Sentences with phrase «mysteries of existence»

Painter Mary DeVincentis Herzog employs her deeply personal iconography to investigate the universal dilemmas and mysteries of existence.

Her work is created by a wholly original mash - up of Western modernism and post-modernism, classical South Asian and Tibetan traditions, and is always defined by the commonality of the painter's touch and sensitivity for process and materiality, creating work of a deeply personal iconography that investigates the universal dilemmas and mysteries of existence.

A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence.

On his maiden voyage to Earth, the first human born on Mars experiences the joys and wonders of a new world while trying to unravel the mysteries of his existence.

You grow every day with your practice and the mysteries of existence unfold gradually.

After all, if we want to crack the mysteries of our existence, there may be no better approach than to directly study the blueprints.

I believe, this question of ultimate meaning looms with greater and greater importance as we delve even deeper into the mysteries of existence, including the theoretical implications of the Big Bang theory (cf. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 1978).

It is to devote oneself to working towards a fully humane world within the ecological restraints here on planet Earth, while standing in piety and awe before the profound mysteries of existence.»

The real danger affecting both liturgical and private prayer is the apparent or real lack of religious experience, of the courageous belief that we may prayerfully invoke the profound mystery of our existence and in doing so not only project ourselves and our needs.

That is, the mystery of existence (top), the engagement with a narrative that connects us to that mystery (slope), and the fruit that it bears (bottom).

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

By the grace of God this human freedom is delivered from man's selfish isolation so that it can enter into the infinite, self - communicating mystery of existence which we call God.

In any event, The Mystery of Existence is not about the clash between classical and modern / personal forms of theism («theistic personalism»), a distinction that is anyway not directly on point in explicating Nothing (our limited mission again), since in either case, classical or modern / personal, God can be in some sense necessary.

In The Mystery of Existence, he has added a classification of nine «Levels of Nothing,» a response to contemporary confusion.

Our thanks to Edward Feser for his review of The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All?

Theistic readers of The Mystery of Existence may feel relieved when the «personal theist» Timothy O'Connor tells them that while he, too, sees God's goodness, power, and knowledge as intimately linked, he finds it «very hard to be sure» what Aquinas» doctrine «is supposed to come to.»

However, I think Nesteruk is merely trying to get beyond the forgetfulness of the mystery of existence that he catches so frequently with remarks like «The origin of the universe shows to humanity precisely that its origin can not be shown» (p. 453, his emphasis).

What it means for God to love the world, to suffer, to give freedom to the creatures and to will communion with them is the very mystery of existence.

And the question of God, thus understood, is one that is ineradicably present in the mystery of existence itself, or of consciousness, or of truth, goodness, and beauty.

How did our complex cosmos emerge, giving rise to conscious beings able to ponder the wonder and mystery of their existence?»

And that gap is your core consciousness, it's your soul, it's your connection to the mystery of existence.

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

The art critic Toshiaki Minemura has said of Otake's work that while it «She seems to have dropped her anchor in the mystery of existence, the central issue of sculpture, with a precision that can not be achieved through ordinary abstract sculpture.»

But most of all I need the mystery of existence to be what I pursue, not obviously with words but with what I find in myself and my relation with nature.

Essentially a line of vitality and energy that seems to assert the mystery of existence and the dynamism of life, its unassailable verticality in the midst of vast field of color often sparks a mystical connection with the verticality of viewer standing in front of the painting.

Not exact matches

Here, we learn how to prepare for our own end and how to help others transition... Unreligious and truly transformational, this book continues to inspire and provide endless wisdom on the great mysteries and challenges of our human existence.»

And O'Connor believed, like all Christians, that this supernatural reality is ultimately a mystery that we can not explain but nevertheless resides at the center of our existence.

... WE ARE DUMB ANIMALS AND DO N'T KNOW HOW THE WORLD BEGAN OR THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE AND EXISTENCE, get over it accept it... we are not god, we don't know what god is

The «traditionalist,» unless he can ground his position more firmly than in a history or a nature so taken, hasn't moved very far toward the mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.»

In 1992, in the Casey opinion which confirmed America's unlimited abortion licence, Kennedy wrote that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life»....

Although, according to Keen, we can not claim any sure knowledge of God, theology can nevertheless use the word God to serve an indispensable function 36 We need to remain hopeful if we are to maintain our sanity, Keen asserts.37 Thus the idea of God can function to unify our needful affirmations about this unknown source - affirmations of «the trustworthiness of the mystery which surrounds [our] existence.»

The «fear of God» is the essence of «holy insecurity,» for «it comes when our existence becomes incomprehensible and uncanny, when all security is shattered through the mystery.»

The enigma of human existence has become a greater mystery than ever.

It presents ever - new facets when in the course of the intellectual history of mankind it is confronted with ever - new human experiences, because it points to the infinite mystery of God as the centre of our own existence.

The fourth step goes a bit further, to see «the trajectory eventuating in the creation of human historical existence» not «as a metaphysical surd but rather as grounded in the ultimate nature of things, in the ultimate mystery.»

But just as her salvation gospels can not be entirely dismissed, his critique of her can not be written off merely as rooted in his personal bitterness and his misogynist jealousy of her «boundless female strength,» There is something smug in her existence on a «special plane reserved for women with a privileged emotional life and a happier, more mundane adjustment to the mysteries of life.»

The Messianic mystery is based on a real hiddenness which penetrates to the innermost existence and is essential to the servant's work of suffering.

Such an identity appears to be possible because, as Walsh claims (most clearly and emphatically in The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason), following Heidegger and Voegelin, the transcendent must be utterly «differentiated» from our worldly or secular existence: the withdrawal of the divine into utterly transcendent mystery relieves existential - theological practice of any ends «higher» than humanity.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

The child knows the Thou before it knows the separated I. «But on the height of personal existence one must truly be able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.»

If, as Walsh himself writes, «the great challenge is to find a means of bridging the gap between... personal growth of the soul and the common ethos,» (313) then the Christian and modern evocation of the mystery of personal existence must not lose touch with the insuperable bond between the good of the soul and the good of the city.

Here we touch on a part of the innermost mystery of Christian existence, the many - faceted truth that only he who loses his soul can find it.

Again David is not postulating an arguement against the existence of God, but acknowledging our limitations to understand the mystery of trancendance.

Does anyone on this blog truly believe that we can understand and explain the mystery of billions of years of the cosmos and the natural world in our pathetic 100 years of existence?

In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»

Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).

The metaphorical response to the saving act of God in history, that subtle and complex instance of attending to ultimacy in our immediacies, to the mystery of the Kingdom in the midst of historical circumstances, is thus seen to be a persisting and unexpendable witness to the very realities that inform and sustain our authentic existence.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.

Although they are quite willing to agree that all people are always touched by the mystery that surrounds our existence, they see no need to posit a special and decisive historical revelation of this mystery.