The point of this is that Jesus in
his quality as human being had no control on his birth at all, where and by whom he should get born.
Still, as well as he has played, it is Divac's leadership and
his qualities as a human being that the Kings dwell upon.
Some field single dating service must be completed with diligence and sincerity, because you must remember that if you must be faithful to your mind, you're the best dating personality to highlight
your qualities as a human being.
The first, Jesus» Son, cast the actress as a heroin addict, while the second, Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, featured her as a shy, mute woman who gets used and abused by a legendary jazz guitarist (Sean Penn) whose musical talent runs in inverse proportion to
his qualities as a human being.
In order to come within the ambit of section 13, the communication that is the subject of the complaint must be so excessive and extreme in nature that it suggests that a given race, sex, religion or other group identifiable in relation to one or more grounds in the CHRA is devoid of any redeeming
qualities as human beings.
I'm looking for a job where I can develop the best of
my qualities as a human being and as a professional, using both my talents and skills to make my way up starting from the bottom.
Not exact matches
As Roberts, Seldon, and Roberts indicated in
Human Resources Management, «the
quality of employees and their development through training and education
are major factors in determining long - term profitability of a small business» ¦.
Traditional dog food starts with poor
quality ingredients (waste from the
human food industry) and
is processed so heavily by extrusion that it
is necessary for companies to add synthetic vitamins to sell food
as «complete and balanced.»
One might go further and point out that the concept of «person» helps us understand
human dignity
as something deriving from the fact of one's intrinsic
being» rather than from the extent of freestanding autonomy, the «
quality of life,» that a person might demonstrate.
It seems to me that omniscience
is a Divine, not a
human,
quality and
as long
as there
is something that I don't know I WILL have questions.
Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it
's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the
human embryo
is not
as unique
as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique
quality of
human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders
is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to
be explained somewhat differently... Our
human brains
are given to us by God... to better the life of other
human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody
is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so
be it, lets do it.»
suffering, true sociality,
as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (
as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe,
human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that
is intimately connected with theological traditions must have
been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.
Unless we
are totally blind to
human situations
as they really exist, we can not avoid the conclusion that without a revolutionary
quality of living the
human race
is doomed to an endless process of unproductive suffering or even of total extinction.
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.
The reality of
human sexuality
is a patent fact; and it would seem to
be intimately tied in with man's total organic movement, which
as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology,
as well
as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling
qualities.
per · son · i · fy transitive verb: to have a lot of (a particular
quality): to
be the perfect example of a person who has (a
quality): to think of or represent (a thing or idea)
as a person or
as having
human qualities or powers
The full realization of God
as companion ends our impotence and solitariness, and thus ends religion — and begins that life which
is eternal in both
quality and scope because it
is the life of God animating our
human being.
An irreverent spirituality insists that all aspects of a religion — all forms of prayer, devotion and ascetical practices — must
be judged
as means to prepare one to listen and to ask the hard questions of God's existence, God's
qualities, God's presence in
human life.
Just
as there
is no moral
quality in the fact that persons
are born male or female, so these other
human differences
are facts.
He may indeed
be shown
as having such positive
qualities as solicitous concern, but he
is to
be a very
human shepherd.
But that
is not to say that God does not have
qualities commonly associated with
human personality, such
as awareness, intellect and most importantly in my opinion, love, which
is connected to peace, and which I see
as the heart of my own spirituality.
He who thinks that the world, without any such unity of significance
as constitutes an experience, would still have
been or might
be a real world, and who deduces this from the fact — which spiritualism accepts — that the world without a particular
human personality, Mr. X
is perfectly possible, must also
be one who thinks that if from «himself» those
qualities which make him Mr. X
were to
be subtracted, nothing of the nature of mind would remain — in short, he
is one who does not believe that other minds
are members of himself.
To attempt to explain this away
as being a religious fairy tale
is a denial of this inate
quality within most
humans.
In the case of the debates in which we
are now embroiled, I suspect that step
was in the adoption of the idea of «
quality of life»
as an indicator of who
is and who
is not to count
as a
human being.
And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential
quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting
as though it
were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by
human sensory projection.
Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will
be plain that what
is being proposed in this book
is (
as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of
human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God
as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring
quality which nothing can take away.
But the experienced
quality, the «
being of worth,»
is not itself a matter of
human decision, for the essence of value,
as distinguished from desire,
is precisely the power of evoking devotion and of transforming persons in conformity with its own pattern.
When
human relationships in a family, a church, or a community
are of such a
quality as to satisfy the heart - hungers of persons, they grow toward the fulfillment of their potentialities.
