If you falter and miss a day, let go
of the self judgment and punishment.
Not exact matches
This
self - directed enquiry — accompanied by deep, calming breaths — can help shift your mind out
of frustration and
judgment and into a more contemplative, investigative state.
Our sense
of our own
self - worth and our own
self - confidence is derived from
judgments about our peer group.
The very fact that you're a leader means that you're at risk
of distorted
judgment, even as a well - informed,
self - aware person.
What is really at stake is a fair
judgment on modernity, an assessment, a fine discrimination
of both its nobility and ethical allure, on the one hand, and its
self - destructiveness, and
self - flattening and demeaning tendencies, on the other.
It is significant, I think, that Hegel characterizes Kant's «notion
of synthetic a priori
judgments» as the «notion
of something differentiated which equally is inseparable,
of an identity which is in its own
self an inseparable difference» (SL 209).
Those are spread in every nation and religion pretending what they are not but work out towards the same one agenda
of the cused ones
of the Sabbath who consider them
selves above all as being the chosen ones and have rejected all the laws and
judgments of God Allah that came to them and nations after them and went on making their own laws and
judgments for a cause
of having all nations reaching the lawest levels
of humanity among them
selves...?
What is false in the
self - image, that is, what does not accord with our knowledge or sense
of reality, what is intolerably beyond our power to sustain, what has been created in order to protect us from hurts, and what reflects our genuine
self — all this can in a measure be brought into the light
of a new
judgment.
He does indeed teach the rigorous requirement for purity
of motive; but there is forgiveness for those who sin in this area as in any other, and his severest
judgments are reserved for the proud, the exploiters, and the
self - righteous.
Rahner looks at various aspects
of freedom: historical, paradoxical, the role
of grace,
self - realization, capacity for love, moral
judgment and freedom in relation to Christ.
In addition to connoting a measure
of independent
judgment or decision as well as flexibility, it means, in this context, freedom to have relations, freedom to avail one's
self of the grace and power which relationships can bestow.
He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (
self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act
of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the
judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death»
of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth
of Isaac and endured the banishment
of Ishmael.
We should then remind the activists that, while their work may be a parable
of God's kingdom, as Luther said, this kingdom does not depend on their efforts, which are always enfeebled by a
self - love that elicits God's
judgment.
In his confession, as in Dunham's, there is no
judgment and no redemption — only an exploration
of his inner
self, and exposure
of his outer
self, in an attempt to see and justify what he «truly» was prior to the corruptions visited on him by society.
... While the Principle
of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's
judgment on the sin
of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression
of the
self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).
The reenactment
of the Eucharist would reclaim the sorry past, but in mercy rather than vengeance; transform the future without deforming the present; and extend charity outward to the needy, the stranger and the enemy, while it presses
judgment and mercy inward to that dark comer where
self - pity and malice fester.
On the other hand, the chief problem with the view
of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual
self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any
of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral
judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.
In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological
judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is
self - critical in the modern sense
of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing
of.
Luther's theology seeks to stay close to the perspective
of the
self addressed by God's words
of judgment and promise; Aquinas» theology seeks to view all things as much as possible from the viewpoint
of God's all - encompassing wisdom, in which the human mind is allowed to participate.
Words
of judgment do not necessarily achieve
self - disclosure for those who will not see.
In summary, Koko's creative use
of language in humor, formation
of new words, modulation
of signs, understanding
of metaphor, and
self - directed signing provide evidence
of both conscious perception and intuitive
judgments.
The imperative (or invitation)
of responsibility is precisely the call to the
self (whether divinely or autonomously generated) to commit the persona to the search for specific rules and
judgments; it has no behavioral content
of its own.
But unfortunately new really is anything from that politician
self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul and forward where we see division,
judgment, disenfranchisement, and all the weird stuff that the Catholics, evangelicals, bible thumpers, etc. start to corrupt the simple lessons
of Jesus, regardless
of how important a person you see him as.
There is the tendency
of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and
self - righteous
judgment according to a moral standard which we assume puts us in a good light and others in a bad.
