Sentences with phrase «half full mean»

We can hardly grasp the full meaning of the word «death» (death is somewhat beyond reason), thus we should regard, what we can understand regarding the topic of death.

God has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ, and we find full meaning in Him.

It is a God of promise, as we can never find full meaning to this drama.

Although it too easily gets out of hand, yet the contrary error of a bald and prosaic literalism may easily miss the full meaning.

And we can only understand its full meaning in the light of Jesus Christ.

However much original insight and thought may have contributed to the high estimate of personality that is one of the chief characteristics of the New Testament, the fact remains that, until religion was disentangled from nationalism, the full meaning of personality could not stand clear.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

As the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.»

Even now, Holloway argues, growth in holiness and the «sedating» of sexual concupiscence can lead a couple to be able only to seek thesexual act when they are seeking it in its full meaning.

Analogously, it might be said that perfection in sexual intercourse involves seeking the full meaning of the act, i.e. seeking procreation, a godly but imperfect use of the actinvolves seeking a secondary end without the primary end (or in its conscious absence), while it is sinful directly to oppose the primary end of procreation.

We see the full meaning of love when it leads to death in this way.

It might be said that this tension is resolved neatly by the full meaning of Jesus» injunction, «Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you».

How and when it acquired this full meaning is a difficult question.

But the full meaning of his life became clearer.

He knows that Scripture receives its full meaning only through the preacher's actual interpretation, by which faith is awakened.

Both through actual use and through an inability to carry the full meaning of a truth, words always convey a meaning that is partly false and partly true.

This essay is intended as an initial step in that direction — an initial step because it will not be possible for me in this, or in any single, article to explicate the principle's full meaning and import.

There is no one word that expresses the full meaning of salvation.

I do not regard that as an adequate term for doing justice to the full meaning of basileia.

But such a view of an inflexible moral order is not enough to express the full meaning of divine judgment.

That Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Slavs, and others were not human beings in the «full meaning of the term» (Roe v. Wade) was the doctrine of the Third Reich.

Many times, the Spirit gave me messages about faith instead of works, but I was not understanding the full meaning of faith.

This is the full meaning of just war according to Aquinas.

I also didn't understand the full meaning of Jesus» sacrifice until much later.

A review of Buber's inluence on Judiaism, Zionism, Hasidism, his position on the law, and the full meaning of what it means to be a Jew.

(Ephesians 4:32) Such precepts clearly depend for their full meaning upon the «proclamation» of what God has done for men through Christ.

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

He solved it, or got round it, in the way philosophers and scientists have always been obliged to do — by the use of neologisms and, at times, of elaborate, allusive formulations of words which make considerable demands on the reader if their full meaning and implications are to be grasped.

Spirit, then, is one of the categories which are fundamental for our knowledge of God, and yet which we hold as analogies and symbols, for we can never claim full understanding of them even as they apply to our being, nor can we assert that we know their full meaning in God.

Only gradually has the full meaning of these differences become clearly apparent.

Of course the true sign that is given all Christians is Christ's death and resurrection, and so we must say that Matthew has in a sense rightly interpreted the full meaning of Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passage.

Both terms designate something less than the full meaning of duration which escapes adequate interpretation.

Contraceptive sex does not express the full meaning of sexual intercourse — it attempts to thwart and deny the life - giving meaning of the sexual act [9].»

The Christian answer lies in a conception which emerged in the Protestant Reformation, but which has yet to be appreciated in its full meaning: the conception of life as vocation.

The Church is not the only channel of God's grace, though understood in its full meaning it is the most important one.

There is no single word in English by which to translate the full meaning of the Paraclete.

Christ has demonstrated the full meaning of what it means to be a man; therefore, he is fully the second Adam, the standard by which God will finally judge man at the end of history.

The verb depouiller and its noun form depouillement are translated throughout as «divest» and «divestment,» though this fails to capture the full meaning of the French which includes such diverse meanings as «to cast off,» «lay aside,» «abandon,» «rid oneself of,» and «to sit off one's clothes.»

• A raw individualism that conceives «freedom» as radical personal autonomy because it thinks of the human person as a twitching bundle of desires, the satisfaction of which is the full meaning of «human rights» and the primary task of government.

In the Gospel of John we have the most forthright and vivid use of the term, for its author, who was probably a Gentile Christian familiar with the Greek idea of the Logos, (The word Logos which holds a central place in Stoic philosophy, can be translated Word but this does not do justice to its full meaning.

One wishes that present - day Bible students would take Josephus more seriously — and also that writers who discuss the relations of Judaism and Christianity, or «the Jewish question» as a social - historical problem, would read and reread that profoundly tragic history until its full meaning sinks deeply into their minds.

In Baltimore on October 8, 1995, Pope John Paul touched on this point in his homily: «Sometimes, witnessing to Christ will mean drawing out of a culture the full meaning of its noblest intentions, a fullness that is revealed in Christ.

Again, though the sciences can investigate significantly many aspects of human behavior, the full meaning of human selfhood can never be discovered externally.

These symbolic terms all cohere and relate together, depending upon one another for their full meaning and often being defined in terms of one another.

In a sense this is the key not only to understanding something of the Trinity (what grounds the «possibility» for the Trinity is that the One who understands or expresses God must be God) but also to why its full meaning is beyond us.

Indeed, their full meaning is likely to become more apparent in the future than at the time of the book's first appearance, as thinkers from other world traditions engage its arguments.

This is the source of our dignity as human beings and the full meaning of being created «in the image of God».

Indeed, in him, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of history (cf. Rev 22:13), creation itself acquires its full meaning since, as John recalls in the Prologue to his Gospel, «all things were made through him» (Jn 1:3).»

As evidence for this cosmic aspect to the Incarnation, the Pope turns to St. John's Gospel: «Creation itself acquires its full meaning since, as John recalls in the Prologue to his Gospel, «all things were made through him (Jn 1:3).

But if the self is a becoming, then the full meaning of selfhood lies in a personal history and not in a completed structure.