Sentences with phrase «true nature of human beings»

Not exact matches

And I believe understanding this element of human nature — which I'll discuss in the next section — is key to building a life that: a) involves ambitious striving toward goals and having impact in the world, which contributes to a sense of meaning, and b) gives you a shot at realizing true happiness by avoiding a soul - sucking competitive rat race.

But it's also true within the larger context of human reality that we recognize the gracious nature of such relationships, and can be thankful that we have the ability and freedom to give and receive.

Humans are evil in nature but some choose the path to peace and forgivness which is the core of true evangelical Christianity.

When talking about the identity of Jesus as God (before sin and the Cross) it is important to have a much bigger emphasis on the fact of the true human nature of Christ.

But it is also a human word: the human beings who wrote it were also true authors.8 The scriptures therefore share to some extent in the nature of the incarnation: they use human things as the means for God to communicate with us humanly.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

It is certainly true, as he points out, that any strong separation of the human and the natural is false to the facts, as nature comes mixed with human interaction, and humans are inextricably biological in any case.

Calvin asked whether human beings have a natural knowledge of God (his answer was yes); whether they can arrange what they know from nature into an intelligible pattern known as natural theology (his answer was no); and whether redeemed — and only redeemed — human beings can construct a legitimate theology of nature by reclaiming nature as a useful source of the true knowledge of God (his answer was yes).

It is not enough to receive it as the occasion of an encounter with God (although it is) or as an invitation to join up with God's plan for human liberation (also true) or a host of other redefinitions of the nature of biblical authority.

Amid our self - structuring dependent origination, which in Zen is the very nature of the true self, we ought to respect as much as possible the capacities of others, both nonhuman and human, to originate dependently in their own self - structuring ways.

There can not be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.»

After all, how could it be that something so vanishingly small and insignificant as a human could «know» the true nature of god, especially the god you believe in.

The reaction of nature is a blindingly flashing red - light that man's actions are unnatural; that he need be true to his inner demands, which acted upon automatically set a proper balance within human consciousness and adjust the physical conditions in the entire creation around him.

It is generally believed that the laws, customs, and rituals by which the particular system is defined are written into the nature of things, and that the social structure is but a true reflection of the innate qualities of human nature in its several kinds.

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

«We are deceivers, yet true in clinging to the idea of the fall as a symbol of the origin and the nature of evil in human life.»

Only if it can be shown that human values exemplify a basically different structure from that defined by the primordial nature of God is it true that Whitehead's God is irreconcilable with human goodness.

It will be far wiser and truer to the nature of man to allow the essentials of the content of faith to «sink in» so that human culture itself becomes imbued with the truth of Revelation.

Always central to his writing is a fully orthodox defence of the literal divinity of the Person of Jesus Christ and also of his true human nature as Son of Man.

Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.

As examples of the former: if what most Christians think about Jesus of Nazareth is true, then what most Muslims think about him must be false; if what most Buddhists think about the nature of human persons is true, then what most Jews think about this must be false... and so on.

The significance of Christ as the second Adam is the revelation of the true character of both the human and the divine nature.

In the unceasing human striving from the good to the better, in the contempt of the base and mean, in the universal homage to the true and noble and unselfish, there was, for Israel's thought, just as for ours, a profound mystery that compelled speculation to venture beyond the immediate and tangible, out into the region of cause and nature and being.

A critical reader may suspect that this idea grew out of later reflection and served an apologetic interest; yet it is true to human nature and experience.

We have seen that Paul's understanding of the realities of the human situation apart from Christ could be expressed only in mythological terms, and the suggestion has been made that, in the nature of the case, this must be true, not for him only, but also for us, if our understanding is at all adequate or profound.

Its power should not be underestimated: natures fresh to sexuality can have a purer sense of the mystery of the body and a spontaneous understanding of the true relationship ofbodily actions to human love.

As Leo the Great says: «True God, then, was born in the complete and perfect nature of true man, completely human and completely divTrue God, then, was born in the complete and perfect nature of true man, completely human and completely divtrue man, completely human and completely divine.

Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms to the general purpose of interest in the human mind to help humanity to realize its true nature and its relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»

Niebuhr goes on to add that the fact that the will to power inevitably justifies itself in terms of the morally more acceptable will to realize our true nature means that the egoistic corruption of universal ideals is a much more persistent fact in human affairs than any moralistic creed is inclined to admit.

Some small pieces of it, it is true, may be painful, or may show human nature in a pathetic light, but it will be mainly pleasant, because the best fruits of religious experience are the best things that history has to show.

This is the idea that as human history progressed, God revealed more and more of Himself to humanity, so that the later portions of Scripture more accurately reveal the true nature of God than the earlier portions (see chapters 2, 11).

WORLD: Humans have tried to understand the true Nature of things forever and how they control us and how we should act to be properly in communion with them... and those concepts have been updated continually by those in tune or desiring to better understand such concepts, that were once explained by God in human form.

These four — divine dependence, mutual obligation stemming from love, sound judgment of human nature, and the practice of brotherhood in daily experience — are the basis of any true democracy.

The idea that the aim of human evolution is the unfolding of the human being, the creation of «wealthy» human being who has overcome the contradiction between self and nature and achieved true freedom, is expressed in many passages of Capital, written by the mature and old Marx.

Conjugal acts must be open to the transmission of human life; marriage and the family must be defended «from every possiblemisrepresentation of their true nature» (i.e.civil partnerships)...».

«It is clear that the strengthening and maturing of faith which we seek requires a deepening appreciation of the role of faith in completing and fulfilling our human nature and in particular its harmony with true reasoning.

This is true biologically; and therefore, given the harmony of human nature, also psychologically.

As Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky observes, the Eastern Church regards choice as the mark not of freedom but of fallenness, as a debasement of true liberty, as a loss of the divine likeness: «Our nature being overclouded with sin no longer knows its true good... and so the human person is always faced with the necessity of choice; it goes forward gropingly.»

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

Dominic CavendishTheatre critic and adaptor of Orwell: A Celebration1984 grabs us by the throat in early adolescence or adulthood and never lets go because it tells us something deeply unpleasant about human nature; something we know at once, however safe and secure we are, to be true.

SO, there is a true humor and view into human nature when one of the most notorious periods in New York City government, then led by Mayor Koch, is apparently discounted and finds our former Mayor now advocating for some type of improvement in the conduct of the State Legislature.

Amid a freewheeling discussion of genes and human nature with Charlotte Hunt - Grubbe, a former lab assistant of his, Watson chanced to comment that it would certainly be nice if the world's different racial groups had all evolved to be equally intelligent, but that «people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.»

In fact, it is so important that among mammals and birds the norm is for a species to have a third eyelid and those lacking one — such as humans and some of our fellow primates — are the true oddities in nature.

He taught us that our vanity had blinded us to the true nature of minds, animal and human; that so much more is to be learned about animal minds than received doctrine allowed.

It is certainly true that a drastic cut in the human population could benefit the rest of nature, but Perry...

If the pessimistic view of human nature is true, people should be more averse to shocking themselves — and so be willing to make less money — as compared with shocking others.

Somehow revealing to my true self and our nature of being human.

Based on a true story, it begins with the self - serving nature of human beings and evolves into their better angels.

Once the true task is revealed and at hand, the movie stays fairly close to Lewis» moralizing center, as each of the central characters finds him and herself tempted by the whims of human nature, mainly greed.