Sentences with phrase «think about authority»

«When arriving at Harvard, many participants don't expect to come away assessing how they think about authority, or their openness to delegating responsibility, or new ways they may need to adjust their personal leadership.»

When I think about the authorities in my life over the years, not one of those who was successful as a leader, as an authority, ever spoke about the authority they have.

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In some cases, family firms should be thinking about «intergenerational partnerships,» which see parents and adult children sharing managerial authority for an extended period — perhaps as long as 10 or 15 years.

If you were thinking about becoming a partner in a firm, you'd no doubt be very concerned with the responsibilities you would have, the authority you would carry and the ownership you would receive in the enterprise.

Veteran entrepreneur Celeste Hilling, CEO and founder of 10 - year - old lifestyle company Skin Authority, stumped me with this question a few weeks ago, but she definitely left me with something to think about.

It bothers me often when I think of the youth that I was a pastor to and those who I was placed in authority over, I seriously fear at times about what I have done, yet I also thank God for his grace and mercy.

People like you are so self - deluded that you actually think you understand all about your invisible friend and have authority to pronounce policy.

Now this is quote is in relation to the question of taxation but it lends itself well to the overall thought about secular vs religious authority.

And after that, I thought about the Biblical admonition: «When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.»

I've had a couple of traumatic, triggering experiences this week which have had me thinking again about just how much I struggle against institutions, so - called authority figures, and what I perceive to be (or are) obnoxious agents trying to exert «control» over my freedom of expression and thought and behaviors.

The stated practical aim of the book is refreshingly modest; it is «to encourage contemporary thinkers to take seriously the role that divine authority might play in morality, and thereby perhaps to think seriously about the reality of God.»

I think we often project what we learned about authority or our parents, in particular, onto God.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

It says something about Catholic authority today that it is hard to think of a member of the Catholic hierarchy who stands among the most influential U.S. Catholics.

«He is an authority who, before giving us something to obey, gives us something to think about... Man wants to be enlightened in his intelligence and this is the great debt of gratitude we owe the Pope.»

@ Thinking man:» They had witness something so momentous, so extraordinary that when the authorities threatened with them death if they didn't shut up about Jesus Christ, they accepted death without fear.»

I'm not sure about the»cause and effect» part of it though... I would think that the authority feeds an lustful impulse, and that a sexual craving / desire is not necessarily «part» of the need for authority.

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?)

Bernardo, I just think you are continuing to be silly in professing to have wisdom to impart and continuing down this path of rhetoric about a «myth» and logical fallacy of argument from authority.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

It seems to me that the government is given authority to use military and law enforcement in Romans, and I also shudder to think about what our history would have been like had our armed forces never existed.

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

This weakening may be the ecclesiastical counterpart of that decline of respect for authority which has occurred among men who first having thought themselves masters of their fate then, as mass - men, became the prey of powers which moved them about not as persons but as things or bundles of conditionable reflexes.

«One of the hardest things about trying to follow Karl Barth is his apparent lack of interest in the liberal question of how theology can meet the challenges of modernity: historical criticism, the collapse of the «house of authority,» the apparent disjunction between scientific and theological thinking, etc.,» Green reflects.

The confusion in modern Christendom about the meaning of the ministry makes itself evident in uncertainty about pastoral authority as well as in the vagueness present in thought about pastoral functions.

I think if you read it, you will see what the Bible clearly teaches about submitting to those in authority, and then you will be able to recommend it to your readers, and they will see the truth also.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

I think critically, challenge authority, and ask tough questions about my faith.

Christians who have thought about matters of importance to the church in this way have a power and authority lacking to those who do not think.

Still, it is not immediately clear how the preoccupations of a small group of elite conspirators with issues of honor and authority provide a starting point for our own thinking about ethics.

Catholics believe God has granted authority to the Pope over their religion and that authority stands regardless of what you or I may feel or think about it.

Angelology — The study of violence has led into deep reading and thinking about the dominions, powers, and authorities of this world, and how these things are related to the destroyer, satan, and demons, and violence in general.

They possessed a similar preaching style — Bible in hand, striding about the stage, completely self - assured and filled with authority, speaking in plain terms to the masses without much thought to structure or logic — presenting an image both dynamic and convincing.

Pastor Tim Challies has argued that «thinking biblically» about the SGM lawsuit — which alleges that the leadership of SGM covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person — means keeping quiet about it in order to avoid «gossip.»

All of this came to naught, Siemon - Netto argues, because both American and British authorities at the highest levels thought in cliches about Germans (militarists), Lutherans (quietists), and conservatives (Hitler sympathizers).

To your question about authority, I do think the degree to which the scriptures informed the creeds is the key.

Repentance is recognizing that God is the ultimate authority and willingly realigning your thoughts to correspond with the truth about who God is and what our right position is before Him.

Isaac knelt down and began to pray; he strung along, and strung along, about the heathen in distant lands, and about the sister churches, and about the state and the country at large, and about those that's in authority in the government, and all the usual programme, you know, till everybody had got tired and gone to thinking about something else, and then, all of a sudden, when nobody was noticing, he outs with a match and rakes it on the under side of his leg, and pff!

Well, I was just about to post that I don't think this can refer to Satan, because A, we're not supposed to fear him, and B, he has no authority to throw into hell, nor certainly to destroy one's soul there (as the parallel in Matthew 10:28 would imply).

The problem is mainstream muslims are clueless about how to stop them, we are doing out best to report them to the authorities but sometimes it is not easy even for US to tell and I think perhaps it is going to take a collective effort of all of us together to rid ourselves of this scourge... rather than a «Its us against the Muslim world» approach which only alienates more people, and is contribute to the problem spreading.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

Thinking about freedom, I read Oswald Chambers, again in MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST:: â $ œOur Lord never insists on having authority; he never says, Thou shalt!

But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.

Yes, it may be in a lot of flux, but I tend to think more can be identified and explained about some coalescing new concepts of authority, beyond her few comments near the end that it is in some combination of Scripture and community.

I think of the Bible that is rife with stories about bucking authority and thinking and saying things without permission.

Duke officials had to receive clearance from aeronautical authorities in Washington for a plane to fly overhead for pictures, which the public - address announcer informed the crowd about beforehand lest anyone think the enemy was attacking.

I think the players we moan about have shown this fault, this common issue, the need of a stricter authority figure to keep them on the path they need to walk.

I don't think I would have developed the confrontational attitude about authority that I had for so long.»

Whether that's true or not about being safer is unclear, but WWE isn't hiding that it's their thinking, either: Triple H, who plays an onscreen role but is also a legitimate authority figure for WWE in real life, said as much himself.