Sentences with phrase «sense of destiny»

Anecdotally, it seems more likely for adoptive parents to express a sense of destiny about the path that brought their children to them than for birth parents and adoptees to express a sense of destiny for their paths.

How we deal with its tribulations both critical and chronic, with our sense of destiny, and how we try to understand it.

Renzulli has written that «you can't teach vision or sense of destiny.»

No sense of destiny?

We also meet the pigeon - loving Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), who runs an operation independent of the assassins, and who owes a debt, of sorts, to Wick; the intense mute assassin (Ruby Rose) playing bodyguard to D'Antonio with a ferocious relish; and D'Antonio's sparkly sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini) whose sense of destiny is as operatic as her eye makeup.

The only personal touch would seem to be Green's goofy sanctimoniousness and lyrical feel for derelict rural landscapes, although it's a bit uncanny that his first movie, the 2000 indie production George Washington, would have as its hero a silent, self - contained black kid with a justified sense of destiny, nicknamed for the first president of the United States and thus a corrective of sorts for Rufus Jones.

Stride out to greet it with an open mind and a sense of destiny, because YOU truly are the one in control of how this year unfolds.

Yet few young scientists carry with them a sense of destiny, or an image of themselves as the laboratory equivalent of gunslingers and racecar drivers.

As quiet as the sense of destiny was, it was already powerfully entrenched.

In his latest book, Coover debunks America's patriotic fervor and its quasi-religious sense of destiny.

In his latest volume Coover debunks America's patriotic fervor and its quasi-religious sense of destiny.

At least from the time of the exodus, with Moses» molding of a tribal people into a nation with a sense of its destiny and a moral consciousness of God's demands, it was the sovereign, righteous rule of God that held them together.

Thus a man with a sense of destiny will be active in doing anything which he judges to be good, knowing that if anything bad happens in spite of all precautionary measures, then there will be no reason for regret or for blaming oneself.

«There was just a powerful and palpable sense of destiny that I could not deny.»

Not exact matches

«We've created a sense of purpose and a sense of hope that maybe this way we can control our destiny.»

Dana Anspach CFP ®, RMA ®, is the Founder and CEO of Sensible Money and author of Control Your Retirement Destiny and Social Security Sense.

The combination of the above risk management measures driven by the investor's specific goals and objectives may provide the investor with a greater sense of control over their own destiny.

sometimes when i see us described in some mythic sense or called corporate masters of our own destiny, i have to laugh out loud.

Turkey's foreign minister talks about how the region has rediscovered its sense of possessing a common destiny.

It is an image of unity that appeals to Russians, because it gives them a sense of a larger destiny and supports the imperial vision that increasingly characterizes Russian politics.

But, for Christians — especially those who tend toward a sense of ambition and optimism — it's easy to conflate «purpose» with «destiny.»

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

Thus, if Jesus Christ speaks of his destiny out of his sense of God's will, and if the resurrection is a vindication of Jesus Christ's sense of God's will, then the language of necessity that dominates our text can not be explained away.

There needs to be a bit of that Holy Spirit drawing together, a sense of purpose and destiny, an answered prayer, a shared language all your own discovered at last.

This, as we have seen, is in order to make sense of Man's intentional consciousness, creative behaviour and organic brain, as well as his destiny in Christ.

To read the gospel with an open mind is to see beyond all possibility of doubt that Jesus came to bring us new truths concerning our destiny: not only a new life superior to that we are conscious of, but also in a very real sense a new physical power of acting upon our temporal world.

«After World War II, a sense of global Manifest Destiny came to dominate United States policies.

The universe would make no sense if there were not some chief causative agency, some source of novelty, some final destiny, some creative and energizing activity striving for the accomplishment of great ends.

Perhaps, as one suggested way out, Cantorian or Dedekindian proofs are applicable to the problem after all, as indeed J. R. Lucas thinks they are applicable to making sense out of the «destiny» of infinitesimal instants in his absolute theory of time (TTS 29 - 34).

Sorry, Christians don't know the eternal destiny of anyone and can not judge in that sense, but are called to speak of horrors committed by other, especially the killing of children in the womb.

For if Being is in Heidegger's description a kind of ersatz divine principle - a debatable premise it must be said - and if Being, as noted above, is in some sense temporal, then this implies that God is also bound to time, to change, to the enigmatic whims of destiny.

Which is more likely — that the Anglo - American people will respond to a world that satisfies no one by becoming Niebuhrian realists, or that some leader in the not too distant future will mobilize Anglo - American power and sense of religious mission by promising to eliminate once and for all the unsatisfactory realities that oppose the special destiny of the dynamic, liberal and capitalist world?

A second relevant example of a problem which is essentially insoluble except on the religious level is that provided by our sense of national destiny.

I'd always had a sense of purpose and destiny that was now gone.

The spiritual dimension is important to people and it often allows them to make sense of their own lives and to have some understanding of destiny.

In recent months American opinion has begun to respond to the actualities of the situation and to sense the fateful destiny that unites us with all free peoples, whether momentarily overrun by the aggressor or still offering heroic resistance.

Every sensitive Christian must feel a sense of unworthiness when he is compelled by historic destiny to act as an instrument of God's justice.

Most liberal Protestants have been in some sense theists, believing that moral life, consciousness, and awareness of purpose and destiny are clues to the nature of the greater Reality which created humanity.

But if a man believes in the omnipotent, omniscient and loving God his life will be destiny in an even deeper sense: for it is wholly borne by the power of God without which nothing, not even man's own free act, can exist; his life as a whole and in all its details is always lived before the omniscient God of love.

The spirit of respect for the past and reverence for the land that enables the Japanese to adopt modern technologies without destroying their environment also feeds an ominous sense of special destiny and a revived emperor cult that democratically inclined Japanese are watching with extreme misgivings.

The same sense of covenant destiny always affirmed in the call of Abraham (Gen. 12:3) is reiterated:

Like Athenagoras, he was quite properly concerned with the destiny of the whole man, and the soul could not in any sense be regarded as the whole man.

This resulted in a quasi-established Protestant church combined with a strong sense of national destiny — in a word, civil religion.

And if we are truly oriented towards God then it makes sense for our ultimate destiny to be the oneness with God which the death of our physical bodies makes possible.

After a long period in which the need of many for a sense of life's meaning seemed to be supplied by the progress of civilization or by the realization of national destiny, disillusionment with the half - gods has made itself felt.

They have pointed to the role of Protestantism, Pietism, and even of Catholicism in fostering the sense of national destiny, in giving religious sanction to the imperialist programs of kings and democracies, in justifying nationalist wars and in blessing armies bound on conquest.

The revelation of a great promise is what gives the people of God their sense of origin, identity, and future destiny.

They are a testimony to God's leading and care and his demand for righteousness, and to Israel's sense of being a divinely chosen people with a great destiny if they would be faithful.

Israel's sense of nationhood, and of being a chosen people with a great destiny, begins with the establishment of the covenant.

In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.