Sentences with phrase «very ordinary experiences»
In both tragedy and ecstasy, and often in the midst of very ordinary experiences, these ultimate questions emerge and allow us to come into more explicit contact with mystery.
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It seems to me that these latter novels are all illuminated by discussing them in terms very similar to the ones we used to discuss parables: they evoke the graciousness of the transcendent by means of a distortion of the familiar, for the purpose of providing a new and extraordinary context for ordinary experience.
Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).
Dream - consciousness is very different from ordinary waking - consciousness of the environment, but there are also experiences of many sorts that lie on the boundary between them.
They are beyondour ordinary experience (by their very nature) and are not scientifically verifiable.
Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events of history and in the response made to those events in the experience of men and women immersed in the ordinary affairs of daily life.
Leave aside the Tories» spectacularly inept handling of statistics (most people I know have very little trust in any statistics whatever, wherever they come from), the fact is that the narrative chimes with the public because it seems to support the common experience of ordinary people - whatever the Economist may say.
Their experience and understanding helps ensure we have the very best policies, policies that matter to ordinary people.
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