Of course, once you throw in the 24 - speaker Burmester stereo system ($ 6400), the exquisite nappa leather, a special set of wheels (the black ones look amazing when paired with diamond - white metallic paint for the bodywork), and a few other
necessities of life in the fast lane, the 2014 Mercedes - Benz S63 AMG will top $ 150K easy.
This mentality is indicative of «
the necessity of living in expectation of the future,» both in hope and in fear.
the possibility and
necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.
Though the concern Niebuhr raised about worship is never fully resolved in any time (nor is the conflict between priestly and prophetic roles), he reminds us of
the necessity of living in this world, in the tension between it and the «other world,» inescapably related to the ethical and social problems of the time.
They now are confronted with
the necessity of living in urban centers.
Not exact matches
Of the respondents who are already business owners and
live in highly - developed economies, 78 percent said they choose to launch their ventures because they saw opportunities, not because they were forced to by economic
necessity.
She photographed freaks, nudists, female impersonators and mentally disabled adults, because, either by choice or by
necessity, they disclosed more
of themselves
in everyday
life than the typical person.
Like any
of number
of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy
in live in glistening towers
in the clouds, surrounded by technologies
of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic
necessities.
There is a hope and a
necessity to create opportunities to lift citizens
in society to a point
of economic freedom and healthy
living.
Several children and families that have fled their homes
in Myanmar to escape military - led violence are now
living in refugee camps
in the neighboring country
of Bangladesh and require certain
necessities while they await placement.
Individuals
living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point
of collapse, or the availability
of basic
necessities, such as food and medicine.
According to a recent nationwide poll conducted by Research Management Group (RMG), more than one third
of Canadians (36 %) feel they can only afford to pay for the basic
necessities, and more than two
in five (43 %) feel they tend to
live from paycheque to paycheque.
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necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection
of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil,
life and death all
in accordance with the plan
of creation for the salvation
of souls.
We tiny men are indignant if only one
of us dies or is killed, although
of necessity our
life is brief, when
in one little space so many corpses
of cities lie thrown down?»
There is often a great deal
of talk about opposing a sense
of victimhood and entitlement — which most people
in my neighborhood would probably agree with — but we must recognize that people are still being victimized by police brutality and other forms
of trauma; they are entitled to both the basic
necessities of life as well as opportunities to provide those and more for themselves.
I understand that out
of necessity there has to be a cause
in order to account for the conditions necessary for
life here, innumerable and varied.
The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us
in this
life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only
in connection with the impossibility that the injustice
of history should be the final word does the
necessity for Christ's return and for new
life become fully convincing.»
Generally, they include the following
in their gospel definition: - human sinfulness - the deity
of Jesus - the death
of Jesus on the cross for our sins - the resurrection
of Jesus - the
necessity of faith
in Jesus to receive eternal
life
ex couples «non-involvement
in joint parenthood», «lower exposure to normative pressure about the
necessity of life - long unions» as well as differing motivations for getting married.
Our
life in his Holy Spirit through the Church and the sacraments and the
necessity of an infallible Magisterium likewise flow naturally from this presentation
of Christ and his work through the ages.
And I want to register my strong conviction that we need to work toward a bottom - up economy
in which many
of the
necessities of life are produced locally by individuals and companies that have their roots
in the communities and do not see progress as meaning going national and global.
Yet
in his Essay
in Aid
of a Grammar
of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the
necessity of individual experience and weakness
of theoretical knowledge
in forming religion and morality: «many a man will
live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»
Community
life is therefore the second arena
in which we can appreciate the perils and the
necessity of religious liberty.
In this sense, the human mind exhibits a resolution to a problem which first emerges with
life itself; namely, the reconciliation
of security and adventure: «The universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self - expression
of its own variety
of opposites,
of its own freedom and its own
necessity,
of its own multiplicity and its own unity» (PR 531).
In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vita
In face
of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws
of biogenesis
of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement
in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vita
in human
living - conditions, it is not any question
of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological
necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.
While
in certain low - income communities institutional child care may be a virtual
necessity, the church
in all too many instances is merely subsidizing mothers who have convinced themselves that they «have to work» to maintain their unrealistic standard
of living.