Jesus's point was not to reject all
judgment but rather to caution against
judgment that (1) lacks
self - introspection, (2) majors in minors, and (3) rejoices in the damnation
of offenders instead
of seeking recovery
of the lost.
Yet the
judgment against
self - centeredness and the awareness
of self - transcendence did not lessen the power
of self - centeredness.
He needs to see the significance
of self - involving language as he makes
judgments about God, the world, and other people, as he acts in various ways as a Christian in society, and as he expresses his commitment in word and action.
For if my ethical response to the sorrows
of another precedes my exercise
of judgment, I respond in the same way to all ostensible sorrows, whether authentic or not,
self - indulgent or not,
self - caused or not.
Yet both sin and
judgment are stark realities, and the most pervasive type
of sin lies in the complacency, lethargy, and moral dullness
of self - love at those points where both knowledge and freedom are available.
Individualism, remember, is, according to Tocqueville, a kind
of heart disease, an emotional withdrawal into the confines
of one's own puny
self based on the mistaken
judgment that both love and hate are more trouble than they're worth.
Can we not say, then, that the
judgment to which testimony makes an appeal is identical to the
judgment by which
self - consciousness, by being laid bare, sifts the predicates
of the divine?
Niebuhr said that moral pride «is revealed in all «
self - righteous»
judgments in which the other is condemned because he fails to conform to the highly arbitrary standards
of the
self.
The correlation
of judgment with
judgment,
of criteriology with trial, only expresses, in judicial terms, the relation
of two acts: the act
of a
self - consciousness which divests (se depouille) itself and tries to understand itself, the act
of testifying by which the absolute is revealed in its signs and its works.
This approach demands that the church make a twofold honest analysis: (1) The church must help people make a
self - analysis through the preaching
of judgment.
(1) When the transcendent
self makes a choice it requires and demands a transcendent norm above itself: this norm is God.27 (2) The image -
of - God doctrine implies that man has a capacity for religious
judgments, an ability to judge false gods.
The story
of crucifixion and resurrection,
judgment and redemption, furnishes the horizon for an ethic
of confident responsibility rather than defensive,
self - maintenance and survival.
The explanation I proposed was this: when we appropriate the
judgment of God we have to take up the cross for ourselves and affirm the divine
judgment in
self -
judgment.
Tentativeness, suspended
judgment,
self - criticism, and tolerance
of divergent ideas are among the desirable attitudes.
As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position
of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos
of culture, or on our
judgments, or on the fleeting whims
of self - definition.
A church which knows that it is not
self - sufficient nor secure in righteousness but dependent on God for
judgment and renewal as well as for life will expect him to use as instruments
of his
judgment the opponents and critics
of Christianity.
It is no coincidence that the near unanimous
judgment of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world in which individual human
self - identity is missing.
An individual can profit greatly by the criticism
of his fellows yet he will realize that they are judging him by standards which are neither his own nor God's, that he is both a worse and a better man than their
judgments indicate, and that the greatest service they can render him is to call him back to his own best
self.
It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter
of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion
of judgment based on an exercise
of free will, completely disregarding any notion
of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection
of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations
of a Nuremberg defense by placing their
self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.
There are many other ways in which this kind
of judgment of self, with the resulting conviction
of sin, unhealth, may come home to us.
Even the humbling
of sinners by the revelation
of God's
judgment and wrath against sin has as its purpose the religious awakening
of sinners that they might be drawn toward the
self - giving goodness
of God revealed in Jesus Christ.
When we recognize the
self - giving love
of Christ we accept his
judgment against our lovelessness.
Anyway, I would listen to what he has to say because if the world needs something to lean on at least he gets that requires a behavior
of compassion and not
judgment, intolerance, and
self righteousness.
For the text to be taken as testimony, as relevatory,
judgment must be made about objective characteristics, above all what Ricoeur calls in Interpretation Theory its «
self reference,» its claims to represent an «I» or a «we» engaged in a certain past «event
of discourse.
Sexual
self - consciousness was still a thing
of the future; likewise, all matters
of moral
judgment.
The correctness or incorrectness
of a
judgment is
self - referential; there is a coherence within the judging subject if that subject correctly judges the truth or falsity
of a proposition.