«There are millions of people who find it difficult or impossible to form
good human relationships,» says Levy.
Like
every good human relationships, men must observe dating etiquette with the partners they hook up online.
I'll end with a look back at an earlier phase of this journey toward
a better human relationship with the environment — the first Earth Day:
Not exact matches
We believed that the
relationship between natural capital, or what nature provides for free, and production could be understood only if the corporations and foundations that focused on development embraced the idea that nature and
human well - being are inseparable.
This is why, in
human relationships, we're «radically transparent» only with those we trust and have our
best interests at heart.
Recalling that internationally - recognized
human rights include social, economic, and cultural rights as
well as political and civil rights, we should acknowledge that economic relations and
human rights are mutually supportive dimensions of our mature
relationship with China.
The Biblical accounts of God - to -
human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «
Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»
And he made
human fathers and he gives us the example of
good fathers so we can understand the kind of secure
relationship of love and protection he offers to us.»
If you are two consenting adult
human beings and you desire to have a loving, committed
relationship in which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a
good choice.
The
relationship is thoroughly reciprocal, and
human individuality is the consequence as
well as the cause of
human relations.
Our home cell system is a funtional structure which has helped with building stronger
relationships and works
well among the yout who are highly relational at this stage of their
human development, but I still feel we are missing it somewhere.
The economic crisis presently being endured in much of the West and beyond also reflects this truth: the whole meltdown in many ways had its source in that unbridled capitalism that decreed the autonomy of the individual and the moral
good of each person being allowed to pursue wealth without any
relationship to the rest of
human society.
Marriage also recognises that our
relationships with each other are more than physical: they should involve knowledge and love - seeing and accepting the truth and
good that each
human being is.
The Church recognises the family as the building block of society and for
good reason has carefully defended the understanding of family
relationships and of
human sexuality which is so intimately linked to the ordering of family life and the procreation of succeeding generations.
The joy of the gospel of marriage springs from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the
good news of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that is inseparable from the Truth, who frees the
human person and reveals to him what it means to be
human.4 Only in Jesus does every
human being discover what it means to be truly
human, to be made for God and to live in
relationship with God, to have true happiness.
But humanity is spiritual as
well as physical, and so
human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct
relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:
thats why we have to debate more and realize that our diferrences are just superficial misunderstanding, that to be united to a common belief in him can be logical and true only with the belief that we are evolving to attain a
better relationship for all of us.Proven by science that all
humans evolved from one parent, who evolved from lower forms of life, who evolved from pure energy through the big bang and guided by the spirit or conciousness of His Will.
If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine
human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has
well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in
human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man
relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.
As the most intimate of all
human relationships, as the one that to the majority of people is the most central and precious, the one giving the most joy - as
well as the most pain - does it not contain enormous theological potential?
while I agree with parts of what you've stated such as: the bible is MOSTLY a book on God and
human relationship, I would disagree with you as to whether it's a «
good» book on the other issues.
More appropriately, what is
good, appropriate and right about desire, about passion as a means of talking about the God -
human relationship?
God made us
humans, and little has gone
well in
human relationships since our first ancestors disobeyed God.
They point out that sexual
relationships are «natural» to
human beings, are part of the world created by God, are
good, and that no one ought to be denied such a relation simply on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation.
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.
They are not interested in how
human beings actually come to be entangled in a network of social and political
relationships; they are asking why it is right or
good that this should be.
Most people of
good will believe that personal
relationships are important for
human well being.
This Christian stress on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence of the Christian community as
well as of other
human groupings, has a close
relationship with the fourth assertion: that each of us is an organic unity, body - mind - spirit.
When the self is committed to the Second
Good, its stock of memory, intelligence,
relationships, health, and wealth becomes the instrument for the concrete achievement of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain of personal relations and in the larger world of
human institutions.
Coming out, I come into the realization of myself as
best able to relate most intimately — to touch and be touched most deeply, to give and receive most naturally, to empower and be empowered most remarkably —
best able to express everything I most value — God in
human life, God in justice, God in passion, God as love — in sexual
relationship to a lover who is female.
If you believe that firm attachments and stable
relationships build
human capital, you had
better offer early education for children in disorganized neighborhoods.
However, if we look at a strikingly similar passage from Aristotle's teacher Plato, in the Laws, we see the
relationship of
humans and God as
well as their
relationship to a community included.
Precisely that kind of man, «transported by his passion» — in this case his being caught up into a
relationship with God in Christ, although it may very
well be true in other ways as
well, since to be «transported» by passion is to enter upon the most profound experience possible to
human beings — precisely such a man does feel and know what is nothing other than «the secret of the universe».
Third, in both classical schooling and higher education, a self - conscious recovery of a biblical and philosophical understanding of created nature and the practical and spiritual
relationship to it that fosters the
human good must have a place in the curriculum.
In a later study of the
well - being of coronary patients, Holden (1981) reported that ownership of a pet among ninety - three patients was the strongest predictor of survival, stronger even than
human relationships.
This is a result of
human speech's
relationship with the Word of God: of God's taking up this
human word, so that there is continuity (as
well as discontinuity) between them, and of
human speech's finality in
relationship with the Word of God.
Relationships between associate and senior pastors are neither more nor less complicated than other
human relationships: they hold the potential or abuse as
well as for transformation.
In moving from this
well - ordered but repressive society to forms of social life which enable these dimensions of the
human spirit to emerge in more concrete
relationships, we must be prepared to live within conditions which are more complex, confused, and unsettling.
In no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person,
relationships where two
human lives are glad to share and work together, for the
best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as
well as the result of that sharing.
It's rocking the boat of
human relationships for
good or ill.
Without the grace of Christ, who makes God's reconciliation a reality despite
human sin, the devastation of
relationships might get the
best of us.
In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Pope expressed this
relationship within the framework of the common
good: «It is urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate
human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the
human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority, and no State can ever create, modify, or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect, and promote.»
But when the health of the
relationship is demanded in order to have
better sex, the
human spirit resists it because it is a utilitarian and manipulative approach.
We can not be sure that The Flood had no
relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might
well have been mediated to
human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».
I really believe that this
relationship makes life
better and helps me to be the
best human I can be.
There is no God, but if you want to have an imaginary friend, fine — just stop telling
well - adjusted reasonable
human beings to get a
better relationship with their creator.
These are not
relationships based on a manipulative effort to proselytize every person we meet with a few
well - rehearsed Bible verses and platitudes, but an opportunity to acknowledge the God - given beauty and value of another
human being.
However, I believe that Boff's emphasis on the
relationships between
human beings and communities is of great value, even in his programmatic - pleading form, as
well as the idea of a worldwide responsibility for the planet, which every citizen of this world is to bear.
Our discussion of intimacy in marriage is an effort to explore the ways in which the
good news can come alive in a vital
human relationship — marriage.
Perhaps — and this is something only the performance of genetic ontology can decide — genetic ontology is capable of
better explaining to us how beings are always understood in the natural development of the
human subject, whence our concepts of Being come, under which mode of meaning these concepts stand, and what their
relationships are to historical ontologies.
Are
humans inherently
good (but in need of a repaired
relationship with God) or inherently evil (and incapable of doing any
good on their own)?