Sentences with phrase «only free men»

And one of the speeches about «The only free men the world has ever known,» and literally had a moment of incandescent rage and shouted at the book, «You hunted slaves!»

I will say that Django Unchained is a beautifully constructed film in which, as Tarantino has said, Django goes from being a slave to being not only a free man, but a professional — a bounty hunter, trained by Schulz and become his partner.

Not exact matches

Since he's only on work release and technically not a free man, he would've been shackled at the legs and hands for the 5 hour bus ride back to civilization.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

I'd like to believe that my good deeds and my bad deeds are acts of invisible men... but I can't help but feel empowered by my one and only REAL RIGHT and REAL FREEDOM, free choice.

I should have expounded, about asking what harm there is, the only harm is from man and his free will, as God hasn't judged yet, only tested.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

Man of himself is tempted to oppose God's will, to seek to do his own will, to feel free only if he is autonomous; he sets his own autonomy against the heteronomy of obeying God's will.

More particularly, Christian realism about man teaches us that men need not only be inspired by high ideals in their time of need but also to be freed from bondage to idols.

To have an inward compass that you sail by is the only way you can be a free man.

Chaste be your mind and your body, and both in subjection, obediently, steadfastly seeking the aim set before them; only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

What we call salvation or justification is given to man, the creature and sinner, only through the free and undeserved grace of God, that is through God's free self - revelation in Jesus, the crucified and the risen Christ.

This can be accomplished only by God, through Christ, using free women and men to bring about a new creation.

However, a free man, and especially a sincere Christian, will know that only God is the infinite good without any negative admixture; he ought therefore to regard his own proposal in a spirit of criticism and to acknowledge the good qualities of that of his opponent.

As soon as we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be free.

Although all have free choice, none has free will, but only the spiritual man is aware of that fact.

The other labels for people groups, such as slave vs. free, man vs. woman, etc., only serve to divide.

Sexual exploitation of the unborn, the new born and youth of both sexes, together with the fact that even free men and women were expected to marry (usually arranged) and bear and rear children as a duty to empire and family, meant for many Christians that the only route to personal liberty led through the «freedom» of celibacy.

Freeing every woman and man on the face of the earth from poverty is not only its aim, but its steady, plodding achievement generation after generation.

The Reformation emphasized that the converted man is a free man, in certain respects answerable only to God.

And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

The free man has no purpose here and means there, which he fetches for his purpose: he has only the one thing, his repeated decision to approach his destiny.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

But what comes to the free man from without is only the precondition for his action, it does not determine its nature.

The Stoic said: «The only genuine good that life can yield a man is the free possession of his own soul; all other goods are lies.»

The spiritual man can only love when he is freed from the necessity to love, that is, when he knows himself already loved in his self - preoccupation.

Truth not only makes men free; it is also what free men make.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Because he is himself a creative agent living in community with other such beings, truth not only makes men free; it is also what free men make.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preferrence [sic] to others.

Only death ends your marriage, when your wife or husband dies you are no longer bound, but are free to marry a man who is a widower or a man never married before ie with a living wife.

• Which brings to mind an observation by G. K. Chesterton: The Church «is the only thing that frees a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.»

But according to Barth this only shows that Tillich has not received the grace from God whereby he would be free to believe what the Word of God truly teaches, that in this man Jesus God truly dwelt.

Freedom is never a mere choice between individual objects, but it is the self - realization of man who makes a choice, and only within this freedom in which man is capable of realizing himself is he also free as regards the material of his self - realization.

ignorant delusional people should be free to believe in and worship whatever imaginary men in the sky they choose but only in the privacy of their own homes and places of worship.

Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth,... and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

St. John says: «The truth will make you free», free for that freedom which one does not simply possess, which might be threatened only by others, but the freedom which every man must seek and for which he must struggle.

It can therefore perform its very own deed to which it is called, namely to receive God from God through God, only in this way, and thus all truth of man as a free being proclaims either this liberation of freedom by God or the freedom by which man becomes guilty before God.

It was only in 1977 that archivists discovered that, as a free man, Toussaint had owned slaves.

The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of Glory only.34

In every free act God is experienced non-explicitly, but truly; and what is meant by God is only experienced in this way, namely the Whither (incomprehensible by knowledge and will) of the one original transcendence of man, which consists in knowledge and love.

Only the man whose hope can stand the defeat of any particular project is free to hope «for all things,» that is, for whatever good may really be possible under God.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

If the history of revelation has reached its final eschatological phase with Jesus Christ, and if the absolute finality of this world's eschatological phase is not only a mere fact, because God will not reveal anything new, but is contained in the very essence of this phase, because the appearance of the God - man can be surpassed only by the direct vision of God himself — then this quality of the revelation in Christ must also apply to man as a free being.

Sartre says, «Two solutions and only two are possible: either man is wholly determined... or else man is wholly free.

It was only when this rigid view of scripture came to be questioned, and eventually abandoned by most, that men were free to examine the historicity of the many biblical narratives with the tools of historical method.