Sentences with phrase «only dawn»

It is still immensely dynamic as your choices dictate how the quests play out, and yes, the consequences might only dawn on you a hundred hours later.

Soon, the surrounding mountains were engulfed in a glorious sunny fire, and the world around us took on a shine that only the dawn can deliver.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

Only dawned on me that my daughter was getting the trapped wind as well as me when she let out a really big fart the day after I had eaten a big plate of them LOL!

It only dawned on me that evening that I had not asked when they wanted me to start, or what I'm supposed to say, or... ah, the details in life will get you.

The only viable future for farming is very large or very small — large is simply never going to happen in Ireland, while small (organic / intensive / horticultural) is now only dawning on some farmers, years behind the likes of the Netherlands (or even rooftop farmers in Brooklyn?!).

It's only dawning on most scientists that we are under systematic attack, and that any consequential result will be casually and heartlessly subverted by the biggest pile of money that is threatened.

And this revelation, like most things, is something that only dawned on me quite recently.

Not exact matches

As holiday rituals go, it's a strange one: you get up at the crack of dawn to fight your way through crushing crowds (and often terrible weather), only to spend a day surrounded by utter pandemonium.

But if you're bookish (or even somewhat of a history buff), it only takes a stroll down memory lane to understand that many of these current issues have actually been around since the dawn of time, as have the suggested solutions to the age - old problems of greed, ignorance, inequality and suppression.

It only recently dawned on me as to why the guys you're trying to hire from the corporate world don't get emotional about this stuff or understand that it's not simply an interesting exercise or some kind of a game of back - and - forth bargaining.

«Only a decade after the dawn of employer review sites, we now see its effects on the balance of power which has shifted full - swing from employer to employee — now the most trusted and vocal sources of information in the modern job search.

It might dawn on the opponents of Trump that too often their arguments seem to apply only to the opposition, and observers will note the inconsistency.

Only later did it dawn on investors that the incremental buyers were called «Sub-Prime» for a reason and they were not as likely to repay those loans as the Prime borrowers had been historically.

They are studded with false dawns that lure investors in only to be creamed by the next down leg.

You can only learn so much by reading and it dawned on me that rich dad taught me through repetition.

Employees in some of our biggest firms slave well into the early hours only to get up at the crack of dawn, all in an attempt to avoid failure.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

Only with the dawn of the space age in the 20th century has it been possible for humans to travel far enough into space to verify by direct observation that the earth is a globe.

Only as I was drawing it did it begin to dawn on me what my subconscious was communicating.

I committed to rising just before dawn each day to pray, which not only broke my night - owl habits but also turned my heart and mind to the significance of the pre-dawn dark in the death and resurrection cycle.

When Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and said, «This is my body,» he was only repeating his own words at the dawn of creation, when he foresaw the fractured pieces of the world that would one day host him.

When the reality of God is eschatologically identified with his dawning Kingdom, then God can be known only as an active and apocalyptic process that even now is becoming all in all.

Only by abandoning its original faith in the dawning Kingdom of God that is in actual process of realizing itself could orthodox Christianity arrive at its belief in the transcendent and solitary God who is the Wholly Other.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

To the spiritual or radical Christian, the very name of Jesus not only symbolizes but also makes actually present the total union of God and man, and for that reason it likewise gives witness to a concrete reversal of history, and a dawning apocalyptic transfiguration of the cosmos.

When we reflect that the original message of Jesus was an eschatological proclamation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God, that the patristic Church transformed this message by a dissolution and elimination of its apocalyptic ground, that, ever since, the dogmatic and ritual foundations of the orthodox Church have been non-apocalyptic, and that it has only been in the non-verbal arts that Christendom has produced an apocalyptic imagery, then on this ground alone we would be fully justified in pronouncing Blake to be a revolutionary artist and seer.

These rich and diverse innovations and discoveries, many of them only now beginning to dawn on mainstream Western thought 50 years later, suggest that a thorough reappraisal of Albert Schweitzer is called for, so that we might «rediscover» him as a remarkable index to the religious breakthroughs needed in our own time to revitalize our spiritual vision.

He had felt it, for example, in the darkness of the paleolithic age when for the first time he ventured to put fire to his own use, or accidentally discovered how to produce it; in neolithic times when he found that by cultivating thin ears of grass he could turn them into rice and millet and corn; and much later, at the dawn of our industrial era, when he found that he could tame and harness not only animals but the tireless energies of steam and electricity.

