While these individual qualities do matter, their impact is small, accounting for less than 5 - 10 %
of ultimate relationship outcomes.
It saw itself as part of a larger civilization, one that transcended the absolute Germanness proclaimed by Hitler, and it saw that wider civilization in terms
of the ultimate relationship with God.
Not exact matches
«The
ultimate impacts await the recrafting
of the U.K. - EU
relationship, which itself may be complete before the full costs
of fragmentation are broadly understood,» Hall said.
It's all about building those foundational
relationships to increase the chances
of getting to your
ultimate end goal.
This is very different from Mr. Volcker's money target, which was abandoned after only a few years because
of instability in the
relationship between money growth and the Fed's
ultimate objectives.
For a
relationship formed with a non-believer, our
ultimate desire should be to display the love
of Christ.
In that case, attempting to «be good» would simply be trying to be your own Messiah — and the
ultimate repudiation
of the offer
of a
relationship that begins by admitting you can not save yourself.
However, it is easy to get caught up in the idolatry
of finding a partner and forget that the purpose
of a
relationship is to point us closer to our
ultimate position — a life dedicated to serving Christ.
Instead
of keeping the
ultimate purpose
of a
relationship at the forefront — to glorify Christ — I easily got caught up in regularly scheduled date nights and having a plus one to weddings.
Psychologist Sue Johnson, a pioneer in applying Bowlby's attachment theory to couples» therapy, posits, «The
relationship between God and people
of faith can be understood as an attachment bond, in which God is a safe haven, a secure base, and the
ultimate source
of comfort and care.»
Catholics have always recognised that the differences between men and women are a physical reality that conveys important truths: that human marriage is a symbol - a living, life - giving, and procreative one -
of the
relationship between the
ultimate Bridegroom, Christ, and his Bride, the Church.
In view
of Jehus subsequent reprehensible behavior and classical prophetism's
ultimate repudiation
of any true
relationship between Jehu and the Word (Hosea 1:4), we should judge either that this word was not the Word; or that Jehu viciously appropriated the divine Word in Elisha to his own brutal ambitions.
And that is why human
relationships may be taken, as our Lord took them, as analogous to man in his
relationship with the
ultimate source
of his being.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the
ultimate nature
of things» which has existed since the beginning
of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order
of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history
of more profoundly humane patterns
of life» can be a part
of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind
of priority as its first clear manifestation.
For not only was Aristotle highly sensitive to the perils
of determining the real by means
of the logical — this was, after all, his chief criticism
of Plato's theory
of the Forms 6 — but Whitehead himself tirelessly attacked the tendency to mistake logical
relationships for the structure
of the real, an
ultimate case
of what he called «the fallacy
of misplaced concreteness».
In developing their own thrust, churches should emphasize the spiritual dimension
of mental health — the role
of values, meanings,
ultimate commitments, and
relationship with God.
In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a
relationship with a more
ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind
of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.
This is a faith born out
of the I - Thou
relationship itself: it is trust in our relation with the Eternal Thou, in the
ultimate oneness
of the world with God.
The person as process is most deeply revealed, he writes, in a
relationship of the most
ultimate and complete acceptance, and he himself describes this relation as «a real I - Thou
relationship, not an I - It
relationship.»
The
ultimate truth is one, but it is given to man only as it enters, reflected as in a prism, into the true life -
relationships of the human person.
Younger generations treat sex not as the pinnacle
of intimacy but as a first gateway through which all potential
relationships must pass for screening before proceeding onward or not toward some
ultimate plane
of closeness.
Unlike other groups, a church fellowship participates in a century - spanning heritage which finds the
ultimate meaning
of existence in man's
relationship with God.
When it comes to matters
of human nature, emotions,
relationships, and
ultimate meaning they have remained the same throughout history.
The once - for - all aspect, the
ultimate decisiveness
of Jesus» death, means that this experience remains unsurpassable and always present as an operative part
of God's
relationship with us.
In terms
of God's
relationship to us, this could even be understood as the
ultimate aim in God's creative purpose.
We are relational beings with the
ultimate aim
of regaining a
relationship with the God who created us.
The
ultimate aim
of relational power is the creation and enhancement
of those
relationships in which all participating members are transformed into individuals and groups
of greater stature.
The
ultimate behaviour patterns
of matter appear to be unpredictable and to depend on its
relationship to whatever and whoever is around at a particular time and place.
In short, biopolitics leads in one direction to a consideration
of life in
relationship to its
ultimate ground — God the Creator.
... the survivor
of any death immersion feels his
relationship to the
ultimate forces
of death and rebirth to be seriously threatened.
As we have been led to expect, he denies that even man's intimate and
ultimate relationship to God could ever rob man
of his essential freedom and independence.
Revelation is the disclosure
of the self - humbling
of God and with it the promise
of ultimate reconciliation and unity that arises out
of the unbrokenness
of the love that gives itself away completely and by doing so manifests itself as the ground
of all life and
relationship.
Paul Tillich, who has done so much to clarify the
relationship between theology and psychiatry, rightly insists that the religious dimension
of healing is related to, but goes beyond, the cure
of particular neuroses.3 What Tillich calls «ontological anxiety» and «personal guilt» arise within man's «
ultimate concern.»
In these times, human and trans - human
relationships of trust are needed as sources
of that courage within which
ultimate anxiety can be confronted and integrated into one's philosophy
of life.
In a new St Augustine's Press book The Regensburg Lecture Fr James Schall S.J. argues that «far from being disrespectful
of Islam or
of modern thought (the lecture) is almost the first time the
ultimate dimensions
of both have been taken seriously and seen in their
relationship to each other and to reason.»
Spiritual intimacy is the nearness that develops through sharing in the area
of ultimate concerns, the meanings
of life (to both partners), their
relationship to the universe and to God.
By spiritual intimacy is meant the sense
of a vital
relationship with that which transcends our brief, fragile existence — a
relationship with the realm
of values and meanings, with the flow
of history and life about us, and with that «
ultimate concern» (Tillich) which we call God.
Although Christians have seen their
ultimate worth as derivative
of their
relationship to God, it is precisely the character
of this
relationship that there are no conditions
of worth attached to it.
He saw that Hosea lifts up admirably «the quite irrational power
of love as the
ultimate basis
of the covenant
relationship.»
A trust in the revelation
of our
relationship to an
ultimate environment
of unconditional love is capable
of breaking through such situations and exposing the contexts in which self - deception flourishes.
It will not only «continually be pushing students to examine the
ultimate presuppositions with which they think» but will also keep a close
relationship «between the formal structure
of thought and concrete human problems» and between the subject matter and students» vocational commitments.
First, all religions and ideologies posit Love as the
ultimate moral law
of human perfection and community
of love with its harmony as the final goal
of human and cosmic
relationships.
It encompasses those aspects
of human life and culture that are concerned with the
ultimate meaning and destiny
of human nature and the
relationship of the individual and
of society with the supernatural.
Thank you for sharing your journey, your art, your gifts to those
of us who are similarly and courageously pursuing the
ultimate relationship.
From a Christian standpoint, no idol, nothing short
of a growing
relationship with the God
of the prophets and
of Jesus will satisfy one's hungers for an object
of ultimate devotion.
The author, and perhaps Jewish thought in general at that time, recognized the intimate
relationship of the age - old speculation
of the Orient to that
of Greece; both had come to express in differing terms but in essential unity the conviction that human life is infused with a pervasive entity which is more than human, finding its
ultimate origin and nature in the being
of the universe.
Although Marx and his followers use this principle as a basis for social and economic interdependence, they reject its applicability to the
ultimate question
of humanity's
relationship to God.
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