Sentences with phrase «great human stories»

In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».

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Great journalists find a human angle for their stories and you should, too.

This is why we think the cowboy account is a great solution for human beings so enamored by stories (read: all human beings).

It's a great story about human spirit, not Jesus.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

The narrative of Epiphany is the story of these two human communities: Jerusalem, with its great pretensions, and Bethlehem, with its modest promises.

Science is the great success story of the unaided human intellect.

, or a great number of our fellow human beings are susceptible to comforting stories, self - deception and an inability to think critically.

For a time, that led scientists to look for archeological evidence that there might have been a great global flood at some time in human pre-history, before recorded history, when stories were passed down orally.

And that's really the sad part... if you just accept them as the stories they are... of humans trying to understand what this life is all about and making answers to fit their environment and circ.umstances, then the contradictions simply confirm just how wonderfully human we are... There are some great stories.

It's a wonderful made up story with a lot of great «human dysfunctions» demonstrated that we could learn from.

By means of the story of the great flood, in which things were described as being so bad that the human race was all but annihilated, Israel was taught to see in the rainbow a sign that God would never again send such a catastrophe to blot out mankind.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

In some of the greatest historical narratives of the Bible the specifically religious element is quite in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalom.

1 There is the New England short story («The Great Stone Face») about the influence of a mountain in the shaping of a human face.

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

@ Bruce,... totally agree that it is great that in our human process of history, we can learn from the stories, myths and legends.

With enormous economy of line and with great care for the power of the human form, Rembrandt tells the story of the Prodigal in ways that we have never heard it or seen it before.

But the earthly career was important not primarily because of what it was in itself but because of the place which it, considered as a whole, had in a great story of salvation which began in heaven, had its center in the human life of Jesus, and returned to heaven for its ending.

But there is yet another story to be recited - that of the tragic fate that awaits any reformer who sets out to cleanse a great human institution.

Your story is a true testament to human will and the great strides it's capable of.

«All humans naturally resonate with stories that reflect the greatest story ever told, the story of God who became man,» he writes.

Such an encounter, he shows, is «the plot of some of the greatest stories and dramas that the human imagination has conceived».

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

The company also has done a great job of telling a human story with a very visible founder appearing frequently in the media to talk about starting his company from nothing.

«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»

Since then, its great discoveries have been legion, and the story of how it became the most successful and productive astronomical observatory in human history is destined to become legendary.

Great post to try: Are Stories A Key To Human Intelligence?

Brandon Stanton, creator, photographer, interviewer, and author of the recent New York Times bestseller Humans of New York: Stories, discusses how to talk to strangers, the importance of having greater empathy, and more

Biologists have long assumed that microorganisms are short stories and humans great tomes, with approximately 80,000 to 100,000 genes.

As Oppenheimer himself remarked, «Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.»

It is a great shame the BBC recently indulged this implausible theory as it distracts from the emerging story of human evolution that is both more complex and more interesting.

Perhaps you've heard the stories about artificial sweeteners causing cancer in lab rats, but you also heard those studies used doses much greater than a normal human would ingest.

There are lots of great pics, recipes, and human interest stories to make this a great everyday fitness blog.

The greatest joy is connecting with another human being, hearing their stories, and telling your own...

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a You're not going to have a great story about how you met your girlfriend, but digital matchmakers can be effective.

The story, while playing like a soap opera on the surface, is chock full of wry human observations while showing great affection for its characters.

As she tells me, Wonder Woman has something in common with that film in that it is a great story about the human dilemma.

Clint Eastwood and Taylor Hackford did great jobs of trusting their respective stories, and Alexander Payne has pretty much perfected his approach to the human comedy.

Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as «human computers», we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return.

It's an epic canvas for a human story and Aronofsky shows great respect for the faith of the source while taking a creative approach to dramatizing the story and the world.

Lively humor and fun visual gags belie the heart and care that clearly went into the story: Nimona is flawed and sometimes frightened, a truly human hero with a great story to tell.

The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action - packed epic — a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit.

Apart from the initial concept of the human race crash landing on an alien planet called Mira, there isn't a great deal going on in the story of the game.

The story goes like this: The Great God of the Forest, a mythical creature with the body of a deer, a human face and wooden horns that morphs into a giant, glistening blue amphibian at night (imagine Cecil, the Sea Serpent, dressed by Bob Mackie), has decreed that the forest gods may use any means to protect their domain from humans.

Yet, for all its quintessential coldness and emphasis on flat staging and bright storybook colors, Budapest manages to tell one of Anderson's most intimate and human stories yet — the friendship between an impoverished lobby boy (Tony Revolori) and the effete but strong - willed Gustave H. (a career - high performance from Ralph Fiennes, mixing culture and vulgarity to great effect).

The boxing scenes in Creed alone are a great calling card for Coogler to direct an action movie, and the fact that he can also do emotional, human stories and characters is a bonus..

In the story the aliens capture the bodies of the humans and much of the film is spent in an internal dialog between the alien Wanderer and her host Melanie Strange, both played by the typically great young actress Saoirse Ronan.

Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is an anthology inspired by the ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn, featuring an experimental sound design by the great composer Toru Takemistsu and gorgeous color cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima (Harakiri, The Human Condition).