Sentences with phrase «many human events»

Investing is about glimpsing, however dimly, the ebb and flow of human events.

-- GQ, «Steve Bannon Is Hatching His Comeback,» by Ben Schreckinger: «These days, he no longer runs Breitbart News, but Bannon remains holed up at the company's Capitol Hill headquarters, plotting the next stage of his right - wing populist revolution and brooding over the course of human events.

Hugh Hewitt's interview gives you a good overview, as does the earlier Human Events essay linked, and over at Ricochet, D.C. McAllister has begun a series of posts that will examine the proposals one - by - one.

The four «influences» on human events are ALL God.

It is a tragic, human event that cries to God for justice — an event which would call for earthly justice for the gunman, not possible through the courts because of his suicide.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

At the end of that Chapter he calls us to develop «new eyes and a new heart, capable of rising above a materialistic vision of human events» (n. 77, his emphasis, as with all such quotes below).

-LSB-...] Caritas in Veritate has real literary and practical flaws -LSB-...] yet, viewed in the light of Benedict's earlier encyclicals, Caritas in Veritate can be seen as one long call to conversion -LSB-... requiring] «new eyes and a new heart, capable of rising above a materialistic vision of human events.»

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The sure and ultimate answer to what Benedict XVI called a «materialist vision of human events» is Christianity.

God's aim for some human events, on the other hand, will be such that, if his will is actualized to a high degree by the person, the event will effectively express God's being.

Ancient Israel takes for granted in her story that the determinative factor in all human events and in all creation is outside and above event and time.

In the strange and bewildering complex of human willing and action, God moves through lure and attraction to bring the greatest good out of the confusion of human events.

He shows what light a specific moral psychology throws on human events and also how those events sharpen awareness of the fragility of our moral condition.

But there is simply too much order in our world, too much constancy in our habits, too much justice in our norms for us to think that the course of human events is not somehow channeled by God's providential plan.

Even if we consider the 2000 years of history that are recorded in the Bible, these biblical records only cover the tiniest fraction of human events that took place during these two millennia.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

Secularization, like death, is one of those human events best understood in retrospect.

Therefore, the choice made by God to use human events and human reporting of those events makes the task of faithful interpretation endless.

In the one we have imagery, parable, and the reality of a divine - human event: in the other, the abstract concept and the truth of historical fact.

If the Bible were such a book, it would make specific, falsifiable predictions about human events.

It is no process in the time sequence of human events.

It requires a God who is petty and arrogant and who has no qualms about interfering in, controlling, or playfully dabbling in the course of human events.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

Consequently some further advance in our understanding of complex human events should be possible.

Nevertheless, it is a fascinating history of the life and thought of a great people over a period of twelve hundred years of decisive human events.

In these terms, nature may be sharply contrasted with history, for Whitehead shows the virtual irrelevance to human events of the physicist's analysis.

Clifford Geertz defines thick description as «an elaborate venture in» the «piled — up structures of inference and implication» in human events and structures.

The presence of both of these psalm - like pieces in present context simply testifies again to the faith of the believing community that the life of God impinges on the course of human events with power, purpose, and compassion.

Frost belief was in the necessity of man never to forget respect for the hard given items with which he has to work, and the hardest is not stone or steel, but the human event.

The Church is no more the kingdom of God than natural science is nature or written history the course of human events.

Despite all our energetic efforts to organize the universe and human events, those wonderful things simply are there, in their concreteness, winking at us!

I said just now, in seeking to describe the magnitude of the human events which are overtaking us, that they were of «planetary» importance.

When in the course of human events something new is launched, a decent respect for the opinion of others calls for a word of explanation.

As a result, He gets himself into compromising situations, takes the blame for horrible human events, and gets His hands dirty in the tragedies of life.

When in the course of human events...» Thus Jefferson and his associates, evincing a «decent respect to the opinions of mankind,» began their explanation of what they were up to.

I also think marriage is a human event and relationship and therefore should be performed by the state, not the church.

Our spiritual judgment, I said, our opinion of the significance and value of a human event or condition, must be decided on empirical grounds exclusively.

In biblical times to know about history was to interpret human events in relation to our purpose: to see the building of the Tower as idolatry was to understand an historical event.

9 - 20; but even here we are given an interpretation of human events through the eyes of profound faith.

Is there — anywhere in the course of human events — a key to unlock the enigma of our social and historical experience?

In the face of the apparent absurdities that take place within human events, this hope renounces easy answers and opens itself to the surprise of unanticipated fulfillment.

But by locating revelation in the realm of transcendental subjectivity, or on a plane radically discontinuous with actual human events, they have removed it from a more challenging proximity to our historical existence.

And if in other things care and planning are required, why not in this most important of human events, the birth of a child?

In the Old Testament the Israelite participants, actual or empathic, impute to the event of the exodus the actual relationship of deity to human event, the responsibility of God's Word in and through the total event.

The course of human events flows erratically; these days it seems that there are, indeed, new things under the sun.

In fact, I wonder if part of the appeal of the words, the flowers, the lace, the cakes — or, for that matter, of the liturgy, the premarital counseling, and the minister's earnest appeal for «seriousness» and «dignity» — may be a complex rationalizing away of this embarrassingly human event, in short, weddings are an embarrassment because they reveal the limitations of our tidy, virginal, whitewashed, pristine theologies which can not yet deal with incarnation.

He is all - powerful and all - knowing and he is willing and able to intervene in human events.

To faith the promise of a still undisclosed future is all we need to light up our history and to give us consolation in the face of the apparent absurdities that have taken place within The course of human events.

7 Interpretation of the unconscious in terms of Whitehead's doctrine of physical feeling affords a means whereby one might reconcile the apparent conflict between the Freudian individual unconscious and the Jungian collective unconscious: the inheritance ingredient in the human event comprises both idiosyncratic elements immediately relevant to the thread of personal identity and universal elements which have lower grades of relevance.