Sentences with phrase «not utopia»

Nope, they had LIVES TO SAVE, not utopia's to ram down other peoples throats.

This is, of course, what your adviser / mentor should be doing, but hey, this is not utopia.

It's not an utopia.

Well, it's not utopia.

And no, it's not an utopia.

Not exact matches

While making these improvements does not guarantee a workplace utopia, keeping your employees at the center of your office decisions will keep your company on track for success.

While it's hard to disagree with any of that on the face of it, even Thiel's utopia - minded peers in Silicon Valley think he is wrong if not crazy to think Trump can deliver the right kind of change.

That's a lot of entrepreneurs spending a lot of time on results but this relentless focus on results is not creating the desired utopia.

If the republican party doesn't figure out how to blend with more of mainstream society, the party will go up in smoke and I would suggest you go find your utopia elsewhere.

I think it's that utopia, that this is wishful thinking and I don't think it's wishful.

Do I still have the autonomy to NOT engage those things or is it mandatory in your utopia?

'» Shalala and others know that the egalitarian utopia they have in mind will not come about by itself.

There it wasn't so much about deconstructing theological concepts for reconstructing a theoretical utopia, but in working side - by - side as partners in social transformation enterprises that fit the context of the communities the Spirit planted us in.

Unfortunately there is a link, but an unusual one: Although a utopia is not a product of reality, it begins to create reality on its own.

At the same time, one can not say that utopias are completely unrelated to reality.

That is why the Middle Ages did not give rise to utopias.

Strictly speaking, utopias, being myths, don't really need grounds for existence.

At the very essence of a utopia is the idea of progressive movement toward a not - yet - achieved perfection.

In addition to recognizing common grace, Calvinism acknowledges the reality of a «common curse,» said Carter, in that «man is fallen, man has a bent toward evil, and man is not capable of creating utopia on his own.»

But it's telling that the first comment from, you, Steve, when David suggests not even cracking down on, but simply not being apethetic to abuse of people in churches, is that there is no utopia, so just accept it and don't bother trying to change anything.

The world isolated in its own autonomy, which does not take seriously the revelation of God in this Jesus Christ, is only a utopia of ambitious persons.

Can you not picture the utopia this would conjure in manifold ministerial breasts, including your own?

While sin remains, an earthly utopia is unlikely, and sin is not apt to be banished from the earth.

Your examples of a free beer and a chicken in every pot utopia isn't the same as expecting that our children are safe around our spiritual leaders, and that if one of them breaks the law, the police are called and the person is arrested.

Nevertheless, in spite of the great advances made by workers and in spite of having seen that socialism can not offer them a worker's utopia or even an alternative to working for someone else, we must take note that there are still a couple of very troubling aspects to the division between owners and workers.

«Kingdom of God» does not mean an earthly utopia or a just social order; it is God's sovereignty or rule, breaking in now, and shortly to be fully revealed.

O.k. but could we not reply «keep your partisan vision for utopia out of politics» as well?

Metz writes, for example, that «the name of God stands for the fact that the utopia of the liberation of all human subjects is not a pure projection which is what that utopia would be if it were only a utopia and no God».9

And, even if the most positive were realized, we should not suppose that drastic decentralization of the economy automatically leads to utopia.

This remnant will not live in utopia.

Obviously the world will not be a utopia; rather simply less inhuman than it 18 now.

But if this novelty did not make us think, then hope, like faith, would be a cry, a flash without a sequel; there would be no eschatology, no doctrine of last things, if the novelty of the new were not made explicit by an indefinite repetition of signs, were not verified in the «seriousness» of an interpretation which incessantly separates hope from utopia.

When he is given a picture of our redeemed state during his exile on Patmos, he does not see Eden restored in some kind of an agrarian utopia, nor does he see the American ideal of a single - family detached house surrounded by a huge yard for every inhabitant of the Kingdom.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

Anyone who expects to find a group of like - minded Christians with whom they will have no significant differences is yearning for utopia, not Christian community.

Douglas and Michaels paint their own picture of a mother's utopia, set not in France but in an earlier era of U.S. history.

, because even if it is not attainable in our topos (place), it does have the force of attraction, which mobilises the spirit and the heart and a dream of the necessary utopia.

If prayer really changed anything wouldn't we be in utopia by now?

Again, this resonates of a false - utopia, a time gone, a place gone, or perhaps just not God's chosen people, in that one can aim to achieve but any such attainable goals have limits, the highest beyond reach.So, we should let the word means what it means Again, this insinuates that I am not letting it mean what it means.

They can not be understood in the language of rootless ideologues or deracinated international bureaucrats, whose promised utopias seem always to end in the prison camp.

He asks, «Is it not truer, in the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, that it is the abandonment of utopia that makes liberalism possible?»

But the hoped - for utopias have not come about, and what we once thought the ideal and even inevitable future now brings frustration, disgruntlement, and incipient rebellion, not just from non-Western forces that resist our triumphalism, but within our own countries and among our own people.

The fact that we will never find the utopia, however, is no reason not to keep trying.

that just cant stand to be on the losing side, not being able to imagine a utopia, and having to witness lack of religious enforcement?

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

Yet one must have some standpoint from which to measure a falling off or erosion, and Protestant - Republican small - town America has to serve if one does not wish to reach outside of history to mythic golden ages or future utopias.

A broad and magnanimous tolerance can not tolerate the utopia of the future, the anticipation of freedom and of a common hope for a more equitable life on earth.

It looks great, but for some bizarre reason, attempted socialistic utopias just don't work.

We do not need to believe in utopia in order to work for justice and peace today.

Heaven, utopia, whatever we choose to call it, will simply be the realization of all goods at once ---- who can not imagine that?