Sentences with phrase «order of living things»

Whatever the reasons for our spectacular failure to communicate meaningfully and sensibly about what somehow could be real about the workings of the Earth and the placement of the human species within the natural order of living things, these circumstances are incredible and present the human family with a potentially colossal threat to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as a fit place for human habitation.

It would be my preference that you would be found to be simply wrong and all the politicians and economists, their benefactors and the talking heads in the mass media actually had an adequate enough understanding of the way the world works and a realistic recognition of the «placement» of the human species within the natural order of living things.

We humans appear to have an artificial, inflated view of ourselves due to commonly held beliefs in illusory cultural transmissions about the placement of humanity in the natural order of all living things.

This scientific evidence appears to contradict widely shared and consensually validated, perhaps preternatural thought that, when it comes to human population dynamics, the human species is not part of the natural order of living things and somehow, inexplicably, apparently exempt from the known «laws» of biophysical reality.

One day, I believe some great person like Dr. James Hansen will be President of the United States, someone with his clear and coherent, scientifically - organized view of the way the world in which we lives works and of the way our all - too - human species fits within the natural order of living things.

And when we saw the absence where Mama and Zayde once stood, an awareness collapsed me at the knees, because I saw that this world was inventing a different order of living things.

This tendency could account for the internal order of living things and of many inanimate structures as well.

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

Not exact matches

«One of the most important things I do to help maximize my performance at work is to get your personal life in order through morning and evening routines.

If there is one characteristic that you need to have in order to have a fulfilled life of purpose, impact, and prosperity it's getting comfortable doing the things that scare you the most.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

And so how thankful we can be that He never, not once in all of Scripture, tells us that in order to receive eternal life, we have to promise Him certain things or a certain level of obedience.

Trying to live by the Word makes things not easier but harder within the complexities of the social order.

So my understanding of giving up your life in order to have life is in letting go of and grieving the loss of things in your life that you have and have maybe even been beneficial for you for a while but are hindering you having life in its fullest.

There, and from there, in him and through him we shall hold all things and have command of all things, we shall find again the essence and the splendour of all the flowers, the lights, we have had to surrender here and now in order to be faithful to life.

He is the Living Mind of God coming into his own things and gathering it to himself in order to complete their communion with the Father and, because of the Fall, also to buy back and restore his broken inheritance among men.

In reflection on the promise in Revelation that on the day of shalom «there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away,» Wolterstorff writes: «I shall try to keep the wound from healing, in recognition of our living still in the old order of things.

«In the family,» writes Francis, «we first learn how to show love and respect for life; we are taught the proper use of things, order and cleanliness, respect for the local ecosystems and care for all creatures.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Grace is a powerful thing but to live a life of non-repentance only to use the «get out of jail free card» in one's dying breath is a twisted concept that has been theologically exploited by Evangelicals in order to «get the numbers up» and provide family members of those who have died with a warm feeling that their loved one made the right choice at the end.

lives of all people — given the fact that we do some things as ends in themselves without ulterior motive or outside design, freely entering into such activity within its own time (a playtime) and its own space (a playground) and its own order (a playbook)-- it is surprising that we understand play so poorly.

For the subject - object relation is an assertion of ego, one's ordering the world about his subjective, personal consciousness, and as such it offers a handhold to all of the invidious evaluations that separate men from things, from each other, and from their own deepest life itself.

We live in a period of rapid changes of all kinds, and we have come to accept change, development and progress as part of the order of things.

If these two things happen — and they are surely interdependent — a new and benevolent order of civilization may emerge in which every individual can lead a satisfying life.

With respect to the American people, the judiciary has in effect declared that the most important questions about how we ought to order our life together are outside the purview of «things of their knowledge.»

And we want an explanation that will make sense, restore some kind of order, put things in perspective, help us to trust in the ultimate goodness and meaning of life.

External constraints can not bind the person who lives in obedience to the natural order of things.

