Sentences with phrase «many thoughtful people»

Like any thoughtful person, Saul Griffith has ideas as he walks around: Hey, wouldn't it be cool if... You know, we sure could use... Why doesn't someone make a better... But it's hard to imagine anyone who does this as often, and in such a variety of areas, and — this is the important part — with such acute ability to execute them.

He encourages open - minded disagreements at work, especially when between «two or more thoughtful people.»

One person who has known Khan since «back when he was a dorky equity analyst» says he has remained a down - to - earth and thoughtful person over the years.

It's International Women's Day today, which means across the world concerned, thoughtful people will be discussing how to best close the gender gap that keeps the proportion of women in leadership positions so frustratingly small.

«If he's an arrogant windbag, then my self - image as a modest and thoughtful person is reaffirmed, while my terror of self - promotion or provoking conflict can safely be tucked away into a corner labeled «bad» and «not me.»»

His words have made me a more thoughtful person — always trying to pay for the bill, cleaning up after others long after a high school tennis match is over at a public park, and giving consulting clients more time without charging more.

Phil Griffin has said that he wants MSNBC to be seen as the home of «thoughtful people who can talk about ideas»; his challenge up to now has been to figure out how thoughtfulness can make itself manifest on TV news.

A thoughtful person who thinks about God can not help but notice the amazing contradictions.

The answer is, that without a grasp of the history of the Christian church, no thoughtful person can hope to understand the spiritual, moral» even the geopolitical» world in which he lives.

Most Catholics I know are very intelligent, caring, thoughtful people.

Given the choice between separationism and its opposite, it is no wonder that most thoughtful people choose separationism.

These were of course poor precedents, since no clear - headed person had ever argued that women should not be ordained because being a woman was a sin, while many thoughtful people had noticed that the shift toward increasing tolerance of divorce had been at best sloppy and at worst downright unfaithful.

Some believe that we should ally ourselves with whatever contemporary thinking is most widely accepted by thoughtful people.

He is an influential and thoughtful person, and his way of thinking about religion and public life holds broad sway among our cultural elites.

Two sentences in the discussion of reason in the earlier version of the report could be taken to support the use of such analysis: «By reason we relate our witness to the full range of human knowledge and experience,» and «By our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»

Nevertheless, quite apart from the ill informed attacks upon something which never was the Christian Faith, there are some legitimate criticisms, made by sane and thoughtful people, which must be considered.

There is a need for thoughtful people to make some discriminations between and within religious groups — to look for curing impulses that are latent in the faiths that so easily can spread disease.

What is left, then, is a need for thoughtful people to make some discriminations between and within religions groups, to look for curing impulses that are latent in faiths that so easily can spread disease.

Many thoughtful people have turned from Jesus to the Buddha.

To call for religious warfare, as some of them do, is to recall the religious wars of earlier centuries that unraveled civil society and led thoughtful people to the conclusion that religion in public is inescapably divisive and destructive.

For most thoughtful people throughout history, the most important function of thinking has been to deal with the inclusive questions of meaning and being in the world.

The demands constantly being made upon us in business and family life, the world scene, and the precarious state in which we all dwell compel thoughtful people to consider the nature and destiny of man.

Many of these centers still flourish and help to provide meaning and guidance to thoughtful people.

These are not the problems that occur to thoughtful people, even intellectuals, generally, as they contemplate both the public issues of the day and how to order their own lives in relation to the increasingly confusing world.

Some of these centers still flourish and help to provide meaning and guidance to thoughtful people.

At a Sunday Rector's Forum, I listened to thoughtful people speak about the most pressing social issues of our time.

And I know of no figure who better inoculates thoughtful people against the utopian temptations of both left and right.

It is by no means clear to many thoughtful people how we, in principle or in practice, distinguish lebensunwertes Leben from a «quality of life index.»

The pastor is a very thoughtful person and usually considers every possibility to a situation but the oversight of compensation for artists is an example of the cultural norm in the Church.

Thus, the objections made by thoughtful people to religion as it is commonly practiced properly apply to the perversions of religion and not to its pure and mature forms.

From my undergraduate days at Cornel University one of my deepest impressions is the inscription over the entrance to the main hall of the College of Arts and Sciences, «Above all nations is humanity» To this conviction which an increasing number of thoughtful people now accept must be added another, «Above all humanity is God.»

For the thoughtful person the idea of «glory for me», or a strictly individualistic salvation, is not highly attractive.

In my own ministry I have talked with a number of thoughtful people — mainly young people — who accept belief in God as giving meaning and joy and hope to this life but reject, or are at best highly doubtful about, any concept of personal resurrection or immortality.

Mentioning, of course, that you are the thoughtful person who recommended them.

These conditions undermine human flourishing and pose a challenge to thoughtful people of faith who recognize the limits of modernity's offerings.

The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.

Every thoughtful person has understood that the pro-life position - explicitly and consistently articulated by the Catholic Church at every level of teaching authority - is that justice requires that every unborn child be cared for andprotected in law.

Anyway, we need not spend any time discussing things that don't exist — the universe has real problems, that thoughtful people will want to solve.

In real life, we have a thoughtful person, sharing his thoughts.

The enormity of this President's corruption and crimes will finally sink in and trigger the long - delayed outrage — the absence of which to date has puzzled so many thoughtful people.

BTW — I have met Brian several times in casual settings and he is one of the gentlest, kindest, humblest, most generous and thoughtful people I have ever known.

But enough has occurred already that thoughtful people tend to agree more now than in the past that the impulse to be in conflict colors life.

And since the science of comparative religion has grown up in the past quarter - century, it is a live question to every thoughtful person.

Little wonder thoughtful persons of the age looked back to the good old days of simplicity.

No thoughtful person would toss these into a corner as «just imagination»; they are anchors cast within the veil.

These questions will increasingly emerge, I believe, in the minds of thoughtful persons in the coming decades and will define the existential situation to which the Christian message must be addressed.

You are a very honest and thoughtful person... smart too, and I appreciate your insights!

Ever since Victorian times it has been the changes in physics and in astronomy which have in fact seemed so appalling and disconcerting to many thoughtful persons.

Moreover, with logical rigor and religious zeal, he proceeds to demonstrate that this doctrine involves traditional theism in a whole raft of paradoxes and inner contradictions, in the hope that he might encourage its entire abandonment by thoughtful people.

His deep faith in God's transcendent judgment and mercy can once again support and illumine thoughtful people both inside and outside the Christian circle.