Sentences with phrase «of mystery to man»

The loyalty of dogs has been a deep source of mystery to man, which even at times surpasses the loyalty of fellow men.

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The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

According to the mystery man, «the basic institutions of the modern world — the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund — were all a front,» writes Lawson.

Lawson describes Nichols as «the Zelig of conspiracy theories» — a mystery man rumoured to be involved in everything from the Iran - Contra scandal to the CIA's MK - Ultra mind control experiments to the JFK assassination.

More men, now in their 70s, have come forward to say they were subjects at the facility, in what has been called the «Montauk Project» - an underground extension of the military's mystery - shrouded Philadelphia Experiment.

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels.»

When we understand these two bookends of the Bible as framing the whole Christian mystery, the marriage of man and woman takes on its true nature as an image that points us towards our ultimate destiny marriage to God.

Youve taken one one of lifes buggest mysteries, that men have been searching for answers for thousands of years, and come to the conclusion of «lights out».

Finally medicine man came out of cave sweating and all bruised, her husband rushed to him, and asked about wellbeing of his wife and child, boy or a girl, medicine man could not answer, while he was trying to figure out way to explain, finally he put himself together and started to explain mystery of his child birth.

I have never been a Calvinist but prefer to say that certain aspects of God's sovereignty and man's free will are mysteries to us here on earth.

There is a great mystery here, but The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that «God permitted such painful upheavals as the angels» fall and man's sin only as occasions and means for displaying all the power of his arm and the whole measure of the love he wanted to give the world» (CCC 760).

The minds of men so often yearn for might and power, and their thoughts are constantly being drawn to such things, as if by their attainment all mysteries would be resolved.

The love of a man and a woman, lived out in the power of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness of the eternal wedding.»

The believing man who passes through this shattering of security returns to the everyday as the henceforth hallowed place in which he has to live with the mystery.

All men naturally worship someone or something, but in the commonly assumed absence of God, this worship is given almost wholly to such things as success, sport, the heroes or heroines of the fantasy - world of the screen or stage, or to the mysteries of science.

The mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.

«Reflecting on the unity of man and woman as described at the moment of the world's creation (cf. Gn 2:24), the Apostle exclaims: «this mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church» (Eph 5:32).

The mystery of love in its relation to the lostness of men remains, and there is the long and dreary history of Christian theology on the theme of predestination.

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

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But then someone else ended up dead, and another story began to unfold — about a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure and the mysteries of one man's life.

It was particularly vital at those times in which man sensed the mystery of life and growth, namely birth, puberty, marriage and death, the sowing of crops, the spring lambing, the building of a new home, the going forth to battle.

There, he sought to show how Jesus» earthly life «traced out» each man's journey: Just as Christ is the way for each man, each man is the way for the Church, «the way that leads invariably through the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption.»

And Kermit opened the 33rd Seal and saw a brown talking dog, and beside him stood a shabby young man, and they were is search of mysteries to solve, though they were easily made afraid, and often they were distracted by delicious morsels called «Scooby Snacks».

And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ

Then he began to think thoughts about «God and man» or about being «all in all,» which he hoped would enable him to understand the mystery of all creation.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

It is easy for the wonder and mystery of the «man - woman thing» to get lost.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

You charge me also with saying, again pleading the support of the scriptures, that though we humans have many kindly affections, love of children, love between men and women, love of country, all these too are corrupted and defiled; and that though we have very agile minds, able to penetrate into the mysteries of nature, we put this gift and attainment to ignoble uses.»

Indeed, the truth of the matter can never be fully explained, for like all personal relationships in their depth and in their strange yet wonderful capacity to enrich our living — of human life with God's life, of men and women with each other — there is a mystery here which we must accept with «natural piety» but which we can never hope to explicate with utter clarity.

My personal view is that man invented these religions as it was the only way to understand the mystery of nature.

Today a radical dissolution of all mystery is aspired to between man and man.

In Feuerbach's own words: «Man — this is the mystery of religion — projects his being into objectivity, and then again makes himself an object to this projected image of himself thus converted into a subject.»

In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»

The mystery of such a cosmological reality whose centre is said to be «everywhere and nowhere», can only serve to reorientate the way in which man conceives of his own place in the universe.

It is absurd to think that a simple formula can interpret the mystery of man's pilgrimage.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

«The legacy of the myths, the mystery and the man himself will continue to interplay and at times this will arouse strong responses.»

It belongs to man's creatureliness that he experiences and affirms the mystery of God and his freedom.

The freedom to say yes or no to God is the mystery of man.

The source of the Bible's power to stir men's minds and fire their imaginations is no secret, except as all things human are ultimately clothed in deepest mystery.

«Only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light... Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear.»

That the true religious identity of the world's most famous, most powerful man could remain a mystery to so many is itself a mystery.

In this sense the notion of «Mystery» should not be an impediment to the mind of man, especially those who demand rationality.

«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).

It was part of the genius of Teilhard de Chardin, in The Phenomenon of Man, to relocate the chief mystery of nature in humankind itself.

'' [The Church] holds that in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal of man, as well as of all human history... Under the light of Christ, the image of the unseen God, the firstborn of every creature, the council wishes to speak to all men in order to shed light on the mystery of man and to cooperate in finding the solution to the outstanding problems of our time» (10).