Sentences with phrase «not zealous»

At minimum, Canadian lawyer's advocacy should only be resolute, not zealous.

«You're not doing the job for your client if you're not zealous to a fault, but you're not an effective advocate for them if you go before the judge and jury and get in trouble because you're not forthcoming enough about discovery,» says Duffy.

In case you are not a zealous supporter of modest clothing, a mini skirt will be right for you.

I was not zealous enough for inclusion.»

Perhaps your church is not a zealous as my old one was.

Unlike Wright, who designed clothes for his first wife that would complement his décor, Lautner wasn't zealous about furnishings.

Not exact matches

Shareholders have a right to good governance, and that right doesn't depend on concerete outcomes, any more than a client's right to zealous legal representation does.

Kucinski, who has not been available for comment since December, hinted then that the company had paid a high price for its zealous devotion to customer service.

Here is an excerpt: «The NDP in 1991 was not in a good position given the depth of the recession underway, the implacable anti-inflationary obsession of the central bank then still under the leadership of the zealous zero inflation policies of John Crow and the implacable opposition of the financial press.

I love how these zealous Christians act like being gay is a «choice» because «god wouldn't make mistakes.»

zealous belief in ANYTHING (or in the absense of an anything) is not good, intelligent people make good choices based on the information available and realize that everything is not perfect no matter what precept you prescribe to.

You are right, Calvinists do have tremendous flaws in their theology but then so do we all and I have found through the years that it does not help to point out peoples flaws or errors as some are just downright unteachable and others are extremely zealous for what they know.

It's refreshing to be reminded that not everyone who met the zealous young advocate for life in community and the Sermon on the Mount was equally impressed — Hardy Arnold, son of the founder of the pacifist Bruderhof near Frankfurt, thought Bonhoeffer a bit of a dandy and a romantic when Bonhoeffer visited there in 1934.

In short, the real problem is not that Ward was too «zealous» but that his theology was corrupt.

Now he returns, not with all the disciples this time, but only the insider troika of Peter and brothers James and John, the zealous sons of Zebedee, or «Sons of Thunder,» as Jesus called them.

If Elisha did not receive him when it was a question of performing a miracle of healing for him (although he did perform it), he did receive him when the basic problem was at issue And this, too, should be enlightening to us Christians who are so zealous for action and so scornful of what is only a matter of conversion and the inner life.

Is it not that he sees Titus endowed with too meek a spirit, and Timothy with a little too zealous one?

As we converse on a gray afternoon in my campus study, I learn that she will not read or even open mail from her parents because they can not bring themselves to address her as «Lord Zealous.»

I am not a Lord Zealous for utopianism.

Luke 14:26, a passage tempered a bit in Matthew 10:37 («He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me»), had been a forbidding problem for almost 2,000 years before the master of Lord Zealous called her to follow.

Yet Zealous's master did not invent the impulse to do missionary work, to engage in converting efforts.

Though I don't want to let go of any insights from the social sciences, all this «nothing but» leaves me a bit edgy, and Lord Zealous has seized on my restlessness: There is a hint of a taunt behind her slightly glazed smile as she keeps reminding me that my community is devoted to scholarship; the history of religion.

If then such a zealous learner, though not carrying things so far as to become a disciple, were to discourse loudly and volubly of how much he owed the Teacher, so that his eulogy was almost endless and its gilding priceless; if he were to resent our explanation that the Teacher had been merely an occasion, neither his eulogy nor his resentment could further our inquiry, since both had the same ground, namely, that though lacking in the courage to understand he had nevertheless not lacked the audacity to go beyond.

Isn't a bit just as zealous as a creationist that tells you creationism is fact, to force an absolutely unproven theory, with zero physical evidence as scientific fact, rather than a wild theory that many scientist desperately hold onto?

He states that he advanced beyond his contemporaries and was zealous for his father's traditions (1.14), thus describing his experience of Judaism in human, not divine terms.

One was a zealous Jew whose fidelity to the God of his ancestors made him a murderer and blinded him to the possibility that God's coming might not be as he anticipated.

Christianity, especially amongst the very zealous, has a tendency to do that, intentionally or not.

His overt racism and hatred to all those not equally zealous and blinded by Religion is amazingly obvious and should be a wake - up call to moderates in the religious rank and file.

Despite our ignorance of much that we might like to know and with an honest recognition that we do not and can not «have all the answers to all the questions,» we yet have enough to impel us to be responsible and zealous in thought and word and deed.

I am glad to find some among the faith who are not so zealous they forget the message of peace Jesus preached.

Have we not all encountered that overly zealous moral crusader who pounces on the sins of others (particularly their sexual or financial ones) only to be exposed as a perpetrator of the very same sins?

The God who has created it all will come again to set things right, to judge in righteousness and truth, and even our most zealous hopes will not have been in vain.

You appear to be zealous for God, but your zeal is not based on knowledge.

«And while we won't deny absolution to anyone that a good and zealous probabilist would absolve, we'll be far better able to help and guide those thirsting for something more.»

It is of course somewhat petty to care overly much about captious atheists at such a time, but it is difficult not to be annoyed when a zealous skeptic, eager to be the first to deliver God His long overdue coup de grâce, begins confidently to speak as if believers have never until this moment considered the problem of evil or confronted despair or suffering or death.

Referring to its founder in his penultimate book, John Paul II noted: «In October 2002 I had the joy of canonizing Josemaria Escriva Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, a zealous priest, and an apostle to the laity in modern times» (Pope John Paul II, Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, 117)-- not the words a Roman Pontiff would use to describe the founder of a «Catholic sect».

I can't get over zealous with the vegetables for the toddler but I can make these recipes below to taste and they make for a quick little lunch.

Don't slit it as deep as I did though, I got a little over zealous.

Gibson had played for the Trotters during one minor league off - season, but the team's clowning — and patsy opponents — didn't wear well on a man so zealous about winning.

A bit over zealous with «deprived him of his goal» re Aubameyang; he didn't actually score you know, and honestly, everything but his feet were beyond Vertonghen.

Not sure I understand... I wasn't making a reference to Christ, I was equating zealous lactivists to obnoxious people of any faith who stand on the street corner and shout that all non believers are going to hell if they don't start believing as they do.

It seems quite clear to me that it isn't the health benefits that are making them so zealous.

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.

Zealous promotion of breastfeeding is not the answer Most mothers know from their own, and their mothers» and grandmothers» experience, that breastfeeding gives the best start in life.

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The Obama campaign was no exception, but to a great extent, it didn't NEED the political blogs — because it was building its own independent base of zealous supporters.

Everything from her public denunciations of Clinton to her lobbying to lead the CFBP to her eventual Senate run was motivated by a zealous attachment to the cause that has preoccupied her since childhood, not necessarily an interest in holding office.

The point she was seeking to convey to the more ideologically zealous among them was that the Conservative Party could only hope to govern again if it remained in touch with mainstream society and was not seen to pursue the exclusive, narrow - minded agenda of a select few.

As a practical matter, the more zealous anti-Paretes, who number only about half the 13 - member Democratic majority, do not at present have enough votes, absent the Paretes and their solid (for now) Republican majority, to elect one of their own.

But according to George Loh in the case of Stephen Adei, he will not be surprised if MPs zealous and jealous guardians of their reputation drag the popular MP to Parliament.