Sentences with phrase «good conscience from»

It was the reading of Emil Brunner's Revelation and Reason in the early 1950s that enabled me to move with a good conscience from my first theological position toward something like the biblical theology which Childs described.

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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.

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Also, men can sear their consciences by continually sinning to a point where they may have difficulty separating evil from good.

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.

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.

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.

Faith is that conscience feeling that pushes you towards good, and away from evil.

But once this simple removal of our own consciences from the sphere of judgment has been shaken, once we see the conflict between good and evil in its true depth in every human heart, a deeper view of history must be found if we are to have a hope based on solid foundations.

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.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

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.

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?

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?

The preaching was in accord with 1 Timothy 1:5: «But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.»

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.

I simply think it might provide a moment's healthy respite from the tumultuous urgency and banality of this or any electoral cycle because, in its general and fabulous way, it encourages perseverance in hope and political virtue simply by reminding one that there are eternal harmonies that can not be silenced by the din of contending interests, and that one is best able to act «politically» in good conscience when one preserves a proper sense of proportion.

A good politician can separate personal conscience from public policy.

5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, 6 from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.

And one of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

One of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

It might funny there are many books to read and many books to study from that a good thing but there one book that when you study from it you will understand the past present and future and no that there is one in control of the world and everything in it and that is God who gave us a way of out and that though his son Jesus and gave us the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you that your conscience the bible tell us everyone born has a conscience of God.

There would be questions of systematic theology, for example those concerning the nature of justification, the validity, and knowledge, of the natural law within Christian morality, the possibility and recognition of an individual call coming directly from God to the conscience in a concrete situation, and the question of the relation of such: a call to universal moral principles, as well as many other questions with which the ecumenical dialogue will have to concern itself.

The issue has only become more urgent since then, with groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lobbying this year for the First Amendment Defense Act, which «prevents the federal government from punishing an individual or faith - based business because they can not in good conscience accommodate same - sex marriage in certain situations.»

Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.

The leaders always had good consciences, for conscience in them coalesced with Will, and those who looked on their face were as much smitten with wonder at their freedom from inner restraint as with awe at the energy of their outward performances.

African rationality, «wisdom» and «intelligence of the heart» open a path towards a rediscovery of a sound anthropological approach to reason as connected to conscience and the heart, and away from both modern rationalism as well as postmodern irrationality.

African cultures have not radically divorced reason from conscience (the search for what is real, good and true), or from the heart (love).

In his relations with other people, he can act from the dictates of his own conscience; at its highest the relationship of love can be elevated to a degree of complete service and good will which seems to transcend the space - time continuum.

In 1 Corinthians Paul simply assumes that a certain kind of behaviour is unquestionably unacceptable, while in the same letter making very careful moral distinctions between matters covered by a «word of the Lord» (for example against divorce), matters he himself advises are best (keeping an unbelieving wife), and matters intrinsically indifferent where we must be governed by respect for the consciences of others (eating butcher's meat which may have come from offerings to idols).

But aside from these assertions, I wonder if another possibility might be entertained: that Fish is (largely) right in his exegesis of Milton's poetry and prose, but that Neuhaus is also largely right in his defense of a Christian liberalism (in the sense of participating in the liberal conversation with a good conscience), but only because in certain key respects Milton is wrong.

I know well whereof Peter Kreeft speaks, and in fact have a rather guilty conscience about purveying some of the errors of the Received Wisdom myself from time to time until my further reading informed me how deceived I (and my hapless students) had been.

Of a vicar of Newcastle, it is reported that «his known abilities in resolving cases of conscience drew after him a great many good people, not only of his own flock but from remoter distances, who resorted to him as to a common oracle, and commonly went away from him entirely satisfied in his wise and judicious resolutions.»

We believe that Catholics who, in good conscience, take positions on the difficult questions of legal abortion and other controversial issues that differ from the official hierarchical positions, act within their rights and responsibilities as Catholics and citizens.

On Hockey Night in Belfast, the team with the social conscience and the well - designed face - off plays works a backdoor for a tap - in goal, scores on a shorthanded two - on - one and so utterly treats its bitter rival like a chew toy that after the fifth goal Nottingham goaltender Craig Kowalski makes an executive decision to pull himself, bolting from his crease like a man who suddenly has realized he has to pick up his daughter from soccer practice.

Adrienne Hardt said she «could not in good conscience «vote to waive the fee because the Park District will get revenue from the golf center and because the center will be open to people who are not residents of Country Club Hills.

I can not with good conscience recommend enzymes when I know from experience that many babies do experience, the bright red markings indicating enzyme irritation.

He abruptly stepped down in March, saying he could not «in good conscience» continue working for Paterson after a PIC report made it clear the governor had not been truthful with him about the circumstances surrounding the World Series game for which he obtained tickets from the New York Yankees.

The few with conscience, have learnt good lessons from this huge disappointment.

Skelos noted — correctly — that the budget is far from done because the revenue bill that will fund the spending plan has only passed one house, adding: «I can not, in good conscience, review what has happened in this session yet because, as far as I'm concerned, and I believe the Republican side of the aisle, the session's not over.»

A sentence from the statement was read in court: «I, however state in good conscience under oath that the minister never requested Aso for a house.

«I can not in good conscience be assured that what we're going to see later is acceptable,» said Sen. Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat from the Bronx who voted against all four bills.

To the lawyers reading this article I say the following: if this interpretation does not sit well with your legal conscience, then consider that the Supreme Court has departed from its previous ruling in the previous Abu Ramadan case, as it is entitled so to do.

Rivers APC accused the State PDP of suffering from a guilty conscience on account of its well known connivance with the then PDP - led Federal Government under the watch of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to brazenly persecute APC and forcibly take over Rivers State.

A statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Party said, «From the rascally attempt to overrun a court of competent jurisdiction in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to halt the wheel of justice, the burning of their own secretariat in Owerri, Imo state, the gruesome murder of their own members in Lagos and Oyo States to the malignant disputation and lust for power by its leaders across the nation, it is clear that the APC is not organic but a soulless mob without any form of conscience and integrity; an «evil wind that blows no good».

We can not, in good conscience, continue to enjoy privileges from which our colleagues, students and teachers are arbitrarily excluded.

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Add to that the email flooding from even more bogus accounts, and we simply can't recommend this site in good conscience.

Nash doesn't like it, but he needs the money, and hopes he can earn enough to get back his family home, but his conscience is troubled that he's doing it with money gained from the eviction of good families down on their luck, very much like his own.