Pixar movies might make unusual sermon illustrations, but just like with any piece of art, at the core, they hit
on deep truths that can inform and challenge our faith.
The bargain is the audience gets the entertainment and in return they sit through the creator's lesson
on the deeper truths of the human condition; the peril is that the filmmakers just use it as an excuse to appeal to their audience baser instincts like gladiators in an arena.
Not exact matches
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In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News last evening, and then later with the Washington Post, Giuliani buried both himself and the President
deeper into a web of half
truths or outright lies while managing to taint the legal work he does at his law firm, Greenberg Traurig, a corporate law behemoth with 2,000 lawyers in 38 offices
on three continents.
Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a
deep hostility to gospel
truth (especially moral
truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those
truths out of public life and into a privatized existence
on the margins of society.
Beyond her mass acclaim for her poetry, the late Maya Angelou is remembered for her ability to openly and honestly reflect
on life, relationships and faith in ways that highlight hidden meanings and
deeper truths.
And all of it, marked by the courage to take
on the tough questions with both generosity and a
deep commitment to biblical
truth.
For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential
truths about the man — his
deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already
on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.
The
deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological
truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred
on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.
And it made me think that religious
truths, like those of music, were probably apprehended
on a
deeper level than they were ever comprehended.
Elsewhere he remarks, drawing a calculated reference to the Apostle Paul's teaching
on love, «the
deepest truths of capitalism are faith, hope, and love» («Moral Sources of Capitalism,» Society, September / October 1981).
But whoever wants,
on the other hand, really to behold and receive all
truth, and would have the
truth - world overhang him as an empyrean of stars, complex, multitudinous, striving antagonistically, yet comprehended, height above height, and
deep under
deep, in a boundless score of harmony; what man soever, content with no small rote of logic and catechism, reaches with true hunger after this, and will offer himself to the many - sided forms of the scripture with a perfectly ingenuous and receptive spirit; he shall find his nature flooded with senses, vastnesses, and powers of
truth, such as it is even greatness to feel.
And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and
on a
deeper level make the acknowledgement of
truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».
There are
truths on the surface of every parable which everyone can comprehend, but the real riches are only found by digging down
deep.
But as I have continued to read about the period, I have become convinced that it's
deepest impact was not
on our theory of
truth and its relationship to rationality, but rather
on our concept of our relationship to nature.
We remember that when Our Lord met the woman at the well in Samaria he knew that she had been married five times and that the man she was living with was not her husband.6 Still, he welcomed her kindly and spent time with her, explaining the Good News whilst never compromising
on the
truth about marriage and about her life, leading her gently but firmly to a
deeper understanding and eventually to conversion.
The council's constitution
on revelation implies that the fullness of the divine self - disclosure occurs only in Christ: «The
deepest truth about God and the salvation of man shines out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator and the fullness of all revelation (mediator simul et plenitudo totius revelationis).»
It has not seen the
truth in the Spanish folk proverb, that «to make love is to declare one's sorrows»; nor has it noticed that the
deepest expressions of love are not only painful to the one who loves but can also make inexorable demands
on the one who is loved — demands which are not arbitrary and certainly not coercive in their manner of expression, but which are inexorable none the less, since they expect of the beloved the full and complete realization of all his possibilities as a lover.
Sometimes, God does not permit some to move
on to maturity and
deeper spiritual
truths until they have learned, grasped or accomplished certain things that he had for them.
This massive shift has had a devastating effect
on the once -
deep cultural values that exerted their force upon most of society's institutions — values of
truth, duty, discipline, reading, beauty, family, tradition, justice, among many others.
The jury had not reckoned
on the seriousness of this little citizen; it was amazed at his passionate love of
truth and at his
deep commitment to the well - being of his fellow citizens.
I think there is
deep truth in concentrating
on loving and letting God do the rest.
... We are convinced, confident, and courageous in the New Evangelisation because of the power of the Person sending us
on mission - who happens to be the second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity - because of the
truth of the message, and the
deep down openness in even the most secularised of people to the divine.
