Not exact matches
To lead through a catastrophe, ensure business continuity and a return to normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in
place to focus
first and foremost on the
human side
of the crisis.
During my tests, I felt a pang
of regret for even agreeing to being carted around like that in the
first place, even with a
human driver as a backup.
There is nothing that we
humans can do to avoid bear markets and economic crises except to permit discussion
of the last 36 years
of peer - reviewed research in this field and thereby prevent bull markets from developing in the
first place.
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years
of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness»
of being born in the
first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every
human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility
of hell at all.
When people come to share a plane or public
place they should try to be a
human being
first, instead
of a show case religious person.
Why doesn't he simply help people instead
of depending on
humans who are financially or emotionally strapped in the
first place.
Why make a tree
of knowledge that will give any eater self - awareness and knowledge that god possesses and yet handicap it we «
human knowledge» if we weren't supposed to eat and gain it in the
first place?
Their intentions may have been quite the contrary, but in calling for this change in emphasis they have in fact put the second commandment in
place of the
first and, in so doing, turned the
first into little more than an engine for
human betterment.
And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been
placed in the Bible
first or known thus far to have been
placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning
of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those
of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
842 The Church's bond with non-Christian religions is in the
first place the common origin and end
of the
human race: All nations form but one community.
Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale
of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope
of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale
of human lifetime and
of generations.7 But worse than this from the point
of view
of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities
of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties
of linear time, at least in terms
of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use
of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the
first place, even though it was only the single horizon
of presence.
The all knowing God has to invent earth and
humans and love and war and every aspect
of each etc. etc. and It already knows how the game will be played and end before starting because It is the Inventor so no reason to run through the idle act
of playing the game in the
first place.
«The canonization
of scripture,» he writes, «both Jewish and Christian, was no doubt complicated by all kinds
of less - than - perfect
human motivations, as indeed in the writing
of scripture in the
first place.
63 When bloody flooding killed the
human race And brand - new oceans put man in his
place, Except for those who carried mankind's seed, I,
first of creatures, snubbed what law decreed, While I mocked yielding to the Lord's command, For which, I think, a poet would declare, «The sin....
We can see there is a coherence between the idea that the religiosity
of mankind is a function
of our mental architecture, and the idea that the
human mind with its spiritual soul is made for union with God in the
first place.
nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the
first place,
humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival
of the fittest would not permit the emotions
of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any
of those and many other
of the best
of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense
of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.
In the
first place I maintain that peace — I mean, some form
of universal and stable peace — is possible in
human terms.
Some will thrill to the contempt for the
human; some will feel a jolt
of free - floating religious awe; some will decide that enough's enough (though most
of those are unlikely to have started the novel in the
first place).
Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has
placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole
human community
of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the
first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice
of their schools, etc..»
It was, after all, in the immediate aftermath
of the
first successful
human heart transplant that the medical profession recognized the need to establish criteria to pronounce «brain death,» to be used in certain cases in
place of traditional «cardiorespiratory» criteria for death.
Using a father / son analogy to describe gods relationship with
humans is wrong and misunderstanding the whole point
of the analogy in the
first place.
He drowned «angel» /
human hybrids that shouldn't have existed in the
first place but were a result
of the darker things.
The primary biblical foundation for understanding family living as caring for the generations is in God's call to
human beings in the
first chapter
of Genesis «to exercise care over the earth and hold it in its proper
place.»
If all we can say
of Jesus and
of God is that Jesus is God — all the God
of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts
of the
human spirit to glimpse the mystery
of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding
of «Jesus,» in the
first place, is really a dogmatic reduction
of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness»
of christological propositions that, most
of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.
In the
first place, even when a definite proposition must be regarded as revealed by God, it is still possible to inquire whether precisely that proposition as it stands derives from the direct communication
of God to the
human spokesman
of Revelation, or whether it was revealed by being implicitly contained in the direct primordial Revelation which itself primarily concerned something else.
