Sentences with phrase «nature of men in»

Atticus Hunt is a troubled soldier in Lexington City who has spent the past seven years trying to conform to the vicious nature of men in a post-apocalyptic society.

The First Lady, Lordina Mahama has broken an old - age jinx that cast doubt about the lovely nature of men in the country, as she confirms that Ghanaian men are romantic.

But the theist may reply that the social nature of men in so far as it is a fact, can be exploited by all theories.

However dubious this theory may have been, I found myself confronting the ultimate issues of the nature of the world and the nature of man in a more naked form than I was likely to face them in theology.

The American revolution produced heroic symbols that explicated the existential nature of man in the order of existence as both immanent and transcendent, and consequently a spiritual catastrophe was averted if not a political one.

The American revolution produced heroic symbols that explicated the existential nature of man in the order of existence as both immanent and transcendent, and consequently a....

The problem of the nature of man in Eden and the interrelatedness of Adam to mankind needs further explication.

Here, by never revealing the cause of the apocalypse, Haneke almost seems to be making a statement not about the nature of man in times of peril but about how fragile human relationships can be and how little it takes to suck the compassion out of people.

It even addresses the chauvinistic nature of man in a totally kooky, but somewhat compelling and completely realistic way.

Not exact matches

While it was once women who struggled with their upbringing and cultural norms in order to be more assertive, a growing number of men are similarly wrestling with their soft - spoken natures in order to succeed, says Sowden.

«Human nature kicks in, and he did what I hope most men would do,» said the head of the transit workers union in Oroc's defense.

The nature of his job — looking for, and finding, vermin and other health violations in commercial kitchens — had turned this man off restaurants altogether.

Churchill said, «Nature has not intended man to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.»

It's impossible to know for sure how many women participate in cryptocurrency markets given the anonymous nature of blockchain technology, but some statistics indicate that between 75 and 95 percent of transactions or engagements are made by men.

The Bedroom Dealer's one - man operation had been one of the most sophisticated in its nature.

Exactly what is the value of the Law in the Old Testament other than to point out the sinful nature of man and his need for a savior.

If 98 % of boys raped are raped by older adult men how is that not homosexual in nature?

Fourth, to discuss order and purpose in nature, including man's place in nature, and in general the intelligibility of natural processes, does require careful attention to what the natural sciences tell us.

Humanity's fate was cast in atone the day they chose to follow the ways of man, rather then nature.

Zeus, Venus, Satan, Sheva, Krisna, Jesus, Allah... all embraceable man - made myths for people too mentally conditioned to honestly consider their own religious brainwashing, too lazy and / or stupid to actually confront and learn the science of mother nature, and too empowered / deluded by sectarian association to relocate their nose an inch away from the ass end of the sheep they follow in single file.

The violent nature of man is the direct result of mans evolution and it will not go away and for sure not in any of your lifetimes!

I mean to present my fellow - mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself.»

Similar essays include Ben Avery's study of the ramifications of the Fall as they play out in Jackie Brown and Russell Hemati's «Like A Man,» which illuminates the important role of group dynamics in the nature of sin.

But the end result is the same: By its nature, human erotic love is ordered to creating and raising new life, and to the mutual joy and support of a man and woman vowed in a covenant of love.

And the cautions of those like C. S. Lewis, who noted the elitist and manipulative nature of secularism in The Abolition of Man, will seem more prophetic even than Orwell.

The evil that men do is worse because, in effect, they can do better; man's intellect and reason are reflections of divinity, signs of his higher nature, and they can lead him to the brink of grasping it.

You began talking about the essential nature of God, how God's relationship to us is mirrored more in (any) man than (any) woman, regardless of the gender of the person in question.

To say that evolution is in qustion, because man can't explain where the laws of nature comes from is quite frankly... not reasonably (I am trying to be nice here).

Welcome to the official website of the Church of Satan (Church of Satan dot com) Founded on April 30, 1966 c.e. by Anton Szandor LaVey, we are the first above - ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of Man's true nature — that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

It is to misunderstand the nature of man as a wayfarer who must learn not only to be at a place but in a place as well.

«By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

Does the Machiavellian version of «necessity is all there is» create an unbounded or at least unjustified confidence in the malleability of human nature by the free or astute man.

The reason Jesus had to become a man was because of the nature of God and the nature of man; God required a perfect human to shed sinless blood in order to redeem humanity.

What nominalism called in question is the universal, those principles and causes larger than the mechanism of nature or ideas generated out of nature seen as mechanistic by man.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Mormons believe the nature of the «Holy Trinity» to be that the Godhead is «one in purpose» just like a man and a woman are commanded to «become one» or «become as one» in the bible.

But even in this, we still grasp the nature of the bond itself: between a man and a woman, of a kind that generates children, implying permanence, if only for the good of the kids.

Indeed the only claim of priority for man in the disclosure of universal Being I know of that is as far - reaching as Heidegger's is the Augustinian treatment of man as imago Dei, which explicitly holds that among all created natures mans is the most embracing and intimate reflection of divine freedom and that all other natures must be referred to God in the light of that reflection.

In 1841, defending African men on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature are announced and appealed to as identical with the laws of Nature's God» and as the foundation of all obligatory human laws.»

My uncle was a man that was not given to ghosts or things of that nature, In other words, he was very logical.

Reviewing a book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote about the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....

The word was never meant to be such... It was meant to be divisive and pull apart our carnal nature of man and open up our real spirital man to renewal in God.

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

The core principle of the sacraments of the Church therefore lies in this nature of man as «spirit wrapped in matter» or, perhaps better to say, matter integrated into spirit, which has been created by God for intimate union with Himself through Jesus Christ.

Therefore, the justified Christian man, in himself and of his own nature a sinner but not seen as a sinner by God, brings forth those good works which consist in the love of God and neighbor, not slavishly to win any reward but gladly, that service which is perfect freedom.»

However, when it comes to Man, the principle of intelligibility that integrates, actualises, orientates and is the driving force of human nature as a going concern in the universe has to be of a different order from matter.

An aberration against the very nature of man who was created in the image of God.