Man must enter into this dialogue with his whole being: it must be «an exclusive relationship which shapes all other relations and therefore
the whole order of life.»
Not exact matches
The proof is in the pudding so to speak, since man was created by God in His image, there is within every person the knowledge
of God.Standard equipment.In
order to become an atheist you first have to lie yourself past your inner knowledge
of God.You have to ignore your
life, your spirit, your environment and the
whole of creation.That takes a lot
of lying to oneself, and you have to buy into a lot more lies to get there.This is not made up, it is a part
of the process that ultimately allows the created to deny the creator, God.Deep down every atheist knows they are a liar, but as with any repeated sin the suppressed truth gets farther away, and harder to recognize.God bless
«In
order to get a perfect gradation between two forms in the upper and lower parts
of the same formation, the deposit must have gone on continuously acc.umulating during a long period, sufficient for the slow process
of modification; hence the deposit must be a very thick one; and the species, undergoing change must have
lived in the same district throughout the
whole time.
They are also bound to adhere to the truth, once it is known, and to
order their
whole lives in accord with the demands
of truth.
There is ultimate truth, and if our
lives are not
ordered to that truth then our
lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end
of the
whole universe... for the first author and mover
of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end
of the universe must, therefore, be the ground
of the intellect.
The
order of creation is achieved when God is the vine and we are the branches, when God is the
life - giving power and we are related to him in such a way that we expand and bloom, becoming full, free,
whole, and real.
«The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership
of the
whole of life, is by its nature
ordered toward the good
of the spouses and the procreation and education
of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity
of a sacrament.»
The religious insight is the grasp
of truth: that the
order of the world, the value
of the world in its
whole and in its parts, the beauty
of the world, the zest
of life, and the mastery
of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason
of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm
of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61
It is not as if God were absent from it and then intervened in it now and again; in the more profound sense, the unexhausted divine self ever energizes in nature and history, and above all in the
lives of men and women, expressing that self in such a fashion that the
whole created
order is in one sense God's body.
Order obviously involves everything that is possible in the whole of life, so my interest in order extends to order in gen
Order obviously involves everything that is possible in the
whole of life, so my interest in
order extends to order in gen
order extends to
order in gen
order in general.
The Garden
of Eden story, for instance, opens a
whole potential discussion for the responsibility involved in the act
of eating - the necessity
of taking
life in
order to
live - and how that act should then be approached.
In Israel, prophetic man attempted a moral
ordering of the
whole of life in response to his apprehension
of the divine will.
In Himself he restores to us our original destiny and goes on working to bring the
whole created
order to its final perfection in the
life and glory
of the Trinity for which it was created in the first place.
Socialism, as they understand it, meant that society as a
whole would
order its economic
life for the good
of all.
Having
lived down South my
whole life I know exactly what it feels like to smile through racism and xenophobia in
order to maintain that false, sticky - sweet sense
of decorum.
There is no such thing as a Christian method, or code, or set
of rules that would apply to the
whole realm
of human
life in
order to tell us at each step what is the proper way to do things.
He points out that in between the material on the one hand and the mental on the other «there lie the concepts
of life, organism, function, instantaneous reality, interaction,
order of nature, which collectively form the Achilles» heel
of the
whole system» (84).
Indeed, Dr. P., Sacks» first case study, is unmistakably a German, and the
whole ordered texture
of his music - teacher
life reminds one
of no one so much as Kant himself.
Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent
ordering of his
life, the serious employment
of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way
of life, the
whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building
of temples, in the constant improvement
of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom
of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom
of God and which may be an expression
of this wisdom, the first
of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations
of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).
The integral person accords the act
of eating its rightful place in the
whole scheme
of life; he does not cheat it
of its fair share
of time,
of its regular place in the
ordering of existence, and
of its portion in the gift
of serenity.
But, I certainly agree with you that this
whole notion
of being «powerless» and somehow turning your
life over to a «higher power» is a crutch that they will have to deal with, and when they do relapse, which studies show that almost «all»
of them do, again... it is always, that they were wrong in somehow they didn't work the «steps» appropriately, or got the «steps» out
of order, or didn't fully turn their
lives over to a «higher power», or they didn't go to «enough» meetings, etc...
It is aimed not at the total negation
of a part
of creation, but at the right
ordering of created things within the
whole economy
of life.
It is with the idea and in the hope
of advancing towards a solution
of the problem that I here venture, basing my argument on the widest possible zoological and biological grounds, to put forward a coherent view
of the «thinking Earth» in which I believe we may find, undistorted but yet embodying the corrections required by a change
of order, the
whole process
of Life and
of vitalization.
To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation
of the present state
of Life on the surface
of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence
of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war
lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless
of its extent and origin, is clearly
of an
order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form
of human
whole organized on the basis
of human solidarity.
Men must think
of the
whole range
of biosocial conditions which pertain to the realization
of the potentialities
of individuals in a justly
ordered society
living in harmonious union with the planetary environment.
THE SACRAMENT
OF MATRIMONY «The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.&raqu
OF MATRIMONY «The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership
of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.&raqu
of the
whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.&raqu
of life, is by its nature
ordered toward the good
of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.&raqu
of the spouses and the procreation and education
of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.&raqu
of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity
of a sacrament.&raqu
of a sacrament.»