The God of Israel
is one whose «ear
is open'to the prayers of his people and whose response to their prayers,
as also to their acts,
is determined by the sort and
quality of their
human and historical situation.
On the other hand, if we decide for the model of love, thinking of God
as more like a
human lover (but with defects, imperfections, frustrations, distortions removed), it will follow that whatever power
is exercised by Him will
be loving in its essential
quality.
Finally, because of all this, the Christian proclamation has
as its end - product the bringing to the hearers an awareness of the reality of newness of life — what in the Fourth Gospel
is called «eternal life» and «abundant life», what St. Paul
is getting at when he speaks of «life in Christ»
as possessing a particular and specific
quality of giving - and - receiving in love, in divine Love which
is then reflected and enacted in
human loving, with its association with justice and righteousness and deliverance from loveless existence.
He believes Paul's statements regarding female subordination can best
be understood by recognizing «the
human as well
as the divine
quality of Scripture.»
Fifthly, the Eucharist
as action
is given an imperative
quality in that it results in a «sending out» or a mission received by the worshipers, which they
are to carry on in their daily life of witness and work in the world of
human affairs.
Human equality clearly can not rest on
qualities such
as wealth, virtue, and intelligence, which
are unequally distributed among us.
That the fall of a nation
is on the same level
as the withering of a fig tree — functioning merely
as a sign of the divine intentions — makes arbitrary the social
quality of
human life.
Just
as physics reveals little of significance about man until one reflects on the enterprises of science and technology, so scientific psychology, aiming to out - do physics in objective rigor, can yield little insight about man until the distinctive
human quality of self - awareness
is acknowledged
as an essential factor in psychological inquiry.
It
is attained
as we develop those
qualities that characterize
humans as different from other animals.
The significance of Whiteheadian thought for an understanding of the nature of man lies in its ability to justify many of
qualities necessary to the dignity of the
human being, such
as freedom, self - respect, self - creation, and responsibility.
The universality of the
human regard for those higher
qualities which the Hebrew gathered up in the concept of righteousness found rational explanation best in a cosmic origin which some modern thinkers describe
as a Process; but, for the Hebrew mind, that Process
was personal.
He has strong individual motivations;
human qualities such
as creative imagination and personal judgment
are essential,
as Polanyi has pointed out.8 But only limited aspects of the scientist's personality
are directly related to the work itself.
But
as men became more and more aware of moral principles and
as their thinking
was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred
was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than -
human,
was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (
as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome
quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.
The holiness of Yahweh
is at once distinct and radiant.4 This
quality which removes Yahweh from man
as the heavens
are removed from the earth conveys at the same time his immediate impingement, his «historicity,» his self - disclosure in
human life and
human community, his «in - the - midst - ness» (notice the repeated phrase throughout the book of Isaiah, «the holy one of Israel»).
Thus, even though all men
are sinners before God, sin
is not a universal characteristic of the existence of man or of
human nature such
as corporeality, nor
is it some magical or mysterious
quality of the sinner.
As soon as God is claimed to be a causal agent and possess qualities / attributes we see only in humans and other tangible entities, the definition becomes internally contradictor
As soon
as God is claimed to be a causal agent and possess qualities / attributes we see only in humans and other tangible entities, the definition becomes internally contradictor
as God
is claimed to
be a causal agent and possess
qualities / attributes we see only in
humans and other tangible entities, the definition becomes internally contradictory.
The lesser kinds of reverence have
been noted only in order that we may
be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship
is applied normally to God and none other, although it
is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures
are seen in the Christian tradition
as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they
are worthy of reverence which
is religious in
quality, reverence about which there
is a mystery, just
as in
human personality itself there
is a deep mystery by reason of its
being grounded in the mystery of God.
And even more fundamentally, if we
are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental
qualities such
as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of
human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose
is to cause fetal death)
be defended at all?
The fulfillment of personality
is thus a form of communion, whether it
be with the God a man worships; or with nature under some aspect; or through intimate communication with ideal things, the inexhaustible
quality of beauty or truth that pervades the universe; or with some cause that calls into action all one's powers; or even with things of lesser significance so long
as they satisfy the
human craving for union.
Most of what
is most important to real
human beings, such
as the
quality of their relations to others,
is missed
as much by the ISEW
as by the GDP.
To improve the economic condition of the community
as a whole
is the economic goal; and this serves the larger goal of improving the
quality of
human relations and thus of
human life, while stimulating the personal freedom of all the members of the community.
It has to do with a
quality, discernible in that
human character, which confronts us with a claim to our worship: in response to which it
is not absurd,
as it would
be in the case of other men, to exclaim «My Lord and my God».