Sentences with phrase «human existence more»

A truly revolutionary equation can change human existence more than all the great leaders of history.

Such a non-utilitarian faith does not undertake to show that in the Christian gospel we can find the solution to all the problems of human existence any more than that we can find in the Scriptures answers to all the questions we raise about the world of nature.

It could lead to a form of human existence more wonderful and exciting than we can possibly imagine — a veritable heaven on earth.

Not exact matches

Our screen - driven existence actually makes our love of real things, i.e. vinyl records, paper, and film photography even more important, refined and focused as a human society.

Being experienced in multiple areas of the human experience makes for a more powerful existence.

Christian doctrines are more realistic than any ideology in existence regarding human nature.

hawaiiguest We do not know what the world would look like without the continuing influence of a core belief held by the vast majority of humans that existence is more than physical needs and desires.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

Family and human existence is more than enough.

But the extent to which human existence depends upon a natural order of «societies, harmoniously requiring each other» has recently become all the more apparent as the accumulated effects of industry, technology, and population growth have presented major «environmental» problems (see CC).

Steve... that's not necessary... let's read those writings as the product of human imagination as it seeks the meaning and purpose of human existence and never forget...» to err is human»... anything more is to turn them all into demi - gods.

Well if it's slightly more evidence of the existence of a man outside of Italy in the 1st century who was born of a virgin, died for 3 days before resurrecting himself, then explained he only died because of «original sin» which is the idea that a woman ate magical apple given from a talking snake in a garden at the beginning of time which caused all humans to go to hell when they died.

Cardinal Ruini spoke of «false interpretations» of cosmic and biological evolution which «contribute more than a little to a purely naturalistic understanding of man» and which also lead to «the denial of the existence of a personal God distinct from the world» and the denial of «the transcendence of the human subject, made in the image and likeness of God».

Relationships are those limited aspects of human existence that are shared by two or more persons.

On the other hand, those who believe that there are questions of greatest importance for human existence that are not amenable to the kind of inquiry we associate with the natural sciences, will be more sympathetic toward theology.

the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Though he denied having much knowledge of religious doctrines and affairs, he nevertheless displayed a deeply human sensitivity that made of his comic artistry something considerably more than an occasional tickle on the periphery of our existence.

It is only when the child has already been involved in a good deal of basic faith experience that he steadily attains more self - awareness, and his developing mind recognizes that the context of his human existence is one in which the horizons are being pushed ever farther back.

That sounds more like Oprah optimism than a reasoned take on human existence.

It may not be more creative of human good than the star, but it is more swiftly transformative of human existence than anything else that has ever happened.

Personally, the existence of the death penalty, which is supported by most «godly» people leads me to believe that we humans are just one more animal species living in a godless jungle, although having ruled out the existence of God, I can't yet rule out the existence of Satan.

Rather, the profound negativities of human existence — personal, societal and historical — seem so pervasive in this age that any route to fundamental trust must be far more circuitous, tentative and even potholed than I had once hoped.

While theists can learn by listening to atheists more, atheists themselves can foster greater understanding by not just emphasizing the «no» of atheism — our disagreement over the existence of any gods — but also the «yes» of atheism and secular humanism, which recognizes the amazing potential within human beings.

The love of God becomes more substantive; more palpable; the distortions and pains which plague human existence less necessary and authoritative.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

While the major part of human existence is taken up with the routine affairs of work and family life, to be authentically human something more is needed.

Perhaps more important still, we misdirect the longing buried at the heart of human existence.

«Work,» the authors write, «is much more than just a need to keep busy or bring home a paycheck... [It] is a fundamental dimension of human existence, an expression of our very nature.»

We never have seen anything pop into existence ever, everything we see or build starts with some type of creation from some creator whether it be from humans or whatever, not one single example of anything would prove otherwise, so going about everyday life feeling confident that everything just magically popped into existence without a magician really takes a lot more faith than what I have.

More to the point, for educators in these troubled times, is David Griffin's trenchant observation that those who seek to improve the human condition dare not ignore the transcultural proclivity to evil deep within the human heart and the strong element of competition in finite existence.

All this has been taken into God; all this is immediately known to God; all this is treasured in the divine memory; all this qualifies whatever we are prepared now to say about God and about the divine relationship with the world and more especially about that relationship as it has to do with human existence.

A genuine philosophy of history regarding the beginning8 of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology of the experience of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question of the history of the spirit, the pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.

If he was not able to change the face of the present in a decisive way, his groping toward the mainsprings of human existence enables one not only to grasp more deeply the religious situation of our time but also to foresee the direction in which a new breakthrough must be sought.

The more our liberal, social - scientific thinking excuses human culpability, the more it points the finger at God, the primal source of our ambiguous existences.

In the progress of its philosophizing the human spirit is ever more inclined to regard the absolute which it contemplates as having been produced by itself, the spirit that thinks it: «Until, finally, all that is over against us, everything that accosts us and takes possession of us, all partnership of existence, is dissolved in free - floating subjectivity.»

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

It appears in a different form partly because the problem of social continuity has become as great for us as the problem of change and reform, but even more because the historical, cultural character of human existence has come into fuller view.

At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the wholeness of life which will put us on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.

God is more than just the foundation or condition of human existence.

Of course the New Testament has much more to say than this idea of human existence in faith.

Actually, were you a less culpable person, you'd understand that the symbol itself IS the optical displeasure and that it's very existence in places where the more sane people frequent (those being logic - based Atheists) is an open would to everything that that ALL religion has stolen from human kind.

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.

However, the secular worldview entails the loss of one more aspect of human existence that is simply too much to bear.

This is the horizon in which Aquinas, Dante, Thomas More, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, and the later Dostoyevsky explored the richness of human existence.

As the Good Book has warned, there will come an age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image of noble and holy existence, instead do de - basing themselves out of a healthy and happier existence even on earth.

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

The more you blame the boy, the more you have to fault human existence.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

As Steiner's Hitler asks, «Was there ever a crueler invention, a contrivance more calculated to harrow human existence, than that of an omnipotent, all - seeing, yet invisible, impalatable, inconceivable God?»