Sentences with phrase «of full conviction»

But the current wave of anti-religionism seems to me a little like an «anti-starbucks» protest saying «NO to coffee» with the tone of full conviction.

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People of peace, we use our military power sparingly; but when we do so we do so with full conviction, gathering our forces as men and women who believe that the freedoms we enjoy can not be taken from us.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

President Donald Trump issued a full pardon to I. Lewis «Scooter» Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Richard Cheney, on Friday afternoon for convictions related to a 2007 trial and conviction.

Imagine going to work each day, full of purpose and conviction.

A full «conviction of sin» (esse: essence, being) comes by, I can only say, immaculate conception & amazing grace: a feeling I could never construct out of my own imagination or experience.

To this day (as well as when I wrote this post) I can in good conscience and with full conviction sign a doctrinal statement like that of DTS or GES or most any decent Bible church.

Even then, according to Paul (Gal 2:11 - 13), he did not quite have the full courage of his convictions, for after eating with Gentiles at Antioch he separated himself from them when some conservative brethren came from Jerusalem.

(a) A person who pulls you (or pushes you) out of the way of the train (possibly inadvertently causing you to skin your need or even break your arm if you fell)-- but ultimately saving your life — knowing full well you might get angry at them because you didn't understand why they just pushed you and caused you to break your arm; or (b) A person who lets you walk in front of the train because he or she believes wholeheartedly with great conviction that doing anything else would be interfering with your free will to walk where you want to walk and forcing their thoughts and wishes on you

One of the reasons I left and (so far) have not gone back into full - time pastoral ministry, is because of a conviction I have that I can not get paid to be a pastor.

The idea of living in Christendom in many Western countries led to the conviction that it was a matter of nations in which church and society lived in full symbiosis.

Thus in the approach to church design and decoration taken by Stroik and those who share his convictions, the full richness of Catholic theology, not a spare modernism, informs the architect's vision — and the Church's worship.

Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full - fledged Deist if we accept that philosophy as having had two fundamental tenets: a rejection of biblical revelation and a conviction that God, having created the laws of the universe, had receded from day - to - day control....

In Silence, the now 74 - year - old director again asks viewers to witness characters full of conviction, but also full of betrayal and tragic suffering.

W.B. Yeats» words, then, comes true again in our day: «the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.»

Nevertheless, the view makes mockery of the Christian conviction of the full humanity of Jesus and it runs counter to the picture of Jesus provided us by New Testament scholarship.

We need a global culture of truth, in which conviction and loyalty have scope for their full expression.

It is my conviction that the commonly accepted interpretations of the event called revelation do not enable us to release the full powers of intelligence in service of our devotion.

To adapt a much - quoted line of poetry, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate sincerity.

Using the term avatar of Jesus may be helpful for some Hindus, for others it may suggest that Jesus is just one more intermediary whereas the Christian conviction is that in Jesus they have seen «the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.»

For if our faith in the resurrection has any vitality or validity, it is nothing less than the conviction that there is even now present and knowable within the Christian fellowship through «the Holy Spirit, which is given unto us,» the full concrete personal meaning of «Jesus Christ and him crucified.»

... this movement to procure civil rights is distinctly a religious movement, rooted in the conviction that God has «made of one blood all the nations of mankind» and it is His will that all should stand erect in their full manhood.

(See, for example, George Schlesinger's provocative book New Perspectives on Old - Time Religion [Oxford University Press, 1988], William Charlton's Philosophy and Christian Belief [Sheed & Ward, 1988], and Diogenes Allen's Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction [Westminster / John Knox, 1989].)

Moral indifference can be excused neither by apathy («The best lack all conviction... the worst / Are full of passionate intensity») nor by wallowing in uncertainty.

