Sentences with phrase «thought was their destiny»

People thought it was her destiny to win, but as it turns out her destiny was to lose.

Researchers found that fear of losing a relationship that people thought was their destiny led to being more passive when their partner broke their trust.

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«That was the huge «aha» change moment where we thought, «We can actually affect our destiny here by doing things slightly differently.»

The challenge is to change the societal outlook to one that is long - term and accounts for humanity's central role in shaping the planet's destiny, instead of one that reacts to immediate crises and thinks in the short term.

«I've always dreamed of Glossier being not a makeup line or a skincare range but a beauty company, and I think this is the year that we really started to grow into that destiny.»

«Scouts BSA» smells like a compromise between at least two groups: traditionalists who didn't want girls in the Boy Scouts to begin with, and other groups that are more progressive, or that at least that think that demographics are destiny — and that a half - step towards the future is better than none.

«I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin» around accidental - like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both.»

I was an arrogant, ultra orthodox atheist, in charge of my own «destiny» once, conditioned to believe certain thoughts and reject others, until I realized that all thoughts are not real.

At the time, it was usual for intellectuals to think of the secular as the natural, and even as humanity's destiny.

THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO HIM SINCE HIS DESTINY WAS TO BE PART OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE CHRIST TRIBULATION... I THINK HE IS NEITHER IN HELL OR HEAVEN... HE CAN REACH BOTH LIKE THE SUN, HE BURNS FOR THE DAY AND COOLS OFF AT NIGHT IN PARADISE...

It is the meaning of the child» offspring of a man and woman, but a replication of neither; their offspring, but not their product whose meaning and destiny they might determine» that, I think, constitutes such a limit to our freedom to make and remake ourselves.

Among the books he had us read were two that really challenged my thinking and helped me see certain key texts in a new light: They are The Epistle of James by Zane Hodges and The Reign of the Servant Kings by Joseph Dillow (a revised and updated edition of the book is now titled Final Destiny).

One has only to compare these lines with the statements of St. Paul regarding the destiny of the Jews to see that the biblical thought has been drastically reduced in a way that is decidedly prejudicial.

Before the nineteenth century, poverty was generally thought of as a destiny, a fate, one of the great scourges of mankind, along with famine, wild beasts, epidemics, war, earthquakes.

The thinker who was most influential in shaping our anthropology was Reinhold Niebuhr, whose Nature and Destiny of Man informed a whole generation of thinking in the United States.

and he wrought out an estimate of personality's worth and destiny which, passing by way of Christianity into confluence with Greek thought, is still part of the great tradition of the Western world.

I think maybe that's why sharing our stories with each other can be a powerful thing because something revelatory or influential can come from so far out of our normal sphere that it might seem like destiny or fate.

Perhaps, as one suggested way out, Cantorian or Dedekindian proofs are applicable to the problem after all, as indeed J. R. Lucas thinks they are applicable to making sense out of the «destiny» of infinitesimal instants in his absolute theory of time (TTS 29 - 34).

It is now possible to see that process thought conceives God to be actively concerned with our historical destiny.

For we shall then be all too likely to dismiss death as a mere incident, to think of judgment without due seriousness, and to regard heaven and hell (our possible human destiny, for good or for ill) as nothing more than «fairy - tale» talk.

Men even dare to think that because their spiritual lives are the offspring of the Eternal Spirit, they are of essential importance in his eyes and have, therefore, illimitable possibilities and a glorious destiny.

The two processes are inevitably linked in their structure, the second requiring the first as the matter upon which it descends in order to super-animate mt.. This view entirely respects the progressive effective concentration of human thought in an increasingly acute consciousness of its unitary destiny.

More than the Depression generation, we thought we had a rendezvous with destiny; and we have never quite been able to come to terms with the ensuing knowledge that destiny obeys her own rhythm and can't be called up at will simply because it seems like a nice thing to have her on your side.»

But one thing we may say with reasonable certainty: quite apart from the question of time authenticity or the verbal accuracy of this or that reported saying, the idea of new life through death, of victory coming out of defeat, is an inseparable part of the thought of Jesus about his destiny.

