Sentences with phrase «with human desires»

This instance, like all others, does not provide any reason whatsoever to believe in a god who concerns itself with human desires or thoughts toward him.

Yet the book's pluralism is constantly put in tension with the human desire for a «richness» of «meaningful» living.

Reflecting on the fast paced nature of contemporary life, the paintings, drawings, photographs and films on display at The New Art Gallery Walsall engage with the human desire for solitude.

Not exact matches

These three brands have tapped into something deeper in all of us with their spot - on video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our love of nature and adventure, our need for human connection and the desire for creative thought and expression.

While people may be buying more online, the pendulum is swinging back to a consumer desire for some kind of in - person human interaction with retailers.

This is the root of sexual violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous human beings with the right and ability to say yes to sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles for male sexual desire, that our bodies are up for grabs (literally, in this case).

With this free agency comes a heavy burden of responsibility; witness the crushing defeat in Professor Brand's vain struggle to enact the destiny he so desires for the human race.

The final piece to the puzzle here is the contradiction of instant gratification, a human desire that seems to have been exponentially magnified with the rise of technology.

«This pattern of higher satisfaction among younger workers held true for many other key issues addressed in our survey, including pay, performance management and careers, making their desire to leave their organizations all the more at odds with traditional views of loyalty, retention and engagement,» said Michael Burniston, US and Canada Leader for Mercer's Human Capital business.

The legal profession can easily cease being useful to its clients whenever it no longer tempers guidance on the law with reality, particularly business reality, as well as the human desires of clients.

The decline of BB is perhaps a more familiar story, but «Losing the Signal» enhances the drama with personal human stories: how the founders» genius and strengths ultimately became their downfall: the reliance on efficiency of network and battery use ignored the groundswell of desire for an always - with - me computer.

These technological algorithms will never replace the human desire for trusted interpersonal relationships coupled with solid investment planning.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

We humans make God contemptible because of our prejudice, taught / learned hate, and our desire to make God over into our image (you know, the cool dad who lives with his perfect family in the cul de sac and belongs to the same golf club you do, etc, etc.).

Why would a God instill you with Human Nature (the desire to sin, to live freely, to explore, to question everything) and then condemn you for doing so.

Yes, we have a human nature with a desire for s * x. However, we also have the gift of self control, which most people today don't use anymore.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, makng the world more human and more fraternal.»

The idea of an «absolute antidote» suggests a different concept of the human than is presumed in Hitchens's argument: a being capable of enslavement by his darker side, one whose infinite desire for something beyond himself can be short - circuited into various «false infinities» (Ratzinger), who can redeem himself only by restoring the circuitry of his absolute relationship with his Generator.

Richard was also a human being with needs and desires» that he too needed to be loved, accepted, that he needed your friendship and fellowship.

If you are two consenting adult human beings and you desire to have a loving, committed relationship in which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a good choice.

The homosexual person may initially recoil at the perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» - in his case, the powerful desire to engage in sexual activity with another male.

It helps manage the disappointment when the cool new group you find yourself with is eventually revealed to be full of flawed and fallible human beings, and it helps to free you from the initial desire to rationalize shitty behavior within a group merely for the sake of identity politics.»

But, also, human love is tinged with our own desires, even in my marriage, and this how we all are.

We are human beings, and we relate to one another better when we stop expecting the other person to behave in a prescribed, programmed way but instead talk openly with one another about our actual desires, preferences, hopes, and expectations.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

His theological difference with Berger would come not with Berger's starting with human experience but with his desire to end there.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

«According to our Teacher, just as they are sinners who contract a second marriage, even though it be in accord with human law, so also are they sinners who look with lustful desire at a woman.

Indeed, no such abbreviated statement as we here are making, with a few quotations from the Hebrew Psalms, can begin to do justice to the Psalter as a compendium of all the moods and attitudes, conflicts, desires, and aspirations of the human soul in its relationships with God.

While we're at it, let's just do away with the whole Bible thing and all agree that we as humans have the inherent desire to believe in something greater than ourselves because deep down we realize that we are completely unable to not screw everything up.

If the fundamental human religious motivation is the desire to be in harmony with ultimate reality, with whatever is deemed divine, and if being in harmony with the divine means to imitate it, the divine that is imitated is a Cosmic Macho Male.

There is no sense in denying motivation to the action of God any more than to the action of a human lover who desires reconciliation with another.

This means that despite our desire to vilify him, the most human thing to do is identify with him, and the most interesting question is: How do we see ourselves in him?

The Galatians are also encouraged to identify with Titus, who, with Paul's help, responded to the circumcision - free gospel of Christ instead of the human desires of the false brothers.

Though much of today's science is applied science — the: discovery of new processes and the making of new products to satisfy human wants — it all rests on the desire to find out with certainty what can be known about the world of nature.

In the richest of human relations such as those of lover with beloved, husband and wife, child and understanding parent, friend and friend, fellowship on a high plane intensifies desire for the values mutually prized.

A professor of psychology and social theory at Swarthmore College, Schwartz applies Simon's ideas to the human psyche, with happiness replacing profitability as the desired outcome.

Satan bbjss was once God's loved son and the most handsome of all God's sons... Satan's downward spiral was his desire to be like God in every way which Satan could never be... Satan, along with all his brothers who found him to be their leader did rival God and God's faithful sons and war ensued... Satan along with all his northerly followers were cast out of their heavenly abode and sent to the celestial earthen plains to live among us humans... Thusly the fallen sons of God saw the daughters of mankind to be fair and they took from mankind all the women that they willed...

The problem with this, and perhaps the problem with our supposedly liberated age, is that while Magdalene is no longer forced to repent her natural desires, she is still not permitted to be an equal - to - the - male human being.

But in a secular age in which visions of human flourishing are no longer limited to religious belief, other practices — even those that are seemingly private but ultimately public — compete with those of worship in shaping the desires we follow in pursuit of the good.

True pastoral care for souls begins with knowing the Creator of every soul, and knowing his nature, and knowing his desire for human hearts and human lives.

It's when this proposed ent.ity is endowed with human - like characteristics - love, hate, vengeance, the desire for being worshiped, etc. - that the problems arise.

If we desire the prestige which comes with wealth and ability and high position — if we so desire it that we would be crushed were it denied us or taken from us — then we are worshipers not of the true God, but of human beings.

However, I simply wanted to point to the nature of human eros — or desire — as presented in Plato's Symposium with an addendum of the Epicurean notion of pleasure.

The New Testament message deals with human experience and throws its revealing light on human motives, desires, and action.

But there's a problem, even if we do pray in accordance with God's desires — for peace — that «seems» to be in accordance with God's plans (whether it actually is or not is another thing altogether) but humans have free will.

But the experienced quality, the «being of worth,» is not itself a matter of human decision, for the essence of value, as distinguished from desire, is precisely the power of evoking devotion and of transforming persons in conformity with its own pattern.

With respect to the insatiability of desires, we do not simply observe this as a fact of human existence always and at all places.

(The longing for freedom, or the desire to realize oneself as an autonomous whole, is another way of saying the desire to be divine and thus to belong to or be identified with what is real, with what is beyond human construction and human domination.

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