Sentences with phrase «ultimate human longing»

It's about celebrating each step toward the ultimate human longing for an enhanced and enriched enterprise of life.

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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.
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