With nostrils floating in a sea of rubbery flesh, shirt buttons straining against a bloated paunch, the overall impression is one that makes me think back to Mr Ward and his production of Animal Farm in sixth grade where my drama teacher found it difficult to transform
human children into convincing representations of authoritarian Orwellian livestock.
Toss
a human child into the streets alone, then bounce him from home to home every six months, housing him in loud spaces packed with other screaming kids, and deprive him of physical, mental, and social stimulation, and you're bound to have a «problem child» on your hands.
Not exact matches
Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration
into how
children are raised around the world and how
child - rearing can inform the understanding of
human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes
humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own
children.
Adding to the challenges facing the advancing forces, retreating Islamic State fighters have forced women and
children from outlying villages to march alongside them as
human shields as they withdraw
into the city, according to villagers who spoke to Reuters by telephone from Mosul.
If you read the sentence, the words — who the
child in the mother's womb will be — mean what his / her life will lead him / her
into becoming which kind of
human, that is, what kind of temperament, attitudes, talents & gifts, and such that
human will have.
JFCI's director of aftercare, Dr. Gundelina Velazco describes
children who are trafficked
into the sex trade as «frail victim [s] of one of the worst
human atrocities one could ever imagine.
Where
human holiness offers itself as a means to his ends, God is not content to send forth in greater intensity his creative influence, the
child of his power: he himself comes down
into his work to consolidate its unification.
We are a long way from understanding how sex enters
into the
child's growth, and the significance of
human differences.
That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that
human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and
children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.
The
child is the entire
human family; the goal is growth
into the fullness of Jesus Christ.
I've seen
humans as nothing more than highly evolved primates, but I've also seen them as made in the image of God; I've seen
children suffering and been convinced there is no God, but I've also sensed God's presence as I've reached
into that same suffering; I've convinced myself that doing whatever I wanted was the most exciting way to live, but I've also found abundant life in being humbly obedient to Jesus.
A grieving parent's wish to replicate a dying
child does not justify research
into human cloning.
If it could be shown that research
into human cloning would contribute to the well - being of the
children and adults who already (or may someday) suffer from tragic genetic disorders (such as Down's syndrome or Huntington's disease) and that
human cloning itself would benefit the
children who are brought
into the world through cloning.
(4) One panelist, otherwise in favor of research
into human cloning, was nevertheless opposed to an individual's cloning himself or herself and then claiming to be the parent of the resulting
child.
Here, we have yet another opportunity to put the best interest of
children forward when considering allocation and research
into human cloning.
In making a decision regarding research
into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through
human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare of the
children who would enter the world through cloning.
It's like saying just because
children for centuries have been afraid of something being under their bed that the boogie man must be hard wired
into humans.
The underlying theological dynamic here is the sovereign act of creation which brings
human beings
into being as God's
children in spite of their anxiety, disobedience, and guilt.
These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster
Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown
into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «
Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»
You charge me also with saying, again pleading the support of the scriptures, that though we
humans have many kindly affections, love of
children, love between men and women, love of country, all these too are corrupted and defiled; and that though we have very agile minds, able to penetrate
into the mysteries of nature, we put this gift and attainment to ignoble uses.»
We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a
human life was taken and made
into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's
human children.
The feral
child brought up by the wolves has a
human body and originally a
human brain, but it is not
human: it does not have that distance from the world and other selves which is a necessary presupposition for its entering
into relation with a Thou and becoming an I.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm
into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute
humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both
children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
We had hated writing thank - you notes, so we let our
children slide, effectively teaching them that their pleasure, their receiving, was all that mattered; they didn't have to take
into account the feelings of the giver or participate in the basic
human ritual of reciprocity if they didn't want to.
Aware that this line leaves out of account the potential of the
child for a full
human life, Singer responds that «in a world that is already over-populated, and in which the regulation of fertility is universally accepted, the argument that we should bring all potential people
into existence is not persuasive.»
We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work of self - revelation to His
human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one of our own kind, the Man of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born of Mary, and through this life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself
into which the
children of men may enter.
Already at the time a
child is born both have had their share; they reach far back
into the ancestry of the
child, and all who are
human beings have this double ancestry.
