Sentences with phrase «finite nature of life»

Thus the iconography of Romantic art includes solitary figures set in the countryside, gazing longingly into the distance, as well as vanitas motifs such as dead trees and overgrown ruins, symbolizing the transience and finite nature of life.

- Library Journal «First Person is studded with sharp, breath - catching observations about the finite nature of life.»

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Finally, it may be useful to ponder whether thinking about death from the perspective of our nature as finite and free can give us guidance about how we ought to live as we grow older.

In the most complete way possible, we may dare to say, we have the assurance of life in and with God, in the mode which preserves both the integrity of the divine nature as Love and also the value and worth of our finite human existence.

We are finite creatures, having our lives in the flux, the insecurity, the mystery of nature, of history, and of freedom.

The interpretation of the present nature of human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in - Relation and destined to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconciled to God.

To say that God is God is to say that he is always active, living, «moving out» to express his nature, rejoicing in every expression of it, tenderly and compassionately entering into relationship with every finite occasion to give it a similar joy in actualizing all that may possibly be available for it, and accepting into himself all that is achieved in the world.

Evans is interested in the nature and ideas of finite truth in an infinitely changeable universe and works with drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and sound in an attempt to make sense of the ungraspable realities we live within.

Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.

Learning to savor the people and the experiences we love and to respect the finite nature of time are important lessons in life.