Sentences with phrase «very nature of living»

«We know that by the very nature of living in an urban environment, there are some modicum of trauma or stress that students undergo.»

Not exact matches

«Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,» Ellis said of the former campaign manager.

In «My Own Life,» a short autobiography composed shortly before he died, he wrote: «I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early.»

The stigma of living with one's own parents, by its nature, makes for a very uncomfortable arrangement.

Any honest survey of the situation makes clear that there are very considerable differences in the movement of God in and through nature, history, and human life.

This is what Barthians call the genus tapeinoticum, the genus of humility: If Christ lives a historical life as man, obeys, suffers, and dies, God is in some way subject to temporality, obedience, suffering, and death in his very nature as God.

«The Church of England has a very clear statement on the nature of when people who have been divorced who have a previously partner still living can get married and we went through that.»

Let us speak of a whole life of sufferings or of some person whom nature, from the very outset, as we humans are tempted to say, wronged, someone who from birth was singled out by useless suffering: a burden to others; almost a burden to himself; and yes, what is worse, to be almost a born objection to the goodness of Providence.

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us in the revelation of God in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives of the saints, sacred art, miracles of conversion and healing, and in her own very nature.

This, incidentally, is a logically necessary claim if one understands goodness and being as flowing alike from the very nature of God and coinciding in him as one infinite life.

Very different philosophical suppositions about the nature of human life underlie both the moderate Protestant and the conservative Catholic positions on abortion.

The very nature of every aspect of most peoples lives entails distraction and the lie of personal freedom.

Some choose paths that are so in conflict with Kingdom values, their very presence would either pollute the Kingdom or the holiness of the Kingdom would obliterate everything that was of an alien nature to the peace and joy of Kingdom life.

One reason for this failure to engage in genuine debate is that the parties to the disagreement have very different views both of moral agency and the nature of the moral life.

It is a struggle for the very nature of the church; who we are, how we pray, where we live, who belongs, why we believe.

Thus both history and the very nature of the sexual question have guaranteed that the church will be more involved in this area than in most other areas of human life.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy, despite the fact that the nature of the intrauterine life has been the subject of considerable dispute in the past.

«By its very nature trust is substantiation of trust in the fullness of life in spite of the course of the world which is experienced.»

The latter is not only essential to the life of dialogue, but is dialogical in its very nature: it is the awareness of «the signs» that continually address us in everything that happens.

... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....

The issue of divine temporal valuation transcends these theodical questions, for it concerns the very nature of God as a living God.

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Fundamental moral commitments may be at stake, creating conflict not just about one's individual life, but about the very nature of society.

Whitehead is claiming here that by its very nature, the essential creativity of a living occasion is too evanescent to be subject to the Category of Transmutation.

: «If you change a little bit the laws of nature, or you change a little bit the constants of nature - like the charge on the electron - then the way the universe develops is so changed, it is very likely that intelligent life would not have been able to develop.»

We come now to his relations with what is by its very nature an all - encompassing, impersonal framework of his life.

If we are true followers of Christ we will be sharing inspiring stories about how Jesus is apart of our daily lives and how He is currently transforming our very nature to be better EACH day.

In life as it is given to us to live, there seem to be permanent conditions which stand against the order of mutuality so that this world yearns for a good which in its very nature it can not embody.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future of all planetary life.

As a thinking, self - conscious being, indeed, he may be said, by his very nature, to live in the atmosphere of the Universal Life.

Jesus may very well be the answer, but if you want a good conversation, you may need to clarify what the question is, because the first question is not about eternal life, but about the nature of reality itself.

Such prose and poetry not only represent what women wrote but also teach us an imaginative process of reconstructing women's lives, the church, and the very nature of reflection as aimed toward the future.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

Thee good soil represents someone who; * admits and understands that they are indebted to God because of their sinful nature * that sin equals eternal damnation hellfire * they turn to Jesus as our own saviour to abide in his covenant to fully repent of sins and become holy enduring right to the end * remember Jesus said you can not serve the world and God, or money and god you can not be a master to both * the path to eternal life is very narrow and strait and only few are able to find it you have to let go of your desires and dictates of the flesh and always embrace and find happiness serving god set your eyes on Jesus... crucify your desires..

But sure, the relevant issues are more in regard to effectivity, such as that two machines with drivers can harvest a field quicker than a dozen or so men, and while a life without any work can be boring and / or decadent very quickly (and similarly such with no physical activity whatsoever), an overall system e.g. where productivity and numbers are «alpha and omega» seems to be very out of touch not only with nature.

Marriage by its very nature is between a man and a woman and it is the essential foundation of family life.

For the relationship to the Living God which is religion is not contained primarily in these other things, but in an ontological relationship, i.e. something that derives from the very nature of your being, to God, as the One lain hold of in a personal, loving ful lment which lls out both our intellect, and our capacity for loving alike.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

I've always found it curious that Christians so passionately defend the sanctity of life, when so many seem to think that human beings are, by their very nature, an affront to God.

He has, to be sure, answered this question, not only in his Scripture but in the very constitution of our natures: to choose life, to be fruitful and multiply, and to walk in his ways, which means among other things to understand that life makes sense and that human fulfillment resides in resisting the ever - present temptation to return to tohu vavohu — the primordial chaos and void.

Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».

It belongs to the very nature of the Christian life to be part of the universal mission.

They tell us that they have arrived at an unshakable conviction, not based on inference but on immediate experience, that God is a spirit with whom the human spirit can hold intercourse; that in him meet all that they can imagine of goodness, truth, and beauty that they can see his footprints everywhere in nature, and feel his presence within them as the very life of their life, so that in proportion as they come to themselves they come to him.

I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you?

By its very nature faith must integrate all other elements of life if it is to survive.

By its very nature spiritual life is transformative of all life.

This is the very nature of God, for He is the creator the one who gives life and has conquered the grave, who made the worlds by His understanding and formed us out of the dust of the earth.

Dr. Cobb presents the process theology view that the exclusion of God in our universal experience is contrary to that very experience, that God plays a role in human life and in the whole of history and nature.