Sentences with phrase «wonder of being human»

There is no denying the wonder of being a human — you are the one denying that part by using the crutch of a god in your life.

It is an expression of the wonder of being human when people take miserable circumstances and discover unexpected possibilities for some good, even some growth in them!

Not exact matches

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

Little wonder, since both were created for the sole purpose of «slipping the surly bonds» of Earth and putting human beings and cargo onto other celestial bodies.

It's a part of human nature to wonder if there is something better out there.

Denmark's flexicurity is also another one of those pragmatically human ideas that makes one wonder whether we're coming at things all wrong here in North America.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

You have to wonder why they laud the Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong, who's been charged of «severe human rights abuses» and «rigid censorship policies».

After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum

You must have often wondered why the Enemy does not make more use of His power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree He chooses and at any moment.

'' wonder what would happen if there was this much moral and global outrage over the needless taking of human life.»

I wonder if in 2000 years from now, King's books will be the cornerstone of human faith.

No wonder that Cheever has been called «the Dante of the cocktail hour» and compared not only with a social documentarist like John Marquand but also with such real physicians of the human soul as Hawthorne, James and Fitzgerald.

... Or very deep human emotions of wonder, awe and appreciation - no disembodied beings necessary?

This is both the wonder and the burden of being human.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

With all the wealth of mystery provided in these texts, we do still wonder if God is foolish to choose human beings as the foundation of his kingdom.

Above all, what is fascinating is the emergence of the wonders of organization of the human body and the emergence in its brain of distinctively human experience.

It is my experience that thinking of human beings in this way heightens the wonder.

But then my soul is filled with new wonder, even more, with the spirit of worship; for it would surely have been strange had this poem been a human production.

We rightly reject the sort of spiritual shallowness which expresses itself in an affected superiority in the presence of the extraordinary richness of human life, that underplays the wonder and the joy of married love, and at the same time (there is a connection) depreciates the worlds of natural beauty and of the arts.

I was thinking of how much pain is inflicted on a human body by burning, and wondering if a loving god would really allow that to happen to anyone, regardless of what they had done on earth.

Wonder about what we hear regarding human rights and human freedom of speech and expression that being purred down our heads and now when I am here just got here to be heard I am told not to be here?

When the true God is unknown, that combination of awe, love, respect, admiration and wonder, which we call worship, becomes diverted toward human beings who exhibit unusual gifts in the public eye.

Given the largeness of reality and the relative nature of human perception, education needs to point beyond what is empirically measurable and to invoke a sense of awe and wonder.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

@child: in that situation it's called adrenaline: wonder drug from your adrenal gland that permits amazing feats during times of «fight or flight» mothers have been known to flip cars when their children were trapped under them due to the surge of body strength adrenaline gives the human body.

I wondered how long it would take these pundits to go after the Pope once he revealed that his beliefs are more rooted in the teachings of Jesus than prior Popes and most Christians these days — he believes in compassion, charity, and love for his fellow human being.

Human beings need a realm in which we are free to act without anyone watching, without wondering what our recollection of the moment will look like on Facebook, and without having to produce some witty remark that will show how worldly-wise we are.

Then God and heaven... are now and here; and a change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of being» (Unity of Good [First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1887], p. 37).

One is left to wonder, and certainly Glover wonders, if any kernel of moral sensibility can remain in human beings amid such barbarous situations.

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

To get an idea of the mystery and wonder which is a person, note that the number of elementary particles within a human body is 1027, whereas the number of stars in the observable universe is less, 1023; thus, there are 10,000 times more elementary particles in a human body than stars in the heavens.

If the occasions of the dominant society of human consciousness are spatially extended, we might wonder both where they are and how big they are.

Yes and that observation with essence of the wonder of that which is human is how I know there is God.

I just wonder why they are not fighting just as hard against other forms of «killing humans» like the death penalty (no one can say no innocent people have died on death row) the poor and sick and many elderly being allowed to starve and freeze because the religious right doesn't want to shoulder that burden through their taxes.

Writing on joy, she exults in the wonder of a God who would choose human beings for such a task, and she describes the facets of redeeming love: «Redemption does not mean you and me made safe and popped into heaven.

One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.

Is it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human conditioIs it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human conditiois superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human condition?

«Signs and wonders» are «the only thing» that keep Stevens from suicide because they give evidence to the existence of goods that transcend human life.

The older I become the more I wonder at the enormous and diverse effects in human history that can be traced to the teachings, the deeds, the death, and the resurrection of that one man.»

The glory and the holiness of the God of Mount Sinai calls forth in the Covenant people awe, wonder, and fear, which is expressed, finally, in their obedience to those principles through which God's presence is seen in human life, those principles through which life, love, and the fullness of God's creation are finally achieved.

His sense of the value and beauty of life in itself, and human life in particular, is filled with wonder and gratitude.

Starting with Socrates, ancient philosophers in the Platonic - Aristotelian tradition contended that the human being is best understood as the subject of wonder.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.

I wonder, however, if it will be sustained without a sense of human unity that the mystical vision inspires.

If you wonder why storms and destruction happen in nature, much of it is because the forces of nature are no longer under human control.

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

How many Christians, I wonder, are aware that in the Book of Job there is much discussion about God and about human suffering and wickedness but not a whisper about heaven or hell, or anything of the kind?