Sentences with phrase «human yearning»

Symbolically we may speak of God's loving activity but how is this more than an aspect of human yearning for the assurance of the reliability of the ground of being against the encroaching threat of non-being?

Far more than just a vehicle for a cosmology, this inventive novel slices right to the bone of human yearning, offering up an indelible vision of life and death as equally rich sides of the same coin.

The very human yearning for vindication in the midst of ambiguous circumstances thus generates an inexorable pressure upon the logic of divine sovereignty.

The text can be an act of good faith, because both transformation and stabilization are faithful acts of God and both meet deep human yearnings, but the mediation of either comes through the vested interest of the preacher.

For only God can really satisfy our deepest and most human yearnings, for absolute truth and absolute love.

But underneath all of these forms, both the nonreligious and the religious, a new human yearning for God, or for what the symbolic word «God» stands for, sought expression.

«The Seagull» is about human yearning and how that intersects with the desire to create art.

Is he making a case against tidy dialogue in the face of emotion, or perhaps positing human yearning as a flow of fumbling outtakes?

Hazel and Ben's twinned sibling rivalry and love is beautifully complex, and their relatable human yearnings for the objects of their affections anchor the novel in the believable, despite the fact that said passions are for a comatose enchanted prince and a fairy changeling.

As Pulitzer Prize ‑ winner Robert Olen Butler (a novelist who also writes flash fiction) has said, «Fiction is the art form of human yearning, no matter how long or short that work of fiction is.»

This deep and very human yearning has led to the development of technologies that are moving us away from the unconditional acceptance of the children we receive toward a perceived right not only to have a baby, but to have «the baby we want.»

While the desire for dignity is one of the deepest human yearnings, knowing how to treat oneself and others in a way that honors it does not come naturally.

Humans yearn for and rely upon relationships and attachment to survive.

Religion for them was an expression of the human yearning to rise above the world and transcend it: it was the discovery of a supramundane sphere where the soul could detach itself from all earthly care and find its rest.

Then once the Sabbath, with its human yearning and its sense of communion with the ultimate, was defined, once it became the liturgical center of life, then the tradition of how it was to be observed developed.

These, his best known works, have come to be called his «sectionals», and Rothko felt they better met his desire to create universal symbols of human yearning.