Modern man has thought well of himself and asserted that he is sufficiently intelligent and virtuous to solve his problems and shape his destiny.

The words «predestine and destiny» are foreign concepts to Biblical thought.

I couldn't agree more... But I really believe that there's more to life than just us moving around randomly without any destiny or fate... It's like saying, «I can kill someone i want coz this is my life and i do whatever I want to do for as long as I enjoy doing it»... That's just what I think...

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

Obviously, none of us are the judge of someone's eternal destiny (thank God), but an exercise like this one helps us think through what the Bible says about how to receive eternal life.

Whenever I have the chance I ask them to describe the God they do not believe in and, when they have done so, I generally can say that I do not believe in that God either, but that we still have the universe on our hands, and do they really think that the cosmic scheme of things is mindless and purposeless, without meaning or destiny, that

God is thought of primarily as the Creator of good, and man's duty and destiny are seen as fulfilled in cooperation with God in his work of love.

We can and should debate theology and doctrine, but we must never think that we are the infallible interpreters of Scripture and determiners of people's destiny, and should also remember that doctrine, as important as it is, becomes evil when debates and discussions about theology keep us from living out the loving gospel in tangible ways to a hurting and dying world.

Despite superficial thinking like that found, as I think, at the conclusion of du Noüy's Human Destiny, the temper of our time is one which is much more plainly realistic and honest.

I think the biggest and best step in that direction thus far is a book I had the privilege of proofreading: Final Destiny.

In Catholic thinking, just as the principle of private ownership is limited by the common destiny of the goods of the earth, so legitimate claims to local self - determination must also be integrated into a wider commitment to the extended family of the whole human race.

Subsequent generations have voiced similar themes to propel America's narrative: their country was thought to have a «manifest destiny;» to represent «an empire of liberty;» to offer the «last best hope on earth;» and above all, to embody «American exceptionalism.»

There is no absolute difference here, for both schools of thought hold that man is made by God for a high destiny, yet is always a sinner.

All our thinking, our creativity, our science, our labors, along with our sorrows and disappointments, is participation in the life of God become man, in faith's anticipation of our destiny fulfilled in the life of God.

In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.

The current influence of both Leaves and The Nature and Destiny of Man seems diminished by the ascendancy of modern scientific and political thought, but such overshadowing may be for the moment only.

But during tens of thousands of years the weaving and extension of this thinking network over the surface of the globe proceeded so slowly and sporadically that until quite recently not even the most acute observers, although they recognized the biological singularity of our nature, seem to have suspected that, zoologically speaking, Humanity might be wholly unique in its destiny and structural potentialities.

It is impossible, therefore, clearly to distinguish, in Jesus» thought, the kingdom on earth from the eternal destiny of the righteous in heaven, for the former idea has been so elevated and sublimated that it blends with the latter.

And the same cosmic pessimists who despair about any meaningful cosmic destiny, or who think the universe will ultimately culminate in a lifeless and mindless «heat death,» are themselves often ethically committed to the flourishing of life and consciousness in our terrestrial quarters.

And as for the general character of thought — patterns peculiar to such groups, a collective or social imagination, or what Castoriadis calls a «social instituting imaginary,» may be needed to explain the differences between cultures and their peculiar destinies (RI 149).

In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic study of the role of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.

And a fifth reason is that the portrayal of «the last things» in these terms, indeed the emphasis on some destiny for man out of this world which makes what goes on in this world merely preparatory for heaven or a way of avoiding hell, is thought by a great many people to entail a neglect of their duty here and now to live in Christian love and to find in that their deepest satisfaction, whatever may await them when this life is ended.

Imperialism and manifest destiny (both of which are tightly tied to religious thought) yes, science not so much.

The Nicene tradition has struggled for many centuries to discipline its concepts so that they fit with the Bible, so much so that it is difficult to identify a way of thinking about God, history, and human destiny that is at once more metaphysically self - conscious and more thoroughly and constantly invested with exegetical substance.

Our concern has been simply to indicate what process - thought in a general way has to tell us about God, the world, the nature of man and society, coupled with some discussion of its references to the historical figure of Jesus and its way of envisaging the destiny of man both in and beyond his present mortal existence.