He created the world and imposed on man conditions
impossible of fulfillment; he is very angry if these are not carried out.
Not exact matches
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of a stranger changed Tony's life [3:35] Peter Diamandis talks about the origins
of X Prize [6:30] Technology helping the agricultural industry [7:00] Sequencing genomes [8:55] Life - work integration [11:15] Finding your highest calling in life [12:00] Reframing what is «
impossible» [14:00] Strategy vs. psychology [15:00] Changing your state [16:00] The science
of achievement, the art
of fulfillment [19:00] Living in a beautiful state [24:00] Thinking 10x bigger [28:00] Surrounding yourself with a «nothing is
impossible» community [29:00] The news pollutes your mind [31:00] Tony's natural gifts and core beliefs [33:30] Overcoming failure and criticism [37:45] Defining your environment [40:00] Life happens for you, not to you [42:00] Rituals and practices to up your game [46:30] Tony's priming process
Another interpretation the text wants to make
impossible is that the
fulfillment of the prophetic promises means that Christians no longer live by promise, whereas the exact opposite is true:
fulfillment implies that we live by promise more than ever.
Since it is
impossible to express love personally toward large numbers
of people, it must be embodied in institutional structures which make possible the
fulfillment of persons.
It has been the irritating grain
of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl
of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an
impossible ideal
of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition
of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.
It seems
impossible for contemporary people to imagine anyone finding true
fulfillment in a life
of abnegation.
So far as the prophet himself is concerned, the contingent possibility
of quiet salvation through repentance is an
impossible possibility: Israel's redemption, and the ultimate
fulfillment of Yahweh's covenant purpose — these lie now only beyond judgment.
Hoping in an ultimate horizon
of fulfillment beyond any we can adequately imagine on the basis
of our interaction with society is capable
of liberating us from the idolatrous tendency to demand an
impossible acceptance from those around us.
To those who object that happiness is
impossible in a present that always looks to the future for
fulfillment, revelation proposes that the kind
of happiness most pertinent to the «now» is precisely the awareness
of promise in every present situation.
The Whiteheadian view envisages God as more oriented toward the
fulfillment of the individual than toward the filling out
of some cosmic outline.15 But it insists that the organismic connection
of all things makes it
impossible for the individual to experience
fulfillment apart from the cosmos as a whole.
And yet an unflagging trust in the divine promise
of social
fulfillment is, even from the point
of view
of «practicality,» the only attitude that can adequately respond to our «
impossible» dilemma
of utopian naivete on the one hand or cynicism on the other.
Despite Callaghan's promise that the children would spend the day speaking English, the lack
of formal instruction made
fulfillment impossible.
But not only do I appreciate objective validation from a personal
fulfillment point
of view, I also know, as an editor, that it's
impossible to fairly judge your own writing — even when you're a great editor for others.
My life had been defined by a constant tension between the two: the belief — as certain as the color
of the sky — that it was
impossible for me to have a family, a career,
fulfillment, while also embracing the truth that I am a transgender woman.
Amazon pressed for better terms and, after a period during which Hachette continued to insist on a different approach, the retailer made it
impossible to buy some
of the company's books and allegedly slowed
fulfillment of orders.
On the one hand a feeling
of longing may trigger a concrete move towards the desired ideal, and on the other hand it may entail a breakdown by holding on to the
impossible idea
of fulfillment.