Sentences with phrase «more exhortations»

One thing is clear: policy makers and practitioners seeking to increase the impact of parliamentary strengthening programmes don't need more exhortations to pay attention to context or facilitate local ownership.

Such counsel is only very general — more exhortation than advice.

What he does not do — this book is more exhortation than manual — is to suggest a path through the organizational, political, ideological, and intellectual foes of his appealing and well - argued conception of what a proper public - education system would accomplish for the United States in the 21st century.

Not exact matches

One post-licensing deal design: the Mets logo displayed next to the exhortation «Take Back New York» — a jab at the far more popular Yankees and their fans.

Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg's exhortation contains more than a note of reproach.

A group of more than sixty Catholic theologians and clergy, including some well - known traditionalist writers and scholars, have signed a document, addressed to Pope Francis and recently released to the public, alleging that the pope has promoted heresy through his statements regarding the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia.

It was easy to recognize, in the words of this latest exhortation to more faithfully follow the gospel in the economic and global - political realm, the voice of our dear shepherd» to see the sharp intellectual and moral challenge of his mind, coupled with the loving understanding of his heart, so passionate to bring Christ to the world and the world to Christ.

The point is that almost all of us, unless we are exceptionally gifted or precocious, require more than bureaucratic exhortation or the abstract knowledge that the study of the humanities is important.

In «Evangelii Gaudium» (The Joy of the Gospel), officially known as an «apostolic exhortation,» Francis calls for church reforms, urges Catholics to be more bold and joyful, and castigates elements of modern capitalism.

And if we could stick to our discipline for a few more weeks until then, he would like us to read Familiaris Consortio, the 1981 papal exhortation of St. John Paul II, our «pre-Cana,» as it were.

When we understand that, we will be more hesitant about squeezing some relevant exhortation from the story, drawing hasty comparisons to current events, or finding analogies within our own experiences.

Leviticus, taken only in its literal sense, is more of an obstacle to faith than a means of exhortation or edification, as Origen once observed.

Your prayer will encourage their heart far more than any exhortation ever could.

The passage itself embodies a strongly christological thrust in the phrase «you did it to me,» which makes Jesus in some sense the referent of all the deeds of mercy done in the world.3 More importantly, Matthew attaches the pericope to a series of exhortations obviously intended to encourage the Christian community to persevere until the final judgment; 4 thus the deeds of mercy inculcated are direct responses to the Christian proclamation (7:794).

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

To such an audience, this appeal to the agricultural parables, have more to say than a mere exhortation for «trust in God's future.»

It is teaching, or exhortation (paraklesis), or it is what they called homilia, that is, the more or less informal discussion of various aspects of Christian life and thought, addressed to a congregation already established in the faith.

Yuval's closing exhortation to conservatives, to write more clearly, probingly, and persuasively about human dignity, is problematic,....

Why is it that we continue to flock to megachurches, eat hungrily from the hands of prosperity - gospel preachers and buy Christian - living books that aren't much more than humanistic doctrine camouflaged as biblical exhortation?

Perhaps nowhere does the character of this promising mystery present itself more graciously, extravagantly, and surprisingly than in Jesus» exhortation to think of God as «abba.»

Of course the language of the Alternative Service Book lacks the oratundty and elegance of the similar «exhortation» in the old Book of Common Prayer; but it says the same things in a more contemporary idiom and speaks directly to the persons who hope to serve in the ministry.

For example, an apostolic exhortation of one pontificate does not possess more authority than an encyclical of a prior papacy.

It is still commentary, but it doesn't read like a technical commentary, but more like an exhortation.

In his many exhortations on the subject, John Paul II has emphasized that more than anything else the martyrs are a sign of unity in Christ.

The Kasper spin was then picked up by some of the usual media suspects, who called on the usual Catholic talking heads on the port side of the Barque of Peter, who took matters further by speculating that the apostolic exhortation would open up even more revolutionary paths, involving the Church's eventual acceptance of same - sex marriage and other matters on the LGBT agenda.

Exhortations to be MORE rowdy and louder.

But, after that, how often does his stated «policy» amount to anything more than an exhortation to «social responsibility»?

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

If, on the other hand, completing her degree was based on nothing more than fulfilling the exhortations of her parents, she would have only self - control to drive her, and her emotional experiential memory would constantly rebel.

Clearly, endless exhortations to eat less and exercise more aren't working in our increasingly wealthy and sedentary society.

But if he is at times frustrated and beleaguered by skeptics, it appears some in his community are beleaguered by his exhortation that more researchers accept his interpretations or become involved.

Although the mental and physical problems from metal toxicity have escalated in recent years, our very language tacitly acknowledges the historic toxicity of certain metals: «Mad as a hatter» from the Civil - War - era's crazed use of mercury sizing in hat manufacture, «gold fever» from the murderous greed of early prospectors, «lead poisoning» as black humor for «getting shot,» and, more recently, «get - the - lead - out» exhortations from trainers who would have us exercise long and hard in order to sweat out toxins and melt excess fat.

These images are inspired Paul Cezanne's exhortation to «give the brain just enough to decipher, and not a brushstroke more.»

These jubilant exhortations have been seen at New York galleries, including a show at Zach Feuer in 2009, but are starting to attract more institutional attention; in addition to the Harvard show, there's a retrospective, «Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent,» at the Pasadena Museum of California Art through November 1.

This contains opinions on Sainsbury's wine range, exhortations to do more for organic farming and even comments about the supermarket's image and marketing techniques.

Now I have extensive modelling experience, but I believe more than ever in Feynman's exhortation to throw the model out if it disagrees with observations.

The U.S. influence, moreover, is all the more powerful because most Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests, to further a U.S. agenda.

I am always slightly puzzled by these kinds of exhortations that the EU should provide more rights, better rights, rights to more persons.

In fairness to the press, they have, variously, tried to address this with the addition of the new metrics and exhortations to look beyond the headlines (eg the Lawyer and Earnings Per Partner), but the PEP genie (efreet, more like) is out of the bottle, and it ain't going back in.

Similarly, Lord Neuberger's exhortation to the judiciary to invoke their case management powers to keep forum applications «in hand» must surely bear more weight in the post-Jackson world.