Sentences with phrase «means of his acceptance»

The Christian pastor can see reflected here the nature of the demand upon him when he considers the meaning of acceptance.

Thus, whether we begin with the meaning of the self - image or with the meaning of acceptance, the religious question concerning that reality which is the context of our lives becomes the existential question, that is, one concerning which we have to make a decision.

Permissiveness rightly connotes a withholding of judgment, and that is part of the meaning of acceptance, but only a part.

But this does not stop him from encouraging preschool kids to embrace the meaning of acceptance and eliminate bullying.

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The acceptance of home - based businesses is on the rise, but that doesn't mean you should relax your standards as an entrepreneur.

Founder Cheryl Ng has long believed in building markets incrementally, placing modest quantities with international distributors as a means of testing consumer acceptance without risking a lot of capital on large production runs.

It's only upon acceptance of his true self that he dons the red - and - blue caped suit and becomes the superhero he was meant to be.

NASA received a record number of applicants — 18,300, meaning its acceptance rate is 0.7 %.

These groups are of unique importance to brands, because the degree of trust and loyalty amongst these niche subcultures means that once a brand or product or celebrity gains acceptance they are more likely to be embraced.

It requires an understanding and acceptance that the role of the funds in the cash and cash equivalent asset class are not meant to make money for you, but to serve as a margin of safety.

If cryptocurrency gains acceptance as a means of exchange, it's sure to raise the ire of governments hungry for revenue from sales taxes.

After years of development and flickering just outside of mainstream consciousness and acceptance, record high prices for the most popular blockchain - based cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and newcomer Ethereum and an embrace of the technology's core principles by some of the world's largest institutions may mean that blockchain technology is ready for its close up.

Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, JP Morgan tellurian markets strategist, stated last December, that cryptocurrency will expected benefit widespread acceptance as a legitimate means of remuneration and magnitude of wealth.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

This movement has meant a turning toward political stasis and a certain ruthless acceptance of social inequities as eternally ordained by the Deity.

These are the people who eat the twisted theology, shit it out, and re-eat the same shit, as it did not change by any means in the process of digesting — Hell, there's no digestion, just blind acceptance, swallowing, and shitting back out of this hateful theology.

In this instance it may not be the case that the acceptance of the free market as the means of pricing goods and services entails all the other features of global capitalism.

«While I'm proud of what we've achieved together, I'm far more mindful of my own failings,» Obama said in his acceptance speech, «knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, «I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.»»

This second point means that openness to what sciences can teach us does not lead to acceptance of the way most scientists present their findings.

Whereas in traditional societies this openness often amounted to somewhat uncritical acceptance of the dominant cultural patterns, today it can also mean incorporation of ranges of concern and action from the prophetic traditions of Israel.

The fundamental reason why it has been so is that AA has developed a means of conveying the experience of acceptance to the alcoholic.

By mono - culture we mean the undermining of economic, cultural and ecological diversity, the nearly universal acceptance of technological culture as developed in the West and its values.

The Jewish legal system, now left behind, had once been the means by obedience to which he had sought «justification»; now faith — the whole - hearted self - committal of a man to Jesus Christ by which the entire personality is transformed — is the sole ground of any one's acceptance with God.

When someone is dying what could it possibly bring them to try and give them your version of a reality check and take away their hope and means for peace and acceptance.

Failing to grasp how Paul has made Jesus» human response to God part of God's essential gift to humans means failing to grasp how dispositions of mutual acceptance articulate the form of life possible only because of that powerful and transforming gift.

While they write of their qualified moral acceptance of deterrence, they mean only, as Cardinal John Krol testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that they consider deterrence to be for now the lesser of competing evils.

If I am morally required or permitted to act in a certain manner, and if that action has effects on you, then the moral validity of the prescription on which I act means that your acceptance of those effects is required by reason — and, in that sense, the prescription implies a common decision.

That one can dare to maintain such hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely in the relinquishing of concern for one's own security, ultimate security and meaning are found.

This may mean what through the influence of Professor C. H. Dodd has come to be called realized eschatology, the belief that Jesus had brought the Kingdom to fulfillment in his own person and he was thereby affirming his messiahship.4 It seems to me more probable that Jesus meant primarily though perhaps not solely to declare the possibility of entrance into the Kingdom here and now by repentance, the acceptance of God's forgiveness, and the assumption of the obligations of discipleship.

Mobility by means of affirmative action breeds tenuous self respect and questionable peer acceptance for many middle - class blacks.

What you are claiming is that only through acceptance of YOUR god can people avoid he - ll, which means that being good has nothing to do with it.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

A corollary of client - centred therapy is the recognition that good interpersonal relationships depend upon the understanding and acceptance of the other as a separate person, «operating in terms of his own meanings, based on his own perceptual field.»

I mean, forget the Catholic Church's acceptance of evolution, the Big Bang, their pursuit of mathematics, quantum physics, astronomy, etc..

Genuine conversation, like every genuine fulfillment of relation between men, means acceptance of otherness.

Rogers emphasizes unqualified acceptance of the client by the therapist whereas Buber emphasizes a confirmation which begins with acceptance but goes on to helping the other in the struggle against himself for the sake of what he is meant to become.

The widespread practice of petting by persons who have no intention of marriage to each other is a consequence of the common acceptance of sexual relations as a means of satisfaction quite apart from family considerations.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

It may well be said that the [acceptance of man] in - spite - of [his sin] character of the Christian faith, by means of prophetic criticism and the «will to transform» based upon divine justice, functions as a militant element in the realm of human society and history, whereas the just - because - of [human sin and selfishness acceptance] nature of Buddhist realization,... functions as a stabilizing element running beneath all social and historical levels.

Our response to God's acceptance of our lives into his / her life provides a powerful sense of the meaning of life and a profound sense of the intimacy of the human and the divine.

If being a Christian means the acceptance on «faith» of beliefs that have not been subjected to critical reflection, then it is Christianity which can and should be subsumed within a Socratic synthesis.

Where the Church is understood as a community of acceptance and reconciliation, the sacramental forms will be discovered to have a meaning and power which for many they have lost.

A tacit acceptance of this will also mean a tacit acceptance that the only essential thing about sexual union is pleasure and the deepening of a relationship.

Success or failure mean nothing in place of «willing acceptance of God's judgment.

The means of enforcing acceptance were brutal.

This means that the account above locates the «modern» in terms of the efforts either to assimilate or to exclude and the «postmodern» in terms of the recognition and acceptance of cultural diversity.

If we were to apply Niebuhr's real politics, with its ready acceptance of the inevitability of conflict, to the present nuclear situation, it could well mean «a perverse preference for the war of mutual annihilation, simply because the war of mutual annihilation means, at least, that the other side doesn't win either.»

It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.

Taken collectively they justify what was affirmed in chapter 3 as primary notes in the meaning of the term: the ultimate sovereignty of God; the acceptance of this sovereignty through human response and obedience to God's will; and a final, victorious consummation of the total process.

God's acceptance of us in the future, his being pleased with us, means that we may be pleased with ourselves in the here and now as we live our daily Christian lives; or, more precisely, we may be pleased that we are pleasing to God... According to Lewis, the promise of a future accolade from God means we can be satisfied with our work — our lives, our imperfect efforts to serve and love God — now.»