Sentences with phrase «human relationships so»

I can't recall the last time that I saw real human relationships so realistically and naturally presented.

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But the movie doesn't shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

Everything about us, our human history tells a story, our human story and God's story of redemption of mankind through His own initiative, by sending His Son Jesus Christ who declared Him and explained Him so that we would KNOW Him and be able to have living, active relationship with Him, by believing on the Name of His son whom He sent to redeem us.

And he made human fathers and he gives us the example of good fathers so we can understand the kind of secure relationship of love and protection he offers to us.»

It is this «higher relationship of love», that is «so great, so intimate» that it can «knock on the most private doors of the human heart» (TPL p. 3).

That these two realities are distinct can be seen from the fact that Peter can change shape (pudge out), colour (get a sun tan), gain new relationships (become a father), acquire a new habit (learn Latin), and so on without changing what he is: he remains a human being throughout.

The Church recognises the family as the building block of society and for good reason has carefully defended the understanding of family relationships and of human sexuality which is so intimately linked to the ordering of family life and the procreation of succeeding generations.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

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:

(Liberal religion refers to open and ongoing revelation, interconnected relationship grounded in love and never coercion, an understanding of our responsibility to assist the arc of the moral universe in bending toward justice, and our understanding that there are resources both human and divine that make it possible for us to do so.

The reason unconstrained aggression is so potentially destructive to human relationships is that often it does not permit those subsequent goods to emerge which otherwise could have taken root if they had not been withered by the heat of aggression.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

The theories of the Atonement so far mentioned are all sometimes called «objective», which is to say that Jesus» death on the cross made an objective factual difference to sin and to human beings» relationship to God.

So, when Protestants reject Mary, they run the risk of rejecting the paradox of the divine / human relationship itself.

Marriage does not bring ultimate fulfillment because we are so constituted that no human relationship can satisfy us totally.

If it has not become so already, surely it is now obvious that our consideration of Radha's and Krishna's relationship has brought us to encounter the issue of eroticism and sexuality in the human - divine love relationship.

Whereas Paul described his former life in Judaism as focused on human relationships with his contemporaries and predecessors, his depiction of his new life is so centered on his relation to God that he as yet has no relationship to the other apostles.

Because God wills to have a people that is holy in every aspect of its existence, God provides a land in which it may dwell, so that even this most elementary dimension of human existence may be brought within the compass of relationship to God.

For years and years I couldn't call God Father in my prayer because my relationship with my human father was so painful.

Furthermore, if we recall that to be human is to be social, so that our relationship with others is integral to and largely constitutive of our own identity, then our thought about survival of death must be very different from the highly individualistic view so popular in the past.

Much official theology seems to have gone wrong, first, in confining the incarnating action of God to Jesus alone, so that he appears to enter the world as a catastrophic intrusion, as someone has put it, unrelated to the rest of the God - world and God - humankind relationship; and second, in speaking of Jesus in «substance» idiom, thus suggesting a static deity who in some fashion is implanted in, takes the place of, or is incomprehensibly united with another static «substance» called human.

Human relationship and the world are to be transformed so that God would be all in all.

In the same way that courses in economics claiming merely to describe human beings as utility - maximizing individual actors in fact influence students to act more selfishly, so liberalism teaches a people to hedge commitments and adopt flexible relationships and bonds.

Surely what's not at stake is the enjoyment and delight in the «light and ephemeral» joys that form so much of the substance of human relationships.

This is a result of human speech's relationship with the Word of God: of God's taking up this human word, so that there is continuity (as well as discontinuity) between them, and of human speech's finality in relationship with the Word of God.

If you want to know / understand how God wants us to be human and so with this thought, please listen to every bit of Jeremy Myers and move into relationship with Jesus Christ and your fellow citizens of the world meant for you / us.

What is so needed today is civility in discourse concerning matters of politics, education, human relationships and religion to name but a few areas of life!

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

In no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharing.

And so, just as God later provided a king to the people because they wanted a human king instead of God as their king, He also provided religion because they wanted a human priesthood and physical tabernacle instead of a daily, intimate, direct relationship with God.

6 In this personal relationship with God, the life of grace protects and perfects «each human power,» including the imagination, so «as to be able to function in this «higher» life of the «above - the - natural» life.

Marriage is like other human relationships, only more so.

So instead of valuing human experience their emphasis has been on the exercise of the intellect, on putting the doctrine straight — God is understood to be transcendent, wholly other, unchangeable, hardly one who inspires a desire for a personal relationship.

, still God would have brought the world of human affairs into such a relationship with Him as in Christ He did do, so that He might crown His many comings and revealings and workings among us by this supreme and definitive act.

They teach me so much about the complexity of human relationships — the beauty and the suffering.

However, the experience of limits is universal in human experience, so it seems reasonable to suppose that all religions bear some relationship to this experience.

This is a rule for all human relationships, but for none so much as marriage.

Many men grow up so scared of women they never develop healthy relationships with any of them; they don't actually get to know a girl as a co-equal member of the human race.

I said, «Everyone loves Jesus, he was obviously one of the most amazing human beings that walked the face of the planet... But it's clear the Bible is against homosexuality, so I'm disqualified from a relationship with God.»

They speak so exclusively about personal encounter, the I - Thou relationship, that God and the sacred are reduced to some dimension of human existence, a notion quite antithetical to Altizer's intentions.

So it is in the midst of the covenanted people that the human relationship with God and the relationship of humans with each other can be lived most coherently.

Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable emotion, and of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure of reality.

Mountaintop removal might seem so destructive and radically transformative of the land that it can not qualify as part of a mutually beneficial relationship between human beings and the so - called natural world.

So according to him, Sakhkhara does not mean the conquest or exploitation of nature rather it should be a kind of relationship in accordance with God's laws and responsibility of the human beings as vicegerents of God.

So the court will hear cases involving violations of humans rights depicted in Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms from most of the countries in the Europe, regardless of their relationship with the EU.

Just as human friendship depends on freedom - we choose our friends and willingly spend time with them - so, too, does a genuine relationship with God require willing involvement.

One corollary of this view is that creativity in human relationship can never be the sheer imposition of one will upon another, It must be the kind of action, with whatever coercion is involved, which so far as possible leaves the other more free to respond.

«55 So a just relationship between human beings and other creatures is a subject - subject relationship.

If the actualization of our mental life is so delicately balanced on the preparation of an extremely complex physiological base, we might also maintain that the «actualization» of the divine life, on our planet at least, is even more sensitively dependent upon the preparation of a network of human relationships which would be the receptacle of the divine incarnation.