Sentences with phrase «upon the perfection of»

A father's acceptance of his children does not depend upon the perfection of their obedience, but only upon their willingness to be filial.

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This is really a fuller development and perfection of that pattern of creative causality centred upon the Mind of God which is written into the whole of material being, and which we name the Unity Law of Control and Direction (see Editorial, September 2006).

God is not dependent in any sense upon anything else for divine perfection, and a relationship to anything else is not a necessity of God's nature.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

«9 Yet, in a later verse of the same Gatha, mention is made of the final attainment of perfection, when «the blow of destruction shall fall upon the Demon of falsehood, and her adherents shall perish with her.

c It is thus, step by step, that Man, pursuing the flight of his growing aspirations, taught by a first success to be conscious of his power, finds himself impelled to look beyond any purely mechanical improvement of the earth's surface and increase of his external riches, and to dwell upon the growth and biological perfection of himself.

It [Perfection] can not depend upon anything else [in particular] for its own existence — not that it could exist solitary, but its existence is entirely neutral as between alternatives of particular existence other than its own.

We shall not achieve it immediately, but we shall strive,» even his slight qualification of optimism gave warning of a radical shift toward a realistic temper.1 Whatever realism there has been in the spirit of democracy, and there has been a great deal, it has generally had superimposed upon it a vision of perfection, and with a notion of man's life as continually moving toward a higher and higher good.

The individual in a human society in process of collective organization has not the right to remain inactive, that is to say, not to seek to develop himself to his fullest extent: because upon his individual perfection depends the perfection of all his fellows.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

This historical development is completely open - ended, for process thought does not impose any particular pattern of historical development upon history, since God is ever resourceful in finding new perfections for creation to strive for.

Newman, filled with enthusiasm at God's list of perfections, continues the passage which I began to quote to you by a couple of pages of a rhetoric so magnificent that I can hardly refrain from adding them, in spite of the inroad they would make upon our time.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

The soul that is to ascend this mount of perfection, to commune with God, must not only renounce all things and leave them below, but must not even allow the desires, which are the beasts, to pasture over against this mount — that is, upon other things which are not purely God, in whom every desire ceases: that is, in the state of perfection.

When God wills that, for the perfection of the work of creation and the salvation of mankind, he should take upon himself a created nature, he wills that T shall be a man, so that the human nature of God lives through the Divine 1», through the DivinePerson of the Word, who subsists in the Essence of God.

Rather it is the sense of a requirement for perfection that summons the will and makes a claim upon it.

Every evil — and every good as well — provides God with a basis or a foundation upon which God formulates both the perfection of the world and Godself.

[33] Finally, if killing or harming animals is wrong or not God's perfect will, then Christ's perfection is in doubt (Heb 9:14) as he was directly and indirectly involved in the infliction of death and suffering upon animals.

If, in turning to this theme, we could descend upon our subject from above like Catholic theologians, with our fixed definitions of man and man's perfection and our positive dogmas about God, we should have an easy time of it.

We are touched, not because we look down upon the child from the strength of our height and perfection, but rather because we look upward from the limitation of our [adult] condition (Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (Ungar, 1966), pp. 85, 87].

Thus the contribution to Beauty which can be supplied by Discord — in itself destructive and evil — is the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.

The failure to realize a higher form of perfection is preferable for Whitehead: «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feelings.

Layers upon layers of flaky pastry, quick fried to crisp perfection and covered in a light, crunchy coating of cinnamon sugar.

That my friends is layer upon layer upon layer of flavor perfection!

Foundation: Weighing up these factors, the foundation upon which infatuation is built is the ideal, for this blissful moment in time, the way you view your object of affection is idealized perfection.

The Margot of the title, as played to alien, frostbitten perfection by Nicole Kidman, is a NEW YORKER contributor (and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Margot's sister Pauline, played Mrs. Parker herself once upon a time) who's ventured out to wintry Long Island to talk her sister out of marrying schlub Malcolm (Jack Black).

Delving into the history of Soviet propaganda film, Antadze came upon the figure of Mikheil Gelovani, an actor who, to his misfortune, knew how to imitate Stalin's Georgian accent to perfection.

The absence of a director's commentary from the two - disc «collector's edition», which boasts merely a booklet and «death of an outlaw» doco, may presage a future «director's cut», although it's hard to see how additional footage could possibly improve upon this haunting perfection.

Some vehicle information and vehicle pricing may be unintentionally missing or inaccurate, and Perfection will endeavor to correct such discrepancies in a commercially reasonable manner upon customer notification of such errors.

The abominations, deformed and distorted mirrors of humanity, created unintentionally in Pioneer Lab's search for perfection, descend upon Washington D.C..

Every time I write a review about Toriko, I write word after word about this explosive fun - ride of a manga that is part fighting, part adventure, and part foodie manga, all mixed together to a perfection and unleashed upon the page by the mighty pen of mangaka Shimabukuro.

The wind whistled through the air and slowly, streaks of light from the sun flashed upon its unspoiled perfection.

Before opening its exclusive downtown salon they called upon Dekoratio Branding & Design Studio and Kevin Harald Campean to carry out a full rebrand, creating a visual identity that reflects the key elements of the brand: style, perfection and tradition.

These works, at first, give the impression of a frenetic, expressionistic approach, but upon deeper consideration, his rigorous and painstaking practice in precision and perfection is revealed.

Upon exiting the Giorgio Morandi exhibition at the Center for Italian Modern Art last November, Dutch artist Jan Dibbets returned to one of Morandi's late paintings, an almost - square, beige - on - beige Still Life, 1963, and murmured: «This is the perfection of what Morandi pursued over 50 years!»

It is this sense of «natural failure» — the impossibility of achieving perfection within the handcrafted — which sets Kahn's contemporary interpretation of minimalism apart from that of the 1960s and 1970s, which was predicated upon perfectionism.

It was not that geometry could represent the reality of the sublime, but that it could offer a means of attaining a «plane of attention and awareness» upon which the perception of sublimity depended» (Barbara Haskell, «Agnes Martin: The Awareness of Perfection,» Agnes Martin, exh.

The perfection, the glamour of the mise - en - scène depends upon their recession from the scene — behind screens, windows, hedges, truck cabs and paneled vans.

Group exhibitions include Energy and Process, Tate Modern, London (2013); 9 Bienal du Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2013); Monuments, Lismore Castle (2013); Pursuit of Perfection, South London Gallery (2012); ArtandPress, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2012); Once Upon a Time, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2011); Plus Ultra, MACRO Testaccio, Rome (2010); 53 Venice Biennale (2009).

Reinforcing the idea of perfection and its demands upon young females, the subjects» bedrooms are appropriately embellished with carefully curated patterns, complimentary colors and minimal furnishings.»

«If I wish upon a star» I would always look for improvement and not perfection because I want all of us to have a chance to win this game.

The attorneys at Deans & Lyons, LLP are routinely called upon to handle disputes over the formation and interpretation of contracts, the perfection of security interests, breaches of warranties, limitations on damages, available remedies, and many other issues that require a determination of whether — and if so, how — the UCC applies.