Sentences with phrase «mystery of aging»

By unraveling the mysteries of aging, scientists may be able to make our lives longer and healthier

What turns a teenage guy on the most is the mystery of the ages, at least for teenage girls.

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Even in an age of possibility that has stitched us together mechanically and virtually, our planet remains a forbidding place - always ready to upend lives, swallow airplanes whole and create enduring mysteries.

In our age, in which we have lost the significance of the mystery in sign, let alone the limited signification of truth in any particular sign, it is not amiss in the poet, when he is confronted by inquisitive theorists and urged to pronounce upon the nature of his peculiar calling» the rescue of sign» to speak directly for that labor Eliot calls the purification of the dialect of the tribe.

In this «world come of age,» the Church's mysteries would not be proclaimed publicly but preserved in secret, on the model of the arcanum of the early Christian Church.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's appeal is no mystery: charismatic pastor, brilliant theologian, dedicated ecumenist, and anti-Nazi conspirator whose death at the age of thirty - nine terminated a life still ripe with promise.

LoL, so you've just solved the age old mystery of religion with one dismissive comment.

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

This means that the «revelation of the mystery hidden from endless ages» which had taken place in the Incarnation of Christ continues to occur through the «deeds and words» of the Church.

It's a mystery whose meaning will only be disclosed at the end of the age.

In this time of waiting, in this age marked only by the absence of faith in Christ, it is well that the modern soul should lack repose, piety, peace, or nobility, and should find the world outside the Church barren of spiritual rapture or mystery, and should discover no beautiful or terrible or merciful gods upon which to cast itself.

But the victory has all ready been won, and this mystery of the Church age is a patient calling of the kingdom to light.

But for some reason we choose to stop our knowledge of age progression at birth, and anything before that is some kind of weird mystery... when we know full well that that Fertilized egg has all the information it needs to grow into, eventually, an elderly person with a long life behind them.

In Ephesians 3:9, God's plan of the mystery was from the beginning of the ages, that is, from the beginning of time, or from the beginning of creation.

Moreover, he goes on to praise the ancient Latin orations for giving «an other - worldly, superhuman atmosphere through their sense of age and mystery», which rather suggests that he was neither as favourable towards a vernacular Mass, nor as opposed to the use of «archaic language», as Fr Hill so confidently declares.

For five hundred years we have lived, through all the cultural triumphs and glories of mankind, in an age of the increasing evolution of the Mystery of Iniquity - the military rebellion, so to speak, against the Lordship of Christ.

In many parts of the world, psychologists and psychotherapists are using biofeedback to throw new light on an age - old mystery — the relationship between the mind and the body.

In it, as an ancient prayer from the age of the church fathers puts it, «the mystery of Christ's dispensation is accomplished so far as in us lies.»

Paul spends all of Ephesians 3 talking about one more rich gift of God — the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations, but has now been revealed.

In former ages, the presence of a dimension of mystery could be taken for granted.

In his First Letter to the Corinthians St Paul speaks of «the things God has prepared for those who love Him; things beyond the mind of man... a mystery... predestined to be for our glory before the ages began» (1 Corinthians 2:6 - 10).

The disdain for mystery implied in these two intimately connected standards of exploration has dramatically negative implications for how we regard the natural world in a scientific age.2 Even though initially the quest for clarity and simplicity seems innocent enough, unless carefully contained it can become a weapon of power wielded ruthlessly to hack away the rich undergrowth of vagueness that goes along with any cherishing of mystery.

There children between the ages of seven and ten are introduced to the cult and mystery of the kachina masks.

It was probably not until the axial age, when the Israelites began to experience mystery more explicitly in the mode of future and promise, that humans began first to realize that we do not dwell in nature with the same instinctive ease that other species do.

To reject exclusivism and to accept plurality, to be committed to one's faith and to be open to the faith - commitments of our neighbors, to choose to live in a global «community - of - communities», sharing the ambiguities of history and the mystery of life — these are the imperatives of our age.

