Sentences with phrase «only by a wish»

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

No one can achieve wellness only by wishing, making excuses or deeming themselves unworthy.

Not exact matches

One of the Germans «started off by saying that he thought it only right to come over and wish us a happy Christmas, and trusted us implicitly to keep the truce,» Hulse wrote.

«We can not have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.»

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He also said, «I only wish by the way that all components within the European system of central banks displayed the same degree of respect for the independence of the ECB as heads of governments do.»

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Some joke that straight razor shaving is an esoteric art practiced only by mentally unstable people with a death wish, and a new brand on the market expands on this idea.

On the contrary, the shame arises only when Adam and Eve violate the will written into their natures by their Creator, when they use each other to suit their own individual appetites, wishing to put self in the place of God.

As for the insults, you might wish to skip the hypocrisy when it is you who claimed that without religion there can be no morals, simply power - you insult many by making such a ludicrous claim and you fail to comprehend that there are only 2 billion Christians in this world... does that make the remaining 5 billion immoral?

If people wish to regard homosexuality as a freak of nature, and even if it is not the condition ordained by God when He said that it was not good for man that he should be alone, then we can only rejoice that God is, as ever, bringing good out of evil.

This wish has been shared for decades and given symbolical expression by an artistic avant - garde whose program logically admits only the alternative of negative signals and amorphous noise.

The Holy Council wishes indeed that at each Mass the faithful who are present should communicate, not only in spiritual desire, but sacramentally, by the actual reception of the Eucharist.

«In so far as one wishes to speak of a modification of faith before and after Easter, it can only be said that «once» became «once for all», the isolated encounter with Jesus limited by death became that presence of the exalted Lord such as the Fourth Gospel describes.»

He is only guided and advised by the messages of Allah and by the apostles but is still completely free to choose as he wishes.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to rest in anything, borne onwards at each moment by creatures and at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.

They have been led by experience to conclude that the only power in human life able to counterbalance the dark and divisive faiths of our time is a still stronger faith, a faith concerned with Reality rather than human wishes.

Berger wishes to speak of «a God who is not made by man, who is outside and not within ourselves,» but he limits his act of faith in such a God to projections outward from common human experience, i.e., to signals of transcendence70 The result is that Berger is left finally with his own experience alone, a consequence that weakens his understanding not only of Christian theology but ultimately of play as well.

I wish only to say here that I think neither is put beyond reasonable doubt by metaphysical necessity or empirical facts.

God «wishes to redeem us — but only by our own acceptance of His redemption with the turning of the whole being.»

Then he is committed, not in that commitment by which he is exempted from suffering, but in that by which he remains intimately bound to God, in which he wills only one thing: namely, to suffer all, to be and to remain loyally committed to the Good — under the pain of the wish.

Gandhi took himsa to mean not only the harming of living things but also «hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.»

We must replace the love of God by the love of man as the only true religion... the belief in God by the belief in man... My wish is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers... candidates for the hereafter into students of this world, Christians, who, by their own profession are half - animal, half - angel, into men, into whole men.13

And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large god, or is he a lesser god sent by his greater father god to suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).

Those of you who wish to participate in the experiment themselves — by conducting listen - only interviews, taking a day off from expressing opinions, reading books you don't expect to like, or watching either Fox News or MSNBC for a day — are welcome to send your stories to me through thecontact page.

Alas, it is only useless and unused when you will not let yourself be helped by it up to the highest — for perhaps you killed the wish and became spiritually like dead flesh that feels no pain, otherwise it is just at the point of the wish that the sufferer winces and that the Eternal comforts.

Do you do good only out of fear of punishment, so that you scowl, even when you will the Good, so that in your dreams at night, you wish away the punishment and to that extent also the Good, and in your dreams by day imagine that one can with a slavish mind serve the Good?

Pádraig continues: «It's so easy to get addicted to a cycle of only describing the present by how you think it should be, or shouldn't be, or where you should be going, or why you wish you weren't where you are.

By contrast, I wish to treat it now only as a standard or goal.

It is only by inserting a contingent statement — given the reality of oppression — that an unrestrictive theological statement — say, for example, that God is the subject of all change — can come to entail what I wish to call a «restrictive yet necessary statement» — that God is the God of the oppressed.

I'd suggest that anyone wishing to assess the validity of your claims need only ask himself or herself, «What is the credibility of the evidence presented by noahsdadtopher?

He made it as clear as this view can he made that by freedom he meant only doing what one wishes to do, even though these wishes were determined by events taking place before one existed.

The pure prophets are distinguished from the apocalyptic ones, as from the seers and diviners of other religions, by the fact that they did not wish to peep into an already certain and immutable future but were concerned only with the full grasping of the present, actual and potential.

I only wish at this point to serve notice that faith development theory as developed by Fowler does not describe what I find in the New Testament.

«This Bill not only provides support for victims, as evidenced by the creation of independent guardians for trafficked children and the statutory duty it places on the Department of Health to provide much needed assistance to women wishing to leave prostitution, it also tackles one of the root causes of trafficking, namely paying for sex.

Nothing more marginal skill coupled with idiotic conclusions first more people newflash have been mass murdered by his fellow athiests like Stalin Mao and Lenin... and if he thinks Hitler was christian he really is out of it... Hitler was a Christian in Youth then denied it... completely gee his athiesm helped Europe... he wished his minions to worship him only.

It appears for you that a question regarding the morality of an act can only be judged by whether it is in accordance with the wishes of the god.

But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way.

«The best view is by no means the closest view... we consciously stand back and create distance in order to look at the world, i.e., at objects as parts of the world: and also to be unembarrassed by the closeness of that which we wish only to see; to have the full liberty of our scanning attention.»

Our shared past can only be excavated by shared endeavor, by a painful and constant process of reeducation and rediscovery; in that process, we start from where we are, not where we wish we had stayed.

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

Obedience can be attained only by my confessing my wishes before God, recounting them to Him, as in prayer of petition — not indeed presenting them as a claim, but always accompanied by «Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.»

As for the money, I wish no special interest group could by favor with the government, but I only see that happening when I am asleep.

Griffin, of course, might wish to argue that FWTs must, or at least should, believe not only that all structural aspects of the world are somehow sanctioned by God as a means to produce moral and spiritual growth but that this is also true for each specific occurrence.

And yet it must be glorious to get the princess, that is what I say every instant, and the knight of resignation who does not say it is a deceiver, he has not had one only wish, and he has not kept the wish young by his pain.

I can not at this point enter into the discussion of types of Diaspora Judaism affected by contact with paganism; I wish only to record my conviction (1) that Paul's Judaism was not of the orthodox Palestinian type, which later became normal, and normative; and (2) that early Gentile Christianity, both before Paul and also outside the area of his influence, was far more substantial than the Book of Acts and the surviving Pauline letters have led many to assume.