Indeed, in the Greek conception of things, this was the goal of soul life: to escape the created world of space and time in order to abide in its proper state of contemplative perfection.

Your spiritual life is going to evolve for the rest of your life (all healthy things grow over time) so the goal here isn't to decide what you believe for sure and never waver from it, but start teaching yourself the tools for what a healthy spiritual life needs in order to grow.

On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void in the lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing in these silly myths in order to have a reason to do good things and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our society and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great reward for themselves or some great punishment after death in order to motivate them to be good.

There is no such thing as a Christian method, or code, or set of rules that would apply to the whole realm of human life in order to tell us at each step what is the proper way to do things.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

But now if the individual, yes, if you, my listener, and I must admit to ourselves that we were far from living in this way, far from that purity of heart which truthfully wills but one thing; must admit to ourselves that the questions demanded an answer, and yet in another sense, in order to avoid any deception, did not require an answer, in that they were, if anything, charges against ourselves which in spite of the form of the question changed themselves into an accusation: then should the individual, and you, my listener, and I join together in saying, «Indeed our life is like that of most others»?

It is aimed not at the total negation of a part of creation, but at the right ordering of created things within the whole economy of life.

He wants to write about the life of Christ in the order that things happened.

Familial life when at its best is so ordered that the personal quality of others is augmented; they can not be treated as if they were merely objects or things to be used by one person simply to promote that person's own development.

The Bible will always be a valuable book for people curious as to what people believed in lieu of facts during the times when people, mostly Europeans and people dominated by Europeans, ordered their lives and justified the things they did by appealing to an imaginary God.

According to Genesis 6:19 - 22, God ordered Noah to bring «of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort... into the ark.»

This is always a little embarrassing for me because I save my best, most personal writing for my books and tend to hammer out most of my blog posts before I've even had my second cup of coffee in the morning, which is a hazy, disorienting time in which I am strictly prohibited from making important life decisions or ordering things from the internet.

In order to live in these thriving relationships it is vital that we are willing to live with discomfort; exercise intentional decision making about how to spend time, energy, money, and relational capacity; seek to understand «the other» and myself; communicate a lot (mostly asking questions) in a posture of humility; willingness to experience unfamiliar things, and give up some non-essentials that get in the way.

It means that Jesus elevates the relationship between a man and a woman in the order of creation, making it into a flesh and blood living symbol of His love for His Church, «a sign of a sacred thing.»

So now the most basic goods of life come to them only with pain, as they learn in their own bodies how valuable these goods are by how much they are willing to bear — in effect, what price they are willing to pay — in order to have these good things.

We criticized radical Islam as a natural outworking of the violent tone of the Qur» an without acknowledging the fact that the God of Israel ordered his people to kill every living thing in Canaan, from the elderly to the newborn.

But I happen to believe life (shit) happens and God rarely intervenes in the natural order of things.

Looking at our universe, we observe the stable laws of physics, the scientifically measurable and predictable qualities of matter, the ordered relationships of organisms to their environment and the process we call «evolution» by which living things develop.

That is a sad sad statement seems like you are judging and want everyone to think like you, fact is we are all different I would hate to think that Heaven is filled with robots who have to do this or do that in order to be right with God we did not ask to be created, we are just living our lives based on our view and interpretation of things, we can not possibly think like Jesus because we are not perfect, fact is I do nt want to worship a God that would» ALLOW» a place like HELL to exist, also tell me where the bible mentions hell, just once.

Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the life of man.

And if you are an actual Rev then you are only one of two things; A scammer as you make your living off perpetuating the scam in order to fleece your marks out of their money.

This allows us to neurologically wire our understanding of life, ourselves and the natural order of things.

In one of his characteristically succinct formulations Pieper himself once stated the connection in a way especially fitting if we seek to contemplate the significance of his life's work: «The ultimate perfection attainable to us, in the minds of the philosophers of Greece, was this: that the order of the whole of existing things should be inscribed in our souls.