Sentences with phrase «humans yearn for»

Sex is a force in the human yearning for union.

Niebuhr thus seems to have brought together the perfect love of God which transcends all selfishness with the human yearning for mutuality and the struggle of man for justice.

Hazel and Ben's twinned sibling rivalry and love is beautifully complex, and their relatable human yearnings for the objects of their affections anchor the novel in the believable, despite the fact that said passions are for a comatose enchanted prince and a fairy changeling.

Not exact matches

They're run by people who yearn for creative challenges and fulfilling opportunities, and who need the guidance of good human managers — not hard drives — to get them there.

In the theological world, Liberation theologies express the yearning for human wholeness....

For only God can really satisfy our deepest and most human yearnings, for absolute truth and absolute loFor only God can really satisfy our deepest and most human yearnings, for absolute truth and absolute lofor absolute truth and absolute love.

That is the human condition and out of it we yearn for completion even while we try to convince others that we have it.

But I can point to the universal experience of all humans who have a yearning for something beyond our physical existence — for ultimate purpose, value and meaning.

The human mind mixed with brainwashing, ignorant elders and the yearning for hope make a breeding ground for religions to flourish.

There is no underlying core to human beings, no ultimate basis for our most cherished beliefs, not even any final goal on which all our yearnings and searchings will eventually converge.

The biological instinct, which is real enough, is in men and women taken up into the yearning for relationship with other human beings; it is given a new significance and a new direction.

Because humans have always yearned for the Absolute, monotheism must be ever vigilant against idolatry.

I understand grief, I understand fear, I understand love, I understand justice, I understand the yearning for freedom, I understand courage, I understand the human spirit, and I see those beautiful and tragic truths in your people.

Because then you realise that every other human being on the face of the earth is yearning for that knowledge as well.

Some humans romantically yearn for a regression back to social anarchy, which might be likened — rather fancifully, to be sure — to the cells of a plant longing for the mobility of single - celled organisms.

Religion for them was an expression of the human yearning to rise above the world and transcend it: it was the discovery of a supramundane sphere where the soul could detach itself from all earthly care and find its rest.

Those who have not subscribed to political Zionism understand the return to Zion as a spiritual yearning for the messianic rule of justice and peace, not to be substituted with human accomplishment of resettlement in the former territory, or of establishing a nation - state.

The same goes for other movements and yearnings in pre-conciliar Catholicism: the active participation of the laity in the mission of the Church, the theological return to the biblical and patristic sources of the faith, religious freedom as an inalienable feature of human dignity.

«Perhaps one of the main challenges of living faithfully before God as a gay Christian is to believe, really believe, that God in Christ can make up for our sacrifice of homosexual partnership not simply with his own desire and yearning for us but with his desire and yearning mediated to us through the human faces and arms of those who are our fellow believers.»

Dalit consciousness is a reaction to dominant forces rooted in an yearning for relief from human conditions of existence and a sense of utter powerlessness in the depths of oppression.

Freedom for excellence is the freedom that will satisfy the deepest yearnings of the human heart to be free.

He answers the deepest yearnings of the prophets for justice and righteousness before God by his own life and teaching, and he makes ever present in himself the future longings of Psalmist and Wisdom writer for human wholeness and integrity of life.

However, the yearning for dignity, demonstrated for example by the Arab Spring, is a more fundamental and more inclusive human need than just the desire for freedom, and it is possible to live in freedom but not in dignity even in mature democracies.

This is something that all human beings deserve and is yearned for by those are denied it.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

For reasons having to do with the Western scientific tradition — that the best and truest theories and natural laws are the simple ones — and, probably, the human brain's yearning for simplicity, our intuitions about the world are turning out to be wrong the closer we examine For reasons having to do with the Western scientific tradition — that the best and truest theories and natural laws are the simple ones — and, probably, the human brain's yearning for simplicity, our intuitions about the world are turning out to be wrong the closer we examine for simplicity, our intuitions about the world are turning out to be wrong the closer we examine it.

In the discussions of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old - fashioned creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex life - forms — humans in particular.

We as human beings yearn for acceptance... and that's one of the reasons we are so vulnerable to diets!

This is how, at the level of the most basic yearning for human companionship, consumerism can potentially fuse with a neoliberalist ethos, eliciting a flexible consumer who can desire whatever's required and accept that yearning as authentic.

Me and My Shadow tells the story of Shadow Stan, an extremely frustrated shadow who yearns for a dynamic life but happens to be stuck with Stanley Grubb, the world's most boring human.

Further to that thankless function (dutifully served here once again), Jackson now asks that Legolas also play puppy dog, yearning for the dishwater - dull new character of Tauriel as she pursues a dwarf she loves, just as the angels dote on their pet humans in Wings of Desire.

An amphibious creature must be truthful in its yearning for new found love of a human woman.

We humans all truly yearn in our deepest being for world peace and all that goes together with this; an end to hunger, trauma, and poverty.

Far more than just a vehicle for a cosmology, this inventive novel slices right to the bone of human yearning, offering up an indelible vision of life and death as equally rich sides of the same coin.

There are balloonmen who tumble along on the breeze, mermaids who yearn for human music, and bridges that may leads to a realm of more bridges.

It's all but human nature to yearn for more.

That we yearn for neat, book - sized solutions to the problem of being human is understandable, but strip away the packaging, and you'll find that the messages of such works are frequently banal.

Set in post-revolutionary Iran, Delijani's gripping novel is a blistering indictment of tyranny, a poignant tribute to those who bear the scars of it, and a celebration of the human's heart's eternal yearning for freedom.

With hundreds of unwanted cats who yearn for a new family to cuddle them, these feral cats have little chance of being adopted even if they wanted to spend their lives in a human home.

She is a happy, playful young dog who yearns for human companionship.

This effect of continual repetition calls out to the human senses, and, in return, deep inside of our hearts, we yearn for true amazement.»

The exhibition reveals him as both artist and human being who was beyond what seemed on the surface to be a post war rebel pushing boundaries for the sake of art, someone who deeply reflected upon society and his time, and desperately yearned for freedom both as an artist and human being, breaking out of historical, artistic, and political constraints, condemning any form of conformism, and refusing to be labelled, branded or marketed.

The works in the exhibition demonstrate a new level of introspection for the artist, and find her engaging with elemental human experiences and yearnings.

While the exhibition has particular relevance to Chicago — the city that is widely known as the birthplace of this architectural type — artists throughout the world, in addition to authors, filmmakers, poets, and undoubtedly architects, have been enthralled by the human desire to build farther and farther into the sky, testing technological limits while embodying a yearning for spiritual connection to the heavens.

I added quite a few translated passages to my initial post last night, reflecting Francis's dim view of consumptive capitalism and yearning for greater human care for the environment and the most vulnerable among us.

DEEP within human nature there are certain types of people who yearn for catastrophe, they yearn to have significance in their lives believing that theirs is the time when the chickens are coming home to roost and everything is going to go tits up.

Given the demonstrated yearning that humans have always shown for animal companionship, it seems entirely logical to me that young farmers just might lose their acquired attraction for the tractor one of these days to become horsemen and horsewomen again.

We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational freedom; to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms.

But there's no denying the human pull toward partnership — the need for physical affection we never out grow, and the yearning for someone we can count on no matter what.

A young nun struggles with a desire to please God while secretly yearning for human love.