Sentences with phrase «run risk»

As Ed Cyzewski pointed out in his comment, we run the risk of making the Bible a dead law book when we treat it as nothing but rules.

Without knowing our Bible, we constantly run the risk of shrinking the story, or trying to control it so it ends up serving our own predetermined agenda.

What makes good sense with regard to «things,» namely their conception as a «society» of more fundamental Unities, is thus not called for with regard to the more highly developed forms of life if one does not want to run the risk of missing from the start what is distinctive of living things.

The early missionaries used these expressions in preaching because they were used every day, and they had to run the risk of being misunderstood in order to be understood.

The poor will run the risk of being arrested for murder.

The rich... do not run the risk of anything.

Not to trivialize choice is to run the risk of thinking about what is chosen.

If you really understand another person in this way, if you are willing to enter his private world and see the way life appears to him, without any attempts to make evaluative judgments, you run the risk of being changed yourself.

Perhaps conservative evangelicals run the risk of being needlessly dogmatic on some issues, thereby alienating the next generation, while progressives are in danger of giving up so much historic doctrine that their faith is starting to look more like Campolo's humanism than historic Christianity.

The lights slowly turning out one after another, showing the darkness of the decision that they made to murder the thing inside the moon rather than run the risk of what could be.

We even run the risk of turning sin into a popular topic.

Here, however, I shall run the risk of treating the standpoint as a whole, My thesis is that all the neo-orthodox thinkers neglect a fundamental Christian insight into the meaning of life within the grace of God.

When people generalize from their own partial experience and vision of the world, they run the risk of falsely characterizing the whole - an easy pitfall when reflecting on the religious and moral character of business.

Reparations activists consequently run the risk of conjuring up all kinds of irritations in commission testimony, without any guarantee of a substantive result.

You only create issues in logic if you deal in absolutes, and when you deal in absolutes, then you run the risk of falling into a fundamentalist mindset, which is raised in this post.

The contributions unloving people might make to children run the risk of damaging them, and there is little doubt on anyone's part that the contributions of hate - filled persons create serious damage to the lives around them, whether child or adult.

Does it cut me off from God, and run the risk of my going to hell if not confessed?

When we dissassociate from emotions or act as if what happened is normal and even «necessary» without really getting in touch with the hurt or anger or sadness, we run the risk of inflicting pain on others.

Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming a developed, civilized nation, super power that is a breeding ground for haters and paranoid nut cases such as the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (the Norwegian terrorist) in this ever shrinking, increasingly global world.

Theological and philosophical systems such as Hegel's run the risk of obscuring this crucial problem by making it seem an objective matter capable of a universal solution, rather than a subjective one that each person must confront.

The tall, telegenic, thirty - something Lyons usually plays ringmaster in tight pants — «skinny jeans» are so ubiquitous at Q that they run the risk of being unhip — with his trademark blond hair falling down to his eyes in sheep dog fashion.

Otherwise, rather than being a light to the culture, we run the risk of becoming products of the culture.

«Non-believers» run the risk of doing good deeds just so they can tell others they «do the right thing» or are «just as noble as believers».

It may be the case that bringing in terms like «soul» and «psyche» confuse more than they help, but I am willing to run the risk to try to bring Whitehead's abstract terminology into contact with more ordinary ways of speaking.

Satan and the demons know of Christ and they tremble, i would say that is them professing Jesus Christ exist... being born again is God taking «Possession» of your heart and mind... if we simply say «just believe» we also run the risk of a head confession without the heart, and we know only God brings repentance unto salvation and not Man or any form of Man doctrine!

«If we do not remain related somehow with the fundamental biological orientation to the future brought reproduction, we run the risk that our other choices will become more concerned with gratification and exploitation and comfort than with responsibility.»

They run the risk of turning God into a subject to be studied.

Not to accept these qualifications of exegesis is to run the risk of twisting the Bible in the name of conservative thought.

You want to make religion more than a thematic guide for life, you run the risk of having to make these sorts of decisions.

So, when Protestants reject Mary, they run the risk of rejecting the paradox of the divine / human relationship itself.

If it is not there, we run the risk dishonesty and unfaithfulness.

We then run the risk of believing ourselves to be entitled and rejecting grace all together.

He says, «In giving an apple for a pear, I run no risk if I hold the pear in my hand while making the exchange.»

If Catholics run the risk of resolving the divine / human paradox in favor of human free will (Co-Redemptrix), Protestants run the danger of resolving the paradox in favor of divine decree (double predestination — man is a zero).

And should one run the risk of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based on deception and delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.

Moreover, if all the formal possibilities are not controlled, we not only run the risk of fallaciously inferring the truth of one view from the difficulties of some only of its possible rivals, hut also we run the risk of trying to answer a perhaps meaningless question, namely, Which of two falsehoods (or absurdities) is more false?

To attempt to do so is to run the risk of externalizng it and by describing its mechanics turn it into something mechanical.

Of course we would run the risk of emptying our vocabulary of any actual creativity if we were to reach for a swear word every time we need to emphasise a point or express depth of emotion.

I fear that students who ignore hard questions run the risk of letting them fester in their mind unanswered.

When a patient is mentally under - capacitated, doctors may run the risk of playing God in determining whether a life is worth living.

If I fail to be scandalized by this state of affairs, then I run the risk of moral numbness.

Those believers who are engaged in willful habitual sin run the risk of becoming children of the devil instead of children of God, thus severing their relationship with God and «eternal» life itself.

Yes, you can get a good deal on a photoshoot, but you also run the risk of some creative photobombing.

First, might we, by drawing further attention to the problem, run the risk of inducing even more suicides by «making it all right»?

Both clergy and spouses said they have experienced too many losses to want to invest themselves in new friendships and run the risk of more pain.

When it becomes so easy for us to literally tune in and tune out of our weekly church service — like we would our favorite TV show — we run the risk of forgetting that we have a role to play in the life of the Church.

He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

We know it was him because without absolute proof, we would not have declared his death and run the risk of having him reappear alive and well.

The answer is: No, because this would be a merciless pseudo-mercy with regard to the victims and, as sad experience tells us, run the risk of creating new victims.

When you attack those whose ideas differ from yours with inflammatory language such as impossible, outrageous, dishonest, and threatened you run the risk of being the only one left to hear what you have to say.