Sentences with phrase «if clinging»

Clinging is a natural response - in times of stress the monkey runs to the object to which it normally clings as if the clinging decreases the stress.

At the same moment, living abstract artists gathered in an alternative space as if clinging for their lives.

If you cling too tightly to your culture, you risk smothering it.

Many unbelievers hope that if they cling to a lie long enough and sincerely enough, the lie will somehow become truth, what was once wrong will become right, and what was once bad will become good.

If you cling to the irrational belief that it's the literal word of a diety, and you read it and actually decide you want to follow it, be self - aware enough to understand when rational people question your morality and intelligence.

For if we cling to the exodus as the exclusive metaphor for our engagement, and to liberation as its dominant theme, we are guilty of neglecting «the whole counsel of God.»

Mankind will never evolve if we cling to fairytales to comfort us in the face of certain death.

I fear that if he clings on, things will get ugly for him much to the satisfaction of his rivals particularly mourinho.

It would not surprise me if he clung on to be the first manager to make it 30 years at the same club.

«Any prime minister worth their salt would start reading their biography of Lloyd George if they clung on like that,» Graham suggests.

I love my project and I think this could be a success if I cling to it.»

But the study of cavemen can get very confusing if we cling to bogus terms such as «missing links.»

If you cling to the handrails of your stepper or elliptical, you put less stress on your larger, more powerful lower - body muscles and burn fewer calories, says Stephen Cabral, a personal trainer and weight - loss coach in Boston.

I won't be surprised if she clings on to my favorite supporting actresses 2010 lineup as the year makes its turns.

If we cling to any of these our best attempts at revolutionizing our classrooms, at reinventing our teaching, will be destined for failure.

I know that loyalty will eventually cost you money if you cling to the concept in the business world (it likely already has if anyone is still with the Orange crew vs Ally), but do you think there is anything to be said for simply supporting the company through an obvious transition since they basically paved the way for this style in banking in Canada (is calling it a revolution pushing things too far?)?

Slash them with the knife if they cling onto the characters then shoot them with the handgun when they hit the ground.

For her part, Ginsburg said, «It damages the coherence of the law if we cling to outworn precedent at odds with later, more enlightened decisions.»

Not exact matches

Even if we can admit to ourselves that we aren't fulfilled with success» trappings, all too often we cling to our illusions because they're all we know.

If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past — can make yourself, as Empedocles says, «a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness,» and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present)... then you can spend the time you have left in tranquillity.

If you are clinging to that argument, then you need to study before making yourself look ignorant.

The fact is religionists cling to life as much if not more than non-believers.

And Luther answers: If it is really God, then He will crucify and torture you as He did Christ, your pattern, and thus leave you no reason to cling to Him except for His own sweet sake.

If you want to cling to it as evidence, be my guest.

If we are talking about a larger context... Romans 12:9 seems to echo a solution to the apparent dichotomy between «love your neighbor» and «not peace, but a sword»... «Let love be without hypocrisy, abhor what is evil, cling to what is good».

If there are things about us that stain our soul, sins we cling to, sins we may think «are not all that bad» will be tested by fire as gold is purified by fire... these bad «deeds» will burn though we ourselves may be saved.

If there is one dogma to which high - minded lawyers cling more tenaciously than any other, it is that the legal profession ought to be above the «morals of the marketplace.»

If there's one thing that stands out in 2017 (the year when various segments of Christianity cling ever tighter to either «Free Market Jesus» or «Social Justice Jesus») it's Johnson's courage to risk awkwardness for following in the footsteps of Christ's relational boldness.

To tie this in to becoming possessed it is quite to easy to become possessed if we aren't daily clinging to the Holy Spirit of God.

- > IM guessing that jb thinks that CSI and the FBI existed at the time this was written... to beat someone with a ROD to the point that death occurs immediately shows murderous intent... if the person clings to life a few days... one can not prove murderous intent... sorry jb... CSI and FBI did not exist back in Moses» day... they had to go by with what they had...

I love you, Lord Jesus, because of the multitude who shelter within you and whom, if one clings closely to you, one can hear with all the other beings murmuring, praying, weeping...

Often the fact that someone related by blood or marriage still cares is the only thing in life to which a patient clings — and this holds good even if he displays apparent indifference or antagonism to anyone and everyone.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

My question was aimed for the majority of peope that also disagree with you as much as me and cling to their faith so violently that if someone even broaches the subject, they immediatly lash out and try to either convert the unbeliever, condem him, or bring up the inane, breathtakingly stupid argument of «I can't prove there is a god, but you can't prove there isn't so we're at an impass» — I think that argument is probably the most frustrating thing EVER

This would not have been news to Luther or Augustine, but it is nevertheless news that can throw us into despair if we don't cling to God's offer of forgiveness, redemption and grace.

And we desperately cling to the idea that if people just had a better grasp of the facts on Islam, they wouldn't buy into anti-Muslim propaganda.

Man, some people are so scared of our mortality and insignificance in the universe, that they will cling to anything to try to prove that their «God» exists, even if it makes no sense at all.

But if your Gospel presentation is putting your moralistic crowd to sleep, or if a pharisaic friend is more concerned about proper speech than an addiction to grace, then you may need to tell him that his Christ-less church attendance is nothing more than a bloody tampon until he clings to the Cross, as Isaiah did (Isaiah 64:6).

Essentially what you are saying, is that even if WITHOUT ANY DOUBT your idea of creation is thoroughly dis - proven, you will STILL irrationally cling to it...

And yet, more days and years, more of the same, is also not the good our hearts desire — and, hence, we need not cling to this life as if it were our god.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

We can not begin to comprehend that society, yet there are those who cling to these rules as if they have meaning outside the societal context within which they were created.

if we keep clinging to awful morals we ever achieve the splendor of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or Maoist.

How can we ever achieve the splendor of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or Maoist China, if we keep clinging to these awful morals?

It only becomes a problem if adults cling to these silly ideas.

I am personally more and more intolerant of religion and will point out the stupidity of religion if someone injects into my life in any way, but if someone wants to cling to their childish tribal myths, that is literally their problem, as in, in my opinion, their own mental health issue.

I clung to Lamentations 3:32, «For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness» (NASB).

You would cling to this philosophy of the Greek society founded upon pederasty as if it were your bible.

i truly believe that if humans can give up the magic stories they were taught to cling to, we may just be able to progress forward as a species.

If one stubbornly clings to their sin or refuses to acknowledge that their lifestyle is sinful, they face an uncertain eternity.