Sentences with phrase «confronted by the reality»

Following Wilder's altogether persuasive statement of the matter, we might say that the parables impart to their hearers something of Jesus» vision of the power of God at work in the experience of the men confronted by the reality of his proclamation, and this would be true if we are allowed to stress the «in the experience of the men confronted...» It is a remarkable and little noted fact that, pace Jüngel, there is only a very limited number of parables which are concerned to proclaim the Kingdom of God per se.

The vast majority of them are concerned with the experience and / or subsequent activity of men confronted by the reality of God at work.

In particular we shall examine the problem of the Christian ideal of love when it is confronted by the realities of the political orders.

Similarly, Cathy Warwick, on being confronted by the reality that there are not enough staff and equipment to provide care for women in labor now declares that what midwives women really need is access to a specialized service that is appropriate for only a tiny proportion of the population and represents a dreadfully inefficient use of scarce resources.

«As soon as the Government's position goes to Brussels, it will be confronted by the reality of 27 countries briefing against it, the internal dissension in the Tory Party will be exacerbated.

I remember being a teenager confronted by the reality of one sided love.

For many, the most thought - provoking part is when you're confronted by the reality that few people have the privileges that you do back at home.

I agree that climate change ranks low (22nd out of 22 potential priority areas in a recent Gallup Poll, as I recall) among the American public, particularly when people are confronted by the reality that doing something meaningful will entail costs.

In short, communities around the world (in developing and developed countries) are confronted by a reality that falls far short of recommended air quality standards.

Confronted by the reality of mental illness in their own peer groups, they talk about it openly and support each other.

Most couples, when confronted by the reality of the extramarital affair, have serious doubts about the viability of the marriage.

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By confronting the reality of today's 24/7 environment head - on, we help our clients create the repeatable actions that lead to peak performance.

-LRB-...) After years of unprecedented monetary stimulus propping up the world's financial markets, investors are now confronting the reality of an end to the Federal Reserve's bond - buying program, which, as expected, the central bank reduced by another $ 10 billion on Wednesday.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

The family was confronted by the crisis of the fall and return of the prodigal, and in this crisis the quality of the father's love made possible a new and deeper reality of family life and relationships.

The book is painful to read: the war is behind us and we do not want to be confronted further by its horrible reality.

If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.

Upon my arrival I was instantly confronted by the visceral reality that I was in the country with the highest murder rate in the world, where rape was common and more than half the population was HIV - positive — men and women, gays and straights alike.

But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

We are confronted by the strange phenomenon of a self - styled «Christian atheism,» which maintains that the witness to God's reality has to be surrendered if there is to be anything like a tenable contemporary theology.

Barth, because he makes an attempt»... to answer the methodological and historical problems raised by the nineteenth century by foreclosing all discussion of epistemological questions and insisting that the subjectivity of Jesus Christ, the God - man, is the only important reality confronting the mind of man.»

This ground is meant by the word «God», the ground which is not the sum of individual realities but which confronts them freely and creatively without forming a «higher whole» with them.

when they need to ask, «How can I be confronted,» (by the demands of reality).

It is not by ideals and programmes or by conscience, duty, responsibility and virtue that reality can be confronted and overcome, but simply and solely by the perfect love of God.

Rather, when confronted by the pastoral reality of people who wanted to remarry after widowhood, or after divorce, the Church, recognized civil marriages and focused entirely on the reintegration of the remarried into the Church through prayer and fasting.

Your continued push that most people, if confronted by their sin of living together, would stay in that particular church is not even close to reality of the majority of those situations.

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

After all, given a choice between cutting services for those in need and confronting the reality of the generous pensions and free health care enjoyed by state retirees — virtually unmatched in the private sector — Quinn opted to cut services for those in need in order to protect the gravy train that many state retirees enjoy.

In his veto message, the governor also referred to a looming reality that must be confronted during upcoming budget negotiations for 2018 - 19 — anticipated cuts in federal programs by President Donald Trump and the Republican - controlled Congress.

«It's time we confronted reality,» said the governor, who noted that the state already has more gaming machines than Atlantic City and could generate up to $ 1 billion dollars by taxing dollars that are already being spent.

Earlier this week County Executive Ed Day confronted reality and bit the metaphorical budget bullet by facing up to the fact that the County owed millions of dollars, was running a multi-million dollar deficit, had overtaxed homeowners, and had police services that the County could not afford and did not need.

But the good news for anyone concerned that Mrs May might have been confronted by the tough realities of a multi ethnic, inner city ward is that it was a «by invite» event only.

At the International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa, last week sobering realities confronted the push to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, a goal set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS).

If Owens was able to create an illusion of consistency, of steady progression towards a state of blissful serenity — which was instinctively reflected in the nature of his collections — he is now confronted by the intrusion of rude, brutal reality.

As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.

And Ethan Embry, Baron Vaughn, Brooklyn Decker and June Diane Raphael, as the adult children confronted by the new reality of their parents» lives, get some standout moments.

Two men — a Palestinian student and an Israeli lawyer — fall in love but are confronted by the harsh realities of their two societies.

Immediately confronted with the pitiless reality of the war's victims, her life is irrevocably changed as she loses, one - by - one, the young men she held so dear.

On another timeline Black Panther would be building on the small triumphs of diversity and equality, but instead it finds itself confronting a reality in which the President of the United States is being endorsed by white supremacists.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

«Grumpiness» often is a by - product of confronting an inconvenient reality.

Not one to shy away from the grisly realities of middle age, the «slyly subversive» (O, The Oprah Magazine) Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced by femmes d'un certain age with candor, wit, and a healthy dose of hilarious self - deprecation.

The troubles that are often confronted by the students in writing their report writing work are to have a research on the topic of report so that reality of the facts and figures could be known.

When confronted by the harsh realities of life, the results might not always be pretty but they're definitely brutally honest.

Read by Jannie Meisberger, From A to Z is the story of a young woman recently graduated from college who confronts the bewildering realities of the working world.

By stripping the game of any kind of pre-determined narrative and emphasizing player involvement through gameplay alone, Pope also reminds us of the the sad reality that we often confront moral issues and attempt to resolve them because we feel a sense of obligation to do so only after our engagement in the practices which define our environment, and our recognition that they are actually the cause of these problems.

«To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that team - based combat has been pitted against real - time strategy in a balanced, live - action online game,» said Michael A. Williams, CEO of Reality Gap, Inc. «Shooters must confront swarms of alien opponents, but unlike most FPS games, they are playing against aliens managed by a human intelligence looking to outwit and outmaneuver them.»

An even more heart - wrenching is that this game forces the player to confront the realities of war and the toll it took on innocents in the form of picking to either decimate a large portion of enemies with white phosphorous or make your way through the area by means of seemingly irksome stealth action.