Much official theology seems to have gone wrong,
first, in confining the incarnating action
of God to Jesus alone, so that he appears to enter the world as a catastrophic intrusion, as someone has put it, unrelated to the rest
of the God - world and God - humankind relationship; and second, in speaking
of Jesus in «substance» idiom, thus suggesting a static deity who in some fashion is implanted in, takes the
place of, or is incomprehensibly united with another static «substance» called
human.
In the
first chapter
of The Concept
of Anxiety Kierkegaard is at pains to make the point that Adam and Eve must not be
placed «fantastically on the outside»
of human history.
It's just common,
human nature to look, as well as, normal
human reflexes to look out
of first curiosity, and then feel very uncomfortable and try not to look knowing consciously in your mind what is taking
place.
In the
first place quantitatively, by the addition to the Mystical Body
of an increasing multitude
of human souls, «until the number shall be complete».
The
first is
human dignity, which is characteristic
of our status in between God and beasts: «Not simply body, but also not simply mind or spirit; rather, the
place where body and spirit meet and are united (and reconciled?)
In the
first place, so far as its theological aspect is concerned, we can see that those who respond in faith to Jesus Christ are impelled to read the whole
of human existence, indeed the whole
of their experience
of the created world, in the light
of that which has taken
place in that important moment.
In the next
place, a purpose
of proclamation is to bring about genuine commitment, whether this is for the
first time (as with some who are present it very well may be) or is a renewed response in self - dedication to God who in Christ has acted decisively for us
humans and for our wholeness.
First, the growing
human economy is
placing greater and greater stresses on the larger economy
of nature.
The
first settlers
of Salem, Hawthorne wrote in «Main - Street,» were «stalwart» men, who strode «sturdily onward,» brave and pious men
of «thoughtful strength,» men «who do not merely find, but make their
place in the system
of human affairs.»
The claim
of Christian belief is not
first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system
of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the
place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree
of mutual gift and understanding that no
human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.
First thought... Jesus did not condemn anyone although he condemned sins Second thought... Does this not smack
of placing the right to condemn on
human beings because «Jesus did it?»
The effects
of the
first human sin would actually be analogous to a terrible earthquake, devastating
human nature and making man's
place in Nature insecure.
To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight»
of modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that
humans came into existence in various
places at differing times (so - called «Polyphyletism») is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there was one
first man (Adam) and one
first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.
In the
first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture
of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light
of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens
of the inclusive society
of being, and to relate their present choices to
first and last decisions made about them in the totality
of human history by Sovereign Power.
In the
first place, points denoting this new
human type will be found to be scattered more or less all over the thinking face
of the globe.
And we've got a filicidal personality who purposely chooses to kill his / her own child, ostensibly as the propitiation for what
human beings (whom God created in the
first place, mind you) do as a result
of being
human.
This means, in the
first place, that faculties need to concentrate on the theological grounding
of all that they do, and provide an account
of Christian claims that is reasonable and accessible to real
human beings in real settings.
Thus absolute Spirit is in the
first place God and in the second
place the enlightened
human consciousness
of the philosopher.
That's part
of the issue, doesn't matter if you can read ancient Greek or Hebrew, many
humans still were never given the writings in the
first place.
True peace is achieved only by living in conscious connection to our Environment, to Christ our Bread
of Life, the Prince
of Peace: synthesising all the elements
of human life around the Person who gives them existence and purpose in the
first place.
First, the simple fact that this structure
of divine -
human unity emerged at a time and
place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity
of a significant portion
of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.
The
first story offers a cosmic vision and addresses us as spectators, majestically presenting our
place in a cosmic whole; the second story maintains a strictly terrestrial focus and addresses us as suffering moral agents, poignantly presenting an account
of how misery enters
human life.
All Christians know that they are liable to hear Christ Himself say to them one day, «I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat» Every one looks on progress as being, in the
first place, a transition to a state
of human society in which people will not suffer from hunger.
So while it is all well and good to imagine that each
of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along within ourselves, the transfer
of those metaphors back again to the actual
human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the
first place only distorts reality rather than helping to explain it.
In the
first place, the fact
of intercession and personal petition as part
of prayer implies that there is a certain «open - ness» about the Creation, so that genuinely new and different things may be accomplished in it if
human wills are aligned with the Will
of God.