Sentences with phrase «very human flesh»

But the phrase «in principle» is important because the question arises whether it is possible for this very human flesh to include its own good in intention without corrupting it.

Is it possible for our very human flesh even to intend it?

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Just curious — In your opinion, did the Jews think the Messiah would be God in flesh or someone more like a prophet / political emancipator, a very special human but not God in flesh?

And as we listen we realize that we have seen the coming of the very first gentiles, kneeling and worshiping before this God in human flesh, a God not yet even weaned by his mother.

The very truth that God put on flesh and blood and moved into the neighbourhood through birth, even — especially — that experience of birth, now showing us what it means to be truly human.

And though very often it is literal light, it is also the wisdom of the poet who helps us to understand more deeply what it is to be human, just as our Lord himself took flesh to do.

This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his human nature.

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 a claim that God's grace is mediated through the material: in the incarnation, God became human flesh and dwelt among us; in the Passion, it was Christ's body that was crucified; in the Eucharist, Christ is truly present in the elements of bread and wine; as we partake of these elements, approaching the altar with our bodies, eating and drinking, we become the very body of Christ; and in the eschaton, it is this very materiality of creation that God will transform and glorify.

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.

We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».

God was delighted to inhabit a woman's flesh, to make it the very vessel through which God became a human being.

The divine blessing of procreation («Be fruitful and multiply») is spoken to the human male and female in Genesis 1:28, and Adam's rapturous little poem naming woman and man in Genesis 2:23 (which I take to be the way Genesis 2 affirms that creation is «very good») clearly aims at sexual union, as the man is to leave father and mother and cleave to his woman, becoming one flesh with her (Gen. 2:24).

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

But Jesus has shown in himself that our human flesh has a divine vocation to be taken up into the very Godhead itself.

Articles of clothing are bound to move in ways you didn't intend, flesh is bound to be exposed in ways others may not entirely appreciate, and you may very well be left feeling exposed when, honestly, any woman who is feeding another human being with her body should feel emboldened.

A «perfect» protein just means it very closely matches human flesh.

Very few movies can deliver toe - tapping songs as well as scenes of mermaids chowing down on human flesh, but

Very few movies can deliver toe - tapping songs as well as scenes of mermaids chowing down on human flesh, but The Lure pulls it off, and then some.

What's more, we as human beings are, at the very end, simply ignoble chunks of flesh and fluid.

Cats possess retractable claws and shed the outer layer by scratching on rough surfaces, however their nail tips can become very sharp causing damage to rugs, furniture and human flesh, therefore trimming their nails may help to blunt those sickle - like claws.

«Her interest in the manoeuvrability and positional alteration of flesh and human tissue is very evident,» Weintraub observed afterwards.

«Her interest in the manoeuvrability and positional alteration of flesh and human tissue is very evident» — Barry Martin Weintraub, New York plastic surgeon

The human figure and the very particular figure of her husband created a challenge to one of the core aspects of her approach in the studio — that of doubt that haunts every brush stroke, and something new to her work happens in these portraits that is different than the encounter with landscape: in the first portrait of Bill, in the hospital, the overworking or overthinking becomes a powerful expression of the drama of the human body pushed to the limit of survival, where «overworking» is an embodiment of flesh itself in flux.