Sentences with phrase «given conscience»

God has given us a conscience for a reason.

You see, we were created with a GOD - GIVEN CONSCIENCE and MORAL CODE.

They are a business that attracts people who are too weak to obey their own god given conscience.

We're all given a conscience as an inner witness to the Holy Spirit.

Free will gave us a conscience is actually a hindrance as we are unable to see eternity while in the flesh.

Any truth to be gleaned from the bible will be done by studying the prevailing themes like love, charity, and the golden rule and applying them to our God given consciences and living well.

How can we know if it loves or hates, is caring or cold, prehends without loss, or offers us a lure other than those we get from the culture which gives us our conscience?

This law would give conscience the best form of protection, allowing individuals a private right of recourse to the courts to vindicate their moral convictions.

God gave them a conscience, and an innate knowledge that He exists, so they spend their entire lives trying desperately to convince themselves that their conscience is wrong.

We could be just another planet floating through space But God gave us a conscience that we can't escape God want our love and obedience to Him The choice He gave was righteousness or sin

He gave us a conscience and told us not to murder.

Not exact matches

We imagined that as long as we gave people the best product and the best deal, and were the cleverest about getting our message to them, the marketplace would be its own conscience.

He turned away inquiries from others looking to turn an insurance claim into a reno: «I can't in good conscience give you a new kitchen when I have friends with no kitchen,» he'd say.

As he bounces along from idea to idea, all the while salting his sentences with ominous facts about the energy problem, I can't help wondering if he isn't going to give himself a crisis of conscience.

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).

But the worst villains are those who don't allow others God - given freedom of conscience (religious freedom) and equality.

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 think given our mutual - dependence (see: mammals» dependence on their mothers / families) on one - another a conscience is an extremely likely result.

The conscience will be enlightened only in the moment in which it has given real assent.

Language gives Nick the raw materials to begin establishing a sense of self — to learn how to differentiate his views from those of the group, and to discern and heed the call of his own individual conscience.

The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development.»

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

But it can be just as legitimate a pastoral strategy to give absolution, obliging the penitent to continue a common reflection, naturally after having confirmed that the penitent's objection of conscience is honest and not artificial.

As a cradle Catholic I abhor the church's telling me what to think,... after all, the Creator gave us each a brain and a conscience... the church doesn't want us using these gifts... only pray, pay and OBEY!

God also gives man a conscience that he might know right from wrong.

«We are determined, as leaders of the nation, to fulfill as a national government the task which has been given to us, swearing fidelity only to God, our conscience, and our Volk....

Second, the opportunity for amnesty gave others the chance to search their actions and clear their consciences of misdeeds that had brought great damage to others.

Everybody has a conscience but only phony «so - called» christians can get the government to give their group special priviledges.

This year Brian McLaren is one of the speakers, and given this current discussion I can not in good conscience sit and listen.

But unfortunately this theological rediscovery often gives rise to a sentimental attitude toward the poor and merely induces a bad conscience — the sense of being different, of being privileged — in the rich Christian.

Rejecting the moral nihilism that gave rise to the «barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind,» the Declaration affirms that we have obligations to one another arising from our participation in a common humanity and common moral order.

The proposal is an «attack on freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and the right to privacy that gives law enforcement unreasonably broad powers,» the humanitarian group Human Rights Watch told The Guardian.

These conflicting judgments show how confusing and ambiguous Christian witness of that kind is, even when it is given with a pure conscience.)

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

If the Church is cautious in questions of doctrine and discipline, perhaps even more so than in the past, if she waits for more information, carrying on a dialogue, perhaps even leaves much to the conscience of the individual, all this does not mean that the authorities have grown cowardly, they have not, for this reason, given up their responsibility and their power.

That's another counterintuitive lesson he gave to us, as we all proceed together, slouching toward «tolerance» and carrying our consciences along the way.

Given all the evil he's done that must be weighing down his conscience, I can understand that he would need something else to keep him going.

To be the party directly concerned, the one to whom conscience in this affair speaks the intimate «thou,» is another matter, for conscience only speaks this intimate «thou» to your friend in regard to the manner in which he is to give counsel.

While I'm not inclined to ascribe motive in this case and prefer to give Ham the benefit of the doubt that he holds his position because his conscience demands it, I think these folks bring up a good point about how we can become so heavily invested in a certain ideology that change comes at enormous cost.

This hope, however, lays an obligation also on the authorities of the Catholic Church to be critical of themselves, to respect the conscience of every man which is responsible directly to God, and to avoid anything that may give the impression that the exercise of this ministry may have other purposes than the preservation of the one faith.

Exposure frees the gaze and gives us a true vision, a vision that strikes our conscience with terror at what is happening and makes us confess our share in it.

Most of the above definitions recquire a conscience being to give the glory to God.

Although it has been damaged by sin, the voice of conscience is something God - given.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

Allowing all people the right (given no rulebook save the one written by other people to control other people) to live and express, to discover, as they are led to do by their own consciences.

Yet it is not unreasonable to expect that, given its guarantee of «freedom of conscience and religion,» the government should be even - handed in its funding priorities, not singling out for support those groups that happen to agree with the ruling party's worldview.

But though he gave up his claim to conscience, he by no means gave up his claim to material wealth; Homo Sovieticus was on average much poorer than Western man, but certainly no less consumption - oriented.

Can we in conscience ignore their plight, given the church's long history of advocacy for fair - employment practices?

God gives us the power to live this godly life (1 Peter 1:3)... but it does take «every effort» from our side to walk after Jesus (2 Peter 1:5 - 8) This life is to have a clear conscience toward God.

He gave everyone the Creation (it's only logical that you look around you and realize that we aren't an accident... order doesn't come from an explosion nor does something come from nothing... plus it would break the first law of thermodynamics) and a conscience so that we all will have no excuse on Judgment Day.