Sentences with phrase «of human souls»

But the kidnapping of hundreds of human souls in Africa is not the only cursed event to occur on England's first official slaving voyage.

This is the real slavery of human souls, yet in the deception they are thinking they are free!

It was proper for them to reap the benefits of the labors of others, if the harvest was one of human souls.

But here is the plot of the enemy of human souls, the Deceiver of this age: he has numbed the hearts and consciences of so many people of this generation, so that they have lost their abilities to experience this divine love and longing... And so, because they have lost this divine ability given to them by God, they scorn and ridicule those who have it, making themselves into to blind beggarly fools......

The revolution he sought was not a violent leveling spasm but a gradual transformation of human souls, from yoked and cowering to free and upright — though he was enough of an inborn skeptic to doubt whether men truly wanted freedom.

In biblical eschatology, the personal survival of the individual does not depend on any generic metaphysical traits of human souls themselves, but rather on the cosmic change of state that ushers in the new age.

Only the maturest of human souls, however, are prepared to continue to long for the judgment under these conditions.

In the first place quantitatively, by the addition to the Mystical Body of an increasing multitude of human souls, «until the number shall be complete».

But leaving aside all thought of systematization, is it not true that every day a multitude of human souls are created in the course of an embryogenic process in which scientific observation will never be able to detect any break however small in the chain of biological phenomena?

But at what an awful price that Glory is obtained — the endless suffering of billions of human souls that God says He loves and longs to come to repentance.

Jesus has been disabled since he rose from the dead carrying with him the burden of the sins of every human soul, past, present and future.

Even in these cases, I am amazed at the strength of the human soul.

There are rites based on eternity of the human soul like special baptisms but this is foreign to x «tianity.

Why must a false dichotomy between mind and heart substitute for a fuller comprehension of the human soul and the poetry that expresses it?

«To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Prayer is not some kind of pious decoration; it is the breath of the human soul.

No wonder that Cheever has been called «the Dante of the cocktail hour» and compared not only with a social documentarist like John Marquand but also with such real physicians of the human soul as Hawthorne, James and Fitzgerald.

In question 75 of the first part of the Summa theologiae [ST 1.75], Thomas Aquinas puts forward an elaborate argument for the incorruptibility of the human soul, interweaving ideas from...

It is no accident that Platonic philosophy and the Christian religion readily discovered common ground, and that, in particular, Platonic ideas of the sublimity of the human soul were assimilated by Christian doctrine.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

The ultimate hunger of the human soul is not satisfied with purely personal enjoyment.

In the case of aphasic speech, for example, the body remains that «instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul» (AI 349), but the final artist merely lives off his previous acquisitions.

It also makes perfect sense of the direct creation of the human soul at the peak of the development of life on earth.

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

Indeed, no such abbreviated statement as we here are making, with a few quotations from the Hebrew Psalms, can begin to do justice to the Psalter as a compendium of all the moods and attitudes, conflicts, desires, and aspirations of the human soul in its relationships with God.

This function, which is God's giving of an initial aim to each new occasion, is more like the individual creation of each human soul than the single act by which matter was created.

The first union of human soul and body was in Adam.

The movement of a human soul toward the eternal freedom found in Christ is a fragile process.

The secret of all spiritual religion is the union of the human soul with the divine soul, the belief that man's spirit and God's spirit are in their essence one.

If innocence and experience, the two contrary states of the human soul, must culminate in a common vision, then that vision must act upon that which it portrays.

One is the general nature or character of the human soul.

In a single brief paragraph, Artigas states the case for asserting «the special divine creation of every human soul.»

Whitehead's discussion of the human soul is notoriously difficult,» but that he is involved in such a category confusion rests on Mays's failure to appreciate Whitehead's metaphysics, built around the notion of a dipolar actual entity as a vibrant, dynamic center of integrative processes having both physical and mental poles.

However, Sherburne follows this quote with the following statement which is at least implicitly critical of the doctrine of the human soul that I developed in A Christian Natural Theology.

This is the concept of the human soul in the Bible too.

To fulfill this mission it was necessary that God the word should become perfect human being in possessing a rational soul capable of exercising a real choice between good and evil and entering into conflict with the passions of the human soul.

Only the Jewish and Christian God made human beings free, halts the power of Caesar at the boundaries of the human soul, and has commissioned human beings to build civilizations worthy of the liberty He has endowed in them.

[12] 4) The basic root of violence is the turn of the human soul away from God in an attempt to control the process of creation and lessen the pain of anxiety.

Direction is that primeval tension of a human soul which moves it to choose and to realize this and no other out of the infinity of possibilities.

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

Similarly, pilgrimage is not a mere trip to the Holy Shrine of Mecca; it is the spiritual journey of the human soul to God.

By their profession of faith, their worship and life, the human beings in the Church form as it were the one expression in which the hidden grace promised and offered to the whole world emerges from the abysses of the human soul into the domain of history and society.

The word bara (create) is used only three times; for the creation of heaven and earth, the creation of the first animals (the fish and the birds) and the creation of man (i.e. the big bang, the creation of life and the creation of the human soul).

Spiritual evolution is the food of the human soul.

«The worth of a human soul is not defined by a set of duties or responsibilities,» Hawkins said.

The author reflects the Platonic view of the human soul as that entity which pre-exists before coming to dwell for a time within an earthly body, as in a prison, and which later survives the death of the body, thus regaining its freedom.

If this divine causality is insisted upon in the official teaching of the Church in the precise case of the origin of the human soul, that does not of course mean that a divine causality of that kind is found nowhere else.

To be sure, the various instances differ from one another terminative, that is to say, in regard to the created term which concerns the divine activity, and moreover, because the creation of the human soul concerns a spiritual reality, this case is unique.

For precisely all that has been said can also be objected to the doctrine of the immediate creation of every human soul in the course of history, if this creation makes of God's action in a special manner a member of the chain of created causes, even if only in regard to a particular finite being, which in contrast to others and by its special individual and temporal features has no intra - mundane ground and basis.

The activity of God in the origin of a human soul would only have to be termed predicamental if this origin could not also be ascribed to a cause within the world.