Sentences with phrase «changed human destiny»
I turn to the Bible, not for scientific instruction, but for spiritual illumination, to share in the most influential development of religious ideas in man's history, to watch divine deeds that have changed human destiny, to sit at the feet of great prophets, to learn from the insights of the seers, to find guidance in distinguishing right from wrong, and above all to come under the saving influence of Jesus Christ.
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In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.
Like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Kim Il Sung, he believed it was his task (appointed by history, destiny, or whatever sanctioned his willfulness) to do nothing less than change human nature.
Half - human, half - spirit Mononoke embodies the contradictions of change, vowing to protect the woods yet drawn to youthful warrior - tribesman Ashitaka, who's seeking his own destiny at the heart of this threatened landscape.
Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever, in this genre — defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.