Sentences with phrase «practical men of»

Like other notable Whig imperialists such as Stanley Baldwin and Edward Heath, Cameron sees himself as one of the «practical men of the world, genially tolerant rather than self - righteously shrill.

The Holy Roman Empire persisted, and to the Emperors remained something of the prestige attached to their office, but it did not command as much as formerly the imagination of the dreamers and of the practical men of affairs.

Dreamer as this poet was, he could well picture glowing ideals which the practical men of affairs might struggle toward only as time and circumstance would permit.

Not exact matches

... The practical effect of the stress upon «soul competency» as the cardinal doctrine of Baptists was to make every man's hat his own church.

It is not smugness, therefore, but sheer rightness that this man should be cheered «not to have exposed my inhibitions but to have hit upon some marvelously practical and obdurate part of myself.»

Employing research on the worldwide drift of men from parental responsibility, Browning examines social, moral, religious, and economic dynamics that are weakening the family, and proposes both practical and theoretical resources for strengthening the institution of marriage.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

But Mascall thinks that what men really need is not sympathy in the sense of feelings but help of a practical kind.

Real Christianity is good bread - and - butter stuff which nourishes men's souls by the worship of the true God and by the exercise of practical compassion.

The modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher who emphasised the practical and gave almost no thought to men's higher purposes.

In our materialistic times, man is identified as homo faber — which means that it is his use of tools, his utilization of wood and stone, that differentiates him from the animals; that it is his practical reason, his doing, that marks him as man.

Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so much as «the man of practical wisdom» ¯ that is, the person in your environment who habitually makes the wisest and bravest decisions of anyone else you know.

Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace»

'» Yes, I believe because of communion, but still I am lonely, for what can a man of faith like myself say to a society for which «practical reasons of the mind have long ago supplanted the sensitive reasons of the heart» (Soloveitchik), and which «renounced the search for a great light» (Francis)?

Pope Benedict has spoken of this and followed up with practical and assertive statements emphasising the real needs and aspirations of today's young men and women.

It is the combination of men and the world: of men's calling to dominatethe world, their practical ability to do so, their interest in making the world serve their communities and of the world's own potential to provide the stuff men need and want.

He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood as being a piece with man's own nature and experience.

In a century that had seen two hideous world wars and innumerable examples of massive human suffering, John Paul established a new Feast of Divine Mercy, giving men and women a practical means of accessing the forgiveness of a loving God.

Santorum is man filled with criticisms of the Obama administration, but who has not a single practical solution to ANY of the nation's problems.

Hence in the practical risk of the unforeseen inner - worldly future man realizes his eschatological hope by looking away from himself to the absolute which is not in his power.

On the most immediate, practical level, these men saw the necessity of protecting the free conscience from its own tyrannical tendencies, which protection they achieved by separating the power of religious establishments from the power of the state.

«Numberless, simple but very practical questions were asked by them, not in a cavilling spirit, like the Brahmins and Vedantists of the plains, but on the atonement, fall of man, sin, misery, future punishment, etc..

For both spiritual and practical reasons, the environment should fall within the mission field of Christian men in the twenty - first century.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

Alongside and dependent on the rich development of aesthetic, scientific, and mathematical distancing arose other modes of understanding man, which were called forth initially by the practical exigencies of political life.

Nevertheless, it was not these practical advantages that constituted man's true distinctiveness, but rather the greatly increased unconscious psychic activity organizing the whole of experience for its own sake.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

Hence, what was demanded must be a practical act within the power of man to effect.

The university was to «advance the worldly practical purposes of men and the benefit of society.»

The religious reflex of the real world can, in any case, only then finally vanish, when the practical relations of everyday life offer to man none but perfectly intelligible and reasonable relations with regard to his fellow - men and to Nature.

In practical application, Kings and Rulers would often use c - a-s-t-r-a-t-e-d men or eunuchs, as those who were charged with the management and care of women's chambers.

How well the «practical» men of the time might scoff!

«27 Professor Calhoun warns all sentimental humanitarians not to forget the «cruel puzzle» that truth - seeking and generosity can get man into trouble.28 The human mind frequently seems to break down at the attempt to make valid practical judgments among the goods and evils of experience.

These never presented a practical difficulty to any man — never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them.

Who is this man Jesus, and have we for all practical purposes lost sight of him in the midst of floods, slaughter, burning pits of hell, and so much more?

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

This is a clue, I believe, not only to a philosophical interpretation of the meaning of human existence but also to the practical quest of men to find the good life for themselves and their societies.

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

When one wonders what holds the man together, enables him to bring equal enthusiasm to his practical decisions and his pastoral and proclamatory function, one learns that he is held together (if he is) by his public role of responsibility for the external advancement of the congregation.

The present ecological crisis is partially the practical consequence of the old Newtonian philosophy of nature as dead, insensitive, and mechanical; and Hartshorne's panpsychism should aid man's efforts to rethink his relation to the cosmos.

While we oppose any form of syncretism, we affirm the necessity for dialogue with men and women of other faiths and ideologies as a means of mutual understanding and practical co - operation.67

In liberated marriages and other male / female relationships, men lose their feelings of superiority, control, economic advantage, and the practical satisfactions of a servant - satellite relationship.

10, PG 91, 1133 D [20] Reason (logos) serves as man's chief faculty in the practical life, being the «exegete» of the virtues and the guide toward the Good.

(Revelation 21:1) While their minds worked upon the problem of suffering — exploring its retributive and disciplinary aspects, its saving power in the form of self - sacrifice, its future solutions in the eternal realm, and its inexplicable residue of mystery — their practical devotion was given to the kind of world where man's monstrous cruelty to man would end.

Hans Küng made clear that the intention was that it should be convincing and practical for all women and men of good will, religious and non-religious».30 The underlying principle, therefore, was that

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

Man can hear it only indirectly in the postulates of practical reason, which have remained, as it were, the small opening through which he can make contact with the real, that is, his eternal destiny.

It is full of practical suggestions (often written in a humorous way) to help men see that following Jesus is not just for women and children.

As I find it, religion in America... has virtually nothing to do with God and has little to do with the practical lives of men in society.