In one
of his characteristically succinct formulations Pieper himself once stated the connection in a way especially fitting if we seek to contemplate the significance
of his
life's work: «The ultimate perfection attainable to us, in the minds
of the philosophers
of Greece, was this: that the
order of the
whole of existing things should be inscribed in our souls.
Make us to love; move in upon us, work through us, put pressure on our little selfish
lives, so that we may love «that which thou dost command» — the things, the places, the times, the persons, the circumstances in which God has sent us, the
whole realm
of the divine
ordering of things.
It needs once again to command the attention
of the most reflective and sensitive people in
order to give shape and discipline to the inner
life appropriate to the best understanding
of the
whole that is available.
The Spirit also acts at our own baptism: he illuminates us so that we see God's will with clarity; he gives us the strength and power to do it; he purifies and cleanses us
of sin; and breathes
order and beauty into
lives inwardly devastated and broken, making us
whole again.
However, while in his earliest work he thinks it «probable» on balance that the Word would not have become flesh unless we had fallen [5] in the later De Veritate he says that the primacy
of Christ is the end to which the
whole of creation is
ordered and is the principle
of our predestination into the supernatural
life.
By reason
of this prior decision Whitehead is forced to interpret all those beings
of higher
order that manifest themselves as unities, such as
living beings and humans, to be a multiplicity
of entities, that is, to be a «society,» [253] or even more as a
whole gradation
of inter-compartmentalized «societies» and «subordinate societies.»
The evolution
of the
living thing is only an aspect
of a process traceable over the
whole order of material being.
Therefore the
whole body
of Christ, the Church,
lives in partial dependence upon the merit achieved in the special vocation
of the «religious»
orders.
The key here is not just that they have been exposed to a Catholic vision
of marriage as such, but that they will instinctively accept an objective
order of truth, goodness and fulfilment across the
whole of life.
But the Hemingway hero, whether in the gangster world or the Plaza de Toros or up in the Michigan forests or the Spanish mountains, always behaves; and his
life is accordingly a thing
of order and symmetry — the
order of the clean, well - lighted place which it's his
whole aim to create, in the midst
of the Waste Land, the Great Nada.
These provide a
whole new cosmology or worldview that points to a very different way
of ordering individual
life and society as a
whole.
The existence
of the second law
of thermodynamics and the existence
of local enclaves
of decreasing entropy, as is the case with
life, means that less
ordered systems within the
whole system
of the universe have become more
ordered.
FAITH: Again this assumes the vast stability
of the «non-random» structures
of selection for survival and well - being and their meaningful interplay across the
whole developmental
order of the universe from the beginning,
of which the biology
of life on our planet forms but one facet.
10:7 - 9) He took a body in
order that He might suffer; He became man, that He might suffer as man; and when His hour was come, that hour
of Satan and
of darkness, the hour when sin was to pour its full malignity upon Him, it followed that He offered Himself wholly, a holocaust, a
whole burnt - offering; - as the
whole of His body, stretched out upon the Cross, so the
whole of His soul, His
whole advertence, His
whole consciousness, a mind awake, a senseacute, a
living co-operation, a present, absolute intention, not a virtual permission, not a heartless submission... His passion was an action.»
The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages
of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure
of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the
whole created
order in its materiality, along with man's grasp
of the importance
of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human
life.
They were nonpolitical, not in the sense
of segregation from political
life and interests, as the signs
of a purely «spiritual» change in the world, say in human hearts, but in the sense
of total supernaturalism: the
whole present world
order, with its politics and its oppression, its hunger and its hatred, was to be completely done away.
Holding a lighted candle in his hand, Luther said aloud in front
of the
whole community: I, Brother Martin, do make profession and promise obedience to Almighty God, to Mary the Sacred Virgin, and to you, the prior
of this cloister as representative
of the general head
of the
order of Eremites
of the holy bishop, St Augustine, and his rightful successors, to
live until death without worldly possessions and in chastity according to the rule
of St Augustine.»
In fact, the
whole purpose
of the discernment
of spirits coincides with Milton's purpose in writing Paradise Lost: as Fish has rightly seen (and he was the first to do so), Milton wants us to
live through the consequences
of sin in our imaginative reenactment
of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone
of his work) in
order to keep us from the more dire lessons that
life imparts.
Claiming that we falsify reality if we divide it into mind and matter, into
living and non-
living, he said: «consciousness (which we take to include thought, feeling, desire, will etc.) is to be comprehended in terms
of the implicate
order, along with reality as a
whole».7 Thus the randomness
of sub-atomic elements may be linked with the creative freedom exercised by human consciousness.
Such conflicts usually reflect an exaggeration
of inevitable tensions that are probably healthful when they are understood, accepted and
ordered into a
whole life.
Consequently, in the absence
of being sustained by a well -
ordered family
life, we are apt to «lose more in a week than we are able to recover in a
whole year.»
But the judge still
ordered that my ex gets one half my paycheck for
life in addition to half
of all assets, even though I put her through undergraduate and graduate school and she always worked her
whole life up until the divorce trial date.
And even though he takes your
life, liberty and property without due process
of law, any court -
ordered reparations will never make you
whole - what court can replace the hours, days or years
of your
life lost to an officer who is just doing his job?
It is a belief among the people
of the Seven Council Fires (the Sioux nations) that to become a
whole person, in tune with nature and the Sacred Hoop
of Life, and in
order to be holy, one must walk the narrow way — the road less traveled.