Sentences with phrase «if human desire»

Of course, if human desire is infinite, then it is, in a sense, entirely natural for us to desire anything we can imagine or conceive.

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Getting humans to the red planet is a quest to satisfy our existential human desire to know if we are the only living beings in the solar system.

Jewish doctrine disagrees, and views humans as fully capable of doing as G - d desires if we so choose.

It is as if Benedict is bringing back into play the long - neglected lessons of St. Augustine to Catholic Social Thought — re-presenting, as it were, The City of God — that is, the City of that caritas which the Divine Persons gratuitously pour into the human heart, that it might cast the burning desire for human unity into the kindling of hundreds of millions of parched hearts.

If you are two consenting adult human beings and you desire to have a loving, committed relationship in which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a good choice.

If God desires to speak to human beings, he must do so in such a way that he can be understood.

If the fundamental human religious motivation is the desire to be in harmony with ultimate reality, with whatever is deemed divine, and if being in harmony with the divine means to imitate it, the divine that is imitated is a Cosmic Macho MalIf the fundamental human religious motivation is the desire to be in harmony with ultimate reality, with whatever is deemed divine, and if being in harmony with the divine means to imitate it, the divine that is imitated is a Cosmic Macho Malif being in harmony with the divine means to imitate it, the divine that is imitated is a Cosmic Macho Male.

Wouldn't it be more glorious, if when you left this world, your reward in heaven was an elevation of your existance to something like pure energy... free of human desires like for gold freakin streets or virgins?

We could use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the basic human need for work, a need more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.

Plus IF this God suffered as Human than he would have understood the Reality of it and IF he was so compassionate and even empathetic, he would HAVE FIXED things out of sheer desire to not let anyone suffer so randomly and soemtimes allegedly at his very hands.

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

If we desire the prestige which comes with wealth and ability and high position — if we so desire it that we would be crushed were it denied us or taken from us — then we are worshipers not of the true God, but of human beingIf we desire the prestige which comes with wealth and ability and high position — if we so desire it that we would be crushed were it denied us or taken from us — then we are worshipers not of the true God, but of human beingif we so desire it that we would be crushed were it denied us or taken from us — then we are worshipers not of the true God, but of human beings.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that God desires to reveal himself, and would contend that the fact that humans are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), even if fallen, provides some basis for some understanding of his character.

If God is conceived as cosmic dictator, this notion is a reflection of the human desire to control and manage.

That is why it is said only of the wicked, and not of the sinners, that their way vanishes...» Although the sinner is not confirmed by the human community, he may be able to stand before God, and even entry into the human community is not closed to him if he carries out that turning into God's way which he desires in the depths of his heart.

If consumption is by definition the satisfaction of human desires, then satisfying more desires surely contributes to human well being.

But there's a problem, even if we do pray in accordance with God's desires — for peace — that «seems» to be in accordance with God's plans (whether it actually is or not is another thing altogether) but humans have free will.

Even if human beings had never sinned, there would still be the desire to extend the mutual capacities of us and God, to see how far they could go.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

And if the desire for a final justice is part of our human longing, so too is that longing for something more, whatever it might be, that Kass and the Western tradition have long sought.

And since everything in the universe acts according to a definite pattern (electrons whiz round the nucleus of an atom and humans desire happiness - even if they are mistaken in what they do to try and get happy - and acorn trees produce acorns) then it is safe to say that there must be an intelligence moving the universe.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

If trust in revelation can thus liberate our desire to know, then we may conclude that it is a truthful posture for human consciousness to assume, and that the substance of revelation which evokes such trust may be called true also.

youre looking at it from a human perswepctive.as if God was only human and human like qualities (ie being just based on feelings, rather than based on nature) God desires for us to be in eaven... to give us the best..

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, GoIf our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, Goif they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

Even through folks get divorced, they still find an outlet for their natural human desires, and can easily live with another human being if they wish... would this be the same for your priests?

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

If, to the human understanding, the eternal damnation of even one person upsets our desire for a «harmonious cosmos,» this should be motivation not to explain how it would really be harmonious after all, but to pray for the salvation of all.

However, if human beings desire not only to live but to live well and to live better, then technological reason alone can not suffice.

The human person has a natural desire for the universal that, even if repressed by today's skepticism, aches for fulfillment.

Is it not at least archaic, if not hopelessly irrational, to hold that one person, Jesus of Nazareth, born in obscurity two thousand years ago is, as the Second Vatican Council teaches «the goal of human history, he is that point in which the desires of history and civilisation converge.

In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest; which, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself in the benefits of which they are not included.

For example, for most of human history, homosexuality was not seen as a different sexual orientation but rather as a manifestation of normal sexual desire pursued to excess — a behavior anyone might engage in if they let their passions get out of hand.

If there was an Almighty God, it's not logical to think that he would speak to / make his desires known to a lowly human.

If God desires human response, is even the divine love free of eros?

If that is indeed the case, an Atheist that desires a realized superiority, rather than the oh - so - common illusory superiority, should consider their own shortcomings as a human.

God has created human beings with spiritual and moral capacities, and therefore with good desires, that will be left unfulfilled if death is the end.

Claiming that we falsify reality if we divide it into mind and matter, into living and non-living, he said: «consciousness (which we take to include thought, feeling, desire, will etc.) is to be comprehended in terms of the implicate order, along with reality as a whole».7 Thus the randomness of sub-atomic elements may be linked with the creative freedom exercised by human consciousness.

If human beings form their ultimate desires freely from among many options, and then through devotion and practice are able to see those desires actually realized, there is no reason to complain about the process but ample room to differ over which end we should seek.

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

African - Americans and physically disabled athletes have the same desire to compete as other humans, and if their abilities are up to par, there's no reason they shouldn't have the opportunity to play at their sport's highest levels.

Humans have an instinctual desire to feel important so if no one fills that desire; we try to get it filled somehow.

If protein fortification is desired, it should come from a human or possibly soy source.

Possible reasons include if Cameron resists the SNP's demands for greater devolution of powers, if the UK votes to leave the European Union or withdraw from the European convention on human rights, or if the SNP wins a decisive victory at the Holyrood elections in 2016 having expressed a desire for another referendum in its manifesto.

Human nature has not changed: the desire to know still moves us, even if Aristotle's understanding of physics has been swept away by gravitation, field theory, relativity and quantum mechanics.

If you're a young researcher in the health sciences, there's a good chance that you entered the field out of a strong desire to improve human health, directly or indirectly.

Others think that humans will eventually want to leave the planet, out of either desire or desperation, even if the time has not yet come.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then perhaps laziness is the father — nothing seems to motivate human ingenuity better than the desire to avoid an unpleasant task.

I'm here now what ever u need what ever you desire If you have a flaming passion I'll put out the fire No need to suffer the cold I'll be your personal human pillow for you to hold!!