Sentences with phrase «distorted by sin»

On the one hand, Thomas Aquinas could not accept the view that the great achievements of Greek rationality should simply be ignored by Christians or assumed to be fundamentally distorted by sin.

Secularism, hedonism, relativism, materialism — these giants of our time are the fruit of minds darkened and distorted by sin.

Though the image of God in us is distorted by sin, it has not been erased by sin.

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He began his pontificate by bringing all of us back to the Book of Genesis, to «the beginning», because he realized that millennia of sin and stereotype have only distorted the truest meaning of man and woman.

To point to another's supposed sin, is a sin of ignorance, blind by distorted perception, that is other than the clear Self looking at the subject through unconditional love, what «one» should perceive this way is the suffering and / or needed help.

They are contrary only to a human nature deeply distorted by the lesion of sin.

There can be no sin without love, either love perverted, love distorted, or, and here we peer into a deeper depth, love destroyed by a revengeful unlove which turns against life itself.

«When faith in the Creator is replaced by faith in human ability to solve all problems by technological means, humanity has fallen into the sin of idolatry... distorted trust for our salvation in other sources of power.»

Nothing in human effort or will, nothing in our human loves, distorted as they are by sin, can be relied upon as indications of the love of God.

Man has responded by seeking God but, because of his sin, has reached distorted or completely false views.

Then he sins by distorting his testimony for a purely political agenda.»