Sentences with phrase «senses as being true»

But why accept only that which we can observe through the five senses as being true?

Not exact matches

As you mature, and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves.

On the other, it really would be much simpler to have a true one - stop - shop in that sense, as originally proposed by the Commission.

As the aphorism goes, being early (or late) is no different than being wrong, and that's true in a financial sense.

You can make short term profits off of the small dips that a stock will have, such as when Apple dropped down under $ 108 briefly on Friday, but if the true price is higher, then the move upward above $ 110 makes sense.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

Given all this, Kugel, if I read him correctly, opts for treating the Scriptures as the starting point for a continuous process of interpretation and reinterpretation rather than as statements that are true in themselves in any obvious sense.

Perhaps the latter is true in some mystical sense but as a history scholar I can tell you that I can't think of a worse position that being an early Christian in the Roman Empire.

Many view me as the prodigal son that came back to his senses... which isn't true.

For it to be designed implies there is a designer and to be in the image of God to be created and seen as being good meaning that in your truest sense of who you are, you are good and if that is brought to the for you can't help but do good — it being like breathing,

Reality Check: This may be true... but I'm pretty convinced that a shared sense of humor is just as important.

If work in America is as destructive as it is portrayed in this book, and if the quality of work in any society is indicative of the true nature of that society, then life in America in some substantive sense must be destructive, like work in America....

In undertaking a non-religious interpretation of Biblical and theological concepts such as he proposes, Bonhoeffer believes the church would only be permitting the Bible to assume its own true character; for the Bible knows nothing of the «religious» in the sense enumerated above.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

We are hopefully free from the illusion that there can be a «biblical theology» in the sense that all the themes and ideas present in the Bible can be brought to a harmonious unity, which can then be reaffirmed as true Christian theology.

This is perhaps mitigated as she links the experience of illness to scenes from Christ's ministry in order to draw out the strength that can come from a prayerful and humble attitude where even today the sick can receive Christ's healing touch and regain a true sense of self.

I am also unsure — if we are able to give it the proposed reinterpretation — whether it would qualify as myth, for the atonement in the sense of reconciling us to God is certainly true.

What we mean here is myth in its everyday, nontechnical sense as understood by you and me: a story that is told as if it were literally true, but which is no longer accepted as factual, and which explains or symbolizes a belief or insight.

The act of the magisterium is not the same as the act of the Church, but the act of the magisterium is a certain species of the acts which are performed by the individual members of the Church and constitute the action of the Church in a true sense.

While part of what you said is quite true, I would contend that Jesus didn't have a great sense of humor, since it is from what Jesus supposedly said that the whole doctrine of hell came about, as well as some ther things he said that I would contend is fairly bad advice.

That he chose intuition as a mode of apprehension best calculated to seize such true images of things as they are in their living context simply meant that, of the tools available, this, in his judgment, was best suited to accomplish the intellectual task in its most realistic and vital sense.

It is true that the dynamic process of becoming includes many sub-processes, and that in this sense Wieman felt free to identify God as one process among many.

In a sense, God and world alike were liberated from the fetters of necessity; God could be accorded His true transcendence and the world its true character as divine gift.

Maybe not «true» in the full sense of the word as God intended, but I am beginning to find «truer» community outside the institution than I ever found within.

Eastern theology acknowledges that there's something drastically wrong, even evil, about human beings (just not in the same sense as the Western Church), and it's because of Jesus» work as the «true human'that humanity may come closer to this vision.

Dr Inkpin, who was born as male but now identifies as female, said it was around the age of four when she began to feel aware of her «true sense of self».

If you accept that as your basic premise, then arguments for God's existence will obviously make sense to you because they just confirm what you al; ready believe to be true.

«The church» might mean the religious establishment, but in its truest sense, it is the very «Body of Christ» with each of us as members.

