Sentences with phrase «people accept things»

Another approach is helping people accept things that are out of their control and learning to ride the waves of life.

People accept the things they hear at face value.

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«What it has to do with is the fact that the person is not humble enough to accept responsibility when things go wrong, accept that there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

The most wonderful thing about this change in me is that I am able to accept people for who they are now and who they will become, mostly because I've accepted myself — and who I am now and who I will become.

Conferences attract plenty of people who are doing the same thing, and once you accept that, you'll probably discover that going to events for entrepreneurs is one of the most helpful things you can do for your business.

In order for bitcoin to be a real currency, Adeney claims, it must be three things: easy and frictionless for trading between people, widely accepted as a legal tender for all debts (both public and private) and stable in terms of value.

Of course, just because some people are over-concerned about their anxiety and would actually do better if they simply accepted their worrying doesn't mean that there's no such thing as excessive anxiety.

I hope for two things: 1) that you both hold true to your sincerities and commitments to this cause for the long haul (David already has proven that), 2) that enough people will put their indifferences aside to listen to your messages and accept the inevitable changes that are to come, and quit chasing this impossible infinite growth concept that has blinded so many.

Maybe people have come to accept that student loans are the «thing» to deal with in order to go to college, and many students don't think about the cost of college and choose to deal with the price tag later.

The suggestion that there's such a things as a «demand for money,» comparable to the demand for, say, heating oil, is one that many people find hard to accept.

Obamas religion however is straight up christian and it won't really do much good to follow him around with a moving billboard that lists death tolls from christian persecution or other things about the dogma that people already know and either don't care or already accept.

Although disliking Jews go further back, such as their exile, one of the reasons is that the Pope made a rule that Christians can't loan money (but accepting a loan is ok) so Jews end up taking the job and so long as things are going well, people probably like jews because they received money (though they probably didn't like paying them back with interest).

But what happens when one of two things occurs: when the LBGT person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be accepted as a couple?

People have in themselves, to varying degrees, the ability to do things outside of the range of what another person, or society, would accept (the ability to do evil).

This is not something that all people can do, as some people can not accept things without the verification that the thing is true, and if there were proof, then it isn't faith.»

S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.»

Actually there is historical proof that he was a healer and a miracle worker, but at that time it was an accepted profession and there were 1,000's of people that did the same thing.

But it makes me CRAZY when people still, after more than 100 years, seem to refuse to accept that Mormons and Polygamists are not the same thing.

I recognize that is a hard thing to accept for many people, not just myself.

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

I accept your right to disbelieve, but you should distinguish between the (in) ability to prove something historically or archaeologically and the existence or non-existence of that person or thing.

The sad thing is, even if this guy did commit these horrible crimes, he just has to repent and a bunch of people will be willing to accept him again.

In this case you have too much of a good thing when people can't accept that they can not or do not know something.

The concept of person, however, extending all the way back to its Latin roots (persona), accepts the social nature of the human individual, and the necessity of social recognition, without ever regarding the individual as reducible to these things.

Funny how those people still want to reserve THEIR right to rage at, bully and make jokes of the things THEY don't want to accept though.

As a person who believes in God, I will say this; faith explains the importance of accepting that we do not know or understand things beyond our brains.

I would like to present to you for your consideration the following verse in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 14: «The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned».

Such short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the person do things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety — things such as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so often.

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

The main problem I've seen with people accepting evolution (aside from plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of time over which these things happened.

But the most amazing thing to me is that there are people who think that the universe is too complicated to exist without having been created, and yet accept that there is a God who exists without having been created, and yet who is more complicated than the universe!

It might be argued that the failure of thinkers to accept the data as they really are has been due to special factors such as their preoccupation with forms or essences and that common people have always viewed things as finite existents.

Any person who does this I can respect whatever conclusion they reach, it's the people who have always been one thing or another and their cognitive dissonance and absolute refusal to accept disbelief in god as an alternative in any capacity that I have beef with.

I wish people would accept that the «Bible» is not gods word neither was it wrote by god but by men who put what they decided they wanted as rules for everyone else to run their life based on, every thing from what type of fabric you can wear at the same time to what you can eat on certain days.

God now accepts behavior that was unthinkable and yet, if you ask any person who believes in their specific god, they'll all tell you that he (maybe the one thing that hasn't changed is his gender) is eternal.

Only when people take courage to face fear, heal from past hurts, as as considerate of others as self, accepting differences where they are debatable and are motivated by love then shall we see less of this kind of thing.

People who accept things on faith, without evidence, won't be swayed by evidence.

At the same time, he's saying we need to respect faith enough to understand that many people will rely solely on that for their views and we should accept that doing so is not necessarily a bad thing.

Since the Bible says no such thing, and the minister knows it, what does he do or say after first trying to understand Mr. Jones's meaning and accepting Mr. Jones as a person?

Intelligent people acknowledge evolution is actually a real thing and accept that we are animals.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

Where most Bible translations accurately translate the Greek as saying something along the lines of «The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God,» the NIV reads Calvinistic theology into this verse, and assumes that the natural man does not even have the Spirit, and so translated the verse this way: «The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God.»

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Why is it so easy for people to regard thousands of other Gods as fictional man made things (like Odin, Zeus, Horace...), but not even accept the possibility that theirs is also?

This person is willing to accept the legal consequences of his / her actions because it it the moral thing to do.

I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little thing that people are foolish for falling into believing.

God is the God who has done these things; God is the God who has accepted his people in their covenant with him made after their deliverance; God is the God who can never be understood as existing save seen as related to, and worshipped as the One who is their God.

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and can not understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Leon went on to discuss how John the Baptist's heralding did not first go as expected but that it was a good thing because it taught people to accept reality.