Sentences with phrase «supreme end of life»

But the supreme end of life is not some particular pleasure of the body.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge can not understand the meaning of chastity; a man who ranks the amassing of material things as the supreme end of life can not understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world can not understand the things of God.

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«The life of the soul is not knowledge, it is love, since love is the act of the supreme faculty, the will, by which man is formally united to the final end of all his strivings — by which man becomes one with God.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Nationalism regards the nation as the supreme value, the source of all life's meaning, as an end - in - itself and a law to itself.

Towards the fulfillment of His purposes He has brought man into being and He offers to His human children the privilege of co-operating with Him so that they may have a share in the effecting of these ends and, at the same time, find a supreme joy for themselves as they are related to Him and participate in His communication of life.

That access could be extended under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (pdf), recently affirmed by a Supreme Court ruling, says Kathy Cerminara, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and an expert in law governing treatment at the end of life.

The ending of the film comes with the traditional scroll about his accomplishments later in life regarding the Supreme Court and his involvement Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Infatuated from childhood with the littlest Healey — one of the greatest postwar expressions of the supreme minimalist end of the sports car spectrum — website and shop proprietor David Silberkleit has devoted the last seven years of his life to the runabout Donald Healey's team designed for British Motor Corp. on a shoestring.

The niche market, which is only 1 per cent of total passenger car market, was bumping from one regulatory or taxation hiccup or another since the past two years such as the Supreme Court ban on high end diesel vehicle sale in Delhi - NCR, note - ban and the short - lived GST boost.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear five appeals this week, including a case in which the attorney general is challenging the courts» authority regarding fees for amicus curiae and today's emotional end - of - life case.

Pannone LLP partner, Richard Scorer, says: «The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Court of Appeal judgment and to artificially restrict the human rights of British soldiers in this way, implying that the moment they step out of their base their human rights «end», seems partly at least to be due to a misconception that human rights would get in the way in the heat of battle and affect «life and death» decision making.

In Cuthbertson v. Rasouli, the Supreme Court ruled narrowly that under Ontario's Health Care Consent Act, doctors could not end life support unilaterally, although they may do so with the backing of a special panel.

In 1990, the Supreme Court recognized people have the right to refuse end of life treatment, as long the wishes are set forth in writing.

I'm referring to the emerging awareness and everyday discussions around significant «end - of - life» issues, such as the ones at the heart of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in the Carter case this past month.

TATA AIA Maha Life Supreme allows surrender of policies before end of policy term.

Recently, the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, a group broadly representative of leaders across Canada in the field of civil and family justice, and chaired by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas Cromwell, emphasized the value of front - end services, such as those family justice services funded by this government, especially those that include «live» help.