Sentences with phrase «enduring truths about»

Their deliberations showed the work of reason in a great repertoire of movements and a great range of mood and observations; and their decisions hewed closely to enduring truths about the human person.

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The more power they have over your emotions, the less likely you'll trust your own reality and the truth about the abuse you're enduring.

For weary generations the Jews have not ceased to toil, sweat, groan, travail, and endure the sufferings and experience the sorrows of a misunderstood and despised people, all in order that they might come a little nearer the discovery of the truth about God.

Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront in our everyday life.

There are many reasons for this, including the historical failure of any of the various theories to compel enduring universal consent, a general sense that we blaspheme against the sheer mystery of God by witnessing to the glory of God's actions with a cocksure orthodoxy, and a philosophic climate characterized by a profound skepticism about all metaphysical or theological attempts to probe rationally the truth of things.

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed (for no man can control the profession of another further than this; even if the other has endured, borne, suffered all for the Faith, an outsider can not get beyond what he says about himself, for a lie can be stretched precisely as far as the truth — in the eyes of men, but not in the sight of God), then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchausen.

In lush and elegant prose, Divakaruni has crafted a vivid and enduring dream, one that reveals hidden truths about the world we live in, and from which readers will be reluctant to wake.

She writes books about the world's religions, trying to explain that their strength lies not in dogma but profound and enduring truths.

Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce worked tirelessly to expose the truths about the cruel and gruesome conditions endured by the slaves in the British slave trade (pp. 235 — 36).

Economics might be the study of past bad decisions that caused financial harm, the inefficient use of resources and explanations of how this or that theory is about to finally prove itself as a reliable enduring truth.

«All of Canada needs to hear the truth about the violence Indigenous women and girls have endured for generations and continue to endure.

His 2004 book, The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive, is a classic of enduring value.