This law is taken to incorporate the idea that love and holiness may still be present even where one does not fully realise
the ideal vision of the Christian family.
Her swing coach, David Leadbetter, says, «We continue to work toward
our ideal vision of her swing: tighter, more compact, more controlled, better balanced.
She took the time to get to know us and what we were looking for in terms of support and
our ideal vision of our child's birth.
Many authors are loath to exclude reviewers because it goes against
their ideal vision of what science should be about, he says: «Scientists like to believe that personal factors shouldn't play a role in science.»
I grew up in the outskirts of Toronto where
the ideal vision of beauty was something that I didn't possess.
Interestingly, their school choice programs come much closer to meeting Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman's
ideal vision of true educational choice — the ability for all parents to choose the education that's best suited for their children regardless of income or residence — than most U.S. programs.
One librarian said that
her ideal vision of e-book lending would be «books and e-book readers / e-books living in harmony.»
I grew up in the outskirts of Toronto where
the ideal vision of beauty was something that I didn't possess.
And even if
our ideal vision of post-Andromeda Android on phones comes to pass, Nougat and older versions will continue to be used.
While the Pixel XL is meant to be Google's
ideal vision of an Android phone for every different sort of person in the world, Huawei is aiming for a more unique sort of consumer.
I grew up in the outskirts of Toronto where
the ideal vision of beauty was something that I didn't possess.
I grew up in the outskirts of Toronto where
the ideal vision of beauty was something that I didn't possess.
That ideal vision of «home» is strong enough to convince over half of all Americans to stretch their budgets in search of the yard with white picket fences... In all, no amount of data can overcome the perfect image of the ideal home.
Not exact matches
The election reminded many Americans that the US is a country committed to and capable
of progress -
of moving forward toward an
ideal vision.
I believe that most micro and small businesses fall short
of their leader's
ideal vision because no
vision is static in nature.
Furthermore, you personally may have a handle on this information, but does everybody who is creating content in your organization have that same
vision of your
ideal audience?
He adds himself to the world as the
vision of ideal possibility, from which every new occasion takes its rise, thereby ensuring a measure
of order and value in a situation that could otherwise be only chaotic and indeed could achieve no actuality at all.
These
visions arise out
of the formed images and
ideals of the person in interaction with the creative imagination that is capable
of inventing novel possibilities.
By an irresistible
vision I mean an
ideal goal for mankind that is (1) intrinsically desirable, (2) possible
of actual achievement, and (3) set forth in a situation where to reject it (or some qualitatively equivalent alternative) would be to court misery and / or destruction.
The
vision of Hegel's Absolute Spirit or Altizer's Christ
of radical immanence serves as an
ideal aim for the dialectical process; it serves as an impetus for process and lures all process to its final end.
It is the
vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within, the passing flux
of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest
of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate
ideal, and the hopeless quest.
He expounds a
vision that reaches for the
ideal that draws people out
of themselves towards God and the life
of holiness.
This
vision is not a romantic
ideal; it calls for the transformation
of unjust social systems.
Up until now, the discussion
of personality development has focused almost exclusively on the
ideal realm where the presumption has been that everyone becomes a healthy, mature adult, capable
of realizing the
vision of Peace.
They are particularly essential in a society devoted to values, to keep before the public a clear
vision of ideal ends to be served and to show explicitly in what respects materials offered for public reception do or do not measure up to these standards.
To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story
of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result
of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims
of generations and generations
of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight
of the
ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth
of feeling in human satisfactions.
God offers as its subjective aim a
vision of what that entity might become, disclosing relevant novel possibilities that would provide «
ideal» opportunities for the concrescing subject with the maximum enjoyment
of complexity and intensity.
The actualities
of the world are received into God, where they are purified and perfected (as far as possible) by God's
vision of an
ideal complement.
Considering only the primordial character
of God, evil can be transformed into good because
of God's
vision — because
of his conception
of the
ideal whole.
Finally, a personality has a transcendent dimension, a
vision of ideals beyond every actual attainment.
And because a city is what John sees, we Christians must take this
vision seriously and not replace it with our own
visions of the
ideal human environment.
«Religion is the
vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest
of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate
ideal, and the hopeless quest.»
In addition, I believe there is a need for specialized institutions that will bring together a group
of theologians and a variety
of secular futurists trained in the various sciences and the humanities to anticipate future developments, to elaborate
visions of ideal futures, and to devise strategies for effecting social changes leading toward their attainment.
Persons who are grasped by the power
of such
visions, who are inspired by a «sublime madness in the soul» (Reinhold Niebuhr), are the probable agents
of redemptive social change, even though they know in their critical moments that no future achievement is likely to embody the full measure
of their treasured
ideal.
Finally, I have held out the hope that a creative minority
of dreamers and doers can be radically transformed by the power
of a magnificent
vision of an
ideal future, while many others can be converted to a lesser degree so that they will at least provide some support for the prophets and producers
of a new age.
I believe that this
vision stands in the tradition
of biblical religion with its future - orientation toward a perfected community, an
ideal destiny which never fully comes to pass but which stands as a powerful lure generating faith, love, and hope.
While the imaginative projection
of ideals is not necessarily an accurate
vision of the common culture, it can be the first step in a process that generates the envisagement and the realization
of a common culture rooted in a common sense
of the whole.
The aim
of biopolitics is precisely that
of elaborating such a
vision of the
ideal and to devise ways
of attaining it.
But it is also a delightful discovery that, once at work, the motions, the activity
of doing the job often stimulates the mind to greater
vision and clearer insight than can ever be known by those who passively protect their untried
ideals.
I looked around the church, knowing what I know
of death: the death
of mother, father, friends, the death
of promise,
of vision run aground, death
of self,
of all we might have been, death
of that
ideal other, the bitter end
of all.
The
vision of the American dream with its great
ideals and dedication to the good
of mankind has become clouded, not only by social and political disorder and revelations
of immorality, but by the prevalence
of a self - centered hedonism which finds expression in a feverish quest for enjoyment.
ere and elsewhere Safranski proves wonderfully alert to the Romantics» penchant for turning personal failure and betrayal —
of responsibility,
of artistic
vision,
of political
ideals — into an aesthetic achievement.
Although capable
of high
ideals and a transcendent
vision, he is sometimes destined to fall short.
In Jesus»
vision, though, no arrangements are
ideal or adequate until and unless they have included all segments
of society and have not left any groups or individuals out
of the picture.
Even though I certainly fall short
of these
ideals, I would commend the sort
of vision that David Powlison lays out here.
oh Jeremy: By the way, my «
ideal»
of a congregation without a
vision is not an
ideal, but a reality.
This may have been addressed in your previous comments about killing
visions in churches... but, isn't your
ideal (a congregation without the oppression
of a
vision) in and
of itself a
vision?
In Christian saintliness this power is always personified as God; but abstract moral
ideals, civic or patriotic utopias, or inner
visions of holiness or right may also be felt as the true lords and enlargers
of our life, in ways which I described in the lecture on the Reality
of the Unseen.
Women shaping an institution in light
of Christian feminist
ideals and
vision would not be lukewarm.
Without a
vision of the
ideal future as our goal, we do not even know what direction to start in.