Sentences with phrase «demand upon any man»

In Old Testament usage it means instruction in the ways of God and His demands upon men, whether given by means of positive precepts and statutes, or by other means.

The sheer quantity of material — not to mention quality — represents an awesome demand upon any man.

Not exact matches

Barth gathers the questionings of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not upon the conscious will of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will of God.

Kamlah also is aware that self - commitment is not the natural disposition of modern man, but a demand continually imposed upon him from without.

The reaction of nature is a blindingly flashing red - light that man's actions are unnatural; that he need be true to his inner demands, which acted upon automatically set a proper balance within human consciousness and adjust the physical conditions in the entire creation around him.

The demands constantly being made upon us in business and family life, the world scene, and the precarious state in which we all dwell compel thoughtful people to consider the nature and destiny of man.

The kind of action from social awareness that is demanded by perfect love is such as must admit the tragic reality that there are people who are genuinely intent upon using their freedom to destroy the freedom of others, and that, under certain circumstances, love itself may dictate that «It is better that many should die prematurely than that nearly all men should live in a permanent state of hostility or slavery» (MVG 173).

In this state of derangement he demands the death of the man of spirit or rushes upon him to slay him.

It further suggests that man is bound by existential necessities stemming from his spatiotemporal embodiment, and that fulfillment of his freedom and rationality depends upon conforming the processes of thought to the elemental demands of necessity through loyalty to the rule of noncontradiction.

In the story The Giving Tree, we have a pure and selfless giver bestowing gifts upon an ungrateful, spoiled, and demanding boy / man.

But when all comparison is relinquished forever then a man confesses as an individual before God — and he is outside any comparison, just as the demand which purity of heart lays upon him is outside of comparison.

The word «grace» has been almost mined for many thoughtful Christians because it has been mistakenly interpreted as if it means the sheer mercy of God descending upon man apart from any moral demand or human effort.

It must have been teaching about the work of the living and real God and the moral demand which this God made upon all men without exception.

In passing judgement on him, the hearers are affirming the principle upon which this aspect of the teaching of Jesus turns: the experience of God demands a response in terms of imitation of that experience in relationship to one's fellow men.

That man is separated from God, then, evidently means that man does not fulfill this demand of God upon him.

This requirement is not that a man should possess a general knowledge that such a thing as a claim of God upon men exists, but that he himself should hear this demand.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

The urbanization of the church, the changing social and institutional structures of the church, and the new demands upon the minister, all combined to pose acutely the question of the nature of the training of men for ministry.

He decided that rationality demands that he act on principles that he could will all other men to act upon.

Vengeance and retaliation could be outwardly administered; penal justice could be roughly managed by legality; but the more magnanimity was called for, the more inward quality was indispensable, until at last the Bible faced man with an ideal that put upon him a profound demand for interior regeneration — «Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.»

And thus it is eternity must act, because to have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession made to man, but at the same time it is eternity's demand upon him.

Upon her return, she demanded for the man's house at the Airport Residential Area in Accra, as well as the exhumation of his body through the court, claiming the absence of autopsy report.

As are the demands placed upon the men and women who work every day in the bulky suits and restricted environment.

It is at those times especially, when he emerges as the dominant species in an environment, that man must take care not to make demands upon the community that may destroy his habitat.

In telling this tale, a narrative about a young man's unforgiving and demanding talent and its impact upon the journey into fatherhood, Have You Seen The Listers?

In passing it should be said that I agree with the gathering voices who are demanding an explanation as to why the CPS, in the face of all this, considered that it was worth expending very many hours and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money upon taking this man through the whole panoply of criminal courts that this country has to offer.

I talk with men about moving toward their partner's frustration so their partner feels those demands can be heard and acted upon.