"The court has affirmed everything that we argued.
Here, too, he has turned to outsiders for counsel, arranging a global poll of deaneries and parishes to find out how they deal with the family".[Francis] is not a dogmatic scholar who would just like to affirm everything as it was in the textbooks," says Hans Küng, a liberal Swiss theologian who has clashed with successive popes over doctrine.
Indeed, I do not know of an Evangelical who does not affirm everything that has just been said; but it tends to be arranged under the rubric of 'sanctification', and hence treated in second position in any account of Paul's gospel.
I affirmed everything I could.
"Mexico affirms everything but completes nothing," said Alma Gomez, director of the Chihuahua Women's Human Rights Center, which sent a delegation to the Geneva sessions.
It is harder to read more widely and deeply, for a deeper understanding of faith that may not affirm everything you've been taught.
"In terms of what they found, it absolutely affirms everything that the court system in Ecuador, and Ecuador's supreme court has found: that Chevron is guilty," said Kevin Koenig, the Ecuador program director for Amazon Watch.
And ask them, really, what on earth did they have in mind by voting against this life-affirming, love-affirming, everything-affirming striking down of DOMA.
"By making Serra a saint, we shouldn't be affirming that everything he did was right," he said.
"Should somebody like Big Tobacco knock on our door and say they're ready to enter into discussions, it would be foolish to not give that serious consideration," he says, after affirming that everything in life has a price, and a multinational conglomerate like Philip Morris would likely have no trouble matching the number in his head.
"Will they decide to give up everything that is pleasant but not necessary," she writes, "or will they affirm that everything is necessary and that men have the right to wear sound, solid shoes on their feet?" Natalia Ginzburg in 1989.
