Sentences with phrase «good conscience do»

I am now being asked to work overtime hours in the following week - but I don't think I can in good conscience do so (I need the extra time).

It is difficult to administer effectively and humanely on a large scale — we can not in good conscience do the equivalent of painting crosses on the doors of the stricken and leaving them to their fates.

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

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.

But selling gas, Twinkies, and cigarettes didn't sit well with his conscience.

Just as some impact investors focus on supporting businesses in the developing world, investors with a conscience would do well to fund minority - owned businesses in the U.S., Bradley argues.

«I just don't see how in good conscience some people can do that.

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.»

«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.»

«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.»

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.

Even though I was clearly conservative, and still am on many issues, I recognized that people of good conscience can and do disagree on many of these issues.

All have sinned; all are in bondage to sin till Christ frees us; all pursue the works of the flesh rather than the Spirit; evil behaviors come from within the heart rather than from the outside; good deeds are done more often to salve the conscience than please God.

If she is unable to do this in good conscience, that is fine also, but in that case, she should quit her job because she is unable to carry it out.

Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.»

The family resemblance consists in the idea that people do not need to know Jesus Christ to have some knowledge of what is right and good through the law of creation and conscience, that is, by way of «the things that have been made» (Romans 1:20).

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.

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.

What is it other than that throughout eternity an infinite stillness reigns wherein the conscience may talk with the individual about what he, as an individual, of what he has done of Good or of evil, and about the fact that during his life he did not wish to be an individual?

What should be done by the Church and the individual Christian if a marriage has broken down and there is an insuperable difference between the decision of a subjectively and objectively good and right conscience and that of the Church?

This, however, does not mean that there can not be serious differences of theologi - cal opinion within the Church, nor that a Christian could never refuse to obey a certain particular order of a minister of the Church because his conscience considers it as incompatible with justice or charity, despite the minister's good faith.

So if we do not choose to help make things worse, we can at least have a good conscience about resigning from responsible participation in the world.

I am an atheist and have been sense I reached the age of reason, And I am so glad my parents didn't force it down my throat, I try to lead a good life and only need let my conscience be my guide, I have known many people that say they are a born again and to me, that's my cue to walk the other way..

It requires a consistent, often painful, examination of conscience with the welfare of others as well as ourselves in mind and the self - discipline not to pursue our own self - interest or pursue pleasure at the expense of others even though our survival instincts predispose us to do just that.

If one has a good conscience and see's these kind of HOLY DaYs as sin should you convince him to do the other?

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.

«At Baylor they do require a profession of faith, and I made one in good conscience.

Although man is incredibly good at overcoming his conscience, when he does these things, he knows they are wrong.

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.

But if we must do so with a bothered conscience, we reserve the right as a condition of the marketplace to bother others» consciences as well.

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.

I don't feel that is the biblical perspective and I could not perform a gay marriage in good conscience.

Many in the post-Conciliar Catholic Church could do well to examine their anthropological consciences in this regard too.

We do not find it particularly impressive to celebrate one's sensitive conscience by enlarging upon all the well - known evils of our western world and equating them with the evils of the totalitarian systems.

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.

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.

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.

This He did about those who threatened the consciences of the young: «Anyone who is an obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have faith in me would be better drowned in the depths of the sea with a great millstone round his neck.

But although Francis did not give these Catholics an automatic pass, he suggested that bishops and priests could do so case by case, with the couples» «well - formed» consciences as the guide.

Inside the idea that «conscience» can permit or even require us to do something long understood to be wrong, period, where's the circuit - breaker that would stop a couple from «discerning» that an abortion is the best resolution of the difficulties involved in carrying this unborn child to term, although under future circumstances they would embrace the «ideal» and welcome a child into their family?

When you see something like this you will see that we obviously can not legislate this sort of morality, because while we might need to (as a practical matter) try to limit the amount of evil people do, we can not in good conscience try to force them into being heroes.

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.

The President has a clear conscience about this matter and pastors should do what they are called to do so that their consciences could be clear as well.

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.

And Cox does a good job shouldering some of this series» heaviest lifting, painting a compelling portrait of a man guilted into goodness by a tortured, Roman Catholic conscience that just won't allow him to abide inaction.

A representative of Portman's said, «Recent events in Israel have been extremely distressing to her and she does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel, and can not, in good conscience, move forward with the ceremony.»

Every one has a bad conscience whenever he thinks about God, for we know quite well what God wants of us, and our own failure to do what He demands.

In other words does not this refusal amount to being violent by «passivity» — but with a good conscience?»

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.