Sentences with phrase «higher than human beings»

The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.

Because we don't know anything about the laws of anything prior to this universe, we don't know about the attributes of any possible being (higher than human being or not) that may have existed before.

Not exact matches

«Given there has been no let - up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013,» UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday.

Forward - thinking minds in science and tech are integrating high - tech device and human body and going further than ever.

In this way, it is possible for an on - board computer to get a car closer to the one in front at higher speeds than would be considered safe under human control.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

It's human nature to react to financial losses more strongly than we do to slow, steady gains — which unfortunately leads some people to «buy high and sell low» rather than the other way around.

Instead, the technical and emotional guidance that only a trusted, human advisor (as opposed to robo - advisors, for instance) can offer to investors who are attempting to undertake the complex job of coordinating the accumulation, distribution and transfer of their wealth, is invaluable — particularly in an environment that is likely to deliver lower returns and higher volatility than investors have grown accustomed to recently.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

The holy book of your respective religion is always true, always right, and always accurate, being inspired of a higher source than human knowledge.

Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now birth mortality rates are higher than they have ever been in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby deaths.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

Lower beings exist for the sake of the higher — grass for cows, cows for hungry humans — however, men and women exist for no other reason than God's own delight.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

The futilities and frustrations of human experience in any age are so many and so baffling that it is commonly easier to hold a high faith about God, whom we have not seen, than about man, whom we have.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

Although precise figures are elusive and probably higher than reports indicate, organizations — for example, Open Doors, the Catholic Bishops» Conference of India, the All India Catholic Union, the Evangelical Fellowship of India, and the recently founded United Christian Forum for Human Rights — that monitor persecution in India testify to the general trend.

The highest cause may be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from other causes, say human beings, may be less admirable than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...

According to the Human Rights Watch, people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites, but they have higher rate of arrests.

Outside the rarified environs of the high academy and the fever swamps of animal rights advocacy, most people in the West believe that the lives of all human beings — not just the «normal» ones — are worth more than animals», simply because they are human.

While we are on this subject, how is it that those who take a high view of the Scriptures are known to produce less by way of creative biblical interpretation than those who either bracket the question or treat the text as a human document?

Atheists don't want to believe in other beings let alone higher beings than humans, but they are like Carry - Ann, the FIRST to go into the light as soon as someone calls their name, SMH.

God's thoughts are higher than our [human] thoughts, and His ways past fully understanding.

Christ's words in verse 31 were already higher than anything human religious teachers had come up with, but now Christ takes it higher still.

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call human did in fact embody this structure of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly high levels of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds of thousands of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence than does any now existing nonhuman member of the simian family.

With human exceptionalism cast aside, our new prime directive is to eliminate suffering, and eliminating the sufferer is now advocated in high places as a moral good rather than a pernicious harm.

The human mind that abstracts from the realism and intuition of St. John, to theologise its own version of the Jesus of History as distinct from the Jesus of Faith, must always end up with a supreme Prophet who is less than the transcendent divine, who is not pre-existent to the Universe and Creation, and who at the very highest is «divine» only as a supreme emanation of a «holy and noble consciousness» at the root of being itself, and identified with Creation itself.

From the Christian and Jewish point of view, the Creator himself set before every single individual this inalienable choice and thus gave to every human being a dignity higher than that of any other creature on this earth.

For the Whiteheadian, it can be said that Jesus understood and acted in accordance with God's aims to a higher degree than any other human.

A sophisticated, high - tech world where human beings acted consistently as free individuals would be one where various social inventions or conventions — such as money, property, and government — would be more indispensable than ever.

Human beings, the Catholic adds, are more than citizens, though; they have another and higher home than their political one.

What Jesus seems to be saying here, again in a striking hyperbole that his hearers would have understood perhaps better than we, is that his followers must ever be on guard lest a human good draw us away from following the highest goodness.

Many people, I am convinced, still regard the higher morality which they look for and advocate as no more than a sort of compensation or external counter-balance, to be adroitly applied to the human machine from outside in order to off - set the overflow of Matter within it.

There dwells of course within every human heart a feeling of something higher than itself, a dim apprehension of a Power ruling all that is, and giving His Law to all that lives.

If one believes that humans are ultimately material creatures who find their happiness in this world, if one believes that there is no higher intimacy than that of sex, then the logic of radical inclusion can not help but allow — can not help but demand — that the disabled have sex.

The term Earthism may suggest that a higher priority is placed on the natural systems of the planet than on its human inhabitants.

Jesus saying, «He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Matthew 10: 37) may suggest that human loves are not destroyed but transcended in the higher loyalty.

We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.

Organized religions have helped to keep moral values high, to provide high goals of living, to create dissatisfaction with anything less than almost a perfect human being.

Its not Gods reasoning its human reasoning and even the Bible says Gods ways are higher than our ways.

If one thinks ultimate reality is located no higher than human personality, what one does with one's life is one's own affair.

So in this view, the revelation from God can be drawn like a slope that moves higher as human history progresses, so that we are smarter and wiser and know more truth than did the people of 500 years ago, and especially the people of 5000 years ago.

There is a desire to discover supernatural laws for human happiness, a willingness to cooperate with a purpose higher than the transitory human purpose, a longing to communicate with the Creator and an attempt to grasp some security which transcends physical death.

As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher truth than «the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

One of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»

We might, for instance, suggest, in imitation of scientific terms, that there are «vibrations» of the human personality higher up the spectrum than our scientific humanists will allow.

If purpose is intrinsic to a hierarchical universe, then it would be located at a higher level than that of human consciousness.

Clark Pinnock centers the issue even more pointedly as he asks, «How is it that those who take a high view of the Scriptures are known to produce less by way of creative biblical interpretation than those who either bracket the question or treat the text as a human document?»

It is, therefore, high time for Christianity to retire from the stage and yield the floor to a new religion which claims to have a better understanding of human nature, and believes for that reason that it can produce results where Christianity has nothing more substantial to its credit than a scrap - heap of unfulfilled and unfulfillable ideals.