Sentences with phrase «stories about human nature»

The Strange Journey will take you through a fundamentally fascinating story about human nature, free will, gods, and an increasingly relevant conversation about stewardship of the planet, if you're able to trek through the game's dated user interface and pages upon pages of text.

Capturing the moment - by - moment details of her journey, Greenlaw tells a story about human nature and the nature around us, about learning what can be controlled and when to let fate step in.

Not exact matches

The stories that inspire us most deeply have deep truths about human nature buried beneath the magic (and sometimes cheesiness).

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

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

He prefers the term «archetypal stories» over the traditional «saga,» explaining that the stories explain what is typical about human nature, not what is unique to one time and place.

It's a wonderful story for a start, with some of the most perceptive characters ever created, but it's also full of wisdom about the nature of human relationships.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

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.

«We are honored that the Environmental Film Festival and The Nature Conservancy have chosen to support our story of a remarkable, self - sustaining people who can help illuminate our past while teaching us unexpected lessons about how humans might better live cooperatively in the future,» said Bill Benenson.

Your story will move from the particular to something more universal — a story that reveals as much about human nature as about unique individuals.

A heartbreaking story of family and marriage, a meditation on the unseen forces of nature and desire, The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human connection.

Around the holidays each year I like to revisit that story, because it's a good reminder about how fast things have changed — and how sometimes the biggest challenge is simply our own stubborn human nature!

And the media & internet will always prefer to remind you of the investors & fund managers who left you for dust — that's human nature, we like to otherwise forget about the hard luck stories & all the bets which never worked out... In the end, you have to remember each & every investor has a different objective.

By Greg W Day Greg is a popular author of articles and stories about pets, human nature, and environment.

To describe the nature portion of the human biosphere story, she concentrated on mixed media collage, and then put together a book of poems about these enigmatic images.

Carol Kaesuk Yoon, who writes frequently for Science Times and in 2002 collaborated with me on a story about the growing human influence on that thing called «nature,» had a thought - provoking essay in the paper this week titled «Nature Follows a Path of Pixels Into Children's Hearts.&nature,» had a thought - provoking essay in the paper this week titled «Nature Follows a Path of Pixels Into Children's Hearts.&Nature Follows a Path of Pixels Into Children's Hearts.»

It was easy for Americans to believe erroneously that the Iraqis would welcome U.S. invaders as liberators because that conclusion fits the story we like to tell ourselves about human nature and progress....»

Instead of focusing on the bears, she talks to people on the frontlines of climate change, aiming to make climate change a story about humans rather than nature.

The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)