Sentences with phrase «n't encourage those things»

I worry that a lot of software programs don't encourage those things.

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Encouragement involves the acknowledgment of a negative thing — that the people being encouraged don't know they're not doing (or trying to do) the thing they should be doing.

Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, encourages audience members to look past short - term, material, and goal - oriented happiness in order to find a kind of happiness that can be sustained when things don't go according to plan.

«It made me realise how the media often distorts things and we can't look at the people in that place through that lens of the media, which can make it feel that extreme, and then that encourages that fear of people in a foreign place,» she told Business Insider.

One of the biggest things you can do to groom an entrepreneur is to encourage them to do hard things — like really hard things — and make a conscious choice not to rescue them when they fail.

Not only will adding and encouraging social activity help your content and ideas be seen by more eyeballs, it will give off important signals to the search engines that your brand and your content are things that consumers want.

When it comes to money, John cautioned business owners against blowing large sums on things they don't need — like expensive websites when a Facebook page would be more strategic — and encouraged them to be just as cautious when thinking about accepting funding.

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

Instead of pressuring their employees to engage in activities they wouldn't normally do, companies want to encourage their people to do more of the healthy things they already enjoy doing.

For bulls, the weakness in the Yen and gold could be an encouraging sign, as the main safe - haven assets are not confirming the selloff in equities this week, but forex markets could look different in a day, as the FED will likely stir things up substantially.

«And while I encourage everyone to get out and live their lives — there's not a single thing that we need to change in terms of our behavior.

Not once did he have an explicitly negative thing to say about either president, and I got the sense that he cared deeply about the execution of his job, which was highly encouraging.

The anonymity of the web encourages people to behave in a way and say things they wouldn't face to face.

The prosperity gospel does not answer why bad things happen; it merely encourages us to focus on how to live in the present.

Hypocrisy is doing the very thing you're encouraging others not to do.

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

Eventually things got so cozy for the Hebrew exiles that even after they were encouraged to go to Jerusalem most of them didn't want to go back.

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

I don't always come out on the side of the author but I always come closer to God — even if it's just to realize that I'm struggling with a particular truth Funny thing is, God always encourages me and loves me in my honesty.

And I speak up when a few vocal evangelical leaders say hateful things about LGBT people or encourage bullying or condone misogyny because I feel like I have this investment in the community and it's important for those invested in the community to speak up when its leaders are hurting our witness to the world... But I'm not sure I can do that anymore.

To the person who heard that word of wisdom as with all words of prophecy I would encourage you to bring it to God and see what he says - sometimes people get things wrong but also sometimes the words given can be about events not now but to come

But the writer of Hebrews wasn't encouraging us to put our faith in the visible things of life, but the invisible.

If understanding, the thought is that the bible authors were encouraged to write these things about God but that they're not true.

Encouraging islam by looking at only a few nice things in it is not helping save nice people from such an evil ideology.

RT encourages you to beware being too quick to say, «Surely not, that can't be God» - and shows how from the Garden of Eden onwards, God has often chosen «foolish things» to confound the «wise».

But such political judgment need not be translated into the view that there is no such thing as «the good life,» or that we are not ourselves to seek it and seek through a variety of institutional (though non-governmental) mechanisms to encourage and inculcate that moral and religious vision.

Darwinism is no more beneficial for the scientific enterprise than it is for theology, encouraging biologists to blind themselves to the exquisite functionality of living things anytime it doesn't fit their preconceptions.

One thing members of the LDS faith are encourage to do, unlike some other religions, is to know for themselves what is true and to not rely on what someone else says is true.

And maybe some franchises are different, but the one in SC where I worked most certainly didn't encourage me to pray or do any sort of religious - based thing (though Divine Intervention was almost always necessary to get through the lunchtime rush).

Your approach of throwing out intriguing, soul - searching questions is the process I try to duplicate in my interactions with others — not to coerce people to see things my way, but to encourage willingness to challenge old ideas and be willing to change.

I don't make comments about things I don't know, so I would encourage you to read it.

Looking people in the eye, listening to what they have to say and making an intelligent response that lets them know we really heard what they were saying, not acting like we're in a hurry to move on but have time to listen, letting them know they are more important than our stupid cell phones, encouraging them and letting them know we think they can succeed — all of those things are extremely important in building relationships, including relationships with homeless people.

I'm not often enamored of change in a thing I love and have enjoyed for a long time, but I am pleased and encouraged by the redesign.

Just as God's continuing creative activity does not directly «make» things but rather allows, encourages, and assists them to «make themselves,» so in the familial group we can allow others to «make themselves,» with all the difficulties this may seem to include.

I would encourage you not to distance yourself from the things about Jesus that you have a hard time with but to instead hold all of these things in tension because nothing less than this is required if we are to be the church in the midst of a watching world.

But, when we forget about what it between us, and focus instead on Who is Above Us — as Ephesians 2:13 - 17 encourages us to do — when we focus not on ourselves, but turn our eyes upon him, — all of these other things just fade into the background and it is then that we can live in peace with each other.

I encourage people to use their ability to discern what's actually being communicated in their church situations and not gloss things over with glorified expectations or wishful thinking or inordinate submission to authority.

In trying to account for it I propose to say some things in the last lecture about practical facts in modern American church life which operate to encourage, if not to demand this deadening and guilt - begetting circumstance.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

Syntheses are usually between more or less equal things, and your stance on this can not but encourage the prevailing belief that science has replaced religion as a superior explanation of everything.

Christians are supposed to encourage each other, and simply sharing insights in conversation is not the same thing as positioning oneself as a «teacher», as in a spiritual mentor, and the responsibility that comes with that.

More than one scripture indicates that faith is a gift from God — yes, people are commanded and encouraged to believe, but the «natural man does not receive the things of God...»

encouraging children in their academic, social, sporting pursuits doesn't require any vision at all... very daft, unimaginitive, even bad people can can achieve these things.

The Letter to the Hebrews encouraged those Christian pilgrims to keep on living by faith, «the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

I have no problem with you and others practicing your faith, I encourage it, but just don't expect me to follow your lead and believe the same thing you do.

Symbols encourage individuals to think and consider things that perhaps that wouldn't otherwise do.

He has the right to encourage his congregation to believe certain things, to pressure lawmakers to vote in certain ways, and to publicly protest when things don't go his way.

I'm not convinced that we have enough purity to do the same for any extended period of time, hence the NT instructions toward ministry that builds up and encourages things that are focused on Jesus.