Not exact matches
«For the
common man who wants to take complete control
of his financial
life.»
The historical record supports the gradual evolution
of man and all
living things as having a
common ancestor.
The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism
Life emerged from non-
life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism
Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism
Man evolved from
common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property
of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions
of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities
of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism
Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality
of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age
of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age
of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very
common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another
man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was
common back in the days.Also, the age
of 6 mentioned was age
of engagement not age
of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.
In upholding beauty, we prepare the way
of a renaissance when civilization will center its reflexion, far from the explicit principles and degraded values
of history, on this
living virtue upon which is founded the
common dignity
of the world and
man, and which we have to define now in the face
of a world that insults it.
There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit
of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the
common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery
of daily
life.
Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A
Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace&
Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch
of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God,
Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence
of the role
of religion in social
life, the opposition
of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion
of common initiatives for peace&
common initiatives for peace»
The formation
of the home leads quite naturally to the local parish, Tabernacle
of God with
men, around which the local family
of God gathers for the
common life in Christ
of the Eucharist, Sacrifice and Sacrament
of the world.
There was in some communities a practice
of having all things in
common, and there was practised for a time in some groups what Charles Williams has later called «an experiment in dissociation», the
living together
of men and women with a complete renunciation
of sex.12 But these radical experiments never became normative for the churches.
thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a
common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to
live in Palestine, instead
of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception
of the
men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth
of such accounts as an essential
of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm
of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.
Joined in an inexplicable unifying movement
men who are utterly opposed in education and in faith find themselves brought together, intermingled, in their
common passion for a double truth; namely, that there exists a physical Unity
of beings, and that they themselves are
living and active parts
of it.
The thinking Catholics
of the world need to get behind these Nuns who are in the trenches the way Jesus was trying to elevate the
common man to greater spirituality and a better
life.
He believed in everyone sharing their
lives with each other; to work for the
common good; He was against material wealth; He told
men to give up all they had if they wanted to attain the Kingdom
of God.
Nevertheless, the classical humanistic tradition, with its emphasis on the
common distinctive qualities
of man, provides stronger support for the democratic ideal
of human equality than does evolutionary naturalism, with its concern for the continuity
of man with the lower forms
of life.
A crisis in authority suggests the possibility that our churches have lost the will and lack the
men and women with those powers
of soul required to articulate, promulgate, and defend a rule
of faith and a way
of life that is indeed
common to Christians.
Phillips Brooks put it once in unforgettable words: «To keep clear
of concealment, to keep clear
of the need
of concealment, to do nothing which he might not do out on the middle
of Boston
Common at noon - day, — I can not say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory
of a young
man's
life.
The lie displaces «the undivided seriousness
of the human person with himself and all his manifestations» and destroys the good will and reliability on which
men's
life in
common rests.
But precisely this is the
common situation (as the physician
of souls will doubtless concede), that the majority
of men live without being thoroughly conscious that they are spiritual beings — and to this is referable all the security, contentment with
life, etc., etc., which precisely is despair.
Yusuf Qaradawi (the most influential Muslim cleric in the world today, the spiritual head
of the Muslim Brotherhood) said: «Islam is not a religion in the
common, distorted meaning
of the word, confining its scope only to the private
life of man.
It has insisted on equality between women and
men, and on justice for women regarding access to basic needs, the means
of sustaining a livelihood and the decision - making processes that organize and regulate the
common life.
It has been
common for Christians to appeal to the dictum
of St. Paul, «If it is for this
life only that Christ has given us hope, we
of all
men are most to be pitied.
Most likely many myths made by
men lived only a short
life, but those that survived and spread did so because they readily met the
common need
of the human society where they flourished.
There is a
common Hebrew word, usually translated as «take» or «receive», which was used to signify the divine act by which, it was believed, God sometimes delivered
men from the extinction
of life entailed by death.
Little by little, Tolstoy came to the settled conviction — he says it took him two years to arrive there — that his trouble had not been with
life in general, not with the
common life of common men, but with the
life of the upper, intellectual, artistic classes, the
life which he had personally always led, the cerebral
life, the
life of conventionality, artificiality, and personal ambition.
But religious love is only
man's natural emotion
of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear
of commerce, so to speak, the
common quaking
of the human breast, in so far as the notion
of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought
of our supernatural relations; and similarly
of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the
lives of religious persons.
Then, in Him and
of Him we eat the Bread
of Life at the
common table
of Our Father, and grow in wisdom, age and grace personally and as a People before God and
men.
Suppose him, further, to be a
man who is compelled so to preach the gospel
of the Resurrection to the
common life as not to betray in his pulpit what he learns in his study.
He renounced his godliness, took the nature
of a
common man, entered fully and without reservation into our human
life, sharing its limitations — all its limitations — from birth to bitter death at the hands
of blind and brutal
men.
