Sentences with phrase «who confronted reality»

And plenty of people who confronted reality while maintaining faith.

Not exact matches

«All of us have confronted the reality in Washington, D.C., that is a Congress that is virtually closed for business,» says Benjamin Jealous, the former head of the NAACP, who now advises and invests in tech startups.

But the church is confronted also with the reality of the judgment of God upon unrepentant idolaters who subvert the will of God and oppress the neighbor.

Whereas they pointed to the pantheon of gods in their unseen heavenly world, the Bible pointed to one who was in no way to be identified with the gods of ancient man, but who was known to them in the sphere of human history as the deepest reality confronting them there.

If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.

But in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to confront the growing reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

When man confronts the question of the meaning of his life he finds that the question can only be answered if he sees that he is related to a transcendent reality, a God whose being is of a different order from that of all creatures and processes in our experience, who is the «unconditioned» ground of all being, to use Tillich's phrase.

Love your thoughts, but until ignorance is no longer bliss you can expect those who back their good thoughts and feelings with fantasy rather than the realities we are confronted wth every day to rule our lives.

The authors challenge churches to recover the idea of the family as a locus of religious observance, to develop a «bilingual theology» that addresses the needs of intact families and also the realities of other family forms, to critically confront divorce as a sign of failure and yet support those who are divorced and directly to take up the issue of father absence.

Rather, when confronted by the pastoral reality of people who wanted to remarry after widowhood, or after divorce, the Church, recognized civil marriages and focused entirely on the reintegration of the remarried into the Church through prayer and fasting.

The impression of being confronted with a stale program becomes so much the greater for the reader of the present day, who is otherwise open to intellectually demanding projects, when Whitehead designates Process and Reality as «an essay in Speculative Philosophy» (PR 3/4) and explains his cosmology as aiming at a «system of general ideas» (ibid.).

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

Jesus is the victim who will not stay sacrificed, whose memory is not erased and who forces us to confront the reality of scapegoating.

Wenger has done very well for us, he is a legend but its obvious he has gone stale and lost the hunger, motivation and most importantly the modern touch to take us to the next level... its just a shame the board are a bunch of clueless money grabbers who are afraid to confront reality head... Wenger will have to go sometime, whether he or the board likes it or not but what preparations are in place to scout a viable replacement?

The reality is that if you confront that person who is spreading the rumor, you are just going to spread more gossip.

«It's time we confronted reality,» said the governor, who noted that the state already has more gaming machines than Atlantic City and could generate up to $ 1 billion dollars by taxing dollars that are already being spent.

On the home front, Aubrey's Evelyn is a fiercely strong woman who must confront the realities of her husband's unique profession.

Entitled Kelvin's Book, the drama will focus on a group of young people aboard a flight that's forced to make an emergency landing, who are then confronted with the reality of their home country for the first time.

Confronting unresolved romantic feelings toward her ex-flame Jack (William Mapother), who went on to marry close friend Zoey (Ione Skye), Valinda is forced to face down her current reality, which includes the possibility of starting a family with uptight husband Will (Tate Donovan), who wishes his wife would stop letting what he views as petty teenage nostalgia rule her daily life.

Guadagnino said that Pantelleria was «a sort of border place» and that bringing the refugees into his story was a way of forcing his characters to «confront reality» and «understand who they really are».

In the course of his conversations with both Ava and Nathan, Caleb is confronted with conflicting views of reality, leaving him, and us, wondering who to trust, and why.

Read by Jannie Meisberger, From A to Z is the story of a young woman recently graduated from college who confronts the bewildering realities of the working world.

«Confronted with the reality of having to provide for a family member, the rate of those 50 - plus who feel financially ready for...

Hunter, who studied at Edinburgh Art School, and now lives in London, said: «The series is about the loss of imagination we all experience as we grow older — and how confronting that loss opens us up to the understanding that our shared reality is subjective.

«I don't try to produce beautiful artefacts to satisfy our senses and console us from harsh reality, but to bring that reality to the forefront of artistic representation and confront us with it,» said Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, who was born in Madrid in 1966.

Reviewing Tworkov's 1954 exhibition at Egan, Martica Sawin said, «We confront a fully mature painter who has forsaken the interpretation of the visible world in order to discover and record an abstract reality, subtle, elusive, fragmentary, of his own making... he is at home in the realm of sensation, ambivalence, nuance.»

Khalili confronts the reality of the situation for the post-second-Intifada generation who grew up without the possibility of ever visiting the city whilst at the same time experiencing it through a copied image.

The wealth of data and provocative arguments presented here make «Smart Solutions to Climate Change» a valuable resource for policy - makers, NGOs, academics, students, and everybody who is interested in learning more about the economic realities that face us as we confront this challenge.»

«The reality of climate change is undeniable, and can not be simply wished away by politicians who lack the courage to confront the scientific evidence,» he said, adding that the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people were at risk.

Although the Court of Appeal shared the sympathies which Mr Justice McCombe had previously expressed for police officers «who have to confront day in and day out the realities of life rather than the black letter law which this court has to apply» (see Bonner v DPP [2004] EWHC 2415 (Admin), [2004] All ER (D) 74 (Oct)-RRB-, it recognised, as indeed it must, that if the law were to be changed, it was to be achieved by Parliament using the legislative process rather than by the courts according the statutory provision a «liberal» (or illiberal) interpretation.

This invariably leads to time being lost sifting through irrelevant applications or interviewing candidates who, when confronted with the reality of the position, discover the role is not for them after all.

Are we lazy, unwilling to confront reality, hoping to elect and be led by someone who will do the heavy lifting while denying there is any heavy lifting to do in order to get elected?