Sentences with phrase «not epiphanies»

Other areas of your teachings have been illuminating if not epiphanies for me.

I think this sort of thing is not an epiphany after all.

Her idea of repeating other artists» work was not an epiphany, but grew out of a slow evolution of thinking; she spent a year drawing and clarifying her ideas before she began.

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The epiphany, as McClurg described it, was that Dell not only had to transform the company from a traditional computer seller into an IT services company, but that security would play a key role in that metamorphosis.

«What a lot of my peers don't know is that in that process, Michael woke up one night and had an epiphany.»

That's why their epiphanies and visions often sound so simple, in a «Why didn't I think of that?»

Okay, so it wasn't exactly an all - at - once epiphany.

That's not because of some religious epiphany.

This swimming pool CEO describes his content «epiphany»: not to set out to become his industry's most trafficked site but to become «thought leaders on all things aquatic.»

They do not wait for epiphanies to move forward, nor do they ignore them.

Often our mind comes on board immediately and we can not distinguish where the actual epiphany began.

(Meaning: Don't wait for epiphanies to begin a process; the process itself can trigger one.)

«There will always be somebody who says «Well, I always wanted to be an investment banker, but I've had this sort of moral epiphany, and now I'm not.»

When I ask why he didn't have that epiphany until February 2016 — especially given all of SolarCity's challenges — Musk acknowledges that the acquisition should have been done «probably a year or two earlier.»

The scenario above is not one that is an epiphany, surprise or even remotely new to anyone who is mining Bitcoin.

YOU: that isn't to say that i don't have a wonder and awe at Christ, i have about 5 to 10 epiphanies a day!

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

And the last scene on the last day is an occasion of an epiphany, not only in the Joycean sense, but in the O'Connor sense as well.

My praying at a time of need and having an experience that felt like a thunderbolt going though me has lent to me to thinking that God does exist and an epiphany about having a choice whether to continue with a life that left me pursuing my own desires only to be frustrated with what I had, always wanting more lent me to think that life is not about «my way» but «God's way».

It serves now as a transitional period for a future cosmic fullness of the sacred, Altizer states: «We can not understand the «Unhappy Consciousness» unless we realize that it too, like the «Dark Night of the Soul,» is a transitional state between an individual and particular realization of the truth and the reality of Spirit, a realization whose very particularity demands a chasm between itself and Spirit, and a universal and total epiphany of Spirit which obliterates this chasm.

Epiphanies did not await the occurrence of something extraordinary or out of the way.

The negation occurring in the Crucifixion therefore is not a simple negation, not a mere annulment or annihilation of a previously existent Being, but rather the negation of a negation, the reversal and transformation of the fallen or transcendent epiphany of Spirit.

Through the events that faith knows as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion, God empties himself of his sovereignty and transcendence, and not only does this kenotic sacrifice effect the dissolution of the opposition between Father and Son in the new epiphany of God as universal Spirit, but so likewise vanishes the opposition between God and the world.

The very form of Christianity's original apocalyptic proclamation rests upon an expectation that the actualization of the Kingdom of God will make present not the almighty Creator, Lawgiver, and Judge, but rather a wholly new epiphany of the deity, an epiphany annihilating all that distance separating the creature from the Creator.

And it's not all sunshine and epiphanies.

We must not dissociate the lines of the text from their accompanying illustration, for the apocalyptic epiphany of Jesus occurs when Satan and Jerusalem engage in a mutual embrace.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

The cosmos remains unfinished, and so we may look to its various evolutionary episodes for signals of its promise but not for any categorically diaphanous epiphany of God.

I'm not sure that I could handle reading about an epiphany from «two mystical encounters».

Thus Hegel, even as Blake, correlates and integrates the death of God and apocalypse, for the French Revolution is the historical advent and embodiment of the death of God, yet this is the death of a wholly abstract and alien form or manifestation of God, an epiphany or realization of God which does not occur or become real until and the full and final birth of the modern world.

Although this epiphany is a public revelation in our telling of the story, the words come intimately to the praying Jesus, not to an audience of eavesdroppers.

Don't confuse his pompous and pious speech patterns and mournful looks as some sort of religious epiphany.

I don't mean some sort of epiphany that one might call enlightenment, but a kind of radical worldview change (caused by the Spirit) that shapes the way we interact with the world and causes us to take up arms for love and justice.

But they did see that epiphany, and then they could not see anything anymore, because the cloud swallowed them up.

«69 Once this kerygma is disentangled from Hellenistic epiphany religion, we see that «the Resurrection, interpreted within a theology of promise, is not an event which closes, by fulfilling the promise, but an event which opens, because it adds to the promise by confirming it.

One of the epiphanies this Christian had after moving to Alabama is that I don't berlieve in the same God as the neo-con evangelicals.

The Transfiguration, the preliminary appearance or epiphany of the Son of Man in glory, takes place not in Jerusalem — contrast Malachi 3:1 and other prophecies — but in a secret mountain fastness in the remote north, in Galilee, a land despised by men but graciously favored and chosen by God.

We must not deceive ourselves by thinking that the faith and worship of the Church must inevitably give witness to a contemporary epiphany of Christ.

Thus his vision, beginning with man accepting, affirming, even willing the death of God in a radical sense, ends with man willing to participate in the utter desolation of the secular or the profane, willing to undergo the discipline of darkness, the dark night of the soul (here Altizer's affinity with the religious existentialists, who may not have God but who don't at all like not having him, is clearest), while the possibility of a new epiphany of the sacred, a rebirth of the possibility of having God once more is awaited.

I wasn't raised in a Christian family, but had an epiphany in my early 30's which I found was answered by going to church.

Kinda how I took it as well... as if all would have been fine if Benedict has remained Pope... I think this guy was miffed at being called out on it, not that he had some great epiphany about his actions.

The characteristics of the particularistic religion generally can be extrapolated from Levis description: It is emotional and intense in contrast to the ascetic rationalism of high Italian culture; it is fiercely closed to the outside world (there is not one such religion but as many as there are groups), as opposed to the universalism of high Italian thought; and it is presided over by a woman, an epiphany of the Great Mother of the Mediterranean world, only partially and uncertainly articulated with the Virgin of Nazareth.

But perhaps also the walking on the water was originally an epiphany, for Jesus does not actually appear to the disciples on the water in order to proceed with them to land, but — as is still clearly to be read in Mark (ch.

It's not a very long history now, but I will look back on this fondly day as a day I had this wonderful epiphany.

I just had this kind of epiphany, although maybe that's not quite the right word because I think it had been coming on for a while and I just didn't realize.

I haven't read the 376 comments before this one, but I suspect I'm not the only one reeling from this chickpea epiphany!

But then I had an epiphany, one that made me so happy I didn't even give the lady who is always trying to spread her «strictly homeopathic remedies» advice around at Hiro's ninja class the stink eye last Tuesday when I thought of it.

Then, not long after my epiphany, I remembered that sweet treats are celebratory and an important part of a balanced life.

While the hankie was still tracing its majestic yellow arc, the rookie back judge had a terrible epiphany: That isn't pass interference in the NFL.

The Bulls weren't supposed to get this far, not after Derrick Rose decided an epiphany would be necessary to play again, Joakim Noah's feet stopped cooperating and Luol Deng found himself watching the end of Round 1 in a hospital.