Sentences with phrase «sympathy for others»

I know the difference in terminology and specifically used childfree because those are the people who seemingly would get the least amount of sympathy for others,, as you experienced.

But beyond economic competitiveness, too many students are missing out on the significant cognitive and cultural benefits of second language acquisition, which include increased scholastic success, heightened sympathy for others, and increased creativity.

Does it help you have sympathy for others who may be struggling with private worries?

At the same time, he develops respect for the tough - guy leader (Benno Furmann) of the hidden Jews, and sympathy for the others as well.

We often have more sympathy for others.

What she wants above all is to formulate a philosophical and political justification for Dickens» repudiation of Benthamite utilitarianism, and his replacement of it with an imaginative sympathy for others.

Although Smith personally, and in other writings, emphasized the importance of acting in terms of sympathy for others, in his most influential book, The Wealth of Nations, he pointed out that the market works best when each participant acts in terms of rational self - interest.

In a familiar pattern, she comes to see the inadequacies of her hyper - intellectualized view of life and begins to experience the emotions she never acknowledged in herself, as well as gaining sympathy for others.

Most disputes are never settled because each party fails to show sympathy for the others» opinions.

Early Christians in the Roman Empire showed little or no sympathy for other religions, even judiaism..

I want people to notice God's actions in their lives and in the lives of others and to have sympathy for other people.

Perhaps it limited the effects of their new sympathy for the other point of view.

Furthermore, Hartshorne asserts that human beings should have a measure of mediated and rationally based sympathy for all other human beings and, indeed, for all things in the universe.

From the Christian point of view, the foregoing remarks amount to a very generous statement of sympathy for other faiths.

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?

I like it no more than you do, but being inside the academic system, I have to live with our part in it and I've got some sympathy for the other poor saps who have to live with it also.

As a whole, the current findings suggest that, within couples, providers who score higher on the empathy - related measures of (1) tending to take other people's perspectives, (2) tending to experience either concern and sympathy for other people's distress, (3) being more successful in «reading» the contents of their partner's ongoing thoughts and feelings, and (4) feeling something of what their partner feels during the interaction, were the ones who were the most likely to provide the most helpful and least harmful support to their partner.

Not exact matches

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

If it's true, then, that the opposition never wants to martyr the object of their animosity, thus handing sympathy and myth to the other party, why do I pray for Barack Obama's safety and salvation?

Then based upon your false choice which I will indulge, there is no need for funerals, hugs, sympathy letters or cards or any other human action or interaction which brings true consolation.

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

It is adorable though that you have some sympathy for Hitler, I'm sure you're going to fall on the right side of history this time, because for the lat 60 years you've got the shaft, what with the whole wanting to kill people and hating on others.

Her reflections on the priesthood and the Christian life are frequently affecting, and she obviously has little sympathy for the Women?s Ordination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordination of women.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

Erikson, in discussing the Golden Rule, suggests that the reciprocity of both prudence and sympathy should be replaced with the principle of mutuality which he defines as «a relationship in which partners depend on each other for the development of their respective strengths.»

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»

Great how you point out that one verse but skip over the others that recommend dying in conflict for your faith or how those who aren't muslim deserve no sympathy.

When a person acts on behalf of someone who has won his sympathy, the welfare of the other person has become his interest — it is a new self - interest altered by the genuine concern for the welfare of the other.

Indeed, to talk of «substance» here is in itself misleading; for the use of that term, despite all the protests of the neo-Thomists and others, is certain to bring us to think of God in terms of unchanging and unchangeable inert stuff — and to do that is to deny, ab initio, the possibility of a God who responds in complete faithfulness and with the utter integrity of His own nature, yet with deepest awareness and sympathy.

In other words, to tell a survivor that she should feel sympathy for the one who sexually abused her is to impede her recovery.

Yet we feel deep sympathy and empathy for the woman who agonizes over her choice, and finally decides that abortion is the best, most caring decision she can make for herself, the fetus, and other children she may have.

I don't bother with many other comment sections on the internet, so if she wants to explain to me how a complete lack of proof led her in one of the worst possible directions or how her lack of understanding of morals and ethics lead her to choose the most criminal of religious cults to join..., then that would be great and I'm sure we could all enjoy picking apart her arguments for her «conversion» to those of us who know the difference between reason, logic, common sense, and ethics and morals and empathy and sympathy... as I would guess she doesn't give a crap anyway I doubt she'll show up here.

Indeed, as far as I can see, literature does little other than inculcate in our future leaders a sympathy for the downtrodden, the oppressed, the marginalized.

What we shall be considering is the relatively close - knit unit or group, composed of a few people — normatively, of course, a family in the ordinary sense but also other possible associations that involve the presence of a person with several others, so that there can be an expression of belonging, with mutual love and concern, sympathy, and understanding, and hence the opportunity and occasion for enrichment and growth in each of the participants.

It calls for more kindness, sympathy, and sharing — in short, more love — within the family, in business, toward other races, toward our enemies, among the world's suffering multitudes.

We feel some sympathy for the Pharisee when he congratulates himself that he is not like other men — extortioners, unjust, adulterers, tax collectors.

Hartshorne beautifully defines «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives.28 He also defines «self - interest» as the sympathy the present self may feel for future members of the same sequence, and «altruism» as «whatever sympathy that self may feel for members of other sequences, human, sub-human, or superhuman.

What is unique in the present conflict is the psychological maneuvering on both sides to gain public sympathy, one making use of moral categories of «just retaliation» and the other appealing for religious or moral duty of every Muslim to be engaged in jihad against the infidels and their ways.

Thus he is radically dependent upon others for his happiness, for he must suffer when others either endure or produce suffering.66 The panentheistic God perpetually actualizes himself both in the sublimely blissful joy of sharing the joys of others and in the cosmic crucifixion of feeling supreme sympathy for the agonies of all creatures.

For the others, I have considerable respect and at least some sympathy — but somewhere along the winding trail from natural law to theological doctrine, he and I part company (though I'd happily tag along as what the Communists used to call a fellow traveler, if he'd tolerate the company).

Therefore, while it recognizes human sympathy, fellow - feeling and identification, it has a new basis for identification with the other.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

His gospel entails sympathy, mercy, kindness, concern for the environment — in short, the whole bag of traditional Christian sentiments and causes applied to nature as well as to other human beings.

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.

«It's not to draw any degree of sympathy for myself but it's actually to encourage others and to say that we believe those who say they were sexually abused, we know the pattern in the school.»

And thanks for the sympathy - it's a tough allergy to deal with when others are doing the cooking.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others... for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.

I feel no sympathy for him, he's been paid handsomely for his efforts yet has lied and blamed other factors including us fans for his failure.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!