Sentences with phrase «letting us off the hook of»

I've heard it referred most often in the context of «God's strength is perfected in our weakness», or letting us off the hook of thinking we have to be in control of everything in our life.

Did he tell her to pray to him for forgiveness and then he will let her off the hook of eternal punishment... No Instead in his tenderness and compassion he said, be whole, be true to yourself, be at - one with yourself, be strong, respect yourself don't let these men take advantage of you again...

In fact, a high percentage of people, when their debt is paid off, simply find some other payments to make, for no other reason that it lets them off the hook of redefining their identity.

«I don't think this lets us off the hook of explaining how Antarctica's sea ice is expanding in a warming world,» says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Not exact matches

The banking system was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.

Of course, this doesn't let you off the hook, because if one of your workers takes a government subsidy to buy insurance on an exchange, you could face a tax penalty of $ 3,00Of course, this doesn't let you off the hook, because if one of your workers takes a government subsidy to buy insurance on an exchange, you could face a tax penalty of $ 3,00of your workers takes a government subsidy to buy insurance on an exchange, you could face a tax penalty of $ 3,00of $ 3,000.

Understand, too, that CEOs are unlikely to let the VP of sales or the director of procurement off the hook when it comes to performing their work.

«Embracing the failures of employees does not pay your bills and... lets employees off the hook even when they are impacting your bottom line,» agrees Daniel Goldberg, CEO and director of Gold Medical Marketing.

What she found was faddish advice, rampant conflicts of interest, and a Horatio Alger narrative that holds individuals completely responsible for their own failings and lets crooks conveniently off the hook.

Of course, none of this lets the Fraser Institute off the hooOf course, none of this lets the Fraser Institute off the hooof this lets the Fraser Institute off the hook.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

The corporate tax hike was part of her strategy to demonstrate that the WR were just PCs in wolves» clothing, equally intent on letting the corporate sector off the hook.

«It doesn't let servicers off the hook, but many of the representatives dealing with borrowers probably had no idea that they were offering bad information.»

For even though the results of this claiming often accrue to the advantage of better - off blacks, and in no way constitute a solution to the problems of the poor, the desperate plight of the poorest makes it unthinkable that whites could ever be «let off the hook» by relinquishing the historically based claims» that is, by a broad acceptance within the black community of the notion that individual blacks bear personal responsibility for their fate.

The IRS has chickened out before in political cases, notably letting the Church of Scientology completely off the hook in its investigation of that group.

Given the centrality of grace in the Christian life, how should Christians respond to those who have been publicly disgraced, and how to we avoid appealing to grace as a way of letting abusive or dangerous people off the hook?

The worst of this treatment directed towards women, and as a female I refuse to let Mark Driscoll off the hook.

At the same time, he refused to let the church off the hook for the part he accuses it of playing in tacitly condoning the bullying of LGBT youth.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

As pastors, letting ourselves off the hook by appealing to our sympathy for people's fragility and limits robs us of some of our most rewarding opportunities to confirm our ministry in a church that really looks like a church rather than a social club.

They excommunicated a nun named Margret McBride for permitting an abortion, yet they let the mass murderer of 10 million plus off the hook.

Although this does not at all fit with either a clear Greek concept of a Supreme Being nor with a nursery need for security, it may be the terrible truth, one that lets God off the hook of our unforgiving resentments.

Oh, they may let you off the hook long enough to pray the prayer of salvation, but as soon as that's done it's back to «Come to us, all who are weary and heavy - laden, so that you can be our bond - servants with your tithes and volunteer service.

David discovered this principle and this was probably why God let him off the hook and did not have him stoned to death for adultery and murder like the law required: because David was humble and repented (even though Achan and plenty of other people repented and God still punished them, and this has nothing to do with the fact that David was king and probably would not have commanded his own stoning to keep the law even though he wrote Psalm 119 which is all about how much he loved keeping every commandment in the law).

Forgiveness was always displayed to me as either the freeing of someone from their transgression — as if they needed me to be saved — or a false show of how gracious I was, that I would let someone off the hook after they'd hurt me.

The author is pleased that doubting Thomas didn't let any of the disciples off the hook, for they still had a job to do.

They need to learn to get rid of guilt and let themselves off the hook.

This is what happens when you let others off the hook, regardless of how evil they were, or how hurt you continue to be.

First, we must not be governed by our limited perception of him — supposing that we are qualified to judge him; secondly, we forgive him not because he is guilty, but because we choose to affirm him as he is revealed in the Bible; and thirdly, we must set him free — letting him totally off the hook — until the day arrives when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9 - 11).

The unhappy aspect about the present ordained breast - beating is that this point is used, surreptitiously, as if it let ordained ministers off the hook about «supervising» what is going on in the impact of the church upon the world.

We would never tolerate a leader of a country today committing genocide and infanticide for the reason that the people are «evil», so why do you let your God off the hook?

To blame God for peoples» abuse of free will is to let the perpetrators off the hook.

When Cardinal Pell interjected that the problem for Dawkins is that he only accepts sense experience as proof, the presenter let Dawkins off the hook and turned the question on the Cardinal, asking: «Why would God randomly decide to provide proof of his existence to a small group of Jews 2,000 years ago and not subsequently provide any proof after that?»

The English word «enemy» may be part of our problem, because we let ourselves off the hook if we're not in hand to hand combat with Lex Luther or Nazi soldiers.

Though the use of «enemy» in the Old Testament often did refer to a nation - state enemy of Israel, Jesus» exhortation was never meant to refer to a public enemy — like another nation's military force — that would let me off the hook.

Name ONE «moral absolute» that is / was shared by ALL religious faiths throughout all of recorded history (I'll let you off the hook for prehistory since I will assume you don't believe such a thing existed).

I knew when Bush cited the 1,000 points of light he really meant for people to take over care of the poor to let government i.e. wealthy tax payers off the hook.

Gurriel tipped his helmet to Darvish, who he made a racist gesture against during Game 3 after hitting a home run off of the righty, but the crowd is not letting him off the hook.

They created plenty of passing downs, but their bend - don't - break approach sometimes let opponents off of the hook.

While it's true that I believe Russell Wilson largely let them off the hook by not pull the ball on read option, the fact remains that the Patriots did a damn good job of limiting the damage Lynch could do.

Don't disagree with much of this other than the bizarre willingness to let wenger off the hook for failing to build a team / squad / style that could capture the weakest league in years..

Liverpool are on the verge of being overtaken by their fierce rivals Man United and they are not too far from being caught by city rivals Everton, but the last thing Arsenal must do is to let them off the hook.

If Noah wants to play for another team, it's possible they could negotiate an extremely expensive buyout where Noah lets them off the hook for a portion of the money — but it doesn't seem like he's inclined to do that.

Man City and their thumping at the hands of Liverpool really let us off the hook.

Looking at the final, Cuads was rightly sent off for violent conduct, but the same referee lets Ronaldo off the hook and just have a friendly chat with him when he kicked Dani Alves right in front of him.

USC, meanwhile, has suffered from an acute case of letting teams off the hook in 2012.

To let him off the hook would be the equivalent of forgiving Arsenal then praising them for their last few games.

West Ham's plan was obvious, pump those long balls in and hope Carrol or one of their other 6ft players gets to it first... and unfortunately because we are so weak in the air, it worked a few times but West Ham's finishing was so poor we got let off the hook.

Oregon was sketchy against the run and had the tendency of letting opponents off the hook on passing downs but did well in preventing big plays and rose to 29th in Def.