For although certain principles
of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent
in the structure
of our individual bodies, there is no indication
of any similar factor
in the global evolution
of a
living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that,
of statistical
necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.
This is at best misleading: Writing
in the cultural context
of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the
necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious
life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations
of mystical self - abnegation.
In the context
of the present discussion this faith must be that the
necessity to
live and act by a belief whose truth we can not know is accompanied by an assurance that as we do so we are not wholly deceived.
If we define
life in terms
of generation and decay, it is quite clear that we must deny that God is characterized by
life, since these characteristics are incompatible with the
necessity of his being.
I am learning the critical
necessity of approaching our theological work the same way we do any authentic spirituality: through the particularities
of our
lives -
in - relation.
This also is the reason that every Christian must
of necessity be «high church,» not
in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member
of that great community
of Christian
life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»
The emphases
in counseling on respect for the orderly cause - effect sequences
in the world
of the psyche and on the
necessity of a person's growing
in his responsibility for his own inner
life can help to counteract any tendency
in spiritual healing to function
in ways which encourage magic or the temptation to shift the total responsibility to God.
Richard Dawkins,
in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction
of biology to a molecular science may be found
in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
in the writings
of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4
In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
In Chance and
Necessity, for example, Monod gives one
of the most forceful renditions
of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret
of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program
of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:
In spite
of rising costs
of living, salaries and wages for great numbers
of people are high enough to afford all the
necessities and provide many
of the luxuries undreamed
of by our fathers.
The Garden
of Eden story, for instance, opens a whole potential discussion for the responsibility involved
in the act
of eating - the
necessity of taking
life in order to
live - and how that act should then be approached.
Welfare indirectly allows many
in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all
of life's
necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those
in the middle class pay for out
of pocket.
Though many quarters within the churches are only beginning to catch on, the structures, assumptions
of patriarchy and rote responses have long ago fallen away -
of necessity -
in secular
life, and I write this as a post-Christian-christian, a post-Anglican-anglican, which can be a pretty raw and challenging if interesting place to be at times.
What we observe
in large parts
of Africa is what might be called the Haiti Syndrome: entities nominally classified as states which have virtually fallen out
of the international economy and which seemingly can not provide for their citizens elementary justice or allow them to provide for themselves the basic
necessities of life.
In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ of some of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's lif
In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ
of some
of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God
in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's lif
in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state
of every individual as an individual, the concept
of the «knight
of faith» who can not take shelter
in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's lif
in the universal but must constantly risk all
in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's lif
in the concrete uniqueness
of each new situation, the
necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance
of realizing one's belief
in one's lif
in one's
life.
The «brotherly affection,» the willingness to «abridge ourselves
of our superfluities, for the supply
of others
necessities,» that Winthrop spoke
of in the early Puritan covenant seemed again to
live in the revolutionary ranks.
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a
necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements
of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense
of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face
life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect
in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration
in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea
of God.»
But it is this experience, too, which probably caused Buber to reject his earlier monistic formulations
of an already existing unity which only needs to be discovered for a later emphasis on the
necessity of realizing unity
in the world through genuine and fulfilled
life.
The wave
of life in its substance and with its particular characteristics is
of necessity communicated to the child
in and through the fertilised cell, the issue
of the parents.
In it he attacked those who did not emphasize the
necessity of a regenerated or holy
life for the ministry.
It is also based on a lack
of necessity: I think some people may believe
in a god because it fulfills a need
in their
lives, and I'm fulfilling that need another way.
The «must»
in verse 31 is a divine
necessity, and it comes not only from Jesus» acute estimate
of the forces already set against him but also from his meditation on the great suffering servant passage
of Isaiah 53 which he was beginning to see as a clue to his own ministry and
life.
One focus is
in the inner
life of the individual, and the other
in the
necessities of man's social
life.
For the government to impose its will upon the masses is an effort to force the masses to worship it
in order to receive basic
necessities of living.
Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations
of evil... The new thing
in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the
necessity and the possibility
of redeeming the historical
life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.