Sentences with phrase «of fear of punishment»

Psychopathy is generally associated with a lack of a fear of punishment.

It also encourages them to behave not out of fear of punishment, but out of a desire to feel good.

When parents follow our approach, their children make smarter choices, not out of fear of punishment, but because they are less stressed, more connected, and attuned.

When parents follow our approach, their children make smarter choices, not out of fear of punishment, but because they are less stressed, more connected, and attuned.

Instead of responding out of fear of punishment, they cooperate because they feel it's right.

If it starts to measure its food waste, its staff may not track it accurately out of fear of punishment from managers.

God does not want people to worship him out of fear of punishment.

The tradition of clergy confidentiality has allowed some people to seek help who otherwise might not do so out of fear of punishment or embarrassment.

It willed the Good for the sake of reward, out of fear of punishment, or as a form of self - assertion.

@Carlos, do you think Christians believe out of fear of punishment?

living according to a moral code because of the fear of punishment (i.e. going to hell, getting caught by police, etc) is not truly moral

I'm motivated to do good because I want to do good, not out of fear of punishment or a selfish hope for reward.

No, I don't do those things because of the fear of punishment personally, but also agree with laws against those things because it hurts the society in which i belong, and would to not have those things happen to me.

So you're saying the only reason you don't steal and murder is because of a fear of punishment by your sky spirit?

Now punishment does exist, and so he performs the Good out of fear of punishment.

He desires it only out of fear of punishment.

Next, it must be said that the man who only wills the Good out of fear of punishment does not will one thing.

On the other hand, all double - mindedness that wills the Good only out of fear of punishment can always be known in the end, because it considers punishment as an illness.

Do you do good only out of fear of punishment, so that you scowl, even when you will the Good, so that in your dreams at night, you wish away the punishment and to that extent also the Good, and in your dreams by day imagine that one can with a slavish mind serve the Good?

It might seem that the one who wills the Good out of fear of punishment can not be said to have used the medicine, and therefore can not be said to have used it wrongly.

Human beings are to be obedient to God's laws at least partly out of fear of punishment if they are not.

Even if it happened to be a good man who in the agony of fear preserved a certain slavish blamelessness out of fear of punishment: still he is double - minded.

And it might seem that the person was not double - minded who wills the Good out of fear of that punishment, since he refers the punishment to eternity, therefore to the same place where the Good has its home.

However, a man does not in truth will the Good if he only wills it out of fear of punishment, and hence is only in a state of slavery to the Good.

So, too, with one who wishes to do good out of fear of punishment, if indeed it can be done in that fashion, if it is not as when the fear - ridden person turns his whole life into nothing but illness, out of fear of becoming ill.

Well, ignoring your childish ad hominem, why would you kowtow before a shallow, vain and unjust god if it were not out of fear of punishment or greed for the afterlife?

dar — i still think xtians live out of fear of punishment, not out of grace and love they have received.

The Bible, as well as «conventional wisdom», says that acting out of fear of punishment is the lowest form of righteousness, barely even qualifying as such.

Not exact matches

They believe that people need to fear layoffs, explosions of anger and punishment in order to operate at 100 %.

It's nothing but the supersti.tious scribblings of ancient men who used it to control others through the fear of punishment.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

Fear of punishment is not the way to God it is the result of rejecting God.

People who need fear of punishment and hope of reward to do the right thing are not good people — they are cowards.

«supersti.tious scribblings of ancient men who used it to control others through the fear of punishment.»

It's not even a fear of punishment in this life or the life to come.

If the morality is motivated merely by a fear of eternal punishment, which many religions are, then you are not truly moral - you are simply under duress.

Fear and awe of God differ radically from horror: We fear God's punishment and stand in awe of his presence, but we are horrified when we no longer believe that God will do justFear and awe of God differ radically from horror: We fear God's punishment and stand in awe of his presence, but we are horrified when we no longer believe that God will do justfear God's punishment and stand in awe of his presence, but we are horrified when we no longer believe that God will do justice.

Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.

Therefore your goodness is coming from the same place that it comes for all of us: fear of legal punishment.

Not because I'm trying to earn brownie points or for fear of punishment, but because overall, I want to be, and I AM a good person.

Faith (or belief without evidence) is more motivated by two basic human emotions: FEAR of dying and punishment and HOPE for an eternal afterlife.

When we know how much God loves us, this not only frees us from fear of punishment, but it also frees us from the desire to sin, because we know that God only wants what is best for us, and His instructions are not to destroy our joy or ruin our lives, but to increase our enjoyment of life, and help us live better, longer, healthier, happier lives.

We aren't told what Thompson believes now» and his art does not require us to place him in any doctrinal camp» but by the end of Habibi he seems to have least worked his way to a beautiful observation: «God's followers worship not out of the hope for reward nor fear of punishment but out of love.»

He loved men so much that, even knowing many would reject his offer, he freely provided the costly atonement for all sin, so that no man need fear punishment and death, but could repent of their wickedness and be restored to loving relationship with God.

If a person needs the fear of eternal punishment by a make believe god to deter them from killing, stealing or any other sort of malevolence, they are not decent human beings to begin with.

Forgiveness removes the weight of blame and punishment and fear from the sinner; while healing names those aspects and consequences of sin that take longer to repair, and names those dimensions of creation's fallenness that inhibit the well - being of the community of believers.

I can speak for myself and as a former believer understand why many will not speak for themselves — fear of an imaginary eternal punishment.

If we behaved for no other reason than fear of punishment by an invisible being, we'd be in bad shape.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

There's not only the fear of displeasing God, punishment, and Hell.