In 1995 I had an unforgettable
vision of the new life of the Orthodox Church.
In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with
visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.
But most importantly, I help you create a positive, practical
vision of the new life that lies ahead.
A new job, a new baby, a new marriage, retirement, being closer to family or certain places, a divorce, a death, a bright
vision of a new life elsewhere?
Not exact matches
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its
new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time Tuesday, a major milestone in the company's quest to grow its customer base and fund its
vision of making
life multiplanetary.
«It gives game developers
new abilities to bring their creative
visions to
life by opening up the concept
of gaming without boundaries.»
McDonald replaced Lafley's strategy with a
new vision called «purpose - inspired growth,» or, as he put it to anyone who asked, «touching and improving more consumers»
lives, in more parts
of the world, more completely.»
«Waymo holds today's best self - driving technology, and collaborating with them will accelerate our shared
vision of improving
lives with the world's best transportation,» a spokeswoman for Lyft said to the
New York Times.
My
vision is for «Discover Your True North» to build a
new generation
of authentic leaders who can make this world a better place to
live for all people.
I pray that when we are bored and tired and discouraged and frustrated, when we feel futile and hopeless, small and ridiculous that we will receive the gift
of faith and somehow remember to sink into your love and to receive
new life,
new joy,
new strength,
new boldness,
new courage,
new faith,
new vision.
Speaking on Premier
New Hour, Johan Eldebo, Senior Humanitarian Policy Adviser at World
Vision, said the figures were «no surprise» and that it is important to examine the root cause
of why so many people are
living in poverty.
Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding
of a
new cycle in the
life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity
of his scientific
vision but also by his love, his immense love,
of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority
of men are blind to: the constant presence
of the Creator.
It is a destabilizing, inclusive, nonhierarchical
vision of Christian faith, the claim that the gospel
of Christianity is a
new creation for all
of creation — a
life of freedom and fulfillment for all.
His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences
of Roe v. Wade: The right to
life movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vi
life movement received a
new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture
of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vi
Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full
vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.
Yet through all these diversities
of phrasing — whether faith was thought
of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control
of one's
life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while
living in the world
of sense, or as the climactic
vision of Christ as the Son
of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment
of faith was opening
new meanings in the experience
of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice
of prayer.
Books which give a sense
of a
new age include Bede Griffiths, A New Vision of Reality (Collins, 1989); Leonard Swidler, The Meaning of Life at the Edge of the Third Millennium (Paulist Press, 1992); Charlene Spretnak, States of Grace (HarperCollins, 1991); Keith Ward, A Vision to Pursue (SCM Press, 1991); and Hans Küng, Theology for the Third Millennium (HarperCollins, 1991), and Global Responsibility, to which reference has already been ma
new age include Bede Griffiths, A
New Vision of Reality (Collins, 1989); Leonard Swidler, The Meaning of Life at the Edge of the Third Millennium (Paulist Press, 1992); Charlene Spretnak, States of Grace (HarperCollins, 1991); Keith Ward, A Vision to Pursue (SCM Press, 1991); and Hans Küng, Theology for the Third Millennium (HarperCollins, 1991), and Global Responsibility, to which reference has already been ma
New Vision of Reality (Collins, 1989); Leonard Swidler, The Meaning
of Life at the Edge
of the Third Millennium (Paulist Press, 1992); Charlene Spretnak, States
of Grace (HarperCollins, 1991); Keith Ward, A
Vision to Pursue (SCM Press, 1991); and Hans Küng, Theology for the Third Millennium (HarperCollins, 1991), and Global Responsibility, to which reference has already been made.
What I am calling the «core groups,» those actually trying to
live a
new vision, give hope in that they are actually working out a
new balance
of impulse and control, energy and discipline, rather than abandoning all control and discipline.
He responds concretely to every
new event by taking it as a datum into a
new phase
of his own
life and adjusting it within the harmony
of his
vision.
More popular works include The Original Jesus: The
Life and
Vision of a Revolutionary (1996) and Luke for Everyone (2000), which is part
of a series
of «
New Testament Guides for Everyone distributed in the U.S. by Pilgrim Press.
Similarly, Isaiah's
vision of the day when the Lord would create
new heavens and a
new earth, the restoration
of life as it should be, makes room for old age as the natural fulfillment
of life.
It is as though a
new and formidable mountain chain had arisen in the landscape
of the soul, causing ancient categories to be reshuffled and uniting higgledy - piggledy on every slope the friends and enemies
of yesterday: on one side the inflexible and sterile
vision of a Universe composed
of unalterable, juxtaposed parts, and on the other side the ardour, the faith, the contagion
of a
living truth emerging from all action and exercise
of will.
