Sentences with phrase «without conviction of»

If it's time to bring awareness to their hearts through a gentle, probing question, then remaining in acceptance without conviction of sin only blocks them from encountering the Good News.

Not exact matches

Several want to work for large brands or want to work on - site in US or Europe, without having a conviction of whether that is going to make them happy.

And I cherish my role of being difficult to persuade about strategic moves without strong data or logic or conviction on your part.

Democracy depends on people of conviction fighting for what they believe in the public square — non-violently, respectfully and ethically, but also vigorously and without embarrassment.

Without a deep understanding of the downside, even of the unfathomable, conviction and concentration can be dangerous to disastrous.

Life in prison without the possiblity of parole is a just sentence following conviction.

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

Robust and evangelically vibrant Catholic conviction, it seemed, had no more place in the «real world» of late modernity than did the dream of a Europe without the Berlin Wall.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

And I wanted to introduce the topic through a series of questions, precisely because questions are about as far as I can go with this topic without tripping up on my own failed attempts to establish guiding principles or rules about how to engage other people with wisdom, conviction, and grace online.

In the Middle Ages, the motivations for the Crusades were undoubtedly mixed, but without the deep conviction of conscientious Christians that they should rescue the Holy Land from the infidel, they would not have occurred.

The «Conviction of «Sin»» (I.E. esse: «essence,» «being») an immaculate concept flying in on the wings of a dove, say: certainly nothing one would conjure up without the help of Goedel's Theorem, might as well ask Joe Fish to define wet let alone conceive of dry: it makes no common sense.

The experience of the last decade has been sufficient to convince great numbers, if they were not convinced before, that civilized life can not prosper, or even survive, without the undergirding of strong ethical convictions.

This, I think, is what the g.ay lobby most fears: that loving, biblical Christians will continue to grow in «loving their neighbors» without abandoning the rest of their biblical convictions — that what the Bible clearly defines as a sin can only be called that.

It was his conviction that the Christian must always contemplate wars with mental pain and that «if any one either endures or thinks of them without mental pain, his is a more miserable plight still, for he thinks himself happy because he has lost all human feeling.»

Most modern Church - goers give this weekly witness to their own inner conviction without the slightest sense of superiority, and more frequently than is sometimes supposed, it is given by young Christians despite ridicule, discouragement and even some persecution.

The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a short video.

I can not talk seriously to an independent partner who would make absolutely everything a matter of choice and discussion, without any settled fundamental conviction whatsoever.

But real dialogue is the intent, although not without conviction on the part of the minister.

If you feel that strongly about it, have the courage of your convictions and be proud of it without being a coward and whining about how the PC world is ruining things for you.

And it is sure to reinforce the growing, salutary conviction that Christians can not be children of their Father in heaven without their older brothers and sisters in the faith, the people of Israel to whom the living God revealed his proper name.

Indeed, they played such a significant role that it would be impossible to discuss American letters in the mid-twentieth century responsibly without both examining a considerable number of observant Catholic authors and recognizing the impact of their religious conviction on their artistry.

What was important was a conviction that was deeply in accordance with the God - centeredness of Christian faith and that could be maintained without special pleading or the use of highly suspect argument.

True, it goes without saying that if a man can not in conscience accept the doctrine of the Church as the norm of his faith, this must be respected by others, whether they think his view right or not; and the Church, too, must respect such a conviction and may not suppress it by social pressures or prevent its expression.

To say with such conviction that no Democrat will enter Heaven... based on YOUR interpretation of what God's holy nature is... based on a Book (no matter how much instruction and wisdom it may provide... without, it seems to me, using your own intellect to delve deeper into the whole of it... is in my opinion the sign of a Believer with a Giant Sequoia in his eye and teaching with his finger.

Such a case amounts to the same thing as the question whether a Catholic of the kind we need to postulate in this instance, namely a man with a scientific, philosophical and theological formation, could, without guilt, come to the subjectively honest conviction that he can no longer honestly and in conscience believe and affirm the Church's authority.

