Sentences with phrase «swimming against the stream»

Obviously it involves some swimming against the stream and a forfeiting of some of the liberty enjoyed by constructional theologians.

In the end, is not hope better than answers... but a materialistic culture gets the God it deserves... thx David for swimming against the stream... good thots

«Adopting a dress code would not only be suicidal for American Christians who are swimming against the stream of casual secularism, it would be antithetical to what Christianity sees increasingly as its abiding mission — to reach those who are marginalized and «don't fit in,» `' Raschke says.

Swimming against the stream is always hard and today's mass media makes it even more difficult.

Charles Hartshorne's career has spanned a period in which to be a metaphysician was to swim against the stream.

«Everyone invites the [players] to focus on what doesn't work, so we swim against the stream a little bit.

When they are remembered at all, virtues are referred to as old - fashioned, and those who engage with the topic of virtues feel compelled to make a case as to why they continue to swim against the stream (see Howard Gardner's Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed).

It's just too hard to keep swimming against the stream.

One of the reasons his investments have performed so well is that he's comfortable with swimming against the stream and choosing investments whose potential may be overlooked.

«[She] swam against the stream, she was rebellious,» her sister - in - law later recalled to scholar Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, in her and Nicholas Fox Weber's 1999 monograph Anni Albers.

Not exact matches

Catholics experienced prejudice and discrimination in Protestant America and had to swim against the cultural stream.

Set against a backdrop of lush greenery, gigantic granite boulders and a stream feeding the popular swimming hole, Mossman Gorge is the southernmost part of the Daintree Rainforest.