Sentences with phrase «of thoughtful persons»

These questions will increasingly emerge, I believe, in the minds of thoughtful persons in the coming decades and will define the existential situation to which the Christian message must be addressed.

From my undergraduate days at Cornel University one of my deepest impressions is the inscription over the entrance to the main hall of the College of Arts and Sciences, «Above all nations is humanity» To this conviction which an increasing number of thoughtful people now accept must be added another, «Above all humanity is God.»

In my own ministry I have talked with a number of thoughtful people — mainly young people — who accept belief in God as giving meaning and joy and hope to this life but reject, or are at best highly doubtful about, any concept of personal resurrection or immortality.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

Margaret Meade once said that «a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.»

Margaret Mead said «A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

As the quote from the American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said «A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

And such a comparison, in the hands of a thoughtful person like Rosenbaum, may be enlightening, just as a comparison of the rise of environmentalism with the rise of other eccentric political movements appealing to people's anxieties and seeking scapegoats to blame may be enlightening.

And many of the thoughtful people I know are producing some great stuff on the web.

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This frees me up to think and focus on the tasks that I know will take up most of my time, like building a team of amazing people who are smart, thoughtful and motivated to achieve something.

Research shows that arriving on time, doing thorough work, and being thoughtful toward your colleagues helps people regardless of their job function or workplace situation.

It's abundantly clear that, as the speed of our days increases, we're losing the one - on - one time necessary to connect with the people in our lives and in our companies whose thoughtful input we need to make smart decisions and right choices for the future.

Like any thoughtful person, Saul Griffith has ideas as he walks around: Hey, wouldn't it be cool if... You know, we sure could use... Why doesn't someone make a better... But it's hard to imagine anyone who does this as often, and in such a variety of areas, and — this is the important part — with such acute ability to execute them.

When you build thoughtful experiences, not only will you pave the way for your customers to trial your product, but you give them a glimpse of what it's like to be the person they aspire to be.

«If you're thoughtful, you'll immediately rise above 95 percent of the others asking for this person's time.»

The company was launched in San Francisco at Y Combinator in 2013 to improve the experience of flower delivery and «make it easier for people to be more thoughtful.»

PostWisely strives to make people more mindful of how sharing online effects those around them and encourages more thoughtful, positive exchanges by asking one simple question: «If it were your pain, would you share it?»

It's International Women's Day today, which means across the world concerned, thoughtful people will be discussing how to best close the gender gap that keeps the proportion of women in leadership positions so frustratingly small.

«If he's an arrogant windbag, then my self - image as a modest and thoughtful person is reaffirmed, while my terror of self - promotion or provoking conflict can safely be tucked away into a corner labeled «bad» and «not me.»»

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

C.D. Howe means exposure to first class critical analysis; participation in the development thoughtful public policy; and enjoying the company of dynamic people engaged in the broader community.

As a result of that phenomenon, people prefer alternatives such as Litecoin than those that require more thoughtful research.

Phil Griffin has said that he wants MSNBC to be seen as the home of «thoughtful people who can talk about ideas»; his challenge up to now has been to figure out how thoughtfulness can make itself manifest on TV news.

As with any employee advocacy software, when you turn on a tool, a lot of people use it at first, but then quickly fall out of the program, unless the organization implements thoughtful reinforcement that creates clear benefits to the employees.

Academic moral theory, like preaching, «stiffens the backbone» of one's coreligionists (or co «ideologues) by «convincing people who think like you that they are not alone in their beliefs [and] have the backing of someone who is confident, competent, articulate, and thoughtful.»

I have heard deeply thoughtful religious leaders acknowledge that they came late to an appreciation of the pandemic, that preconceptions influenced their initial reactions, that some leaders have taken harsh stances (for example, refusing to bury people whose families acknowledge that they died of AIDS), and that their focus on ideal behaviors can obscure what is real and live.

One of my family members is also one of the best people I know, thoughtful, considerate, caring, loving, and an Atheist.

They fail to distinguish two types of religious persons who may be part of this group: the first, who depend completely upon the literal interpretation of Scripture and tradition by an authoritarian pastor, and second, those who undertake rescue activity as the command of God, based upon a thoughtful and self - ratified interpretation of the ethical imperatives of the gospel.

The answer is, that without a grasp of the history of the Christian church, no thoughtful person can hope to understand the spiritual, moral» even the geopolitical» world in which he lives.

A bright, thoughtful, articulate, theologically alert person who is an ideal candidate for a, teaching position will often prefer to work in the upper judicatory levels of the church or for a council of churches.

These were of course poor precedents, since no clear - headed person had ever argued that women should not be ordained because being a woman was a sin, while many thoughtful people had noticed that the shift toward increasing tolerance of divorce had been at best sloppy and at worst downright unfaithful.

Keller seems to assume that thoughtful questioning among young people are typically the result of sexual activity and their desire to justify it.

He is an influential and thoughtful person, and his way of thinking about religion and public life holds broad sway among our cultural elites.

At a moment's notice he could flick through the cards and brief himself on the little personal facts of a family or person, the remembering of which made a call seem so personal and thoughtful.

In today's divided moral landscape, with thoughtful, well - meaning people on both sides of every issue, there's no better way to show that you're a serious thinker than by acknowledging that every controversial issue is «complex.»

But the whole area of reasonable approach for thoughtful, searching people lies in between these two extremes.

Two sentences in the discussion of reason in the earlier version of the report could be taken to support the use of such analysis: «By reason we relate our witness to the full range of human knowledge and experience,» and «By our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith we seek to grasp and express the gospel in a way that will commend itself to thoughtful persons who are seeking to know and follow God's ways.»

However, something troubled the dean, even more than financial corruption: At Harvard we had lots of good and thoughtful young people.

The creators of soul [food] made a pocket - sized card that informs people how to receive thoughtful but light - touch messages to their phone on the theme of the service they attended.

This provided Chad (and now his readers) with the opportunity for thoughtful introspection regarding the emotional hold that sports can have on our lives and the tension this can create for people of faith.

To call for religious warfare, as some of them do, is to recall the religious wars of earlier centuries that unraveled civil society and led thoughtful people to the conclusion that religion in public is inescapably divisive and destructive.

What more can be asked than careful consideration of a thoughtful and intelligent person's point of view?

Its author has received countless «heartfelt, thoughtful communications from people identifying their version of the problem.»

The point I wanted to make is that God invites His people to study His Word in depth, to use the minds that He gave us and renewed, to gradually discover the deep levels of His progressive revelation, and to compare the internal consistency of His message to claims from other religions which invariably crumble upon thoughtful analysis.

For most thoughtful people throughout history, the most important function of thinking has been to deal with the inclusive questions of meaning and being in the world.

This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!

Yes, some people pray incoherently out of habit or because they are not being thoughtful, but sometimes the prayers you criticise result from spiritual emotion and depth of experience of God - especially (I think) speaking in tongues.

The demands constantly being made upon us in business and family life, the world scene, and the precarious state in which we all dwell compel thoughtful people to consider the nature and destiny of man.

Many of these centers still flourish and help to provide meaning and guidance to thoughtful people.

These are not the problems that occur to thoughtful people, even intellectuals, generally, as they contemplate both the public issues of the day and how to order their own lives in relation to the increasingly confusing world.