To my dismay I realized that I had missed completely the dawning of the New Era, almost as if I had been there for the creation of light, but then was wisped away only to return on the day of rest.

It feels like going mad, this following - The voice from the starry night, the tent pegs pulled, Camels tracking through a dusty haze, The dawn on unknown dunes - the hollowing Out of normal, ordinary days, Like meal poured from a sack, till now we hold Only the echoes of a voice.

Today's physics has observed that the universe's initial conditions and physical constants were configured in such a delicate way during the cosmic dawn that, if these conditions and constants had been only slightly different, the universe would never have permitted the evolution of life and mind.

Nor will the result be the final Kingdom of God, but only its beginning, its outward manifestation, its «dawning point.»

The Principle teaches that the rise of technology and science is a sign not only of inexorable progress but also of the dawning of the Kingdom.

This is the Paul who is so deeply renewed in the dawning of modernity, but also the Paul who was the creator of Christian theology, a theology which if only in Paul is a purely and consistently apocalyptic theology, and Paul's realization of the ultimate polarity or dichotomy of consciousness is an apocalyptic realization, one reflecting an apocalyptic dichotomy between old aeon and new aeon, or flesh (sarx) and Spirit (pneuma).

When the reality of God is eschatologically identified with his dawning Kingdom, then God can be known only as an active and apocalyptic process that even now is becoming all in all... This is precisely the function of a poetic apocalypse.

In this second half of Romans 13 we see Paul, a radical Jew, excited about the dawning of the day of liberation, and calling on his readers to live as those who have already tasted of that freedom — and to do so in how they love not only each other, but strangers and enemies.

For this radical Jew that could only mean being implicated in the dawning of the great day, and in the mission of the Messiah to reconcile the world with God.

But Paul believes not only that the great day of liberation is about to dawn (he evidently underestimates the time it will take), but also that believers are not to be bystanders in that dawning.

The Church may set certain boundaries — may declare as anathema certain theories about the dawn and evolution of man — but she can only do so where such theories directly contradict a doctrine of faith.

Radical theology's «new forms of faith may be seen to have an apocalyptic form: the new humanity that they proclaim dawns only at the end of all that we have known as history; its triumph is inseparable from the disintegration of the cosmos created by historical man, and it calls for the reversal of all moral law and the collapse of all historical religion.

[At the dawn of modernity] it was assumed that Jewish ethics was only designed for the self «interest of the Jews, usually at the expense of whatever gentiles they might encounter in the world.

Not only did the coming of the Messiah mean that the eschatological age had dawned, i.e. that eschatological existence was possible within history.

This hate mongering derived from fear of people's differences be they racial, religious, or lifestyle has only led to unnecessary violence and death since the dawn of recorded history.

She was, so my wife says, four weeks old before it dawned on her that her hand was attached to the end of her arm, and only later did she realize she could control its movements.

Only now the victim is a young boy with the face of a sad - eyed angel; only now the darkness is lit by no Easter - dawn, but by the torch of a crematory fire, a fire whose smoke issues an unbroken night; only now God dies, instead of redeemOnly now the victim is a young boy with the face of a sad - eyed angel; only now the darkness is lit by no Easter - dawn, but by the torch of a crematory fire, a fire whose smoke issues an unbroken night; only now God dies, instead of redeemonly now the darkness is lit by no Easter - dawn, but by the torch of a crematory fire, a fire whose smoke issues an unbroken night; only now God dies, instead of redeemonly now God dies, instead of redeeming.

One needs only to consider the picture of the divine mother with her child as it appears to us from the dawn of time throughout the entire history of religions to the Madonna of the Far East — Kwan Yin, the Buddhist incarnation of mercy and compare these with the Christian pictures of the Mother Mary and her child to realize that Christian and non-Christian humanity alike have knelt before one and the same image.

This «scientific» temper in the study of religions developed only at the dawn of the modern period, namely, during the Enlightenment.

From the dawn of time, I knew that the only way I could create pure «freedom» for you was to take a hands off approach.

So, too, Nietzsche could understand such an ultimate and final movement as the dawning of absolute immanence, and an absolute immanence only possible as a consequence of the death of God.