this thread, along with information that can't in good conscience be shared in public, for private professional review, making use of structures developed by denominations over many years of dealing with situations like these.

It is certainly possible for someone to, in good conscience do something against church teaching, but it is something that should happen extremely rarely.

In the name of this theology (which is in part that of the World Council of Churches), Christians are induced to participate unreservedly and with a good conscience in political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the good.

Are there not also limits to how much we can in good conscience lay up for ourselves?

Even if we are doing something good, others with weak conscience might perceive it as a stumbling block, the means of another's downfall: in that case we are in some sense partly responsible for that stumbling.

Most memorably of all, «If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.»

We were often misunderstood when we could not in good conscience agree to being paid for any of these «ministries.»

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

In my randiest, loneliest moments, I can certainly wish for a different conviction, but even then, what I most desire is not the freedom to masturbate with a clear conscience, but to be married and near enough to that spouse to once again fumble our way through the best earthly picture we have of the Trinity's penultimate love.

Our laws make provision also for those individuals who, for reasons they find compelling, decide that they can not in good conscience participate in war.

This is what he finds intolerable: the notion that the suffering of children will prove to have been meaningful, to have had a purpose, to have been in some sense a good and necessary thing; for him, the suffering of children is an infinite scandal, and his conscience could never allow it to sink to the level of some provisional passage through darkness on the way to some radiant future.

The case for freedom is based not upon the absence of any reason for preferring one ideal to another but upon the positive conviction that men have the right and the duty to follow their consciences and to promote the common good.

I am not saying that any of you should not observe Christmas as a religious celebration but for me I can't do so in good conscience anymore, therefore, I may be the weaker amongst you so lets agree to have differences that are not ultimately a deciding matter of our salvation.

Anyone of good conscience should agree with what I have said and ban together, so we can bring this country the very world we live on into the 21st century free of these groups hold on our minds and revel in all the promise this century has to offer so our children's children's children will look back in pride an see we did what we did for them and there posterity.

However, such a tangible measure, borne of respect for human dignity and concern for the public good, would help greatly in stimulating the American conscience on a matter that presently struggles to hold its attention.

Good for him and his own conscience in stating the obvious.

I assayed many ways to help to quiet my conscience, but it would not be; for the concupiscence and lust of my flesh did always return, so that I could not rest, but was continually vexed with these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sins: therefore thou art entered into this holy order in vain, and all thy good works are unprofitable.

For it is manifest that we can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse.

The task Rawls set for himself was to adumbrate a form of liberalism»» political» liberalism» that could reasonably and in good conscience be embraced by people subscribing to a wide range of reasonable and conflicting «comprehensive views,» including decidedly cognitivist and non-relativist and comprehensive views, such as Catholicism.

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I find that science offers much better explanations for gravity, energy, emotions, evolution, the universe, and conscience, collaboration, photons, the evolution of eyes, and on and on it goes... I guess the point is... Prove that God exists, and we can talk.

marriage pledge R. R. Reno writes in «Government Marriage» (December) that he «can't see how a priest or pastor can in good conscience sign a marriage license for «Spouse A» and «Spouse B.»» Then, in support of the Marriage Pledge put forward by....

Every conscientious politician discovers what T. V. Smith has called the deepest theoretical discrepancy in life, that between private conscience and public convenience.2 We must support injustice and profit from special privilege in order to possess power which may make it possible for us to do some relative good.

I intend to write in a candidate I judge fit for the office, which is not a description I can apply in good conscience to Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Trump.

The fact that we do not finally submit our consciences to the dictates of any tradition or institution is the best possible reason for using our freedom to appropriate the moral wisdom of all traditions and institutions.

The best short summary of the traditional, natural law understanding of conscience was given by Thomas Aquinas when he said that the core principles of the moral law are the same for all «both as to rectitude and as to knowledge» — in other words, that they are not only right for all but known to all.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

«Many of us are going to be facing the reality that if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee and Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, we will not be able to vote in good conscience for either.»

They may see the hurt they cause, but their conscience informs them that they are fighting for a greater good.

A gospel response, the experts told them, would not play, and the bishops, some of them with obvious reluctance and uneasy conscience, went along with the game plan «for the good of the Church.»

Conscious of the suffering of prisoners and well aware that through the centuries many faithful Christians have been wrongfully imprisoned and put to death, Christians have emphasized the importance of visiting prisoners, have campaigned for prison and penal reform and have supported organizations such as Amnesty International that campaigns for prisoners of conscience.

If, for example, «conscience» can command me to use artificial means of contraception because of my life circumstances, why couldn't conscience permit, or even require, that I continue to defraud customers if my business is in debt and my family would suffer from its failure, even as I work my way into a better, more honest financial situation?

Freud does not help us understand the more mature, autonomous conscience, whose values are based on the ego's perceptions of what is authentically good for oneself and for others, rather than on the dictates of one's superego.

So can a Catholic in good conscience vote for a pro-choice candidate?

No, there will be no excuse for any man, because God has put in every human heart certain knowledge of Himself, so that by that knowledge man would be lead to seek to know Him more, but those who by love of their own sins, their self will, and pride and rebellion that's in their hearts have extinguished that knowledge written on their consciences... So what ever comes to those who reject it, it is their own doing... George Carlin knows that now very well.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

«It's hard enough being a Lutheran ethicist,» they said, «if one always has a bad conscience for speaking of good works.»

If it can not be currently assimilated, then the pastor may in good conscience deliberately tolerate the error and look for a better time for truthful disclosure.66 The pastor, however, should be aware both of the potential collusive quality of such counsel and of its temporary necessity.

Fredom fundamentally allows all expressions short of those causing physical harm to others and calls on the consciences of men to help them make decisions for the greater good of their fellow citizens.