Sentences with phrase «on precepts»

Couples Enrichment Weekends based on these precepts are scheduled throughout the year.

These parents sincerely believe that they have an obligation to pass on the precepts of the Catholic religion to their children and that ERC Program prevents that.

Teachers who internalize and practice feedback based on these precepts will be well on their way to teaching that improves learning.

My work as the Director of African Centre for Community and Development is founded on precepts and duties to man and community that happen to be the very basis of my organization in the first place.

We are a nurturing program that stands on the precepts set forth in the Bible.

If it was not Jesus of Nazareth who taught these teachings and through his life and death gave impetus to this movement, if it was not this Jesus of Nazareth who was revered by the early Church as it passed on his precepts — within the lifespan of those who knew him — then who was it?

On this account, natural law is derivative from the right of nature, in the sense that the former consists in general precepts with which reason counsels the pursuit of self - preservation, and the social contract is based solely on those precepts.

most people can be taught methodically, based on precept upon precept and step by step approach.

We had been brought up on the precept Bleibe im Lande und nähre dich redlich: «Stay in the land and make an honest living.»

Not exact matches

To get everyone on the same page, Georgiadis has written a new code of shared values (the initials of the six precepts spell out «WONDER») and instituted monthly Google - style «town halls.»

Those of us who hang out a fair bit on blogs and online will be familiar with many of David's precepts, from his long, detailed and popular answers on the topic on Quora.

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

zealous belief in ANYTHING (or in the absense of an anything) is not good, intelligent people make good choices based on the information available and realize that everything is not perfect no matter what precept you prescribe to.

The priests have to do their work on the Sabbath, proving that some aspects of the Sabbath restrictions are not inviolable moral absolutes, but rather precepts pertaining to the ceremonial features of the law.

Since I categorically reject the notions of the LDS, I can not tolerate the notion of my President relying on those teachings and precepts to govern.

and the Gospel precept, «Love your enemies `, (Matthew v. 44) is the measure of the way we have to travel, following the movement of the biblical history, (We may note one particular milestone on the way.

This may be another example of where a story is really not a precept because in other places Solomon advocates some strict thoughts on fidelity.

But there is no doubting the popularity and fruits of the charismatic influence, with many of its adherents being instinctively on the side of orthodox belief and moral precepts.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

To insist a little on this Conclusion being the product of all the former the truthe hereof will appeare both by precept and patterne i. John.

Church laws on the plane of positive human law very definitely stand in closer or remoter relation to the precepts of divine law.

That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said on the question of mutability or immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..

The biggest problem with religion is that it causes some people to believe they have a right or duty to impose the precepts of their religion on others.

Since it is the faith that marks us as Christians, the life self - consciously lived in love of God and neighbor according to Jesus» precepts, then we can disagree on doctrines and still share this faith.

The Gospel precepts, on the whole, differ from those in the Epistles in making no attempt to accommodate Christian obligation to the practical possibilities of the human situation.

In continuing his pursuit of the truth, which carries with it a precise method of making the distinction between the definitely true and the possibly false, he employs the triage of his second precept of Discourse on Method: «The second, to divide each of the difficulties that I would examine as individual parcels, as much as it would be possible and required for a better resolution» (18).

Now, in the absence in the Qur» an of any further elaboration on these subjects, any clear details as to how these duties are to be performed, it is obvious that through these references the Qur» an establishes the authority of the Sunnah, and grants to it the right to elaborate and define the general precepts of the Qur» an.

«Anonymous has now decided to lay siege to your site in response to the doctrines, liturgies and the precepts, absurd and anachronistic, that your organization, (which) is for profit, propagates and spreads worldwide,» a statement in Italian on the blog «ufficiale di Anonymous Italia» read.

[15] Focusing on the cup, Cyprian writes that he has been constrained to address this issue because of the «ignorance or naïveté» of some people, who in consecrating the Lord's cup and in its administration «do not follow the precepts and practices of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, the Author and Teacher of this sacrifice» (1.1).

They often likely have a wanton, intentional disregard for the precepts taught in the Sermon on the Mount.

It would be nice to just «live and let live» — except the xtians keep trying force their holy text precepts on the rest of us via legislation.

By living according to the precepts of Islam they counter white America's stereotype of black men as on drugs, out of work or in jail.

On this view, a rule is only as good as the number of people who keep it, and hypocrisy (espousing a precept while flouting it oneself) is ridiculous and morally bankrupt.

When Christ utters the precepts: «Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you,» he gives for a reason: «That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.»

To impose on scripture a quality it doesn't claim for itself is disrespectful to the text (and to God), and constitutes an elevating of the «traditions of men» above the precepts of God.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

Mesmerized by current trends, Porter turns patronizing when the Scholastics seem to her to get something like the subordination of women within marriage wrong, noting that they «did not have the kind of historical / critical perspective on Scripture that would have enabled them to relativize these precepts.»

Our intention here is not to settle this controversy on the meaning and function of specific moral precepts as between a Catholic universal ethics based on essential natures and a situation ethics given a Protestant interpretation.

There are still some good Catholics who become scrupulous about having missed Mass when there was a reasonable excusing cause, such as illness, lengthy travel or the care of the sick, but far more common is the lack of any sense that there is a grave obligation to assist at Mass on days of precept and that it is a sin to miss Mass without a good reason.

On the lowest level are tactical precepts such as occupying the centre squares, avoiding loss of material through forks and pins, protecting the king — precepts which every duffer can master, but which the master is free to overrule by shifting his attention to the next higher levels of strategy, where material may be sacrificed and the king exposed in an apparently crazy move which, however, is more promising from the viewpoint of the game as a whole.

Mesopotamia also produced extensive works of precepts, useful maxims, taunts and speculations particularly on the humancondition.

(b) Notes of the May meeting made well after it by Bishop Fliss, of the diocese of Superior, state that the CDF «was not encouraging us to proceed with any formal dismissal on the basis of 24 yrs of apparent good conduct and the precept impeding exercise of orders currently in effect».

But Helen was far more than that; she was a great wit and an indomitable debater on any subject other than religion or politics — although we never had a real bridge argument, not because she followed my precepts but because she usually turned out to be right.

The organizations» precepts are based on the World Health Organization / UNICEF precepts for encouraging breastfeeding in developing countries.

Contrary to their claims, these precepts are potentially unhealthy for the child, and leave parents focused on the clock, the rules, and the book, rather than on what their individual baby needs in order to grow and develop physically and emotionally.

Its absolutely true that identifying our people and then giving them something worth doing is a fundamental precept of organizing (even if you are just trying to pass a bill and not getting a candidate elected), and we often fail on the identification front.

England's cohort of newly elected mayors are divided over whether to add an extra precept on to residents» council tax bills to help fund their functions.

Police Authorities were corporate bodies, which raised revenue to fund the operation of their police forces by levying a precept on Council Tax Collection Authorities - District Councils and Unitary Authorities - which was added to local people's Council Tax bills.

They called on Boris to go further and cut the Council Tax precept by 3.5 %.