Sentences with phrase «good symbolic statement»

And a «contract with generations» might be a good symbolic statement to raise awareness.

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by Franz Rosenzweig and Ludwig Strauss [Berlin: Lambert Schneider Verlag, 1928], p. 65 f.) This statement is symbolic of the way in which he has consistently answered this question: good can be maximized not through the rejection or conquest of evil but only through the transformation of evil, the use of its energy and passion in the service of the good.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

This occurrence has symbolic meaning; it proves the validity of the statement of the renowned traveler - explorer Marco Polo: «If Buddha had been a Christian, he would have been a great saint of our Lord Jesus Christ, so good and pure was the life that he led.»

From practical, well - judged statements that the liturgy, church services, have their essential place, as symbolic acts, he ran the full gamut through to existential, even mystical, affirmations.