Sentences with phrase «hold upon realities»

We need an interpretation of the Christian faith which can guide moral effort and sustain the exercise of social intelligence while it strengthens our hold upon the reality of God's judgment and His mercy.

Not exact matches

From my Whiteheadian perspective I can usually understand why they adopt the view they hold, what factors in the whole of reality have so impressed themselves upon them that they allow their vision to be dominated by those factors.

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

This author in my opinion deep inside is questioning her faith but like a security blanket to a child does not want to get rid of it and is looking for any explanation she can come up with to hold onto it even in the face of the reality that the text that faith is based upon is highly flawed and frankly quite silly.

The very glorification of the strong individual, and the hysterical emotion centered upon «personalities in the news,» reflects the feeble hold which we have on our own selfhood.33 How desperately we search for that personal reality which will vicariously, if not directly, help us to feel we possess our own hearts and will.

It is the process by which a self divided and consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right, superior and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities.

«Messiah,» «Son of Man» are human ways of thinking, historically developed, and at best can only point to, suggest, symbolize the final salvation, upon the reality of which faith and hope lay hold.

In these remarks I am leaning only upon mankind's common instinct for reality, which in point of fact has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

The laws of reality soon collapse as a nightmare takes hold and claims the lives of those within, one by one, threatening to unleash a supernatural pestilence upon the world.

The APR calculation is based upon the assumption that you keep your loan for the entire period of the loan, say 30 years, which in reality may not be the true hold period for a borrower.

To hold otherwise turns back the clock on human rights in this province and ignores the reality of modern workplaces and the myriad ways in which power is understood and acted upon in society.

If we try to hold them accountable to a set and verifiable reality, the narcissistic / borderline personality will unleash a hostile assault of accusations, creating communication chaos with unrelated accusations, fabricated distortions, and flat denial of reality that follow so rapidly upon one another that the factual accuracy of any accusation or denial can't be addressed.

Don't put too much stock in the outcome in Quebec unless the final outcome is based upon pure human - based common - sense and rational reasoning based upon today's realities, and not upon some dictator's ideas (efficient and seemingly workable in their day as they were determined to be by their followers, and current supporters) that were not agreed upon by the masses, but were forced upon them to be adopted and espoused by the same, or else; no wonder they have held sway for so long... there is a very strong element of treasonous thinking directed toward any «outsider type thinking» regarding this hallowed legal code.