Things fall apart; the centre can not hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood - dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

The fact that Jesus is on the side of women should be our source of encouragement and empowerment as we continue to serve God and strive for a full and equal ministry.81 Nothing, perhaps, was more shocking for his contemporaries than the freedom with which he associated himself with women, considering the inferior position of women in Jewish society.82 According to R. L. Hnuni, «male dominated cultural and traditional values and injunctions may put boundaries and debar them from full ministry, but this should not discourage women's conviction and commitment to full ministry.

Such are the questions and issues raised by feminist theology in a global perspective, proceeding from the conviction that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, and that all persons are created in the image of God and therefore have a right to develop their full potentials of personhood.

verbally cushioned in every way he could imagine, fell far short of the full wealth of biblical conviction.

Dr. Mohler: «Osteen's statements, verbally cushioned in every way he could imagine, fell far short of the full wealth of biblical conviction.

It is obvious by this point that my own convictions favor the full Christian acceptance of homosexuality and its responsible genital expression.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

But, so far as I can see, the only claims that Paul makes about any distinctiveness or originality concern (1) his conviction that he was specially called by God to conduct a mission to gentiles, and (2) his view of the terms on which gentiles were to be received as full co-religionists with Jewish believers (baptism / faith in Jesus without taking on Jewish observance of Torah).

Milton, who appears to have had full conviction of the truth of Christianity, and to have regarded the Holy Scriptures with the profoundest veneration, to have been untainted by an heretical peculiarity of opinion [Johnson of course wrote this before Milton's heretical manu scripts were discovered], and to have lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence, yet grew old without any visible worship.

But unfortunately that technical, rational approach simply hasn't worked: while many logistic problems of one kind or another on the nation's campuses have been solved, both faculty and students continue to operate in that spiritual climate where, as Yeats prophetically put it, «The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.»

Bonhoeffer's conviction that the world has moved out of its adolescence and reached an adult phase implied a new interpretation of the intellectual history of the West since the thirteenth century, and demanded a full, ungrudging, affirmative attitude to the secularizing process which began at that time.

Ambrose states his conviction as to the prophetic function of the bishop very well in a letter to Theodosius: «There is nothing in a priest so full of peril as regards God, or so base in the opinion of men, as not freely to declare what he thinks.»

A finish full of conviction.

Palisi, Tiffany LOVING MAMA: Essays on Natural Parenting and Motherhood Hats Off Books, 2004 A lovely collection of heart - warming essays full of conviction for a better way to parent, Loving Mama is written by contemporary mothers who have discovered attachment parenting: what it means, the rewards, and how it works for their families.

«The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity — W.B. Yeats, «The Second Coming»

Trying to explain the result he added: «I think the reason is best expressed in poetry: «The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.»

What a brilliant speaker, full of passion and conviction.

George Osborne skipped up onto the stage at the Policy Centre full of the joys of a man who can say what he likes about «effective economic policy» without having to prove the courage of his convictions.

Not to be outdone, Kerr too will offer $ 500 for the arrest and conviction of the sign thief, but said she has full confidence in the police's ability to capture the roadside robber.

Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Long Island Democrat, penned a NYT OpEd on how to save Albany, saying the convictions of Silver and Skelos demonstrate the need for a full - time Legislature and a ban on «slush funds.»

«The Commission is of the firm conviction backed by the law that the candidates seeking the highest office of the land must take full responsibility of ensuring that their nomination forms meet the stand in form and substance required by law,» the EC said further in its statement.

«The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.»

The district attorney's office has a wrongful conviction unit working on botched cases, but Adams said that apart from individual cases there hasn't been a full accounting of what went wrong and who was responsible.

The conviction — on some, but not all, of the eight counts he was charged with — gives others in the sector even more reason to declare at full volume that Shkreli is not one of them, «and allows them to distance themselves from his predatory practices,» said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor who is head of the white collar defense practice at McCarter & English, which represents branded pharmaceutical companies in a number of practice areas.

As Marius, Eddie Redmayne's high, quivering voice has imperfections, but it's full of character and conviction.

The film is full of artists who seem to be straddling the line between compromise and conviction.