Sentences with phrase «responsibility for their lives as»

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

Not exact matches

His departure from Avid Life represents a tacit acknowledgment that things went very badly under his watch, and that as CEO, he bears ultimate responsibility for it.

I'll choose taking responsibility for my choices over blaming others any day as a way to live my life.

It's a responsibility McCain takes seriously, investing in programs such as school breakfasts, Christmas toy drives and other supports for families who live in McCain communities.

College loans may be swapped for home loans and life insurance as this new generation takes on the responsibility of economic growth.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Even if the Exodus account laid all the responsibility for the hardening of Pharaoh's heart upon God Himself, and none upon Pharaoh, this still would tell us nothing about whether or not Pharaoh concluded His life as one of God's redeemed.

The claim that celibacy has helped cause sexual abuse is a claim that runs utterly contrary to the evidence, and unjustly moves responsibility for despicably evil acts away from the abusers, and onto some environmental condition such as the discipline of celibacy in a priestly life.

Nor does it curtail the wife's freedom of action or her control of property, so long as she lives up to the responsibilities of married life and cares for the home and children.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

They seek to lay responsibility for the hard realities of contemporary ghetto life on the shoulders of whites, citing the fact that whites have not treated blacks as justice would require.

Accordingly, Garaudy asks: «Is it to impoverish man, to tell him that he lives as an incomplete being, that everything depends upon him, that the whole of our history and its significance is played out within man's intelligence, heart and will, and nowhere else, that we bear full responsibility for this; that we must assume the risk, every step of the way, since, for us atheists, nothing is promised and no one is waiting?

For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.»

He sees the responsibility of the university as one of fostering «a zest for life» (AE 93) connecting to knowledge.

When a society regards itself as being charged by a higher authority to care for each and every human life in its charge, is it not the prime responsibility of a society so charged to intervene, to break into our privacy, when there is a strong chance that death might otherwise occur?

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

We were witnesses of what can only be called a moral revolution, as black youth and their elders in the South took responsibility for their lives and dignity in a way that led to profound transformations.

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

We believe in individual responsibility for sin, as well as in the existence of «principalities and powers» that distort human life and society.

But as she grows to maturity, her parents increasingly pull back, allowing her to take on more and more responsibility for the direction of her own life.

But he's inherited the means to live like an aristocrat (which he sort of does — not needing to work and taking off as he pleases) but without taking responsibility for who he is.

Further, man is always under the obligation to use his freedom as much as possible for shaping his life; he may never abdicate his responsibility under pretext that everything happens in any case as it must happen.

If we want members to regard social responsibility as a crucial dimension of the Christian life, we should be willing to lay the groundwork for long - range influence on them as well as to respond to immediate issues.

For his part, Sam's father, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a single parent and his apparently unlimited liability in the face of Sam's seemingly interminable dependence on him, lived his life as though his identity were simply that of the man whose son has an appalling medical history, whose wife has committed suicide, who alone is responsible for caring for his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his liFor his part, Sam's father, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a single parent and his apparently unlimited liability in the face of Sam's seemingly interminable dependence on him, lived his life as though his identity were simply that of the man whose son has an appalling medical history, whose wife has committed suicide, who alone is responsible for caring for his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his lifor caring for his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his lifor his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his lifor the rest of his life.

Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future of all planetary life.

The call to change our lives and to change society for a more just and healthy society is linked to our fundamental dignity as God's children and our responsibility to each other and to all living beings:

Journeys that encourage both the cultivation of a sense of the living presence of God as a source of comfort and strength; and then call also for the development of a sense of responsibility to all in God's creation whom we are able to help.

What such organization can do is to make the structures of our corporate life more just, that is to say, able to check the forces of exploitation, corruption, tyranny and war and minimize their threat to human life and also maximize the space for mutual responsibility so as to receive the spiritual gift of communion.

The «I» represents the quality of life achieved within a particular structure of existence as shaped by the way in which a person assumes responsibility for himself within the context of the possibilities open to him.4

The work of a pastor can be described as responsibility for Word, Order, and Sacrament in the life of a congregation.

I have deliberately left out of the discussion such topics as ethics and the Christian family — although I have talked about responsibility, both for one's own adult behavior and for helping one's children develop the essential emotional equipment with which to face life.

(My other issue with the modesty rules stuff is that it paints men as unable to control their urges or bear responsibility for their own attractions and thought life — and that's crap.)

Their life as an «odd sect» with the simplest of economic pursuits within occupied territory did not give occasion for such responsibility.

If as a husband I am called to love my wife like Christ loved the church, to the point of giving up His life for it, then me giving up a job to live out my responsibility as a father and a husband should not be not condemned.

We must live, Warren implies, as whole people in time, which comprehends past, present and future; we must live inside our own skins; and we must take responsibility for our actions.

When we humans were primitive thousands of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because of many synthetic products our existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind of concern for us to correct some of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect of reality, in the spiritual part of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?

But as I have said, it has its truth, which is simply that the preacher, representing the historic Christian tradition, is commissioned to proclaim the Church's gospel, by which it lives and for whose declaration it has been given the inescapable responsibility.

He saw that «new occasions» not only «teach new duties» but that they also «make ancient good uncouth» and that our responsibility, granted the relativism that attaches to all our experience and our statement, is to think afresh, on the basis of the general apostolic witness and with due regard for earlier Christian teaching, as well as in the light of our own experience of «newness of life,» so that what we have to say is nove (newly said) and often is also nove (the saying of new things).

Enjoy... the rest of us will enjoy our lives without the buybull and we'll act as adults taking responsibility for our actions and giving credit where credit is due - ourselves and our fellow man (excluding you).

I speak as one who has a special interest in the strength of a particular ecumenical seminary, but also as one who knows that he, too, has both a stake in and responsibility for the life of particular churches.

On the other hand, if another anthropology so focused on the social and cultural limitations of the self as either to ignore or to deny that the self nonetheless always bears responsibility for understanding itself and leading its own unique life, it would be equally unable to understand justice in either of its senses as ultimately grounded in the self - understanding of faith.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

There was a time, not too terribly long ago, when I could have been somewhat confident that I could help lay the intellectual foundations for a life of thoughtful responsibility when, as seemed almost inevitable, the usual vehicle for social commitment and responsibility — marriage and child - rearing — came up in their lives.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

And when our rights and citizens of a democracy conflict with our responsibilities as citizens of heaven, we must choose to abandon our rights, and live for what is right.

Because we believe in Jesus Christ as the head of the entire world we take upon ourselves the responsibility for the polis — for the political form of society in which we live.

This idea of everything that has life sharing God's breath as it were, seems to make a lot of sense to me and calls us to think about the connection offered to all living things — and the responsibility it calls us to in caring for living things around us.

Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.