Sentences with phrase «toward other creatures»

The modern attitude toward other creatures expresses itself today in the way we raise animals for slaughter.

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In Proverbs, the hard - working ant is praised as an example of a creature working diligently with others toward a common purpose.

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

Because Eve has been made toward and receptive of the other, John Paul saw in her a sensitivity to life unmatched by other creatures.

To get to know the inner life of a pet is a step toward having a feeling for other creatures.

God, Whitehead states, may seek to persuade creatures to actualize themselves or to work toward harmonious solidarity with others, but God can not coerce them to do so.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

As Mary sings, prophecy is already being fulfilled in this world, lifting up the humble singer, pulling faithful hearers toward the future God wills for the shalom of all creatures, and energizing them to bring home to others the real presence of the indwelling God.

In a word, a dynamic tendency toward communion with God, and with other creatures in relation to God, lies in the inmost depths of every human being and not only Christians.

Even as God's work as Creator is in the deeper interest of every creature in a cosmic order that frees it to realize its own interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all its fellow creatures, so right actions toward others and, even more so, right structures of social and cultural order are byway of realizing the same deeper interest, thereby carrying forward God's own work of creation.

There's moral grandeur to a God whose role is as a contributor to these makings, aiding in the deepening of harmonies by luring the creatures toward a widened sense of the other harmonies thought relevant.

Love is the weight which bears the creature toward God.3 Since God is to be loved above all else, a rightly ordered life can be founded only upon love for God, not for God as chief value among others, but as the ultimate and absolute good which underlies all the creaturely goods.

I've come to recognize different types of creatures» behaviour and which species tend to be friendly or aggressive toward each other.

Thousands and thousands of Orcs and other fantasy creatures are rushing toward the rift.