I have done, will do, and won't support anyone who does anything that blocks
another free human being from living his or her life they way they wish.
He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has
freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».
Not exact matches
In an unexpected move, the United States
is upgrading Malaysia
from the lowest tier on its list of worst
human trafficking centers to the so - called «Tier 2 Watch list», a status that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S. - led
free - trade deal with Malaysia.
He
's going to placeholdercolonize Mars, save Puerto Rico,
free us
from dependence on fossil fuels, redefine high - speed transportation, and ensure
human beings can survive in the age of artificial intelligence.
«What
's happening in robotics
is we
are going
from robots in a structured, pre-programmed environment to a
free - flowing environment working alongside
humans, and that
is a baby step to a car operating on its own on the road.»
Because it
is impossible for
human beings to
be free if their currency
is a fraud and they
are at the same time prohibited
from owning honest money.
Yet, thinkers
from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that
is premised upon a conception of
human beings as naturally «
free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who
are thought to exist by nature detached
from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.
This world
is not perfect and will not
be perfect because we
were given
free will and since the beginning of time, we
humans have always managed to move
from one upheaval to another.
When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for
human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to
free speech, and the ability to separate church
from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they
are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.
In fact the greatest leaps forward in
human progress
are marked by secularists
freeing themselves
from religious fear and persecution.
Scalia, the most conservative of the activist Roberts court once wrote in Department of
Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: «We have never held that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him
from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State
is free to regulate.»
Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing
from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as
free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.
If we
are serious about the
free exercise of religion, we should protect
free exercise whenever we can, by protecting sincere religion in most cases even if we realize that
human error will prevent us
from protecting it in all cases.
It sounds to me like Lucifer
freed Adam and Eve
from the prison known as Eden where
humans were experimented on and kept as slaves.
Christ's love
was life - giving because when
human hearts opened up to Him for whom they
were made, the result
was inevitably an increase in the life of the soul, a
freeing from sin, the lightening of a burden, and the joy that comes
from knowing you
are close to God, or that you
are loved by God.
It helps manage the disappointment when the cool new group you find yourself with
is eventually revealed to
be full of flawed and fallible
human beings, and it helps to
free you
from the initial desire to rationalize shitty behavior within a group merely for the sake of identity politics.»
It tells us that that the truth about
human sexuality
is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted
from the misuse of his
free will.
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons
from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to
be entered by
free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and
human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
I believe he
is providing a prominent professional service to humanity
free of charge, where he doesn't have to, out of belief in the «Sanctity of
Human Life» and as a Christian with a directive
from the Lord Jesus Christ to do so.
When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises
from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel
free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data
human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality
is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.
The joy of the gospel of marriage springs
from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the good news of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that
is inseparable
from the Truth, who
frees the
human person and reveals to him what it means to
be human.4 Only in Jesus does every
human being discover what it means to
be truly
human, to
be made for God and to live in relationship with God, to have true happiness.
It
is only because God utterly transcends history that his
free decision to become a
human being in time
is also a decision of grace: «Far
from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested
from all his work which he had done (Gn 2:2 - 3): In establishing and blessing the Sabbath, God created «
free time,» time for the activities that befit
free human beings.
You might
be surprised if I
were to tell you that there
are human beings who
are free of diseases such as the ones mentioned (depression, anxiety, fear, etc) but does that mean you have to believe to
be free from those ailments?
Relying on prophetic passages, particularly
from Jeremiah, McCabe demonstrated the frequency with which God
is shown to speak in the conditional form of address with reference to future events.8 These conditional prophecies, McCabe argued, imply that God did not absolutely foreknow
free human decisions.
Departing
from the view of
human character as a given «nature,» McCabe argued that character
is never so fixed and certain as to
be unsusceptible of new and different determinations
from the inexhaustible source and depth of
free will» (FG 420).
And when I say
human life — I
'm referring to everything
from freeing people to choose, to providing resources for their choice to live, and that does not include murder, drug abuse, welfare systems that do not promote living a life of personal responsibility.
Salvation
is a
free gift
from God to the
human race, but each individual
human has to make the decision to accept Jesus as their Savior.
If
human existence
is inextricable
from the life of the
human city, then the
human city will
be raised
from the dead with humankind,
freed from all that
is enslaving, dehumanizing, and tragic.
Thus, Hartshorne
is quite wrong in saying that, «Only the ancient Jews and some of the ancient Greeks
were nearly
free from this flight
from what, for all we really know,
is the
human condition» (ARP 32).
Grace alone seems to have the power to
free us
from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully
human in the sense of
being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior
is easily achieved or sustained.
One day all your faiths will only
be followed by a handful of wierdoes in a small room and the
human races minds will
be free from enslavment!
People of power have devised a clever system of beliefs (religion) that takes advantage of the a part of the
human psyche that
is there to protect us
from danger to enslave you
from free thought.
then there
is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and evil... every one will
be a good one... but because of
free will we have
human doing wrong things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away
from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will
be accountable for others... its like you
are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will
be your good deeds that you have done in this earthly life...
In one sense the discovery of
human individuality
was necessary for the development of
human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and
free market produced the modern economy; the separation of
human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.
The ascetic thus wants to
be freed from a merely
human way of looking at time as a cycle of work and rest, life and death.
And Jesus
was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will
be sailors then Until the sea shall
free them» But he himself
was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost
human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he
's touched your perfect body with his mind.
The only flawless, perfect
human being free from sin who died in our place endure unbelievable suffering.
the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the
human race,
was preserved
free from all stain of original sin,
is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to
be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.
To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk
from the slavery of their diseases, to set men
free by education
from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says,
is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to
be their best selves
are crusades for
human emancipation and happiness.
In our generation there
is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and
be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the
free man,
free from authority,
free from fear, «
free to give himself to others, whoever they
were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly,
human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling
human satisfaction.
Many can now understand such judgements as that of Loren Eiseley, who did not speak of
human difference
from other creatures in the glowing terms of the Enlightenment: how we
are «rational,» capable of «
free will», and so on.
The apostolic church
was not
free from the internal tension, dissension, and strife that seem to mark all
human communities.
«
Being a
human, the Prophet shares all those limitations which
human beings necessarily have and
from which God alone
is free.
It
is the Reason of Plato at work,
freeing us
from old, stale habits of thought in the expectation that out of the resulting conversation,
from the very turmoil and confusion of interpretations at war with one another, can emerge in good time a better understanding and a better practice of what it
is to become and
be within
human communities.
Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what
is best in people, to work to
free people
from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of
human happiness and justice (p. 179).
But does it not remain true that this event
was a symbol of the
human dignity of all persons, of their participation in the common life, of their will to
be free from the control of another people?
For the Christians, the point of
human life
is not to understand what
is eternal or to learn how to die or to
free oneself
from concern for personal
being.
It should
be underscored that the new life which flows
from the experience of the redeeming mercy of God
is a life of
free creative effort in which all
human powers
are released
from the shackles of a false piety and a crabbed moralism.
From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith
is not a glitch but a feature of a
free society, which encourages the development of a variety of
human types.