Sentences with phrase «of human yearning»

As Pulitzer Prize ‑ winner Robert Olen Butler (a novelist who also writes flash fiction) has said, «Fiction is the art form of human yearning, no matter how long or short that work of fiction is.»

Far more than just a vehicle for a cosmology, this inventive novel slices right to the bone of human yearning, offering up an indelible vision of life and death as equally rich sides of the same coin.

Religion for them was an expression of the human yearning to rise above the world and transcend it: it was the discovery of a supramundane sphere where the soul could detach itself from all earthly care and find its rest.

Not exact matches

They're run by people who yearn for creative challenges and fulfilling opportunities, and who need the guidance of good human managers — not hard drives — to get them there.

He yearns to walk with you, to be with you, to see you become fully human, fully alive, fully your own self, fully engaged in loving and rescuing this beautiful world of image bearers.

Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.

That is the human condition and out of it we yearn for completion even while we try to convince others that we have it.

But I can point to the universal experience of all humans who have a yearning for something beyond our physical existence — for ultimate purpose, value and meaning.

So when they experience this universal, timeless yearning, they are likely to envision the therapeutic ideals of deep consolation and genuine human flourishing — two worthy goals that the forces of this world and the conflicts in our hearts do not seem to allow.

The liturgy gives expression to the religious yearnings of the human city.

Niebuhr thus seems to have brought together the perfect love of God which transcends all selfishness with the human yearning for mutuality and the struggle of man for justice.

At the same time, it is no less sensitive to the desire of human beings not to sicken and die, to be relieved of social strife and injustice, to be forever in the company of their loved ones, to have their deepest yearnings satisfied, and to have an infinitely long life, one that is infinitely and interestingly worth having.

Because then you realise that every other human being on the face of the earth is yearning for that knowledge as well.

Nevertheless, Kass is right, I believe, to think that none of the secular versions of immortality, the kind science might give us, can satisfy our deeper yearnings, assuming we have them as part of our human nature.

Some humans romantically yearn for a regression back to social anarchy, which might be likened — rather fancifully, to be sure — to the cells of a plant longing for the mobility of single - celled organisms.

If it is removed from the social fabric the coming of God is likely to be interpreted in a purely historical rather than sacramental manner, frustrating the reach of God into our human, social world, undermining the human hope that God can answer our deepest yearning.

The Lord is the goal of human history, the focal point of the longings of history and of civilisation, the centre of the human race, the joy of every heart and the answer to all its yearnings» (45).

Those who have not subscribed to political Zionism understand the return to Zion as a spiritual yearning for the messianic rule of justice and peace, not to be substituted with human accomplishment of resettlement in the former territory, or of establishing a nation - state.

Like Plato, and in contrast to philosophers who exalt pure intellect, the Bishop of Hippo understood the eros of the mind» the role that love, desire, and «yearning» play in the process of human knowing.

The same goes for other movements and yearnings in pre-conciliar Catholicism: the active participation of the laity in the mission of the Church, the theological return to the biblical and patristic sources of the faith, religious freedom as an inalienable feature of human dignity.

«Perhaps one of the main challenges of living faithfully before God as a gay Christian is to believe, really believe, that God in Christ can make up for our sacrifice of homosexual partnership not simply with his own desire and yearning for us but with his desire and yearning mediated to us through the human faces and arms of those who are our fellow believers.»

The text can be an act of good faith, because both transformation and stabilization are faithful acts of God and both meet deep human yearnings, but the mediation of either comes through the vested interest of the preacher.

Dalit consciousness is a reaction to dominant forces rooted in an yearning for relief from human conditions of existence and a sense of utter powerlessness in the depths of oppression.

Freedom for excellence is the freedom that will satisfy the deepest yearnings of the human heart to be free.

Then once the Sabbath, with its human yearning and its sense of communion with the ultimate, was defined, once it became the liturgical center of life, then the tradition of how it was to be observed developed.

He answers the deepest yearnings of the prophets for justice and righteousness before God by his own life and teaching, and he makes ever present in himself the future longings of Psalmist and Wisdom writer for human wholeness and integrity of life.

