Sentences with phrase «by human effort»

If the church were supported only by human efforts, it would have disappeared long ago.

Every attempt to preserve a culture by human effort is doomed.

The message is that problems are not solved by human effort.

Nearly all of us live in a part of the world that has had its environment changed by human efforts.

It is customary to give one - tenth of the product of the land if it is watered by rain and one - twentieth if it is irrigated by human effort; two and one - half per cent of savings is suggested, with equal proportions of the increase in cattle or in trade in goods.

It is understood that the benefits of civilization do not come automatically from the cornucopia of nature but must be continually created and renewed by human effort.

The two intolerable positions are: first, one which deals irresponsibly with the given structures of society, as if some ultimate perfection could be secured by human effort; and, second, one which merely says the world is full of evils.

A civilized society is, in the universal hierarchy of social order, simply a particular form of social creativity made uniquely distinctive by human effort.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

It hopefully contains the first samples of an asteroid ever brought back to Earth by human effort.

Teaches that forgiveness of sins is by human effort.

We can not create it by an act of will any more than we can create God's mercy for us, and bring it to ourselves by human effort.

The disciples asked how anyone could be saved, and Jesus responded salvation was only possible with God and not by human effort.