Sentences with phrase «of the acorn becoming»

However, we must hasten to add that the fullness of time is not merely the quantitative sum of previous times, for this, too, would be no more than the case of an acorn becoming a super-acorn, or a bucket being filled by drops from the faucet.

Rather, when the fullness of time is reached, there is a qualitative transformation, as in the case of the acorn becoming an oak, or water brought to boiling point becoming vapor, or instinct becoming reflection, or molecular increase becoming cellular.

Not exact matches

To refuse to give reason an opening toward the spiritual is like confining the growth of the acorn to being a super-acorn without its ever becoming an oak.

As for Aristotle, he's the one who claimed women are subhuman, as incapable of reasoned thought as an acorn is of becoming a butterfly or philosopher, never dreaming that one day most of the people studying his works in the universities would be female.

«Being» is the potentiality by which the acorn becomes the oak or each of us becomes what he truly is....

And then there was Ms. Lewis, the former ACORN leader, who was once an outspoken supporter of the mayor's — but more recently has become an outspoken critic.

In other words, the passenger pigeon will not become a pest as an outbreak species, constrained by the supplies of acorns and other mast as in its evolutionary past.

I am loving the burlap / toile /» acorns» which can become perfect for Christmas / winter with the addition of a smattering of «snow».

Beginning my evasions, I responded to the interviewer with questions of my own: «Why does an acorn strive to become an oak?»

Acorns become easy ornaments with a coat of acrylic paint on the seeds and loops of twine glued to the caps.

Acorns become easy ornaments with a coat of paint and loops made of twine glued to the caps.

Oaks produce acorns and their chances of become a tree are amazingly slim, kind of like our chances of beating the British were for our independence.