The acts
of the earthly Jesus, for all their remembered beauty, were recognized as but the casual and partial manifestations
of a love which only one supreme act had been able fully to express: He who had shared the nature and the name
of God had for
man's sake denied himself in a sense in which only God could: he had emptied himself, becoming a
common man, and as a
man had suffered both
life and death, even the death
of the cross...
Here we have three vivid pictures
of men from very different walks
of life who have one thing in
common: a willingness to prepare themselves realistically for the responsibility they assume.
Using
common human experience as a base, Niebuhr sought to show that the secular view
of life is inadequate: the secular analysis
of man made less sense than the biblical one.
The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation
of world society's awareness,
common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick
of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation
of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining
man's
living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success
of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product
of further weapons detouring
of human initiative.
«Adam» is the
common male ancestor
of every
living man.
The author is stating something Christians already know — God could have chosen a clean palace for Jesus to
live in, but to fulfill Scripture (Hebrews 2:17) He willed for His Son to
live like us, a
common man, sweaty and as you said, dirty, and as Scripture says, «A
man like us in all things, but sin», so He could experience every aspect
of our Earthly
life...
And no, I don't just disregard science (nor the
common consensus in matters
of politics, social norms, alternative lifestyles, etc.)-- I understand the importance, but also the shortcomings
of relying on
man's own inferences about the nature
of life, the universe, and the meaning
of existence.
I have quoted Calvin's Institutes: «God [exalted]
man above all the other animals to separate him from the
common number, because he has attained to no vulgar
life, but a
life connected with the light
of intelligence and reason --[this] at the same time shows how he was made in the image
of God.»
Forced upon one another by the dimensions and mechanics
of the earth,
men will purposefully bring to
life a
common soul in this vast body.
A person who retreats from public
life because it is too inconvenient or unpleasant or fails to accord with his nice ideals acts as a citizen
of the city
of man, seeking his own good — peace
of mind, ideological purity — at the expense
of the
common good.
May the elemental gods, the true sons
of God find favor in these cherishing crevice - found sons
of a
common life man that they may not be afflicted with this world's power based truancies but rather they should carry upon them their angst from their manhoods till their natural deaths.
The metaphysical mystery, thus recognized by
common sense, that he who feeds on death that feeds on
men possesses
life supereminently and excellently, and meets best the secret demands
of the universe, is the truth
of which asceticism has been the faithful champion.
It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role
of politician, engaged in public action for the
common good, or in the role
of a lover
of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation
of eternal truths, or in some combination
of the two: «A
man can still lead a
life of faith in any
of these three
lives and reach the eternal rewards.
Adrian
of Utrecht was a pious, devoted
man, influenced by the Brothers
of the
Common Life, but also strongly orthodox in his theology.
In so far as
men are
men they possess
common elements; and in their political and social
life those elements inevitably emerge and are recognizable in custom and law... Such natural law represents the permanent portion
of human law in general, and it is prior to and superior to positive legislation, which is only a supplement thereto.»
But whatever convenience and expediency require about the way in which the unity
of theological study be broken up into manageable parts, the first requirements laid on all the specialists in the community seem to be: that their intellectual participation in the
life of the Biblical, the historic and the contemporary Church always have in view the
common theological object — God and
man in their interrelations; and that it always be carried on in acute awareness
of the «world» in which the Church has been assigned its task.
But if the Vinaya - pitaka holds little general - reader interest, it is fundamental to an understanding
of Buddhism, for the very genius
of Buddhism, in its original form, was to take
man out
of the
common life of the world and set him apart on the way to enlightenment, which was the end
of all his seeking, for this meant escape from the wheel
of birth.
Common sense and fact should be the basis
of right and wrong, not the arbitrary words
of men who
lived in a scientifically primitive age.
Here one finds the dull report
of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance
of the cult, stories
of man's beginnings and that
of many
of the
common experiences
of his
life, such as language, relationship
of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories,
of the might and prowess
of ancient ancestors
of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs
of the human race, the history
of the rise and fall
of dynasties, the preaching
of reformers and prophets, the questioning
of it all by
men grown weary
of the struggle, proverbial sayings
of great wisdom; the dreams
of conquest both
of earth and heaven.
As you study the artfully rendered autographs
of Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Mike Schmidt, you're forced to reflect less on each individual name and more on the most significant thing these
men have in
common: that at one time in their
lives, each
of them was the very best in the world at what he did.
As twilight falls, passersby ogle the regimented testosterone on field, though not for long: The spectacle
of men bonding to face the realities
of barrio
life is fairly
common, and it rarely lasts.
By
common consent, so as not to be seen to be blowing my own trumpet, it is regarded as being composed
of some
of the best persons in public
life today,
men and women
of achievement, experience, integrity and knowledge, together with youthful elements who are full
of promise.