In Steiner's words, «Our highest endeavor [is] to develop
free human beings who, of themselves, are able to give purpose and direction to their lives.»
Waldorf educators, whether they work in independent or in public schools, hold Rudolf Steiner's goal for education to be eloquently expressed in this quote: «Our highest endeavor must be to develop
free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and meaning to their lives.»
«Our highest endeavor must be to develop
free human beings who, of themselves, are able to give purpose and direction to their lives.»
Not exact matches
Poloz has a
free hand, but he
's human; if you
were facing a decision that could go either way, and you knew the person
who is ultimately your boss favours one direction over the other, what would you do?
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.
As for theology, the word means speaking - of - God, which in Christian terms means speaking of the One
who is Truth — the Truth Who makes us free in the deepest meaning of human liberati
who is Truth — the Truth
Who makes us free in the deepest meaning of human liberati
Who makes us
free in the deepest meaning of
human liberation.
«All methods and techniques — and of course all
human beings who propound them —
are merely instruments to help the student attain a methodless technique -
free teacherless state.
If it
were possible to have creatures
who could enjoy all the same values which we
human beings enjoy, except that they would not really
be free, should not God have brought into existence such creatures instead?
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.
No
human being then
is an absolutely autonomous individual
who ought to
be able to live his or her life without reference to any higher or more demanding truth in order to
be complete, to
be happy and to
be free.
For a guide I would suggest Benedict XVI,
who understood deeply that the quest for the truth of God which takes a living form in monasticism must lie at the foundation of any social order that
is finally
human and any political order that
is truly
free (See here and here).
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.
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?
The Galatians
are also encouraged to identify with Titus,
who, with Paul's help, responded to the circumcision -
free gospel of Christ instead of the
human desires of the false brothers.
If your sin involved other
human beings, or if you believe you need their help in keeping
free of this sin, or you need their counsel, advice, or accountability, you should also confess this sin to another person you trust, or to a group of such people,
who will love you no matter what and will help you through the temptations and addictions of this particular sin.
The only flawless, perfect
human being free from sin
who died in our place endure unbelievable suffering.
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 Christian explanation of
who we
are as
free persons might make more sense that Rousseau's account of
human freedom as an inexplicable cosmic accident.
Satan
is supposed to
be exactly like
human beings, with
free will but, like Mark Twain observed,
who prays for his soul?
It
was God himself
who, jealous of his prerogatives,
was withstanding the
free course of
human investigation.
It
is the
human who love to innovate things by using the «
free will» and here also greediness of power and supremacy that no one wants to discover or accept the truth...
And yet the actual situation of
human existence
is one in which the self
is not really
free, one in which people often do not have a clear sense of
who they
are, and one in which true personality
is lost in various forms of enslavement to convention or mass - mindedness.
Though Barth failed to see how completely God's
free love entailed
human freedom, he did powerfully realize that
human liberation
is possible only if the God
who creates and sustains this universe has the all - sufficient freedom and love to sustain that liberation.
It shows itself as power of love which challenges, gives life and
frees human beings, at least those
who hold themselves open to this offer.
Though Barth failed to see how completely God's
free love entailed
human freedom, he did powerfully realize that
human liberation
is possible only if the God
who creates and sustains this universe has the all - sufficient freedom and love to sustain that Liberation.
Faced with these wonderful facts of
human life (charity, beauty, etc), evolutionary reductivists default to subjectivity, assume that our impressions of value
are illusory and see moral reasoning as a sophisticated mechanism to get what we really want (a
free decoder ring to anyone
who, without laughing, can explain my Petco experience in these terms).
Ellison and I regarded ourselves as
being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the
human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would
be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves
freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction...
who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.
The story of women
being easily possessed by demons to distort God's message
is totally unbiblical and must
be stopped.If it
were so, the woman
who was sent by Jesus to herald the first resurrection Gospel, would have distorted.Yet Bible says, this same Magdalene
was freed from bondage to demons.Anything that brings fear and bondage isn't the Gospel.The reason why the word seems not to
be gaining ascendancy in some parts of the world
is because of the coldness of the
human heart.To blame it entirely on women
is unscriptural.
Aquinas
was for them either a Pelagianizing theologian
who relied too little on grace and left too much to
human free will or a philosophical theologian
who counted too heavily on
human reason and too little on divine revelation.
