Sentences with phrase «not upbuilding»
«60 He makes clear that its ultimate function is not upbuilding for its own sake.
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The author of upbuilding discourses does not exhort, does not pass judgment.
First, it is to fail to see that the creatures, including you and me and whatever else is not God, have their own degree of freedom and their own capacity for choices that may be good or bad, upbuilding or destructive.
«I have felt that Vanderbilt University was Methodist, not in the sense that Methodists made it, but in the sense that it was a great trust committed to the Methodist Church to be carried out, not for selfish ends, but for the good of society and the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom.»
This is not to say that sin and penitence are the only notes that need to be sounded; there is need of a positive upbuilding of personality.
Concern for fairness and for upbuilding community is not viewed as rational within the system.
Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.
And although it's not a color I wear regularly, when I do wear it I always get a sense of happiness and lightheartedness, it's such an upbuilding color.