Sentences with phrase «only by their conscience»

Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

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Not only have these organizations added increased profits to their bottom line by adopting the principles of social conscience, but they are changing lives around the world, healing our planet and lifting our spirit.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

Not all were convinced by Charles Reich and Clyde Summers, two law school professors who expressed the opinion that on their side the resisters had not only their consciences but the United States Constitution.

What pleased me most was his statement that the university «would not only permit but would honor and respect those who, not for political effect, but for personal, private reasons witness their conscience by a willingness to pay the price of their disobedience.»

Furthermore, the Church, in accordance with its doctrine, can certainly also regulate by prescriptions and not only by principles the conscience of the faithful.

He has not the right finally to judge those who at that time thought that their Christian conscience told them to break with the Church of the Papacy and to regard the Pope as the Anti-Christ who damaged the gospel of the grace of God by his very office (not only actually).

There is not much likelihood of any widespread repentance unless the imperatives of the Christian gospel are driven home to our consciences, not by preaching only, but by prayer.

Only they hold to the doctrine that there is a Creator (and Governor of the universe); that each individual owes a personal accounting at the time of Judgment to this Creator, a Judgment that is prior to all claims of civil society or state; and that this inalienable relation between each individual and his Creator occurs in the depths of conscience and reason, and is not reached merely by external bows, bended knees, pilgrimages, or other ritual observances.

If we ask: by what is it manifest, by what is it promised with historical clarity and in created, objective form (and not only in the never absolutely certain testimony to grace of the mind in the depth of conscience) to the world of all ages, that it stands under the mercy and not under the judgment of God, the only answer can be: solely through Christ and his Body which is the Church.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preferrence [sic] to others.

Only by recognizing the power of suppressed conscience can this paradox be understood.

The best short summary of the traditional, natural law understanding of conscience was given by Thomas Aquinas when he said that the core principles of the moral law are the same for all «both as to rectitude and as to knowledge» — in other words, that they are not only right for all but known to all.

Fixing the Affordable Care Act may be possible only after its utter collapse, but conscience rights for every actor in the healthcare system can be shored up with great ease by passage of the Conscience Protection Act.

«It is a part of religion,» you will say, «but only its unorganized rudiment; if we are to name it by itself, we had better call it man's conscience or morality than his religion.

If these aspects of religion can be nurtured by theology into the conscience and character of America, it is likely that God — the only real basis of all that is universally true and just — will be served.

Since any change to that status can only be brought by state legislation, the task of church becomes more of a conscience raiser and an advocate for change of state policy based on its own faith perspective.

It emphasises that science and technology must be «at the service of the human person» (DV 2) and the language is quite strong: «Science without conscience can only lead to man's ruin» (DV 2); and «No biologist or doctor can reasonably claim, by virtue of his scientific competence, to be able to decide on people's rights and destiny» (DV 3).

We know that we are only formally obliged to confess mortal sins, but venial sin also weakens the soul, and without regular confession our spirits can grow dull and our consciences corrode little by little, opening the way to graver lapses should temptation come.

Only a few examples of the attempt to link values with the arts and sciences have been published (see, for example, A Vision for India Tomorrow: Explorations in Social Ethics, edited by J. Daniel and R. Gopalan [Madras Christian College, 1984]-RRB- But already evident is a sense of social conscience linked to economic development; a theology of vocation that replaces the ascriptive caste definitions of occupation; a theistically based universalism conducive to science and human rights; and a modernizing, cosmopolitan outlook in a land where the sacredness of the cow signals both the power of tradition and a preference for the agrarian life.

One can only admire the author's willingness to accept the sometimes radical demands of conscience: to acknowledge these demands is ever more important in a world where pressures on people of conscience multiply by the day.

As the older moral pattern declines in persuasiveness, the only remaining category for the analysis and evaluation of human motives is interest, which by now has replaced both virtue and conscience in our moral vocabulary.

This means, according to Allen and Swain, that «pastors may only bind the conscience of the Christian when Holy Scripture so binds, through its clear warrant or by good and necessary inference.»

J.H. Only a fool denies his own conscience, because he loves his sin rather then God who has made himself known through all things He created, by imprinting this knowledge of Himself on their hearts, til they shot Him out.

The difference between the two rests, I believe, in the contrast between intentional, cohesive, conscience - shaping communities of identity and social solidarity, not only in Utah but in the Mormon minority communities around the country, and Evangelical communities that are too often influenced by raging pundits, talk radio, and TV shout - shows — and these voices sometimes drown out the pastor's.

