Sentences with phrase «truth about human life»

Our trust is directed toward God as well — trust that in Jesus has been truly disclosed the truth about human life and the truth about God, so that if we entrust ourselves to God through Jesus God has truly shown us the «way and the truth and the life» (John 14:6), that in Jesus we truly perceive the «pioneer and perfecter of faith» (Heb.

Daniel Von Allmen of Switzerland began his paper on «The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles» by saying that conflict seemed to be a permanent truth about human life.

The story begins convincingly, conveying a nearly universal truth about human life.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

But what chiefly I wish to suggest is that while I for one welcome the disappearance or «muting» of the traditional teaching about the last things, I also think that they did point to important truths about human life as well as about Christian faith.

Not exact matches

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.

The saga showcases elements of truth — truth about the human experience, the cosmos, the character of a hero, and the nature of life itself.

But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.

These fundamental needs can only be truly fulfilled through a rich and living encounter with the deepest truths about God and the human person.»

Was it first and foremost a truth about God, or was it more to do with human experience and practical living?

They have fought advances of thought, they have tried to defeat the efforts of men and women to know more about the world, they have denied the validity of scientific truth, they have called into question the freedom and responsibility, as well as the dignity, of human life.

Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront in our everyday life.

And in thinking about our living and our dying, we must somehow see and think both truths about ourselves, we must distinguish but not separate these two perspectives on human nature.

Authentic religion reveals the truth about human nature and motivates believers to defend each human life and ensure that every person is protected and allowed to flourish.

The Virgin Eye is essentially a book about the spiritual life, and about the human need for truth and beauty.

He writes, Jesus «is that One in whom God actualized in a living human personality the potential God - man relationship which is the divinely intended truth about every man....

John Paul II's approach to east central Europe was based on different premises: that the post-war division of Europe was immoral and historically artificial; that communist violations of basic human rights had to be named for what they were; and that the «captive nations» could eventually find tools of resistance that communism could not match, if they reclaimed the religious, moral, and cultural truth about themselves and lived those truths without fear.

But truth about God's goodness and power is revealed everywhere in the natural setting of human life, and this knowledge is not wholly perverted by sin.

This anecdote communicates a simple but dynamic truth about growth that is often overlooked — that a major dreamsquelcher which causes us to postpone our potentializing indefinitely is the belief that «I can't do what I'd really like to do because...» If you feel some serious inner or outer obstacles to making creative changes in your life, welcome to the human race!

As George Weigel notes: «To those who object that the essence of the modern human condition is its plurality, John Paul says — you are right, and that is precisely why wehave to think more seriously about the possibility of moral truths and their relationship to living in freedom.»

For most adults, marriage teaches a deep truth about the human condition: I do not live for myself.

As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher truth than «the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

First among them is the need for a vital ecclesial intellectual life and culture of grace as the context for knowledge of basic metaphysical truths about God, the human person, and the natural law.

More than a decade after its end, the editors of the New York Times still can not bring themselves to speak simple truth about the evil of the most murderous movement in human history, or about those who devoted their lives and betrayed their country in serving that movement.

In Pagels's and King's scheme, the gospels of Thomas and Mary point us to the hidden truth about our inner, spiritual lives, whereas the canonical Gospels rehearse external facts that orthodoxy asks us to believe about Jesus as the unique God - human.

Many humans simply can't accept this truth and find they need a christ buddy to hold their hand and whisper lies to them about life everlasting — just to get from day to day.

And a genuine appetite for spiritual love also disposes the human person to receive the fullness of the truth, including the truth about the nature of the human person and the normative content of the moral life.

And i do believe in the truth and honesty Because honesty is the only key to human success, and with honest, i believe in myself and my life is really based on truth, and its all about who i really am.

With strong performances by a very intriguing cast, particularly by Kate Winslet, Little Children manages to overcome the obstacles of the artificiality of the characters and situations to deliver ultimate truths about the human condition, particularly in the lives of people who normally wouldn't make for interesting study.

Whereas in Up we begin by being overwhelmed with truths about the human condition, then descend into a comparative banality that improves as the film goes on, ending in a close approximation of the beauty of the prologue, in Inside Out we start with silly fun that threatens to go nowhere interesting, and then slowly move towards profound meditations on the meaning of life.

«Above and Beyond» «All Things Must Pass» «Amy» «The Armor of Light» «Ballet 422» «Batkid Begins» «Becoming Bulletproof» «Being Evel» «Beltracchi — The Art of Forgery» «Best of Enemies» «The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution» «Bolshoi Babylon» «Brand: A Second Coming» «A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story» «Call Me Lucky» «Cartel Land» «Censored Voices» «Champs» «CodeGirl» «Coming Home» «Dark Horse» «Deli Man» «Dior and I» «The Diplomat» «(Dis) Honesty — The Truth about Lies» «Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll» «Dreamcatcher» «dream / killer» «Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon» «Eating Happiness» «Every Last Child» «Evidence of Harm» «Farewell to Hollywood» «Finders Keepers» «The Forecaster» «Frame by Frame» «Gardeners of Eden» «A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile» «Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones» «Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief» «He Named Me Malala» «Heart of a Dog» «Hitchcock / Truffaut» «How to Change the World» «Human» «The Hunting Ground» «I Am Chris Farley» «In Jackson Heights» «In My Father's House» «India's Daughter» «Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words» «Iraqi Odyssey» «Iris» «Janis: Little Girl Blue» «Karski & the Lords of Humanity» «Killing Them Safely» «Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck» «Lambert & Stamp» «A Lego Brickumentary» «Listen to Me Marlon» «Live from New York!»

In the case of Inside Llewyn Davis, this consistent pull toward bad luck gives the film a rare sort of melancholy, one that avoids sentimentality and pity, as well as outright cynicism, to find a strange, unmistakable truth about the emotional bruises and physical suffering of life as a human or, even worse, an artist.

Life is filled with certain truths and inevitability: the nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow... and at some point, every human being with a smartphone or tablet will become addicted to Angry Birds.

The truth is your new puppy doesn't know anything about living with you or any other human.

The staged photographs of Skoglund, Cindy Sherman, Spencer Tunick, Carrie Mae Weems and others bring imagined scenes and narratives to life, often speaking to broader truths about the human experience.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,