Sentences with phrase «on that confidence thing»

I hate to show my arms, I'm still working on that confidence thing.

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On the other hand, those who used their own names demonstrated more confidence, telling themselves things like, «You can do it, John.»

One more thing a good business plan does for a startup, it helps to increase confidence of the other stakeholders — whether that be conventional banks or private capital, or even key executives you want to early bring on board.

«As of now, the impact is on confidence, and uncertainty is never a good thing for the economy.»

«From a public policy standpoint, it's probably a better thing for confidence to go down, especially among individuals who really are not on track.

I guess I've always had a confidence in God and faith; you know, it's almost like God saying, «Just hold on Andy; wait until we see what happens,» and the things we've been praying for, obviously, God's answering those prayers... the licensing thing on the album with it coming out on the final Matrix trailer and things like that.

Other news: The stock market is way up, based on confidence that debt limit thing will be resolved.

Paul wrote to existing churches and to pastors on a variety of different topics, and one does not present an air of confidence if one is telling a lie when he knows very well that there are witnesses who saw the same things that he saw, and could call him out should he tell a lie.

If we define faith as «confidence» or «conviction» based on the evidence presented, and once we recognize that there is no such thing as «degrees of faith,» then this leads to the truth that faith is not a work.

To expand on this a bit, we could say that faith substantiates, or sees as reality, that which we previously only hoped to be true; it is the evidence, conviction, or confidence in things we can not see.

If you rely on mechanical things that have a track record of performance, you have neither faith nor trust, you have confidence.

Prominent Vatican reporter John Allen has published a piece in the National Catholic Reporter following the papal visit to Cuba entitled «Benedict XVI and the Lament of the Hawks,» about a supposed lack of conservative confidence in Benedict, which cites my recent piece for First Things, «Has the Church Gone Soft on Communism?»

Or if you were witness to that lovable young man's beautiful enthusiasm when he read and heard of the great men who fought with a heavy destiny and suffered badly in the world, the glorious ones whom earth renounced because it was not worthy of them, would you dare, when no clamor caused your speech to wander but when the stillness of intimacy, of the lovable one's confidence, the in experience of the young man, all obliged you to tell the truth; at such a time would you dare lay your hand on your heart and say, «Such things no longer happen.

The Mormon oppressors on Sunday are teaching things like confidence, the importance of education, and the pernicious lesson that families should look out for each other.

In a phone interview from his boat, he said he wrote the book to «to encourage people that have wandered away or lost the confidence in the things that have been on their heart for years.»

We sense in all of this the dawn of a new dispensation, a fresh, if sometimes uneven, point of departure for the apostolic heritage, a galvanizing hope, born of proven confidence that we can move beyond Day One of the missionary landing to enter new fields and spheres with our hearts and minds fixed on the right things.

On the face of it, belief in God includes two things, belief that God exists, and trust or confidence in him.

@ monoya: Definition of BELIEF 1: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing 2: something believed; especially: a tenet or body of tenets held by a group 3: conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence Atheism easily fits within these parameters.

He does not have much confidence in the United Nations, in the politicians who run the government, or even in military force, though he does not see what else to depend on if things get worse.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

You may call this a rather chastened optimism; I know of no other which is truly Christian, for the confidence of the Christian man is not set on the evolution of a perfect society, here in our secular world, but «on things above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.»

Like so many aspects of my spirituality, I am still a bit in - between, figuring out what I reclaim and what I relinquish, living with a few unanswered questions while relying heavily on the few things I do know — and almost all of those can be summed up in my complete and utter confidence in Love.

We die to self when we at last realise that in us is no good thing and we are totally incapable of living the resurrected life by self effort then and only then will we give up and surrender as a failure to Christ then in us the hope of glory in our hearts rises and we find we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we rely totally on Him putting no confidence in our flesh.

And so instead of theology being a set of - conceptual accommodations [to special interests] it looked to me as if theology should have a disciplining effect on the individual... to make belief in God, judgments and confidence in one's own self plausible through old - fashioned things like repentance, faith, hope, love.

Do you practice medicine with confidence born from evidence that what you are doing actually works, or do you not trust the science behind these things and rely on your faith?

