Sentences with phrase «made with conviction»

The paintings stand in stark contrast to the acute and uncompromising look he takes as a writer and commentator, while nevertheless being made with the conviction that, as stated on Collings's website, «Art, as it used to be understood, has come to an end.»

The elegantly designed resort is made with a conviction to reduce water and energy consumption and makes limited or simply no use of exhaustible materials in its construction.

The tools are comprehensive but easy to follow so your decisions are made with conviction.

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As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

(She can rattle off stats about toilet paper consumption, for instance, with a conviction that would make even the most hardened VC cower.)

If you aren't able to make that big claim with conviction, go back and resell yourself.

«Probably in my mind the poster child for a central bank mistake was actually the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2003 and 2004... we had great conviction that the Federal Reserve was making a mistake with way too loose monetary policy.»

Likewise, even if people are not fond of a particular post, object, person or view, the simple act of clicking like, even when done with no profound intention or conviction, can lead to a rationalization process that will subconsciously make them feel positively about that post, object, person, etc..

The Making a Murderer series depicts the trials of both Avery and Dassey, which ended with their convictions in 2007 and in which the defendants» respective attorneys alleged that their clients were the victims of police misconduct.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.

We were over our heads in debt with this house but we remained true to our conviction that we could still live «poor» while hiding the $ $ from ourselves in various programs available to him while still making the house payments.

And they've worked just as hard — with just as much conviction — to make their crowdfunding site a success.

In the current climate, Christians need to be very careful to make sure that the perceived political needs of the hour do not translate into words and actions that can easily be shown by our critics to be highly selective and very inconsistent with respect to our larger doctrinal commitments and convictions.

Rather than just make a case against emergence, DeYoung and Kluck make a case for doctrine, for conviction, and they do so with an authenticity that would make any emergent devotee proud.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

«I miss that evangelical fire - in - the - belly that makes people talk about their faith with passion and conviction.»

All the curses came true, I've committed the unpardonable sin because the center of my spirit has an unclean spirit.No conviction, no enlightenment, no message, no hope of heaven, seared concuss, constant torment, lost weight, pupils used to be dilated, lost 3jobs, get made fun of at current job, had to drop out of college, addicted to sextual immorality, 2 women left me, 25 and live with parents.

It is part of what makes Rachel so admirable - she speaks with humility and conviction.

On other days, there's not much left in the it that I believe as I once did, with the conviction that would make it «real» as the video implores.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

This is a decision made by real people with real names who have real personal and professional prices to pay for their convictions.

And if many establishmentarian religionists were dragged screaming by the Enlightenment and practical necessity to grant religious freedom, some very firm believers, from colonial Baptists to Jesuit John Courtney Murray in the Second Vatican Council, also kept making the case for conviction blended with civility, commitment tempered with empathy.

As I grew older and made friends with everyone from Baptists to Catholics, I began to talk to these people about their own beliefs and their own convictions.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

«We support an executive order making clear that people of religious conviction will not be pushed aside by the federal government as we seek to serve our neighbors, including those who disagree with us.»

Jesus» truth will have you find all the emotions of man and if you stick with it, becoming a true Christian that follows Jesus» truth takes courage and conviction, not baby feel good hypocrisy to make you a whiner stewing in your sins that leads you to the eternal fires.

«I want to make a movie and star in a movie that is so specifically my sense of humor that no one else could have made it,» she says, her voice brimming with conviction.

The mind has an enormous capacity to make every thing you do with conviction seem like the right thing to do, even when you are making other people's lives a living hell.

Christians are some of the most kind hearted people I meet on a consistant basis, a lot of them come from good homes and really choose to do good, but with their delusions and conviction in hallucination, they terrify me that they have real decision making power in the US...

I wish now to link the first two points with the Christian conviction that we are being made toward the image of God.

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

Bradley sings Motown like he's unaware it ever went out of style, and with enough skill and conviction to make you wonder why it did.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

It does not make logical sense to defame and slander others with an arsenal of Christian conviction when Scripture clearly renounces this.

The reason it is so often a matter of dispute is that people differ in what they mean when they use the word, and since deep emotions are tied in with the conviction that the Bible is inspired, to doubt the kind of inspiration one believes in is apt to seem like rejecting the Bible outright or making it no different from any other book.

Theophanies and visions were normally associated with times of crisis and stress, and they enabled those who received them to reach a new conviction, or to make a necessary decision.

I concur with George Webber's conviction that a congregation in mission «will make basic provision for its members to meet in small groups (as well as corporate worship), not as a sidelight or option for those who like it, but as a normative part of its life.

The fact of freedom makes the more necessary the sharing of life with that company of people whose faith and moral conviction are necessary to each individual's moral sanity.

All this, not because he became acquainted with convictions of his brother which he then and there adopted; not because he made any new resolution in his soul, but merely because the words spoken by his brother were like the light push of a finger against a leaning wall already about to tumble by its own weight.

But from what we can know about the person of Christ, his ministry, his death and the curious conviction of his followers he rose from the dead shortly after his death, you are confronted with the question: how should we make sense of this all?

This conviction, together with other major issues discussed at the Congress, made clear where the Evangelicals differed from the Ecumenicals in the 1960s.

It is both foundational to and prior to conscience, for conscience combines the advocacy of our visions and passionate convictions with the disinterested analysis necessary for moral decision - making, the latter resulting from education.

Conviction tells me that there is something wrong with me saying I believe that Jesus my your Savior, while making no changes to a destructive life style.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

How many of them, however, truly believe that they have made up their deepest moral convictions themselves, or that their culture has made up these moral convictions, or that their biology has programed them with self - serving intuitions disguised as moral values?

Or for any one of us when we know that we make ourselves vulnerable with a conviction we have come to, risking disapproval of peers.

Damaged and damaging if we do or don't do is my «conviction of sin» — walk on water (wow) or walk on eggs (woe) we are all involved in something like an ongoing mission impossible: with suits of armor or loin cloth it makes no never mind.

One takes historical stands (J is a woman; she is of the royal house and not a scribe of Rehoboam; she makes this or that wordplay) but then describes these as personal fictions and states with conviction, «I am not a biblical scholar.»

Diagnoses were made on the basis of symptoms, and persons with a certain cluster of symptoms were given a label in the conviction that a particular cause might be found for that «disease.»

Melanchthon sought to make the documents as irenic as possible, endeavoring to show that the Protestant convictions were in accord with those of the Universal Church, but did not hesitate to point out what abuses had crept into the Roman Church.