Sentences with phrase «think about his convictions»

But no matter what you think about his convictions, his ideas have gone viral — including the word «meme.»

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«There is a common conviction that we can not only deal with Britain's exit (from the EU), but instead that we must above all think about how we can deepen the existing European Union and especially the euro zone,» Merkel told reporters.

She suggests businesses be firmly rooted in their convictions and think about how they impact every exchange — «from the administrative assistant picking up the phone to the boss actually sharing a presentation.»

«I never was really burdened by too much conviction about what I as thinking....

I think that about the only conviction against Gay marriage comes from traditonal bible teaching homes.

In another letter, when asked about his thoughts about building a monument to Gen. Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson, he said again it just wasn't a good idea: «As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.»

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

When I read it, I thought of Peter Rollins» parable about the preacher whose «gift» was that anyone he prayed for immediately lost their religious convictions.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

I especially love blogs like Jeremy's because they encourage us to think about God as we work out our own convictions.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

It was, I think, Kierkegaard who observed that the greatest misfortune for any person is to have disciples, and anyone who talks in a personal way about one's convictions maximizes the risk of disciple - making.

«God is Love», says the first letter of St. John, summing up in that simple three - word phrase the conviction to which the primitive Christian community had come when it thought about, meditated upon, responded to, and in profound acceptance came to grasp what indeed God was «up to» in that crucial event which took place at a given moment in history.

What would be the thinking, the convictions about reality, that would lead someone to choose discipleship to him?

The answer here is the revelation you had of receiving a revelation from Holy Spirit (conviction) that you realised you harboured negative thoughts, envy, anger, jealousy and dark thoughts about God.

Instead of believing with Hartshorne that man's convictions about the ultimate character of reality can and should be determined by allegedly neutral logical principles, the understanding here being argued is that man's thinking about God is and should be governed by a vision emerging in the context of faith, a vision that is itself decisively conditioned by its rootage in history and in the prereflective levels of consciousness.

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

Reliance on a pill spares us from the messy business of having to think about and make sense of our experience, but the conviction is spreading as though the pill were the Good News itself.

With such deep convictions gripping his soul, so all - important to him that he was ready to die for them, it is unlikely that he ever thought much about logical consistency.

Stanley Hauerwas, an American theologian who has thought deeply about disability, wrote an essay on abortion that joins up biblical convictions to arrive at this conclusion: «The church is a family into which children are brought and received.

Do our moral convictions connect in a reasonable way with what we think about human origins?

I do not want to suggest that these concepts are ridiculous, but I do not myself find them meaningful and I do not think they throw any real light on what Christians believe, as a matter of conviction, about God.

I think it was his conviction that led me to take a more metaphysical stance to my own field of ecology, while from John Cobb I was learning about the ecology of internal relations.

This is not a gesture of humility about my thought or writing, but rather denotes my increasing theological, epistemological and moral conviction that theology in service to the church can not come only from an individual mind.

For example, when a murderer is executed and the question of capital punishment is raised, about which there is such divided opinion, the preacher should bring the meanings of the gospel and the meanings of the issue together in order that members of the congregation will think more about it and be better able to express their views with conviction and effect.

She believes that christianity is too political and has strayed too far from acting in good conscienceness, which to me means thinking carefully and thoughfully about ones spiritual convictions and then acting accordingly.

In voting for someone who I think will help reduce the number of abortions, I vote for someone who does not share my conviction about the sanctity of human life.

If one thinks of synonyms for «civil religion» — for example, belief in the good intentions of one's nation, optimism about the future of that nation, faith in the legitimacy of its historic institutions, conviction that its errors can and will be corrected — then it is obvious that many events could and did trivialize the American civil religion.

Alongside tepid birthright loyalties to denominations and schools of thought, one encounters in faculty and students the fervent convictions of new converts about the greatness of the common Christian cause.

And as for Jon Fox and myself being Pals?We have never met never spoken and never corresponded.We share a common hatred of Arsene Wenger.We also share a long time support of Arsenal Football Club.That is it.There are many many others who post their thoughts and feelings on this site who feel the same way about Wenger and the hierarchy of this club as we do.It would be very very easy to rip your comments to shreds but I simply refuse to waste time pointing out the obvious to you other than to say if your «posts» carried as much conviction and feeling as the ones posted by Jon Fox then you would find yourself gaining far more respect than what you are getting now.Study Ken1945 and how he writes his posts.

«I think it's going to be incredibly damaging» for Cuomo, Nixon said in an interview with The Buffalo News about the political impact of the pay - to - play trial of several Buffalo and Syracuse executives and the recent conviction of a former trusted adviser of Cuomo.

Despite Epley's convictions to the contrary, I will complete this book review on time, and I already know that I shouldn't worry too much about what other people think of me, because they seldom do.

As she talked about standing right, both in a pose and in our convictions in the world, I thought of my former students who couldn't imagine a bright future.

A thought - provoking science fiction that may feel dated today even with its good visuals but raises interesting philosophical questions about solitude, the value of life and what it is like to risk everything for a conviction - which outweighs the ecological message intended.

If you thought Netflix's Making a Murderer documentary about Steven Avery's two trials and convictions was a head - scratching, heartbreaking hot mess, your head may be about to explode.

Then I should think about what they said and see if it changed my mind; if not, I should have the courage of my convictions.

As someone who helped start a nonprofit focused on the very idea of using assessments to improve instruction, I feel even more conviction now — ten years in — that we all need to take bolder steps to reframe how we think about and use assessments intended to support teaching and learning.

She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts — it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved — but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.

I think it also represented each character's convictions about the choices they make.

Warnings from Hachette that Amazon is trying to gain monopoly pricing power are the equivalent of having someone with a rape conviction on their record say «Hey, baby, the guy you're thinking about is skeevy - looking, why don't we spend time together instead?»

I can't think of anything that I've done an about face on, but one thing I am sticking with is my conviction to minimize the home country bias.

Unlike, Robert Hughes who I think has a prejudice for things English, Porter had convictions about the value of art in a political context.From this book you learn that he was a committee communist.

Thinking about Item One above, I heard the following this morning on the Writer's Almanac (http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/), a quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley: «Do it now — write nothing but what your conviction of its truth inspires you to write....

At the time I was thinking about both contemporary figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and these solidify in Linhares's work with a rare conviction.

I think you need to ask yourself about the courage of your convictions if you give way to apologetics the moment the WSJ finds you guilty by association.

If you daydream about aligning your personal convictions with a fulfilling and inspiring professional position, then maybe it's time to think about a green job search.

I am home from the terrific Miami FSG conference (kudos to everyone involved), and on the way I was thinking about Judge Rakoff's decision this past week to give an enormous variance — the largest I have seen — to a corporate president who apparently faced a life sentence under the guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $ 260 million in losses (basics here).

«Slate Puts its Convictions on Hold Main What Do Clients Really Think About Outsourcing to India?»

In a lesson about using «flimsy grounds» for stopping people on suspicion of texting while driving, an Ontario Superior Court judge has thrown out an alcohol - related conviction after a cop stopped a driver he thought had a cellphone in his hand while at a red light.

It allows people to go in and answer questions in natural language about their convictions and then based upon how they answer the questions they'll be asked different questions and it kind of walks them through a decision tree and at the end of it it makes kind of an assessment, not a determinative legal assessment, it'll say you know we think that you're probably a good candidate based upon your responses but we're going to double check it.