When GQ's Michal Hainey asked Rubio, in an interview released Monday, «How old do you think the Earth is,» the rising Republican star described the debate about the planet's age as «one of the great mysteries.»

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

But theologically we may still find the instinct of the New Testament synthesis significant, that in God himself there is a fullness and perfection that is unchanging and outside space and time, and that it is this which makes God the proper telos for a creation in which the mystery of that fullness is unpacked only through the ages of the evolutionary process, which passes through a series of increasingly critical stages and is now precariously poised in a dependence on the rational response of free creatures.

A vital function of growth groups for all ages is to help people break out of «the heavies» and experience «little moments of ecstasy» — in playfulness, joy, celebration, worship, deep sharing, mystery, and pain.

To his mind, our age is simply the age of technology, which is to say that our reasoning is simply a narrow and calculative rationalism that sees the world about us not as the home in which we dwell, where we might keep ourselves near to being's mystery and respond to it; rather, the world for us now is mere mechanism, as well as a «standing reserve» of material resources awaiting exploitation in the projects of the human will.

All true art, everything worthy among the works of our hands, comes into being in the space that our intimate closeness to the mystery of being opens before us; our art (especially poetry) is the highest way in which being gives itself to us in any age, showing itself in the creative response it evokes from us, both by its generosity and by its elusiveness.

Some hold that we live in an age of the «eclipse of mystery.»

This «dance of the four» has, in every age, caused human beings genuinely to create, and to allow being's mystery to shine out from what they create.

But I had been eyeing this lemon bundt cake recipe for ages and I knew it would be the perfect thing to make for my month of Mystery Dish!

Height: 6» 3» Weight: 180 Age: 18 Last: 20 Stats (2017 UnderArmour Association): 15.3 PPG, 41.4 % 3FG After finishing his prep year at IMG and opting to forgo college for the draft, Simons appears set to ride a wave of mystery into a guaranteed contract thanks to his long - term potential.

I've always been a private little bird and there's nothing like a good bit of mystery, especially in this age of social media saturation and self promotion.

It's for kids aged 10 + and players use clues to solve the mystery of the puzzle.

I write all of this to gain perspective on being in what is commonly called a «sandwich,» of being some kind of mystery meat between the slice of life that is raising children and the slice that is caring for aging parents.

Although our theory of mind is more developed than it is in other animals, we don't acquire it until around age four, and how it develops is a mystery.

UTHSCSA physiologist Arlan Richardson describes Muller as a «born - again» biogerontologist who believes that science can unravel the mysteries of old age.

The seafloor eruptions — big sources of carbon dioxide and other gases — might also help clear up an enduring mystery about ice ages: why they start gradually and end suddenly.

If successful, it could be yet another tool to find solutions to age - related health issues, as well as unravel the mystery of what causes us to age in the first place.

«We know that our brains change over time, but fully understanding how we make and recall memories as we age has been a mystery,» said Renante Rondina, a University of Toronto and Rotman graduate student in the Department of Psychology and lead author of the study.

The peak is a mystery to demographers, who note that it occurred in the midst of a 15 - year slide in the number of college - age students that followed the end of the postwar baby boom.

Now, an international team of ancient DNA researchers and archaeologists has solved the mystery almost by accident after sequencing the genomes of 101 Bronze Age skeletons from Europe and Asia.

Although why, exactly, excessive brain growth is related to autism remains a mystery, the new work helps to confirm that signs of the disorder appear early — knowledge that could lead to detection and treatments, such as behavior therapy, at a younger age.

But then again, few people have concentrated on ocean waves, not in an age of quantum mechanics, superstrings, and other mysteries.

As you bask in the glory of the vast increase in knowledge of Jupiter that the space age has brought, you will continually be reminded of the many mysteries that remain unsolved, and the amount of work still to be done.

To unravel the mystery of Naia's age, Asmerom and Polyak first conducted uranium - thorium dating of one of her teeth.

History buff Alessandro Lugli read his first book on Napoleon Bonaparte at age 9 — and has pondered ever since the mystery of how the self - proclaimed French emperor died.