Sentences with phrase «on human desires»

It's not about a full - scale assault on human desires, capitalism, and free markets.

Could it be that by this very severity Jesus intended to throw cold water on our human desire for religious flights to God?

Worst's paintings challenge viewers with these questions while at the same time simply allow us to savour their beauty, opulence and richness of detail, all perhaps a meditation on human desire.

How a 52 inch screen gives an immersive entertainment experience where you can shut the world out completely (to play on the human desire for escapism).

While One Million Kingdoms combines original imagery of astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned moon landing with passages from Jules Verne's novel «Journey to the Centre of the Earth» and focuses on the human desire to explore the unknown, AnnLee ponders in Two Minutes Out of Time about her existence as a fictional casing that waits to be filled.

Not exact matches

we put a more human touch on our business, which is what drives our success and desire to move forward.»

These three brands have tapped into something deeper in all of us with their spot - on video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our love of nature and adventure, our need for human connection and the desire for creative thought and expression.

Its power is based on the simple human desire to be connected and the tools that now exist to enable you, as an individual to fill that desire.

The legal profession can easily cease being useful to its clients whenever it no longer tempers guidance on the law with reality, particularly business reality, as well as the human desires of clients.

The decline of BB is perhaps a more familiar story, but «Losing the Signal» enhances the drama with personal human stories: how the founders» genius and strengths ultimately became their downfall: the reliance on efficiency of network and battery use ignored the groundswell of desire for an always - with - me computer.

For anyone who thinks the Germans have thrown in the towel on their desire to proclame themselves the Master Race of this planet and treat other human beings as nothing more than inanimate objects, think again.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

Often concentrating on the early writings such as the Habilitationsschrift and the Lublin lectures (neither has been translated into English), the author indicates where the young thinker incorporated Scheler's phenomenological value ethics, Kant's formalistic ethics of duty, and Aquinas» understanding of the rational desire of the will into his own synthesis of human action and value.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

Since His desire is that every single human on earth be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth, may we pray and work to that end, trusting in His power, crying out for His grace and mercy.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.

On the other hand, he would worry over the competing desires corporations and governments face that might lead to a kind of rational planning that does not see human persons as a whole.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

We may misinterpret his desire to bless us and try to crown him an earthly king, but his kingdom is not based on human needs or human approval.

Though much of today's science is applied science — the: discovery of new processes and the making of new products to satisfy human wants — it all rests on the desire to find out with certainty what can be known about the world of nature.

«The Gospel of Barack Hussein Obama According to Mark» is designed to initiate the reader into a meditation on what it means to be human, what it means to be a manifestation of God, and how Barack Obama is a unique and important manifestation of God's desire for human flourishing.

In the richest of human relations such as those of lover with beloved, husband and wife, child and understanding parent, friend and friend, fellowship on a high plane intensifies desire for the values mutually prized.

As the climax of the narrative it demonstrates how the consubstantial principles of unity and equality are betrayed when one chooses to base one's actions on the desire to please humans rather than God.

Christians, on the other hand, believe that God desires to reveal himself, and would contend that the fact that humans are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), even if fallen, provides some basis for some understanding of his character.

The New Testament message deals with human experience and throws its revealing light on human motives, desires, and action.

The democracy of desire rests on the principle of human self - determination and self - sufficiency, which is the antithesis of the principle of reverence upon which democracy should be founded.

Relationships consist of circles within circles, and we humans are powerfully motivated by a desire to be «on the inside.»

Restraint must also be put on the needs and desires of the human body.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

This occurs when we think of heaven as the place of salvation and when we ask what must we do to «get in,» or when we think of heaven or salvation as requiring a way of life on earth that really limits our happiness or natural desires or human goals.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

In its response to the Government's consultation on what content should be included in the guidance, the Church says pupils should be taught that «humans express their sexuality differently and that there is diversity in sexual desire».

These again are not limits on human liberty; they provide the context freely to give up one's immediate desires to meet the needs of others.

The report shows a sort of tortured desire for some kind of good, some kind of affirmation of human dignity: Wonderfully, it calls on Member States to «implement policies and measures aimed at preventing people from having abortions for social or economic reasons and providing support to mothers and couples in difficulty.»

Driven by personal tragedy... and a desire to convert every single human on the planet to his misguided, sectarian belief system, man builds wooden symbols of Jew who may have lived 2000 years ago.

So instead of valuing human experience their emphasis has been on the exercise of the intellect, on putting the doctrine straight — God is understood to be transcendent, wholly other, unchangeable, hardly one who inspires a desire for a personal relationship.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

«Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8 - 9; 63:2 - 3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).»

youre looking at it from a human perswepctive.as if God was only human and human like qualities (ie being just based on feelings, rather than based on nature) God desires for us to be in eaven... to give us the best..

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

Humanism focuses on complete human fulfillment, not on impulses and desires.

Both Law and Love have the power to change human behavior, the law relies on fear of punishment, but only love can change a «heart of stone» into a» heart of flesh» turning what was duty and obligation into desire.

Examples found in its policies on civil and human rights, national health care, church - state issues and judicial appointments lead me to conclude that the administration uses any means necessary to gain the desired ends.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

The range of things on which human desire is focused is, as a matter of fact, infinite, and the plasticity of desire is distinctively human.

The cautious drafters bend over backwards to affirm that «we have no wish or desire to place this issue on a pedestal» and the statement closes by saying, «We need to work for the protection and preservation of all the kinds of animals God has created, while prioritizing human needs.»

In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest; which, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself in the benefits of which they are not included.

The violent death of Jesus on the cross revealed the truth about religious - political violence: that it is we humans who want and desire it; not God.

By its stress on event and on patterning and integration, by its insistence that relationships constitute an entity, by its concern for an awareness of the depths of human experience (motivations, desires, drives, and «emotional intensity,» for example), as well as by its recognition that we are part of the world and continuous with what has gone before us and even now surrounds and affects us, process thought not only has been in agreement with the newer scientific emphasis on «wholeness,» but has also contributed a perspective which can give that emphasis a meaningful setting and a context in the structure of things in a dynamic universe.

It is, in essence, a biblical reflection on the meaning and experience of human embodiment and erotic desire.