These recent papal comments reveal a
deep vein of Catholic thought
on the role of art in the world and yet the sad
truth is that most English lessons in most British Catholic schools are all but untouched by such ideas.
Then ask God to help you move
on from whatever you have said or did so that you can know the
truth of His infinite love, and be drawn
deeper into fellowship with Him.
However, the
deeper purpose of this section will be to look at the bearing of Christian faith both as
truth and as power, regardless of denominational or ecclesiastical affiliations,
on man's perennial problems of frustration and fear, unmerited suffering, sin and death.
Covering subject's ranging from healthcare («I shudder to think where we'd be without the wide variety of prescription drugs to treat our maladies, such as think - shuddering») to the economy («Life is giving us lemons, and we're shipping them to the Chinese to make our lemon - flavored leadonade») to food («Feel free to
deep fry this book - it's a rich source of fiber»), Stephen gives America the dose of
truth it needs to get back
on track.
Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect,
on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «
deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary
truths, is the same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus
on the particular and the contingent.
This approach is what David Griffin has called Hartshorne's
deep empiricism, his conviction that
on the most fundamental levels of experience, the universal, necessary and common features of reality are embodied and careful attention to those basic experiences can yield general metaphysical
truths, including those about God.
The manager's constant squad rotation could easily be blamed for his team's lack of
on - field chemistry, but the
truth runs
deeper than that.
For spurs yes their not big club but, for him to say United is not a big club I totally disagree with him
on that let not carried away with what is happening to them now, but
deep down every body, s minds we know he not speaking the
truth.
In
truth, though, bogeys will be more common than eagles at 15 because the two - tiered green is protected by a lake to the left, a
deep, rock - hard swale to the right and sloping bunkers
on the right and left.
In
truth, Swansea's front - line looked increasingly lively, with Town having minimal time
on the ball in the
deep areas thanks to pressure from the energetic duo of Ayew and Narsingh.
In
truth Arsene Wenger has thrown Denilson in at the
deep - end and Denilson has kept his head above water, improving as the season goes
on.
Like most things, what you see
on the outside is a facade — you need to look
deeper to see the
truth of the matter.
A child has a
deep longing to discover that the world is based
on truth.
In the campaign the candidates specifically targeted sectors of the electorate based
on a number of subjective criteria: this makes it very likely that the polls merely represents the candidates» marketing campaign strategy and not some
deeper truth.
I touch
on my recent Grand Solar Minimum debunking videos;
on a new book that I am reading by Hector MacDonald called «
Truth; How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality», and also
on Cambridge Analytica's successful hacking of democracy based
on deep and dark manipulations of the
on average 5,000 data points
on each persons Facebook profile that they illegally hijacked from a Russian psychologist; as exposed by the guy from Canada with pink hair.
On a
deeper level, during what is called Satya, a
truth - sharing and communications skills session, one woman stated that when she initially saw that a male was present, she was disappointed.
The
truth, which you already know
deep down, is that beauty is all about what's
on the inside.
To dig a bit
deeper into the
truth about soy and your proteins, read our article
on how soy and testosterone are related.
It embodies an ancient philosophy based
on a
deep understanding of eternal
truths about the human body, the mind and the spirit.
As I explain in this article, if you look a little
deeper into the science behind inositol supplements there are a lot of fairly misleading
truth claims made, especially when it comes to the heavily promoted product Ovasitol, and inositol's effect
on fertility and weight loss.
Now onto the shadow that brought
on this entire shopping trip, presenting
Deep Truth.
The
truth is that a relationship goes
deeper than how nice someone's qualities look like
on a list.
After all of this examination about the experience of Man
on the Moon, the film goes even
deeper as Carrey discusses life itself and his own feelings
on truth and honesty.
This subtly perverse game of dress - up awakens
deep and dormant
truths about Einar, who is subsequently set
on the path towards self - acceptance.
While the previous entry focuses
on the strange world Haku is in and his developing relationships with others, Mask of
Truth focuses more
on the war itself, making those relationships
deeper and broadening their implications.
Taking place at the ends of the earth, or at least a remote stretch of Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film follows a long night that seems to brush
on all kinds of
deep truths about human nature that remain just out of grasp.