Sentences with phrase «serving nature of human beings»

Based on a true story, it begins with the self - serving nature of human beings and evolves into their better angels.

Not exact matches

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

There may be good lessons in them and recognition of human nature, but they can also serve as simple encouragement to do whatever it takes to get your way.

If, however, one regards the human person to be social by nature, then the function of the state is not to possess its citizens but to serve their social needs for each other.

Human liberation is a fruit potentially made increasingly possible by the achievements of technological society, an ideal realizable by means of our growing capacity to transform nature so that without violating its transhuman integrity it might serve, genuinely and profoundly, our collective ends.

It is not merely to be used for the actualization of certain accidental perfections which serve as ornament for human nature; it is for the constitution of the very substance, the very meaning of man.

A critical reader may suspect that this idea grew out of later reflection and served an apologetic interest; yet it is true to human nature and experience.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

On the one hand, if nature is understood as created only to serve human beings, then it may justify exploitation of nature without any limitation.

God intended equality among men; but «private property, slavery, imperialism, the State itself, appear in post-Fall society as regulations of God to preserve nature, which is always being disrupted by sin».26 Justice thus appears as the rough, necessary, coerced order of human societies which is not wholly antithetical to love, since it serves the purpose of God in the creation and history.

Mass media news is descended from this basic human practice of sharing and spreading information, but modern high technology and the political economy it serves have altered its nature.

You have been created again as God's masterpiece for two purposes: to show what God can do through Jesus Christ, and to serve human need, engaging in good works which reflect the nature of God as gracious love.

This method of farming serves as a great reminder of the bountiful capabilities inherent in Mother Nature and how the right kind of human intervention can be the best formula for yielding a safe and delicious harvest.

One study, to be published online September 11 in Nature Communications, found that a much smaller number of genes than previously believed serve as the ignition switch for human embryo development.

Termites are group of wood - eating insects that serve as important decomposers in nature, but some types are highly destructive pests to human - built structures, Vargo said.

Boynton's most impressive feat in Big Men is how she takes an impossibly convoluted scenario, makes sense of it and tells a story that's riveting on its own but also serves as a parable about greed and human nature.

Isn't that how the clear - cut depiction of the experiment at the outset of this film serves to define the nature of film where, in watching human beings act and react, we run the risk of losing touch with humanity?

Without question, the nature of our industry serves as a constant reminder that humans can be unkind to animals.

In terms of subject, not style, Doig's work can be positioned within two traditions - that of Western landscape painting with heroic, moody representations of nature; and Impressionism with depictions of daily life, scenes previously thought irrelevant or inconsequential but which serve as the true basis for human interaction.

Anyone with the least understanding of human nature knows that when big money [as in $ billions], reputations and careers are involved, the only way the truth can be extracted from the self - serving «good old boy» establishment is in an adversarial setting, where evidence and witnesses can be presented, and their statements cross-examined under oath.

When Descartes» analytical geometry treated space and extension, the res extensa of nature and the world, so «that its relations, however complicated, must always be expressible in algebraic formulae,» mathematics succeeded in reducing and translating all that man is not into patterns which are identical with human, mental structures... Now the phenomena could be saved only in so far as they could be reduced to a mathematical order, and this mathematical operation does not serve to prepare man's mind for the revelation of true being... that appear in the sensually given data, but serves, on the contrary, to reduce these data to the measures of the human mind, which, given enough distance, being sufficiently remote and uninvolved, can look upon and handle the multitude and variety of the concrete in accordance with its own patterns and symbols....

David Hume wrote in «A Treatise of Human Nature» that, «Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.»