Sentences with phrase «from insignificance»

In the midst of mass society people yearn to identify with something larger than themselves, something that will redeem their lives from insignificance.

We are meant to live in Ordinary Time, and to help redeem the time being from insignificance, by making it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary ways of all.

But we need not abandon it to empty secularity, because there is «the time Being to redeem / From insignificance.»

In the meantime There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

Not exact matches

The truth that alone can redeem our theological certitudes, posturing and chatter from utter insignificance is finally not combative but conciliatory.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

Every person knows that politically the world is sitting on a powder keg, although this metaphor pales to insignificance when we try without success to stretch the imagination from the familiar old powder keg to nuclear power, which is many million times more destructive.

Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a «moderate» Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)-- and should be identified as such.

But even if the counsellors strayed from support to advocating, this effort pales into insignificance compared with the proselytizing of organized religion.

We reduce it to insignificance and remove its ontological and theological sting, by construing it as though it said that man's body was taken from the earth and in doing so we think of «body» as meaning just what fits into the framework of our standard and superficial ideas, and as something that has nothing to do with the «soul».

''» that one comes across now and then in old novels, especially translations from French, where the intent is to belittle the victim, impressing him with his utter insignificance.

And so, apart from God, or the mystery of Nirvana, Whiteheadians and Buddhists can agree that all things human and humanly valuable are ephemeral, «passing whiffs of insignificance,» as Whitehead phrased it.

The Marxist Social Democratic Federation disaffiliated from the LRC in 1901 and disappeared into insignificance while its leader, Henry Hyndman, ended up backing World War I.

If you give this movie time to work on you, the elements that seem overly artificial or impossibly distant from our own time fade into insignificance, and you're left with a complicated and wonderful romantic drama that's full of surprises.

But these paled into insignificance in the face of the clamour from MPs and school leaders» unions for the elusive holy grail of «fair funding».

But whatever else you take away from the Polo will fall away into relative insignificance when, finally, you notice the things that should be happening beneath you on typical roads, but aren't.

As of June 30, 2008, the global derivatives market had exploded to $ 530 trillion, while credit default swaps had grown from mere insignificance to $ 55 billion.

Traffic, frantic calls from an owner, thunder, gunshots, briars, streams pale into insignificance — nothing matters but the chase.

In normal circumstances, the games beloved narrator will ask you to move on from the room reminding us of our general insignificance in the world that we live in.

Moving from the city to the rural hinterland and the coast, Hayes reflects on contemporary and historical engagements with the land and its representations, observing our insignificance within its expanse as keenly as our urge to manipulate, inhabit and delight in it.

If, for example, we were to create a piece-wise continuous trend keeping your own trend, we'd find the 0.17 C decadal warming trend from your starting point preceded by an estimated warming of equal magnitude in the combined 125 prior years (beginning at a time where only 1/4 of the present day coverage existed, thus placing the entire 125 year warming more or less within the margin of statistical insignificance).

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and attempts are being made to replace it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and we have replaced it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

So, you and your ilk want to replace want to move from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and you want to replace that with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

In a decades - long survey of leading journals, from the American Economic Review to the New England Journal of Medicine, we find that eight or nine of every 10 articles assumes that statistical significance demonstrates scientific, economic, or other human importance, and that a lack of statistical significance — statistical «insignificance,» or a p - value greater than.05 — indicates a lack of importance.

It is hard to know which is greater: contrarians» overstatement of the flaws in the historical temperature reconstruction from 1998 by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues or the ultimate insignificance of their argument to the case for climate change.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) were a huge trend of 2015 (read our post on the subject), but according to the annual report from PriceWaterhouseCooper's (PwC) Health Research Institute, this will pale to insignificance by comparison with 2016.

5) Feeling of insignificance stemming from a lack of replies to your many cover letters and resumes sent out.

At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.