Sentences with phrase «measure of truth in»

Since many of these later references to elders apply to churches within the area of Paul's earlier work and even, especially in the case of I Clement, to a church actually founded by Paul, one must acknowledge a measure of truth in this supposition.

So indeed they can, upon that level; for there is a real measure of truth in such renderings of the story.

A candid look at America's drinking patterns reveals a measure of truth in the quip, «If alcoholism is a sickness, a lot of people are trying to catch it.»

There is a measure of truth in all this.

There seems to be a measure of truth in each of these statements.

There is obviously a measure of truth in this understanding of human beings in their economic behavior.

Not exact matches

Clearly, I have made the mistake of placing any measure of trust in a corporate platform with little concern for truth or history.

As further exposition of how blind compliance to authority and the «It Won't Happen to Me» belief pattern work together to prevent us from taking the protective measures we need to take right now, consider a November 2014 article in which a financial analyst stated, «it's time to ditch your golden faith, embrace the truth — and make gold a barbaric relic of your portfolio's past.»

For an in - depth analysis of the chained CPI, see CRFB's Moment of Truth Project policy paper Measuring Up: The Case for the Chained CPI

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

When, as ample evidence demonstrates, «most of our high - school and college students... consistently score poorly in virtually every measure of civic knowledge,» this can not occur — our citizens have to know what the truths are before they can consider whether they should hold to them.

The principle of conformation expresses «the stubborn fact that whatever is settled and actual must in due measure be conformed to by the self - creative activity» (S 36), and also assumes that «universality of truth arises from the universality of relativity, whereby every particular actual thing lays upon the universe the obligation of conforming to it» (S 39).

Whitehead proposed five cultural aims as the measure of civilized life: Truth, Beauty, Art, Adventure, and Peace.14 As we would say in Spanish, Justice shines by its absence.

That these were in so large measure actually God - inspired is what gives the Bible its «holy» character as the bearer of universal and timeless truth.

Lewis» confidence in human nature, with its capacity for reason and susceptibility to myth, gave him a measure of patience with those who did not see the truth or saw it only dimly.

Human self - adoration and self - assertion as the measure of our own truth and goodness is actually the negation of that destiny, the rejection of the One in whom it is given.

Reformation in truth and authentic love come from union with him in the Church, as creation is healed and perfected to the full measure of God's original will.

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

Which I think is fine, of course, but no need to use the old Christian standard of «peace in my heart» for a measure of truth.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberatioIn challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberatioin a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberatioin order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

A second extreme that must be resisted is the idea that there are no nonrelativistic truths in terms of which to measure competing theories.

The achieved value in the thing is always a measure of the interpretation, and the dyadic character of the truth relation is thus preserved.

Strength of conviction is not only a poor measure of truth but it leads to violence and war in the name of the «truth».

It can be argued that the truth and validity of ideas are in no way measured by their results, but few of us would remain Christian today if we were convinced that the consequences of Christian belief were consistently destructive of personality and society.

His participation in that dialogue is the measure of his responsibility to truth.

So the communication of the supernatural to nature will perfect nature in a continuous order of truth, wisdom, law and ordered measure.

The truth of your commitment lives in your heart, And what you do is the best measure of what's in your heart.

The rites have become a more vivid visual and aesthetic catechesis for a culture whose thirst for the integral beauty of truth is in equal measure with its deprivation of it.

The reason is that without a belief in Yahweh, acceptance that Jesus Christ is the only «way» to a relationship with the Creator, and measuring results in terms of Biblical truths, there would be little universal help to Christians, Jews, Moslems, atheists, and others at all.

About the only major force trying to uncover truth and speak it in power is the loose networks of NGOs13 that operate locally, regionally, and, by increasing measure, globally.

Both questions lead in the same direction, toward the possibility of a provisional and qualified answer: if the character of happening only once is held to belong to the truth and measure of all things in their very reality, then there is indeed an essence which more than any other satisfies this truth - criterion, and this is the pure essence of time: time taken in itself, or pure movement — movement irrespective of any possible differentiation into the different kinds of movement.

Even if his statements about faith don't measure up to a traditional Christian standard, the fact that Kanye is making them should be seen as an opportunity to talk about real biblical truth in honest ways and be a part of the cultural dialogue.

Actually, I don't view success at the Box Office as «the» measure for «Truth,» rather, as an indicator of people's high interest in the subject matter, hence spirituality.

Such refusal and such incapacity are the measure of the sinfulness of man — and the Hebrew prophets, who taught the truth about sacrifice, at the same time saw the radical sin in men which prevented their doing that which alone would «please God» and result in right relationships with Him.

The Bible is the book that we should measure everything else by, but that doesn't mean that there aren't nuggets or portions of truth in other religions.

;) Seriously though, in order to tell me that the Bible isn't true, you have to have a standard of truth to measure something against.

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Now, comming to conclusion that there is this Standard, this TRUTH to compare all things to it, and measure their value in light of it, it is a logical thing for man to ask himself WHAT is TRUTH, and toseek to find it for himself.

Reality is the measure of the mind, and the mind achieves truth in coming to an ever clearer understanding of reality.

I do not suppose that the exact degree of a minister's fidelity, or skill in dividing the word of truth, can be measured by the number of conversions in his parish, nor even that uncommon success in «winning souls to Christ» is a certain evidence of his personal piety.

Its hard to believe that manu lost 6 - 1 to man city, take nothing away from man city but every club uses manu as a measuring stick to compare themselves too, I really wish it was arsenal that gave that drubbing, I remember not long ago I was watching arsenal lose to manu by that you know what scoreline and my father (a manu fan) walk away, when it was 3 something becoz he couldn't watch a far one sided match, so I guess he is feeling what we are feeling that day, manu is always a side that neva lose by a huge margin no matter what, but tell you da truth I don't like man city becoz I do nt like a side that will spend and replace every single player and still have classy players on the bench, they can say that we won that and this but that becoz of the huge wages that we are paid, I just don't like football to be won by having money to spend there should be a mixture of everything good, middle and work in progress players.

The truth is that if you can do a little research, measure properly and use simple tools like a screwdriver, hammer, glue and drill - YOU can avoid paying thousands of dollars in labor and product mark ups by doing it yourself!

His actions almost 43 years ago contributed in no small measure to my passion for the defence of truth, fairness, integrity, transparency and merit in public life and must be publicly acknowledged for once.

He further called for adoption of effective measures to streamline migration rather than exploiting such unfortunate events to put Libya's name into disrepute in order to cover up inability to deal with the phenomenon so as to achieve gains that are imaginary contrary to the truth.

«He ensured that I was not cheated out by the exclusion of my name from the LLB class list at the Faculty of Law after my first university exams when I had qualified for placement on the programme by merit... His actions almost 43 years ago contributed in no small measure to my position, my passion for the defence of truth, fairness, integrity, transparency and merit in public life, and he must be publicly acknowledged for once.»

Lehto's detailed chronology of «individual lift devices» is on the dry side, but you learn the sober truth about why these machines never took off: Flight times were measured in seconds rather than minutes; the devices often cost as much as a luxury car; and there was no elegant solution for a malfunctioning jetpack in midair.

In addition, the automated results were highly consistent with the standard manual method, as defined by a high overlap score (a measure of agreement between ground truth and automated segmentation): above 90 percent.

The plant has been used in traditional eastern medicine for many centuries, so I tend to think there is some measure of truth to the health claims.

While those measures certainly help, the sad truth is we are nevertheless inundated with unprecedented levels of toxins in our air, water, food, and everyday environment.