Sentences with phrase «acted upon man»
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
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It's our culture, not our libidos, that shapes the way men act upon otherwise healthy, run - of - the - mill sexual desires.
As Anton LaVey explained in his classic work The Satanic Bible, Man — using his brain — invented all the Gods, doing so because many of our species can not accept or control their personal egos, feeling compelled to conjure up one or a multiplicity of characters who can act without hindrance or guilt upon whims and desires.
It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act of violence commanded by God — the goal of which is to place his mark upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.
The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth...».
About a century later another king - to - be, this time Jehu, is confronted by the Word (II Kings 9:6) Elisha and his young man, the prophet» act upon and pronounce what is represented as the Word with, again, radically effective results.
The reaction of nature is a blindingly flashing red - light that man's actions are unnatural; that he need be true to his inner demands, which acted upon automatically set a proper balance within human consciousness and adjust the physical conditions in the entire creation around him.
When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.
It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.
a man can not reasonably, and by himself he can not possibly, be regarded as merely a system of cells acting upon one another, for he is directly aware of «himself» as, at the given moment, a single unit of action, a single mind or will, exerting force upon his bodily parts and thence upon the world.
They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»
What matters is how man causes his attitude of soul to grow to real life that acts upon the world.
But if God is — that is, if the cosmic Love is inescapably there and not simply a speculation or wish on the part of us men and women and if God is also the divine, worshipful, and unsurpassable One who is concerned with and acts for his world in all its richness and variety, then surely the significant thing for us is to focus our attention upon that One.
The follower of Jesus is under orders, no less binding because they are not spelled out in detail; he is «the man who hears these words of mine and acts upon them.»
This was no creation of the Gospel of Mark — indeed, Mark steps back from it, in the act of trying to prove that Jesus was secretly the divine Son of Man during his life upon earth.
It is obvious that a corollary is the recognition that love is always a relationship; and a relationship involves two who are in it — God to man, man to God — in which each of them is not only acting in a causal manner but also being acted upon in an affective manner.
God acts upon the human spirit as its connatural environment and prompts an ever greater knowledge and love of himself, thus confirming the bonds of personal relationships between God and man and between man and his neighbour.
Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity.
That is to say, man is not, as pure naturalism would have it, merely an object in nature which is acted upon and reacts according to fixed general laws, a passive receiver of prior causes and a non-willing, non-responsible transmitter of future effects, whose consciousness and action are completely caught up in the causal nexus of matter and time.
In both cases, forgiveness is possible but, on the one hand, conditional upon man's repentance and, on the other hand, atonement is available on condition of man's act of repentance from sin.
For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.
We would add Newman's actual words from the «Letter to the Duke of Norfolk»: «Unless a man is able to say to himself, as in the Presence of God, that he must not, and dare not, act upon the Papal injunction, he is bound to obey it, and would commit a great sin in disobeying it.»
If something new happens — that means, that forgiveness is not a necessary result determined by the nature of the man who forgives, something upon which the offender can count (if he did, he would obviously be unworthy of it); but it is an act arising wholly from the free good will of a person, wholly a gift.
Election, therefore, was not determined by, or conditioned upon, any virtuous quality or act forseen in man.
If faith does not make it a holy act to be willing to murder one's son, then let the same condemnation be pronounced upon Abraham as upon every other man.
«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»
Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man had a distinct idea of the trinity.
Love is always a relationship; and a relationship involves two who are in it — God to man, man to God — in which each of them is not only acting in a causal manner but also being acted upon in an affective manner.
Round about me on every side was the biggest congregation I ever had: behind the altar, on either side, and in front, row after row, sometimes crowding one upon the other, but all quiet and silent, as if they were straining their ears to catch every syllable of that tremendous act of Sacrifice — but every man was dead!
Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».
Ideas must be distinct for reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity.
«Specific places structure the questions, and as men and women cobble together responses, they act upon the spaces around them in transformative ways....
That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
He decided that rationality demands that he act on principles that he could will all other men to act upon.
The prophetic act is divinely motivated, if not impelled (12: 1) The prophet speaks not his own but the given word — «thus says the Lord...» (12:7) The prophetic condemnation is based not alone on the violation of a man - to - man relationship, but, since all life is judged by the righteousness of God, upon the violation of the divine - human relationship — «Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight?»
That piety guided him to simplify his business and family life so that they would serve the «concern» that grew upon him until he became a one - man abolition society traversing the colonies to act for justice in the case of slaves.65
A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.
Newman's journey into Catholicism (see James Tolhurst's article later in this issue) involved a deepening recognition of man's need for God's Word of authority, not least to arrest the «wild, living intellect of man... that universal solvent which is so successfully acting upon religious establishments.»
Behind the argument lies the uncomfortable feeling that there is an authoritative teaching which dares to confront what Newman termed the «wild, living intellect of man» as well as acting against «that universal solvent which is so successfully acting upon religious establishments.»
Unless a man is able to say to himself, as in the Presence of God, that he must not, and dare not, act upon the Papal injunction, he is bound to obey it, and would commit a great sin in disobeying it.
And thus it is eternity must act, because to have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession made to man, but at the same time it is eternity's demand upon him.
The tragic hero accomplishes his act at a definite instant in time, but in the course of time he does something not less significant, he visits the man whose soul is beset with sorrow, whose breast for stifled sobs can not draw breath, whose thoughts pregnant with tears weigh heavily upon him, to him he makes his appearance, dissolves the sorcery of sorrow, loosens his corslet, coaxes forth his tears by the fact that in his sufferings the sufferer forgets his own.
Elisha and his «young man, the prophet» act upon and pronounce what they represent to be the Word of Yahweh (9:3,6) with radically effective and appallingly violent results (II Kings 9:21 - 40:27).
This decision was made before the foundation of the world and was based not upon any act of will or works of men and women, but solely upon God's sovereign good pleasure.
It must be concerned with wars, campaigns and battles in which real men actually made decisions and acted upon them.
Through the word and act of man in your baptism, the brand, «property of God» was stamped upon you.
Wenger may not be the man for the job anymore but it was up to Kroenke and the Arsenal board to realise that and act upon it this summer and bring in someone with fresh ideas to give the whole club a lift.
A move of this magnitude would act as a real statement of intent from a side looking to rebuild their reputation though the bid has to succeed in order to act as such, a task that may be beyond Man United, such has been the damage inflicted upon the Old Trafford outfit during David Moyes's brief reign.
Jose Mourinho is also keen on bringing Sandro to the Premier League at Man United, but the publication claims Chelsea have acted fast to table an offer for the defender upon learning he may be available after all.
After all, as Isaac Newton pointed out in his Principia, the notion «that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.»