Sentences with phrase «capacity for evil»

I mean that the weakness of the human race is stupefying and that it's not the capacity for evil which astounds young policemen like you and me, Dean.

In relating his history and that of Leopolda, whose wonder working is documented but inspired, he believes, by a capacity for evil rather than the love of good, Father Damien is forced to choose: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything?

There is a new criminal mastermind at large - Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)- and not only is he Holmes» intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

The real question is whether his capacity for evil will exceed Tudyk's insurance company boss - man — a «Lex Luthor - type who's terrible at his job.»

There is a new criminal mastermind at large — Professor Moriarty — and not only is he Holmes» intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

There is a new criminal mastermind at large — Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris)-- and not only is he Holmes» intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

While Serling's fear of our capacity for evil gave «The Twilight Zone» an overt social conscience that's always made it the squarer cousin to «The Outer Limits», its comparative longevity also gave it a much higher batting average, and going back to the series continually reveals hidden gems.

And if so — the bigger question — what is her innate capacity for evil?

Reflecting Ferrara's obsession with guilt and redemption, the film acknowledges the capacity for evil, urging viewers to take responsibility for their actions, or else there won't be a way to arrest evil's diffusion from one generation to the next.

Focused inward on containing man's capacity for evil through a pattern of small habits, it runs the risk of atrophying into dry ritual rather than enriching civilized life to the fullest — but that is the worst it does.

To increase human autonomy is therefore to increase the human capacity for evil; to rein in evil might require reining in human autonomy.

We never stop to know our capacity for evil, or judge our deeds.

«He is the Whole in every categorial sense, all actuality in one individual actuality, and all possibility in one individual potentiality «47 Panentheism thus differs from traditional theism by asserting that all the world is entirely inside God instead of outside him; and it diverges from pantheism by insisting that the creatures which are all in God nevertheless have a measure of genuine freedom, independence, and even capacity for evil.

Humanity gives rise to your capacity for evil.

God created the capacity for evil when he gave us the ability to make a choice.

Yeah, I have this capacity for evil and it stalks me.

It examines the human heart's capacity for evil.

It is not just in their capacity for evil, but also in their openness to grace, that my creations have taught me about myself.

The bible, a human creation, attempts to explain our capacity for evil that goes all the way back to the beginning of existence where we want what we can't have (the forbidden fruit) and jealousy (Cain and Abel)... which are the same thing.

None of the other creatures on our planet have the capacity for evil that mankind have.

the fact is we all equally have the capacity for evil as well as good.

If any of us cease to be sensitive to our own capacities for evil, we can become dangerous to others.

Not exact matches

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

Human capacity for good and evil, and the need to make moral discernments and decisions.

But will not the human being's unlimited capacity for perverting potential good into active evil introduce into the arcologies all the problems that we face today?

While we do not claim that human beings are enslaved by sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.

Had God not lured the world on to the creation of beings with the capacity for conscious, rational self - determination, the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet would not occur.

From this power comes man's capacity for goodness which, with the alternative possibility of evil, places on us a great responsibility.

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

But to understand, at least in part, is to be strengthened in the knowledge of our own capacity for both good and evil» and of our radical dependence on the One who, despite His understanding all, forgives the penitent.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

One of the essential elements in human nature, according to them, is free will and the capacity for choosing either good or evil.

So in the course of history every growth in spiritual freedom and responsibility is not a growth from bad to good but from a lower capacity for good and evil to a higher capacity for them.

The human agent became for him a one - sided coin; he could be allowed autonomy only in his capacity to choose evil.

69 The biblical interpretation of human history rejects the pathetic (the pain caused by unthinking natural evil) and the tragic (a conscious choice of evil for the sake of good) for the ironic (evil resulting from man's wrong use of his unique capacities).

Any consideration of evil must start with «a self - examination of our own capacity for the wilful undoing of ourselves and others» (p. 34).

At the human level power is understood to be the capacity to actualize the potentialities for good and evil of an individual or a group.

Niebuhr saw the self participating in the double environment of nature and spirit with its correlatives of greatness and weakness.3 In this situation the whole self exhibits capacities for both good and evil.

However, abortion is NOT evil, because what you call a «baby» is actually a zygote, embryo or fetus that has not yet developed a brain so therefore has no capacity for thought or consciousness, and therefore is not yet a person.

An alternative understanding that is more faithful to the biblical witness overall is that this is one poignant instance of God's capacity to turn what humans intend for evil into something empowering.

Christians have also believed that the resurrection of Jesus points to God's capacity to overcome evil, at least in the long run for those who trust God.

In this case the baby was thrown out with the bath water because it did not have capacity for redemption and evil was increasing generationally.

But again with equal obviousness, God's capacity to transmute and transform what is most certainly evil into an opportunity for good can not be denied by any Christian who has contemplated what we say God did with Calvary.

The autism researcher explains why labelling people «evil» is unhelpful — and argues for a more objective measure of people's capacity for cruelty

Like the superb Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Metroid Prime starts you off in the thick of it and then gradually builds back up into action, both games allowing a great sense of a capacity for exploration, something generally lacking from Resident Evil 4's more cheap and gory thrills.

Not since James Cameron's underrated 1989 gem The Abyss has a failed marriage become a microcosm of psychological terror in which each character's capacity for good and evil is tested.

It was inspired by Grimm fairy tales, and the notion that everyone has the capacity for both good and evil.

Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, is compelling literary crime fiction that explores the capacity for good and evil in us all.

And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before.

The Evil Within 2 is developed by Tango Gameworks that was founded in 2010 by Shinji Mikami who is known for bringing the terrifying atmosphere to the survival horror genre in the form of directing and producing Resident Evil in 1996 followed by retaining those creative roles in 1999 for Dino Crisis in addition to being involved in numerous other Resident Evil and Dino Crisis games in such capacities as producer, executive producer, designer, advisor and supervisor, while also directing the original remake of Resident Evil in 2002 and Resident Evil 4 in 2005.