Sentences with phrase «n't confront reality»

No, but it's reality, and if you don't confront reality now, you may become another member of the «lost generation» of lawyers.

«The education debate in this country has not confronted reality.

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The causes he embraced — not only civil rights and racial equity, but also opposing the Vietnam War and poverty — forced the nation to confront uncomfortable moral realities of the American experience.

A lot of men over 50 aren't familiar — or comfortable — with confronting that reality.

But America can't get to those solutions until it admits it has a gun problem and confronts the reality of what it would mean to seriously address it.

Those that believe in something that does not exist, do not want to be confronted with reality.

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

The black community in America has confronted the reality of the historical situation as immutable, impenetrable, but this experience has not produced passivity; it has, rather, found expression as forms of the involuntary and transformative nature of the religious consciousness.

After confronting the ugly reality of martyrdom, he undergoes a moment of deep spiritual purification, asking himself, «What you've been wanting, it's not real, secret martyrdom; it's a death for glory's sake, isn't it?

Cremation isn't healthy or unhealthy in and of itself... just so we don't use it as a way to get around confronting the reality of the death of our loved one.

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

The book is painful to read: the war is behind us and we do not want to be confronted further by its horrible reality.

If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.

And yet, when it came time to write a book about church (which, like every book, began with the rather rigorous and uncomfortable exercise of confronting my own bullshit), I couldn't deny the reality that, as much as I may dream of it, there's no starting from scratch... for any of us.

However, as Dr. Lampe says in the same paragraph, «this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an eternal reality.»

But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

They would have found themselves confronted in him with a moral reality — disturbing, sometimes even terrifying, but not to be ignored and never to be forgotten — which might alone have prompted the solemn wonder, «Is this the Christ?»

This ground is meant by the word «God», the ground which is not the sum of individual realities but which confronts them freely and creatively without forming a «higher whole» with them.

These words epitomize the unyielding difficulty confronting classical theism, for it can not seem to reconcile God's goodness with his power in the face of the stubborn reality of unexplained evil.

Though Stout is fully aware that the social reality is often more bleak, he confronts injustice with a passion born out of his awareness that something much better is not only possible but already exists.

Transfer is not involved because the act of prayer takes place solely within human experiences in which the person is confronted immediately (i.e., without mediation) with the reality of his own existence and of his world on the deepest levels of awareness (change, dependence, etc.).

As we confront this reality, here's the good news: We don't have to do it alone.

It is not by ideals and programmes or by conscience, duty, responsibility and virtue that reality can be confronted and overcome, but simply and solely by the perfect love of God.

I may get into some trouble for saying this, but I don't care; we simply can't afford any more suicides or families caught in the middle: I think it's time for evangelicals to confront reality and move away from the «reparative therapy» approach, which seems to be doing far more harm than good.

Like any such significant new historical reality that has come into motion now and in the past, globalization embodies and confronts us with benefits, opportunities, challenges, risks, dangers and oppressions not just for some but for all sides involved.

Your continued push that most people, if confronted by their sin of living together, would stay in that particular church is not even close to reality of the majority of those situations.

As I shall say, confronting that plain fact does not suggest that we should spend our time in the not very profitable exercise of meditating every day on its reality.

Jesus is the victim who will not stay sacrificed, whose memory is not erased and who forces us to confront the reality of scapegoating.

To seek the meaning of any given signifier is only to be confronted with an alternative signifier, and thus any kind of terminal meaning is forever scattered and «not yet,» so much so that even the reality of one's own selfhood must be found to be something thoroughly insubstantial and vaporous: in short, our condemnation is to «the prison - house of language.»

Urban ministry in today's America must be carried on in places where the church does not have the power to control or change the realities it confronts.

Forgetting about it is something that's easy for me to do because I'm not confronted with the realities of racism every day.

Wenger has done very well for us, he is a legend but its obvious he has gone stale and lost the hunger, motivation and most importantly the modern touch to take us to the next level... its just a shame the board are a bunch of clueless money grabbers who are afraid to confront reality head... Wenger will have to go sometime, whether he or the board likes it or not but what preparations are in place to scout a viable replacement?

Similarly, Cathy Warwick, on being confronted by the reality that there are not enough staff and equipment to provide care for women in labor now declares that what midwives women really need is access to a specialized service that is appropriate for only a tiny proportion of the population and represents a dreadfully inefficient use of scarce resources.

Arguments based on neuroscience can be uncomfortable because they force us to confront the reality that our morality is not static.

Sanders and Natale said there is not a lot of developable green space left in the town, and whoever was elected to the Town Board on Tuesday would confront that reality.

Earlier this week County Executive Ed Day confronted reality and bit the metaphorical budget bullet by facing up to the fact that the County owed millions of dollars, was running a multi-million dollar deficit, had overtaxed homeowners, and had police services that the County could not afford and did not need.

In 2014, after her first attempt at getting an INSERM position came to no avail, Bigorgne was confronted with a reality that many early - career scientists eventually come to face: Despite her passion, years of training, and personal sacrifices, she wouldn't necessarily be able to secure a permanent position and stay in academia.

Once we're confronted with the realities of equanimity and whether we exhibit it or not, we can begin to bring awareness and real change into our standard operating procedures.

But disturbing in a good way because it confronts the viewer with a reality of capital punishment that its strongest advocates mostly are not willing to face.

When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a student finds himself confronted with the reality that not only do extraterrestrials actually exist, but they are taking possession of humans, harvesting the organs, and implanting them with mysterious devices.

Well, it looks like we won't have to confront that reality regardless of how enjoyable or disastrous the show might have been.

Not much is officially known about the sequel, although Stiller has said that it will focus on Derek and Hansel confronting the reality of a world that has moved on beyond them — with newer, younger, sexier models taking their place and a company looking to remove them from the business altogether.

The film doesn't sermonize, it observes and cherry picks incoming malice, watching Sam work through his complex emotions as he confronts his reality as a crude utility.

Speaking of, whether or not the world has ended is only one layer; Michelle must confront the reality that she may be trapped in a bomb shelter with a psychopath.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

This is not easy for teachers to do when we are confronted with the reality of students» time commitments and differing levels of interest in the project.

While many teachers see a role for PBL, it isn't always easy to incorporate in a good way as we confront the reality of meeting standardized assessments and maintaining our identity as a comprehensive, public high school.

Poverty is not an excuse for low expectations; it is a reality that must be acknowledged and confronted.

The LA Unified School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the minutiae of charter school applications.