Sentences with phrase «way earthly things»

Emeka Ogboh, installation view The Way Earthly Things Are Going (2017).

Emeka Ogboh, The Way Earthly Things Are Going, 2017, Multichannel sound installation and real - time LED display of world stock indexes, Installation view: Documenta 14, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), Athens, Photo: Mathias Völzke

He primarily works with sound, and his installation The Way Earthly Things Are Going (2017) was recently shown at Tate Tanks.

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Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm of pure spirit.

He goes his way indifferent to the distribution and division of earthly goods, as one who has no possessions and desires none; he is not concerned for his daily bread, like the birds of the air; he does not trouble himself about house and home, as one who neither has nor seeks a shelter or a resting - place; he is not concerned to follow the dead to the grave; he does not turn his head to look at the things that usually claim the attention of men; he is not bound to any woman, so as to be charmed by her and desirous of pleasing her.

But God doesn't operate by earthly ways of doing things; in the Bible, He declares that «as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts» (Isaiah 55:9).

That's a pretty staircase — and it's ever challenging, isn't it, in this world, to navigate wants versus needs — to focus not on beautifying the haven of one's earthly home but rather to spend that time / funding / energy in ways and on things that are eternal --