Sentences with phrase «just as a symbol»

I view it just as a symbol and I do nt think Jesus himself would care about it more or less.

That said, the book will endure, not just as a symbol, but as a luxury.

Not exact matches

When she saw some mechanical looms that used punched cards to direct the weaving of beautiful patterns, it reminded her of how Babbage's engine used punched cards to make calculations, and she developed the historic insight that a calculator could be instructed to handle not just numbers but anything that could be notated in logical symbols, such as music or words or graphics or textile patterns.

«And it shows that language sometimes is not just made up of letters, but can also be made up of symbols and of course of numbers as well.»

Built just inside North Korea's border in 2004 as a symbol of economic partnership, it is a place where commerce trumps ideology, while generating $ 2 billion a year for the North's trade - starved economy.

A recognizable brand isn't just a helpful symbol to help consumers tell one product from another on a crowded shelf; as any marketer can tell you, a brand is about establishing an emotional connection with a consumer, prompting positive associations that lead to a lifetime of sales.

Singer / songwriter / poet Leonard Cohen said, «Mankind must rediscover the crucifixion as a universal symbol, not just an experiment in sadism or masochism or arrogance.

so just to get this correct christians carry around a symbol of ancient world torture as a good thing?

I think highly of David's cartoon, but I wasn't lifting him up as a «symbol of courage»... my «bold» comment would have spoken with a little shake of my head and just a tone of «you're going to get it, you know...»

as far as the cross at the twin tower site, just place the religious symbol of all whom died there and we can call it fair, until then it is endorsing one religion over the others.

We do not need to «Christianize» 9/11, just as we do not need to make the terrorists a symbol of Islam.

Just as a joke loses its humor when it has to be explained, so also a symbol loses its force when it is explained.

Suarez, for example, argued that just as language and symbol are natural to humanity, so the sacraments are appropriate as means of communion with God.

A truly dialectical image of God (or of the Kingdom of God) will appear only after the most radical negation, just as a genuinely eschatological form of faith can now be reborn only upon the grave of the God who is the symbol of the transcendence of Being.

Here we had a minister in his study with some books, clearly including the Bible, an open window showing some symbols (like a factory) of the activity and confusion of modern society, and something like a typewriter to show the minister as an active scholar and not just a passive recipient.

To the extent you sympathize with that movement, he's all the more interesting and attractive, just as the man wearing a peace symbol is to the woman with pacifist sympathies.

As a Christian I know that religious and political symbols are just that — symbols.

As far as the specific issue goes, of whether this is an actual presence of God in Communion, or whether it is «just a symbol» goes, I spent enough space already discussing loaded language to spend more time on how «We who believe in the Christ...» treats those who don't believe the details as you do don't actually believe in Christ, so as far as this issue is actually concerneAs far as the specific issue goes, of whether this is an actual presence of God in Communion, or whether it is «just a symbol» goes, I spent enough space already discussing loaded language to spend more time on how «We who believe in the Christ...» treats those who don't believe the details as you do don't actually believe in Christ, so as far as this issue is actually concerneas the specific issue goes, of whether this is an actual presence of God in Communion, or whether it is «just a symbol» goes, I spent enough space already discussing loaded language to spend more time on how «We who believe in the Christ...» treats those who don't believe the details as you do don't actually believe in Christ, so as far as this issue is actually concerneas you do don't actually believe in Christ, so as far as this issue is actually concerneas far as this issue is actually concerneas this issue is actually concerned:

For Buber the meaning of the symbol is found not in its universality but in the fact that it points to a concrete event which witnesses just as it is, in all its concreteness, transitoriness, and uniqueness, to the relation with the Absolute.

It's just a symbol and it's not a threat to me as a person.

The best thing the atheists can do is just ignore the religious symbols as they do when they accept their paychecks, when and if they get one and in their bank accounts, the atms etc because on our currency there are several religious symbols.

Valid enough as long as it's just a piece of the big picture and not a symbol for it.