The right of religious propagation given by medieval theocratic religious states was only for truth recognized as true by the established religion and state, It was different from the present democratic freedom of persons to pursue truth as dictated by one's reason and conscience and to propagate the truth to which he decides to commit him / her - self.

The many serious ethical issues raised by this Bill require that Members of both Houses are given a free vote in accordance with their conscience, not only on the abortion issue but the Bill as a whole.

The Anglican clergy were presented by the Revolutionary movement with a special case of conscience revolving around the prayers for the King in the Prayer Book — some continued with the full service unless or until forcibly restrained, others felt they could only perform occasional offices, and others with varying degrees of enthusiasm or regret accepted the transfer of allegiance and modified the services accordingly.

Not only is the hat amazingly comfortable and made out of 100 % hemp (and it's adjustable), but it's also made by a company with a conscience.

Cartwright's insistence upon annual parliaments was a riposte to the celebrated declaration made by Edmund Burke to his Bristol electorate in 1774, that a Member of Parliament's «unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you... Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion».

It was never summed - up better than by Winston Churchill on the death of Neville Chamberlain when, in one of the most magnanimous tributes in political history, Churchill said: «The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

«Faced with a choice between a front bench position that I have loved and doing what I believe to be right for my constituents and for the many hundreds of thousands of families who are ill - served by state education in this country; there is in conscience only one decision open to me,» he said.

They are only forced to stay by their own conscience and how it might look to voters if they left.

They shall be representatives of the whole people, not bound by orders or instructions, and responsible only to their conscience.

The only ethics you should adopt as you pursue wealth on the [information superhighway] are those dictated by the religious faith you have chosen to follow and your own good conscience.»

Sathyananda — I follow your free lessons — My view on what the troubled lady is getting very upset about is — Reiki is a beautiful energy that can do no - one any harm, it is for the highest good of all — and when give or sent the higher self of the other person will accept only what is good and right for them — As for displaying the Sacred Symbols — well we must live and let live and not judge what others do - we must do what our own conscience lets us do — personly I do believe to keep them quietly sacred and only seen by us as Reiki Healers - but I do not get so angry and judgemental as it seems the Lady does — sorry just one more thing — Reiki symbols seem to have different forms of interpretation when drawn — there again I believe and trust that it is intention when using them — thank you for your time

There is a disquieting stillness of an absolute and ruthless lack of conscience, stirred only by a lack of civility in others, and the sight of Dottie dancing in a pool of light as she waits for him and her family to strike a deal.

The story gets underway when the titular sports agent (Cruise), has a crisis of conscience (inspired, reportedly, by Jeffrey Katzenberger «s memo at Disney), gets fired, and sets up his own company, with only faithful single - mom secretary Dorothy (Renee Zellwegger), her adorable son (Jonathan Lipnicki) and one client, Rod Tidwell (an Oscar - winning Cuba Gooding Jr), an egotistical, underperforming wide - receiver along for the ride.

This move turns out to be a double - edged sword for not only Will but humanity itself, as Will's conscience begins to seemingly take over the worldwide network, and his intentions are questioned by not just his enemies, but his former allies as well.

Hitman (Unrated) Action - oriented political potboiler about a cold and calculated, genetically - engineered assassin (Timothy Oliphant) being pursued across Europe by Interpol and the Russian military who suddenly discovers that he not only has a conscience but feelings for a mysterious femme fatale (Olga Kurylenko).

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

Not only is what surprises Hudson a poor standard by which to judge whether something is surprising, but considering how telegraphed and predictable The Skeleton Key's payoff is, neither can it in good conscience be called a twist.

Mamet shows a bit of a social conscience here by tackling such a disturbing global issue, but that's only part of the reason we go along.

George Soros is not a top - ranking financier, he is like the mafia thug, without a real conscience, like a thug sent to kill a friend of yours, by only a hit - man for the really big financial interests, hired out to rob your friends, and you, of about everything, including their nation, and your personal freedom.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

«A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers can not in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department's most cautious calculations — can only add to the problem.»

QUOTE OF THE WEEK «A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers can not in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department's most cautious calculations — can only add to the problem.»

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.»

Appeals to conscience or fashion work, to the extent they do, by reducing the fossil - fuel consumer's perceived benefit of consumption (or equivalently, by increasing his perceived share of the externalized cost), for only a sub-population of consumers.

[5] Therefore, a Court is only likely to refuse a summons, or to stay a private prosecution as an abuse of process, where its conscience is offended by the private prosecutor's motives.