Sentences with phrase «whose conscience»

The congregation of St. Aidan's voted to leave the Synod of the Diocese of Huron after the Bishop of the Synod accepted a resolution to «grant permission to clergy, whose conscience permits, to bless the duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same - sex couples.»

They will happily fire anyone whose conscience gets in the way of their simple clear - cut mission.

Lawrence, 23 and freshly Oscar «ed for Silver Linings Playbook, expertly plays this reluctant warrior whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow and whose conscience is her own.

He subtly conveys the conflicted nature of this two - bit gumshoe whose conscience just might outweigh his judgment.

These movies center on people whose conscience ultimately short - circuits their drive for power.

You're a nut, if you think Christians are going to go along with this individual, whose conscience have been seared by the devil.

E. g., the problem in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 is the conflict between those whose conscience allowed them to eat meat sold in the marketplace (which might have previously been dedicated to idols), and those conscience, being undeveloped, felt that such meat was «contaminated» by the idolatrous practices.

His stated goal in all of this is to create an independent Western Islam, a new «Muslim personality» whose conscience can be faithful to Islamic principles while being fully integrated into Western societies.

On the other hand, whose conscience is better formed than Joseph Ratzinger's?

Jesus was addressing men whose consciences were so hardened that they could stand in front of God Himself and accuse Him of sin!

Unfortunately about a dozen or so issued weak statements that, in fact, served to establish a «conscience» loophole that allowed dissenters to claim that couples whose consciences did not consider contraception to be wrong in their case, could use contraception without sin.

2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

On the other hand, men whose consciences were stirred and whose resolution was sustained by the Christian faith sought to counter and if possible to eliminate these evils.

`... in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods...» (verses 1 - 3, ESV)

1 Timothy 4:1 - 3 1Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

One great advantage of a lectureship was that it allowed men whose consciences were troubled by portions of the Prayer Book to escape the requirement that the prescribed services be read, for the ordinary worship was conducted by the parson and not by the lecturer.

Generally, Schrader is fascinated by characters — almost always men — whose consciences are never quite scrubbed clean.

Not exact matches

What of the credit - ratings agencies whose AAA writings were as much up for sale as the conscience and honesty of politicians on the Senate and House Banking Committees?

The court thus ruled that no nonreligious entity - even, as in the case of VHA, a membership organization whose members had raised a conscience objection to performing abortions - possessed the statutory right described in the exempting statute.

And this exchange, totally imaginable — perhaps some version of it has occurred in these very United States, between people who couldn't tell John Roberts from the Dread Pirate Roberts — must, when it occurs between two private parties, quickly devolve into an argument about whose need trumps whose: the couple's need for the florist's services, or the florist's need to obey his conscience.

But he also sees persons whose inner controls or consciences are underdeveloped and weak.

Americans are worshiping the god Molech, the terrible furnace god into whose fiery mouth parents in ancient times threw their own children, destroying them to relieve the guilt of their own consciences.

I would not like a government or a religious group or non-religious group whose thought would be to abolish freedom of thought and conscience from the face of the earth.

Furthermore, since sex has to do with the creation of persons, whose individual worth is the basic principle of democracy, the health and vitality of democracy may be directly related to the prevailing state of conscience with regard to sex.

Thus it is clear that there is an inescapable moral aspect in all preaching, an aspect whose purpose is to awaken conscience and to move the hearers to do what Kierkegaard once styled «the works of love.»

This classic essay explains and justifies his refusal, arguing that each citizen has a duty to resist a government whose actions — in this case, supporting slavery, mistreating Indians and prosecuting the Mexican - American War — offend the higher law of conscience.

The gay rights lobby in America has had much success, but it is overreaching by insisting upon ideological conformity, by overturning the centrality of the natural family, by paving - over conscience, by instilling fear of reprisal, by elevating sexual orientation above competing considerations, by subjugating the Christian religion whose anthropology helped shape our constitutional order.

Freud does not help us understand the more mature, autonomous conscience, whose values are based on the ego's perceptions of what is authentically good for oneself and for others, rather than on the dictates of one's superego.

