Sentences with phrase «more significant»

Having that much in common is infinitely more significant than any differences in our understanding of that call.

A more significant distortion in Peters's account is that she makes no place for Christians in her holy land.

The Byzantine era is even more significant.

A professor of education at Vanderbilt, Murphy is a social scientist, not an advocate, which makes his generally positive evaluation of homeschooling all the more significant.

But in a larger and more significant sense, I mean the growth of our reflective concept of the Universe, it arises irresistibly out of the mastery we have acquired of the physical springs of the world.

I believe there are many more significant truth from Genesis 3 that we miss.

Although it was not without opposition, it was approved by an overwhelming voice vote at the general assembly and, perhaps more significant, received the required ratification from the presbyteries by a count of 205 to 35.

The question I want to raise is this: Is the crank element — what I shall hereafter refer to as «crankitude» — that manifests itself in the work of Kurzweil and Leibowitz merely a reflection of personal idiosyncrasy or does it point to something more significant?

Giving one's seed is much more significant, and in particular is much more real, than giving one's heart.

The more significant problem is that Ryan, left to his own devices, has lousy political instincts and should not be the chief overall strategist for his party.

But it's the reasoning he used which is much more significant.

Since the particular experience in its richest state is largely uncapturable (what can be reasoned misses the full reaches of what can be said, what can be said misses the full reaches of what can be known, what can be known misses the full reaches of what can be experienced), the more significant conclusions by which a person lives can not be methodically and precisely induced, but must be put forth largely as speculative theories that mayor may not derive from something said and known.

«The figures on digital impact, which we are also releasing today, show one of the ways in which we are doing that, as the online dimension of people's lives becomes ever more significant.

Environmentally speaking, the choice of national symbol is ultimately more significant than our choice of pre-game music.

One could go on with these natural grounds, but for Christians there is one fact which is more significant than any of the natural bases for human fellowship.

The failure in administrative competence is more significant than it seems.

Much more significant than the sales record would be a report of how many of these Bibles were actually read with comprehension.

The point is this: While the question of authorship is vitally important for understanding Scripture, the question of meaning is even more significant.

In this light Paul's characterization of love becomes far more significant than any list of special virtues.

More significant today than the church's activity in connection with the ecclesiastical arts is the deeper motivation which is revolutionizing the church's whole attitude to symbolic expression.

How we say things is more significant than what we say; hence «the medium is the message.»

More significant is Joseph's reference to a revelation received through an angel of God which warned him of the devices of Potiphar's wife: «Now therefore know that the God of my father has disclosed your wickedness to me by his angel» (6:6).

More significant today than the confusion of a branch of the Church with the whole Church is the confusion of Church, considered as whole or in its essence, with the ultimate context of theological education.

Heaven is a metaphor for a deeper and more significant meaning, such as living a full life of compassion and unity with all beings and the earth now.

Yet he does recommend killing other creatures only with reluctance, while at the same time acknowledging that a man is vastly more significant to nature (and thus to God) than an ant.33

In fact you should feel larger, and maybe even more significant.

Though many of us will agree with Aristotle when he argues that some lives are more virtuous or more excellent than others, and agree with Roosevelt when he argues that some lives are more successful than others, we may well doubt whether some genuinely virtuous or successful lives are more significant than others.

15.9), was actually more significant than any of the others, with the possible exception of Peter; as he said, he worked harder than the rest (I Cor.

In fact, variations among congregations within the same denomination are often greater and more significant than any identifiable differences among the denominations themselves.

Form is made more significant than the content of faith.

Lord knows there are many more significant problems in the world that need to be solved.

More significant, perhaps, than the perennial winners were the runners - up.

We could be no more significant than any other speck of matter in the Universe and at the same time no less important than we believers think we are.

No two men are more significant in the history of physics, or assume more prominent positions in introductory courses, than Galileo and Newton.

Perhaps we should also realise that the physical surroundings play a more significant role than we Christians often tend to believe.

Ultimately, Delvin admits that what her art suggests is far more significant — and relevant to an audience — than the stage designs themselves.

We sure live in a fascinating time where Religion (a positive word, meaning «to bind») plays a more significant role than ever before in History.

By nature man may be related to the brute, but vastly more significant is his kinship with God and participation in the wisdom of God.

You arent any more significant than any other animal.

This emphasis upon the present kingdom is a more significant development in contemporary theology than the more widely publicized emphasis upon the hope for a future kingdom beyond history or a sophisticated conception of the «second coming.»

But far more significant than the breathtaking scope of human attachment» indeed, the thing that makes human anger different in kind from its purely animal form» is man's expansive sense of himself.

I must now explain just why Christian and Leclerc believe that eternal objects play a more significant role in objectification than the role which I have granted them.

More significant than this, however, is how much we use color as a metaphoric shorthand in assigning value.

It may be that church life occupies a more significant place in the lives of people in small churches.

Whether the influence is superficial and short - lived or more significant and enduring remains to be seen.

More significant, though, has been the continuing impact of Benedict XVI, who at the beatification Mass in September 2010 paid «particular tribute to [Newman's] vision for education, which has done so much to shape the ethos that is the driving force behind Catholic schools and colleges today.

What is accepted by all may not be talked about as much as what people differ about, but it is often more significant.

Perhaps even more significant than this replacement of human labor is the extension, classification, and perfection of the human powers of thought made possible by automatic machines.

Don't boast about your possessions or your achievements — there's bound to be a Freudian in the room who'll point out that you are displacing your desire for something more significant in the way of bodily attributes or fulfilling relationships.

Of course, many others are logically possible in terms of the five principal factors, but the nine all have one or more significant historical spokesmen (see pp. 16 - 17).