Sentences with phrase «natural order of life»

For a surfer, riding waves is the natural order of life.

And then I would grieve - it's the natural order of life.

In the challenge and sometimes great suffering of this awakening process, there is often a great yearning for «harmony,» often construed as the natural order of life from which we have strayed.

And God works differently through these natural orders of life.

One day, I believe some great person like Dr. James Hansen will be President of the United States, someone with his clear and coherent, scientifically - organized view of the way the world in which we lives works and of the way our all - too - human species fits within the natural order of living things.

This scientific evidence appears to contradict widely shared and consensually validated, perhaps preternatural thought that, when it comes to human population dynamics, the human species is not part of the natural order of living things and somehow, inexplicably, apparently exempt from the known «laws» of biophysical reality.

We humans appear to have an artificial, inflated view of ourselves due to commonly held beliefs in illusory cultural transmissions about the placement of humanity in the natural order of all living things.

It would be my preference that you would be found to be simply wrong and all the politicians and economists, their benefactors and the talking heads in the mass media actually had an adequate enough understanding of the way the world works and a realistic recognition of the «placement» of the human species within the natural order of living things.

Whatever the reasons for our spectacular failure to communicate meaningfully and sensibly about what somehow could be real about the workings of the Earth and the placement of the human species within the natural order of living things, these circumstances are incredible and present the human family with a potentially colossal threat to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.

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Ordering your life around the Lordship of Christ will increasingly seem an exotic (if salvific) alternative for a select few, rather than a natural step for responsible Americans entering adulthood.

Now the Dynasau and Leviathan have to be subjugated to the God the Gardener, and the injured human coqunity and natural order have to be healed and revitalized, and the Spirit of the life must be filled so that there may be true justice, koininia, and shalom in the Garden.

It seems possible to conceive of a natural order which, like ours, would make moral and rational life possible, but, unlike ours, would not contain features so alien and frustrating to the purposes of the very moral activity it supposedly makes possible.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

One must rather conceive of another entire determinate natural order which would neither imply the present evils, nor imply any similar or new evils, but still imply the goods that make human life possible.

In short, beneficial aspects of the very determinate natural order that make human life possible can be seen as implying, as unavoidable by - products, aspects not beneficial to human life.

One might call this natural law, or, in good Lutheran fashion, speak of the orders of creation to point toward the given structures of life and the human person.

What the poor people are telling us is that, unless we rethink the basic questions of life - style, the use of natural resources and the reaction between environment and development, we can not address the question of a new economic order.

God continues to order the natural life of humanity by means of the concrete historical structures that impinge on our existence — the particular systems of government, economics, and family that frame our life.

Is it not a scandal how few of the clergy and professors of theology decide to devote their lives directly to the study of the natural order — as more of them did in centuries past to the world's everlasting benefit?

Something of God is shown in the natural order, more in living matter, and still more in the movement in history toward righteousness, justice, beauty, and goodness.

God Himself undertakes Abraham's education in order to address and to overcome the natural, psychic, and social human obstacles to righteous and reverent living, obstacles amply displayed in the pre-Abrahamic stories of Genesis.

A good city clearly is part of an ecological order — it is a means by which humans live over an extended period in the natural landscape.

For example, the Hungarian - born moral and political philosopher Aurel Kolnai speaks for a conservatism that attempts to do justice to the reality of a natural order as well as to the prudential requirements of political life.

If here and now I am myself a personal identity only through my living with, by, towards, and from other personal identities — and indeed by my contacts with the entire natural order from which I am an emergent but of which I still remain as a part — then those others and that order must have their place in the picture.

Recognizing the fragility of a condition in which life is «nasty, brutish, and short,» they employ their rational self - interest to sacrifice most of their natural rights in order to secure the protection and security of a sovereign.

Or arguing in the other direction, if we take Jesus as significant for human life and history, He must also be seen as having some relationship to the setting of that life and history — the natural order — and hence be as much a «disclosure» of that as He is of man's existence.

It [the realism] arises from a conviction that there is no mere analogy, but an inward affinity, between the natural order and the spiritual order; or as we might put it in the language of the parables themselves, the Kingdom of God is intrinsically like the process of nature and of the daily life of men... Since nature and supernature are one order, you can take any part of that order and find in it illumination for other parts This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables... 132

External constraints can not bind the person who lives in obedience to the natural order of things.

What mathematics and the physical sciences point to indirectly concerning the belonging of man in the natural order is thus confirmed directly in the life sciences.

We criticized radical Islam as a natural outworking of the violent tone of the Qur» an without acknowledging the fact that the God of Israel ordered his people to kill every living thing in Canaan, from the elderly to the newborn.

But in the actual order of providence in which we live, our highest good and final end is not a natural good, but a supernatural good.

But I happen to believe life (shit) happens and God rarely intervenes in the natural order of things.

There is, then, a social ordering of life in addition to the natural ordering, and each interacts with the other.

This allows us to neurologically wire our understanding of life, ourselves and the natural order of things.

As natural men, Paul is saying, we die; as members of the new community we share proleptically in the life of the world to come, the new and divine order which is indeed already breaking in upon us.

Dillard's first two prose works, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper & Row, 1974) and Holy the Firm (Harper & Row, 1977), are reflections on the natural environment and on the qualities of human life engendered by living close to and listening to the natural order.

In response, we then went on to give the standard free - will response: that the prima facie plausibility of this contention is deceiving, that while it may seem easy to identify specific aspects of our present system that it appears could be profitably removed with impunity, what the critic must do in this case is identify another entire determinate natural order that would neither imply the present evils, nor imply any similar new evils, but still imply the goods that make human life possible.

The very laws of physics, let alone the evolution of complex living creatures, are built upon the basis of natural order, of pre-definition of one form of life to another.

From Him, life streamed out in the Beginning, and all was ordered by natural law unto His Coming, the season of Advent, we next celebrate.

Darwin's theory of the natural selection of chance variations put an emphasis on the role of chance in determining the order of nature in the living world.

The changes which the patient was experiencing, with much travail, are nonetheless precisely those sorts of changes predictable throughout the human life - cycle, about which the fundamental task is to maintain an affirmation of the natural order, with all its vicissitudes.

In his book The Lives Of A Cell, biologist Lewis Thomas speaks of the important role death plays in the natural ordeOf A Cell, biologist Lewis Thomas speaks of the important role death plays in the natural ordeof the important role death plays in the natural order.

I was simlpy making the point that in the natural world all things tend toward decay or disorder, and that any order (ie the resence of intelligent life), is a strong evidence for the existance of God (Higher intelligence).

The clear principles of Catholic social thought and the rationally accessible ¯ and highly persuasive ¯ lines of argument from natural - law philosophy provide better grounds for discussion of how to order our lives together.

What the poor people are asking / telling us is, unless we rethink the basic questions of life - style, the use of natural resources and the reaction between environment and development, we can not address the question of a new economic order.

As millions of families embrace the understanding that to be human includes a physiologic basis of self - direction, trust and knowledge of the soul in life and in birth, it is the natural order of the universe to elevate this paradigm of life.

As one family, 10 families, 100 families move to embrace this paradigm of instinctual self direction, it is the natural order of the universe to to grant it life.

Some believed this was a right that they had earned from looking after their children through childhood, and that it was the duty of their children to provide care, while for others it was simply seen as the natural order of family life.

Since its formation the party has been the main target of attacks by internal reaction and the imperialist forces, who were and are still dominating the political life of the country in order to plunder its vast natural resources.

The state's Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could be a source of drinking water, and stating that their waste disposal «poses danger to life, health, property, and natural resources.»