Sentences with phrase «more than compassion»

Kutcher appears confused by any scene requiring him to sincerely emote, his face scrunching up in an expression that suggests constipation more than compassion.

Not exact matches

The latter approach yields remarkable results, according to Calgary - based entrepreneur Suzanne West, who runs Imaginea Energy and pals around with the likes of Richard Branson: «Service - based leaders — people who value diversity, inclusion, kindness, compassion, collaboration, integration, intuition, personal development, all the beautiful parts of being a human — are more powerful than those who use command - and - control,» she says.

If you've already procrastinated, you're more likely to get started on time going forward if you show yourself some compassion for your previous slacking rather than beating yourself up about it.

«[My family has] much bigger things to worry about right now than what the president says,» she said on «The View,» adding that the country needs «more compassion.

Believers who are driven with a very stong sense of compassion are out there on mission trips.Believers are far more motivated to perform than those that are here by chance.

I am far more educated on the Old testament than the New, but I'm pretty sure some of Jesus's key points are love and compassion.

«Love the sinner — hate the sin» I thought was what Christianity pushed, but as we can see from this priest's actions Christianity is nothing more than hollow rhetoric when it comes to love and compassion.

When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

However I find it invaluable as a place to take my pagan unchurched friends and have them taught the word by people more knowledgeable and grace - filled than I. Also as a place to be encouraged to hold the course and not revert to the old me which prefers kicking a ** and taking names over compassion, concern and giving my time / resources to the benefit of other.

Even that, would show more compassion than this infidel deserved.

In fact, Jesus had more to say about the the dangers of greed, love of possessions, and the lack of compassion for the the «poor» and the «least of these» than he did about any other single subject in christian scripture.

I am proud to call myself an American more than ever for this act of compassion.

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

True, I had in mind people even more secular than he, who show compassion and do good deeds and work with hope.

And certainly, without access to resources of patience and compassion beyond one's normal human endowment, most of us would have to face life with no more than a stoic despair.

I wondered how long it would take these pundits to go after the Pope once he revealed that his beliefs are more rooted in the teachings of Jesus than prior Popes and most Christians these days — he believes in compassion, charity, and love for his fellow human being.

Atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people, a new study finds.

Bill, Christian scientists have done just fine and what we need more than anything in our children... is Godliness — integrity, honesty, character, kindness, empathy, compassion, humility... way more important than any other accomplishment!!!

As the poetic parallelism makes clear, the character of Yahweh's compassion is the hesed character — the steady, enduring strength of fidelity, devotion, and commitment which partakes of the quality of grace precisely because it is more than the convention of covenant can appropriately command, because it is greater than the relationship which first produced it, and because it is able, in breaking out of the relationship, to recreate the very relationship in transformed dimensions.

Now, obviously, much more originated with Amos than what is brought down to us as prophetic utterance under his name in the canon; and in what we have there is reflected the unmistakable attribution to Yahweh of the prophet's own sense of compassion.

I've known mere mortal human beings with more understanding, compassion, unbias, fairness and honesty in their ways than god's own supposed magical book attributes to himself.

The rest of this absorbing book deals with Therese's sisters in religion, some more endearing than others, but all described with understanding and compassion.

I pray that God shows you more compassion, mercy and common sense than you show others... I bet you think you're a Christian too.

In America you would get more compassion from a «spiritual» person than a so called Christian.

«Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know their right hands from their left; and also many cattle?»

Because let's face it, true justice and compassion requires more than not just being a dick yourself, but also doing something about the harm caused by others» dickishness.

With due respect for Father Neuhaus» human compassion, I submit that even if the priest were guilty of nothing more than harboring sexual lust in his heart toward a male or female of any age, the priest ought to have immediately recognized that he had not been given the gift of celibacy, and thus had badly misjudged his ability to keep his ordination vows.

2nd, why do you think Christians that put emphasis more on compassion for the poor & immigration while ignoring issues of murdering a baby and sodomy are better than those who are not?

Surely our compassion for a man who is unwell even if you totally disagree with him is more important than vilifying him.

People too often talk about Jesus aside from his words, about his compassion towards all, while they fail to wrestle with some of his steepest moral teachings: «Whoever divorces his wife... and marries another, commits adultery; Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart; If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; I have come to bring not peace but the sword; Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mt 19:9, 5:28, 5:30, 10:14, 10:37).

It would weaken three of the four purposes of punishment, would confuse the good counsels of compassion, and would bring about more harm than good.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

Similarly, it seems more accurate to say that it is a lack of compassion rather than political conservatism that would prompt a person to believe that blacks are basically less intelligent than whites, or that blacks have failed to achieve equality because they lack initiative, or that the poor remain poor because they are lazy.

Many Americans, more motivated by fear of the unknown and self - preservation than compassion for war victims, ignore facts in favor of rhetoric.

In my seminars I've learned that most clergy and lay leaders are Hero types, oriented more toward task and achievement than toward care and compassion.

Where is your compassion to proves us all that you deserve more attention than religions?

«The unfortunate truth is that given the unprecedented nature of the global refugee crisis, there are simply more people than ever that need our support and our compassion,» said Tim Breene, CEO of World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals and one of nine agencies partnering with the government to resettle refugees.

Last week, more than 500 evangelical leaders signed an open letter decrying the ban and emphasizing how «compassion and security can coexist, as they have for decades.»

(and we aren't talking body features) Thats like comparing a wren to a hawk... In fact women posses much more than most males, like compassion, instinct for family, beauty and deep emotions... things much more valuable than strength, egos, status, power, things most men value most.

However, the strongest and most persistent single criticism of Ezekiel from modern commentators is precisely here in the charge that the proclamation of redemption betrays no more of human compassion and gentleness than his treatment of the theme of destruction.

Perhaps he should embrace his Punjabi roots, and have some compassion for his people, rather than nothing more than a blatant thirst for power.

The gospel is the good news that God, who is more holy than we can imagine, looked upon with compassion, people, who are more sinful than we would possibly admit, and sent Jesus into history to establish His Kingdom and reconcile people and the world to himself.

The gospel is the good news that God, who is more holy than we can imagine, looked upon with compassion, people, who are more sinful than we would possibly admit, and sent Jesus into history to establish his Kingdom and reconcile people and the world to himself.

Perhaps we can have more compassion for our ancestors for their treatment of Africans and Indians if we realize that this is part of a universal pattern rather than an expression of peculiar viciousness on their part.

Veganism is more than just a diet, it is a lifestyle choice of compassion that seeks to avoid animal exploitation for all purposes.

I might add that you can start by manifesting compassion to others who might find being vegan more of a struggle than you might.

Look i'm not a medical expert but at this point I'm seriously beginning to feel more compassion (regarding le proff health) than distaste for his decisions.

I bet you have more layers, more resilience, more compassion, more strength, and better boundaries now than you did then.

These were gifts, worth more than the old silverware and vintage Blaupunkt radio I found on the closet shelves, and I was filled with love and compassion for them.