Sentences with phrase «evil impulse»

Is Satan a real personal being, the author of evil impulses and acts?

Humans can be subject to evil impulses based on just about anything, including philosophy, religion, or their own philosophical concoctions.

At its best, the film is a whirring, eclectic oddity without a clear target audience, which is why its eventual turn toward muddled father - son hokum and strained commentary on the duality of human psychology (good and evil impulses exist in us all, but we must learn to tame the evil!)

The bitter arrow bites through his armor, piercing the heart he neglected to guard from crooked counsel and evil impulse.

Hence serving God with the «evil impulse» and «hallowing the everyday» are essentially the same.

It can not extend to removing another person's responsibility before God, but it can help him to escape the whirl into which the evil impulse has plunged him.

There is no evil impulse till the impulse has been separated from the being; the impulse which is bound up with, and defined by, the being is the living stuff of communal life, that which is detached is its disintegration.

Yet no faith in dialogue can be genuinely founded unless it includes the whole man, with all of his irrationality and «evil impulses,» as the bearer of this dialogue.

But he alone who directs the whole strength of the alternative into the doing of the charge, who lets the abundant passion of what is rejected invade the growth to reality of what is chosen — he alone who «serves God with the evil impulse» makes decision, decides the event....

Nothing is good for Kant except a «good will,» nor does he ever seriously envisage the possibility of turning to the good with the «evil impulse» in such a way as to unify impulse and will (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans.

To use the evil impulse to serve the good is to redeem evil, to bring it into the sanctuary of the good.

As in Buber's Hasidic philosophy the «evil impulse» can be used to serve God, so I - It, the movement away from the primal Source, can serve as the basis for an ever greater realization of I - Thou in the world of It.

But like the early rabbis, Freud also connected the «evil impulse» to birth and childhood.

If a boy is raised in a culture that teaches «If it feels good, do it,» he is less likely to understand himself, and less likely to master his evil impulses.

If a boy is raised in a culture that teaches «Do not murder» as a moral imperative, that culture may give him the tools to understand his evil impulses and, one hopes, to master them.

If our ends sought were as rational and as catholic as our technology is, man would still have his evil impulses but the world would be such that most of us would be glad for the chance to live in it.

He was greatly interested in the evil impulse, «seeing that without it there is no manner of fruitfulness, whether of the body or the spirit.»

The reference to this incident in the dream might suggest that the Yehudi's denial of the Shekinah lay in his having fled from his «evil impulses» rather than having used them creatively in his relations with others.

Not only the sparks of divinity but the qelipot, or shell of darkness, may ascend and be purified, and the «evil impulse» in man, the yezer ha - ra, can be redirected and used to serve God.

The Torah is a priceless gift of God when it is used to conquer the evil impulse and to transform the inner life of man, but not when it is made an end in itself — a joyless burden or an occasion for intellectual subtlety.

The sparks must in truth be liberated, the shells must in truth be transformed, and the «evil impulse,» which God created and which man made evil through his sin, must be turned once more to the service of God.