Sentences with phrase «depends upon a man»

One of the quotes I pasted in the back of my Bible many years ago says, «Pray as if everthing depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon man.»

Not exact matches

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

«It's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.»

Sherburne, in contrast to other Whiteheadians and in agreement with the «existentialists,» denies that the value of life depends upon a God who either provides men with a general confidence about the final worth of life (Ogden) or with a sense of the worthwhileness of the present moment whatever its final outcome (Cobb).

Men could depend upon this.

Further, the call to repentance guards against the misunderstanding that a man either could depend upon his calling or ought ever to despair of his calling.

Those of us who believe that human flourishing depends upon the recognition and honoring of marriage as exclusively the union of a man and a woman see this transformation of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to human society and human happiness.

Accordingly, Garaudy asks: «Is it to impoverish man, to tell him that he lives as an incomplete being, that everything depends upon him, that the whole of our history and its significance is played out within man's intelligence, heart and will, and nowhere else, that we bear full responsibility for this; that we must assume the risk, every step of the way, since, for us atheists, nothing is promised and no one is waiting?

Since so much of the book depends upon conjecture, it remains doubtful that Wilson has truly found the man behind the art, but he nevertheless presents an informative and highly readable account of both Holbein and the early sixteenth century.

Progress in science, progress in thought, progress in civilization depend for their good ultimately upon this, that they deliver the life of man into his own hands.

For it is quite stunning that the four documents in question depend for their intelligibility and their credibility upon a distinctively Jewish and Christian view of man's relation to God.

(Ephesians 4:32) Such precepts clearly depend for their full meaning upon the «proclamation» of what God has done for men through Christ.

Perhaps I misunderstand Mr. Dembski's Aristotelian / Thomistic terminology, but it seems to me that a man with a gun is not just an arbitrary combination of man and gun; it is a «thing» with a «substantial form» that depends essentially upon the gun as well as the man.

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

Whether a man has been helped by a miracle depends essentially upon the degree of intellectual passion he has employed to understand that help was impossible, and next upon how honest he is toward the Power which helped him nevertheless.

What feeling, knowledge, or will a man has, depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has, that is to say, upon how these things are reflected, i.e. it depends upon imagination.

The achievement of the divine intention is inevitable; yet men are called upon to «make the effort» on which depends the future of Western civilization.17 If men must be rallied to «make an effort» in our historical period, an effort which they may fail to make, why may it not be so in every historical period?

She rejects apocalyptic hope in favor of prophetic hope, in which the outcome depends upon human obedience.5 She asks rhetorically: «Can God — independently of whatever «the world,» and therefore society, does or fails to do — bestow forgiveness directly on a penitent man and make possible a new beginning for 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.

Our education, service and advocacy depend upon the adequacy of our theological vision — the way we interpret Scripture and tradition regarding relations between women and men, sex, marriage, parenting and violence.

This is due to the fact that when men slowly abandoned the nomad existence of the hunter and pastoralist for the settled existence of the agriculturist, they found themselves in a context in which their existence depended upon certain common factors and cycles of time.

Man's hope depends upon the assertion that through the transforming power of God it is possible for men to love one another.

Everything we have so far said about man's hope depends upon the assertion that through the transforming power of God it is possible for men to love one another.

Do Governments, either of right or left, ever stop to think how much wealth depends upon the common morality, the common co-operation and mutual honour between man and man, worker and manager?.

Among men the response to God varied considerably, and even when that response was intense, God's address must be radically different depending upon their particular circumstances.

In other words, each man's understanding of what love means for him would depend upon his understanding of love in the abstract.

The actualization of this potentiality and of the further possibilities it opens up for men depends upon social relationships.

Now suppose that our decision about whom to admire more, the generous man or the generous woman in the example above, depended upon which one of them was more important to the functioning of a good college.

To rebuke men who think they have something to depend upon before God, Jesus told the tale of the Pharisee and the tax - collector.

In the opinion of some, the success of the Christian proclamation depends upon the church's ability to make the transition so men can see.

Most of them have truly enormous organizations working for them — often hundreds of men and women whose livelihoods depend upon one man.

Can modern man consistently, permanently, and whole - heartedly believe that the fulfillment of his life depends upon the events associated with the life of the one man, Jesus of Nazareth?

We have a highly developed apparatus for thinking about and dealing with the individual and the State, but we lack adequate concepts and even words for a legal - political approach to those intermediate institutions within which the personalities of men, women, and children are formed, and upon which human beings depend for support and self - realization.

18:21 - 22) That means, if forgiveness is to be real, there is no question of commensurable achievements upon which the petitioner depends and bases a claim; the petition for forgiveness must be made by men who wholly renounce all claim.

Man's confidence in his ability to transcend nature and hence discover truths concerning it ultimately depends upon his rejection not only of dogmatic naturalism but of pantheism's attribution to Deity of complete immanence, in favor of a Western attribution to Deity of a transcendent character.

«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»

Everything depends upon how this man stands related to the utterance of the augurs which is in one way or another decisive for his life.

This is why, when acceptance is transformed into a witness to God's grace, it unites men in the deepest community of all, that which God has created through his mercy shed upon all men, and upon which they all depend.

But as long as the world of man remains a place where nature and God, the real and the ideal, meet, human progress will depend upon the judicious use of the forces of nature in the service of the ideal.

Many processes which we now regard as quite natural and logical were mysteries to medieval man and consequently offered a ready seedbed for all kinds of explanations which depended upon intervention by some supernatural force.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

The concepts «morality» and «moral development,» however much meaning and justification they may have in other connections, are excluded for Jesus, because he sees man in the crisis of decision, and because for him the concepts «good» and «bad» depend upon the will of God.

Even the sciences, in spite of their apparent matter - of - factness, depend for their progress upon man's imagination.

If imagination plays such a vital role even in such sciences as physics and astronomy, where man can so clearly be an objective spectator, how much more must man depend upon his imagination when seeking to understand the questions of human existence, in which he is at the same time an active participant.

The legend of the tower of Babel is effectively used to show that whereas language may be man's most distinctive characteristic, his own self - centered designs to make a god of himself result in a complete breakdown in that verbal communication upon which all human culture and healthy society depend.

«Those who have learned with Socrates that the soul, or more properly speaking, spirit, is the essence of the man,» he writes, «could never suppose that the existence of the reality depended upon the existence of its instrument.»

The will to relate is man's most basic striving, upon the fulfillment of which other satisfactions depend.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

But such significance will depend upon the establishment of some point of contact between that knowledge from the past and the situation of the man in the present.

As war and peace may depend upon the stroke of the pen in the hands of one government official, so your life depends upon the answer to the question, «what is Man?»