Sentences with phrase «good decent people»

This law is not only going to hurt good decent people, but yourself and your party in the next federal election.

The fact is, the vast majority of reviewers are good decent people who wish only to share their views on books and help others find and select their next great read.

It is the good an decent people that can smell the stink a mile away.

The trouble is that good decent people are not the ones who gravitate towards power.

And from all the comments I have read its reasurres me that there is alot of good decent people across the country, who agree that this MORON should go.

Not exact matches

In reality, the average person would be far better off getting a degree than leaving school the second a half - decent business idea comes to mind.

«I interviewed a lot of people who, it's sad, they seem like perfectly good, honest people who rationalized their way over that fine line and then got caught, and now can't get decent jobs.»

The promise of future millions — or at least a decent salary — will keep good people around, especially if you build a headquarters that doubles as the adult equivalent of a romper room.

Since some people we know personally read the blog, I felt it would be a bit awkward to post exact dollar amounts, but as a compromise, I'm sharing the actual dollar amounts in each category to give a decent sense of where we performed well, and where we should have done better (I'm not pulling any punches).

I've made a decent profit selling old things I had, valuable books that people placed in the compactor room as well as some items found at deep discounts either at thrift stores or the clearance section.

Everything that could be construed as good and decent about the bible and the christian faith, peolpe like you destroy and wrap yourself in a cloak of arrogance as if you are better than other people and you will be «amiling from heaven» at all the sinners.

Let decent people live good lives without the self - righteous intruding their cultural values.

There is always the need for a person (who is facing death) to satisfy themselves in the context of «you have lived out a good and decent life».

As Pete reports, the statesman Gates explains that Congress (where both parties are very well organized) really wasn't good enough for him or any decent and civilized person.

No — not just for sins we supposedly committed, but for Adam and Eve's sin of eating from the tree of knowledge — that fable that Christians use to splatter every last person, no matter how good and decent they are, with the guilt tar.

You're right, apologies can not be demanded but good and decent people have little to no difficulty ever apologizing.

The Minneapolis yoga community is filled with the most genuine people striving to be good, decent and peaceful on this earth.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Although I dislilke proselytizing, I learned an interesting «take it to the bank» fact about Catholic charities: it is this: because good and decent people who are priests and nuns take vows of poverty and are given only small allowances, Catholic charities in general deliver a far greater percentage of your donated dollar to the work you wanted done with it.

But do you think that maybe the majority of the body of religious in general (religious being the majority of the planet, and about 85 % of the USA) are decent folk, and not like these politicians, and that maybe you are offending a lot of good people.

It doesn't make you a good OR a bad person either way, but society is not ready to give atheists credit for being decent people.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

Although Jesus had some decent ideals (regardless of what kind of being you think he was), history shows us that Christianity, the religion, for as much as it has aided people, has been political, corrupt (well just human to be kinder) right from the git - go, and the cause of enormous evil and suffering throughout its history.

So when you've got what is really some pretty decent writing telling people to be good to each other — and even that doesn't work, to me, that says that relgion can not prevent violence.

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

There are many lessons to be learned from this story about Nathan and David, but let us not overlook the obvious one: if a person as good and decent as David is can succumb to evil and fall prey to self - deception, we can as well.

We are Christians, not because «we are (or think we are) good, or right, or just, or «concerned» — and certainly not because we are «nice» — though hopefully we are (as Reinhold Niebuhr once said) «as decent as ordinary people.»

Now, I know the vast majority of adherents to religion are good decent, rational people.

Most of the Christians I know are decent people who get a great deal of personal satisfaction from their community and find that the good done by fellow Christians and the church far outweigh the negativity and bigotry of some in their community.

The sad thing is these intolerant Christian fundamentalists actually think they're being moral, good, decent people by discriminating.

They enable one to cheat in marriage, or on examinations, or in business, or on income taxes, all the while appearing to be a decent, patriotic, even God - fearing person who, like all sensible people, wants only his share of the good things of life and would never do any harm to anybody.

He was a guide who assured me there was a good, happy life on the other side of whatever choice I made about my beliefs and that I would continue to be a decent and loving person regardless.

So the sense is you are not a good and decent person.

The full sentence reads, «This is a good morality for building a decent society, but maybe not one for people interested in things in the next world, like eternal salvation, for example.»

I've stopped that finally, and now just use my own good sense and try to be a decent, fair, loving person as much as I can.

Once we stop worrying about silly fantasies, we can start thinking about being good, decent people who are actually okay with people who are different than us.

Again, the best scenario is when Christians (or decent people anywhere) are the driving force against racism and racist policies — by refusing to patron racists places.

«Many good and decent people oppose same - sex marriage as a tenet of faith, and their freedom to exercise religion is — unlike the right imagined by the majority — actually spelled out in the Constitution,» he writes.

God is very evil for punishing us innocent people looking to find love, but with so many GAY WOMEN out there nowadays which is certainly the reason why many of us straight men can't meet a decent good one anymore.

God put a lot of disgusting rapists on this earth, just as he put a lot of good and decent people on this earth.

Robert T. Miller of First Things commented that «Wielgus, long ago, did some seriously wrong things, but they were the kinds of bad things that generally good people might do — low - level collaboration, which he probably perceived to be harmless, in exchange for things that in any decent society would have been his by right, such as the ability to travel to pursue his studies.

After all, this is a decent job, as good as most people have, and he is as generous to his employees as he can be.

Maybe you should just try to be a decent good person... without the religious garbage.

Rick Satan doesn't carry a pitchfork and live underground... he lives in the hearts of inflexible, judging people such as yourself... and spews venomous slander about good and decent people to suit his ego and needs...

Romney's 2012 vote total is probably a good measure of how many people are willing to vote for a personally decent, strongly qualified, merely pro-business Republican against an Obama - style liberal under ambiguous economic conditions.

I guess it says, «This is what we believe here in this house and we are good and decent people enough to put up this awful display of our faith».

Only in this way can they have a perceptible impact on such pastoral - prophetic local issues as how sick people can get better care, how the homeless can find decent housing, and how the voice of the church can be heard in the din of competing voices at city hall.

You are a liar, plain and simple, you have zero credibility and the sooner you realize decent people are on to you the better it will be for them.

Alas being a good and decent person myself I could not in good conscience act in such a cruel manner.

One doesn't have to join a religion to be a good, decent person.