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The two great truths which from the day of our conversion to the day we enter into heaven the Lord teaches those who shall be saved are in reference to ourselves that we are poor, lost, helpless sinners, who, if left to themselves, must perish for ever, and in reference to God, that out of boundless compassion He has sent His only begotten Son into the world to atone for the guilt of all who should believe in Him, and then in this glorious Saviour more-infinitely more-has been brought back to all who believe in Him, than ever was lost by Adam's transgression and our own sin.
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We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.
To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.
The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.
Stratford's petition to the queen declared that two great fires had burnt two hundred houses in the town, with household goods, to the value of twelve thousand pounds.
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.
Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;
The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.
Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
Like the pillars of Hercules, like two ruined Titans guarding the entrance to one of Dante's circles, stand two great dead juvenile delinquents -- the heroes of the post-war generation: the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas.
On August 3, two massive headlands reared out of the mists -- great gateways never before, so far as Hudson knew, seen by Europeans.
The great architect also designed the fine interior staircase and colonnade which connects the two courts.
On the Ohio or Wabash was to be built another post `` at the fork of two great rivers ''.
This is the great edge the two Yankees have going for them.
( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.
But though disgraced, they still retained great influence, and two years later, seizing the person of the king, they compelled their rivals to consent to the erection of a regency representative of both parties.
The dense forests of West Africa contain, in addition to a great variety of hardwoods, two palms, Elaeis guincensis ( oil palm ) and Raphia vinifera ( bamboo palm ), not found, generally speaking, in the savanna regions.
The most striking feature is the existence of two great lines of depression, due largely to the subsidence of whole segments of the Earth's crust, the lowest parts of which are occupied by vast lakes.
Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.
At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.
One of his two great innovations was in the cheap and efficient mass production of steel by adopting and adapting the Bessemer process for steel making.
two and truths
The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 verses which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by.
— we must not impugn the Scripture Chronology, but we must interpret it in accordance with whatever shall appear on fair enquiry to be the truth for there cannot be two truths.
Mill's view was widely criticized, because it makes statements like " 2 + 2 = 4 " come out as uncertain, contingent truths, which we can only learn by observing instances of two pairs coming together and forming a quartet.
Vajrayana subscribes to the two truths doctrine of conventional and ultimate truths, which is present in all Buddhist tenet systems.
The two truths doctrine is a central concept in the Vajrayana path of practice and is the philosophical basis for its methods.
The two truths identifies conventional a. k. a. relative, and absolute a. k. a. nirvana.
“ My cogitations, like Daniel's have for a long time troubled me, when I viewed the condition of men throughout the world, and more especially in this boasted realm, where the Declaration of Independence ‘ holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ;’ but at the same time some two or three millions of people are held as slaves for life, because the spirit in them is covered with a darker skin than ours .” ( History of the Church, Vol. 6, Ch. 8, p. 197-p. 198 )
This idea differed from that of Averroës: the Cordowan thinker's idea was that there was only one truth, but reached in two different ways, not two truths.
Related concepts as dependent arising ( pratītyasamutpāda ) and the doctrine of two truths are also central in Yogācāra thought and meditation.
There are two truths in themselves ( because of 8. and 10.
His aim is to apply a method to demonstrate these two truths, in a so clear and evident manner that result to be evident.
In the Hindu scriptures, every god has his or her own style ( lasya and tandava respectively represent two aspects of dance ) we read about 23 celestial beings called Apsarases who dance to please the gods and express the supreme truths in the magic of movement.
Within the Mahayana presentation, the two truths may also refer to specific perceived phenomenon instead of categorizing teachings.
The Prajñaptivādins were early articulators of the two truths doctrine that is so important to the Mahāyāna, where it is usually found in the relationship between upāya and prajñā.
Ian Charles Harris has noted that the doctrines of the Prajñaptivāda school are indeed similar to the early Mahāyāna view of the two truths.
There is also evidence that the Prajñaptivādins were an influence on Nāgārjuna, who is also among the storied promulgators of the two truths doctrine ( using some of the same technical terms ), and who in his Mūlamadhyamakakārikā only cites one text by name, that being the Kātyāyana Gotra Sūtra, of which the Prajñaptivādins were known to be fond.
Pratchett explores this questioning of identity through Tiffany's need to " find a way to come into her own power as a witch .” The book “ reveals philosophic truths about life and identity .” The Washington Post agreed that Tiffany's development was central to the theme of the novel, describing Tiffany as the only three dimensional character: " all characters except Tiffany are two dimensional.
# A proposition is ambiguous when it is worded so as to present two or more senses, one of which is objectionable ; captious when acceptable words are made to express objectionable thoughts ; evil-sounding when improper words are used to express otherwise acceptable truths ; offensive when verbal expression is such as rightly to shock the Catholic sense and delicacy of faith.
The Summa contra Gentiles is split roughly into two sections, books I-III ( which cover truths that naturally are accessible to the human intellect ), and book IV ( which covers truths for which natural reason is inadequate, like the Trinity, Incarnation, Sacraments, and the Resurrection ).
" An article dated just two weeks earlier quotes Archbishop Capovilla as saying, " There are not two truths from Fatima and nor is there any fourth secret.
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