Sentences with phrase «of such guilt»

With a wave of his hand, Bayard absolves us of such guilt.

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Evidence of lack of business integrity (such as indictments, pleas of guilt in legal cases, convictions for violations of legal behavior, adverse civil judgements, or out - of - court settlements).

As such, we are often strongly encouraged (read guilted) into speaking of our faith with people, friends and strangers alike, as often as possible.

Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme through the work of all six of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs» of English Catholicism such as «aestheticism, a love of ritual, ceremony, tradition, the appeal of authority, a romantic triumphalism, the lure of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»

Concepts such as «state» and «society» and «government» have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self - responsible individuals, just as blame, guilt, responsibility etc. are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else.

Most struggle immensely for years with the guilt of such a slander, to literally be told their entire lives that what they are by no choice of their own, is reprehensible to God and the world.

13 How effective AA will be in non-Western cultures (with different attitudes toward guilt, pleasure, and the goals of life, for example) and what modifications will eventually occur in the AA program in such cultures has yet to be determined.

A religion responds to basic human anxieties, such as feelings of guilt.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

From vindictiveness to magnanimity; from tribalism to universality, from the regret of penalized men over broken taboos to the penitence of humble men over personal guilt; from supplications for physical benefits to prayer as the fulfilling of interior conditions of spiritual growth; from the desire to impose man's will on a god to the desire that God's will should be done through man — such are the developments revealed in the recorded prayers of the Bible.

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,

She needs to be cleansed of the guilt and shame and humiliation and deep filthiness created by such an invasion of her body.

Such short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the person do things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety — things such as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so ofSuch short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the person do things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety — things such as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so ofsuch as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so often.

I know I have put myself back into that cell of guilt, and this paragraph is such an inspiration for me to get out.

Too many justify their own guilt in such activities by outing a few that are ashamed of violating their aspired standards.

Suppose a parishioner is unmarried and yet has been involved in affairs, perhaps even deeply enmeshed and burned by relationships of intimacy, and is struggling with the guilt that so often comes from such entanglements.

As a religious leader, the minister counselor can use the healing symbols of Christianity by which such guilt can be transformed.

There has been a strong feeling throughout the Islamic world that it is western guilt over the Nazi Holocaust that has caused the West to give such uncritical support to Israel and to be blind to the plight of the Palestinians.

But in his book he goes on to find «spiritual truths» and «myriad spiritual and religious lessons» in Shakespeare, under such headings as «Action» the fruit of spirituality,» «Friendships make life worth living,» «Guilt: Just say No,» «Drunkenness leads to stumbling,» «Pride comes before a fall,» and the like.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

Emotional abuse --- religious concepts such as sin, hell, cause feelings of guilt, shame, fear, and other types of emotional «baggage» which can scar the psyche for life.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

Such attempts to absolve ourselves from guilt in the murder of others have been around since the very beginning.

Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

Here is a man who has vilely wronged his family in such a way that he can never be found out; yet he brings the family to the minister's confessional and there pours out the story of his guilt.

In this way the stories of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel, even if such people never existed, illustrate the human experiences of failure, guilt, broken relationships and conflict.

A common denominator of Christian response» if there can be such a thing» is that guilt for Jesus» death is the burden of all sinners, but not of one person or group, especially when Jesus said, «No one takes my life; I lay it down myself» (John 10:18).

Out of a sense of duty, guilt, or habit, persons continue in such groups, cluttering their schedules with a plethora of meetings.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

Such an assurance should help alleviate some of the Western guilt complex about missions.

Such a case amounts to the same thing as the question whether a Catholic of the kind we need to postulate in this instance, namely a man with a scientific, philosophical and theological formation, could, without guilt, come to the subjectively honest conviction that he can no longer honestly and in conscience believe and affirm the Church's authority.

Such a strange feeling of guilt stayed with me because I loved all of these things and didn't really intend on giving up, but I also wanted to do right by God so I could know I was born again.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

But does acceptance in psychological terms require such a personal acknowledgment of guilt before God, or even guilt in relation to other persons?

Twenty centuries witness to the effectiveness of such worship in changing men's lives for the better, in bringing release from guilt and freedom from fear, in giving direction and purpose to their striving, and in lifting them out of neurotic self - concern into healthful and creative relationships to their fellows.

Such a sermon may be a disguised way of spanking people for their guilts, fears, inferiority feelings, and so forth, in the name of helping them.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family» experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.

Others, often victims of battering or marital rape, tell of partners insisting on trying some practice discovered in porn wares (10 per cent of such victims in one study) These women report suicide attempts, nightmares, fears, anxieties, shame and guilt — reactions which resemble rape trauma syndrome.

Also, knowing that the dynamics within the parsonage family can spill over into the church, creates pressure — and can foster a sense of guilt — when such spillover takes place.

Another person can be aware of such contradictions and realize that his actions are not in harmony with his profession; this person can acknowledge and confess his guilt and accept forgiveness when caught in circumstances beyond his control.

Thus the religious dimension of such experiences as guilt and anxiety, love and hate, faith and fear, hope and despair, autonomy or control, insight or defensiveness — to mention only a few — receive attention.

Such a submission to guilt is at bottom a submission to pain, or, rather, an attempt to lower the consciousness of pain by shrinking and confining the energy of life.

I believe it «clears our conscience «when we recognize the enormous love of God for us sinners (to the extent that He willingly and unconditionally gave His life for us) that such a love melts and influences our heart, making disappear our internal sense of guilt.

In many cases it [impeachment] will connect itself with the pre-existing factions... and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

Such expectations seem counterproductive, resulting in behavior and relationships eroded by self - doubt, guilt, frustration and a sense of futility.

Several other groups, such as Women Exploited by Abortion and American Victims of Abortion, support women who years after having an abortion are confronting loss and guilt.

Many in the church curia have almost totally surrendered to such ways of death, perhaps from a sense of guilt over the past treatment of females or from a real sense of justice, but often without thought or theological understanding of the consequences.

There, understanding God was often identified with a «personal knowledge» of God that came, not so much through any particular affection such as love, but rather through the very intensity of one's emotions, intensity so great that in the surge of emotion distinctions between love, fear, guilt and joy blurred entirely.