God's relation to the world through a person strongly suggests that the clue for development of personal meaning in life rests in the quality of relationships and the character
of humanness revealed therein [Journal of Pastoral Care, December 1976, p. 218].
In humanness there is always the trace of the image of God; so in fact it can be good to want, when one wants what is good, what is right, and what is promised.
The films of Ingmar Bergman, notably Scenes From a Marriage, invite us to live through complex human relationships and to sense our
own humanness in that process.
We should, she writes, «appropriate our sexuality not as something biologically necessitated, or as socially coerced, but as a freely chosen way of expressing our
authentic humanness in relation to the special others with whom we wish to share our lives.»
May we recognise the miracle of the Incarnation, not in spite of the mess, but because of the
very humanness of it.
There was a winsome humanity about Sullivan that emphasized the
essential humanness of all persons, including the most disturbed.
As we allow, God's spirit (love) comes into our lives and untwists us from the state we are in into a state of
true humanness, beings created to love.
What's happening with Uber brings to light an important issue: You can get so excited about nailing the business and growing so fast... that you forget
about humanness, about how all of us need dignity and pride.
«So, Hollywood portrayal of sympathy makes a difference and Hollywood portrayal of
humanness makes a difference.
Indeed, if lesbians and homosexuals were to disappear, the further development of society toward
greater humanness could be seriously endangered.
For it is in working together to liberate the oppressed masses through critical social intervention, and to oppose tyrannical oppression like Nazism, that mutual trust and appreciation is engendered, and a common ground founded on our
basic humanness opened.»
Death is no longer the divider from God that
defines humanness, life, and thus the good.
On their lived - out answers to these questions depend the survival of humanity and the restoration of their own
personal humanness,
It is this human refraction that makes the hard work of critical study inescapable, so that every text is given a suspicious scrutiny whereby we may consider the ways in which
bodied humanness has succeeded or not succeeded in bearing truthful and faithful witness.
So let me share something of what I see as the affirmations, and the signs of hope that Americans are an integral part of this struggle to manifest
total humanness and to acknowledge God's ownership and care of the whole of creation of which human beings are a part.
To get inside the other's world is to share something of a
wider humanness than one's own.
At our best we take for ourselves the «subjective aim» of moving toward
complete humanness.
It will require deciding if we're essentially good enough as we've been made, or if we need to move
beyond humanness as we have known it toward some more exalted realm.
There is
such humanness and love in it... Sensitivity breaks down all walls.
In my case as a woman, it means taking seriously the experience and language that emerge from my
female humanness as a necessary element in my attempt to articulate my experience of the sacred element of life.
Empathy was a central tenet for Lee: «in the empathy of God, God fully participates in us» without losing God's godness (my word) and without our losing our essential
humanness.37 «Love directs the course of divine movement.»
While I eat healthily almost always, I also feel strongly that eating is one part of our
fallible humanness.
How many of these brief moments of
presumed humanness are really nothing worth a second glance — just my nosiness taking over?
Making fragility a fact of
humanness depoliticises and prevents us from asking critical questions: Why is vulnerability the trait of the moment?
An independent panel of scientific experts found that free - shooting badgers at night failed to meet
government humanness targets.
While many of us may feel that government does not affect our lives, each story is a reminder that, although traditions and history may differ, there is a
fundamental humanness that links us all.
Because of the
obvious humanness of the Turkana Boy fossil, and the fact that H. erectus brain sizes overlap the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes, creationists have nowadays almost entirely abandoned the old line (popularized by Duane Gish) that Peking Man and Java Man are apes, and now generally claim that Homo erectus fossils are a variant form of modern humans (ignoring the inconvenient fact that there are many obvious differences between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens).
The push for higher standards, rigor and accountability often means that our students»
humanness gets pushed to the wayside in some classrooms.
The artist's works are visual representations of her struggle with her own faith and its tension with her
undeniable humanness.
«The Giving Body» brings together sensibilities that are searching to convey an
awkward humanness and emotion in their stance.
Your
kindful humanness and your practical spirituality is what we have been looking for all over, and we are so grateful that we have found it to be livable, with you as an example
There are other crucibles in marriage that embody what Carl Jung said about our realizing our
full humanness in the sufferings of our life.
Keen proposes naively that somehow his privileged play in ignorance and unconscious support of others» oppressed conditions is the best means toward realizing
authentic humanness for all.
Oddly, I began to love Paul for the
very humanness of him: his frustrations, his love, his exhaustion, his passion, his intelligence, his impatience.
These questions are experiential ways of talking about the theological norm for pastoral counseling, «
relational humanness.»