Sentences with phrase «of human events»

When in the course of human events something new is launched, a decent respect for the opinion of others calls for a word of explanation.

It is no process in the time sequence of human events.

9 - 20; but even here we are given an interpretation of human events through the eyes of profound faith.

And if in other things care and planning are required, why not in this most important of human events, the birth of a child?

Unfortunately the course of human events, like that of true love, does not run so smoothly.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

-LSB-...] Caritas in Veritate has real literary and practical flaws -LSB-...] yet, viewed in the light of Benedict's earlier encyclicals, Caritas in Veritate can be seen as one long call to conversion -LSB-... requiring] «new eyes and a new heart, capable of rising above a materialistic vision of human events.»

They have already decided that the whole story may be dismissed as mass hallucination, for example, and they never give their serious adult critical attention to this, the most significant of all human events.

In the strange and bewildering complex of human willing and action, God moves through lure and attraction to bring the greatest good out of the confusion of human events.

Even if we consider the 2000 years of history that are recorded in the Bible, these biblical records only cover the tiniest fraction of human events that took place during these two millennia.

Secularization, like death, is one of those human events best understood in retrospect.

He preferred to speak of «the Governor of the universe,» «the great disposer of human events,» the «Beneficent Author of all good that was, that is, or that will be,» and especially «a kind Providence,» «a gracious Providence.»

Here is thebeginning of modern sport as we now take it for granted — as a part of ourculture, as flawed and wonderful and complex and transcendent as the wholecourse of human events.

«It's a concert of dozens of human events that culminated in this amazing organ,» he says.

The Borgs want to stop a scientist (Cromwell, Explorers) the day before he becomes the first human to be contacted by an alien form, changing the course of human events forever.

Consider the Metal Gear series, that beautiful, awful mess of a masculine - coded soap opera, where we're asked to believe some vast conspiracy has dictated the course of human events for decades down to what underwear Solid Snake wears on a given day.

Investing is about glimpsing, however dimly, the ebb and flow of human events.

At the end of that Chapter he calls us to develop «new eyes and a new heart, capable of rising above a materialistic vision of human events» (n. 77, his emphasis, as with all such quotes below).

The course of human events flows erratically; these days it seems that there are, indeed, new things under the sun.

The sure and ultimate answer to what Benedict XVI called a «materialist vision of human events» is Christianity.

People who fall into this error can be identified by what social scientists call «attribution theory,» a cognitive game in which Christians claim to understand why everything in the course of human events is occurring and what meaning specific events — like getting a flat tire or losing one's job — have in their lives.

But there is simply too much order in our world, too much constancy in our habits, too much justice in our norms for us to think that the course of human events is not somehow channeled by God's providential plan.

It is a distinguishing characteristic of the faith of Israel from her earliest beginnings that God makes himself known in history, that is, in the course of human events.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

It requires a God who is petty and arrogant and who has no qualms about interfering in, controlling, or playfully dabbling in the course of human events.

When in the course of human events...» Thus Jefferson and his associates, evincing a «decent respect to the opinions of mankind,» began their explanation of what they were up to.

The «holding back» of God's «hand» clearly expresses a sense that somehow the mighty hand of God can no longer be discerned in the course of human events.

Is there — anywhere in the course of human events — a key to unlock the enigma of our social and historical experience?

Maybe folks are supposed to pray on Thursday as just a kind of worship, to give God a high - five and not to ask for things or affect the course of human events.

To faith the promise of a still undisclosed future is all we need to light up our history and to give us consolation in the face of the apparent absurdities that have taken place within The course of human events.

Blessed Niche Thomas Jefferson said it best: «When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for Vita owners to dissolve the sadness which have connected them with...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.