Sentences with phrase «only symbol of»

«Washington is not only a symbol of freedom and democracy, it's also a very romantic city, and I strive to communicate this romanticism and timelessness in my images,» he says.

Speaking at a press conference, Chairman of the political group, Dr. Onwubuya Breakforth said, they were saddened that the ugly trend could take place at the National Assembly, which is the only symbol of democracy.

Everyone sees that what is meant here is not mutilation but renunciation, and that the cutting off of the hand — or of the foot, or the plucking out of the eye — is only a symbol of the resolute renunciation of everything that lessens the preparation for God.

Which is why the Cross, once only a symbol of torture and death, is now the symbol of Eternal Life for those who believe.

In terms of the current use of language, this means that they remain metaphysical, refusing to think of «God» as only a symbol of the community's faith.

The only symbol of betrothal a wedding ceremony retains is having the couple begin the ceremony down by the congregation before moving up to the altar.

In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).

Classical discussions of the symbolic and analogical character of religious language were dependent on the metaphysical assumptions of Platonism or scholasticism, which can no longer be presupposed; more recent interpretations often hold that religious images are only symbols of man's subjective life.

Though the other two major international growers, Del Monte and Dole, have so far chosen not to get involved with the project (they say their own labels are the only symbols of quality needed), they and other smaller growers are making improvements in their operations - improvements that they say meet or exceed the standards set by the alliance.

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Social customer service company Conversocial partnered with New York University on research that found that more than one - third of all tweets to companies were about customer service issues, but that only three percent incorporated the company's Twitter username with the @ symbol.

America's presidential election is not only a constitutional right, it's a symbol of the country's freedom.

«I was the only duffer in the class, and many of the other women had these pants with a symbol on their butt, and their pants did not appear to be sweating as much as mine,» she recalls.

Only emergency support from the ECB is keeping the banks afloat and saving Greece from a chaotic euro exit that would inflict more pain on its people and gravely damage the currency, the strongest symbol of the EU's drive for an «ever closer union» on a continent once ravaged by two world wars.

The study found that only 42 percent of millennials — people born between 1981 and 1997 — use complex passwords combining random capitalization, numbers and symbols.

Though crucifixion on this cross only means physical death, not spiritual.The ankh was a symbol, not of death, but of life, and it is the ankh that was used by all Christians until the 4th century when the Vatican introduced the Roman cross for the first time.

you also need brackets around the mindless and heart symbols, or you are only dividing by love and subtracting the result of war from mindlessness.

If Pentecostals are sacramental, then it is highly ironic that they tend not to believe that there is any real spiritual power invested in the rites of baptism and Holy Communion, holding instead that they are only symbols and marginalizing their presence in their services.

Only a Christian could take a common act of kindness and compassion and transform it into a symbol of deep religious nonsense.

It is presumably the only religious symbol in a museum that is receiving millions of tax dollars.

John, how do you think the Jewish and Muslim family members (of which there were many) of those that died that day in those buildings feel every time they visit the memorial and see only a Christian symbol.

Although water is often considered to be a symbol of cleansing, at this moment, the clear water flowing out of the faucet symbolized only my feelings about my own Christian - walk and myself.

I'm sure they'd like their symbols there too, or is the land of the free only for Christian whackos like yourself?

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

It differs from the ethics of atheistic humanism only in its symbols and some phrases but not in its substance.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

A truly dialectical image of God (or of the Kingdom of God) will appear only after the most radical negation, just as a genuinely eschatological form of faith can now be reborn only upon the grave of the God who is the symbol of the transcendence of Being.

But now for Christians Jesus Christ appears not only as the symbol of an ethos in which the ultimate response to the inscrutable power in all things is one of trust.

In his essay «The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol,» Altizer continues this same theme: «The sacred can be actualized only by means of a dissolution of profane existence.

Like Tillich's, the heart of Bultmann's method lies in the translation of eschatological symbols into categories referring only to human existence.

In spite of great diversity of origin and symbol, and widely varying degrees of spiritual sensitivity, most of them are not only critical but contain an apocalyptic or millennial note.

From this people, he chose types of himself — Abraham, Moses, David — and finally he sent the perfect symbol of himself, his only Son.

These are only symbols, parables of love.

The Christian faith is the only world religion that takes as its logo an emphatic symbol of death.

Albion — Blake's symbol of the universal and cosmic «Man» — falls into the depths of darkness, and his fall is not only the fall of man but of all reality whatsoever.

The deepest truths can only be expressed in poetry, myth and symbol as some of the most successful authors of children's stories have realized.

Who you are I know only if you will allow me to sense — through a gesture, a text, a symbol, a story, a theory, a way of life — what central vision of existence actually empowers your life.

Only through such rites and symbols could I begin to give him over into the arms of his Maker.

As a symbol it is our clearest evidence and surest pointer to what God did not only for men on Calvary but of what God has always been seeking in love to do for his erring children.

All this is not to say that the symbol of the Kingdom of God is primarily or only ethical in content.

This has bothered me through the years because when we try to communicate the experience of salvation we can only use analogies, symbols and poetic images.

Although the temporal parameters of God's active reign in history are apparently indefinite in the Jesus traditions, it seems clear that the symbol of the Kingdom does not refer only to some supernatural realm or «time» at the close of history.

When we try to communicate the experience of salvation we can only use analogies, symbols and poetic images.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

Instead of assuming that some of our ideas are symbols, pointing to actualities beyond ourselves, why do we not assume that they point, if point they must, only to other symbols?

Those symbols engendered in the founding are only vaguely and imperfectly understood today and readily exchangeable for «security» and «rights» among a people who, in the end, may no longer be worthy heirs of the great sacrifice.

He only conceded the use of a simple cross as a Christian symbol.

But the only major body of nonbiblical symbols that we find in the words and acts of the founding fathers is not English but Roman.

Not only land, people and culture has transformed into raw - materials, labour and tourist souvenirs, but all symbols that provided meaning to life has turned into commodities Those realities that refused to assume itself in the form of a thing (commodity) have rendered valueless.

They do not even wear sandals (Q 10:4), perhaps as a symbol of penance, perhaps only to attest that they, even if unprotected, nevertheless get by.

Not only does religion often preserve the deepest symbols of ethnic identity, it also exerts a pull away from ethnic particularity to that which is morally and religiously universal.