Sentences with phrase «right intention»

I know this will be a major undertaking, but I believe that through hard work and doing things for the right reason with right intentions, anything is possible.

I thank you for the scriptures you posted, because I sense that you do this with right intentions.

Visuddha deals with openness and communication — how willing or able are you to speak your mind and practice Right Intention through speech and listening?

Right Intentions IV.

In spite of the practice of right intentions, and the day offered every morning to God, the general run of the faithful dimly feel that time spent at the office or the studio, in the fields or in the factory, is time diverted from prayer and adoration.

The good news is, anyone is capable of doing this if they just practice the right habits and come at it with the right intention.

«My parents had all the right intentions, but it was definitely a struggle to find things that I really connected with.»

You are right my intention isn't to be offensive.

so, although giving up facebook does seem ridiculous, if it is truly a sacrifice, then it is done with the right intention.

It must be undertaken with the right intention of establishing a just peace, and a reasonable expectation that the means employed will be proportionate to the ends sought.

Right intention.

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

The «right intention» element of just war has important implications in this conflict as well.

As Aquinas summed it up in the Summa Theologica, for a resort to the sword to be justified it must be on the authority of a sovereign, for a just cause rightly defined, and for a right intention, which included both avoidance of evil intentions and the positive aim of securing peace — peace understood, after Augustine, as tranquillitas ordinis, the tranquillity of a just political order.

In this respect, we need to think harder about what we mean by «right intention.»

The classic «entry into war» criteria were then reviewed — just cause, competent authority, right intention and so on.

Second, it requires that war is initiated by a legitimate authority; third that there is a right intention on the part of those involved.

In Catholic theology a valid sacrament requires the right matter, for example bread and wine at the Eucharist, and the right intention.

«A marriage in the Catholic understanding — when it is embraced in the right intention, spirit and form — is an act of God.

The theory includes criteria that legitimize war, including ensuring that war is a last resort and that it is being carried out with the right intentions.

Merton objected to Augustine's notion of right intention — which Merton thought could be easily rationalized — and to his pessimism.

James Turner Johnson has expressed the same concerns in a different way, arguing that satisfying the classic ad bellum or war - decision criterion of «right intention» includes the commitment to securing a just peace after the conclusion of combat.

Opposite se - x marriage is the strongest vehicle for this to happen, to restore to «one flesh», however, if the «right thinking» and «right intentions» are there in a same se - x couple, the same outcome may occur.

Richard John Neuhaus» «Internationalisms» (Public Square, December 2004) fails to discuss the current war in terms of just war theory, which include just cause, right intention, competent authority, reasonable chance of success, proportionality of ends, and last resort.

But that does not matter, since it is not our feelings but our presence, with the right intentions, that counts most.