Sentences with phrase «other people and nature»

Likewise, adapting an eco-friendly lifestyle can culminate in an appreciation for the planet, connection to other people and nature, and a sense of contribution that will effect many generations to come.

Not exact matches

It's human nature to want to help people, but what a lot of us don't realize is that when we jump in with advice or a solution, we're shutting the other person down and destroying trust.

While I recognized a few people from other events, the international nature of GES ensured that the variety and diversity of entrepreneurs was beyond anything I'd seen before.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

It's human nature to react to financial losses more strongly than we do to slow, steady gains — which unfortunately leads some people to «buy high and sell low» rather than the other way around.

The potential that blockchain technology has to impact our world is tremendous, and the decentralized nature of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies definitely appeals to young people.

How sad to claim to be a chaplain and not be able to tell a dying patient anything about the specifics on the other side of the veil; what will happen to a person who has died, what they will be doing, what is the exact nature of God and those who depart from this life.

(the way someone thinks about the world) Do you no view people of the world with Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause?

The nature of the insults have changed, but insults have been around forever and bad as they are, they sure beat people killing each other over political and religious differences, practices frequent in the past and common around the globe today.

People who can't stand up for themselves and are preyed upon by others typically are in favor of government regulation, laws, things of this nature to protect them.

The staff and other people from the church understand the nature of these events, and make sure they talk to all of the new people who attend.

The other book (Who Walk Alone, by Margaret Evening, 1974) speaks of the gifts, sensitivity and loving natures characterizing many homosexual persons and includes this statement:

The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

Part of the problem with me in being forthright and honest with fellow - Christians is that I'm rather shy, and am not by nature a confrontive person — unless I'm boxed into a corner and have no other choice.

This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.

Suppose that by nature you have no great interest outside yourself and have no desire to serve other people or ameliorate their lot.

While most people do not recognize it, they also have a view of the nature of reality which undergirds and shapes these other notions.

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

Let us speak of a whole life of sufferings or of some person whom nature, from the very outset, as we humans are tempted to say, wronged, someone who from birth was singled out by useless suffering: a burden to others; almost a burden to himself; and yes, what is worse, to be almost a born objection to the goodness of Providence.

«Transgender people enlarge life and our understanding of spirituality and justice and the nature of God and Christian community... we can offer our truth... but it's helpful if other people allow us to do it.»

It is in others nature to believe in the spirit and eternal life, it requires faith - a gift that these people do not have.

A clergyman's degree of effectiveness in counseling will depend, to a considerable extent, upon his ability to relate to people; his sensitivity and insight in recognizing the nature of the problem; his non-judgmental acceptance of the person in distress; and his knowledge of whether, when, and where to involve other helping resources.

A third position was taken by the Nestorians, who not only held that there were two natures in Christ, but that there were also two distinct persons, the one divine and the other human.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

Other statements, notably various declarations issued from 1969 to 1989 by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. and a 1984 statement by the Chinese Catholic bishops, appeal instead to the nature of the human person and the idea that life begins at conception.

Isn't it a shame that human nature, being what it is, has special words for people who act in truth and kindness, showing courage for others instead of only self - righteousness or self - preservation?

God does draw all people to Himself, and He reveals His nature and His will through creation, conscience, reason, and a variety of other sources.

Of course, for most people, before they can ever believe in Jesus for eternal life, they need to have other beliefs about themselves, the existence and nature of God, and some other biblical truths.

The verses of the Qur «an command, advise, warn, and encourage people to observe the phenomena of nature, the succession of day and night, the movements of stars, the sun, moon, and other heavenly bodies.

Sorry peeps, but the telling of one story to next will almost always change from person to person; some elements will disappear and others will be added to fix the nature of the storyteller.

I know there are going to be a bunch of people out there that scream that God can do anything and could create a sinless Child, but you can not ignore the HUMAN nature of Jesus, so unless God created something other than human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original Sin.

When we turn, in the light of these preaching comments, to pastoral care, the critical question is whether the attempts to understand and accept, to get inside the other person's frame of reference, to apprehend and help to clarify the nature of his specific conflicting feelings, all together imply the absence of judgment.

Nature is beauty, life can be simple, people can care about each other and we can and should work for the betterment of humanity instead of arguing about whose god reigns.

The nature of this Koinonia in Christ is that it transcends all communities defined by nature, culture and even ideology and religion and opens people for inter-personal communication with each other.

(People could well differ on what this would allow us to say about God, with some opting, for example, for Whitehead's primordial nature of God while rejecting the consequent, with others considering even the primordial nature too speculative and speaking only of «creative interchange» or «creative passage,» and with still others considering the consequent nature of God the most empirically grounded feature of Whitehead's doctrine.)

The individuals in these groups, moreover, are regarded as cells of an organic whole rather than as persons interacting with each other in relations some of which are of a more and some of a less determined nature.

Bad things happen to us because there is violence in nature (storms, earthquakes, floods, etc.), people are often either careless or brutal, and because bodies are subject to disease and other defects.

Since persons live inextricably in relationships, a «good will» always involves harmonization with the wills of others and with nature.

It does not reflect prevailing patterns of human behavior... If you look around carefully, you will see that most people are not really maximizers, but instead what you might call «satisfiers»: they want to satisfy their needs, and that means being in equilibrium with oneself, with other people, with society and with nature.

The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our relation to our own and other people's freedom.

There continued to be some diversity of opinion on the exact nature of the resurrection body, and although all wanted to affirm the essential continuity of the person, by referring to the «same body», some allowed more room than others for some kind of spiritual transformation of the body.

I was an assembly - line employee for several years, and there, despite the presence of hundreds, even thousands of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant in a field or a herdsman tending sheep, laboring in rhythm — not with nature, to be sure — but with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.

This credo and strategy must be developed in alliance with secular futurists and other persons who are committed to a vision of a planetary brotherhood, living at peace with nature and with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources of the world.

The interpretation of the present nature of human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in - Relation and destined to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconciled to God.

Despite the emotional appeal of two people of the same sex who love each other in a way that imitates a married couple, their union can not effect the true purposes of marriage and family, and this can be demonstrated abstractly with reason and concretely through nature, even to non-believers.

In other words, science by definition has boundaries, and when they speak as scientists, people simply can not address the question of whether or not anything exists outside of nature.

The religion of early humans focused on the maintenance of stable tribal existence in the face of nature's wild elements and the hostility of other peoples.