And then there
were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków,
who grasped that the dignity of the
human person
was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world»
was contesting with various dangerous forces for the
human future;
who thought that coercion of consciences violated that
human dignity; and
who believed that the act of faith must
be free if it
is to
be true, because the God of the Bible wants to
be adored by people
who freely choose to do so.
No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies,
is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort
who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it
is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have
been simply introductory, the man
who — let me say it — for the first time in
human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far
freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...
Some see Jesus as a very good man
who preached love but had no supernatural origin, or as a man
who understood
human frailty and psychology and hence
was able to
free others of psychosomatic blindness, etc..
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.
But the claim that I had made, which Hasker quoted,
was that the God of traditional
free will theism could have created «creatures
who could enjoy all the same values which we
human beings enjoy, except that they would not really
be free» (Process 74).
It
is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional
free will theism,
who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of
human beings.
In a statement quoted by Hasker in his discussion of what he calls a «more subtle form» of the above argument (although it simply
is my argument), I said that according to traditional
free will theism it would have
been possible for God to create «creatures
who could enjoy all the same values which we
human beings enjoy, except that they would not really
be free» (Process 74).
And it
is traditional
free will theists
who have implied, and sometimes explicitly said, that the whole universe
was created for evoking moral and spiritual virtue in
free human (and perhaps, on other planets, humanlike) souls, so that it
is only this divine -
human drama that contains intrinsic value.
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.
i guess we
are lucky
are parents
were not gay or we would not all
be here reading this the book allso says
free will and ten comanments to live by its not up to us
humans to judge when we all die we will know what we did right and what
was wrong until then do what you do best to help keep the devil from taking over remember the devil and god have the same powers but only god can give you peace and love bottom line what or
who you sleep with
is your choice but don't keep rubbing my nose in it do your job and keep the rest to yourself
«There
is real and genuine tolerance only when a man
is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth, or of what he holds to
be a truth, and when he at the same time recognizes the right of those
who deny this truth to exist, and to contradict him, and to speak their own mind, not because they
are free from truth but because they seek truth in their own way, and because he respects in them
human nature and
human dignity and those very resources and living springs of the intellect and of conscience which make them potentially capable of attaining the truth he loves, if someday they happen to see it.
Verse 31:6 talks about those
who preaches to take
human away from worshipping One True God (pure monothiestic) and those
who purchases their stories to
be misguided
are the same... the one
who purchases these stories
are not
being forced but they
are purchasing by their
free wills that
human will
be judged for this «
free will» that how they have used this «
free will» when it comes to The Creator OR Creators...
IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great
are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take
human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we
were held in bondage
being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it
is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they
were born those whom nature sent
free into the world, but
who have
been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»
Those
who have not known this (and this
is only knowable by God's grace, his
free gift of revealing his love to us), have not known what
is mostly deeply
human about them.
Some contemporary writers suggest that the future
is not predetermined but dependent on
human beings who are free to respond to God's will or to bring upon themselves self - destruction.
We then join this God in the act of loving and
freeing those
who are in the chains and bonds and shackles of
human corruption.
I have hit a spot of stagnation due to moving (something I didn't foresee between a giveaway and school), but realizing that this milkshake
was just too good not to share, I developed the super
human «gift» tonight to tell you not only
who won the Bob's Red Mill gluten
free cookbook + the goodie pack giveaway, but also to share with you a recipe that I have admittedly held out on for some time.
Another supporter
is Al Gore
who stated that initiatives like Meat
Free Monday «represent a responsible and welcome component of a comprehensive strategy for reducing global warming pollution and simultaneously improving
human health.»
This can
be compared to
humans with coeliac disease perhaps, or those
who simply have a gluten allergy, and in that case, a diet
free of gluten
is commenced.
I
am not a vegan warrior, I
am a meat and dairy -
free human who still remembers how yummy that stuff
is and reminds herself regularly — I love the animals more.
And
who knows how bad the Hurricanes might have thrashed Notre Dame if they hadn't made seven turnovers — three interceptions, one of which
was returned 60 yards for a TD by
free safety Pat Terrell, and four fumbles, two of which
were recovered by Irish nosetackle Chris Zorich, the
human groundhog.