Sentences with phrase «incalculable future»

If we follow the patterns of thought set forth in the Bible, it must be seen as a presence in the mode of promise and not an exhaustive presence that leaves no room for further manifestations of an incalculable future.

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It comes alive as `... dangerous remembrances, remembrances of hope and terror which were experienced and then were suppressed or silenced, which suddenly break through again into our one - dimensional every - day world... There are remembrances with which we must reckon remembrances, so to say, with future content, remembrances which do not deceptively relieve our burden... Such remembrances are like dangerous and incalculable visitations out of the past... Such remembrances press us to change ourselves in accordance with them.»

The content of revelation is a promise which, because it has never yet been completely fulfilled, can never be fixed or finished, but remains incalculable and to some extent mysteriously incomprehensible And the reception of this revelation means that we experience a gracious, extravagant, and surprising future dawning at the frontiers of our own lives here and now.

An activism divorced from sacramentalism, mysticism, and silence may attempt to seize the mysterious and incalculable mystery of the future and make it a present possession subject to human control.

More fundamental are problems which human beings have always faced when trying to shape their future — only now these problems bode incalculable harm because of the growth in population, and the growth in power of technology.

This conclusion has profound significance: it means that predicting future innovations is fundamentally incalculable, even on the basis of probability because no probability distribution can be assessed without knowing the range of possible outcomes.

Whether you're debt free or working on getting out of debt, planning for the future inevitably yields rewards that are incalculable.