Sentences with phrase «nature with humility»

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He then utilized terminology that for decades informed the basic stance of process theology on the nature of true power, though, as we shall see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the world by an act of suffering with the kind of power which leaves its object free to respond in humility and love.»

In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.

«I can be all I can be, uncertainty is very very certain, with my modesty, humility, good manners & courtesy, with highly respect to my «God», my father, my God name's «God», if «God» said so, so be it, if «God»'s will, so be it, zero to infinite, be myself... my nature.»

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

NFP is founded on an attitude of humility in the face of the mystery of fertility, whereby human beings cooperate with God in the creation of an immortal being destined for heaven; contraception is the result of a Baconian - Cartesian «mastery of nature» mentality that puts man in God's place.

Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her «faults» and «imperfections» in the plural; her stereo - typed humility and return upon herself, as covered with «confusion» at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.

Physically he is an awesome athlete... with a great balance of stamina - power - dexterity - skill... add to this his humility, attitude, hard - working nature, intelligence and decision - making....

She originally handled the defeat with humility but then I think her competitive nature took over and she needed to justify the loss via something other than not being the better fighter on the day.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard - favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Another fun one could have to do with the human species «as» Odysseus, before he learned to respect nature, before he learned a healthy degree of humility, before Poseidon just about did him in.

In other words, we must approach the topic with humility, rather than with hubris and arrogance about human control over nature or over technology.