Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Being now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

Notable stories of this type include " Painwise ", in which a space explorer has been altered to be immune to pain but finds such an existence intolerable, and " A Momentary Taste of Being ", in which the true purpose of humanity, found on a distant planet, renders individual human life entirely pointless.

He also warned that the traditional name, " Christ ", might be used, yet the true essence of this Being of Love ignored.

Being unable to operate off-the-shelf software packages for the IBM PC and true compatibles made for poor sales and the eventual extinction of this category of systems.

Being a Threshold Guardian, he represents an obstacle the seeker must overcome to achieve true enlightenment.

Being closeted or in the closet means being aware of one ’ s lesbian, gay or bisexual orientation or true gender identity yet averse to revealing it because of various personal or social motivations.

Being a true pioneer, she responded " The hell I will ".

Suddenly, he is turned into stone and explodes ; from the smoke, an elderly, well-dressed figure emerges, revealed as the true form of the Supreme Being.

' Being a climber first and a collector second, I felt strongly that Carstensz Pyramid, the highest mountain in Australasia ... was a true mountaineer ’ s objective.

Being the first strict Aristotelian among the Jews — who considered Aristotle and his Arabic commentators, Alfarabi and Ibn Sina, to be the only true philosophers ( ib.

Being true to his words, he made obligation bonds amounting to 50 million pesetas and a month and a half after Sánchez-Pizjuán's death, the first stone was placed.

And this union comes to pass when God grants the soul this supernatural favour, that all the things of God and the soul are one in participant transformation ; and the soul seems to be God rather than a soul, and is indeed God by participation ; although it is true that its natural being, though thus transformed, is as distinct from the Being of God as it was before.

Being the true gamer, Bob did indeed move out, and is currently attempting to live on his own, but tends to spend his rent money on gaming paraphernalia.

Being in English, Semele likewise irritated the supporters of true Italian opera.

* Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year, 1942, Simon and Schuster

Being indignant, however, that another obtained the dignity by reason of a claim which confessorship had given him, he broke with the church of the true faith.

Being the son of a successful Hollywood producer, Schulberg had an insider's viewpoint on the true happenings of Hollywood, and his literature and film reflected this.

Being a romantic, and believing in ' true love ' ( he even has a book called Love Is A Kind Of Faith ), he is sorely disappointed when his friend suggests they have sex with no love.

" Being by God's Ordinance, according to Our just Title, Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church, within these Our Dominions, We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our own religious zeal, to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge, in Unity of true Religion, and in the Bond of Peace ... We have therefore, upon mature Deliberation, and with the Advice of so many of Our Bishops as might conveniently be called together, thought fit to make this Declaration following ... That We are Supreme Governor of the Church of England ... "

Being pressed on the point, though, Blossius eventually stated that Tiberius would only have ordered such a thing, if it were in the true interests of the Roman people.

This ignorance ," the ignorance veiling our true self and the truth of the world ", is not lack of erudition ; it is ignorance about the nature of ' Being ' ( Sanskrit: Sat ).

Ferrier's matured philosophical doctrines find expression in the Institutes of Metaphysic the Theory of Knowing and Being ( 1854 ), in which he claims to have met the twofold obligation resting on every system of philosophy, that it should be reasoned and true.

Being an engineer was not his true calling, he then transferred with guitarist Trey Anastasio to Goddard College, where he wrote his senior study on " A Self-Teaching Guide to Drumming in Retrospect.

Over her one hundred years, Shanxi University has evolved a cultural tradition of " knowing the East and the West ; seeking the good and true ; promoting the virtuous and the talented ; being self-reliant and serving the country ", and a school spirit of " Being industrious, strict, honest and creative.

: Being exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more at that which threatened me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears.

Being one with the Tao does not indicate a union with an eternal spirit in, for example, the Hindu sense.

Related to this name is an early religion, sometimes called Bhagavatism that was largely formed by the 4th century BC where Vasudeva was worshiped as the supreme Deity in a strongly monotheistic format, where the Supreme Being was perfect, eternal and full of grace.

In Mormonism, Being one with God means gaining immortality, eternal life, and reaching the highest level in his kingdom.

Melissus ’ philosophy differs from that of Parmenides in two respects: ( 1 ) Parmenides claims that Being is limited, while Melissus claims that it is wholly unlimited ; and ( 2 ) for Parmenides, Being existed in a timeless Present, while for Melissus Being is eternal.

Gregory of Nyssa presented as the culmination of the Christian religion the contemplation of the divine Being and its eternal Will.

If the God whom we have actually come to know through Jesus Christ really is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in his own eternal and undivided Being, then what are we to make of an independent natural theology that terminates, not upon the Being of the Triune God -- i. e., upon God as he really is in himself -- but upon some Being of God in general?

In later Mahayana literature, however, the idea of an eternal, all-pervading, all-knowing, immaculate, uncreated and deathless Ground of Being ( the dharmadhatu, inherently linked to the sattvadhatu, the realm of beings ), which is the Awakened Mind ( bodhicitta ) or Dharmakaya (" body of Truth ") of the Buddha himself, is attributed to the Buddha in a number of Mahayana sutras, and is found in various tantras as well.

Being born to enact and endure eternal cycle of arousal-activity-rest, without any meaningful progress being achieved, is the sin that afflicts A-B .”

In later Mahayana literature, however, the idea of an eternal, all-pervading, all-knowing, immaculate, uncreated, and deathless Ground of Being ( the dharmadhatu, inherently linked to the sattvadhatu, the realm of beings ), which is the Awakened Mind ( bodhicitta ) or Dharmakaya (" body of Truth ") of the Buddha himself, is attributed to the Buddha in a number of Mahayana sutras, and is found in various tantras as well.