Sentences with phrase «obey the authorities of»

The authenticity of the legislation of the schools of thought is assured by the Qur» an, for it says that the affairs of the people are matters of counsel and it orders that the people should obey the authority of those who are responsible for the common good and are known for sound interpretation.

Id al - Adha, also called Id al - Qurban, the festival at the end of the pilgrimage, is the Great Festival at which Muslims from all over the world gather at the mosques to worship and then kill animals to memorialize the story of Abraham and Ishimael and their willingness to obey the authority of God.

Obeying the Authority of Scripture: Both individually and corporately Trinity Western wholeheartedly embraces all the Bible teaches in regard to faith, ethical commitments, and way of life, believing it to be the ultimate standard of truth and hope.

Not exact matches

Hidden under the idea that we should choose to ignore some portions of the Constitution, is the other idea that there should be an informal Higher Constitutional Moral Authority that will tell the rest of us when we should ignore and when we should obey this or that provision of the Constitution.

However, I would obey secular authorities or work rules which prohibit propagation of my beliefs at the work place and use appropriate times to discuss it.

The higher post-constitutional authority would be an amorphous group whose members would include the New York Tim es Editorial Board, The primetime hosts of MSNBC and whatever list of academics the Democratic party could scrape together to sign petitions in favor of why we should contemptuously ignore / slavishly obey constitutional provision X.

Only when we love the authority of this Other, this real person who comes to us from outside ourselves, will we find ourselves glad to obey his commandments.

The Caliphate or Imamate in Islam is not based on a heavenly sanction which gives the Caliph power from God to rule the nation; he has no divine authority which makes it the duty of the people to obey him at any cost.

«He is an authority who, before giving us something to obey, gives us something to think about... Man wants to be enlightened in his intelligence and this is the great debt of gratitude we owe the Pope.»

Certainly, a public opinion in and of the Church must remain within the framework of the one compulsory profession of faith and also of a general readiness to obey the authorities.

Such beliefs entail the choice of whose voice is to be hearkened - which authority to obey.

Thus, encyclicals of the era urged Catholics to obey legitimate authority, beginning with the pope's own temporal authority in the Papal States.

The eroding of the parents» authority and the repudiation of the children's obligation to obey has seriously contributed to the disintegration of the family and has undermined the education of the young in crucial respects.

The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation for the right kind of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.

The young should be taught to obey the rules established by persons in authority and to have a respectful regard for the principles of conscience that those rules are meant to embody.

Pursued with the right kind of arguments and with sufficient vigor, an escape from the «exemptions ghetto» can bring us out into an open field of religious freedom in full — and of moral freedom in full for all, thanks to the indispensable leadership role of religious conscience, and the recognition of the duty of men and women to obey God before any authority of the state.

Philadelphia minister David Jones finessed the apostles» admonition to submit to authority into commands to obey «the just, the good, the wholesome and constitutional laws of the land,» not tyrants.

One - vignette: a dying cancer patient, a man in his forties, demanded to be placed on his feet (he was in great pain) and was obeyed because of his moral authority.

The Prophet draws this triple authority from the Qur» an itself, for it commands us to obey the Messenger's orders (Surah IV, 59; XXIV, 56), tells us that he who obeys the Prophet obeys the very commandments of God (Surah IV, 80), and recommends that we follow his example (Surah XXXIII, 21).

First of all it should be noted that one should never harm the consciences of children in going against Church teaching merely to obey the law: «Our fathers chained in prisons dark were still in heart and conscience free» and better to be thus than to be applauded by the Local Authority advisers and teach what is wrong.

If we step out of the glorious sunshine of the post-Vatican II church and into the dark ages that preceded it, we find some highly relevant advice coming down from heaven by someone who knows our situation exactly and whose authority is to be respected and obeyed absolutely.

Some may balk at the taking of these liberties; but the issue is one both of accuracy and of justice, and «we must obey God rather than any human authority» (RSV: «men» — Acts 5:29)

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your spiritual leaders and submit to them [continually recognizing their authority over you], for they are constantly keeping watch over your souls and guarding your spiritual welfare, as men who will have to render an account [of their trust].

Flow will we, privileged with this knowledge, answer the question the disciples verbalize when they have experienced Jesus» authority over the forces of chaos in the stilling of the storm, «Who then is this for even the wind and the sea obey him?»

Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one who worships God.»

