Sentences with phrase «about human goodness»

Helen, I've been thinking about your statement about grace being necessary due to how we frame the question about human goodness.

Some of the reasons they are naive about human goodness.

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never another world about «god» I'd love to read about the goodness of humans to each other, love, life, laugh..

It is not something that can be overcome just by thinking enlightened thoughts about the goodness and beauty of the human body.

No illusions for us about human nature, no nonsense about innate goodness rendered corrupt only by experience or society.

But truth about God's goodness and power is revealed everywhere in the natural setting of human life, and this knowledge is not wholly perverted by sin.

However bitter our disillusionment with human goodness, there are stronger scientific reasons than ever before for believing that we do really progress and that we can advance much further still, provided we are clear about the direction in which progress lies and are resolved to take the right road.

Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»

In the third place, human existence (about which we shall have much more to say at a later stage) is itself a creaturely movement intended to reflect and serve instrumentally for the divine goodness.

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

By assuming themselves a life of evangelical poverty, combined with orthodox preaching about the goodness of creation and the human body, the Dominicans undercut the preaching of the Cathari.

I wish to show in this paper that, however bitter our disillusionment with human goodness in recent years, there are stronger scientific reasons than ever before for believing that we do really progress and that we can advance much further still, provided we are clear about the direction in which progress lies and are resolved to take the right road.

He regarded himself as a loyal member of the Church of England and was a zealous attendant at Divine Service; yet with his views about the impersonality of the deity and the mere surpassing human goodness of Christ, he can hardly have taken the Apostles» Creed literally.

So finally, even if in his Einsteinian pragmatism God could only be accurately described as the Old One, surely there was a faith in that image, perhaps an agnostic's faith, that made it presumptuous for any human being to come to any conclusion about the goodness or incomprehensible amorality of God's universe or the souls it contained until we at least learned the laws that governed it.

For goodness sake, let's stop talking about the financial value of education and talk instead about human capital, about schools helping to create people who are fully developed as human beings and as democratic citizens.

She was unflinchingly positive about the human capacity for goodness, allowing the petty criminals she supervised to get away with nearly anything on her watch.

Now if you want to truly help the human race, go do something like helping the poor (yes, give them your money and your time), clean up the smut on the internet instead of crying about free - speech, help your neighbor for goodness sake!