Another lawyer representing Daniel and Amy McArthur, who own Ashers, has argued that the state is penalising the Belfast baking firm, with the courts effectively forcing them to make a cake whose message they disagree with as a matter of religious conscience.

The GOP is following the Whigs (whose brilliant beginnings are now forgotten since they sold out against their conscience on the issues of slavery and manifest destiny) into the dilapidated dustbin of history, and will be commemorated in future history textbooks as the party whose decline began when they sold out to ignorance and religious extremism.

In particular, he appealed on behalf of those whose religiously informed conscience will not allow them to provide — or to «designate» others to provide for them — sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients.

Before we can move in good conscience toward whatever God's promise holds in store for us and for the universe, those whose basic needs are not yet satisfied must be cared for.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congs is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected [by the majority] shut the door of worship agst the members whose creeds & consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority.

After all, the pagan gods to whom the meat was offered had no reality But if he or any other by eating such meat should lead another, for whom it was a matter of conscience, to do so, then indeed would it be wrong, «for through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

There is some limited sense, at least, in which this really is a group whose actions shock the conscience of humankind.

Democracy has never meant the tyranny of the simple majority,... Democracy entails an elected government, subject to certain checks and balances such as the common law and the courts, and an executive ultimately responsible to parliament, whose members are entitled to vote according to conscience and common sense.»

«Of course, his father was not just a great man, but a good one, whose powerful conscience served as a reminder to us all that sometimes you have to do the right thing — in politics and in life,» Clinton said.

Hack opinion writers without conscience are the ultimate evil because they draw their ink from the blood of innocent people whose reputation they are paid to attack.

To the comrades whose tenacity has provided the voice of conscience within this country and the NDC, I am profoundly grateful.

People who know me closely, including my teachers and lecturers, know that I have throughout my life stood for the principles I believe in and in my own conscience and it is strange that Ayine, whose family has benefitted from my upright character, insults me because the President has set him against me.

When Goswami worked at Amnesty International USA, he partnered with DataKind, who convened a group of data scientists to analyze a 30 - year archive of Urgent Action bulletins that contained information about prisoners of conscience, detainees, and other individuals whose human rights were being threatened.

His essays appeal to the conscience of the Japanese to relieve the suffering of the survivors, whose stories he recounts.

In a phone interview this week, Wong told me: «I decided I could not in good conscience support a product of a person whose views I find abhorrent and knowingly give him money.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).

From the magic lantern - style innovation of his sculpture installation Six Men Getting Sick to the fixed camera placements of The Alphabet to the rudimentary narrative of The Grandmother (whose heavy's freakishly accentuated jawline transforms his countenance into that of a snarling villain in the «Perils of Pauline» mode) to, finally, the total aesthetic compromise of the shot - on - video The Amputee, the first few entries contained on «The Short Films of David Lynch» imply that there is only one destiny for the medium, whether its evolution is spread out over a century or concentrated in the time it takes for an artist to develop a conscience.

Taking four of her sharpest colleagues with her, she swiftly makes the scrappy outfit battle - ready, navigating the tricky personalities — and personal agendas — of her new team members, most notably a mixed - race survivor of a high - profile school shooting (Gugu Mbatha - Raw, the movie's conscience), whose scruples nicely offset her new boss's anything - goes attitude.

Daniel Craig (the next James Bond) plays an instinctive man, not plagued by conscience, a natural soldier; Ciaran Hinds, an intellectual doubter; Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), a sensitive artist disguised as a bomb maker; and Hanns Zischler, a seemingly emotionless killer, whose facade cracks after a particularly pathetic episode involving the shooting of a frivolous female assassin.

A dissenter whose tax dollars are «extracted and spent» knows that he has in some small measure been made to contribute to an establishment [of religion] in violation of conscience....

Now that it has entered the national consciousness — perhaps even its conscience — the term has become a slippery, contentious phrase that is used to refer to a variety of unsavory social practices and attitudes and whose meaning is open to many interpretations, especially as to who is the perpetrator, who the victim.

A dissenter whose tax dollars are «extracted and spent» knows that he has in some small measure been made to contribute to an establishment in violation of conscience... When the government declines to impose a tax, by contrast, there is no such connection between dissenting taxpayer and alleged establishment.