Sentences with phrase «total scheme of things»

Three years is not a long time to be together in the total scheme of things — especially since you love each other and have a child.

We do not readily entertain the idea that in many senses we are relatively insignificant in the total scheme of things.

We do not have the perspective whereby to give a final assessment of our own significance, or that of any phase of evolution, in the total scheme of things.

The danger is that it gives a place to suffering in the total scheme of things and thus subtly legitimates it, making us reluctant to challenge its apparent metaphysical inevitability.

He is a portion of the total scheme of things, tied by a thousand threads to the encompassing whole» (MCAT Vol.

Possessing a darkly unconscious sense of insignificance in the total scheme of things, we seek to compensate for this insignificance by pretensions of pride.

Among all the possibilities which are open in the total scheme of things, there must be a reason why the particular actual achievements which we know to be there are in fact present.

God values such existence; God works in and through such existence; God guarantees that such existence has its own dignity in the total scheme of things and that it can make its own contribution to that totality.

It is this which gives Jesus his central place and role, and it is from this centrality, or particular «importance,» in our understanding and in our living, that the evaluation of Jesus himself, his significance in the total scheme of things, his continuing impact on successive generations of men and women, takes its rise.

For he is really wanting to comprehend the total scheme of things with the mind of the Creator.

Not exact matches

And while so far nothing Trump has actually done on trade is all that significant in the grand scheme of things, perpetually making policy on the basis of a total misunderstanding of the issue is potentially quite dangerous.

In what sense do we regard the Cross as an act creative in itself, as an opus operatum whose agent in the loneliness of his total rejection achieved something new, radically affected the scheme of things entire, established in respect of the relations of men and women to God a new foundation?

Though scholars such as Matthew M. Chingos have asserted that in the grand scheme of things, funding for state tests is a miniscule portion of the total amount spent on K - 12 public education, I wonder how the cost of switching state exams will impact districts that receive disproportionately less in state aid.

Accounting for less than 20 per cent of the total E-Class lineup, the Coupe, in the grand scheme of things, is small potatoes for Mercedes — maybe 400 to 500 sales a year.

Other things that will be taken up would be the total value of the vehicles that you want to use for a car title loan and the repayment scheme that will be followed when the loan is in effect.

Optimal policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, economists tell us, won't cost the global economy very much in the grand scheme of things — on the order of 1 percent of total global GDP over the course of the next century.

The 24X1022 Joules represent, in the scheme of things, a tiny warming of the oceans - a barely measurable total of +0.09 C degrees over 55 years.

On the grand scheme of things, when Wii U should be around 50 mil in lifetime sales, 20,000 is about 0.04 % of total sales, one in 2,500 Wii Us sold.