In my own life experience, the slimiest, most deceitful and
hurtful people have been self - proclaimed «good Christians».
When it's all said and done, the people you will remember the most in any business and any relationship in your life will be in the following order: No. 1, unfortunately, will be the most difficult and
hurtful people you ever dealt with and No. 2 will be the most pleasant people you have ever dealt with.
Not exact matches
Typically, this
person isn't deliberately
hurtful, but she lacks an ability to express herself without it being perceived as negative or rude.
Jokes that are at your expense can be upsetting, and bad bosses have trouble seeing that by relentlessly teasing
people who aren't their equals, it can be
hurtful, Taylor said.
He dives in head first into areas he's not familiar with and says some pretty
hurtful things to and about
people.
It certainly does not help
people enough to avoid teaching that will be
hurtful.
A few
people back in the 1890's or something made some dubious statements about race that frequently get thrown in our faces, and it is very
hurtful to us because they are not representative of what nearly all Mormons believe — or teach in church.
Several
people have responded to you but you persisted in your
hurtful behavior.
«Immediately I wanted to compare my hurt to his and prove to him that what I had been through was worse, but in the end, when I heard his story, I was reminded that women can be just as
hurtful to
people as men.
People were reported as seeing the Pope's comments as «irresponsible and unacceptable»; they were «
hurtful» according an Italian transgender former Member ofParliament, Vladimir Luxuria.
Had I been more aware of how
people of color view the world, had I spent just a little more time listening well and considering context, I would have known better and avoided a
hurtful error.
These words can be incredibly
hurtful and insulting to
people who have devoted their lives to being part of a community of imperfect
people, for better or worse, regardless of what they may or may not get out of it.
The consolation is that for each
person that causes you pain and grief, there will always be far more
people who want to comfort and help you, to cry for you and to share in your
hurtful burden.
There's not much as
hurtful as when the
people who you think you're safe with tell you to tell your face to smile instead of asking why you can't.
If Christians are known in the public arena for
people hurtful and hateful toward others, then those of us are who are NOT this way (the majority of us, hopefully?)
Often when
people disclose their sexual or gender orientation, there is a
hurtful silence within their family and among their friends, or a statement like this is offered: «Of course we still love you, but there's no need to ever talk of this again.»
To back away from affirming an LGBT
person in the midst of addressing pastoral concerns can be tremendously
hurtful.
But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious
people to do horrendous and
hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.
Brigitte, funny how you can say whatever
hurtful words you want to
people, but they are «low blows» when said to you.
We can say ignorant things,
hurtful things and downright stupid things to other
people.
I think you would agree that based upon reading many
people's statements that they allow their personal feelings to get offended and therefore have the need to be
hurtful to others.
Obviously, there are
people who are unwilling to acknowledge or confront their privilege and continue to wound even after they've been told that their words, attitudes, and actions are
hurtful; they should be called out, and in some cases avoided for the sake of creating safe communities for the
people they hurt.
Even a
hurtful thought against another
person is a sin in the eyes of God, and all sin is sin and deserves God's wrath and judgment.
That man actually invited me to speak about all those things
people say that are
hurtful.
I have only fairly recently come to see the error of that belief, and how
hurtful and unchristian it is to treat LGBT
people as second class.
Many good
people are confused by arguments for «marriage equality» that sound persuasive but lead in unintended and
hurtful directions.
Most
people I encounter in churches aren't fearful of gay
people nor do they wish to be
hurtful — but they are fearful of daring to question what they have always been taught.
We don't like being told that something desirable to ourselves is
hurtful to another
person.
The bible warns us about the wrath of God and you and I both know the ugly
hurtful things
people have done and will do.
One
person told me that the pastor was in the back office of the church when their son overheard him praying rather loudly for his messed up church members, using very
hurtful words.
I have a tendency (especially with women) to apologise if I have done something wrong and walk away from a
person or situation that is
hurtful for me.
Most of us don't hate religious
people so much as we hate the
hurtful things
people do in the name of religion.
WOW im just trying to figure out how so called religious
people even gets the athority over
peoples, lives period exspecially when its between them and their GOD, it seems to me that false followers of christ dominate the religious spectrom in this country and are quick to judge before ever setting foot in anothers hardship or goodness forbid have any empathy for another human being that may be different... no instead just sling around sarcastic
hurtful remarks and call it being clever or even worse Jesus like.
Have you any idea how
hurtful and UNLOVING that is for
people that it affects?
I would suggest that perhaps it isn't vision itself which is
hurtful, but the division of the church into the «vision»
people and the «make my vision come true»
people.
This is not intended to be
hurtful to you but, by doing so, you do your
people a great disservice.
What we can do when we understand institutions, is to better understand why
people sometimes behave in
hurtful ways when they are otherwise good
people and mean well.
Spong, a retired Episcopal bishop, declares that «the
people who think they understand God are always
hurtful to other
people....
Whether a particular
hurtful behavior, like the taking of a life, can be considered evil depends on the context in which it occurs and the intentions of the
person committing the behavior.
Over the years many
people have staggered into my office to pour out a story that includes the words: «I don't understand how
people can be like this, how they can be so mean and devious and
hurtful!»
At the same time,
people who choose evil will obviously do
hurtful things, BUT, they will be judged for it.
Finally today a few
people apologized to me for judging me and being
hurtful.
«We continue to hear from many
people on the debate over sexuality that our current Discipline contains language which is contradictory, unnecessarily
hurtful, and inadequate for the variety of local, regional and global contexts,» the proposal said.
Some of the most hateful and
hurtful things get said about other
people and other religions from our pulpits and in our books.
Washington (CNN)- It's become an increasingly hot topic of debate between atheists and religious
people: Is belief in God helpful or
hurtful?
It is also sad for the
person writing it, as they must have some of their own deep - seated emotional issues to warrant sitting down and thinking up
hurtful things to say to other
people they have never met.
You being someone who agrees with him, obviously have no conception at all of how
hurtful this sort of twaddle is to
people who truly want our club to progess.
Unfortunately, it appears that some
people who may have noticed the testing at my workplace have made
hurtful and incorrect assumptions and chosen to disseminate inaccurate and very disturbing information.
It seems that the internet has allowed
people to quickly «judge» and react to other
people without thinking and probably in more
hurtful ways than they would do if they were face to face.
I agree — it is
hurtful and insulting when
people say that, although I think they think they are being helpful.