Sentences with phrase «pride in»

There is a good deal of pride in the political and economic institutions in Mexico, despite Mexico's still «developing nation» status.

Our nation takes pride in our justice system.

The whole goal is to give them a LIFE, some independence, some pride in themselves.

Having spent 20 years working in newsrooms, which tend to be populated with moralists who take a preacher's pride in reforming society, I heard my share of nasty remarks about Christians — the kinds of things that would never be said about Jews or Muslims.

The first atomic bomb was spoken of in reverential, religious terms, a simultaneous affirmation of both Augustinian humility before God's power, and extraordinary Pelagian pride in humankind's.

I'm sure you pride yourself in name you chose, but God is not smiling on what you erroneously take pride in!

Indeed, our overweening pride in our culture gives the lie to any claims we might make to theological modesty.

We have cussing pastors now, and cussing Christian bands and lots of cussing Christian college graduates (they tend to take special pride in developing their long - silenced cursing skills).

Similarly, parents who take upon themselves responsibility for children may reasonably hope for the joys of affection returned and pride in healthy growth and worthy achievement, but the obligation to love and care for their young holds whether or not these legitimate desires are fulfilled.

Once upon a time» well, actually, it was in 1897, on the campus of the public university that the citizens of South Dakota had just built in the town of Vermillion to express their pride in their recently achieved statehood.

We take pride in having a staff that is committed to working one - on - one with every person that enters our doors in search of financial assistance.

«Most Jews take a collective pride in Israel; there is also a collective culpability.

While some regret the «ideological deviation» tarnishing my scholarly reputation, many take pride in and draw courage from my theological work.

Germans are ashamed of singing their anthem or having pride in their nation because that was their downfall.

God has set the boundaries and leaders of all nations for all time so that we could take NO PRIDE in them, but instead give HIM the glory!

I detect a note of pride in his voice.»

Once in Africa, Schweitzer gradually came to understand what well may be the most important mistake made by the Europeans (and Americans) since the rise of Western civilization — namely, their pride in their superindustrialized «mastery» over the forces of Nature, a much - vaunted control which is leading to the destruction of our biosphere.

It is greed and self - centered power mongers that take pride in providing the masses with lies, blatant lies and they know the fearful will bite into it, giving them the only thing they have, their one and only opportunity to live and think for themselves, free from forced dogma and inhumanity.

Everyone takes pride in the works of their church be that a backpack giveaway, soul winning, feeding the poor, or all of the other church programs.

No pride in terrorism here.

My acquaintance with several evangelicals has taught me that certain types of Christians are constantly telling themselves that being Christian gets you persecuted, that they're two steps away from being fed to lions, etc. etc., and they take pride in that.

Therefore, Cain knew God's Way, buy with pride in the work of his hands, thought to change God's chosen Way for his own prideful way, which BTW, shed NO blood, so there was no substitutionary death.

Another man, who had taken pride in being «way out» in his views, found that his «way out» ideas were majority opinion in the congregation.

We must acknowledge the ever - present tendency to self - deceit, idolatry and institutional pride in its doctrines and practices.

He takes great pride in being all - powerful and all - knowing... and crushing those little humans as if they were ants.

If tomorrow we heard (what of course we will not hear) that real peace had come to Southeast Asia, that a new government had emerged representing all the people, that the United States was prepared to give billions through international channels to rebuild what our tens of billions have destroyed — if we heard all that, I would rejoice because of the relief from moral anguish I would feel privately and inwardly, and because of the renewed possibility of pride in being an American.

Being in my eighth year of teaching on the college / university level, I take pride in being responsive to my students, being able to read and interpret their non-verbal communications and responding appropriately.

Observer — what H.S. really takes pride in is trolling.

We clergy ought to bask in the warmth of that knowledge until we glow with appropriate pride in our distinctive calling.

So I wonder how taking pride in being part of an angry mob reflects a life transformed by the healing power of Jesus.

I used the mind that God gave me to generate new plans and ideas so that I might enjoy what I did and take pride in my work.

For the record, when asked if you take pride in being a Christian, you have REFUSED to say the word «yes».

There is clearly a pride in being creedless, in having open membership.

The most common form is not conscious pride in one's own goodness, for most people are ready to admit they have some faults.

This is borne out too in that human motherhood (and pride in motherhood) is what most inspires reverence in men.

Do we do self checks to make sure we are keeping selfishness, and pride in check?

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

I took pride in my self - possession, counting it as righteousness that no one knew my heart was breaking.

(CNN)- While Saint Patrick's Day has long been the preserve of Guinness - drinking revellers painting the world's towns green while wearing shamrock hats, Irish Catholics have always taken pride in their nation's patron saint.

The scientist who is exploring the very frontiers of human knowledge in some specialized department of truth may have absolutely no knowledge of the work of any other specialist and may indeed take a certain pride in such ignorance!

The man who seeks knowledge just so he can take pride in what he knows also engages in curiositas.

The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.

I'm considered an evil genious in many circles, and I take pride in the fact that I kept some of the more useful parts of christian upbringing.

But it makes me feel so lonely sometimes and I would think that God does not want me anymore, I feel pride in my heart sometimes and bitterness however some days go better then other days, and sometimes I just feel simply abandoned.

There is a secondary sense in which we must speak of art also as craftsmanship, the work of a skilled artisan, to satisfy a desire for that harmonious blending of line and color and texture that makes a commercial product attractive, or gives one pride in the ability to construct something.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Thus, because the ultimate objective, the totality to which my nature is attuned has been made manifest to me, the powers of my being begin spontaneously to vibrate in accord with a single note of incredible richness wherein I can distinguish the most discordant tendencies effortlessly resolved: the excitement of action and the delight of passivity: the joy of possessing and the thrill of reaching out beyond what one possesses; the pride in growing and the happiness of being lost in what is greater than oneself.

Don't you have any pride in your own ethnicity?

In the United Kingdom, Catholics can have modest pride in our own Church for being an example to the rest of society in how to prevent and tackle sexual abuse.

And Oz takes pride in almost confessional responses to his book from Orthodox readers.