Sentences with phrase «in face of nature»

Of course, I may be reading my own opinion into this, but I think he's referring to the fact that some climate scientists and environmental advocates sound like priests worshipping mother nature and bemoaning our sinfulness and arrogance in the face of nature for which we need to atone.

Those who create and plan should practice humility in the face of nature.

Gavronsky's delicate pastel works posit a deflated colonial male figure as humbled in the face of nature and, at times, crippled by remorse as he is positioned on his knees before people exploited over the ages.

The paintings depict the wilderness and fantasies about great adventures with references to memories from the artist's early life in Kiruna, films he has seen, places he has visited or the smallness of humanity in the face of nature.

I love Albert York's potent quietness; Tom Uttech's awe in the face of nature; John Currin's moxie and creative ransacking of art history (but not his politics); Neo Rauch's ambition, imagination and painterly attack; Paula Rego's humanism; Paula Modersohn - Becker's tender color and character.

It's a reminder — we are powerless in the face of Nature's indifference.

The religion of early humans focused on the maintenance of stable tribal existence in the face of nature's wild elements and the hostility of other peoples.

It just flies in the face of the nature of scientific discovery to state absolutely that something does not exist because we can't see it.

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«Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,» Ellis said of the former campaign manager.

This patchwork approach to regulating the nature of foreign owned residential real estate allows subregions in Switzerland to create policies that respond to the particular pressures they face, whether it be foreign investors holding land but not building, or foreign investors purchasing large lots that when developed significantly impact the traditional esthetic of the area.

The speech concludes that the nature of, and challenges along, the path to prosperity that the Australian economy has taken in the past six years are not much different to those faced when they were considered six years ago.

While a smaller issue in comparison, largely because it doesn't impact the live ethereum network, the problems facing the Casper test network also provide evidence of the early - stage nature of ethereum as a technology.

In the face of the possible Panda Bear Market we discussed here yesterday, it seems that the guys who pull the levers in China have opted to prop up stocks rather than let nature take it's coursIn the face of the possible Panda Bear Market we discussed here yesterday, it seems that the guys who pull the levers in China have opted to prop up stocks rather than let nature take it's coursin China have opted to prop up stocks rather than let nature take it's course.

Because of its theme and underlying agenda, the Assembly was faced throughout with the task of defining the nature of the Spirit, and the place of the Spirit in the Trinity.

I put forward the proposition that the distinction between NATURE and HISTORY doesn't address the challenges we face in the era of biotechnology.

Would you behave rationally, facing one of nature's most fearsome killing machines in its golden eyes, and slowly backing away to leave it in the bathroom where you found it?

However dubious this theory may have been, I found myself confronting the ultimate issues of the nature of the world and the nature of man in a more naked form than I was likely to face them in theology.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

In spite of all the news we have shoved in our faces daily, this is a reminder that there IS good in human naturIn spite of all the news we have shoved in our faces daily, this is a reminder that there IS good in human naturin our faces daily, this is a reminder that there IS good in human naturin human nature!

In magic anything might turn into anything else in the twinkling of an eye before one's face; but such nature - oriented, visual, spatial, magical imagery has little if anything to do with human transformatioIn magic anything might turn into anything else in the twinkling of an eye before one's face; but such nature - oriented, visual, spatial, magical imagery has little if anything to do with human transformatioin the twinkling of an eye before one's face; but such nature - oriented, visual, spatial, magical imagery has little if anything to do with human transformation.

Through a failure to grasp the exact nature of this power newly bestowed on all who put their confidence in God — a failure due either to a hesitation in face of what seems to us so unlikely or to a fear of falling into illuminism — many Christians neglect this earthly aspect of the promises of the Master, or at least do not give themselves to it with that complete hardihood which he nevertheless never tires of asking of us, if only we have ears to hear him.

«Reason is the Devil's greatest wh «ore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious wh «ore; she is a prosti.tute, the Devil's appointed wh «ore; wh «ore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom... Throw dung in her face to make her ugly.

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitaIn face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitain human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

We shall have the root of the matter in us; we shall have come to recognize that in the history leading up to our Lord, and with the coming of Jesus himself, there were released into the world, and that in what we may rightly call an unprecedented fashion, energies for good which have changed the lives of men and through them the face of nature too, and that these same energies are still available whenever men turn, in faith and with utter self - surrender, to the Lord of all life.

Medieval writers saw a clear dichotomy of wonder as a humbling realisation of ignorance in the face of God's creation and curiosity as a rather more negative and aimless desire to uncover the secrets of nature.

To claim that all of nature is dominated by such a structure and process, is to fly in the face of all observable evidence.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

Men have from time immemorial experienced wonder, mystery, awe, and dread in the face of the inexplicable and uncontrollable forces of nature and of their own inner nature, and have hypostatized these experiences in the gods.

Well, again, to some degree, this problem we face is due in part to the monologue nature of our messages.

If there is some kind of continuation after death I would imagine that it would be of such a different nature as not to resemble at all anything thought up in Christian theology and i would face it with a curious mind, not a fearful mind.

This perspective was captured beautifully by the English poet Thomas Hardy, who in the face of romanticism about nature said that human fulfillment could not ultimately be found among rocks and vines and trees.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

When we come to study the phenomenon of conversion or religious regeneration, we shall see that a not infrequent consequence of the change operated in the subject is a transfiguration of the face of nature in his eyes.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

It is they who look into the true face of god and endeavor to understand the «ordered harmony in nature».

Poverty, social oppression, war and violence in society, and the polluted, barren, hostile face of nature — both express this violation of the covenant.

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

Perhaps it is our inability to face the prospect of our own death, our own intimate participation in the ways of nature, that causes us to be uncomfortable with killing animals to meet human needs.

Though the liberal doctrines of progress did not squarely face the fact that «nature intends to kill man,» there was an element in the liberal view of the meaning of the temporal character of life which is valid.

It is not a question of «attacking the Bishops» but of calling for a necessary regrouping in the face of an unprecedented onslaught on the truth of our human nature.

It is in coming to terms with the death of Jesus that we find an answer to our search for meaning, in face of the complex nature of finite existence and the problems raised by evil, suffering and death.

The American experience in the leveling of a continent and the partial reshaping of the face of nature constitutes one large national illustration of this kind of force.

For him, it is not the systematic world of the speculative philosopher that is of greatest value, but the natural, chaotic process which lies hidden behind the falsifying face of reason, a process whose true nature can only be known on a purely aesthetic level through experience in its immediacy («Beyond Good and Evil,» BWN Section 213; «Will to Power,» Section 794).

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

There is the last question of the Christian's relation to the things loved in this life, and the nature of his hope in the face of death.

The following verse from the Qur» an is good evidence of the comprehensive nature of the Islamic rules of conduct, «It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the Prophets; and giveth his wealth, in spite of his love for it, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor - due.

H. Richard Niebuhr described the nature of the church and the world in words which have remarkable relevance to the current situation facing religion in its uneasy and ambivalent relationship to the world of television:

Despite this, she could be deported at any time and given the now high - profile nature of her case, is likely to face severe consequences back in Iran.

The artistic nature of the scene is clear: the setting of the questions to build up to a climax; the representative role of Peter; the post-Easter confession; the sudden appearance of the crowd when the time comes for general instruction, as so often in Mark; the reflection of the situation of a Church facing the possibility of persecution; and the way in which the whole pencope moves to its climax in the last two verses.