Sentences with phrase «human wishes»

The human person is divided against itself, as the body is increasingly relegated to a mere instrument for the fulfillment of human wishes and desires.
He or she may best be seen, perhaps, as someone whose natural human wish for sharing has somehow been warped or stunted, maybe in early childhood or at a later stage where there has been a sense of rejection or disregard.
... Ever human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished for real community to survive.
But with NASA exploring ideas such as two - year voyages to Mars and eventual colonies on Mars and the moon, the question of reproductive safety is important, especially if humans wish to one day travel to the edges of the solar system and even beyond.
Landscape depictions have always been used to express the state of society or to project human wishes and aspirations.
Insofar as human wishes were included in prayer, the object of the petition was liberation from all that separates from God, communion with God, and conformity of the human will with the Divine.
Underneath all that is on the surface of their lives humans wish to live in love; and without such love their existence is truncated and damaged.
Laden as these symbols inevitably are with ambiguity and suspect human wishing, the religious mind nevertheless believes them to be irreplaceable disclosures of the mystery of ultimate reality.
What irked Macintosh was that Wieman talked about God as «the growth of meaning and value in the world» and saw no evidence pointing to God as a person; Wieman thought that Macintosh, though starting with empirical evidence, proceeded to interpret God in terms of human wishes rather than in terms of the facts.
The content of the patients» delusions revealed ordinary human wishes: to be competent, to be healthy, to be at home.
Bob... I'm not really sure if yr response to the Bonhoeffer quote is becuz you think it unreasonable or simply,» too doctrinaire», or as you say» religious speak» But, I take the statement to mean that the only hope for true community is the death of the «human wish for «community and therein lies the same paradox that is at the heart of the Christian message..
So John, what do you think of Bonhoeffer when he says in his book, Life Together: â $ œEvery human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive.
And you may reflect with Kirk that the vanity of human wishes is writ large at Mecosta.
If God is taken to be the cosmic moralist, this is a projection from the human wish to judge and through such judgment to reward or punish in terms of the degree to which other persons «live up to» our own ideas of what is correct.
And the trouble with the traditional pictures of hell is not that they recall the wrath of God and the reality of a final judgment, but that they forget the ingredient of mercy in all God's judgment, and allow the human wish for revenge to dictate the divine policy toward sinners.
The promise given in revelation must be seen as independent of all our human wishing.
It is based not on specific wishes but rather «on the unspecific over-all wish that there be in general no natural necessity, no limitations, no opposition to the human being and to human wishes; it is based on the wish that everything be only for men and nothing against men.»
Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive.
We can recognize their human wishes, desires, and motives.
Pain is not something any of we humans wish to experience and, because we love our family pets, we definitely do not want them to experience it either.
In a fairly surprising turn of events, the humans wishing to free themselves of the Deathless rule are played as the antagonists, ruthless in their quest to destroy the Gods and those that believe in them.
Thiebaud's paintings, like good novels, use telling details to draw us in, so as to obliquely convey some harsh intimations of aimlessness and loss, of the insignificance of human wishes.
But when we project our human wishes, feelings, etc. onto other animate beings, we usually make mistakes and act in ways that turn out to be evidently harmful.
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