Sentences with phrase «mere humans who»

It's only «ugly» to those mere humans who are arrogant enough to think they have it figured out.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

Not exact matches

Leaders who are guided by faith, not fear, demonstrate through their actions, not mere words, what their core values are as a human being.

«The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd.

It is something from which animals are exempt, except those who have the misfortune to be harnessed to human enterprise, and it is something unknown to a creature of mere needs.

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

Or was the human being who typed these words a mere organic robot simply obeying programming from God or fate?

Who are you, MERE HUMAN, to question the AUTHORITY of GOD?

Using Berdyaev and Whitehead as support, he castigates a «mere spectator God» who surveys human suffering while remaining in a state of happiness.

Its all about admitting that regardless of who we are or what we believe we are all equal, not perfect or blessed just mere humans.

The phrase «the image of God» means more than mere reflection as in a mirror; it means the active and energizing capacity given to humans, as created entities, to live with integrity as the «created second» of the God who is making them.

Its sociality, as a result, becomes largely «technical dialogue» with the social understood either as an organic, objective whole or as the mere communication and interaction between human beings who may in fact relate to each other largely as Its.

The chapter seems to give very obvious examples of predestination and tells us sternly to not question the matter by saying «Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God?»

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

It was Bernard of Clairvaux who said that God would draw the believer toward Himself away from mere (physical) erotic love, which human beings know, to agape, which is only found in Him.

It is a human virtue to care for those who can not care for themselves, and in that act of caring we affirm that it is a human person we care for - not some mere physiological process.

In Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white - robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistakenly take «figurative language» to be a realistic depiction.

Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods mayforget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection... [So] In preserving intact the whole moral law of marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilisation» (HV 17 - 18).

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

The shrubs are those who trust in their own human strength and ingenuity or in other «mere mortals» to deliver them in adverse situations.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

To him, the afterlife was not a mere continuation of the physical life of eating and reproducing, he believed that humans can not fully imagine what has been prepared for those who love God.

(2) THE HOLY SPIRIT First we ought to be baptized with water by a mere human being, then we will be baptized by Jesus with the Holy Spirit (Mk 1:8) «who proceeds from the Father» (Jn 15:26 ESV).

There are costs to the consciences of executives who come to see workers not as human persons, indeed fellow workers, but as abstract figures in computer printouts — mere mathematical entities subject to cool - eyed managerial restructuring.

Although the freedom of which Christians speak is primarily the freedom we have in Christ, this does not mean that there are any human beings who are mere automatons.

Jeremy is Brian sugegsting that you to try not to follow in the footsetps of our Lord and Master, The Living Word of God who in the Garden of Gethsemane modeled broken humanity and humility when he made himself so vulnearble he asked three mere humans to pray for him (the same three who were about to deny him)

Her story, like the stories of many others detailed by our editor Ian Dunt in recent months have put a human face to people who the British government have too often reduced to mere statistics.

In one scene, Hauer's character — an artificial human with a mere four - year life span — confronts the scientist who created him.

Maybe these senarios happen for the elite few who are natuarlly gifted in the art of human interactions, but for the vast majority of us mere mortals, online dating is the answer!

Now the man once known as Father Donaldson has become Hellinger, an unstoppable demon with a unquenchable hunger for human souls and a special place in his black heart for the girl who now thinks he was a mere figment of her imagination.

Apparently this virus spreads through the ingestion of the blood of an infected person, and within mere seconds of being infected, a human being will turn into a ravenous zombie which only has one desire: to seek and infect others who do not have the virus.

Those who dismiss those tendencies as mere racism, Haidt notes, «have missed several important aspects of moral psychology related to the general human need to live in a stable and coherent moral order.»

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition.ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self - conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency).

Plato (who wrote artfully while hating art) saw time as the nature of being — a mere human's falling off from the eternal.

I'm sure the «us» you refer to will not miss me or anyone else who intrudes on your comfortable little world that we mere humans couldn't possibly disrupt.

And at some point someone here is going to call anyone who is not convinced by this uncited, in - expert commentary (anyone, in other words, who accepts the mere possibility that the billions of humans on the planet and their massive technocracy might, just might have an effect on the environment) as a «true - believer.»

It's always a problem for environmentalists, who want to claim that their concern transcends the petty affairs of mere humans.