Sentences with phrase «of earthly pleasures»

A German insurance giant Munich Re figured out that a night of earthly pleasures was the best way to keep staff motivated.

Now All Visual Arts (AVA) has opened its fall show Vanitas: «The Transience of Earthly Pleasures».

And as before, contemporary Vanitas creations are not just about the objects we are facing, but also the similar thoughts they are recalling: the brevity of life and of all earthly pleasures.

Following the success of Vanitas: the Transience of Earthly Pleasures and Metamorphosis: the Transformation of Being, presented during Frieze Art Fair in 2010 and 2012 respectively, All Visual Arts is pleased to announce its upcoming fall show entitled Viewing Room.

2010 The Unconscious in Everyday Life, Science Museum, London, UK Rude Britannia — British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London, UK Skin Fruit — Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, US The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK Vanitas, The Transience of Earthly Pleasures, 33 Portland Place, London, UK

Vanitas is a term that is traditionally associated with the late 16th and early 17th century still live paintings, but has become more generally linked to any type of creative discipline that meditates on the ephemeral character of earthly pleasures and worldly accomplishments.

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NOt unorthodox!!!! Its about sacrifice or just making an extra effort in your daily life in remembrance of what God has done for us... whether it be good deeds, praying more, spending less on vices or earthly pleasures, etc...

The Desert Fathers reject earthly goods and pleasures for a variety of reasons, not least out of an act of humility.

If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action.

In his contrast between charity and the worship of pleasure and profit Winthrop echoes Augustine's great contrast of caritas as the principle of the City of God and cupiditas as the principle of the earthly city.17 Augustine in turn was elaborating the New Testament contrast between Babylon, the city of the beast, the principalities and powers of this world, and the New Jerusalem the Heavenly City where the saints would be gathered after the apocalypse.

Entrance into heaven itself is freely given to all who believe in Jesus for eternal life, but the rewards and riches of heaven are reserved for faithful Christians who put heavenly riches above earthly pleasures.

He takes delight in everything, and whenever one sees him taking part in a particular pleasure, he does it with the persistence which is the mark of the earthly man whose soul is absorbed in such things.

In Romans 1:21 - 28, Paul talks about people who refused to acknowledge and glorify God (v. 21), the worshipping of idols (v23), people who were more interested in earthly pursuits than spiritual pursuits (v. 25), people who gave up their natural, innate passion for the opposite s e x in search of pleasure (v. 26 - 27), and people who live lives full of covetousness, malice, envy, and hatred of God (v. 29 - 31).

Pleasure of earthly power, Joys of the pasising hour, Breadth and great depth of thought With the heart's life blood bought, All these I scorn.

MEET JOE BLACK In this remake of «Death Takes a Holiday,» Brad Pitt plays Death, who decides to incarnate himself as a good - looking guy and experience the pleasures of earthly living.

Food, still lifes, and animals are common subjects for many artists, providing a glimpse into the earthly pleasures of gastronomy.

Alternatively, the figures in his large - scale paintings might find themselves alone, or nearly so, and in intimate settings where self - reflection is powerless to stave off the distractions of glittering company and indulgence in earthly pleasures.

In settings that suggest a circus or a garden of earthly delights, sensual, statuesque women gaily take pleasure in their own company and from diminutive male figures.

«Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures: Five Hundred Years of Indian Painting.»