Sentences with phrase «not human desires»

Peter said, «So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.»

For after all, in any faith which is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it is essential to make sure that it is God, not human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who is to be «given the glory»; and it is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.

Not exact matches

Even more important, don't give in to the natural human desire to know exactly what's being said about you, or to try to please everyone so they'll only have good things to say.

Its argument continues to be that the algorithm is simply a reflection of its users» desires, as though algorithms aren't created by human beings.

This is the root of sexual violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous human beings with the right and ability to say yes to sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles for male sexual desire, that our bodies are up for grabs (literally, in this case).

We don't just work to protect the environment — we tap into the universal human desire for self - determination, and work to change how decisions are made in B.C. by answering questions like: Who gets to decide?

Unlike them, he has been so raised as not to succumb to the natural human desire for dominion.

hawaiiguest We do not know what the world would look like without the continuing influence of a core belief held by the vast majority of humans that existence is more than physical needs and desires.

I gave all humans the same basic desire of my nature, to be loved unconditionally, not by force but by free will.

Yes, we have a human nature with a desire for s * x. However, we also have the gift of self control, which most people today don't use anymore.

Not all human beings desire to be economically free.

Let's just admit we don't know the true origin of any «creator» and understand that morals, ethics and our human nature come from a deeper nature than we probably understand, but more likely from a desire to continue the human race, survival.

But, before he described what righteousness is, James clearly states what it is not: «My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.»

One understanding of human nature common to the modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon view of nature as a reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).

It was when the youngster Edward Holloway tried to encourage a «girl who was just a friend» to go to daily Mass that he realised that what he truly desired was not the intimacy of a purely natural, human friendship but the supernatural friendship of Christ.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

On the other hand, he would worry over the competing desires corporations and governments face that might lead to a kind of rational planning that does not see human persons as a whole.

His theological difference with Berger would come not with Berger's starting with human experience but with his desire to end there.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

While we're at it, let's just do away with the whole Bible thing and all agree that we as humans have the inherent desire to believe in something greater than ourselves because deep down we realize that we are completely unable to not screw everything up.

We may misinterpret his desire to bless us and try to crown him an earthly king, but his kingdom is not based on human needs or human approval.

James explains, «Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.»

True, it desires that most legitimate civilizations should be preserved, yet it approves of the development of «a more universal form of human culture... one which will promote and express the unity of the human race» (art. 54) and favours a powerful international organization which, despite the United Nations, does not yet exist (art. 84).

Wouldn't it be more glorious, if when you left this world, your reward in heaven was an elevation of your existance to something like pure energy... free of human desires like for gold freakin streets or virgins?

We could use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the basic human need for work, a need more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.

Things are looking up, and the credit goes to the human desire for betterment, not blind faith in muddied ancient dogmas.

Meir Soloveichik says that «to my knowledge not a single Jewish source asserts that God deeply desires to save all humanity, nor that He loves every member of the human race.»

Plus IF this God suffered as Human than he would have understood the Reality of it and IF he was so compassionate and even empathetic, he would HAVE FIXED things out of sheer desire to not let anyone suffer so randomly and soemtimes allegedly at his very hands.

The true desire to become a member of the priesthood or a pastor is not borne within one's own human heart.

Humans have developed powerful brains which they use to threaten their own survival, to desire meaning where there is none, to speak of destiny when we can't define an ultimate good.

The problem with this, and perhaps the problem with our supposedly liberated age, is that while Magdalene is no longer forced to repent her natural desires, she is still not permitted to be an equal - to - the - male human being.

That is, what the human heart desires is not, simply, more years.

It is the same Revelation that the OT narrative of Abraham, who was not yet evolved enough to grasp the FULL Revelation, «I desire mercy not sacrifice,» got when God stayed his hand from human sacrifice: the cycle of pain and cruelty stops here!

The reason for this flexibility of method is not a desire to be «liberal» either in the sense of an optimistic vision of human nature in general or in the more restrictive methodological sense of being optimistic about the power of one's critical tools.

If we desire the prestige which comes with wealth and ability and high position — if we so desire it that we would be crushed were it denied us or taken from us — then we are worshipers not of the true God, but of human beings.

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Desiring to be free of earthly entrapments like human creed, human doctrine, human group - think and human power is not always a sign of selfishness or depravity.

That is why it is said only of the wicked, and not of the sinners, that their way vanishes...» Although the sinner is not confirmed by the human community, he may be able to stand before God, and even entry into the human community is not closed to him if he carries out that turning into God's way which he desires in the depths of his heart.

The fact that the human female does not have limited periods of sexual desire and availability (although she does have times of heightened and diminished desire), is probably a major reason for the development of two - parent family life in the dim prehistory of human beings.

But there's a problem, even if we do pray in accordance with God's desires — for peace — that «seems» to be in accordance with God's plans (whether it actually is or not is another thing altogether) but humans have free will.

But the experienced quality, the «being of worth,» is not itself a matter of human decision, for the essence of value, as distinguished from desire, is precisely the power of evoking devotion and of transforming persons in conformity with its own pattern.

With respect to the insatiability of desires, we do not simply observe this as a fact of human existence always and at all places.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

The claim is that Christ is truly human and truly divine and that his appearance among us is not only as mediator of the new covenant - something only a man - God could do - but that his manifestation in the flesh is something that God has desired for humanity for all eternity.

These again are not limits on human liberty; they provide the context freely to give up one's immediate desires to meet the needs of others.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

Frustration is not new to human nature; but as life becomes more complex and the means of satisfying material desires more numerous and alluring, frustration at failure to find the deeper satisfactions increases proportionately.

Instead, the rationale appears to be that an extended life span would simply satisfy many private desires: first, hardly anyone wants to die; second, as a basic human good, life is worth extending indefinitely; and, third, it would be remiss of science not to respond to that ancient expression of human hope and desire.

But just as in the realm of sex there may be people who evidently can not satisfy themselves, as in the realm of food there are gluttons, so in human relations some people seem to have an insatiable desire to use up the time of their friends until they use up their friends.