Well, I'm someone, and I would like this piece of the structure — which «just happens» to be the symbol of my faith and more importantly the symbol of the faith of so many 9/11 victims and their families — to be included in the exhibit as a matter of respect to those victims and victims» families to whom it is meaningful.

Putting up an explicitly Christian symbol that is being billed as a special sign from God is just plain insensitive to all the everyone else who died there that day.

But it was Augustine who first elaborated them carefully and, just as important, who first applied the Christian symbols of the cosmic drama — creation, fall, incarnation, ecclesia and eschatological end — to the structure and meaning of history, particularly of the history of the rise and fall of empires.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

The murder victims are just blank symbols to this cross-planting guy, who obviously couldn't care less who they were as individuals in life.

Just as important as the attempt of each tradition to reinterpret their symbols and rituals to meet the needs of the new spiritual parameters will be the cross-fertilization of cultures which takes place in the globalizing process.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

Just as a game consists of a set of rules that we have to learn and honor if we are to play it, so a religion consists of a system of symbols that we have to understand as a whole.

Mankind must rediscover the crucifixion as a universal symbol, not just an experiment in sadism or masochism or arrogance.

just then man does such things with language as to reinvest this symbol with meanings and dreamed of meanings of terrible force.

When Jesus referred to those who do the will of God as his Sisters and Brothers, he was using the Family as a symbol for the relationships not only between us and God, but just as importantly, as a symbol for our relationships with each other (Verna Dozier and Jim Adams pointed this out in their book Sisters and Brothers).

I, for one, take such intimations seriously as evidence of profound moral or religious sensibilities and wonder whether the church's traditional language of theology and religious symbols thwarts not just apologetics but also the moral, spiritual and intellectual nourishment of those uncomfortable with religious institutions.

The perspective taken in this book (especially in Chapter 8) is that of an evolutionary cosmology in which the universe itself is the primary revelation of mystery and in which religions and their symbols are seen as expressions of the cosmos (and not just of isolated, cosmically homeless human subjects).

As she said, «If the Eucharist is just a symbol than to hell with it.»

A baton is going to be used in each event and carried from one to the other as a symbol of an attempt to start to strengthen unity across not just denominations, but across racial and ethnic barriers as well.»

Just as there can be, through interpretation of symbol, an inquiry back toward the origins of consciousness, so there can be in the figures of language, of the intersubjective, of culture, a forward movement of humanity toward its limits.

For example, a pair of scales as the symbol of justice could not be replaced by just any other image, such as a wheel or a horse.

Is it really so complicated to understand that the cross as a symbol has come to represent More than just the God who sacrifices himself for humanity and wants us to love and respect each other?

So many things are «weights» — the very Fish Symbol that helped me as a teen (and very large bible)... well, they just don't help me now.

Randy: People treating symbols as just that — meaningless symbols — is a lovely idea, but not very realistic in the actual world.

That's all well and good, but if having a cross up on a wall does no harm to the others around... surely the other symbols should be just as innocent.

Look for just a moment at the religious symbols used in profanity, for these symbols have come to be viewed as covered by the third Commandment: «You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.»

Spirit baptism happens automatically as a result of receiving eternal life, and water baptism is just an outward symbol, an outward sign, of what happened to us inwardly.

Just because we use a symbol set and procedure to «simplify» difficult problems, it in no way has to be as we dictate it, nor does it make it the easiest, most efficient, indisputable, and unmatched way of surmising an answer.

Does the cross appear less startling and painful because of «the unfolding rose» which «is the symbol of enlightenment in the West just as the lotus is in the East»?

Beginning with the external and bodily, the main place of most of our meditation here at Mercy Center is the Rose Room (so called because the unfolding rose is the symbol of enlightenment in the West just as the lotus is in the East).

An NFL team might just be seen as a toy or status symbol with an expensive price tag.

Is the Bear just the figment of an advertising man's imagination or is he a worthwhile, as well as a beloved, symbol?