Sentences with phrase «ask whether a man»

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels.»

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US prosecutors have asked the court to «make a strenuous inquiry into whether the defendant is financially unable to afford counsel» in order to prevent taxpayers from «needlessly» paying for the defense of man reputed to be worth billions.

Every time a man, whether it is our president, or a news anchor, demeans or diminishes a woman by grabbing her ass or talking about her body, or coming on to her instead of asking for her ideas and treating her like a professional in the workplace setting, they lose something too.

GOP Representatives Ron DeSantis and Jeff Duncan both said a man police identified as Hodgkinson spoke to them just before the shooting and asked whether the people at the baseball practice were Republicans or Democrats.

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If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer.

You are not seriously trying to convince me that every man from the beginning of time has been asked whether or not they will accept YOUR God are you?

A young man with a little boy approached me to ask whether I knew the Mass time.

Mr Romney seems to be in many ways a good and capable man, but has he ever really asked whether Mormonism is true?

You do understand that the Pope is infallible and ordained by God so you can't even ask whether or not he was the right man for the job?

Back when I was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania some thirty - five years ago, I remember a young Jewish man who became a convert to Christianity who, having read the Sermon on the Mount, asked me whether or not I had an insurance policy and a retirement fund.

To ask whether a Christian can «try on» atheism is rather like asking whether a married man can live as a bachelor.

Many friends asked whether I could still identify with the position of my book Jesus — God and Man, the most obvious development and exposition of the program of Revelation as History.

He asks whether we are to regard the Cross as an opus operatum whose agent achieved something new, radically affected the scheme of things in time, and established in respect of the relations of men and women to God a new foundation: or whether we are compelled, partly by the demands of a theology that would emphasize divine acceptance above divine judgement, to say that all we find here is the most sublime presentation in time of the eternal readiness of God to receive to himself the truly penitent.

Before we start thanking the Lord that we are not like other men, we should ask ourselves whether our own alternative ecumenism, so often controlled by a few unaccountable powerbrokers and by big money, really possesses more integrity.

But he then asks the philosopher whether he would loan money to someone who brought along a poor man to stand surety.

It's like the disciples, who asked Jesus whether a blind man's plight was the result of his sin or his parents» sin.

You do not carry the responsibility for your wife, nor for other men, nor by any comparative standard with other men, but only as an individual, before God, where it is not asked whether your marriage was in accordance with others, with the common practice, or better than others, but where you as an individual will be asked only whether it was in accordance with your responsibility as an individual.

I wonder what that man would have said, could I have asked him whether he was concerned about our nation's need for a renewal of powerful, ethical religion that would re-establish faith in spiritual realities and values, and elevate the standards of personal and public integrity.

One must ask the question as to whether these newer systems of thought and Islam as it got filtered through them perceived God - man; theology - anthropology poles differently than did their conservative antecedents living within the sterile Semitic environments.

6 One may fairly ask, of course, whether the good seed are not products of the Christian mission, since they are sown by the Son of Man.

For centuries a whole order of men served another, privileged order without asking whether this state of inequality was really beyond remedy; until in the end they rebelled.

But that rich man whom no misery could touch, that rich man who even in eternity to his own damnation must continue to will one thing, ask him now whether he really wills one thing.

I always ask a pacifist if he or she would be willing to live without a police department or whether if their own loved ones were threatened by say a man with a knife at their loved ones throat and they had a gun would they use it?

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

In this case, therefore, we do not ask whether in fact Jesus was both God and man or whether the Holy Spirit does assure us that in him we meet God.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the VISION which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate; and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.

It is also being asked whether women and youth and minority groups and even white men have to play just the roles they have been assigned in the past in order to maintain just the right balance of energy and repression in an industrial society.

The fact of the claim gives reason to ask whether it could be justified, that is, whether it is possible that a man have that kind of relation to God which could ground such a claim.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gWhether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gwhether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

This amounts to asking whether the history of the biosphere culminating in man is still continuing in man now that he exists.

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

Hence, the church is thrown back upon its own resources to ask whether it has a gospel and a missionary thrust powerful enough to convert men from idolatrous loyalties and provide them with a vision of the future that transforms their basic commitments.

Or just ask the mother of a child whether she so trusts her bishop's ability to predict the future actions of a one — time child molester that she would trust her child with the man in question.

Imperative Christianity does not ask whether the love of neighbor will bring forth a society in which all men will love their neighbors; it acts in hope, to be sure, but love and justice are its immediate commands and not its far - off goals.

8 He has raised the issue of the nature of man and has asked whether the New Testament when viewed solely as content or solely as address has a message capable of redeeming the whole man.

We must ask ourselves whether this law that defines the complex inventions of man does not underlie also the evolutionary development of a complex Universe from an elemental Universe.

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

In deciding whether to hold a man accountable for something he did, Wilson seems to think we shouldn't ask whether his choice was free, but whether his act was avoidable.

If we were to ask an ordinary Christian today (whether well - read Protestant or Catholic, or not) what he conceived to be the New Testament teaching concerning the fate of man after death, with few eceptions we should get the answer: «The immortality of the soul.»

Socrates says that when he was a young man he had a consuming interest in natural science, always seeking into the causes of things, and asking such questions as whether organic growth is due to fermentation caused by variations of temperature, and whether thought and memory can be explained in terms of the brain.

Sometimes I am tempted to make up some such activities, to see what happens (like the man who answered «Principal purpose of visit» when asked on a US immigration form whether he was concerned in plots to overthrow the government of the United States).

On the contrary, it is always meaningful to ask of a mechanism, whether a biological mechanism or a man - made mechanism, «What is this for?»

I am asked to declare that I have not injected myself or been injected with illegal drugs, whether I have ever been given money or drugs for sex, whether I have had anal or oral sex with a man, or without a condom.

In the section of the Summa Theologiae called the «Treatise on Law,» he asks whether human law binds man in conscience.

Because there are certain objective criteria you can look at and questions you can ask to evaluate protein powders to find the best one for you (whether you're a woman or a man).

The Frenchman was asked about this after the game, with the press clearly wondering whether it was a risk worth taking with our star man on an artificial pitch, as reported on the Arsenal website, and Wenger responded by declaring that there was no risk involved.

The two then continued to show their cheeky side, asking openly gay housemate and former pop star Kavana whether his first time was with a man or a woman.

Asked whether Arsenal were thinking about overtaking Man City in second place, Ospina said: «We know we are close to them now but we need to concentrate on ourselves and not think about them.

If you ask most Arsenal fans whether the club could do with a defensive midfielder, be ready for a verbal hairdryer, because we have needed one for at least the last three years, But once again during the summer transfer window, the Gunners have been linked with every central midfielder out there but once again look like going into a campaign with Mikel Arteta as the main man.