Sentences with phrase «man controlling our destinies»

Aren't you just saying that you believe that there is an invisible man controlling our destinies and intervening in human affairs?

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«If a man faces up to the [unknown] and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.»

Rather, every culture is the product of the human spirit, as the spirit of man wrestles with its total environment and seeks to work out a satisfactory adjustment to the material world, to other men, and to such invisible powers as are believed to control its destiny.

To say that man is both free and bound is to say that, within limits, man can make real choices, act with responsibility for the outcome, control his destiny, and affect that of others.

Whereas ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.

But that law presupposes that God directly controls man's destiny, to insure that his threats or promises would be carried Out.

My own predilections lead me to side with the more cautious among the futurists with respect to the success man can have in controlling his destiny and remaking the world according to some chosen end.

The new powers of prediction and control prove that man can determine his own destiny.

God is the final source of creation, the final power in control of all happenings, the final agent of man's redemption, and the final determiner of destinies.

One might also point to the secularization of contemporary society, which itself has many facets: the separation of political and educational institutions from the church, the autonomy of the intellectual disciplines, the dominance of this - worldly over otherworldly interests, the confidence in man's ability to control his own destiny without divine assistance.

-- Man's growing powers to shape his own destiny by extending his control over an enlarging range of external things and the emerging possibility of manipulating his own inner life and perhaps his genetic endowments.

Wenger's men are currently two points behind Everton, who control their own destiny — win the last five matches and they will end up in the top four.

Daisy's control of her own destiny and sexuality while attempting to juggle the affections of two different men comes off as proof that she is a woman to be reckoned with.

Refusing to accept a betrothal to a man she doesn't love, she decides to take control of her destiny and confront her parents» killer.Growing up, Alexander Walker has known only violence at the hands of his cruel father.

What man or woman wouldn't wish to control their own destiny?