Sentences with phrase «expression of the human spirit»

I have already mentioned the proposal of the Freudian, Herbert Marcuse, for a panerotic philosophy of life in which eros, agape, and thanatos (death) will all be integrated in the one self - expression of the human spirit.

Sometimes there are songs and prayers addressed to a score or more of divine beings; but they do seem to be the authentic, prayerful expression of the human spirit in varying moods.

Scientific language has replaced myth for the understanding of physical phenomena, but it has not replaced poetry and art as the expression of the human spirit.

«Science is a noble calling: an expression of the human spirit, a means to enhance lives, and the key to protecting the future of our species and our planet,» he added.

All are fine examples of art, history, and innovation that represent the creative mind at work, the spontaneous expression of the human spirit.

Not exact matches

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

For they are expressions of the divine purpose as well as the means of developing the human spirit.

The same spirit in modernization has, along with missions of service to universal humanity making human life richer and fuller, produced also a good deal of power - crusades for conquest which has found expression in technology being used in the service of colonialism and transnational and national economic exploitation, totalitarian statism and destruction of nature.

Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the human spirit.

Most of them were composed for use in the cult, although there are hymns which seem to be the more or less spontaneous expression of the individual human spirit.

The faith in God is supremely acted out in worship; and for a Christian loyal to the Christian community that worship is of «God the Father,» manifested in what through the Self - Expression (and for us supremely in the event of Jesus Christ) God has done, is doing, and will do in the creation, and given response through the working of the Holy Spirit, enabling the world and humans within it to say their Amen to God's initiating activity.

Rouault saw in the clown the expression of the essential loneliness of the human spirit.

The very search for purity of spirit is itself one form of human expression.

However, pacifists as well as others know that «man's a tough rascal, «13 and believe that all the potential evil of the human spirit comes to expression in the barbarous cruelty and deceptiveness of war.

Darling and Juliet of the Spirits, originally rated A - «morally unobjectionable for adults, with reservations,» by the old Legion of Decency, were cited by the National Catholic Office on the Motion Picture for their «artistic vision» and «expression of authentic human values.»

Myth, properly understood, can serve contemporary man, as well as it served ancient man, for the verbal expression of the response of the human spirit to the environment of his existence.

Through the long centuries in which God was seeking to prepare the way for the «incarnation» — the coming in human flesh of Himself through the «Word,» the self - expression of Himself in the creation of the cosmos — He was seeking men who would willingly respond to «the light which lighteth every man» and slowly was finding some in the small minority of His «chosen people» who were struggling to understand what His Spirit, respecting their free will, was trying to say through them.

Uprooted from their Buddhist settings and transported to an «exotic» Christian setting, they cease to be what they must be - expressions of struggles of the human spirit for liberation in different social and historical situations.

Thus we use the term spirit for many kinds of human expression.

He then described the humanist tradition as «a loose network of individuals broadly exercised by questions of the spirit, concerned to optimise the sum total of human happiness here on earth; individuals naturally respectful of others, wedded to rationalism and to scientific rigour, revering all life, unafraid to proclaim and to celebrate the joy of existence and the richness of human expression.»

Astro remains beloved in Japan as Tezuka's expression of innocence and of the power of the human spirit in the face of evil.

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