Sentences with phrase «humans think of things»

Humans think of things in terms of beginnings and endings.

Not exact matches

The only thing that I can think of is if humans being there is inherently part of the economy — and the only way that happens is tourism.

One of the most intriguing things about human behavior is that most of us think that we can hide our thoughts from others — but nothing could be further from the truth.

There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the early church, and yet the church endures, the church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in history, one particular school of thought, one particular framework.

One thing I do know or have thought about is Humans can live for a short period of time.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

I can't think of a nicer thing in the world personally to do for another human being.

A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you think we came from), and the human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

«I think internalizing the fact that no opinion / belief / enthusiasm inoculates either you or anyone else from the baser aspects of the human condition, or the larger social milieu in which we all exist, is probably a very smart thing to do.

The seventh lecture of William James's pragmatism series bore the title «Pragmatism and Humanism,» and included the statement: «When we talk of reality «independent» of human thinking, then, it seems a thing very hard to find.»

But sometimes we earthlings can not get much further in our thinking about such things as love, fidelity, commitment and caring than to summon forth the image of some mama somewhere who will always be for us the concrete human experience of such divine ideas.

If so, take a look at our entire human history for countless examples of physical processes causing things that we used to think were magic.

A thought, a harmony, the achievement of a perfection in material things, some special nuance in human love, the exquisite complexity of a smile or a glance, every new embodiment of beauty appearing in me or around me on the human face of the earth: I cherish them all like children whose flesh I can not believe destined to complete extinction.

Just, Wise, Forknowing (he knows the future), He knows our inner thoughts, He knows the intentions of our hearts, He knows our needs, He's a good father (and if human fathers try to give what kids need (bread, egg), they would net give»em bad things (a stone, a scorpion), He's kind, He's welcoming.

This point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of human thought in a more and more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined point of convergence required as term for this evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»

What they lost to was a radical, liberal read of what Jesus» teaching was regarding human equality and loving your «neighbor», and I think the same thing will win the day here.

i think refusing to see another human as an equal is a sin, refusing to acknowledge that children are small versions of adults and have a lot of insight on things is a sin... but loving another of the same gender isn't a sin, it's love.

And one of the things I've learned as a pastor and just as a human being is how quickly we'll cling to a consoling thought and insist on it's truth simply because it consoles us.

Something that we tend to forget, one of the great things that was allegedly gifted to us as humans is the power to think for ourselves.

In the development of human thought and perception, the shift from primary orality to vowelised literacy involves the movement from an implicit sense of things in concrete operational thinking to explicit concepts articulated through abstract thinking.

per · son · i · fy transitive verb: to have a lot of (a particular quality): to be the perfect example of a person who has (a quality): to think of or represent (a thing or idea) as a person or as having human qualities or powers

God has given us much evidence of His existence: how about the intricacies of how the human body works - can you really believe that happened without a master plan; what about the beauty of nature - can we really think that that just happened; what about the testimony of millions throughout the ages including Scientists attempting to disprove God, that point to things beyond their comprehension or doing.

If you think it is amazing that evolution brought you such things as humans, just think of all the other lifeforms, many that are much more advanced than humans, that no doubt inhabit this vast universe.

Insane people think Humans are some sort of 4th magical being that's not in anyway related to animals despite that whole pesky «genetics» thing pretty much guaranteeing we are.

It's not just life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?

Are you that arrogant as to honestly think your form is the epitome of any form and that a «human being» is that much more important than any living thing?

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

Hardly more than Sölle do they encourage thought of God as an agent alongside other agents, one who brings things about in the world or in human life.

With that said, I think they do want the general belief in God, a general sense that goodness orders the universe, that love and peace and joy are all good things, that human rights actually matter, and that we can experience some sort of mystical communion with God / the universe / whatever through spirituality.

Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way of looking at real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the meaning of life, the self, etc. in a new way.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

Even if there is no serious sin in someone's life, bad things happen to all people, and when these things happen, the tendency of the average human being is to think that God is punishing them for something.

You should too, and I think you'll find that a vast number of things which aren't just made up could indeed be natural occurrences that coincide with some significant human endeavors.

I don't think she quite feels the overpowering sense of God's sovereignty over all things, painful or pleasant, virtuous or perverse, in human experience.

I think the most disappointing thing about religion (and I don't mean to offend here) is that it diminishes the idea of human potential.

i have made a statement that all the things that exist (including the immaterial thoughts and ideas of humans)-- exist within this very material universe.

i made a statement: all the things that exist (including the immaterial thoughts and ideas of humans)-- exist within this very material universe.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

the Bible does judge a lot of things as deserving of the death penalty if we are to follow ur thinking it hates all humans.

Rick Perry is a nimrod, and this is just a way for him to try to look like a good guy and appease the idiots that think prayer does a thing outside of making humans think they can have any control.

Believing in God is much more pleasant, and we humans are predisposed to experience emotions that feel like proof when we think of things like a higher cause, morality, justice, etc..

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

For one thing, in a Jewish context «ethics» covers a much wider swath of human behavior than what most people think of when they use ethical categories.

So once again... if you deny that you engage in this basic human practice of accusing, condemning, and scapegoating others... if you think that the people you call «monsters» and «heretics» truly are guilty of everything you accuse them of... if you think that some people truly deserve to burn in hell for all eternity... if you think that war is righteous and good and we need to bomb some groups of evil people off the face of the planet... then you are calling God a liar, and you have not understood the first thing about God and what He taught through Jesus (cf. 1 John 4:7 - 11).

I think that's exactly the kind of thing we should expect from going deeper and realizing what types of things are alive and well in our human hearts.

seriously if all humans stopped and thought about it we are all just human, nothing more nothing less and no more important in the grand scheme of things than anything else in this universe.