Such a role is complementary to the questionings and yearnings of the minds and hearts of the children — that is of the human subject.

The yearning to return to the source is a yearning to end the agonies and the problematics of the human condition.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

In the discussions of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old - fashioned creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex life - forms — humans in particular.

The dream of flight and a yearning to explore have been embedded in human nature since long before the Wright brothers first took wing a hundred years ago.

We as human beings yearn for acceptance... and that's one of the reasons we are so vulnerable to diets!

This is how, at the level of the most basic yearning for human companionship, consumerism can potentially fuse with a neoliberalist ethos, eliciting a flexible consumer who can desire whatever's required and accept that yearning as authentic.

Watching Vanilla Sky, I felt that something darker behind what's on the screen is just yearning to crawl out, grab the proceedings, and bring them somewhere into the essential fears of the human psyche.

Is he making a case against tidy dialogue in the face of emotion, or perhaps positing human yearning as a flow of fumbling outtakes?

A young male zombie spends his days roaming the barren and devastated wasteland that is America with limited thoughts and actions, only able to remember that his name while he was human began with the letter «R» and only yearning to eat the brains of the few remaining living humans just so he can connect and learn to feel alive again.

Me and My Shadow tells the story of Shadow Stan, an extremely frustrated shadow who yearns for a dynamic life but happens to be stuck with Stanley Grubb, the world's most boring human.

Further to that thankless function (dutifully served here once again), Jackson now asks that Legolas also play puppy dog, yearning for the dishwater - dull new character of Tauriel as she pursues a dwarf she loves, just as the angels dote on their pet humans in Wings of Desire.

But while the ghoulish guests appreciate the respite from human persecution, the Count's daughter Mavis (voice of Selena Gomez) yearns to break out and see what's on the other side of the castle walls.

An amphibious creature must be truthful in its yearning for new found love of a human woman.

We have entered a post-genomic era in which we yearn to create some kind of bio-scientifically engineered paradise where all sentient life can languish in some bovine stupor, in some chemically altered pseudo reality stage - managed by transnational psychotropic drug dealers who offer to chemically separate us from the emotional squalor of our Precambrian brain through a vast array of designer lifestyle drugs, where we sit in uninterrupted epiphanic bliss at the feet of a statue of a Quarter Pounder in some prosaic cobblestone courtyard at a secluded Ronald McDonald House next to an 18 - hole golf course, or in some kind of edenic trans - human extended epiphany in a university seminar room overflowing with just the correct mixture of a Leibnizian optimism and Nietzschean Dionysian pessimism.

Hazel and Ben's twinned sibling rivalry and love is beautifully complex, and their relatable human yearnings for the objects of their affections anchor the novel in the believable, despite the fact that said passions are for a comatose enchanted prince and a fairy changeling.

There are balloonmen who tumble along on the breeze, mermaids who yearn for human music, and bridges that may leads to a realm of more bridges.

A heartbreaking story of family and marriage, a meditation on the unseen forces of nature and desire, The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human connection.

That we yearn for neat, book - sized solutions to the problem of being human is understandable, but strip away the packaging, and you'll find that the messages of such works are frequently banal.

Set in post-revolutionary Iran, Delijani's gripping novel is a blistering indictment of tyranny, a poignant tribute to those who bear the scars of it, and a celebration of the human's heart's eternal yearning for freedom.

With hundreds of unwanted cats who yearn for a new family to cuddle them, these feral cats have little chance of being adopted even if they wanted to spend their lives in a human home.

This effect of continual repetition calls out to the human senses, and, in return, deep inside of our hearts, we yearn for true amazement.»

The exhibition reveals him as both artist and human being who was beyond what seemed on the surface to be a post war rebel pushing boundaries for the sake of art, someone who deeply reflected upon society and his time, and desperately yearned for freedom both as an artist and human being, breaking out of historical, artistic, and political constraints, condemning any form of conformism, and refusing to be labelled, branded or marketed.

Barbara Diener's photographic project depicts human deep - seated need to find a home, the yearning to belong and our attachment to memories of familiar domesticity.