Sentences with phrase «speaking to people down»

Just make sure you learn the proper conduct and telephone manner early on, so you don't get nervous about speaking to people down the handset.

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Whenever I speak at events across the country, I break down leadership to its most basic and practical form: It's about meeting the needs of people and developing them to their fullest potential.

Most people tend to speak too fast when presenting, so slow it down.

Furthermore, going from physically interacting with at least 30 people a day at my old job to only speaking with a couple of folks to nobody a day is a let down that takes time getting used to.

Koum is also a member of Facebook's board of directors and is expected to step down, according to people Recode spoke to.

The people of the US have spoken and now it's time for people like Limbaugh to sit down and shut up.

The proof is in the pudding so to speak, since man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge of God.Standard equipment.In order to become an atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge of God.You have to ignore your life, your spirit, your environment and the whole of creation.That takes a lot of lying to oneself, and you have to buy into a lot more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every atheist knows they are a liar, but as with any repeated sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless

What's sad is that a small subset of Christians ARE hateful, and get all the press, and presume to speak for the vast majority of Christians who don't cram stuff down people's throats, and who are a lot more Christian than the loudmouths.

Not only are there a lot of eye witness accounts of Zeus coming down from Olympus and talking to people, I personally have spoken with Zeus himself.

However, if one were going to attempt to answer the question «Why do some people hate Jews,» a probable answer might have something to do with the fact that one is not permitted to speak of Jews in any way whatsoever without being branded an anti-Semite and shouted down.

In Charleston, South Carolina, when those innocent people were shot during a bible study, the eloquence of their difficult words, «I forgive you,» spoke more directly to defeat the evil perpetrated by a tortured man than did the ensuing media firestorm which brought down one Confederate flag.

Speaking during News Hour she said: «Really listen to what your child is saying, whether they're talking about the reason they feel so down and it might be hard to listen to but I think it's really important that we keep listening to our young people.

Once again, it comes down to BELEIFS and FAITH There is not ONE person on this planet that can say they are «IN PERSONAL CONTACT, OR GOD SPEAKS THROUGH ME» that I would beleive or have faith in!!

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

The crux of the matter reduces down from halls of rationalism to be the person of Christ by means of his Holy Spirit speaking through the heart and mouth of the believing saint, revealing himself as The Gift of eternal life.

Whether speaking to the protestors, counter protestors, or the media, we were prepared to speak about what God is doing in our community... The last thing we have time to do is shut down because five people show up with offensive signs.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

Secondly, can you imagine if on gods level he's actually not nearly as powerful as you think he is, it's just he's so much more powerful than you (or at least you perceive him to be) that you give him powers he doesn't posess, I mean you are just taking other people from 2,000 word for it that this is what god is like and sure you pray, but like you said, you just know, god hasn't come down and spoken with you, sent you a note, a vision or any other nonesense.

I spoke down to christians as fools and weak minded people.

i'm not trying to say this IS THE WAY IT IS i am only speaking from my understanding and since my wife and i discuss EVERYTHING down to the nitty gritty i can't imagine there is much from the experience i am lacking — but again, this was only one persons opinion of something that effects many.

It has always seemed to me that when people speak out to say that something is incoherent or vague or whatever, it also demonstrates their unwillingness to engage in something that they haven't already been able to define, pin - down, label, etc., etc..

A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.

«Any form of bullying and harassment of others is always wrong, including making fun of others, speaking down to them and saying things that hurt people,» the site says.

The pre-exilic prophets were already speaking of the judgment to fall «in the latter days» as one in which the God of Israel «will be judge between nations, arbiter among many peoples» 8 and where the divine judgment would result in a new kind of world in which «the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, and a little child shall lead them».9

That is an evil message to send, and the few priests who try to speak up against the severe damage down to people are usually silenced fairly quickly.

I learned, by hard - earned experienced that I show people the respect they deserve by speaking, not down to them, not up to them, but across to them and to expect the same from them.

Lisa... I'm not overly religious, but God DOES come down and speak to people... have you ever been so upset, but all of a sudden felt an overwhelming sense of calm?

Auden also gave a classic form to this problem when he had King Herod speak up for «standards» in For the Time Being: «Every corner - boy will congratulate himself: «I'm such a sinner that God had to come down in person to save me.

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

If he speaks of the sins of his people and his community as though he were exempt from the failings of the rest of humanity, he will, in effect, be speaking down to his people.

Thus the preacher always must bear in mind that he or she is not simply «expounding the Bible»; he or she is also working with the development of Christian faith down the centuries and with the fashion in which that faith speaks directly to people in our own time.

It must be maddening to see people smile at you but know deep down that they would never speak to you again because you willingly engage in disgusting behavior

Any of us may not have contributed actively to the burn down of people, but we may have failed to be aware of these dynamics and speak against them, or have watched them and not advocated for another.

Speaking as a journalist, I know» very sadly» that what tends to make people sit up and take notice is violence; and while Christians may not always turn the other cheek, they do tend to take it all lying down, and get on with it as best they can, and that doesn't necessarily make for front - page headlines.»

Jeremiah 10 they nail their IDOL down like a scarecrow it can't move can»... t speak can't move must be carried these are nothing but the WORK of CON men.john 10 jesus christ sais his sheep hear his voice and another voice thy will not follow and if another person tries to preach to them they WILL FLEE from him.

Over and over again, in the first five books of the Bible, we read that God spoke to Moses, and God gave his Word to Moses who in turn, spoke it to the people and wrote it down for them.

They lay down among the dead or wounded people; some stroked those who were still alive, and spoke quietly to them.

In our country people are able to speak their minds, challenge, and make assertions all day long, every day without anybody or anything crashing down on them.

People are allowed to speak their minds, disagree, assert and challenge... until a certain line is crossed... and the hammer of authority comes crashing down.

I also know the shame one feels when a room full of people swoon, literally fall on the floor, in unison while you remain standing and the pressure you are put under as a young person to «speak in tongues» because if you don't you are looked down upon as not having the «gifts of the Spirit» But I digress.

For the authority to pass the Apostolic commission down to successors: Acts 1:15 - 26 In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said, «Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus....

I recognize, of course, that a good deal of Whiteheadian metaphysics is presumed here; but if Muray is interested in speaking to people who are not Whiteheadian metaphysicians then he needs to do some explaining, to give examples, to tie this language down, convincing the rest of us that something in fact is being said here.

Sad for Christians who think it is their place to speak down to people and speak to them in a way that is completely unlike Jesus would; but also sad that the Bible gets twisted so much in order to justify our selfishness as a human race.

If God came down and spoke the same words to 10 people standing side by side... they each going to interpret it a different way.

Dan often encourages me with this reminder: I may be forbidden from speaking at the church down the street because of my gender, but through the blog, I often speak to more people in a day than pass through that church in a year.

This really touched my heart today, actually it brought about a since of conviction in regards to speaking down to people because I have arrived.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

Driving down the long gravel drive away from the Culinary Vegetable Institute this evening, I wondered how many people felt the same inspiration and are networking as we speak to take action?

Don't worry about the «okays» and «ums»; when I had to speak in front of people I would bob my head up and down, like a human bobble head.

Wenger has spoken out but not a lot of people care to remember or if they do then they put it down to Wenger speaking out his own a ** hole, it helps blinker them to the idea of Wenger is to blame for EVERYTHING.