Sentences with phrase «many human endeavors»

Short - term advantages rapidly fade in most fields of human endeavor.»

«We're in the most sensitive area of human endeavor,» he declared, «and we were not respectful of the importance of our role.

«There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

Unfounded accusations are not welcome in science or any other human endeavor.

«He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape words, to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification,» she writes observing Doc Humes» wife.

Finally, the explosion to satellite communications in the eighties matched in the most recent years with fiberoptic switching systems and computer processing of cash, words, images, and data — the internetting of global consciousness — has swept up most human endeavors from local names and habitations into the global context of international trademarks, common credit cards, shared diets, world class athletics, and intercontinental rock concert tours.

In a thoughtful way Chardin explores the omnipresence of God in the world, humans as supernatural beings in the natural evolutionary process, and the meaning of human endeavor as the realization of Christian charity.

I do not find it possible to believe that bodily corruption, that ultimate negation, as it seems, of all human endeavor, aspiration and hope, can be something from which the manhood of Christ was exempt.

The separation of various realms of human endeavor and activity common to Western individualism does not fit in with the organic, interconnected worldview informed by Russian Orthodox spirituality.

The overriding philosophy he espouses is one of kindness, concern for one's neighbors, direct conversation, and a desire to reach the truth of human endeavor.

The position taken here is that the moral enterprise makes sense only if there are objective excellences that invite the loyalties of men and constitute the standard and goal of human endeavor.

I am now learning what I suppose ecumenical pioneers have known for decades — that religious integration is both the simplest and the most complicated of human endeavors: simple in design, complicated in detail.

Once a prodigal, my membership has taught me to trust and believe in Jesus Christ; and believe that love of others is one of the greatest, if not the greatest of all human endeavors.

My hope is from the greatness of our human endeavors and how much humans have achieved.

It was not consistent with large areas of human endeavor — morality, politics, religion, etc..

The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions.

It is just as important for Christians to be discriminating in their judgments, as for them to recognize the element of sin in all human endeavors.

You should too, and I think you'll find that a vast number of things which aren't just made up could indeed be natural occurrences that coincide with some significant human endeavors.

The paradox of creativity can be seen in a peculiar character of the kind of process that culminates in something intelligible and novel that contributes substantively to a tradition of human endeavor.

He also believed in embodying the noblest aspects of human endeavor in emphatically dimensional, monumental terms, with depth of relief, with depth of formal complexity.

It is the human endeavor to apply the tests of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that corpses do not rise from graves.

This is why the word transcendent appears in Ramsey's writings; but it is not always clear whether he is stressing the «transempirical» as a concept of imageless thinking or whether there is a «nonobservable» beyond all human endeavor; if it is the latter, there is a question whether we have any right to be articulate about it.

b The Spiritual Nourishment of Human Endeavor.

«36 His view is that love and sympathy should be dominant conceptions in all human endeavors, whether they be metaphysical, physical, political, economic, or what - not.

This realization has already entered all fields of human endeavor.

Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»

What role should normative questions play in the academic study of religion, or any area of human endeavor?

In short, nothing in history of human endeavor can make otherwise smart, functioning people believe the most implausible of supernatural absurdities the way religion can.

From the religious standpoint, Leibowitz wishes to divorce the service of God from all other facets of the human endeavor.

It is not possible to say that the church must never legitimate any human endeavors whatever.

And surely it is this kind of attraction, the necessary condition of our unity, which must be linked at its root with the radiations of some ultimate Center (at once transcendent and immanent) of psychic congregation: the same Center as that whose existence, opening for human endeavor a door to the Irreversible, seems indispensable (the supreme condition of the future!)

International conferences in every field of human endeavor including business, sports, the arts, and science are helpful in keeping open the channels of communication between the peoples of the world.

The church should adapt to a technological culture, selecting the best from all fields of human endeavor.

That «other quarter» was probably not envisioned as God's direct intervention, for Mordecai was a realist who believed in the necessity of human agency; God's invisible providence undergirded human endeavor.

Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all human endeavor, human society today has to eschew utopianism and organize itself as power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.

All our thinking and our human endeavors, whether individual or collective, religious or secular, are pursued within a context of history, in which we are ever moving away from an original beginning, and nearer to some future goal.

The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.

But if we are to find a religious system which can not be outdated or outgrown, from which the acids of modernity can only remove accretions and encrustations, a religion which properly practiced produces the highest forms of human behavior, and offers both supernatural pattern and spiritual power beyond human endeavor, then I believe we shall have to take a fresh look at Christianity.

He did not feel prompted to lament the emptiness of all human endeavor in the way the author of Ecclesiastes did.

To say otherwise is to revert back into a kind of dualistic gnosticism, and the history of such isolationism and retreat from all of God's creation (including all spheres of human endeavor) is very troubling.

They see modernism as the legacy of the Enlightenment, with its absolute faith in human reason and its supreme confidence that human endeavor can steadily make progress towards an ultimate goal which promises final knowledge and complete human fulfillment.

We start with a paradigm that accounts for the data of our experiences in all areas of human endeavor.

Certainly on the basis of merely human endeavor, it seemed an impossible dream.

In fact there is probably no area of human endeavor where the phenomenal richness of possibility is so apparent as in art, and where the sense of incompleteness is more evident.

Elsewhere he claimed jurisdiction only over sin, but inasmuch as most human endeavor is tainted with sin, the pope's area of possible jurisdiction was large.

Perhaps this accounts for the fact that no other aspect of human endeavor has been so neglected...

We can also remember that in this field, like in all other human endeavors, there is no substitute for intelligence, perseverance and fair play.

There's always waste and corruption in any human endeavor whether it is ran by the government or through private corporations.

Learning Through Play — A personal look from Jan Hunt of The Natural Child Project at her son's experience and pursuit of mathematics throughout childhood, including brief notes on Harold Jacobs» book Mathematics: A Human Endeavor.

The potential benefits to peace, security, education, commerce, science, arts and virtually every field of human endeavor are fairly obvious.