Sentences with phrase «of obedience to»

As a case in point, they draw attention to the concept of filial piety in East Asian samples, which is somewhat consistent with the notion of familism but reflects a connection to family that is born out of obedience to authority within the family rather than perceptions of reciprocal support and warmth.

Peter Sarsgaard plays Stanley Milgram, who conducted a series of controversial experiments in the early»60s, including one that tested just how far ordinary people were willing to go for the sake of obedience to authority.

Whereas children in religious households learn to act out of obedience to a watchful higher power, children raised in secular homes could be taught to follow moral rules just because it's «the right thing to do,» he says.

Ishola who quoted various portions of the Qur» an and Hadith to justify his position, said hijab was a commandment from Allah and thus wearing it was an act of obedience to His commands.

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to emulate the culture of obedience to court's order exhibited by the Senate's compliance with the court judgment on Senator Omo Agege.

On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word.

The unity of the Church from Her very beginning has been a unity of faith, not of obedience to a Supreme Pontiff.

So, no, I'm hardly afraid of being outnumbered and run out of a God - fearing, bible - believing church by a huge crowd insisting they impose their concepts of Godliness and (lack of, or edited versions) of obedience to His commands.

Despite his own reluctance, he goes to his execution out of obedience to God — «not my will but thy will be done» — and does not lift a finger to oppose it.

Because of their obedience to God?

It is interesting that Libby Purves» autobiography, «Holy Smoke», somewhat implausibly linked her own personal lack of obedience to Humanae Vitae with theplight of Irish women with drunken husbands.

In composing one of his preparatory texts for his forthcoming debate in Leipzig (his Resolution on the Thirteenth Proposition), Dr Luther was forced to thrash out what the Church must be if it can not be defined in terms simply of obedience to Rome, to Canon Law, to Pope and bishops as infallible interpreters of the gospel.

These limits are morally binding not because they are tests of obedience to a dictatorial God or because they are encoded in our bodies, but because they convey truths about global flourishing.

It's in these mundane moments of obedience to «just be and love» that I am used of God to make an impact on those around me.

We are a Christian people, according to one another the equal right of religious freedom, and acknowledging with reverence the duty of obedience to the will of God.

A century later the Deuteronomic scholars, living under the impact of prophets like Hosea, set love at the center of all that should mark the life of obedience to which YHWH called Israel.

Bonhoeffer compares the monk's vow of obedience to his abbot to one's service obligation to one's brother.

It was the way of obedience to the Law.

the value of a person is judged solely by the standard of obedience to the will of God and not by that of the distinction of sexes.

Used to give it not out of that tenuous verse in Malachi but out of the obedience to authority in Hebrews 13 I think it was.

The Christians» God is encountered in the active business of caring and concern, in the practical working out of obedience to God's kingdom, with its immense social and individual implications, and in worship and prayer.

This act of obedience to God by an obscure man was one of the most important events in the religious history of the human race.

This does not mean that the Christian serves others for the sake of obedience to an abstract principle which he names «Christ.»

True faith will result in a life of obedience to God.

Our esteem for Jesus» life of obedience to the Father and our desire to be «just like Jesus» does battle with the deep - seated notion that it is impossible to be like him.

Man's power is nature's power released to him in consequence of his obedience to truth.

Vow of obedience to God.

Nuns took a vow of obedience to serve a church doing the work of God, so to speak.

Reception involves an active assent that signifies an independent judgment of the recipient and is not simply an act of obedience to a higher authority.

Even before we were married, my wife and I have been faithfully bringing the tithe — out of obedience to God, not on the orders of a pastor (and I served as a youth or children's pastor for 18 years).

Ancient Israel always understood her success in terms of her obedience to God, and her failures in terms of a widespread lack of cooperation with him.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to Law.

Because of their obedience to God, because they have sown in tears and joy, I am reaping that harvest of love and faithfulness, of a good marriage, of faith, of questioning, and of knowing even seemingly mundane things like how to breastfeed and fight fair.

It is her confession of obedience to the God who both gives and demands all.

Sölle too speaks of a promise along with a demand, but she makes clear that the realization of the promise is a function of obedience to the command.

Jesus told his followers to pay their taxes and the early Church was urged to be obedient to their governments as part of their obedience to God.

This freedom through learning is a consequence of obedience to truth.

Of course, he would deny, rationalize and justify any challenge to what the community has become: «The world is incapable of understanding the beauty of our obedience to God and His unfolding revelation of how our community should be governed.»

The effective motive of obedience to such a command was the desire to be righteous rather than the concern for the other as another.

But this constant and emphatic dwelling on the inward disposition rather than the overt act might well excite the suspicion of those who insisted on the deed as the sole visible test of obedience to the Law of God.

Such love is the first evidence of obedience to the Gospel, the necessary expression of our submission to Christ's Lordship, and a potent engine of world mission.»

If a sinner, then, relies on his actings of faith or works of obedience to any of the commands of the law for a title to eternal life, he seeks to be justified by works of the law as much as if his works were perfect.

The pledge of allegiance was created by a socialist named Francis Bellamy who came up with it in order to instill in his own words «the virtue of obedience to the state» into impressionable children.

Not having our love, by way of obedience to Him forms the problem (John 14:15; 1John 5:3).

In the one case it is the principle that, in each of a series of succeeding ages, God has tested his people in terms of their obedience to a particular form of his revelation; in the other, it is the proposition that God's salvation is divinely initiated and established, that it is the same salvation throughout the Bible, and that it is the notion of covenant which articulates this.

The place to start, the thing to focus on, is to become a life long student of the Word of God, and developing a habit of obedience to it.

The image of the cross remains central, but gets defined more as an act of mercy done for the sake of the oppressed than as an act of obedience to God's will.

Maciel, with the spirit of obedience to the Church that has always characterized him, has accepted this communiqué with faith, complete serenity, and tranquility of conscience, knowing that it is a new cross that God, the Father of Mercy, has allowed him to suffer and that will obtain many graces for the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement.

The letters of Paul as well as the Gospel records show that the Christian community from the beginning made ethical decisions within the community and in relation to buying and selling in the market, and the problem of obedience to the state.

That's like going to a parade for Queen Elizabeth as your primary means of obedience to her.