It's about celebrating each step toward
the ultimate human longing for an enhanced and enriched enterprise of life.
Not exact matches
It carried to fulfillment a
long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the
ultimate goal of divine creation and
human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
As
long as love and loyalty, aspiration and hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so
long will there remain an
ultimate mystery in the divine -
human encounter.
The
longing to belong in some
ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all
human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»
Many no
longer believe that
human life has
ultimate, objective value simply because it is
human.
Pascal
longed to build a home for
human beings in the world he inherited, he burned «with desire to find solid ground and an
ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite» — that is, to construct a poem like that of Dante which would locate
human being in the new scheme of things.
Our culture lacks a way of talking effectively about the
ultimate value of
human life, or making large judgments about what is good for
human beings in the
long run.
The
Human Genome Project, not
long ago completed at a cost of $ 3 billion, was often presented by its promoters as opening the way to discovering the
ultimate genetic causes of all diseases, thus setting the stage for their cure.
With God reduced to a shadow of the
human other, and no
longer seen as the source of compensating heavenly rewards, the
ultimate religious and ethical imperative of pure sacrifice is therefore fulfilled within a secular and symbolically drained sphere, harboring no illusions.
The
ultimate goal of Christian marriage enrichment is to liberate couples to claim and share the fruits of the spirit for which the
human family
longs — love, faithfulness, integrity, reconciliation, healing, joy, and peace.
Similar ambivalences characterize every
human situation;
ultimate and immediate concerns,
long - and short - range goals, big and little questions, theological and technical perspectives are involved in it.
Corruption inevitably kicks in so that, in the
long run, only the faces at the top have changed and the power of love has not replaced the love of power which is the
ultimate transformational solution to the ills of
human society that sacred activism always sought.
GK Chesterton rightly noted that all arguments are theological arguments, that is to say, eventually all political and moral disagreements, if pursued for
long enough, get down to the brass tacks of our basic assumptions about the
ultimate meaning and purpose of
human individuals and
human society.
It is in the freedom before the challenge of
ultimate Truth and penultimate truths,
human persons are equal, an equality that should bc recognized by the law of the state so
long as a person respects the same freedom of other persons.
But imagine the marketing potential: Organic grass - fed
human breast - milk cheese could be the
ultimate Whole Foods product, as
long as the women aren't housed on factory farms or given artificial hormones to increase milk production and everything is certified.
Our
ultimate goal is to provide assistance and
long term support for animals in need and to strengthen the
human - animal bond.
Newman saw himself as seeking and finding an abstract pictorial code for
ultimate human concerns: the polarities of light and darkness, of wholeness and transience, despair and
longing for redemption, living and dying.