Sentences with phrase «only symbols»

The cigar and suit are only symbols and not to be taken seriously.

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.

It could turn the traditional world upside - down, and enabled the observer to contemplate only symbols, lines and color.

Excerpt from the catalog essay by Matthew Ritchie In Flaubert's «The Temptation of St Anthony,» the tortured hermit, besieged by an encyclopedic parade of gorgeous visions, finally calls out: «Somewhere there must be primordial figures whose bodily forms are only symbols, could I but see them I would know the link between matter and thought; I would know in what Being consists!»

This actually started when I was staring at a periodic table while giving a final exam: I realized that I could make thousands of words, like ScAtTeRbRaIn (scatterbrain), using only symbols from the periodic table.

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.

It isn't that we never experience religious fear, but isn't our dread characteristically a dread born of unbelief, the secret terror that the analogical and symbolic character of our religious speech is but a cover - up of our embarrassment over the fact that we have only symbols and no proofs?

Clearly, it is one question whether certain psychical terms can be coherently established as theological analogies rather than frankly accepted as only symbols, while it is another and far more serious question whether any such terms at all can be coherently classified as truly analogical rather than merely symbolic.

These are only symbols, parables of love.

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.

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).

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 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.

Let's just ignore all other symbols and leave up the only symbol that matters.

For by Hartshorne's own criterion of the difference between an analogy and a mere symbol — namely, that the first differs from the second in not drawing a comparison between God and one concrete species of entity in contrast to all others — any comparison between God and the thinking animal can not possibly be an analogy but only a symbol (1962, 134).

In a response to another Catholic writer, Mary McCarthy, who declared that the sacrament of Holy Communion was only a «symbol,» Flannery remarked «If it is only a symbol, then to hell with it.»

It was only a symbol in the days of Noah, but now saves.

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

God is not only symbol but a reality that informs and molds those who open themselves to him.

If it was the only symbol in the classroom your kids went to, in every classroom in america?

The nets were only a symbol for all that must be abandoned in order to follow Christ.

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.

The French Ambassador said the new flights were thus not only a symbol, but reflected the reality of a standing situation and that the future held a great promise for mutually gainful co — operation between the two countries.

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.

The only symbol that was purposefully included in the book was the bright green snake who lives under Jack Dolce's bed.

«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.

Perhaps he felt uncomfortable in English — or perhaps the temporal is still only a symbol.

Not exact matches

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.

If so compelled, use only a passcode «like» the one you normally use; mix and match the letters, numbers, and symbols — and even then be wary.

Note that your trademarks might include not only your name, but also a slogan, symbol, picture or logo.

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.

Additionally, Buenos Aires has introduced Academia Buenos Aires Emprende, an initiative to educate citizens about enterprise and business building, demonstrating a desire to promote and enrich the startup ecosystem, not only for local residents but also as a symbol for Latin America and the global startup scene.

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.

, an initiative to educate citizens about enterprise and business building, demonstrating a desire to promote and enrich the startup ecosystem, not only for local residents but also as a symbol for Latin America and the global startup scene.

They even have pre-built templates that only require you to provide a name and a symbol.

Stock and option symbols, prices and volume data shown for illustrative purposes only.

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.

Atheism has its own symbol, evangelical tactics, charity fundraisers, and trolls like you who say things like «our way is the only way, all other faiths / ideologies are incompatible and must be destroyed.»

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.

To try to keep only one religious symbol up is a similar attempt to declare that the Christian god is the only right one.

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.