From the moment Levin saw his beloved brother dying and for the first time looked at the problems of life and death in the light of what he called the new convictions that between the ages of twenty and thirty - four had imperceptibly taken the place of the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he was horrified not so much by death as by a life without the slightest knowledge of where it came from, what it was for, and why, and what it was.

Our study is a reminder that alternative worldviews based on religious convictions can be an important resource for engaging with difficult issues and for challenging aspects of a culture that so many of us accept without question.

The new crisis of the church results from the gradual secularization of life, the conviction that «man can lead the good life without believing in God».

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

Non-violent action can, of course, be undertaken without reference to love, but one characteristic of most of the non-violent ethical movements has been the conviction that this strategy is required by love and provides a way of giving love a direct expression in social conflict.

In a way, fundamentalism is as much a frame of mind as a set of doctrines, for many Christians hold these convictions without repudiating those who differ.

Now, we can look to this passage as comfort for all the times we've felt rejected — by our community, by our loved ones, by our church — but I can't get through this one without a deep, uncomfortable sense of conviction.

Many of the people I love most in my life fall into this «camp,» and most of them mean it when they say that they sincerely love their friends and relatives in the LGBT community and wish they knew of some way to hold to their convictions without hurting or insulting their neighbors.

John Calvin was able to declare in 1555 without fear of contradiction: «There is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.»

Although many connect the word with a quiet life of withdrawal, I need a word to designate those times when we sense that a life is being lived well, that a conviction is held honestly without contrivance.

In our conception of that dream, in the strength of our conviction of the new world it can create, and in our willingness to make all sacrifices willingly and without reservation for the democratic ideal lie not only our hope of total victory but our only hope of personal satisfaction and happiness during this era....

And I don't think you can answer some of the key questions without bringing religious conviction into the picture.

The writer, of course, was myself, and the conviction had come upon me almost without my noticing it.

So how do we walk the line of conviction and intention, engaging with culture in a way that is meaningful, without crossing over into a role to which we were never called?

Telling seekers that they are right with God without the evidence of conviction of sin (the work of the Holy Spirit) that results in the desire for a changed heart, life, lifestyle, mind and character, is like picking green fruit, and after a bite or two wondering why it doesn't taste like it should.

He writes, «Without clear and credible doctrinal directives, Christian experience fades in conviction, even as doctrinal assent devoid of personal appropriation spells spiritual impoverishment.»

When speaking of universal salvation sometimes he used it in quite a weak sense — much in the way an Englishman might hope for a fine day (without any firm conviction that it will come to pass).

Those who had moral reservations about research on the youngest of humans but were persuaded of the need to pursue treatments can now support this promising research without compromising their pro-life conviction.

Later forms of Buddhism modified this conviction, spoke of a heaven of happiness and postponed indefinitely the entrance to nirvana, but they could not negate nirvana without being false to the teaching of the founder.

With respect to value issues, no institution of higher education can be either officially neutral or unofficially indifferent without falling into self - contradiction, since there can be no community gathered for humane scholarship apart from the institutionalization of certain values; for example, the value attached to truth - seeking, to ideas, to disinterestedness, to empirical, evidential and rational procedures; or convictions about the nonidiosyncratic and nonunivocal character of truth.

But, so far as I can see, the only claims that Paul makes about any distinctiveness or originality concern (1) his conviction that he was specially called by God to conduct a mission to gentiles, and (2) his view of the terms on which gentiles were to be received as full co-religionists with Jewish believers (baptism / faith in Jesus without taking on Jewish observance of Torah).

He thus gave the support of his office to the conviction that Mary had been born without original sin — a theological position on which Roman Catholic scholars had not been agreed — and by implication denounced views recently put forth by Strauss and held in many circles which denied the virgin birth of Jesus.

The second is his equal conviction that we never shall so learn without a repentance, which among other things learns to trust the existence with which we have been endowed as the gift of one to whom we can say, Abba.

I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that I am embarked upon a «true path» that they have missed.»