Sentence examples for practical gods from inspiring English sources

POETRY CARL DENNIS "Practical Gods" In his poetry, Mr. Dennis, 62, a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, finds the deities everywhere.

"Practical Gods," by Carl Dennis, a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, won the award for poetry.

The poetry prize was won by Carl Dennis for his "wise, original, and often deeply moving" collection, Practical Gods. Louis Menand won the history prize for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, his chronicle of an informal discussion group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1872 to discuss the value of ideas.

We are, of course, the rational ones, the grown-ups, the good governance team, the incorruptible crew who bring enlightenment and democracy to the world, even if, as practical gods, in support of our Afghan war we're perfectly willing to shore up a corrupt autocrat elsewhere who is willing to lend us an air base (for $60 million a year in rent) to haul in troops and supplies -- until he falls.

I forbore to bring up my own knowledge of the Bible, which was more direct than hers, and contented myself with replying, "A material, earthly, practical God is an idol.

The Practical o God, it was boring but there was nothing else so I did it got it out of the way.

Among his practical proverbs are "God helps those who help themselves" and "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise".

In his early Lectura Oxoniensis, Duns Scotus insisted that theology is not a speculative but a practical science of God and that man's ultimate goal is union with the divine Trinity through love.

Obviously, there is no real difference between these two forms of knowledge, since in God practical ideas exist only as "extensions" of speculative ideas.

In contrast to this approach, Albo proposes a conservative theory, arguing that human perfection depends on the fulfillment of the Torah's commandments, in other words, the practical worship of God (treatise 3, chapters 1 7).

To believe in God is to make a practical commitment the kind involved in trusting God, or, trusting in God.