Sentences with phrase «not cynicism»

This is not cynicism.

It's not cynicism.

This is not cynicism; it's Indie pragmatism.

Yet in those very halls we were being taught that to be part of a story larger than our own should call forth vocation and prophecy, not cynicism.

This is not cynicism; it is life between the resurrection of Jesus and His return.

Skepticism is not cynicism.

There isn't any cynicism to Kiryu's exploits (or Yakuza as a whole).

Not exact matches

«Don't give in to complacency and cynicism.

He called on every American to «fill the reservoir of the American Dream back up not with cynicism, but with optimism.

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

Supervisors in organizations waste a lot of time and energy going through the motions of recognition and might even stir up negative reactions (cynicism and apathy) because their actions are not viewed as genuine.

Granted, cynicism and pessimism aren't quite the same, but they have one major factor in common: negativity.

The idiotic clamoring of the unrighteous revelers in atheistic cynicisms are tyrannical perverts of predispositions posting their crap to make follies of those religious fruit loops who can't even rightly divide the word of truth into being parables and fiction and historical!

This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one who unthinkingly accepts every facet of my Doctrine of choice.

«Cynicism for me, if I didn't have belief in a God who loves me, I would be a very cynical man.

Skepticism isn't a bad word, and it isn't a synonym for pessimism or cynicism.

As a committed pessimist, I was decidedly rebuked by his claim that pessimism is not an option for Christians, and that cynicism and despair are the besetting sins of our age.

Anger and cynicism shouldn't be default reactions — wisdom, that comes from listening, should.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power can not be the work of a good God.»

I mean I respect your right to reject his version of events and I understand cynicism but doesn't that mindset extrapolate into nihilism?

However, this does not lead to cynicism.

The candor of the Old Testament in expressing not only its emerging faith but, as well, its cynicisms and denials, is in this realm clearly exhibited.

So abstract and general a statement, however, not only oversimplifies the long and complicated process it endeavors to describe but, in particular, neglects the natural human opposition which so high an estimate of personality encountered — the endless doubts, cynicisms, and denials with which this emerging estimate of man's value was inevitably met.

And it is not necessary to blunder around in the dark wondering how to find out about truth, nor do we need to follow the example of the ruler who asked, with a mixture of cynicism and real sadness, «What is truth?»

It was not until after my Catholic conversion, following years of religious cynicism, that I realized the heavy role the underlying Smith heresy had played in a lifelong disconnect from Christ» and could then recover from it.

Henry was the one of us with a slight touch of cynicism, and the only one who did not survive his twenties.

I won't desecrate beauty with cynicism any more, I won't confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

It does not serve them to teach them a cynicism against everything.

It was about worshiping a God who is too passionate to allow for cynicism, a God ready to bless our best and curse our worst, eager to bring the kingdom, but not before we turn to God in freedom.

I do not believe it is the cynicism of advancing age that emboldens me to note this.

Many modern universities are so intellectually incoherent that they tend to breed cynicism, not intellectual vitality.

Determinedly secular commentators, those who want to believe that we are living in post-Christian America, apply a skepticism, even a cynicism, to findings about religion that they do not apply to research data on other subjects.

There are, of course, dangers in the heroic life, especially the dangers of spiritual pride, but Reno and Hook insist that the antidote to pride can not be the egalitarian piety or the cynicism that makes heroism appear as scandalously elitist or hopelessly naive.

There is on the one hand breastbeating and cynicism: nothing important in store for «74; on the other an inexplicable resolution: we shall not be moved — in the status quo.

If I have outlined the cultural situation of Catholic writers in mostly negative terms, it is not out of despair or cynicism.

We do not need to bow to the cynicism that says, «Hide your manna now or you may not have it in the morning.»

Your desires to wear a dunce cap is duly noted... My religious belief is contiguously referenced thru my many postings here and your depraved wordage is not a welcoming issue but is unsound cynicism unworthy of reading... Your abusive connotations wreaks of analytical dementia and oozes of delirium...

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

His biggest problem is that, in this age of cynicism, his honesty and sincerity makes him appear like an alien to most people who can not measure up, such as you.

That assumes a level of cynicism that may be cultivated by a Mitt Romney, but probably not many rank - and - file conservatives, who either don't know this, or suffer from such extreme cognitive dissonance that it doesn't effect their thinking.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

Do not be discouraged by the darkness of political cynicism, but rather overcome the darkness, vote.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Even if the cynicism is justified, don't go there.

We know so many and try not to approach each one with cynicism.

While I found hope on the other side of my cynicism and kept moving forward, many of my friends were not so lucky.

He did not touch it, for his cynicism had not advanced that far.

It's not true, of course, but there's enough truth lurking inside the clerical cynicism to bear reflection.