Sentences with phrase «wrong sense of»

Probably the worst thing about it is its wrong sense of realism.

Not having a sense of humour, or having the wrong sense of humour and by wrong I mean offensive, lacking taste and decency is for most of us a big no - n0

Not exact matches

Likewise, taking blame for the bad relationship may feel gracious, but it'll fuel the customer's sense of being wronged.

Anyone who can't manage chaos and uncertainty, isn't totally oriented for action, and has no sense of urgency, is in the wrong business.

If a leader appears to lack integrity or a clear sense of vision, you know you're headed down the wrong path.

When our sense of worth depends on being right, it often comes at the expense of someone else's dignity and worth because we insist on making them wrong.

Observe their ability to self - evaluate, their sense of right and wrong, their willingness to challenge the status quo.

If all the apparent leaks are to be believed, everyone has a sense of the companies still bidding, but even that list, thought to be a general consensus, could be wrong.

Great asset management requires a willingness to be wrong over significant periods, with a strong sense of what will work in the long run.

Rather, they said the policy is an expression of «common - sense measures that would help prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands.»

But if you look at the bible and how christians use it by picking out what parts they agree with and dismissing the horror of it as «cultural of the times» it says to me that their sense of right and wrong is more evolved than the book they claim is the final authority of right and wrong.

morality should come from a natural sense of right or wrong, not from a deity.

well i double - dog dare you to view the world and the universe with a critical eye instead of one clouded by religion and ask yourself if it really makes sense that it was all done by magic, and that every scientific discipline is wrong.

If you condemn entirely and utterly without ensuring recognition ise given for praise worthy material then you are as bad as their mythical sky - daddy which has a very warped sense of «justice» in condemning to death otherwise good people for gathering firewood on the wrong day of the week.

I got a sense of you as a little child fearing being in the wrong.

Anyone who reads The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, however, must recognize that, far from being uncritical, Novak evinces an intense and well - informed sense about where the American experiment has gone wrong and is going wrong» from race relations, to the urban underclass, to crime, and the debasement of popular culture.

That's OK as long as you're being honest about it, but lots of Christians actually claim that the Jews were wrong concerning the god they themselves invented, which makes as much sense as an American legal expert telling the British experts that they don't understand their own law.

From what source is there a universal sense of right and wrong?

The way it all speaks to me is in the sense that most of us have this all wrong.

It is a reminder of our own mortality, of our own coming end, and as such we can react with fear and irrationality when something disturbs our sense of right and wrong regarding our dead.

Even animals have a better sense of right and wrong.

Certain commands and customs overlap as sense of right and wrong and convenience in life are similar among civilizations but nothing so systematic, profound, deep, meaningful, glorious and complex like the Bible exist on earth.

It is «foundationally wrong» to associating the presence or absence of an ethical sense of right and wrong with ANY organized religion.

There's some irony in the title, it seems, because much of what Harris suggests is that she was actually raised wrong, at least in a political sense.

Her opinion supports my innate sense of right and wrong.

We may sin or miss the mark, but a sinner is one who habitually sins and feels no sense of wrong about it.

Not only is Basinger unable to make divine coercionb intelligible, he also appears to be wrong in implying that the traditional God does not exercise coercion in the strong sense of unilateral determination.

You can't say, it's obviously wrong because it's unnatural, because it is «natural» in the sense of «occurs in nature».

They want a rational chronology of events that make rational sense and there is an obvious pattern of one person being the wrong doer.

And yet, the more one reads of his work, the more apparent it becomes that this is in some sense the wrong way around.

I have come to repent of this view, and not just because I came to my senses about how wrong it is to be rude toward somebody else's faith.

And, we're vocal, not because we want you to be wrong, but because we want you to feel that same sense of being unconditionally loved.

First, if a congregation is even in the remotest sense Christian and not totally a reflection of the culture, its church musicians feel the gnawing sense that simply meeting people's needs is wrong.

The fact of sin and the assurance of punishment, the sense of wrong and the practice of vengeance, the ideal of justice and the power of religion — all were operative forces but no one of them primarily concerned the individual; he came under their sway mainly as a member of the community.

My education is fine... Nothing is wrong with my writing sense you were able to simply reply... Look how far this country has fallen without God... We took God out of schools and now school shootings are a common thing... I mean your insults are flattering because all it tells me is that deep down you know I am right but don't want to admit it..

Musicians in this situation not only sense that something is wrong at the heart of things, but that they can never do anything fight.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

But even life in this generous sense of membership in creation does not protect us, as we know, from the dangers of avarice, of selfishness, of the wrong kind of abundance.

Since the grosser sins are mostly avoided and apathy is not considered wrong except in time of war, most people are not oppressed with a sense of guilt or sin.

As I continued to puzzle in various Christmas morning pews, I still sensed something wrong in this way of thinking about the Word made flesh.

On the other hand, many adult Christians not only tolerate but participate with no sense of guilt in practices of race discrimination which, if Jesus was right, must surely be wrong.

The first point to acknowledge in considering this view is that the Church has always taught that it is incompatible with an authentic sense of moral responsibility deliberately to choose what is known to be morally wrong, however good and desirable one's further purpose might be.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

At the heart of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and evil.

«But why would the very God I believe imprinted us all with a conscience — with a deep sense of right and wrong — ask me to deny that conscience by accepting genocide as just?»

C.S. Lewis describes the sense of right and wrong that exist in every person's conscience as the Moral Law written on our hearts.

n the Grimms» world, evil may rule, but there is also the utopian promise that with a sense of right and wrong, plus some magic, one might be able to live happily ever after.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

That is, your sense of knowing what is right and what is wrong, if you do this the Lord will guide you to Himself.