Sentences with phrase «of dependence upon him»

Because He has taken us into deeper waters of adversity, we possess a fuller love and understanding of our dependence upon Him.

Because of their dependence upon humans, pit bulls respond well to positive reinforcement training and praise — they want to impress you by learning new tricks and showing submissive behavior.

It was the way He guided me to a greater understanding of dependence upon Him, of surrendering my desires and plans, and of what it means to simply trust.

(The relevance for the prayer of confession of the awareness of dependence upon the given structures of existence, as well as of the awareness of imperfection, is evident from these comments).

In the creation myths we are confessing that everything which is finite and creaturely, including ourselves, stands in a relationship of dependence upon the Creator.

Just as the Sabbath reminds us of our dependence upon divine grace, so, according to Qoheleth, our play experiences suggest God's gracious favor as their basis (Ecc1.

On the human side, it is the always potential and often the actually realized sense of dependence upon the divine reality that sustains and (as traditional language would phrase it) «saves» such existence from triviality, meaninglessness, and extinction.

For Schleiermacher, as we have seen, 20 the essence of religion lay in the individual's feeling of dependence upon the Infinite.

In consequence, therefore, man must first of all be seen as a finite process of becoming, with recognition of his dependence upon environmental factors both natural and historical.

We would not seem to be far apart in terms of our fundamental allegiance to either Freud or Nietzsche, and perhaps we are not far apart in terms of our dependence upon either Kabbalism or Madhyamika Buddhism.

The value of fasting can also be better understood in this context because fasting can enhance our understanding of our dependence upon God and that we need him more than air, food, or water.

The phrase reminds Christians of their dependence upon Judaism and the respect they owe its living representatives.

Not exact matches

I can't tell you when for sure, but I can tell you for sure that there will be UBER - like providers of outsourced IT support for companies of every size and shape because the explosion of diverse technologies in every industry and our businesses» complete and utter dependence upon these tools means that there's simply no choice and realistically no other viable solution.

You might as well try to take advantage of peoples» dependence upon texting then.

Perhaps the best advice is only to hold the position if you are capable of evaluating the business operationally, are convinced that the fundamentals are still attractive, believe the company has a significant competitive advantage, and you are comfortable with the increased dependence upon the performance of a single investment.

So even if we can plausibly imagine that a slightly better Morsi and a slightly more disciplined opposition might have existed and could have made better choices over the course of the last year, and thus allowed the fragile shoot of democratic compromise to take hold, these choices weren't made, and so the chasm between the liberals and the faithful, and the dependence of the former upon the army, are now simply the facts of Egyptian situation, the ones that one must now work from, right?

By insisting in an exaggerated fashion on our dependence upon government, by overlooking the ways in which multiple sources of support in civil society and the marketplace afford us a kind of independence, President Obama would, in effect, turn the clock backward.

And we should foster an appreciation of the ultimate dependence of rights upon the creation of rights - respecting cultures.

Clad only in her own hair, illustrating her complete dependence upon God, she leaves behind scenes in which she preached the gospel message of hope.

The fourth pillar of Islam is the fast -LCB- sawn) of Ramadan as a reflection upon the human dependence on God and on spiritual goals.

And anyone who has this insight, and who loves, will feel within himself a fever of active dependence and of arduous purity seizing upon him and driving him on to an absolute integrity and the complete utilization of all his powers.

The pathologies of speech, hearing, and sight demonstrate the profound dependence of all of the higher human functions upon bodily structures.

The greatest tactical problem of modern Christianity is to reconcile its dependence upon the rich with its natural devotion to the poor».

The very form of the saying — «hence,» or «so that» — and its dependence upon vs. 27, which is complete without it, suggest that the addition is inferential and editorial.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

Those who believe that the only fruitful thinking is that which attempts strenuously to clear the slate of all received opinion and to attain to methods that can be approved and accepted by men of all cultures, will disapprove of the continuance of a mode of thought that recognizes its dependence upon the particularities of one community.

Further, what did, for instance, the late Dom Gregory Dix, in the last and most permanently valuable chapter of his Shape of the Liturgy, (Dacre Press [1945]-RRB- mean when he said that «we depend upon God for our very dependence»?

55 But even this awareness is qualified by the insistence that the power of God can be understood as one that «dominates all» and is «master over all,» 56 leading to the realization of «the complete dependence of everything real upon God.»

Babies know about as much of human fallibility and dependence upon God as they will ever know — and perhaps even more than we will ever know.

In this survey we are to see again and again the partial dependence of the influence of Jesus upon forces extraneous to it.

In fact, due to our widespread dependence upon buildings, it could be argued that our worship of God is weaker because we depend on buildings.

Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

These are certainly historical facts, because they both imply an element of dependence of Jesus upon the Baptist and they are inconceivable as products of a Christian community concerned to exalt its Lord and engaged in rivalry with a Baptist sect.

But the theory of divine relativity assumes a finer and deeper knowledge of reality than that evidenced by human knowing with its dependence upon sense experience and abstract universals.

I have been concerned to show, elsewhere, 6 that the same set of epistemological limitations encountered at the transition to the life sciences and cognitive psychology are evident at the level of chemical theory and its dependence upon the quantum theory relevant to nucleic and electronic constituents.

It was a cleansing experience, because I endeavored to purge myself of any direct dependence upon my white theological mentors.

And Hartshorne does just that: «The eminent form of sympathetic dependence can only apply to deity; for this form can not be less than an omniscient sympathy, which depends upon and is exactly colored by every nuance of joy or sorrow anywhere in the world (DR 48).

Your notion of the «given'to God seems close to what I think of as the dependence of God upon the past as the sum of acts of more or less free beings, to whose activity God is passive, since otherwise it would not be real activity.

3 Here I must make particular acknowledgment of von Rad's Des Erste Buch Mose, cited in Chapter I. Readers familiar with that work will recognize both the dependence upon, and the departure from, von Rad's interpretation.

Sugirtharajah says, «rewriting and retranslating are not a simple dependence upon the past, but a radical remolding of the text to meet new situations and demands».48 The translators of this period seek for a wider intertextuality49 which links Biblical texts with Asian scriptural texts.

The emphasis on mutuality in the interaction of the trinitarian persons offers a corrective to the traditional tendency to conceive of them only in terms of relations of origin, which is to say in terms of the dependence of Son and Spirit upon the Father.

However, Augustine had some extremely valid insights into the Pauline insistence on our radical dependence on grace, and unlike most of his Catholic predecessors Augustine caught something of the Pauline sense that everything is finally held in the electing hand of God: «For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all» (Rom.

In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.

Historicity signals limits within the economy of salvation, and an increase in the status of the monastic institution: divine graciousness calls for the transcendence of history and dependence upon social institutions.

From David Hume and Edmund Burke to Michael Oakeshott and Friedrich Hayek (each of whom is amply represented and thoughtfully commented upon in this book) conservative theorists have criticized «contractualist» and «constructivist» approaches to political life that ignore the dependence of the social fabric upon institutions, customs, and habits that are not the product of human design.

A special transmission outside the scriptures; No dependence upon words and letters; Direct pointing to the soul of man; Seeing into one's nature and the attainment of Buddhahood.22

The Church should never think of itself as possessing grace, but as participating in it, and that participation is above all dependence upon grace as forgiveness.

The Achilles» heel of this argument is the dependence of Rabbinic allusions to Jesus upon the Christian witness.

Such an understanding is present in Schleiermacher's definition of religion as a sense, feeling, or awareness or human dependence upon God.

Further, it should be said plainly that we are also constantly dependent upon more proximate realities, all of which are surrogates for our ultimate dependence.