Sentences with phrase «not attempt»

Again, he does not attempt to describe this faith as a psychologist might.

We shall not attempt to answer this question abstractly but in terms of the difference the Holy Spirit makes.

The pre-Socratic response to this experience was essentially poetic: not an attempt to devise a hierarchy of categories by which to capture the event in a cage of human concepts but, rather, an attempt to name the event of being in its mystery, with an almost childlike innocence, in a language of purest immediacy.

Either proposition by itself seems deeply blasphemous to me, to be perfectly honest; taken together, they produce a logic I find positively wicked: Christians must govern society, but in doing so they must not attempt the «gnostic» task of creating forms of just relations among the governed; they must simply be sure to kill the right people.

I shall not attempt to choose among these positions, but will try to say what I believe we can be reasonably sure of.

This is not an attempt at soul winning, just a suggestion for someone who seems willing to listen to an intelligent position on the subject.

The theory of evolution does not attempt to account for how the universe got here, and it is not necessarily dependent upon the existence or non-existence of God.

It is not an attempt to «justify» the position of woman in the church and add her to the traditional Christian framework.

The research indicates, however, that the figures given particularly by the paid - time religious broadcasters in support of this claim are sweeping overstatements; they do not attempt accurately to assess the situation of the person involved in the decision making before claiming them as a conversion statistic, nor do they take into account the durability of the change which, it is claimed, is produced.

In Political Theology Sölle similarly hopes to make clear that here is «not an attempt to develop a concrete political program from faith».16 But political interpretation of the gospel does have a positive as well as a critical meaning.

Calvin did not attempt to resolve the seeming paradox between God's sovereign justice and love and the evil in the universe, but enjoined a meek acceptance of what he found in the Bible.

In the face of such a powerful attack from the point of view of modern egalitarian ideology it is a thankless task to defend the hierarchical aspect of Japanese civil religion, and I will not attempt to do so.

Critics of paid - time religious television programs certainly do not attempt to deny the fact that a need for counseling exists or that something needs to be done about this need.

From our own experience we can appreciate how easy it is to be content with some rather vague mental picture from which we do not attempt to draw all its logical implications.

jeff — the difference we saw during the debates and well indicated by biden, is that the republicans will work to enact their beliefs into law and that the democrats will espouse their beliefs as only their own and not attempt to impose them on the general population.

*** It's VERY SIGNIFICANT that Job does NOT attempt an answer, and God comes right up behind Elihu and speaks.

Intercession is not an attempt to force God to do something that otherwise he would not do.

There's no argument unless those who believe do not attempt to have their beliefs taught, presented, and acted on as facts.

Prayer is not an attempt to fashion the world after our own desires, but is attentive communion with God conceived of as Love.

Quine does not attempt «to prove the worth» of his views on these matters nor «to disprove the worth» of Hartshorne's.

Structuralism, or the structuralist activity — or my version of it — is not the attempt to clarify the outline or pattern or «surface structure» of the text.

I would not attempt to tell them what to do or how to do it.

This means that he will not attempt to impose his own truth and view on the other.

I can not attempt to answer most of these questions here, but note one thing: Whatever Peter is talking about, he is not talking about the writing of Scripture.

However, the school does not itself attempt to embrace the total action.

Peter in any case do not attempt to sing that song, you will break the ear drums of people and turn them deaf.

Do not attempt to define the whole of the Catholic church for the actions of what even victims groups declare is less than 8 % of the entire clergy.

I shall not attempt here to decide the issue for anyone, but to present the considerations that bear upon each side.

But think of how rich the church universal would be if we allowed the church - structured to work with, bless, and not attempt to hinder the church - unstructured?

People argue that putting a cross in every classroom is not an attempt to impose Christian beliefs on children.

There is in fact no English term which covers both these meanings, and that is why Moffatt in his translation does not attempt to translate it, but simply says: «The Logos became flesh.»

As for the fellow using «firstly, secondly... and PARTICULARLY thirdly»... please, First and Second are perfectly good adverbs, do not attempt to destroy them.

But he will not attempt to make Stoic heroes out of them.

Cobb does not attempt a comprehensive answer to this question, but he does proffer two quite different kinds of explanation — one historical, the other theological.

Browning does not attempt to work through many of the systemic and conceptual problems generated by his project, and in this respect his book is more exploratory than definitive.

Note, however, that in this passage Whitehead does not attempt to distinguish sensa and patterns in regard to their physical ingression, for he says that sensa can not «in fact» ingress apart from actual contrasts.

The poet's imaginary discourse is not an attempt to propel the story into the realm of fable, but rather his only means of articulating an impossible voice.

It is not an attempt to get our own way by invoking deity.

If the goal and ground of the way of distinction is the restoration of true creaturehood where God will be God and man will be man and not attempt to be God anymore, than how can man know thereby that he is just as «real» as God?

A strong case can be made that historically the Christian story is not at all unique, he suggested: «This being the case, I shall not attempt to evaluate the historical reliability of the Gospel story of Jesus or argue the unique truth of the story on grounds of a true, factual «kernel» in it.

It is not an attempt to usurp the place of our ordinary ways of discovering, and so it does not compete nor conflict with reason or science.

Prayer is not an attempt to fashion the world after our own desires.

My point is the SCOTUS does not attempt to determine what is «Just» in the cases they hear.

Unless a man is unusually liberated from male prejudice and empathetic regarding the experience of being a woman in our culture, he had better not attempt to lead an all - women liberation group.

(I will not attempt to describe in detail the significant differences among the various family therapies.)

The minister will draw on all of his resources of empathy, interpersonal sensitivity, and compassion for those caught in the tentacles of an excruciating problem, but he should not attempt to diagnose the specific nature of the difficulty.

... Above all, do not attempt to use science... as a defense against Christianity.

I will not attempt to deal with it here.

(i) describes the data of perception but does not attempt to explain it.

In what follows I will not attempt to answer his arguments in detail, still less to score points against him; the matters we are concerned with are too difficult and too crucial to admit of such treatment; I shall therefore merely try to indicate where and why I still venture to differ from him.