Sentences with phrase «human exaltation»

Then he stood before the grim fortress — wherein he found, not the innocent damsel of his youthful desires, but a terrifying beauty borne of an ancient evil that bound his soul to an even more primal force bent on regaining its place in the halls of human exaltation.

It is an invitation to «a human exaltation from which man participates excellently in the things that are God's,» as described by St. Bonaventure.

Not exact matches

He gives the salvation package — from sin and death and slavery to exaltation in the heavens (Ephesians 2:1 - 3, 6 - 7)-- freely, by His grace, without any human works, effort, or sacrifice involved.

And this is exactly what could best relieve that tension between light and darkness, exaltation and anguish, into which a renewed awareness of our human species has plunged us.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

Neither exaltation of power nor the search for vengeance will ever solve any human situation.

She criticizes the Anglican Lambeth conference statement for its «vestigial Augustinianism» in the exaltation of sexual abstinence, and suggests that the bishops regard abstinence as an offering pleasing to God because it sacrifices a human pleasure.

The mystical exaltation of violence at the hands of Hitler and of all modern revolutionaries makes people forget that violence means bloodshed, means human beings screaming in pain and fear.

as Maritain called it, which alone can account for both the terrible perversion and the wondrous exaltation of human life as it exists before God.

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

Test 1: «Differences between the LDS Church and most of traditional Christianity include... a doctrine of «exaltation» which includes the ability of humans to become gods and goddesses in the afterlife.»

It has been clear for a long time that the doctrine Limbaugh preaches: The exaltation of money and material wealth as representative of a person's HUMAN value, contempt and hatred for the poor, bigotry, arrogant conceit, etc., has become indistinguishable from satanism.

Yet it stands head and shoulders above its nearest rival; its separateness inheres, not in theories of its origin and nature, but in the solid facts of its worth and of its impact upon human society in the way both of rebuke to the low and bestial and of exaltation of an impossible ideal, toward which, nonetheless, it has attracted and impelled.

False gods are all reflections of a false and all too human self - exaltation.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

The Inquisitor eventually comes to visit him in his cell, mocks him, berates him, denounces him for his failure and the failure of the ideas of love [167] and servanthood and the exaltation of human freedom that he brought.

For Tinder, the Christian message is not one of human fulfillment, but of individual exaltation.

Christ, who humbled himself by taking on human flesh, in direct contrast to Adam's attempt at self - exaltation.

The reduction of the traditional concept of human nature was at the heart of the nominalist rationalism which characterised the Enlightenment, with roots at least as far back as the Reformation's exaltation of the individual and of fideism.

The same exaltation of false freedom used to justify abortion — the liberty to redefine the very nature of the human person — is now at work in the revolution of same - sex marriage.

The false exaltation of a closed and impervious independence is one of the main blocks today to human fulfilment.

Rogers has a scientist's curiosity and a poet's eye and consequently writes of the cosmos — from the subatomic world to the stars, from a bird perching on a branch to the workings of the human brain — with passionate specificity, philosophical insight, and elegantly expressed exaltation.

He gravitated toward the human aspects that many felt modernism lacked in its dogmatic exaltation of machined mass products intended for anonymous consumers.

It speaks of the exaltation of the human spirit, of our finer instincts and loftier ambitions, of the ability of the soul to soar and sing.

Klein continues, «Dingilian's work, although sharing connections with romantic nineteenth century landscape painting, doesn't depict spiritual exaltation, but rather a more melancholic view of human experience.

Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.