Sentences with phrase «material things of the world»

A people whose dignity is not drawn from the material things of the world.

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Either way both types of people can accurately catalog functions in the material world neither side can observe test and repeat the origins of all things this is a philosophy debate naturalism vs creationism

The physical laws themselves as grasped by us, e.g. Newton's Laws of Motion, are not material things, but intelligent and useful descriptions of what we have observed of the physical world.

As to scientific proof I am glad you agree objective proofs are limited to the material scientific while Jesus speaks to the things of God which are not the things of this world.

Though the phenomena of the lower world remain the same — the material determinisms, the vicissitudes of chance, the laws of labour, the agitations of men, the footfalls of death — he who dares to believe reaches a sphere of created reality in which things, while retaining their habitual texture, seem to be made out of a different substance.

none of these prayers are dangerous, for example if you pray to become like jesus, and god downgrades your life and you lose your house and car etc, this is good, as God is happier with those who don't value the material things in this temporary world, and your only going to achieve heaven with Gods happiness

Second, a consistent acceptance of process generalizations about how things go in the world can provide the material for the radical reconception, of what can be affirmed about that reality greater than humankind or nature — about God, to use the traditional word for that reality.

We need more positive things in this world instead of the negative news media that constantly gives us negative material to make our days so delightful, and yes, they happen to make a living off of doing that.

If we're honest, this state of affairs is what every human heart longs for and wants to return to — a world where the things we touch cooperate and flourish at our hands, a world free of material decay and relational static.

A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge can not understand the meaning of chastity; a man who ranks the amassing of material things as the supreme end of life can not understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world can not understand the things of God.

This is not a way of acknowledging the simple fact that we live among people as well as things, or that we choose our own associates, or even that much of the material world is now the product of human construction.

In those days, not least in the thinking of men like St. Thomas Aquinas, the material world was regarded as a good thing, although wrongdoing of various sorts had distorted and perverted it in the forms in which actually we experience it.

A very few — whether serious scientists and thinkers or cranks, I don't know — really are considering a world of «material and nonmaterial things.»

Physics has had enormous success in explaining why things happen as they do in the natural world, but its modes of explanation do not fit neatly into the four-fold classification of material, formal, efficient, and final causes.

In the intervening books he has developed the theory of the Forms (the ideal heavenly realities of which our material world offers mere copies), and so is now able to point out that poetry is not true, since its objects of representation are the things of this world.

This «exception» seems to be the only one that has to be dealt with, if we leave out of account the fact that a thorough - going Vitalism, which after all is a doctrine quite commonly supported in Christian philosophy, would have to require a predicamental activity of God within the natural world and its history for the origin of life, too, and perhaps for certain definite categories of living things, unless of course such Vitalism were to hold that there has been «life» in the physical world from the beginning or that a special ratio seminalis of its own for life could have been created into the material world from the beginning.

Indeed, their lofty perch in the upper reaches of the world was not a place held by things material.

He goes on to comment: «if we wish to explain the observed world in terms of Matter without reference to Mind, then it must be explained by things material, ultimate and simple all at the same time — by indivisible, notional «atoms» and a chance «swerve» that sets them in random motion.

It is not limited to sharing the material things but also sharing the good news that the Saviour of the world has come.

With reference to Einstein, «who made time and space into fluid things that merge into each other,» Chopin suggests that the «material world» is made up of objects and events we can identify; the «transition zone» is a quantum reality or domain where energy turns into matter; and the place beyond time and space — the origin of the universe, the place where God is — is like a «virtual reality or domain.»

Side by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering things....

The world of building materials and building methods is full of deceits — low - cost things imitating the appearance of authentic ones and conventions that make virtues of illusion, for instance.

For it is just at the point where telling how things really are in this world is obliged to forgo descriptions in terms of material relations and begin to deal with the «inward» spiritual dimension that Frye's observations become especially pertinent.

Suppose, for example, that the whole universe of material things — the furniture of earth and choir of heaven — should turn out to be a mere surface - veil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities.

The biblical material stresses the material world, the bodily condition, the time - and - space reality, which we all know and in terms of which we exist as men and women; it does not take flight into some supposedly more «spiritual» realm where these things are of no importance and where presumably life is lived, at the creaturely level, without any genuinely created order at all.

In the material world a being receives the actualization of its potential only by coming into contact with the thing that initiates and completes its actualization.

No matter what the name, the important thing was that, like Zhang, Browning envisioned the transformative power of this brave new material world.

Since then they have captured the attention of scientists around the world who envision using them to build better televisions, batteries, wireless communications systems and to strengthen materials, among other things.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically - inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

The people of the world reveal that they've lost the ability to create new things from raw materials — even the word «build» is foreign to them.

Boy & The World Rated PG for thematic material and images Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Brazil has been getting a lot of bad press these days, but one good thing we've gotten from them is this little gem of a picture, which was recently nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

Alongside the various items you craft from the materials you harvest in the world or from monsters (things like healing potions, food to increase your stamina, or traps to immobilize monsters), there are new specialized tools that add more gameplay options both during and outside of combat.

What message are we sending students when «making» has mainly been aligned with Silicon Valley, wealth, and the world of material things?

For one thing, its unique selection of materials and colors draws upon the world of luxury boating for inspiration, and rather than conventional passenger doors, it features two massive, upward - swinging «gull - wing» doors, with no real B - pillars.

Material historian Mark Kurlansky tells the history of the world through things.

Both Nozkowski and Guston share a love for the material world, for things underfoot, and for art of the past.

Sheets of paper pressed insistently by her pencil up against windows, walls and doors become heavily material objects, while things in the world — windbreaks, found photographs, a fireplace — are redrawn as artworks through subtle alteration.

But while Hockney is entranced by the things of this world, Suárez moves fluidly between material realities and material impossibilities, finding poetics along the way.

This was an example of what had been dubbed «institutional critique,» though artists had been doing things that could be plausibly categorized as such since at least the late 1960s — art that takes the operations of the art world, including aspects that are generally overlooked or taken for granted, not just as subject matter but as raw material.

Describing a world of possessions and trappings, mindsets and material culture, she shows how things seduce us, beguile us and betray us at every turn.

Marten's installations, sculptures and videos play upon our reference systems for things and a coding of the visual that establishes our most elemental relationships to the material world.

Painted in formal and spiritual unity, the diamonds, rectangles, and zigzags that comprise these sequences suggest foundational real - world materials: bricks, religious icons, single - celled organisms — things of which history and culture are formed.

In 1999, interested in materials and anti-industrial gestures, I visited Richard Salmon Gallery in London to see the exhibition «Furniture»: I was convinced that artists invariably tell us more than designers do about the everyday things of the world.

The macro world, the micro world, and the material world are all part of one thing, really.»

Using a mix of bright colors and more muted tones, as well as thin washes and thick layers of paint, Youngblood builds up complex, spatially ambiguous surfaces that in her words «mimic objects, materials, and things from the real world.»

Two Histories of the World began in early 2011 when curator Karsten Lund invited a group of artists to make new works using only materials they found at William H. Cooper, choosing from a vast collection of things stored throughout the rundown factory.

As an artist interested in mining the dense marks and language of the urban environment, married with a concern for contemporary abstract painting, the easiest thing in the world would be to embrace a provisional aesthetic of rough materials and utilitarian supports.

The central theme of Tony Cragg's work is his preoccupation with the material world - the reality of objects, which either come from nature, albeit a man - modified nature or the useful things we make to help us exist.

Sound is at once resolutely material — fixed in the world of things — and immaterial — less a thing than a swerve.