Sentences with phrase «supreme act»

It's a terrifyingly lyrical expression of Lena's summary statement in the book: «It creates out of our ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien — one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many other ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.»

The final supreme act can repair much (like the penitent thief).

Gleeson's supreme acting chops would elevate any Expendables movie, and definitely cause Randy Couture to up his game.

supreme act of self - expression.

How you managed to justify that supreme act of cowardice and turn it into an act of piety is an amazing feat of self - delusion.

The Son of God became man in order to restore all creation, in one supreme act of praise, to the One who made it from nothing.

Yes, when we begin to see the crucifixion of Jesus as a supreme act of love and revelation, rather than a punishment from God, this has a domino effect on everything else we think about God and Scripture and ourselves.

It is the supreme act of faith.

It is God in his supreme act of love in Jesus Christ who heals the human spirit.

But in a supreme act of totally unmerited generosity, Our Lord conforms his human to his divine will: «Father, glorify your name» (Jn 12, 28).

The community of human beings who have responded to that supreme act of God is the Christian church.

Jesus» death is the final and supreme act of his love, revealing the way to the knowledge of God.

From this perspective, then laying down one's life for one's friends is the greatest act of giving, the supreme act of love of which one is capable.

Likewise, we hold that God loves sinners because in that supreme act of God that was Jesus» life we see God's compassion for sinners.

The acts of the earthly Jesus, for all their remembered beauty, were recognized as but the casual and partial manifestations of a love which only one supreme act had been able fully to express: He who had shared the nature and the name of God had for man's sake denied himself in a sense in which only God could: he had emptied himself, becoming a common man, and as a man had suffered both life and death, even the death of the cross...

Sex is the supreme act of physical intimacy, one blessed by the Church in the sacrament of matrimony.

While we honor the beliefs of other faiths, as Christians we affirm that the supreme act of God's communication with the world is the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

«The image of Jesus crucified reveals the mystery of the death of the Son as the supreme act of love, the source of life and salvation for humanity of all times.

Nevertheless, in order to establish Jesus as «God's supreme act of self - expression, he has recourse to the tradition of setting Jesus apart from the Judaisms of his time.

The nature of Jesus» prehension of and response to God's initial aims for him, together with the congruence of those initial aims with God's general aims for the universe allows us to say that Jesus was «God's supreme act of self - expression» (PC 221).

He sent His Son in the supreme act of unilateral love» (A Strategy for Peace [Eerdmans, 1973], p. 106).

For you and many good people of means the situation calls for a supreme act of selflessness, and let us be honest selflessness is little rewarded here in this life.

Whether or not he attended synagogue services, Chagall would have known from his youth that the text read from Genesis 22 in the morning service was conventionally moralized and read to refer to Jewish martyrdom, the supreme act of sacrifice in loyalty to God's covenant.

The institution of the Eucharist demonstrates how Jesus» death, for all its violence and absurdity, became in him a supreme act of love and mankind» sdefinitive deliverance from evil.

Alice Allan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia Creating life, becoming a mother, is the supreme act of creation.

Creating life, becoming a mother, is the supreme act of creation.

In a supreme act of deferred gratification, he chose to save the best till last.

Florence Foster Jenkins is the year's first serious Oscar contender, featuring an unforgettable performance by Meryl Streep in the title role and a superb supporting cast headed by Hugh Grant as her husband, the expatriate English thespian St. Clair Bayfield; and Simon Helberg as Cosme McMoon, the aspiring concert pianist who became her accompanist in a supreme act of folly.

If you weren't already familiar with his supreme acting ability, you should be by now.

After spending countless hours photographing the choreographies of production and scrutinising the parts and pieces that will never be visible outside the factory, I came to realise that a piano is one of the supreme acts of human invention and imagination.»

At the time it was described as a «supreme act of philanthropy», welcomed by Gordon Brown and by Sir Nicholas Serota, now head of the Arts Council England, who said the act of «imaginative generosity» was «without precedent anywhere in the world».

Revealing unsavory or embarrassing facts is a supreme act of vulnerability.