If then this issue has been settled by these Doctors of Law or experts in this way, and we certainly are in those situations in which one may resist the governing authority... we are unable to oppose... if in this instance it is necessary to fight back, even if the Emperor himself attacks, or whoever else may do so in his name... That until now we have taught absolutely not to resist the governing authority was due to the fact that we did not know that the governing authority's law itself grants the right to do so; we have of course always diligently taught that this law must be obeyed.

When it comes to the things of God it is His authority that we must obey and didn't He place a female shepherd over His people?

«One of the great consolations of the monastic life,» says a Jesuit authority, «is the assurance we have that in obeying we can commit no fault.

When the Declaration later proclaimed that the church must always hear and obey her Lord over against all other authorities, it did so in the light of the scriptures and the communal memory of the church, which gives concrete embodiment to her worship.

We should vote and then obey the laws of the land, and pray for those in authority.

A person obeys the moral authority of his peers because he shares their standards, values, and goals, and the dedication to truth that is implied in the operation of science.

Just as Daedalus refused to obey the tyrannical King Minos and secured freedom for himself and his son, so our hero, the prominent atheist A. C. Grayling, has refused to obey false authority and freed himself and his readers from the tyranny of religion.

The Council said expressly that it and other general councils drew their authority directly from Christ and that all, including the Pope, were «bound to obey» them «in all those things which pertain to the faith» to the healing of schism, and to the general reformation of the Church.»

Such people had to obey the Curial authority, acting on behalf of the Pope, or indeed the Pope himself.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

In July, Luther wrote a pamphlet defending himself, An Open Letter on the Harsh Pamphlet, spelling out with clarity and aggressive emphasis that there was no way of avoiding one's obligation to obey established civil authority.

`... that all authority in the last analysis rests on opinion is never more forcefully demonstrated then when, suddenly and unexpectedly, a universal refusal to obey initiates what then turns into a revolution... Unlike human reason, human power is not only «timid and cautious when left alone», it is simply non-existent unless it can rely on others; and the most powerful king and the least scrupulous of all tyrants are helpless if no one obeys them, that is supports them through obedience; for, in politics, obedience and support are the same».

This particular child who came along later in our family was extremely willful and rebellious toward our authority and would often require sessions of correction lasting from one to two hours in length before the will would finally be broken... Even though you may think these methods of correction that God has ordered parents to carry out are bestial, abusive, and unloving, you are the one who is bestial, abusive, and unloving if you don't obey God in this matter.

An overwhelming majority of Tory members (84 %) believe that schools should teach children to obey authority, compared with 31 % of Labour members and 38 % of SNP and Lib Dem members.

In Section 287 (1)(2)(3) of the 1999 Constitution, the decisions of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Federal High Courts, High Courts of State and FCT and other subordinate courts, shall be obeyed and enforced in any part of Nigeria by all authorities and persons including President Buhari and his AGF.

«In my own view, this plot is an act of desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted authorities,» the Senate President told Senators.

The Senate President has also charged the IG of «blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a Police State where top officials can not be made to obey the law, follow due process and subject themselves to constituted authorities.»

The study depicted in Experimenter (Grade: B --RRB- is just as controversial but less theatrical: A decade before Stanford started and aborted its own little autopsy of human behavior, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard, eventually rocking some unflattering facial hair) tested people's willingness to obey authority by instructing volunteers to administer electric shocks to strangers in another room.

Despite pleadings from the person they were shocking, 65 percent of subjects obeyed commands from a lab - coated authority figure to deliver potentially fatal currents.

In Compliance, director Craig Zobel shows the dangers of always following the rulebook and the extent to which some will go to obey authority, even if said authority is merely a voice zapped in from a telephone wire.

While sometimes willful and defiant and sometimes passive to the point of self - extinction (Socrates did not protest his punishment), the heroes of civil disobedience believed in the need to obey a higher authority and to be cleansed of self - interestedness.

This forces Texas pet owners to obey the current law or risk denial of services and / or possible seizure of their pet by animal control authorities.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court, by a 6 - 3 ruling in Medellin v. Texas, held that the President does not have the authority to order states to relax their criminal procedures to obey a ruling of the International Court of Justice.

Truck drivers must not only follow rules of the road but also obey special rules developed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Texas regulatory authorities.

However, the rule of law doctrine means authorities may only act within the law and must obey the law.