Sentences with word «inclinations»

A grown adult knows if they have have thoughts or inclinations about moleting children.

Seminary education must inculcate such critical abilities, inclinations, and knowledge of our tradition that students leave seminary listening to people — within the visible church and those outside it, especially the most alienated.

To take this view is to adopt the very dubious proposition that if one has desires and inclinations and they are powerfully presented from the depths of the self, they are, by virtue of the strength of their presentation, both «natural» and «good.»

Schleiermacher extols childhood as a «pure revelation of the divine from which no conversion is necessary,» but he realized that «nature had also implanted the inclinations and proclivities that could lead to human destruction» and, therefore, never failed to emphasize the duty of adults to nurture children.

Sometimes we call this condition «peace of mind» and either seek it or decry it, according to our inclinations.

With Madison, Wills believes that a popular role in good government begins and ends with the election of governing elites and labels «antigovernmental» those of more democratic inclinations.

Callicott argues that atomistic conceptualities of the self are ontologically inaccurate, and that they lead us wrongly to suppose the central problem of moral philosophy is whether we should manage or overcome the inclinations of isolated egos.

The statistical sample is large enough that I can be pretty confident that such inclinations are no more common among them than in the general population and perhaps less so.

Dead for the sin and in Christ we are able to overcome the bad inclinations of our body.

Aquinas can not mean that cannibals and practitioners of bestiality are following the inclinations of their most intimate selves.

In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas does not mean to say that natural law is shared by all animals including human beings» the natural law, as the «participation of the eternal law in the rational creature,» pertains only to human beings (I - II, 91.2)» but that natural law includes natural inclinations shared by other animals, «such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring, and so forth.»

All human beings, irrespective of their sexual inclinations or «orientation,» have an intrinsic dignity, are loved by God, are offered God's mercy and grace, and can lead lives of holiness.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

But if you want the God's view on the subject while still maintaining your neighborly love and respect for people of all inclinations, call your local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

The Azhar's traditional pattern of instruction was for the students to choose their teachers according to their inclinations and the standards they had achieved, continuing their studies for an indeterminate time with no examinations until they were ready to graduate.

But the lack of «fit» between my dad's theology and the choices of others who had a role in planning elements in the worship service were more often than not due to well - intended but theologically unfortunate inclinations.

He offers a Word relevant to the actual situation of men, a Word which will be a solution, but which is completely irrational and unexpected, and which implies for man a strange renouncing of his own methods and policies and normal inclinations.

There is a need to be concerned about the pastoral needs of persons with homosexual inclinations.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

in a true sense the arms and the heart which you open to me are nothing less than all the united powers of the world which, permeated through and through by your will, your inclinations, your temperament, bend over my being to form it and feed it and draw it into the blazing centre of your infinite fire.

Their relations with the Abbasid Caliphs varied according to the inclinations of individual rulers.

It's where we get our own personalities from, developed according to our own, unique combinations of desires, inclinations and needs.

Gay people (and straight, for that matter) can «choose» TP quash their natural inclinations, but that doesn't make one any less gay, or any less straight.

We discover what St. Thomas calls our «natural inclinations,» namely, that our very human nature inclines us in certain directions.

To equate love with licentiousness to indulge your whims and inclinations is also false.

But just think of the time before time, to the incomprehensible, or just love and moral inclinations.

However, I am not sure why Satan would be all that cooperative in helping other people destroy their sinful inclinations.

Having the same passion and similar inclinations, the difference between Christians and non-christians: Christians expose the problems and fight against the flesh's improper desires and evil, and many of them overcome as a result and establish good laws.

In fact, it goes against much of human nature, and women's self - protective inclinations used to be supported by the people and institutions around her.

This is also what we learn from studying the humanities: that the human things — our desires, emotions, habits, abilities, and inclinations — are diverse, complicated, mysterious.

If this is truly the pope's intention, then my recent inclinations to re-embrace Catholicism will come to naught.

Even though Jesus affirmed the law and the commandments, he called on men to abandon ties of family and clan (Matthew 19:29), even to abandon their natural inclinations: «For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?»

One of the most surprising insights from recent Pew surveys is that most religiously unaffiliated Americans (68 percent) still believe in God, with many also professing strong spiritual inclinations.

But as social animals, our evolutionary psychologists can't help but conclude, we are most of all natural parts; even our individualistic inclinations have some social or species function.

What he took away by denying the possible objectivity and rationality of belief, he returned by reconceiving common sense and common action as expressions of natural inclinations and habits.

To be a rational adult we must understand and try to control many of our natural inclinations.

This, I'm told, is the kind of humor that people who watch Stephen Colbert, who is a self - identified faithful member of a Church that teaches that homosexual inclinations are intrinsically disordered and that sodomy is a mortal sin, relish.

Both the pastoral and theological inclinations have their place, but on their death beds, most people, I suspect, would much prefer to have a pastor at their side.

According to Ivan, there's nothing new about our banker - in - chief being the partisan tool of our commander - in - chief: But whatever Bernanke's own personal motivations may be, free from or encumbered by political inclinations, the transformation of the Fed since the late 1970's makes....

I love the Jews despite their «inclinations».

By reading the rest of this article, you'll see why staying put in this market (though against our natural inclinations) may be a sensible strategy.

On the other hand, the prospects for the market over shorter portions of the market cycle have very little to do with the level of valuation and much more to do with the risk - seeking or risk - averse inclinations of investors.

And here we might suspect that the spirit of Scrooge is conscious government policy, not merely the unpleasant inclinations of one of its Ministers, whose utter absence of human compassion has been in the news before.

So the best evidence of those speculative inclinations is the uniformity or divergence of market action across a broad range of individual stocks, industries, sectors, and security - types, including debt securities of varying creditworthiness.

Speculative inclinations can drive overvalued markets to even greater overvaluation, while risk - averse inclinations can drive undervalued markets to become even greater undervaluation.

The inclinations of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion can drive prices a breathtaking distance from where they will eventually settle.

When the inclinations of investors shift from speculation to risk - aversion in an overvalued market, steep collapses and crashes often follow.

Our diplomatic tone did change somewhat in tune with Ottawa's multilateral inclinations; condemnations of Pyongyang's tests now have appended sentences encouraging dialogue as the only path to a long - term solution.

Conversely, when the inclinations of investors shift from risk - aversion to speculation in an undervalued market, extraordinary returns can unfold over a very short period of time.