It is the
vision of a
new heaven and a
new earth, the eschatological projection
of perfect order where all people
live as a single family.
Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding
of a
new cycle in the
life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity
of his scientific
vision but also by his love, his immense love,
of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority
of...
He contrasts the community's
vision with that
of the rural Southern Baptists among whom he grew up: «Jesus doesn't just forgive my sins, he gives a whole
new way
of life — the best way to
live.»
The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the
vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «
new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way
of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.
It will demand from us a spiritual effort; we shall have to rise to a
new height
of vision, to a
new level
of life, where our physical nature will not be cursed, as in the Middle Ages, but even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon, as in the Modern Era.»
The scientific
vision of immortality is a comparatively
new entrant in thinking about the future
of our
lives.
The parabolic nature
of this
vision is confirmed by the fact that it is followed by a second picture (which some think may have been added later) in which it is not a battlefield but a graveyard from which Israel will rise to
new life.
Minds dominated by the fantastic
visions of the Revelation
of John might easily lose the sense that all had been made
new by the coming
of Christ, and that in the communion
of His people the
life of the Age to Come was a present possession, through the Spirit which He had given.
As
life itself gropes toward
new and higher expressions, so
new visions evolve, mutate, leap up and out
of the imagination.
Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number
of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs
of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility
of restoring the experience
of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full
of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore
new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs
of the contemporary world.
I can only give expression to my own intuition that this possible emergence
of a
new consciousness should be given shape by a utopian
vision of a planetary brotherhood at peace with nature and with God, united with all
of life in the enjoyment
of its potentialities.
The artist
of vision and fantasy expects us to learn something about ourselves by having made a sojourn through fantasy, to probe our spiritual nature, to grow in experience, to resolve our
lives toward
new directions.
His futuristic
vision combines molecular biology, neurophysiology and space physics to foresee
new combinations
of biology and computer technology sending
new forms
of life into outer space to develop where it can and will.
I have a
vision now for a
new area
of freedom and wholeness in my
life.
My point being that by the time you develop the habit
of feeding, quenching, clothing, healing, welcoming, and visiting prisons, you have gained a
new life complete with
new values and
new goals and
new vision.
Some
of us are called to advocate from within, others are called to
live the
new version out to create a
vision for what could be for the ones still coming after us.
To that tired and outworn approach to the problem
of the Socialization
of the Earth we may oppose an entirely different, very much more constructive interpretation, solidly and scientifically based on a
new vision of Life and the World,
of the grand phenomenon
of human Totalization.
Read Daniel chapters 7 - 12, his
vision of our future, also Moses told us this in Deuteronomy 32:17,
of our future generations», for Deut.32: 45 - 47 is our
life to choose to «prolong» our
life, as Job did with his
new family in Job 42, by doing the law
of right the 10 commandments.
In The Descent Into Hell, Altizer states: «Accordingly,
visions of a
new apocalyptic compassion must inevitably appear in the form
of madness or chaos to all those who can still find
life or hope in an individual center
of consciousness.»
Although the Black churches led the nation in a moral crusade and the white churches gave significant support, the church has not led in thinking through to a
new vision of our
life together in a multi-ethnic society.
The former believe that the most important consideration is to nourish a
new consciousness — values, attitudes, goals, commitments, and
life styles which will gradually remake society as the
new vision takes hold
of crucial segments
of the population.
With the approach
of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication
of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment
of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran
vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment
of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this
new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.
(2) The «utopia»
of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation
of «a
new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a
vision of the specific struggle
of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday
life — political, social, religious, economic.
Its political model, rather than being trivialized by questions
of technique, would aim to grasp empirical structures and relations, portraying them in a
new way for the purposes
of political intelligibility, Its
vision would reaffirm the integrity
of the personal in political
life.
In Abraham's and Israel's experience, the mystery
of God's promise is felt palpably through the image
of a
new land, through anticipation
of a multitude
of progeny, through the hope
of a long and blessed
life for the people, through a
vision of shalom.
Because these people have gained this wider
vision, they can help the farmer to make sense
of his skill and integrate it into a
new and different
life style.
America's founding began with the Pilgrims»
vision of a
new Exodus and a
new mission in the wilderness, and the
new nation learned from the Jews to regard every human being as a
living image
of God.
The Christian
life consists, not in dedication once, however decisively, but in continued rededication as we catch
new visions of duty and
of God's limitless power.
If grace perfects through human nature, then the enormity
of the
vision of God given to Paul comes to him piecemeal as he struggles to
live his
new life fully.