Sentences with phrase «of emotion»

In some circles, people talk of emotion in a theological context in terms of a dichotomy between emotion and «reason» or «doctrine,» or some other «objective» force.

When I proved a theorem, I felt a rush of emotion, I deeply felt it was right.

I am not here taking a position as to whether a machine can be built that has subjectivity, that is, has capacities of consciousness, of thought, of emotion, and of choice.

If religion is to mean anything definite for us, it seems to me that we ought to take it as meaning this added dimension of emotion, this enthusiastic temper of espousal, in regions where morality strictly so called can at best but bow its head and acquiesce.

A minister who is suspicious of emotion or uncomfortable with it, will allow his preaching either to suffer the total loss of this flavor or to suffer the distortion of emotion by his poor translations of it into rational concepts.

Atheist sure do invest a lot of emotion, time, and energy into not believing in something.

In the simplest terms then, human social experience is a form of togetherness in which there is a sharing of feeling, a concordance of emotion, between two or more individuals who become immanently related one to another by the very character of their mutual experience.

When I am angry, either something has gone wrong in me to jeopardize my love and lovability, or something is wrong in you, my friend, and I need the strongest sort of emotion to tell you off or to keep you at a distance.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

It reveals something which can not be destined for the worms... this is far from all theology, simply the fact that the poorest little woodcutter, heath peasant or miner can have moments of emotion and a frame of mind which give him a feeling of an eternal home to which he is near.

This kind of emotion and energy makes The Call one of the best rock and roll bands around.

And even when the center is identified with conscious aspects of emotion or reason, the «I» in the strictest sense does not occur.

(Now, I think they meant that we weren't as loud or communicative as they would like, they prefer a big show of emotion and we weren't very good at that kind of thing, you see.

When I asked Assad about her views, she gave me a response that seemed based off a combo of emotion and logic rather than Scripture.

18 So Mark has written, for once permitting the language of emotion to breach the severe reserve of his narrative Jesus now left his friends and withdrew «about a stone's throw,» to fall into solitary and agonized prayer.

When we take conscious experience as our basis for understanding what experience is, we think of receiving and responding to stimuli from the body and the environment, of emotion, purpose, and thought, of the significant organization of data and the influencing of action.

Such a denial elevates the «male» sphere of reason over the «female» spheres of emotion, sex, irrationality — anything that the serpent might have loosed in Eden because of Eve's sin.

Even now I experience sadness at the recollection of this but, thank God, not the intensity of emotion experienced before.

The author, however, wants us to experience something of the emotion of love.

His defense of the revivals and of emotion in religion rested on a broad argument which included God and the nature of reality itself.

But increasingly researchers in this field are coming to agree that careful observation also requires an acknowledgement of the emotion, meaning and purpose in nonhuman experience.

Certainly the case can be made that a well - placed swear word might be appropriate for a Christian when no other word will get across an idea or express a certain level of emotion / emphasis.

He cited the integrity of emotion and expression in black culture which might appear as «the sole oasis» in white culture's «dusty desert» of dollars and vulgarity.19

When I start to hear those voices accusing me of not being in my Fathers hand, I have to go back to the promise of Jesus and ignore those voices of emotion.

Browning, Robert W., «Broad's Theory of Emotion,» The Philosophy of C. D. Broad, ed.

At the same time, much postmodern thought perpetuates Romanticism's narcissistic glorification of emotion and irrationality, except now without the romantics» esteem for tradition and the people.

Compliant preachers overly control the language of their sermons, «seeking to limit any surprising eruption of emotion or spirit or any challenges to familiar patterns of belief or practice.»

And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion.

We abandon reasoned argument, and succumb to story - telling for the sake of emotion, at the cost of the gospel.

Yet even if we were to grant to human beings the capacity for full empathy of emotion, it would still be impossible for a single human being to feel contradictory emotions.

Gods are born of emotion, not evidence.

These events press on us and require us to engage with other people in sincere expressions of emotion.

A true god would have no need of emotion.

Actually, God displays pretty much the whole range of emotion we see in ourselves, exactly like the Greek and other pagan gods.

Patients were motivated toward recovery, and there was a genuine release of emotion.

Perhaps in reaction to the «scandal of the evangelical mind,» evangelicalism of late has developed a general distrust of emotion when it comes to theology.

Add the entire baggage of emotion which prevents from being said much that needs saying.

Of course we would run the risk of emptying our vocabulary of any actual creativity if we were to reach for a swear word every time we need to emphasise a point or express depth of emotion.

All the emotions are very extreme so that can be quite difficult; but it is about learning to adapt and understand Andy's heart behind his demonstrations of emotion.»

Where is any significant biblical evidence that classical Israelite prophetism was predominantly manifested in a temporary and artificially induced state; that it was productive of a totally transformed personality; that it was a group - created - and - sustained state of emotion and, as such, a highly contagious condition induced by violent seizure and involving the absolute suspension of rationality?

In conclusion, I do find it interesting that those who are raising concerns about all that happened and is happening are doing so unafraid in the public forum of my post with a lot of emotion and intelligence, while those who are trying to silence the discussion or at least control it are contacting me privately outside of the public forum with words that attempt to direct, intimidate or shame me.

While I am normally inspired by your optimism, this sudden onset of emotion and change in behavior is worrying.

(CNN)- In the hours after learning the Rev. Rick Warren's son had killed himself, Beth Moore says she was swept with conflicting waves of emotion.

There is a lot of emotion in just seeing something so unjust happen,» she says.

To be faithful is not to be full of an emotion or a belief; it is to act steadfastly on the basis of a commitment or a relationship.

One evening, as I was drawing «Cave», I noticed an incredible amount of emotion within me as I drew her.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

The loss of liturgy and the lack of breath of emotion in worship means we dumb down our worship to just songs about the positive things.

The rules of emotion, superstitious woo and wishful thinking don't apply here.

If you can not write in prose that has some measure of wit, best not to try at all... read some Shakespeare... he was a master of using the written word to express a wide variety of emotion and tone.