Sentences with phrase «human mind and spirit»

The human mind and spirit are truly wonderful.

Learn about these dogs that go from tragedy to triumph as they serve both the human mind and spirit!

We become editors because we love words and we love books: books as objects, books as art, books as treasure boxes of the human mind and spirit.

«With their boldness, courage, and uncommon energy, this new group of Fellows, men and women of all ages in diverse fields, exemplifies the boundless nature of the human mind and spirit.»

In an era of wrenching human struggle under the heels of military might and the horrors of World War I, the experimental proof of the correctness of Einstein's notion of gravity and curved space showed the world that there were fundamental truths to be learned about nature and that the human mind and spirit could rise above all.

What do the following authors all have in common — Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, and Blaise Pascal: (a) They are among the most gifted writers the World has known; (b) They concentrated on opposing dogma and opening the human mind and spirit to the wonders of free thought and intellectual freedom; (c) They were intimidated by the Catholic Church and put on the Church's list of prohibited authors; or (d) All of the above.

There is the whole influence of scientific calculation on the human mind and spirit.

This is not to say that human beings are automatic machines, nor that cybernetics affords a complete model of man, but only that the development of computers provides a basis for the unprecedented exploration of the structure of the human mind and spirit in their universal aspects.

Not exact matches

«It's a mysterious juggling act that requires not only a thorough knowledge of the time - honored laws of the game but also an open heart, a clear mind, and a deep curiosity about the ways of the human spirit.»

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

These two facts underline the fusion of body, mind, and spirit in power as a human reality.

It can be shown, on the contrary, that just as the natural sciences yield a comprehensive view of man, so the picture of human nature provided by the social sciences is that of a three-fold integration of body, mind, and spirit.

An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.

In short, every occupation can and should be designed to take account of the essential unity of body, mind, and spirit in human nature.

When this philosophic dimension is admitted, the natural sciences become prime sources of knowledge of man, not only in respect to those material properties shared with the nonhuman world, but also in respect to the uniquely human qualities of mind and spirit.

Say: The Spirit is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little» (Surah XVII, 85), indicates that the identification of the soul is His own concern and that the human mind is too limited to understand such a supernatural reality.

The facts of culture beautifully exemplify the compresence of body, mind, and spirit in human nature.

Yet they are works of grace, guaranteed not by material laws or human effort, but by the play of Divine wisdom and love on human hearts and minds through Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

The hope of human brotherhood can only be realized when, and as, the divergent mind religions of authority become impregnated with, and overshadowed by, the unifying and ennobling religion of the spirit — the religion of personal spiritual experience.

Among the dualisms they most strongly oppose are those of mind and matter, spirit and body, thinking and feeling, human and natural.

Here, for example, Novak reformulates his arguments about the necessary relationship between democracy and capitalism (and vice versa), as well as his location of the cause of the wealth of nations in the creative, inventive, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human mind.

When considering the grandeur and dignity afforded to the whole human person (body, mind and spirit) in the sight of God and Jesus» teachings on non-violence, a «moral thorn» exists as to the defensibility of boxing and MMA.

Her crowning achievement, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, is paradigmatic of the «Post-Whiteheadian» philosophizing this volume celebrates, and it is most appropriate that her spirit, as well as her title, hover over these explorations of «Philosophy After Whitehead.»

Just as the word «faith» describes an attitude in man himself, as well as that which fosters the attitude, so «hope» has been used to refer both to a human attitude, and to that which prompts the attitude, namely that to which his mind and spirit look forward.

Thus to talk about «the spirit of man» was to say that human existence is not only a matter of mind and body, as we have represented this in our previous discussion, but is also a matter of relationship, in which there is an openness to, and a sharing in, the life of others.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

1 Corinthians 2:9 - 10 (NIV) «However, as it is written: «What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived» — the things God has prepared for those who love him — THESE ARE THE THINGS GOD HAS REVEALED TO US BY HIS SPIRIT.

The first is human dignity, which is characteristic of our status in between God and beasts: «Not simply body, but also not simply mind or spirit; rather, the place where body and spirit meet and are united (and reconciled?)

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

Also, it is not satisfactory to regard human becoming as the successive accretions of body, mind, and spirit components.

Through the incarnation, Jesus willingly takes on human form and limitations, freely embracing humanity in body, mind and spirit.

It will be shown that all three branches of knowledge have to do with all three of the traditional aspects of human nature, and that every discipline in fact studies man as a whole, comprising body, mind, and spirit.

Very roughly, «body» refers to material things perceptible to the senses, «mind» refers to the processes of perception, reasoning, and learning, and «spirit» refers to human self - awareness and freedom of choice.

Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.

Our biologists have catalogued the species of life on Earth and found no monsters or kraken, our doctors and psychiatrists have penetrated the human mind and found no evil spirits in the heads of the mentally infirm, our meteorologists now explain the whether in terms of barometric pressure, not angry sky - gods, our geologists understand earthquakes in terms of plate tectonics and continental drift — no angry deity is shaking the ground.

the work of the Holy Spirit in human life» and «willingness to do the Will of God... the measure of a man's true understanding of His will» (pp. 241 - 42); and such remarks leave little doubt in my mind that Grenstead was consistently speaking of the Creator as the «higher Power.»

His subject, as one might expect, was theology and the philosophy of science, and he argued that the biblical concept of the Holy spirit may provide the missing link, so to speak, in the controversy over whether mind or language has precedence in the creation of human thought.

On the other hand, fair - minded Christians in either camp are willing to recognize the heights of courage, dignity, and sacrifice to which the human spirit can rise.

But for us humans, who are bodies quite as much as minds and spirits, such growth must be by those bodies as well as by activity of a mental or spiritual kind.

I believe in a Creator and Father, who desired man [and woman] as co-Creators and who gave (them) intelligence and a creative imagination to dominate the universe and to complete the Creation... and he constantly sends his Spirit to make the human mind fruitful, even as he made the waters fertile at the beginning of Creation.

Hegel started from the belief that, as he said of the French Revolution, mans existence centres in his head, i.e., in thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowleMind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowlemind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowlemind can attain to absolute knowledge.

Take, for instance, St Augustine's use of a human being's mental capacities as an analogy of the processions of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the human mind is conceived (or born) in the intellect and from this breaks forth a movement of love in the will.

Having received the Holy Spirit and thus «the mind of Christ,» we are as adequately prepared as human beings can be to interpret the meaning of Jesus» life and teaching in the light of the resurrection.

Mind, spirit, human evaluation, and appreciation, the sense of freedom of choice, and the like were supposed to be merely epiphenomenal, like the steam of a locomotive, which does not make any real difference to the running of the engine.

They have much homework to do - seeking to penetrate that holy of holies of the human spiritual universe shaping believers» life history and culture, the universe not visible to the naked eye and not perceptible to the mind not able to penetrate the complexity of the heart and spirit.

The battleground is the consciousness, mind, heart and spirit of the human person as well as the community.

But in our view conservation goes far deeper than that; it means to the civilized land what fitness means to the educated body, and in essence what the idea of sport itself means to the human spirit: a wholeness of mind and body.

In Waldorf education, it is commonly understood that there are three aspects to a human being, expressed in various ways — body, mind and soul; body, soul and spirit; head, heart and hands; thinking, feeling, willing.

We can win and lose in good spirits, keeping in mind that the activity was for enjoyment and learning, and that our competitor is human and, like us, wanted to win.