Not exact matches
You say that you don't see Jesus in the churches — I don't know what churches you have been to, but there are definitely churches that
do well in representing and teaching Jesus Christ (not all churches of course) HOWEVER... if you think you will find
perfection in a
human being, you must know that your kidding yourself.
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.
Of course
human marriages
do not follow the
perfection of that love.
Perfection is not even an appropriate moral category, because it
does not exist and certainly
does not apply to
human beings.
R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has
done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that
human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless
perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»
He doesn't expect
perfection from us; but neither
does He expect
humans to «practice sin.»
A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only
does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing
perfection too rigorously on
human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.
We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited
perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to
human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you
did not know the things that were to your peace».
And while the history of America's wars is hardly a story of moral
perfection, it is, by
human standards, a mostly heroic story of
doing the right thing and
doing it for the right reasons.
And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly
perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of
human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?
They ascribe
human being's own highest
perfection to a being different from the
human being, to someone who
does not even so much as exist.
The tendency there has been in Christian thought, from quite near the beginning, to depreciate the true humanity of Jesus and to turn him into a divine being, appearing temporarily in the form of man, fails to
do justice to the magnificence, indeed the
perfection, of that portrayal of love in the
human scene.
Do not expect
perfection from your fellow
humans.
It is true that Descartes, a classical theist,
did unequivocally affirm
human freedom, as
did Arminius, but neither of them removed the contradiction between this freedom and the timeless
perfection of the deity which knows the free act.
(The doctrine of the sin of the
human race has often been misused because it has not been noticed that sin, common though it is to all,
does not gather men together in a common concept, into a society or a partnership («any more than out in the churchyard the multitude of the dead constitute a society»), but it splits men into individuals and holds every individual fast as a sinner — a splitting which in another sense is both in correspondence with and teleologically in the direction of the
perfection of existence.
It simply
does not follow that
humans» free choices disprove God's
perfection.
• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful
human being • Moving from «
doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not
perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what
does that look like?
I don't strive for
perfection nor
do I hold anyone to that standard as it simply doesn't exist in the
human condition.
For some graduate students this nonlife is
perfection; they really don't like other
human beings.
«What I would say to my younger self is... don't be fooled by this game of
perfection that
humans play,» she says.
Very Loyal, I can handle my own life no prob, I lovvvveeee horror movies, I
do want a few more tats the talent is endlesstill, so I am open and
human so I am not
perfection which makes it even better!
* we strive for
perfection and 100 accuracy, however, we are
human and
do make a mistake from time to time, so we can not be responsible for typos!
Alarie: issues with quality of current decision making; mitigate heuristics into algorithms; implicit bias of judges; you control the info that you expose the algorithm to, curate the information; still problems, things may be correlated with negative things, e.g. racial implications, that we don't want related; gender, etc. other
human rights type things; how to cleanse it appropriately; self driving cars just need to be better than
humans; i.e. don't hold them to the standard of
perfection; short term gains to be had
«
Perfection» is a
human construct to ostensibly be aspired to with the attendant reasonable realization that it can not be attained... because it
does not exist.
No one will ever always be «right» (a subjective concept at best unless one is discussing science or mathematics etc.) or agreed with by all; that is an impossible objective known as
perfection;
perfection does not exist; it is a
human construct.