Sentences with phrase «sense in lying»

I didn't see the sense in lying in my profile or responses — why waste someone's time?

There is no sense in lying, especially if you want things to work out.

There is really no sense in lying to yourself and wasting everybody's time in the process.

Not exact matches

One of the crucial advantages video has over printed material lies in its ability to instantly evoke various emotions and convey a sense of reality.

For marketers, the key to making any sense of this lies in understanding what the word «trust» really means today.

To be clear, lying to oneself in the literal sense is, as you know, impossible; so, lying in this context means delusion, which certainly has a bad press.

With trade war anxiety rising, it's worth taking a step back to get a sense of where the market stands in terms of valuations, and what could lie ahead if trade policy around the world turns more protectionist.

My sense is that herein lies the reason for the federal government's reluctance to engage in any real justification for Shell Jackpine, as even this relatively low bar can create problems.

Instead, I have gone through my career in national media with a misinformed sense of satisfaction that, as a perceptive young journalist, I called Trump on his lies and gave Forbes readers who used the Rich List as a barometer of private wealth a more accurate picture of his finances than the one he was selling.

Harper added to the sense of lurking danger with his own comments at a campaign event in Quebec, referring darkly to the prospect that more dramatic crises might lie ahead. «We have a range of tools with which we can respond were we to face some obviously much more serious circumstances.»

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo - Christian heritage.

That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.

As ridiculous as their claims are, it makes sense to me that these are the lies that they need to tell themselves in order to find peace with their entrenched worldview.

There is no possible area of human experience which lies beyond scientific inquiry in this sense.

The new life in Christ, the consequent transformation of all their hopes and expectations, the sense of fresh power to achieve the hitherto impossible, the vital awareness of the change which had been effected in their relations with God, the confidence of sin forgiven and of restoration to divine favor, the «joy in the holy Spirit,» and confident looking forward to great events still to come, and soon, as the result of Christ's exaltation at God's right hand and of his promised coming as Redeemer and Judge — all this lies behind the choice and the use of technical terms or concepts borrowed, first of all, from current Jewish messianism.

When one looks for the secret of such goodness in others or in gratitude thanks God for such a measure of victory as has come to his own life, the explanation lies in humility, loving outreach, a sense of divine forgiveness, and power that comes from dwelling in «the secret place of the Most High.»

And I completely disagree with what I think you are saying in this paragraph: «We feel like we are still in bondage and that brings a sense of unworthiness, guilt, and feelings of â $ œI am not worth loving.â $ This is a lie from the enemy to deceive and destroy us.

Whether this meaning was rightly attached to it, and if so in what sense, is another question, and one which lies no longer in the sphere of the historian.

The catalyst for me was a combination of things: I was exhausted from all the work it took to live a lie; I sensed that my ability to stay in control of my secret was lessening and I was getting sloppy; my life had become unmanageable.

I still get the sense that I am hiding in the woods but very close to the edge... close enough to look out upon the clearing the lies beckoning before me.

Its charm lies in its comprehensibility — its scale makes intuitive, visceral sense.

Its appeal lies in its ability to give the individual a sense of heroic significance in spite of the precariousness of life and the felt indifference of the universe.

But we should never lose our sense of the awful gravity of the procedure, because - as in ancient religion - therein lies our sense of life's sacred value.

Whitehead notes in this regard that «the field of a special science is confined to one genus of facts, in the sense that no statements are made respecting facts which lie outside that genus» (PR 9/14).

However, since the many as accumulated and the many as reproduced are, in some non-numerical sense, the «same» entities, it is just as correct to say that the accumulated actualities lie inside a novel occasion as it is to say that they lie outside it.

Part of the confirmation of his views lies for me in the way in which they make more sense of experience than any rival theory of which I am aware.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

The cause of a sense presentation as sign lies in the past, while in all the examples just cited the anticipation is of a future event, and it is in the future that realization of error takes place.

Penn's scheme also lies behind Madison's eloquent Remonstrance, but Madison adds a deeper and more profound point» namely, that the relation of the intelligent creature and his Creator is not only inalienable in the sense that no one else may stand in for another, but also in the sense that this is a relation prior to all other relations, even those of civil society.

It seems that the final answer must lie in one or other of these two directions, in the sense that anything else that has to be decided can only be of lesser importance.

involuntarily reëchoed by all of us, was over in three seconds; and then I know not what happened till I returned to my senses, when I found myself and companions lying down on the ground as if prepared to be devoured by our enemy, the sovereign of the forest.

The practical advantage of sense - perception over causal feeling lies in its superior clarity and definiteness.

Interesting questions surrounding modes of influence could be addressed here, but the real difficulty in addressing a problem of «influence» in my sense of the word would lie in trying to account for the absence of such influence in a given case.

But just because it is despair by the aid of the eternal it lies in a sense very close to the true, and just because it lies very close to the true it is infinitely remote.

The difficulty with this three-fold division lies in the insistent sense of the unity of the human being.

Except in a negative sense this process of creative emergence lies beyond our ability to direct or to command.

I might believe that the woman who claims to be my mother is in fact my aunt, or that my physics textbook is a conspiracy of lies written by heliocentrists, or that the sense experiences I have are illusions created by an evil demon.

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And if it turns out in the end that all of this is bunk, that the Bible is a lie, well then, we have no sure way of knowing what eternity holds and any religious belief is as good as another, and we should choose a way of living which helps us show love towards others and helps us live a life with a sense of the divine that brings hope, joy, and peace to our life.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

I do in a sense have faith but my faith lies in believing in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a belief in sucking up to an invisible man in the sky for «great reward» after I die).

The difference in this case, however, is that, in speaking so, he expressly recognizes that he is using «literal» in a different sense, even though he never explains very clearly just wherein this difference lies.

But the explanation of these data lies in the motions of a «material substances» that are inaccessible to sense experience.

If God does actually love such men as we are, the meaning of that love lies far beyond the power of ordinary terms to convey, and the Christian story, which does succeed in conveying that meaning, is therefore in the truest possible sense true.

Now a casket - shaped baptismal tank that the candidate lies down in — that would make sense.

Mission in its Christian sense means crossing the boundary between the domestic and what lies beyond the parish household.

In one sense Christianity emerged out of man's disillusionment with the doctrine that the road to life and joy and justice lies through the exercise of political force and the growth of national power.

Your point seems to be that it is acceptable to lie to ourselves and to our children if we think it will be useful in some sense.

Wouldn't it make sense that a church made up of flawed and broken people humbly seeking Christ would still struggle at times with the selfishness that lies in every heart?