Sentences with phrase «other than the reality»

Modern man can know faith only as a «scandal»; faith is wholly other than the reality which we most deeply are.

Faith, in our time, appears to be opposed to the very existence and reality of modern man; the reality — or illusion — of faith is wholly other than the reality which we know.

We have no real facts to work off of here other than the reality that people are making it a big deal.

Not exact matches

«First, because it's a very limited downgrade, only on two out of three banks, and especially since Moody's rates them better than the other two agencies (Standard & Poor's and Fitch), so, in reality, it put them at the same level or even slightly higher than the other agencies.»

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

While we know there is more to a person than how he or she looks, in reality, potential clients, colleagues and other individuals you encounter will make judgments based on your appearance.

Some would answer lack of discipline, others lack of motivation, or impatience, but whatever wording you choose, all these responses boil down to one reality — real change, real accomplishment, often takes a lot longer than we anticipate, or like.

The reality is I have to work harder than other brands to do that.»

But for other targeted groups, like the superwealthy or high - tech workers, we're dealing with more myth than reality.

Instead, choose to acknowledge the uncomfortable reality that your product comes with a premium price, and use that as an opportunity to explain why it's significantly better than other options on the market.

On the other hand, researchers suspect that many of the issuers tailored their disclosure to portray a rosier picture than exists in reality.

But the tax environment in California has long been higher than many other states and the recent economic events have merely reinforced and escalated that reality for wealthy residents.

The force of sanctions meant the Islamic Republic had to adapt to the reality of lower oil prices much earlier than other oil exporters.

Despite the fact that Russia has plentiful uranium supplies within its border rendering any Australian or other uranium sale ban toothless, sometimes optics are more important than reality in moving markets and it appears that this is the case here.

The purpose of The Long View is to measure family firms against criteria that are specifically tailored to their governance realities, and to provide a framework to compare them against each other, rather than against the norms of widely - held issuers.

I FULLY believe in a creator and spiritual reality, but I think the GREAT creator, not the various imposters (Including the dieties of JEws, Muslims and Christians) who have fun watching us kill each other over theological syntax disagreements, has MUCH better things to do than have personal conversations with any of us, dumb blondes included.

Both of these statements are nothing more than declarations, like so many others often used by Christians, to add the semblance of authority to a belief which in reality has no basis whatsoever.

As I've said before, everyone believes that they are correct; so yes, I believe that I understand reality better than others; but, and this is important, only in the same way that you believe that you understand reality better than I do.

@ jonathan, You confessed: «I believe that I understand reality better than others:» That is never a sentence I would utter — it is so full of misunderstandings.

Many many other places, but you won't accept reality I already know... you think the book is more than the product of men's imaginations, so trying to show you where it is false is something you are not willing to hear... you would rather believe the fake pearls men planted in your book.

Peace to you Reality and Guys for helping me to realize why you dispute religions and not for disbelieving but for knowing that this is not what is reflected on earth towards each other as you saw more hate among them than it is love and more wars among them than it is peace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy causes..

I believe that I understand reality better than some others, but also less than some others.

I guess the aggrieved individual or pack may suspect that the questioner has raised some valid issues and without any basis other than someone expressed a doubt or belief that threatened to take them outside of their psychological comfort zone, the complaint would not be taken seriously by the offending honest lover / seeker after reality / truth.

These people can't accept that reality because it would mean that they have no reason to oppose homosexuality other than a completely arbitrary rule that divides humanity into two different classes without any real reason to do so.

But for Hegel such a subject can and must contain such contradictory predicates; indeed the subject - predicate paradigm is nothing other than an attempt to ignore such contradiction which affords mind its motion, and to rigidify, calcify, and compartmentalize a reality that is fluid and interconnected.

And it is this God who consistently fails to appear in Process and Reality, other than as a negative or a kind of after - image.

The picture is unsparing in its depiction of a group of children without any interest other than getting enough sex and drugs to keep them out of touch with reality.

«4 Affirmation of being in the form of the Promethean spirit is a rebellion against the sacred, for the sacred reality can be known only as wholly other than the man - made world of being.

Reason like all evolutionary processes evolves toward maturation, drives toward a critical threshold where it is qualitatively transformed, for all growing realities maintain themselves only by becoming other than themselves.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

Recall what we said earlier about the nature of qualitative transformation.2 The notion of qualitative transformation means that a developing or evolving reality always evolves from A to non-A, since for a thing to maintain itself, it must become other than itself.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

Being followed, harassed, frisked or stopped for no apparent reason (other than one's darker skin color) is simply a reality for many black people, especially black men.

One argument which has been attempted against its historicity has been that there are ancient accounts of floods to be found among other peoples; however, rather than discounting the reality of the Flood I view this as corroborative.

First, though most Christians do not speak hatefully toward others or about others, the sad reality is that the media and the internet gives such examples of hate speech from Christians way more publicity than it deserves, which in turn gives the impression that this is the way all Christians are, which is not true.

Consequently the Church has less reason than any other historical reality to fear its historical character.

Whitehead's commitment refuses any reality whatsoever to that which is other than consciousness or experience.

It's just a way that our human minds measures how physical reality behaves (some of us, like Hawking, do this better than others, but either way, it's just all in our heads, or if we write it down, it becomes an abstraction on paper.

This commitment refuses any reality whatsoever to that which is other than consciousness or experience.

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

And the thing is that you haven't even given all of the theologies and theories to even be brought up to date; that is except only the only Reality finds appropriate without even proving why those particular theories and theologies are even better than others.

Or you can continue to disregard reality, hating people for no reason other than the vain hope that some unsubstantiated super-being will reward you for your inflexible ignorance.

That might be true in some abstract sense, but it misses the reality that ISIS and the Assad regime are fighting relatively moderate rebel groups rather than each other.

And if the example of Jesus can be taken seriously, those who identify with the reality of the Kingdom of God must expect nothing other than the possible loss of their own personal security and that of their group.

As Christians, Birch and Cobb believe that in many respects the Whiteheadian vision of reality is more compatible with biblical points of view than are other visions, Platonic for example, on which Christian in the past have relied.

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

In other words, 46 % are dumber than a post, 32 % have a shot at someday grasping reality, and 15 % are fighting a battle of ignorance that can never be won.

If we imagine that a Jesus reborn in the twenty - first century would do other than excoriate and denounce those who seek to spill the blood of innocents — as though the era of Herod had returned also — then we have to concede that Christianity has been rendered a husk of its former reality.

The kind of action from social awareness that is demanded by perfect love is such as must admit the tragic reality that there are people who are genuinely intent upon using their freedom to destroy the freedom of others, and that, under certain circumstances, love itself may dictate that «It is better that many should die prematurely than that nearly all men should live in a permanent state of hostility or slavery» (MVG 173).

In reality, how much pointing out of sin is being done in our churches other than the sin of homosexuality?