Sentences with phrase «human desire over»

Sex outside of marriage mocks the Creator's will and elevates human desire over God's wisdom.

Not exact matches

The top reasons: 1) Personal control over one's own environment is a «fundamental» human desire; 2) Privacy is important to employees; 3) Noise and other distractions can contribute to absenteeism.

We humans make God contemptible because of our prejudice, taught / learned hate, and our desire to make God over into our image (you know, the cool dad who lives with his perfect family in the cul de sac and belongs to the same golf club you do, etc, etc.).

Over the centuries there has been a basic human desire for some kind of invisible mental or spiritual atmosphere which connects in some mystic way all the minds and hearts of mankind.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.

Over against the desire to uproot, the creational mandate revels in this - worldly occupation, preferring to flatten out apocalpytic into the idea of a Christian society as the natural outgrowth of human life.

On the other hand, he would worry over the competing desires corporations and governments face that might lead to a kind of rational planning that does not see human persons as a whole.

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

As humans in a broken sinfilled world we often struggle with «The Desires of The Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his message.

Secular human societies need laws because, apart from cooperation with Grace, our survivalist instincts predispose us to choose immediate selfish interests and desires over our greater common good.

In the biblical narrative, hierarchy enters human relationship as part of the curse, and begins with man's oppression of women — «your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you» (Genesis 3:16).

Such a society will ensure that satisfaction of human needs takes immediate priority over the satisfaction of anyone's desires, and that the dignity of each individual is honored by providing opportunity for all persons to participate responsibly in decisions which will affect their individual lives and the common good.

Humans, therefore, ought to reject their desire for control over any part of the natural world.

The cautious drafters bend over backwards to affirm that «we have no wish or desire to place this issue on a pedestal» and the statement closes by saying, «We need to work for the protection and preservation of all the kinds of animals God has created, while prioritizing human needs.»

What was needed in the debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of human desire.

If human beings form their ultimate desires freely from among many options, and then through devotion and practice are able to see those desires actually realized, there is no reason to complain about the process but ample room to differ over which end we should seek.

The Act struck a compromise between allowing the Obama Administration to proceed with its plan to turn crew transportation to low Earth orbit (LEO) over to the private sector and Congress's desire to keep NASA in the human spaceflight business by building «beyond LEO» systems — SLS and Orion — to take astronauts further into space.

Now the apes are smart enough to rebel and desire to reign over their human oppressors.

Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king's newborn infant Aurora.

Over three decades, the field of human performance — blending findings from organizational psychology, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence — has identified the core factors that maximize individual effort and the desire to achieve.

Every day, learning goes on in millions of classrooms at more than 100,000 schools across the U.S., and presiding over those classrooms are millions of human beings, each with their own thoughts, strengths, talents, and desires.

Over the course of my career in industry, I've had a growing desire to use my business, human resources and information technology experience to start a publishing company for the Christian and wholesome markets.

While the theme of insatiable human desires and spiritual transcendence over such worldly attachments pervade much of Ay Tjoe's work, the artist's search for a resolution serves as an open conclusion on the last floor of the gallery space.

Houston - based artist Allison Hunter is a self - described «signmaker» who uses her art to draw attention to the simultaneous vitality and vulnerability of animals, punctuated by the all - too - common human desire to rule over them.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

Fran Barlow: «It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

Quotes me:» It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

«It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

«Over the past year or two, these co-working spaces have been sprouting up around the country in recognition of individual entrepreneurs who have taken to working out of coffee shops but who still desire the kind of human interaction that they can't really get there,» says Jon Pierce, a software developer who co-founded the Beta House in Cambridge, Mass in February of this year to serve as a working space for independent Web developers, product managers and start - up owners.

If only we'd seen one press release this year or last from any of the major publishers even vaguely alluding to the fact that they have to work within various strictures and that there is a desire, however minimal, over time to develop a dialogue with China's authorities to talk about legal issues such as human rights environmental rights issues and a myriad of other social rights concerns, as well as other issues in the PRC, from housing law to dealing with the fallout of local government mismanagement after disasters such as the earthquake in Sichuan.

That show has held up over time, including in the Trump era, given how the conflicts between the civilian government and military interests played out, along with the humans» fear and desire to eradicate the «other» (i.e., the cylons) at all costs.

Wareham addressed Russia's desire for a working definition and affirmed that «by retaining meaningful human control over the use of lethal force in each individual attack we can in effect prohibit the use of fully autonomous weapons and thus achieve a preemptive ban.»

«Some researchers suggest that both men's and women's desire would decrease over time as relationships move from passionate love to compassionate love,» said Murray, the lead study author and a doctoral candidate in human sexuality.

The bottom line: Revenge mostly comes from an understandable desire for control over one's social environment, and humans have a number of creative, entertaining, and rewarding ways of getting that.

Likely, this desire for intensity is left over from another time in human history, when it was needed to encourage genetic diversity and survival of the species.