Sentences with phrase «simply confronting reality»

They were of course simply confronting reality, of which, as T.S. Eliot famously reminded us, humankind can not bear too much.

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The disciples are recruiting agents for the new people of God, but their function as such is simply to confront men with the reality of God coming in his kingdom, and leave it to them.

But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.

Why believe in real truth - that actually confronts the deep multiplicity of what it means to be human, and actually change your life - when you can believe in your own shallow truth that simply adds to one's self - justification and denial of reality, and remain the way you are?

It is not by ideals and programmes or by conscience, duty, responsibility and virtue that reality can be confronted and overcome, but simply and solely by the perfect love of God.

I may get into some trouble for saying this, but I don't care; we simply can't afford any more suicides or families caught in the middle: I think it's time for evangelicals to confront reality and move away from the «reparative therapy» approach, which seems to be doing far more harm than good.

Yet most teachers confront the inescapable reality that they simply don't have enough time to cover all the material adequately, particularly if students need remediation.

Our lives are simply the pursuit of internal fantasies, complicated by the external realities we confront, as we pass through this plane of existence.

«The reality of climate change is undeniable, and can not be simply wished away by politicians who lack the courage to confront the scientific evidence,» he said, adding that the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people were at risk.

In a guest post at The Volokh Conspiracy, Harvard Law School professor Einer R. Elhauge argues that law schools are failing to confront «the reality that the basic law applicable to much conduct simply is multinational.»