As a Christian he also recalls that again and again in the Scriptures, in one form of words or another, confidence is expressed that it is God's purpose to sum up all things in Christ, both in heaven and on earth.

The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.

The ability to employ this sort of metaphor, however, seems to rest on a confidence that things really are associated, that the center holds, that the web is not broken — that, in other words, the universe is in some sense sacramental, that God is somehow the true and original father, that all things are connected among themselves because they are connected in God.

After last year's Valentine's cake disaster, there were some things at stake: my pride, my confidence in my ability to carry on my family's decades old tradition, my craving for this almond cake which had only grown stronger after having to practically miss out on it last year.

When I first got into making things from scratch, I needed that reassurance, but now I have the confidence to go on my own.

«I have deep confidence that this [deal] is the best thing for the Australian dairy industry to coagulate our dairy exports over one efficient supply chain to capitalise on the rise and rise of Asian demand,» he said.

And her final bit on confidence really got me thinking about how I want to spend my time (spoiler alert: working hard at the things I want to feel confident in).

We need to in all honesty, especially when Arsene Wenger and the lads turn up to Stamford Bridge on the first weekend in February, so to hear the increasingly confident noises coming from the Emirates can only be a good thing and one of our players with more reason than most to be full of confidence at the minute is Olivier Giroud.

On his debut he was drifting into the harmless areas but that might have been a confidence thing.

Heel - chops and first - time dinking the keeper isn't exactly the sort of things players low on confidence attempt!

For me though, the biggest thing about this match was that the manager was able to rest his key players like Alexis Sanchez and Ozil and pretty much all of the starting line - up that will take on Sunderland in the Premier League on Saturday and Arsenal still got the confidence boosting victory to set us back on track.

I think wenger is doing the right thing by starting him again, it will boost his confidence and he would see it that such mistakes wasn't repeated again thereby putting his best for the team, depending on the outcome of the game, I think at second half Le coq needs to come on.

The continual experiment of Cazorla on the left side of the pitch most be stopped, play him behind the striker and let him do his thing, he should have been building his confidence back while Ozil was out in that position, if you (wenger) wants jack to play so much, let him play behind giroud and bench cazorla, but this experiment must stop allow, Campbell, ox or Gnabry to show themselves in that position, even RYO and COQ would do a much better job on the left side of the park.

Chinese businessman Li Yonghong has been forced to shuffle certain things around within the set - up of investors, but it's expected to go ahead and be completed on April 14 as the Rossoneri can arguably now move forward with a bit more confidence and reassurance.

Or don't you believe confidence is a good thing to have when one is on the field?

Yet If Arsenal want the best out of him then Wenger must show serious trust in his abilities even after Xhaka's return because part of Elneny's slight turbulence in form this season has been due to the addition of Xhaka who's presence seriously affected Elneny's moral and those who deep into things would've noticed the difference between last years Elneny (prior to Xhaka's acquisition) and this year's Elneny with majority of games Elneny coming off the bench yet the very last few games he started before the AFCON have boosted his confidence back and that very much reflected on his last performances before leaving to an extent that surprised quite a few!!

The Frenchman said, «At the moment I believe that, with the confidence we have built up at Everton, the most important thing is just to focus on the process of doing our job and see what happens.

«The coach encourages me a lot, he is teaching me some things, and I try to show my skills on the pitch, as well as the confidence he has in me.»

I refuse to listen to Michael Owen on nearly all things but when he talks about strikers, their confidence and the psychology of missing chances he is worth listening to.

In fact the Gunners have lost their last 3 games on their travels, to Swansea, Bournemouth and Tottenham and there is a total lack of confidence in the side, especially away from the Emirates, but Arsene Wenger is hoping that his side can change things against lowly Brighton although the Seagulls are unbeaten in their last six matches.

«When my English got better, I got better on the pitch too, because when you are playing one of the most important things is confidence.

Obviously our main worry will be that Joel Campbell has one of his confidence - full games again and gets into he think of things, but my main source of tension will be how The Ox gets on.

Alexis doesn't seem to be nervous about many things when it comes to taking on the opposition, with the player's confidence always high, so why can't he take a decent penalty?

At least it's only a good thing that Wilshere and the rest of the team feel some confidence to push on and hopefully they can show us a reason to build our confidence up, with or without new signings.