Sentences with phrase «human fulfilment»

The paper therefore argues that it is within this freedom to work that people realise their human fulfilment and enormously contribute to social progress and the prosperity of a nation instead of being a financial burden on a state purse.

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

It offers more than human fulfilment and takes more than human sacrifice because it rests in and draws life from the love of God who lives us unto death and into eternal life.

Can money buy respect, or God's good pleasure or the sense of true human fulfilment?

Thus the path of human fulfilment is a narrow one.

Notes [1] Some writers, especially among canonists, have taken the bonum or «good» of the spouses to mean essentially their human fulfilment or a satisfying marital life.

Its effects will be creative rather than destructive and it will vindicate its promises of human fulfilment.

That self - centred tendency is the main obstacle to a just and harmonious society and to the personal, human fulfilment of each one.

He is only following the cue given by secular culture, which has bombarded him since adolescence with the view that human fulfilment is tied to whatever form of sexual «satisfaction» comes naturally.

Mgr Burke offers a profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and of gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.

A world rotted with greed of every kind needs to know that what Jesus Christ never experienced is not, and can not be essential to human fulfilment.»

There is a final way that the Church often fails gay people, and that is by watering down the biblical vision for sexual holiness and human fulfilment in a misguided attempt to be more welcoming.

Not exact matches

We all seek happiness and fulfilment, and we who believe know that these come from God alone; many others, however, seek happiness elsewhere and, while this may satisfy them for a while, it can not answer the fundamental questions that arise in the human heart.

Since human beings are created by God and for God, we must come into contact with Him to receive what we need for our fulfilment and happiness, since the material world alone is insufficient to meet all our needs.

«No vocation is the fulfilment of all human desire.

Secular sterility The Church's vision of marriage and family is so hard for young Catholics to encounter, yet it offers them the key to true human happiness and fulfilment.

Alfred North Whitehead brilliantly defines the human body as the primary field of human expression.14 So every bodily action becomes symbolically the incarnation of a human attitude in the whole gamut from ecstatic fulfilment to boredom and despair.

There would be certain consequences that come with the act of procreation, namely, a deeper union between the couple: «spiritual and sacramental love, joy of possession, and the fulfilment of human, complementary vocation in one flesh, all taken up to God», [5] as well as a natural organic pleasure such as accompanies the proper functioning of other humanacts (like eating and drinking).

But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:

Temperance, then, is the virtue by which we keep each of these passions in its proper place, so that it works for our overall human growth and leads to our fulfilment.

As John Paul II taught, Christ avoids the Pharisees» trap and does not fall into their casuistry, which ends up opposing God's law in the name of pastoral love and mercy for the human person.6 Instead, Jesus appeals to the truth about marriage revealed by God «from the beginning» and brought to fulfilment in the New Law.

The fulfilment of this hope which God himself freely gives to human history is his own deed and grace.

Wherever the human spirit is moved by love in preparation, knowledge, or fulfilment there the Holy Spirit is finding a response.

Christ is the centre of our efforts, since he is the centre and fulfilment of what it means to be human.

However, if he remains true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».

Because this happening discloses what is most essential for our understanding of reality, it enjoys an importance in human thought and behavior that sets it apart from all other happenings, for it is precisely in relation to the real that man finds fulfilment in his own being.

To be a religious believer is to know that the hungers of the human heart will not find fulfilment without God, but even religious believers benefit from goals short of the ecstatic vision of the divine.

Gaudium et Spes chose to confront modern - day atheism by referring to Christ, not only as the centre, but as the fulfilment of what it means to be human.

Every institution of human society is wounded and lessened by the disharmony and greeds of sin - that «law within my members» that contradicts the Unity - Law, «the law of God», which being a Law of Life and working only to the fulfilment of life, «delights me according to my inward man» (Rom.

Jesus is presented as the fulfilment of natural human potentialities, with his «divinity» understood not in ontological terms but in relation to his divinely inspired response to God by which he became the brightest manifestation of God's action in human life.

Her apparitions have only this end in view, and the actual promises and predictions she gives are incidental to her main role of helping her Son bring to fulfilment the destiny planned for the human race when the Father decided to create.

In the words of Cardinal Pell in this issue, in the context of «the grave errors of this time», we need to ponder more deeply the fact that Christ is «the centre and fulfilment of what it means to be human».

We need a vision whereby the very identity of Christ, in his human and divine natures, as the physical and spiritual centre and fulfilment of creation, is the basis of his active redemption of us since sin.

We need to question ourselves as to where we could find true fulfilment of human life?

What we can safely say as a phenomenological fact, however, is that we human beings do not find our place, our fulfilment and our identity in the organic environment around us, as the animals do.

Within human consciousness there is always a sense of the goodness of one's own existence (pace original sin) which is the basis of the sense of what rightly belongs to us, what makes us truly happy, what brings our existence to joyful fulfilment.

But the disagreement comes in the fulfilment of life as a human being.

We will find it all culminating in the existential fact of the Incarnation of the Living and Truly Divine Word of God, who created the Cosmos and who made human nature for fulfilment in his own relationship to the Father.

In all three aspects, love as agape comes as the transforming fulfilment of the search in human love.

Society is really the environmental framework within which human beings administer to one another from God the control and direction that is appropriate to human flourishing and fulfilment.

We come back to Jesus the real, the ultimate truth in doctrine and in fulfilment as a living experience of human joy.

The human thirst for aesthetic fulfilment is insatiable.

Human Nature Created Into The Order of Divine Charity Man is therefore a paradox, a creature with no natural end or fulfilment, only a Supernatural one that is intrinsically beyond his nature.

H. Richard Niebuhr sees St. Augustine as giving classic expression to the conversionist type of relation of Christ to culture.27 Every level and type of human value is internally open to fulfilment through its relationship to God's goodness.

As the translation of this sentence stands, we could easily imagine that Christ comes to give us a fulfilment which is enough for us, which is our full measure, which fills up our potential as human beings.

Hence their interest in certain aspects of medicine, in human relations, in teaching, in design, and the greater sense of fulfilment they can draw from these fields.

In Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict explained how human needs can not be met by remote bureaucracies but find their fulfilment in loving personal concern.

Uncertainties about God, creation, the gift of femininity and masculinity, and the destiny of human life to live eternally with God, leave men and women adrift in knowing how to arrive at their own perfection or fulfilment.

In any case we need to identify within the working of the human spirit that intention which leads toward the fulfilment of freedom in communion.

However, it can fairly be stated that it is human nature to want companionship and if this need is not satisfied by the other person who is socially bound to you, then it is quite possible that the other partner will eventually look for fulfilment elsewhere.