In this respect Whitehead's philosophy is just as fully eidectic as Husserl's, but in Whitehead, as in the existential phenomenologists, there is no eidectic reduction in the true Husserlian sense.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

All religions seem to imply that they are right, but any scientific minded person (who is also religious) will find that claiming anything as «true» without proof doesn't make any sense.

Not what u see on CNN, not what your mum said nor your pastor or priest said and not what u see some Muslims neighbors of yours do... noooo nay,,, what have u searched your self... i dare u do... find the true, i swear nothing makes any sense as Islam does, those guys know the whole truth... even if it will hurt, just like Santa - clause when u 12 year or the rats that gives money to the de toothing kid in our Ugandan myth, u deserve to know the truth... and if no scientist has come out and disproved the divine origin of this universe logically then there must be a mighty some one behind it and that Creator or whatever it is, HE has a way, a straight path to Him and we are obliged to know it... so my adverse to u is look hard for the true coz it is clear from false, even if u may hate it!!

He is truly God - man or theo - anthropos — not, in the sense of combining the «flesh» and the «spirit», but in showing that the true theo - anthropos is Spirit or Thought of its actualization manifesting as concrete beings in time, history and space.

What we imagine to be true and good about romantic relationships — and the practices adopted as a result of those visions — affects the sense of one's marriage quality.

As to the atheist your being at such the advanced stage in spiritual development you are ripe in time for turning the senses inward / thus knowing one's true self I can only repeat your at further state in your spiritual development you believing meditation the next port of call upon your human journey leading to enlightenment.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

In this chapter I have attempted to present an understanding of our human existence which is true to the facts, so far as we know them, which makes sense of and gives sense to our experience, and which indicates what is meant when we speak, as we do, of the worth and value in our lives.

In this presentness it is no longer true (as it obviously is in the «having become» world of active subject and passive object) that the existing beings over against us can not in some sense move to meet us as we them.

Mystics of all faiths point us to the true place of meeting which is in the presence of God, where comparisons become if not odious at least irrelevant, as the mystics sense the Divine Mystery, who is both the source and sustainer of all life and the most intimate presence in the heart and life of the believer.

From a logical point of view, however, these two conceptions are not mutually exclusive, especially if Bultmann is right in regarding the true sense of myth as the disclosure of the «self - understanding of man», and the objectivizing imagery with its implied mythical world view the inadequate means for the expression of that sense.

When the Hindu identified himself with an undifferentiated reality beyond the experientially diversified soul, the various elements in the soul — its passions, appetites, hopes, fears, sense experience, and reason — were all indifferently there to be recognized, described, and ultimately experienced as so many mere psychic elements over against the true self.

If this is true, then the identity politics around which much of the secular left has refashioned itself become as meaningless as the sense of self materialism suggests is illusory.

«True religion is a sense and taste for the Infinite», which is experienced as an active movement towards the individual.

Of course the true sign that is given all Christians is Christ's death and resurrection, and so we must say that Matthew has in a sense rightly interpreted the full meaning of Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passage.

This... improved condition, which true enough has come about with the years, he now in despair regards as a good, he readily assures himself (and in a certain satirical sense there is nothing more sure) that it now never could occur to him to despair — no, he has assured himself against this, yet he is in despair, spiritually in despair.

In a sense this is true, but insofar as it implies the application to Yahweh of a preexisting understanding of man, it is misleading.

But whoever wants, on the other hand, really to behold and receive all truth, and would have the truth - world overhang him as an empyrean of stars, complex, multitudinous, striving antagonistically, yet comprehended, height above height, and deep under deep, in a boundless score of harmony; what man soever, content with no small rote of logic and catechism, reaches with true hunger after this, and will offer himself to the many - sided forms of the scripture with a perfectly ingenuous and receptive spirit; he shall find his nature flooded with senses, vastnesses, and powers of truth, such as it is even greatness to feel.

If the organizing center of experience is in the unconscious aspect of experience, as is true for those whose world of meanings is primarily mythical, then the term «I» in the strict sense is inappropriate.

But as this unmaking of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real wretchedness, a second kind of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.