Sentences with phrase «than the mystery of»

There's more to talk about here than the mystery of gender and relationships.

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The mystery, however, lies less with Merkel than the German public — or, rather, with Merkel's assessment of what the public wants and expects from politics.

The reason lesbians earn more than heterosexual women has long been a bit of a mystery, but a group of economists at the University of Nevada have an answer.

Watsa's sway with investors is no mystery: Fairfax has returned more than 5,000 % over the past 20 years, and the company has its hands in a diverse array of businesses, including insurance, media, and restaurants.

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.

She also hires mystery shoppers once a year (cost: less than $ 200) to get a snapshot of her own and her competitors» centers.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

But as the mystery has deepened, US investigators have begun to look more closely at the insular, high - pressure world of the Havana embassy, and they have found a picture that is far more complex than the rhetoric and headlines have suggested.

And more than that, lawmakers continue acting like the solutions are some sort of mystery, as if there aren't years of research and experiences in other countries that show restrictions on firearms can save lives.

If a Bible verse (or discovery) is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical or metaphorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

I am reading a book called Mystery of Emptiness & Love by Domo Geshe Rinpoche, and in the first chapter it says «The purpose of this book is to help you uncover the view that is holding you, rather than the view you are holding».

My theory, of course, goes much further than your «God's silence is a mystery» explanation.

and being aware of your environment, being respectful of those of all beliefs and none beliefs, and of our world, and its about personal responsibility, with that said why is is such a bad thing to believe in something greater than yourself, how can somebody live there life without believing in something, what kind of life is that, life is meant to be discovered, its one big mystery, and all the science in the world can still not prove how we exactly came to be?

«I think there is some mystery in song,» says Steve Smith, associate director of worship arts at Harvest Bible Chapel in Naperville, Ill. «It's historical, it's biblical, it's bigger than us.

The «traditionalist,» unless he can ground his position more firmly than in a history or a nature so taken, hasn't moved very far toward the mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.»

BTW, as a Christian I believe in the Trinitarian Mystery and while I realize that «when you get One, you get them all», I have a more intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit than I do with either the Father or Jesus, the Son, even though I don't experience most of the «psychological fireworks» that many Charismatic / Pentecostal Christians frequently do.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just magic.

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.)

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»

Arguably Holloway is doing no more than drawing out the implications of St. Paul's claim that in Christ God has «made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.»

At first glance it might seem appealing to argue that the mystery of God outstrips our capacity to delineate it, that every theology in its own way must fall so short of the truth that no position can, however seriously maintained, be markedly any more or less true than any other.

Over six years, more than 4,000 unchurched mystery guests visited churches of all sizes across the U.S.. Here's what they thought.

To think that the mystery of a person could be contained in a binder is a scary thought to me; just another example of the corporate culture's tendency to see people as impersonal «human resources» rather than employees, workers, personnel or even «human capital.»

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

He reserves his most ferocious verbal assaults for «zealots» like Nellie Gray; he attacks Phyllis Schlafly («Why anyone paid any attention to this lady is one of the mysteries of the 80s»); he turns on Carl Anderson, who perhaps more than any other single figure in the Reagan Administration was responsible for the success of Koop's confirmation process, and berates him unmercifully for his opposition to the condom solution for AIDS.

As such our theologies do little more than itemize our various ignorances and self - interests before the mystery of the universe.

There is more power (and more mystery) in prayer than most of us realize, but as you say, God is not obligated to give us what we ask for.

Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability, to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations of your incarnate Being in the world of matter; I can preach only the mystery of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.

Everywhere mystery was giving place to love, the aloofness of God to the nearness of Jesus, adoration to communion, repining for the Fall to that sense of Christ's victory which pervaded Gothic Christendom no less than the sense of his divinity.

The intellect comprehends what life enjoys; much more than that, it apprehends the mystery of the mechanism.

At first the ritual was doubtless figurative, a ceremonial cleansing in water, which was regarded as symbolizing, rather than effecting, the purification of the inner life, and the origin of which lay in the baptism of John and kindred customs rather than in the sacraments of the mystery religions.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

The mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.

The enigma of human existence has become a greater mystery than ever.

and he argues that the doctrines about him «name a mystery which is felt rather than thought; and people may very well feel differently about different ways of phrasing the mystery».

If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernable by humans; or is just plain magic.

Gregory's analysis is largely consistent with modern behavior modification theory and behavior therapy that focuses on actual, regularized, visible, even measurable, behavior change more than the hidden mysteries of supposed intentionality.35

At first blush, structures and patterns seem to have more to do with order than mystery — the charism of the early church that is so attractive to postmodern audiences.

Certainly Christian life, which is nothing other than the acceptance of the ineffable mystery of God as love, must be accomplished in the concrete details of earthly life, which is determined by the secular forces of science, of politics, of power and also of guilt.

Throughout, Weinandy imaginatively engages the Christian tradition in a way that respects the truths of faith as a «mystery» to be explored rather than as «problems» to be solved, thus giving to his entire work the character of intelligently believing humility.

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

(3) When an entire continent — healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before — deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being.

I do not know for certain how we weigh these matters or make these judgments, but, speaking only for myself, I must say that Bambi is a more profound book than Charlotte's Web, probing more deeply the mystery of mortality.

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

But still, aside from the hints here and there — maybe some of you know more than I, and if so, I would love to learn from you — to my knowledge, it is a Scriptural mystery what exactly we are teaching the angelic realm — what exactly the lesson is that God wants them to learn.

To get an idea of the mystery and wonder which is a person, note that the number of elementary particles within a human body is 1027, whereas the number of stars in the observable universe is less, 1023; thus, there are 10,000 times more elementary particles in a human body than stars in the heavens.

More than the argument from docility, it was this ritual cleansing on the altar that persuaded me, as if it had been a surface refreshment of the deeper mystery of the priest's consecrated hands.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.