Sentences with phrase «dependent upon our human»

The primary objection to this, of course, is that it seems to make eternal life at least somewhat dependent upon humans.

Because such existence is intrinsically intelligible to man and dependent upon human intelligence, by analogy we are enabled to affirm the divine mind and Creator of the whole cosmos.

Paul goes on to explain that God has compassion and mercy on whomever he wills, not dependent upon human will or effort (vv.

It puts our human place in the cosmos in clearer perspective, reminding us that we are part of a much larger world that is not dependent upon our human activity.

Worst of all, your body may stop producing human growth hormone of its own and you may become permanently dependent upon human growth hormone supplements.

Berkeley described three states of being of cats: true ferals, who have never lived with humans; cats who are dependent upon humans; and actual strays, who once depended on humans but were abandoned or lost.

Where it ends up is dependent upon human behavior and earth's responses, which could change.

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Far more than is usually acknowledged, the security and well - being of the human community are dependent upon that great triumph of the symbolizing mind, bookkeeping.

If something so important for each individual is dependent upon accepting / rejecting a supposed scriptural «truth» (as you define it) then make the case for how it makes any sense at all that humans would be judged negatively for rejecting something they have no idea exists!!

One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.

Our very humanness is dependent upon the language by which we communicate and grow to some degree of human maturity.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

An institution is conspicuously dependent upon individual human beings for its existence.

Certainly God is concerned with each of us personally, but yet, precisely because we are persons who are necessarily open to and dependent upon others in the commonality of our human experience, that concern is with us as persons - in - society.

Feuerbach agreed with his theological teacher, Schleiermacher, that «[t] he basis of religion is the feeling of dependency», but went on to assert that «that upon which human beings are fully dependent is originally, nothing other than Nature.

This has to do with the closer link between the mother and her offspring, a fact which humans share with all mammals: the perpetuation of the genetic line is more dependent on the females» constant care and attention than upon the males».

Dependent upon these «spiritual forces», the early humans knew they were not free to do whatever they liked on the earth.

The former — religious experience — need not be highly articulated nor even highly conscious of God as God; it may be vague, diffused, and unformed, yet also a deliverance of what it feels like to be dependent upon a reality greater than anything human or natural.

If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the body and mind are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship between one's body and mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between human minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and other kinds of «matter.»

Whatever else the word God may mean, it is a term used to designate that Something upon which human life is most dependent for its security, welfare and increasing abundance.

Yet we can not remain there because (as I have urged) our specific human identity is largely dependent upon where we are, with another and with others and in genuine rapport with the human world as a whole.

Similarly, as human evolution leads toward human personality and this process must be within and dependent upon an environing universe, there must be something correlative to it, something capable of assimilation by it within the environment....

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

All these developments, and in particular the drive under the WTO regime to make access to food mainly dependent upon market mechanisms, are a threat to food security - the most fundamental of all human rights.

If the actualization of our mental life is so delicately balanced on the preparation of an extremely complex physiological base, we might also maintain that the «actualization» of the divine life, on our planet at least, is even more sensitively dependent upon the preparation of a network of human relationships which would be the receptacle of the divine incarnation.

For a God who dwells in and relies upon the various strata of cosmic process would be «dependent» not only on the performance of sub-human emergent dimensions, but also on the considerably less predictable interpersonal processes of human self - integration (Or comparable «conscious» processes in other corners of the universe).

The modern industrial world and the would - be industrial world have made their choices in terms of a human future dependent upon increased economic growth in material goods, despite the warning of ecologists.

All the resources used by humans, with the exception of minerals and petroleum, are dependent upon four ecological systems: grasslands, croplands, forests and fisheries.

In addition to biological resources discussed above, the life of human society is at present dependent upon non-renewable resources, notably fossil fuels and minerals.

In human perception, as H. H. Price (1932) has shown, the very idea of a material object is dependent upon an element of anticipation.

But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.

Some contemporary writers suggest that the future is not predetermined but dependent on human beings who are free to respond to God's will or to bring upon themselves self - destruction.

«If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self - knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point.

Unlike other primates that «cling» to their mothers, «human infants are dependent upon their mothers to ensure that proximity is maintained,» says Professor Helen Ball of the Parent - Infant Sleep Lab of Durham University in her article Bed Sharing and Co-Sleeping: Research Overview.

Due to their inability to cling, however, human infants are dependent upon their mothers to ensure that proximity is maintained.

And both human economies and societies are themselves located within and completely dependent upon the non-human world.

It is common sense that transformative outcomes in so - called developing countries are dependent upon, above all but not exclusively, human agency and the position and role of the old guard and the military.

Interdependent and interrelated, every human right is closely related to and often dependent upon the realization of other human rights;

The researchers further found that miR - 486 is itself regulated by the tumor - suppressor gene p53, the most frequently altered gene in human cancers, and that activity of miR - 486 is partially dependent upon functional p53.

An estimated ~ 10 % of the total economic value of European agricultural output for human food amounted to $ 22 billion in 2005 ($ 14.2 for the EU) was dependent upon insect pollination.

Yoga can be regarded through as many lenses as their are human eyes, for what one views as yoga is wholly dependent upon one's life experience.

Mary (Williams) seeks a bigger world beyond the fenced off village of survivors, and the survival of the human race seems dependent upon her success in leading a ragtag group through the dark depths of The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Plant characterisation modelling studies strengthen national conservation and sustainability policies key to ecosystems and developing human communities which are dependent upon them.

With human companions domestic cats remain very much dependent kittens, and will look upon their owners very much as their mothers.

Upon approval from Human Resources, the Qualified Dependent Card can be fulfilled at the Guest Services Office at Camelback Mountain.

Upon the approval from Human Resources, the Qualified Dependent Card can be purchased at the Guest Services Office at Camelback Mountain.

Human beings, polar bears and other organisms thrive in this spacecraft, upon which life as we know it is utterly dependent.

Reality: This statement is basically meaningless because modern Human civilisation has developed within and is dependent upon a reasonably stable climate.

In simpler language, humans are conducting a single experiment on systems of unimaginable complexity whose function we barely understand but upon which our survival is utterly dependent.

As future climate change is dependent upon emissions of greenhouse gases, efforts to mitigate those emissions can reduce the likelihood that human or natural systems will experience a limit to adaptation.