Sentences with phrase «ought not»

To be fascinated with Romantic personalities such as Kleist or Hoffmann is all good and well; yet for these voices to reveal their relevance to our cultural moment here and now, we ought not just indulge in but genuinely reflect on our lasting fascination with these writers and what they have to tell us.

The thought ought not to be self - contradictory, and it ought to be coherent.

One ought not to forget this consideration when sometimes one judges a doubter severely for talking.

Radkey, who has been tracking Mormon genealogy records for a while for people who ought not to be there, said she inadvertently stumbled upon the Wiesenthal name a few weeks ago.

While we ought not to continue to commit the error of so many people, especially religious people, that is, «kidding ourselves» about the likelihood of a bright future; we can not, on the other hand, commit the error of the totally disillusioned, which is to give themselves over to the darkest outlook and see no chance for anything but the gloom of night in a world where all ends in nothing, and nothing is the price of it all.

For from this latter standpoint the entity in question would have a nature which, by our premises, it ought not to possess.

If secularity itself now requires reining in, this movement ought not to undermine human freedom.

No doubt, the divine Thou can slash through such dullness, but the reader ought not dare him to do it by reading the Bible in lethargy.

But whatever one can say about it, there is one objection to it which ought not to be raised: that this is a concept of stagnation and resignation or even a renunciation of ecumenism.

Lest someone object that profits ought not always be blamed for social decay, then what of the downfall of the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990?

It is that in responding to the excesses of contemporary liberalism and progressivism, as well as to Rationalism when it appears among conservatives, we ought not to compete on Rationalist terms, as if yet another mission statement or manifesto or policy could save us.

Then the master sent for him and said, You wicked servant, I forgave you your whole debt because you asked me, and ought you not to have had pity on your fellow servant as I had on you?

This ought not to be «power over,» in the sense of overriding anybody without consulting him seriously.

and that this means not only that we ought not, but can not, continue to sin is implied throughout the rest of the chapter.

She is manifestly behaving as she ought not.

But we ought not to be silent about him only because we can not speak of him properly.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

According to some definitions of Islam (within the Islamic tradition or outside it), Malaysia is a country that ought not to exist.

The objective ought not to be «broadcasting» the church to the community.

It ought not be necessary to say that the process I am about to describe does not commonly take place in the absence of fundamental disciplines in theological work.

They ought not to be seen as canceling each other out.

It can not be done, and it ought not to be attempted.

He criticized Bultmann and other demythologizers for demeaning the biblical worldview in the course of adapting Christianity to a modern one: «We ought not to overlook the fact that this particular worldview contained a number of features which the primitive community used cautiously but quite rightly in its witness to Jesus Christ.»

First the horrible sacrilege must take place --» the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not,» and then will come the final tribulation, the collapse of the physical universe and the appearance of the Son of Man upon the clouds of heaven.

Given this simple fact, I can not see how Mr. Carson can argue so categorically that we ought not think that (a) global warming is occurring, and (b) that if it is occurring our current behavior is not partly responsible for it.

Faith claims that it is, and faith ought not to be tied down to the imagery of New Testament mythology.

Church ought not to be simply a reflection of me, my class assumptions, my favorite songs, or cultural values.

Third, free speech ought not be absolutized because the First Amendment basically protects, not the right of the press to speak, but the right of every citizen to know.

We ought not permit the meaning of the term «experience» to be confined within the brackets of one's own existence.

Our congregations ought not to be cultural or class silos that only gather us with people who make us comfortable.

If he is prepared to take seriously the question of God, he ought not to be burdened with the mythological element in Christianity.

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

However, this ought not to be taken to mean that it is through Jesus only that the Spirit comes.

It is obvious that not all persons are created «free and equal» from the standpoint of either biological or cultural inheritance and therefore ought not all to do the same things or enjoy the same experiences.

To illustrate, a citizen ought not to be arrested for expressing an unpopular opinion; he can properly be arrested for inciting or engaging in acts of violence, but the physical force with which he is restrained ought not in turn to become counterviolence.

As such there is much that it can not and ought not to do.

Such an image ought not to appear antiquated and reactionary.

We ought not to use mystery as an excuse for our inability to explain difficult theological propositions.

Doctors ought not to render their services with a «take it or leave it» attitude but should assume the role of teachers in relation to their patients, instructing and persuading them in the ways and means to health.

Satire, however, need not induce laughter, and I heard none in the theater at Lincoln Center during the 142 minutes it takes for Christian to upend his career by discovering some boundaries that he ought not to have crossed.

Accordingly, we ought not to expect a new Christian to have all the maturity of one who has behind him years of Christian living and praying and serving.

(11) While there are strong connections between our views of theology, personality, and society, similar commitments to social compassion may arise from different theological perspectives and we ought not to prejudge people's social commitment when we are only exposed to their theology or their views of personality.

Understood in this way, eros ought not be limited to genital sexual acts, but encompasses a broad range of human actions and desires, and it participates even in the religious dimension of life in the form of the desire to know and be known by God (p. 21).

Democracy ought not by any superficial synthesis to be identified with Christianity simply because in the democratic West the majority of the citizens profess to be Christians.

Fourthly, it seems clear to me that the remilitarization of Western Germany might be the spark in the powder barrel with which the West, and Germany in particular, ought not to play.

In just what regions the next great revival of Christianity will arise we ought not to attempt confidently to predict.

My conclusion would be that we ought not to trust ourselves to claim that we have Dostoevsky's final secret.

Reacting to the figures, Baptist minster Jonathan Edwards told Premier recent scandals within the church may be to blame, explaining: «Clearly, there are many clergy who have slipped up and done things they ought not to have done, and that tends to blacken the reputation of others.

Some of these are bad laws that require change; most of them have stood the test of time, and ought not to be disobeyed by a Christian unless his conscience convinces him of a higher law in the will of God.

Where basic human rights are at stake, they ought not to be denied to anybody because of «class, color, creed or previous condition of servitude.»