Sentences with phrase «not for spite»

This is not for spite, as many cat owners suspect.

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Successful people don't wish for success, they work at success in spite of their fears.
In spite of all that testing — at a financial cost of untold billions of dollars and an immeasurable time cost for the patients who volunteered — no one was able to say with any certitude whether the drug would work in any one patient or not.
But in spite of the enthusiasm for science that accompanied each wave of globalization, as a historical rule it was primarily commerce and finance that drove globalization, not science or technology, and certainly not politics or culture.
However, Aurélien Drain adds that in spite of their business knowledge and drive, the early stages of business growth remain challenging for those who don't have the connections or initial capital and support.
Furthermore, the Fed would like to adhere to the so - called «Taylor Rule» (in spite of Professor Taylor's protestations that it is misinterpreting and misusing his concept), a mathematical construct that purports to make monetary policy more «scientific» by establishing an arithmetic rule for varying the administered interest rate according to the variance of «actual from target inflation» (note that «inflation» refers to the change in a price index in this case, not the phenomenon of inflation of the money supply as such), as well as the variance of economic output from «potential output» (i.e, the so - called «output gap» is incorporated in the formula as well).
Also in spite of what you otherwise claim Gary, I have not received an apology for being wrongly accused of supporting abuse and silencing of victims.
old, and for many of the price to be paid by us and our children was just too high for us to dare to allow anyone to know that we didn't believe, in spite of that I actually have always felt that many people who just went along with «it» to avoid unpleasantness, never believed, as I never have.
For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as suFor in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as sufor oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as sufor determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.
And is spite of what your church has taught you... God has blessed many sexual unions where marriage was not involved, and a great many more beyond the church notion of one man and one woman for life.
I can't help but believe in God, I know He's real and loves us in spite of what I see happen in His name, and I know He will bring justice one day, but it sure is hard to wait for it sometimes.
Because we know and love our pastors for their humanity, not in spite of it, for their expansive pastoral hearts that make room for all of us, because of the way they show up for us.
To believe that, in spite of this evil, life remains fundamentally good prevents us from being preoccupied with evil and from growing resentful and envious, but it does not hinder recognition of evil for what it is.
As Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.»
I vote NO to the mosque... not now, not ever... They already have enough churches in NYC... This is being done for spite, plain and simple... get over it and go somewhere else... I hear the middle of Harlem is in need of a few places to pray
We are reminded that it was in Gethsemane that he discovered — in spite of his prayers — that, for him, survival would not be the issue.
St. Augustine, writing in the fifth century, confesses the ugliness of his life not to normalize it but rather to show that, in spite of our ugliness, there is hope for redemption.
This is not an easy question to answer because it is not clear (in spite of Neville's contrary assertion) that we really can conceive of alternative sets of a priori truths and because it is not clear how any evidence could be adduced to show that any such truths report what is the case and not just what our nature determines must seem to be the case for us.
For some reason, in spite of the fact that science has repeatedly demonstrated not just the theoretical, but the actual basis for virgin birth, many people seem to deride For some reason, in spite of the fact that science has repeatedly demonstrated not just the theoretical, but the actual basis for virgin birth, many people seem to deride for virgin birth, many people seem to deride it.
Thus, there are purposes which have being in spite of the fact that they are not given in experience — and since God has a datum self, or a shining present, as well as an illuminating absent (e.g., God's past), then one may assume that there are purposes which are not given to God (ours for example).
Thus, in spite of the centrality Western culture gives to «being intimate,» the Wynnes view intimacy as a supplementary, not an essential, process «for strengthening the bonding that has been crucial for the survival of the human species throughout the ages.»
(I say this in spite of the monistic utterances of many mind - cure writers; for these utterances are really inconsistent with their attitude towards disease, and can easily be shown not to be logically involved in the experiences of union with a higher Presence with which they connect themselves.
Man is a creature who has some hope already built into him, so that he often keeps on hoping in spite of himself, and for reasons he knows not why.
But to call the album autobiographical misses the point that Stevens himself lays out in Pitchfork's review: «It's something that was necessary for me to do in the wake of my mother's death — to pursue a sense of peace and serenity in spite of suffering... This is not my art project; this is my life.»
Nevertheless, in spite of the great advances made by workers and in spite of having seen that socialism can not offer them a worker's utopia or even an alternative to working for someone else, we must take note that there are still a couple of very troubling aspects to the division between owners and workers.
Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.
They did not want to separate from the Anglican Church, for in spite of all its corruption they thought it a true Christian Church.
The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.
So he is offended by it, or rather from it he takes occasion to be offended at the whole of existence, in spite of it he would be himself, not despitefully be himself without it (for that is to abstract from it, and that he can not do, or that would be a movement in the direction of resignation); no, in spite of or in defiance of the whole of existence he wills to be himself with it, to take it along, almost defying his torment.
I'm in the process of a business start - up after doing the same thing over and over again for a boss that wasn't grateful and was successful in spite of himself.
In spite of this conviction on the part of his disciples that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, this does not seem to me the most suitable identification for him.
God forgives the sinner not in the sense that the sinner's past is changed, not in the sense that the consequences of his sin (to himself and others including God) are obliterated and past evils are no longer evils, but in the sense that possibilities for good are ever present in spite of the evils.
I said that Christians do not love all living creatures for Christ's sake; but if they think he died for all human beings, and wanted all human beings to share God's life through him, then we must either want to advance his purpose or want to frustrate it; we must either love our fellow men for his sake or hate them to spite him.
Christians are just hostile towards it because, for whatever reason, they've been brainwashed into believing their religion is the right one in spite of «knowing» all the rest are hooie, and don't like their fable being lumped into the same catagory.
But all these verses are confirming that I need to leave in peace, but I have grown to love them in spite of the slander, but Im not sure if going back would be wise for me.
In spite of its extensive support for the World War I effort, the Century did not exhibit an uncritical jingoism.
If in spite of all evil the grace of God is present with power in history, why can we not believe that the long trend of history is toward the achievement of that perfected life which is the earthly counterpart of the Kingdom of God for whose coming we pray?
In spite of much that still needs to be done, we had better rejoice and be thankful, not only for more comfortable living with the vast range of things technology has produced, but for more recognition of race and sex equality and advances toward implementation of these principles; better education; better health; minimum wage, unemployment and social security provisions; and a large network of social agencies that we sometimes fume at as being bureaucratic and expensive but which few of us would want to see abolished.
Yet I think that in spite of the knowledge that Mr. Carson displays to illustrate his point, he has misled his readers in the long run by suggesting that there is a clear scientific basis for believing that we can not affect climate....
Harper's Weekly commented in 1902: «The actual building of roads devoted to motor cars is not for the near future, in spite of many rumors to that effect.»
The following verse from the Qur» an is good evidence of the comprehensive nature of the Islamic rules of conduct, «It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the Prophets; and giveth his wealth, in spite of his love for it, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor - due.
But this they do not have — God, who Himself comes to us and shows Himself to us as God - man, longs for fellowship with us, and that He — in spite of all — is not ashamed of us, but loves us and desires to bring us to glory.
In spite of the attempt of national leaders and the mass media to interpret the incident as a malicious terrorist act of disgruntled and frustrated people full of evil intensions, for many North Americans it was difficult, if not impossible, to accept it as non-religious.
For in spite of the fact that they did not even get time to sleep over their resolution, aesthetics treats them nevertheless as if they had courageously fought for their resolution during many yeaFor in spite of the fact that they did not even get time to sleep over their resolution, aesthetics treats them nevertheless as if they had courageously fought for their resolution during many yeafor their resolution during many years.
I for my part have devoted a good deal of time to the understanding of the Hegelian philosophy, I believe also that I understand it tolerably well, but when in spite of the trouble I have taken there are certain passages I can not understand, I am foolhardy enough to think that he himself has not been quite clear.
In spite of the environmental concern of many scientific authors who follow either a hard or soft naturalism, their theoretical (if not practical) acquiescence in the essentially hopeless view of a universe can not inspire the trust in life needed for lasting ethical aspiration.
Can not Israel, in spite of its own observance of the Jewish No, view Christianity as the praeparatio messianica of the nations, and thus recognize in it the way which its own hope for the messiah is taken to the nations?
I don't vote for someone out of spite for the left.
But isn't this fact in itself a reflection of the fact that process theism has made relatively little progress in the church as a whole, in spite of having been the leading theological option in most nonconservative seminaries for a number of years?
This is my accusation against the churches of the West» our revolution did not come about with their help, but in spite of their unwillingness to fight for the truth.»
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