Sentences with phrase «certain human wisdom»

She now believes: «We're all made in the image of God, and within that image — whether we're Christians or not — there is a certain human wisdom.»

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Credit it to wisdom, age or laziness — or a dash of all three: my old compulsion to be certain has yielded to an unembarrassed modesty about many details of human life.

And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

But in view of the oft - emphasized aphorism that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, it is certain that the author thinks of religious faith and conduct as holding also an honored, if not primary, place among such human treasure.

Be quite certain, therefore, that when you truly encounter another human being and look with the eyes of wisdom and love you are not only seeing them in truth, you are truly seeing and meeting God in them.

For reasons Maritain articulates at some length, a certain kind of democracy, guarded against the diseases to which «pure» democracies are prey, best represents the full flowering of human practical wisdom about the sorts of institutions worthy of Jewish and Christian thought.

And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said «All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them» But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone