Sentences with phrase «speak with the authority of»

Also, I appologize that I can't speak with the authority of a «mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy».

We owe obedience to Jesus because He speaks with the authority of God.

These stories are really no different from the kind Driscoll tells, but the fashion nowadays is to put on our lab coats and speak with the authority of science, even when there is little actual science to back our claims.

They can communicate the fruits of scientific labour and comment on them, but the spectre that they may speak with the authority of Science, forever damaging the reputation of scientists is misplaced.

Not exact matches

However, if your prospect list targets a limited range of contacts, the caller will know something specific about whom he or she is speaking with, thus making it easier to establish rapport and authority.

«This is deeply ingrained bias and years of culture that have long taught men to speak up and loud and with authority and the rest of us [women] to listen when they do so.»

Urban planners find themselves doing a ton of research: analyzing data on factors affecting land use, speaking with authorities and stakeholders, and evaluating proposals.

Fortune spoke with Jeetendr Sehdev, a celebrity branding authority and author of the new book The Kim Kardashian Principle: Why Shameless Sells (and How to Do It Right), about what the Kardashian clan can teach business about reaching millennial consumers (without having them laugh your ad off the air).

When speaking with my own clients who are aspiring or practicing content creators, I always help them boil down their niche as a creator by having them fill out the following statement: «I want to become the go - to authority on [insert your niche here] on [insert your social media platforms of choice here].»

Before reporting an incident of sexual harassment to a higher authority, Gillian Thomas, who is a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says it's always best to speak with the person affected by the incident first.

He also serves as one of the company's chief buyers and can speak with authority about polyester tablecloths and decorative vases.

Now, Salesforce.com, an internet software company that also showed interest in acquiring Twitter, has raised concerns with Europe's antitrust authorities about the potential takeover, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

But when Catholics speak up in disagreement with the Roman Catholic hierarchy, they are told to be quiet, to be good Catholics and submit to the authority of the church.

When the Church speaks with clear magisterial authority on questions undoubtedly within the compass of «faith and morals»» sexual ethics and the meaning of marriage and procreation» the Catholic house divides one way.

One thing that often throws people off when I write is that I will sometimes discuss my beliefs from a position of biblical authority when I am speaking with one who has that belief system.

The Church speaks with Christ's own authority on faith and morals and evils such as abortion, casual sex, the culture (or «anti-culture») of recreational drugs, binge - drinking, and pornography.

It speaks of a love strong enough to bear a cross and to say with authority to frightened disciples, «Touch me and see.»

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright in Scripture and the Authority of God, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings.»

What dares you to assume upon yourself the authority to speak on behalf of those who have been born with an orientation that wasn't of their making.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

I am pretty sure you do not have the required expertise to speak for each of these sciences with the authority you presume.

And the minister should speak with humble authority; that is with an authority that transcends his person but is humble in its awareness of the limitations of that person.

All of this blue - chip evangelical clout is brought to bear in support of the doctrine of biblical «inerrancy» against a growing party of theological compatriots inclined to speak more of the «authority» of Scripture with regard to «faith and practice.»

Most of the dark ages folk didn't speak Latin or read the Bible, but they could see the results of disagreeing with authority in the crucifix out there in front of them.

There are even a number of «Protestant» churches that are led by self - proclaimed apostles who are thought to speak with just as much authority as the Catholic Pope.

Are these little gatherings, then, for all that seems domestic and intimate in them, also occasions of public proclamation, gatherings where — as in Nazareth — Jesus speaks with true authority?

But as I made absolutely clear to the writer, I have no firsthand experience or observation of the topic, so I can not speak with any authority beyond articles I have read and films I have seen.

Neither the conservative leaders nor their liberal counterparts have been able to speak with unquestioned authority as a result of this larger division.

Jesus spoke with an authority uniquely related to that of God because Jesus» existence was uniquely related to God's.

Against new knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

While Wright argues that Jesus speaking to Roman authorities in John 18 and 19 presents a mandate for political engagement, Boyd points out that Jesus does not bring up the injustices of the Roman Empire, nor other governmental issues, in his dialogue with Pilate.

One does not expect Bernard Lewis to be an authority on Christian theology, while at the same time one is reminded of the dangers in speaking with confidence on subjects with which one has scant familiarity.

So, although the law of which Antigone speaks somehow has divine authority, she has not learned it by reading something like a Bible, with moral rules delivered by the gods.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

«How shall I know in a given case what I ought to do,» he can always turn to the Church which claims to possess the infallible truth of God and which therefore claims to speak with final authority on every moral situation.

It is amazing that, after all we have been through with Galileo, Darwin, Freud and fundamentalism, von Däniken should still speak of a scientific - religious conspiracy to defend the literal authority of the Bible.

Speaking at a Mass at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, he said: «It is simply unacceptable to suggest that the resources of the faith communities -LSB-...] can work in cooperation with public authorities only if the faith communities accept not simply a legal framework, but also the moral standards at present being touted by government.»

According to the Shi`as, they have had virtues and attributes which have been superior to those of anyone in their time; they were endowed with greatness and the ability to perform miracles; they were infallible and innocent; each one was introduced by the previous Imam as his immediate successor; the Prophet referred to them by name and designated them by number; they gave the best and clearest statements concerning the origin of man and the Day of Resurrection; and after the Prophet they were the best authority to speak about religious affairs and conduct in the affairs of this world.

It is difficult to speak with authority on issues of social justice when there is not enough confidence to speak with authority on issues of faith.

God didn't seem to need them to agree with me in order to speak to them and tell them he loves them, in a way that they know, deep down, that it's true... Later when I met my father in law I became familiar with a saying of his in his book Authority to Heal and it rang true from my experience.

While such a convocation could not claim to speak with total authority as the Church, it could give voice to a consensus of opinion among Christians in America.

Someone can only speak to me with authority if a word from the deepest knowledge of my humanity encounters me here and now in all my reality.

Hence it is drawn into the conflicts of human life to such a degree that it can no longer speak with that authority or objectivity which ought to be expected of those who believe in God.

In this instance one with authority spoke to another on behalf of the central skills of the church that draw their intelligibility from the gospel.

Zahar told Klein he was speaking on the mosque issue with authority, claiming Hamas «is representing the vast majority of the Arabic and Islamic world, especially the Islamic side.»

As one of those identifying factors, the past can speak to us with enormous authority, provided it is conveyed by a method of teaching and a kind of study that make what might have been a dead past into a past experienced in the living present.

In the Gospel of Matthew, even as Jesus contests with the Jewish teachers of his day for authority to speak God's Word, he affirms their rabbinic role.

When the preacher cooperates in this activity, he and his congregation participate in a word - event, an event of authentic language that speaks with authority.

Yes, Brigitte, reversing one of your questions: «I have often wondered how those that are believers and straight can speak with authority for those that are believers and LGBT?»