He began to feel a profound
sympathy for solidarity.
' «Evangelical Richard J. Mouw asserts that this non-promotion in terms of policy recommendations demonstrates a «lack of
sympathy for the poor.»
The public consensus veers between
sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.
I can not feel
sympathy for your position as a result.
We can't simply click our tongues in
sympathy for the child in an African refugee camp, orphaned in guerrilla warfare.
They can not join with those vociferous persons, often associated with conservative religious groups, who seek to go back to what are often styled «the good old days»: on the other hand, they do not have much
sympathy for the wildly radical people who assume that there must be a total destruction of our inheritance, in the naive confidence that surely «something» will then appear that is entirely good and sound and right.
However, I confess a strong
sympathy for what I see as his underlying purpose: to get people away from the teachings about Jesus and back to the teachings of Jesus.)
Is it not incontestable, a matter of everyday experience, that each of these, to the extent that he believes (and sees the other believe) in the future of the world, feels a basic human
sympathy for the other — not for any sentimental reason, but arising out of the obscure recognition that both are going the same way, and that despite all ideological differences they will eventually, in some manner, come together on the same summit?
Missing from the report is any word of
sympathy for two dead babies.
What bothers me most with a remark of that sort is that it does not express even a smidgen of
sympathy for those whose homes were demolished, for the lives that were lost; a little something for the terrible anguish endured.
But even in the prime of its politicking, for instance in the fabled 1960s, no survey showed general
sympathy for the pronouncements made by leaders, and there was little congruence between lay (and sometimes local pastoral) opinion and what was being said at conventions or in commissions.
So what explains the new
sympathy for Mideast Christians?
Even when in some developed countries (though least so in the United States) governments are expressing
sympathy for these demands, they have little response at home among their own people.
Balmer's ambivalence about evangelicalism and his deep
sympathy for those in its orbit who did not fully fit into it was evident in the next room, about a holiness camp meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida.
This is not the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, when Jewish WW2 suffering gave the Jews even more
sympathy for any Left - leaning civil rights struggle.
It's hard not to feel
some sympathy for worship leaders.
I have zero
sympathy for the outdated religious practices of this tribal culture.
I have great
sympathy for the authors, and I agree much more than I disagree with them.
Shame on YOUR lack of
sympathy for these people merely because they are not Christian.
And for the record I was raised on a steady diet of how «mainstream» (said with derision) Christianity was a harlot, so it's hard to feel to much
sympathy for them.
He said: «I have
no sympathy for bishops who privately say «Actually, I really support you and I want to see a Church in which we can celebrate gay and lesbian relationships, but I can't say that in public because I'll get attacked for it».»
Fr McDermott does go on to affirm that God knows creatures in their individuality, but he seems then to have
some sympathy for the Nominalist despair of finding any intrinsic and universal rationality in nature, and even for Sartre's despair of finding meaning in existence at all.
Because of our own bereavement, our reactions to the deaths of children inevitably include a deep
sympathy for the surviving parents.
Now, after much discussion on the previous page with Austin on the crimes committed against humanity in Uganda, he still doesn't show any signs of
sympathy for the victims, but writes «the dude in uganda is a psychotic retarded satanic attack on nothing of any value».
Nearly all Muslim Americans, 92 %, said they believed that Muslims living in United States had
no sympathy for al Qaeda, the terror group responsible or the 9/11 attacks.
Marsden's pleas for genuine pluralism within and among institutions of higher learning are attractive: Yet they ought to lead him to a greater measure of
sympathy for the liberal Protestant figures he has studied.
If God had
sympathy for the people of Admah and Zeboiim the way He had
sympathy for the people of Ephraim and Israel, then God is starting to look a little bit more like Jesus, for a sympathetic God does not destroy people with fire and brimstone, but seeks to rescue them instead.
Where's
your sympathy for ALL of them?
He said: «I would see that people sometimes have a greater deal of
sympathy for a church person than they should have, and they didn't sufficiently identify the crime that that person had committed for what it was
Deprived of native
sympathy for academics and of a sense of ease in dealing with them — indeed, inclined to view them with misgiving — these ecclesiastics did not by instinct address themselves to their institutions in their office as articulate exponents of their faith, nor as pastors, nor as prophets.
It is stretch for most of us to feel
sympathy for anyone who could create such carnage.
From the Christian point of view, the foregoing remarks amount to a very generous statement of
sympathy for other faiths.
A final note: I do not believe that Whitehead would have much
sympathy for what is known as the «back - to - the - basics» movement in education today.
The Brechtian scene jars
our sympathy for Merrick, our easy tolerance for the victim's imitative failures of compassion.
«Coming to faith as an atheist, he had an understanding of and
sympathy for people who look at faith wistfully but can't swallow it,» says Yancey, who writes about Lewis in his latest book, «What Good is God.»
Please accept my sincere
sympathy for your chronic condition.
The rise of extreme forms of white nationalism, and the much wider latent
sympathy for this reaction, indicate that this response is not entirely uncommon.
Extensive interviews with Pulayas were published by the missionaries.21 At this stage of the campaign the CMS missionaries developed not only a sense of
sympathy for the Pulaya community, but also a degree of emotional commitment to do something concrete about the Pulayas» social condition.
Reston suggested that there was great
sympathy for the president throughout the country, but that the people «concentrate on the simple questions of right and wrong, and this is why Mr. Nixon is in such serious trouble.»
Unlike some critics of process philosophy, I am not convinced that a «substantial self» is a necessary precondition of moral responsibility; 14 furthermore, I have considerable
sympathy for Hall's claim that narrowly moral concepts tend to be overemphasized in our culture at the expense of concepts of aesthetic or experiential value.
The Bishop of St Albans Dr Alan Smith has expressed
his sympathy for former employees of Monarch Airlines... More
I have the greatest
sympathy for those who suffered as a result of abuse, but legally and in the media, we should proceed with caution here.
And in at least this reviewer's opinion, it is unlikely that anything but
sympathy for Galileo's plight will be fairly derived from these documents.
On the gut level we have
sympathy for the poor but when I read Karl Marx's analysis of history and society, I have radicalized my concern.
Anderson teaches Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School and brings to his subject an intelligent
sympathy for the many ways in which Jews and Christians have construed the story of the Fall and the consequent fate of Adam and Eve.
Schweitzer had little personal
sympathy for eschatology, and saw in it no potentiality for theology today.
Thus John Paul's concern with Jews and Judaism was more than nostalgia for his prewar childhood and youth, and more than
sympathy for the common plight of Polish Jews and Polish Catholics during the war.
Neither of those religions has demonstrated
any sympathy for the principles of democracy.
But for how long can one sustain one's
sympathy for such a difficulty» in a world where people are required to be unbelievably brave just to have maybe only one choice, where figures like Vladimir Bukovsky and Natan Sharansky escape oppression in solitary confinement by keeping their minds and spirits free?
I have
no sympathy for his Marxism but anyone who can make Lacan and Habermas comprehensible and amusing....