Sentences with phrase «about the human spirit»

It's a great story about human spirit, not Jesus.

In fact, I've often found myself marveling at the good and wonderful things that people will do for one another, only to suddenly feel guilty for thinking positively about the human spirit.

Especially Weathervanes, which is kind of about human spirits who can become untethered from their bodies, and interact with each other in an extremely pure way, in that untethered state.

Here are five things I've learned about the human spirit through my experience of teaching yoga at Rikers:

It's a simple story told (but difficult to execute — the film took 4 plus years to make) about the human spirit.

Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming emotion.

The film is much more difficult to recommend to the average movie - goer for a casual Friday date night, but it is sure to start some much needed conversations that should be happening daily about the human spirit.

In a time of their own tragedy and sorrow, the Sri Lankans exhibited what is best about the human spirit: courage, kindness, and generosity.

It's also about the human spirit and the troupe's standing in the cultural life of a city proud to call them its own.

Some even consider them to be revealing about the human spirit.

An unquenchable curiosity about the human spirit has led me on my life journey.

«I am passionate about the human spirit and our ability to recovery and adapt.

Not exact matches

«It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time - honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.»

«We're not just about America going back to the moon; we're about American industry and American entrepreneurial spirit leading the rest of the world to an exciting era of human lunar exploration,» Stern said in a statement.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

Less polemically but still in the Enlightenment tradition, Montesquieu used the example of the reducciones in his Spirit of the Laws to work through questions about the common good and the role of the state in procuring human happiness.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Many also use 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 13 to defend Inspiration, which talks about expressing spiritual truths with spiritual words taught not by human wisdom, but by the Spirit of God.

Cartesians — taking the theologically grounded refusal to believe in spirits or worry about the influence of final causes to some sort of plausible limit — believed that «animals» were insentient, and that only humans had goals or thoughts or feelings.

I profess no advanced psychiatric knowledge, but such knowledge as a layman may have about the causes of disturbance to the human spirit is here placed in conjunction with what prayer can do.

(3) When an entire continent — healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before — deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being.

Here, for example, Novak reformulates his arguments about the necessary relationship between democracy and capitalism (and vice versa), as well as his location of the cause of the wealth of nations in the creative, inventive, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human mind.

He wrote appreciative statements about Schleiermacher, he allowed that Schleiermacher might be interpreted as a theologian of the Holy Spirit, he emphasized the humanity of God in contrast to the Wholly Other, he called human beings «covenant - partners of God,» and he looked for «parables» of grace and truth in non-Christian religions and ideologies.

In the life of faith the Christian has come to find in the human spirit qualities which have a deathlessness about them.

Thus to talk about «the spirit of man» was to say that human existence is not only a matter of mind and body, as we have represented this in our previous discussion, but is also a matter of relationship, in which there is an openness to, and a sharing in, the life of others.

We know through the psychological clinics something more about the mechanisms which operate when the human spirit is anxious and self - protective.

If we met in his spirit today, if we wanted to honor him in a way that would be acceptable not to his human vanity, for which he would need to do bitter penance, but to his central purpose and will, how would we go about it?

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

If human consciousness survives the evaporation of brain tissue then perhaps the «spirit» of St. Nicholas is alive and well and knows I care about who he was, and what he did while he was here.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

In The Spirit and the Forms of Love Williams analyzes the meaning of love and indicates what this implies about the nature of God.104 The classical conviction that the immutable is the superior is shown to devalue human love and to conflict with the biblical conception of God's love.

Spirituality can be about the advancement of the human spirit and that in itself can mean personal growth, becoming more in touch with our surroundings, with the energy around us, with other people, being kind to others... etc etc..

Idealism recognizes the presence of evil in history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils of the freedom of the human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.

Maybe there is something about Jesus being a human that changes how the spirit of God behaves.

The demands of «the human spirit for the time include authentic understandings, many of them rooted in the Gospels and in the deepest Christian intellectual traditions, about the nature of human existents.

So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we need only immerse (baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water?

«Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8 - 9; 63:2 - 3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).»

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

And no matter how acerbically the writers skewer human pretensions and social ills, «there's a kindly spirit about the show,» wrote M. S. Mason.

What he says about the forms of human despair and the sickness of the spirit is not intended as objective description of sin.

It was not about what we all believed collectively but what we were empowered to do by the support of the human spirit we all have.

One can tease out of the way the story is told some ideas about the structure of human beings: body, emotions, will, soul, spirit, and so forth.

If we use Gould to interpret Catholic teaching we are bound to be dualistic not just about science and religion but also about body and spirit, as if God somewhat arbitrarily glues a spiritual soul onto the physical human body.

Therefore, we approach the discipline of being a community of moral conversation, not only with our natural human anxieties about conflict and change, but also with the hope we have in God's grace, our belief in the power of the Spirit to work through and among us.

For on the one hand, if the synthesis of the Spirit is to be brought about in its entirety (and this is the only possible definition of progress) it can only be done, in the last resort, through the meeting, center to center, of human units, such as can only be realized in a universal, mutual love.

For better or worse, the controversy was upstaged when another rift began to develop, now between the traditional culture and the counterculture, which never had any doubt about whose bones the future resided in, and in fact was inclined to believe that literary and scientific intellectuals had long before entered into an unholy alliance to repress the questing human spirit.

Apparently this job is not the job of mere human reason, (although the Spirit of Truth works in the realm of human reason, showing, shining light onto and convincing and bringing about authentic conviction) it is Holy Spirits job to completely convince persons what is right and what is not right, to the point one is convicted in their inner being.

The man who spent his early life as a worker behind the Iron Curtain became the instrument of the Holy Spirit in teaching the world about the true dignity of man, of human labour, and about the unfathomable power of Divine Mercy to transform evil into good, despair into hope, and oppression into freedom.

When an entire continent — healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before — deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being.

The Christian contribution in this context should be in relation to the struggle of India to develop, through dialogue among the many religions, cultures and philosophies, a body of common insights about being and becoming human, that is, a common framework of humanism which will humanize the spirit of modernity and the process of modernization.