Sentences with phrase «motivated by conviction»

But in reality it was a shared tragedy, one for those who still believed that politics should be motivated by conviction.

The attack from the right has been motivated by the conviction that the historical nature of Christian faith or the meaning of the Incarnation necessitates more emphasis upon the actual historical events circa AD 30 than Bultmann will allow.

America, a nation religious to the core, is motivated by the conviction that God helps those who help themselves.

Not exact matches

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

While it stands accused of introversion and complacency by the Service Club approach, it represents the conviction that service is doomed to be fragmentary and inconsistent unless it is grounded in a firm motivating and sustaining base.

It might perhaps be just possible to outdo the ingenuity of the theologians and show how the life of Mother Teresa, say, which has every appearance of being motivated by an astonishing compassion rooted in religious conviction, has actually been driven by a subtle but irresistible Glückseligkeitstrieb.

Niebuhr himself came to recognize that he may have overstated the case when he had asserted that we must believe that perfect justice is possible in order to be optimally motivated.27 We can be inspired to committed effort by the conviction that a situation much better than the present one is realistically obtainable.

The Supreme Court's actions pose incalculable risks to an already volatile social fabric by alienating those whose beliefs about marriage are motivated by deep biblical convictions and concern for the common good.

For John Jay Hughes there was another difficulty» besides the rigid withdrawal of his father whom he went on to love: «I entered the Catholic Church with a cold heart, motivated solely by intellectual conviction.

They always discussed the attacks matter - of - factly and were motivated by deep religious feelings and the conviction that what they were doing was right.

The latter entry is motivated by the personal conviction her younger sibling is nearly incapable of living on her own.

These are not corporate stooges of the nuclear industry; to a person, their embrace of nuclear power is motivated by a deep concern about climate change and the conviction that no other carbon - free source of energy is sufficient (and safe) enough to replace coal and gas.

Although I disagree completely, I can respect a sceptic stand based on honest conviction: that IPCC is wrong, alarmist and motivated by a hidden agenda.