In ordinary human discourse, words may be spoken which may be abusive, untrue or insulting.
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In our ordinary human lives, there are many nets that will arrest our freedom.
«King excels in his disturbing portrait of Brady, a genuine monster
in ordinary human form who gives new meaning to the phrase «the banality of evil.»
While it is true that researchers have induced heart disease in some animals by giving them extremely large dosages of oxidized or rancid cholesterol — amounts ten times that found
in the ordinary human diet — several population studies squarely contradict the cholesterol - heart disease connection.
As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted
in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.
In ordinary human experience this region is coextensive with the body or with some aspect of the body.
To say that there is a process in the world which operates to increase the structure of value, and to that degree is the embodiment of this structure, does not necessarily imply that the process is teleological
in the ordinary human sense of the word.
It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded as absent or superfluous
in ordinary human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator of the world as Barth thought him to be.
To understand the levels of compliance to which most of us can be manipulated without even realizing we are being manipulated, just research the 1961 Yale University Milgram Experiment and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, both experiments in human psychology that demonstrated extreme levels of compliance
in ordinary human beings.
Not exact matches
Drawdown makes sure to empower
ordinary human beings with actions each of us can contribute, even if we aren't specialized
in offshore wind farms or solar storage technology.
This ability to use vision and touch sensing to improvise its way to successful task completion makes Baxter highly adaptable to the
ordinary,
human - oriented work conditions found
in small - company assembly lines.
Out of
ordinary piety and
human gratitude I would never say
in my own name that Mansfield is less that wise.
In other words, putting family first doesn't imply nepotism, but rather
ordinary human responsibility.
It aims to lift up
in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of
human potential, among some
ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.
In such circumstances,
ordinary men became great men, all the while remaining manifestly
human, with the many shortcomings such a condition implies.
Anyway, what I was trying to say is that Mr. Chopra said about Jesus «Son of God» and for Muhammad «
ordinary human» not is not accepted scholary or spiritualy and
in Islamic world.
Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly
ordinary: It is the familiar one that
human beings should engage
in an activity that poses dangers to others only if,
in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.
I am only an
ordinary human being nor an Angel nor a Prophet... am only quoting what my Holy Book has told me that GOD the Only was the creator of every thing
in the universe... But to ask me who created GOD to me is unsensable question..
To regard the
ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant
in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of
human growth and nurture, of the contact between
human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.
Human beings have a long history filled with situations
in which they simply decide, for no rational reason whatsoever, to attribute
ordinary natural events to supernatural forces.
Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for
human beings between the
ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber
in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.
Our praying, whether
in word or thought, whether
in church or at home, whether at
ordinary services
in church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded
in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place where we happen to be as
human beings.
And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from
ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the
human organism reacts
in spontaneous outbursts, and
in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15
Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning
human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the
ordinary people pinched
in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.
I'm passionate about finding life before death, the extraordinary
in the
ordinary, the divine
in the daily, and the flesh and blood of
human community.
My final say as a
human to
human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing
in hand we
ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?
Although we are quite
in the dark about the why of
human disease and suffering,
ordinary observation can show us that the result of their occurrence is by no means necessarily evil.
Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power
in the midst of a most
ordinary human activity.
Does the New Testament,
in asserting that Jesus is risen from the dead, mean that his death is not just an
ordinary human death, but the judgment and salvation of the world, depriving death of its power?
Fertility is an
ordinary function of health and
human flourishing and an extraordinary participation
in God's creative love.
The real hero of our time is the nonhero, the common man, the little Charlie Chaplin, the Dustin Hoffman, who may be buffeted and bewildered and often caught
in the struggle between Eagles and Serpents, Seagulls and Frogs, but who somehow through it all manages to remain relatively sane, simple,
ordinary and
human.
As such, and since the God of Islam is the same God of Christianity and Judaism (according to the Quran that just been certified), Christianity and Judaism are true religions of God with text that has been corrupted (another reason you find contradictions with science because
ordinary humans changed the word of God so you can see the flaws
in it).
Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust
in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of
ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and can not possess.
On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered
ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith
in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe
in.»
For the true self discovered
in enlightenment is the
ordinary self or «everyday mind» of each and every
human life.
This reciprocal choice entails an active «over-againstness» of the two partners such as is impossible
in the magical view
in which the divine side remains passive and
in the
ordinary sacramental view
in which the
human remains passive.
He was so far removed from
ordinary human experience that Christians needed an intermediary
in order to relate to him.
Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of life that makes
human happiness central and sees us as beings whose dignity lies chiefly
in enacting that benevolence
in ordinary life.
I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say
in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of
human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found
in German idealist thought) can be put
in another fashion — and one which
in my judgment speaks more directly to the
ordinary man or woman.
Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing
in each case how the existence of God can be known with certainty by reflecting on
ordinary human experience.
Our regular guide to the Word of God
in the Sunday Liturgy 23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: B 07.09.03 Mk 7, 31 - 37 Grace perfects through human natur
in the Sunday Liturgy 23RD SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME: B 07.09.03 Mk 7, 31 - 37 Grace perfects through human natur
IN ORDINARY TIME: B 07.09.03 Mk 7, 31 - 37 Grace perfects through
human nature.
Of course, this «more» to
human and cosmic reality need not be transcendent
in any sense other than «beyond»: beyond our present
ordinary awareness and knowledge, perhaps
in principle beyond purely scientific avenues of knowledge.
Consequently, our acceptance of supernatural faith (by grace alone) is
in harmony with modern historical reasoning and philosophical reflection on the
ordinary human transmission of knowledge.
Of course it was the blood of his
human body, but that gives his self - surrender quite a different meaning from what it has
in an
ordinary secular context.
The problem with Skimpolism is that it ignores, and refuses to acknowledge, the sources and causes of its own good fortune: the enormous
human enterprise of toil, commerce, and distribution, the attendant fatigue, risk, worry, and vexation, the requisite virtues of foresight, prudence, honesty, and diligence — all of which are necessary for something as
ordinary as a peach or a glove to end up
in Skimpole's dining room.
For Niebuhr, this is the problem of the transformation of our
ordinary human faiths, and he addresses it by pointing to the pattern of Jesus Christ
in our history.
But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the
ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the
human breast,
in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel
in a forest at twilight, or
in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play
in the lives of religious persons.
God has freely chosen to associate
ordinary human beings
in 1 - lis work.
And though
in the Fourth Gospel the notes of agonizing struggle, or even of
ordinary human weakness and suffering, are muted, if not hushed, and the death is, as Vincent Taylor says, «no longer a (Greek word) but a shining stairway by which the Son of God ascends to his Father,» (The Atonement
in New Testament Teaching, p. 215.
Because the rational structure of the
human mind finds its source
in divine rationality, this Word illuminates the eye of the soul turning
ordinary persons into prophets who can begin to read creation.