Sentences with phrase «lived by conscience»

For almost 400 years after Jesus Christ's resurrection the people did not have the Bible... they were not lost but lived by conscience and Tradition of the Apostles.

Not exact matches

Not only have these organizations added increased profits to their bottom line by adopting the principles of social conscience, but they are changing lives around the world, healing our planet and lifting our spirit.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives.

Now this Tradition lives on side - by - side with the Bible — each confirming the other... and of course, we still have our conscience!

As an independent person, man is required by Islam to believe in God, worship Him, and to live in a manner which assures him a clear conscience; it is incumbent upon him to work for a living, to control himself and his children, and to realize his interests and maintain his existence without encroaching upon the life and welfare of other people.

Any truth to be gleaned from the bible will be done by studying the prevailing themes like love, charity, and the golden rule and applying them to our God given consciences and living well.

While respecting the universal principles of the Church, the Christian by his own conscience and his own inquiry, which is a duty incumbent on him as an individual, has to seek for the concrete prescription by which he will shape his own life and endeavour to contribute to determining the actual form taken by public life.

Allowing all people the right (given no rulebook save the one written by other people to control other people) to live and express, to discover, as they are led to do by their own consciences.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

Influenced by the work of Harry Stack Sullivan, Dr. Mowrer began helping people to improve their performances and live up to their consciences.

He encouraged the pilgrims to «learn from her how to live with the clear conscience of those who do not bend to human compromises,» to be inspired by «her example of strength in the moments of greatest pain,» and to «imitate the solidity of faith of those who trust in God.»

When neurosis is viewed as the product of the impossible demands made on the individual by an overdeveloped conscience, therapy may be directed not toward helping the patient live up to his or her conscience, but rather toward bringing down the conscience to the level of behavior.

They spend their entire lives trying to overcome their conscience by attacking others, but it never helps.

In that conversation, voices have been heard urging a view of conscience that is curious, even dangerous: Under certain circumstances, conscience may permit or even require that a person choose acts that the Church has consistently taught are intrinsically wrong — such as using artificial means of contraception, or receiving Holy Communion while living the married life in a union that's not been blessed by the Church.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

«The pro-life movement advances by calling out to consciences with the truth of what unborn human life is and matching that call with real ministry to women in crisis.

Since it is always morally wrong to destroy innocent human life, persons who are ordered to do so by doctors or state officials have a duty to object in conscience and to refuse compliance.

I confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given me,... by which I might strive toward salvation... I should be unable to stand firm... Even if I lived and worked to eternity, my conscience would never be assured... There would always remain an anxious doubt whether it pleased God.

A very thought - provoking post and many of the feelings you have experienced are familiar to people of conscience, whether religious or other, but a pragmatic way of seeing the other side of the coin is that when you abandon the need to make money, (even just enough to live on), you by default, pass the responsibility for your survival to others.

To measure our values and stretch our consciences by the challenge of inclusive generativity is to be faithful to the biblical vision of the good life.

The mission of the Durham Living Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commLiving Wage Project is to support worker livelihoods by urging employers to pay living wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages, certifying and publicly recognizing employers, and promoting living wages as a matter of conscience within our commliving wages as a matter of conscience within our community.

The party trusts its representatives to make decisions on these matters using their own conscience, guided by our Christian heritage and the need to protect life in all stages and society.

«The new Senate bill is an enormous disappointment, creating new and completely unacceptable federal policy that endangers human life and rights of conscience,» reads the letter obtained by CNN Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh.

Jessi Andricks starts out by explaining her own journey and what lead her to a health conscience life.

Sathyananda — I follow your free lessons — My view on what the troubled lady is getting very upset about is — Reiki is a beautiful energy that can do no - one any harm, it is for the highest good of all — and when give or sent the higher self of the other person will accept only what is good and right for them — As for displaying the Sacred Symbols — well we must live and let live and not judge what others do - we must do what our own conscience lets us do — personly I do believe to keep them quietly sacred and only seen by us as Reiki Healers - but I do not get so angry and judgemental as it seems the Lady does — sorry just one more thing — Reiki symbols seem to have different forms of interpretation when drawn — there again I believe and trust that it is intention when using them — thank you for your time

A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based on a best - selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas.

AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE, by Robbie Leppzer FAMILY NAME, by Macky Alston FEAR AND LEARNING AT HOOVER ELEMENTARY, by Laura Angelica Simon THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS, by Rick Tejeda - Flores and Ray Telles A HEALTHY BABY GIRL, by Judith Helfand HIDE AND SEEK, by Su Friedrich JOHN HENRIK CLARKE: A GREAT AND MIGHTY WALK, by St. Claire Bourne LICENSED TO KILL, by Arthur Dong THE LONG WAY HOME, by Mark J. Harris MADONNA MIA, by Jane Wagner and Tina DiFeliciatonio MY AMERICA (OR HONK IF YOU LOVE BUDDHA), by Renee Tajima NEW SCHOOL ORDER, by Gini Reticker PAUL MONETTE: THE BRINK OF SUMMER»S END, by Lesli Klainberg POVERTY OUTLAW, by Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy RIDING THE RAILS, by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (official site) SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST, by Kirby Dick.

Told by three resonant and evocative characters - Jess; Adelaide Lyle, the town midwife and moral conscience; and Clem Barefield, a sheriff with his own painful past - A Land More Kind Than Home is a haunting tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all.

Here's the thing: if you can't afford to live within your means, you aren't demonstrating responsible living and you don't have to right to salve your conscience by tithing.

It focuses on the emotional lives of farm animals as well as the journey of conscience experienced by several farmers in the process of reconsidering their relationship to them.

For the past 3 decades Pit Bulls have been vilified by the media, and now uneducated myths live on in our social conscience and that is NOT okay.

«It's our mission to guide Einstein to be a company with a conscience, focused on delivering happiness by feeding the world's dogs great heart - healthy, hand - crafted natural treats, while also making a positive difference in dogs» lives,» said Kelly Ison, president and CEO of Einstein Pets.

The hefty catalog traces the artist's journey over five decades — evocative street photography, desolate Los Angeles cityscapes, color candids, still lifes featuring artifacts of indigents — all joined by Hernandez's social conscience and compositional grace.

The late Bob Carter, former professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia, explained, «Climate change is a moral issue, and there is nothing quite so immoral as the sight of well - fed, well - housed Westerners assuaging their consciences by wasting huge amounts of money on futile anti-global warming policies, using money that could instead be spent on improving the living standards in developing countries.»

In this week's very brief Freedom Friday video, an outreach activist shows how easy it is to distribute literature that might one day save someone's life by fully informing someone of their right not to convict based on their conscience.

However, allowing the witness to decide what is binding on his or her conscience did result in a B.C. court in 1902 administering what it called the Chinese «chicken oath»: the decapitation of a live chicken followed by the incineration of the written oath (Rex v Ah Woocy, 9 B.C. 569).

The Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada and the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians» Societies, and Canadian Physicians for Life, along with a number of individual «objecting» physicians had challenged the Effective Referral Policy on the basis that the Policy violated their freedom of religion and conscience protected by s. 2 (a) of the Charter and their right to equality protected by s. 15.

Get used to losing the odd deal here and there with a clear conscience by gaining the comfortable feeling of the self knowledge of your true nature, that nature that you were born with (pre manipulative script training) which will allow you to experience the satisfaction of knowing that you are a truly honourable person who can indeed make an honest living in the script - intensive world of commissioned selling Repeat this secondary, but equally important script, every morning whilst looking at your reflection in the bathroom mirror and again every night before you turn in: «I will not do or say anything to anyone today that will serve my purposes at the expense of potentially harming anyone else, physically, emotionally or financially, either immediately or in the future.

The situation is in no way acceptable, and I can not in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.»