Part of the distinctively
human expression of pervasive sexuality is the bringing of
children into the world, at least for those who are not celibate (where such contact does not occur) or homosexual (where procreation is not possible).
Would any
human father toss their rebellious
child into a cauldron of fire to watch them writhe and scream in torment... forever??
Not to pile on, but we'd think the joys and pains marriage and
children bring would deepen a writer's insight
into human nature, including his own, and make him a better writer.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of
human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his
children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls
into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
Towards the fulfillment of His purposes He has brought man
into being and He offers to His
human children the privilege of co-operating with Him so that they may have a share in the effecting of these ends and, at the same time, find a supreme joy for themselves as they are related to Him and participate in His communication of life.
For as we have stressed throughout this book, the purpose of prayer is to bring God's
human child, now become adult in responsibility and thus asked to act in mature ways,
into cooperative awareness of God, opened to his love and ready to act in love toward others.
@Godpot... (God — pot... I'll have to try that... seems Dad has been holding back...) and that Moses character... I'll wager there was more than just a bush burnin» up there... (wouldn't know... me and that bird were trying to figure out the physics of stuffing «God»
into a
human womb right about that time... I'm thinking all these characters, not just me, were a bit «touched» as my
child «Reality» likes to say...: 0)
as
humans learn more intricate sciences and venture out
into space, religion will become a mythology taught to
children as «when the world was full of hate» or as a course on «how to start wars»
It is imperative to recall that the Christ of the Grand Inquisitor is the creation of Ivan Karamazov, who wrote the prose poem in order to counter Alyosha's insistence that, before we give up on God in His apparent indifference to
human suffering, especially the suffering of
children, we must take Christ's own suffering
into account.
«Is the Minister aware that the recent guidelines of the House of Bishops state clearly that those who enter a same - sex marriage, together with
children in their care, should be welcomed
into the life of worshiping communities, and also that the Church of England is about to begin a two - year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to
human sexuality and their implications for the life of the church and its disciplines?»
As the founder of Project Rachel, the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic church in the United States and abroad, I stumbled
into the biological science of
human bonding while trying to find a way to help women who have had abortions to be able to bond with their unborn
children in subsequent pregnancies.
To most normal
human beings, the idea of strangers probing
into a
child's sex life in this way is repulsive.
I wondered when we would know better how to help
children more widely in schools and homes to understand their feelings, and when we would be able to help parents understand theirs, so that the boys and girls now growing up might know not only about tanks and bullets but about the most powerful of all weapons for both good and evil — the
human feelings that propel us, if we do not understand them,
into hating in place of loving,
into killing instead of creation.
In recent years, Stearns has called the Church to engage in the global refugee crisis and to follow Jesus
into the most difficult places in the world to alleviate
human suffering and care for the world's most vulnerable
children.
We all have issues that we struggle with, and if we could have made ourselves
into the perfect person that we are striving to be, then we would have done so but, we can't and won't until faith in God (innocent as the faith of a
child) graces the suspicious and protective nature that we all have as a result of life, people, and events that have wounded the
human spirit.
The Adam theory says man was made perfect and would not have died if not for the eating of the fruit, so according to the bible Adam would be alive today if he hadn't given in to Eve's pressure, as would all following
humans had sin not entered
into our DNA and passed death on to Adams
children.
There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the
human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival
human agent transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit
into a friend, indeed a
child of God.
Now, that isn't to say that women who can't conceive
children are powerless, but simply that the capacity to bring brand new life
into the world is a power unmatched by any other
human function.
One of the most important jobs of a parent is to provide their
children with the tools necessary to grow
into a wonderful
human being.
Parents are ideally positioned to nurture an intrinsic sense of self worth in their
child which will help grow them
into their full
human potential.
Many feminists are poverty class including Jacqueline S. Homan who was sold
into human trafficking as a
child and as never been able to pull herself out of deep poverty because of job discrimination.
Children who are comforted, cuddled, loved and respected tend to turn
into awesome little
humans as they grow up.
Independence Requires Attachment More than anything in the world,
children need to be deeply attached to their parents to grow
into independent, responsible, and mature
human beings.