Sentences with phrase «fact of human nature»

The Competition Bureau / Melanie Aitken / Realtysellers et al also know this sad fact of human nature, and routinely use it against you all, from the top down.

So capitalize on this natural fact of human nature.

It is a fact of human nature (and sociology) that a peer - reviewed research program will continue to support whatever its reviewers are doing themselves, however unsuccessful or irrelevant to the important problems it may be.

Because recency bias is a fact of human nature, our default reaction is to over-respond to new information.

It is just a fact of human nature that the more we stare at a price chart the more we get tempted to click our mouse button and enter a trade.

It's just a simple fact of human nature that we are more inclined to do the things that interest and excite us rather than the things we are forced or obligated to do.

Indeed the internet is a mechanization of this fact of human nature.

Our modern separation of secular values from religious values is therefore utterly foreign to the ontological facts of human nature and is «un-Lawful» or «a negation of the Law».

The results, slow or sudden, or great or small, of the combined optimism and expectancy, the regenerative phenomena which ensue on the abandonment of effort, remain firm facts of human nature, no matter whether we adopt a theistic, a pantheistic - idealistic, or a medical - materialistic view of their ultimate causal explanation.

Not exact matches

Monday's gymnastics apparatus finals revealed that Simone Biles is, in fact, human, Laurie Hernandez is a star - in - waiting, and the balance beam, gymnastics» answer to mother nature, can spoil any of the best laid plans.

In fact, it doesn't just stop with the people in charge; I believe it's a part of human nature that we have to actively seek to overcome.

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

The latter is a subtle, supremist dogmatic domineering movement dressed in religious garb while the amazing former is the recognition and practice of Spirit, Love, heavenliness, harmony, Principle, human rights and the positive healing reform of finite human nature and its suffering experience by establishing the fact that «now are we the sons of God.»

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

The hippy movement lasted for a season, and I think your concept of community will implode due to the fact that human nature is to have a sense of functional structure.

In fact, it goes against much of human nature, and women's self - protective inclinations used to be supported by the people and institutions around her.

In fact any form of «dualism» with regard to the constitution of human nature has frequently been sneered at as philosophically dated and theologically distasteful.

However as my exposure to your writing increased I started to think that what you were describing as «Church» related problems were in fact fundamental characteristics of human nature.

We shall probably never be very good in praying, but that is simply a fact of our feeble, sinful, finite human nature.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

The facts of human perversity are only too plain, and it is by no means clear that by any processes within our control or within reasonable forecast human nature may be fundamentally improved.

While economics as a descriptive study is not concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in human nature.

In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

The facts of culture beautifully exemplify the compresence of body, mind, and spirit in human nature.

When talking about the identity of Jesus as God (before sin and the Cross) it is important to have a much bigger emphasis on the fact of the true human nature of Christ.

I have often thought, particularly when working in the diocesan marriage tribunal, that our acknowledgement of the fact of Original Sin gives us such a head start when it comes to understanding human nature, and why people act the way they do.

While the Resurrection was a fact, attested to by those who experienced it in so far as it could be described in human language, it is not possible to say precisely what the nature of these experiences were.

Yet Lloyd - Morgan is not alone in his estimate of the importance of Jesus for the philosopher who would take account of all the facts in nature, history, and human experience.

But there is an inherent danger in this approach which derives from the fact that human nature makes it difficult for a group of people to share money and meals and chores and living space equitably and harmoniously, particularly if they try to do this in a democratic way.

It is certainly true, as he points out, that any strong separation of the human and the natural is false to the facts, as nature comes mixed with human interaction, and humans are inextricably biological in any case.

In fact, according to the Bible, the reason that God accepts human nature is because we are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices.

For Whiteheadians, more than for most others in the ecological movement, the fact that human subjective experience is fully natural, points to the pervasiveness of subjective experience in nature.

Then those that are left (surviving genocides and «nature») will get a clue and realize that only God has the ability to create the complexities of the human eye, circulatory system, the fact we have (had) the needed water and atmosphere was not a random perfection that just occurred... will change their minds and ask for forgiveness that was already granted them through Jesus, if they chose to accept it.

When the believer confesses his faith in God and affirms that he belongs to God, he affirms that this mysterious God is also the one who gives final significance to nature and to history, the one who gives meaning to the human search for meanings, the one who is the explanation of the fact that there are explanations.

He who thinks that the world, without any such unity of significance as constitutes an experience, would still have been or might be a real world, and who deduces this from the fact — which spiritualism accepts — that the world without a particular human personality, Mr. X is perfectly possible, must also be one who thinks that if from «himself» those qualities which make him Mr. X were to be subtracted, nothing of the nature of mind would remain — in short, he is one who does not believe that other minds are members of himself.

As they uncover the facts of the crime and explore the dark mysteries of human nature, Tom and Kathryn feel a growing mutual respect, accompanied by the powerful stirrings of love.

Because a phrase like «totalitarian evangelicalism» has a frightening ring to it, I will distinguish it from those «goods» and «partial goods» — which have some justification in the facts of life and human nature — by explaining what I do not mean by it.

For an interesting insight into human nature, talk to some of those members of our society who, in fact, are constantly lied to, to the point where they have come to expect falsehood.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy, despite the fact that the nature of the intrauterine life has been the subject of considerable dispute in the past.

It is not the ignorance of not knowing enough facts, but the ignorance of being unaware of or insensitive to human nature.

He can not enjoy the luxury of speculative detachment from the issues that fact the human community, since the very nature of what he investigates is conditioned by his investigations

We have observed that all human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself.

It will be shown that all three branches of knowledge have to do with all three of the traditional aspects of human nature, and that every discipline in fact studies man as a whole, comprising body, mind, and spirit.

Those efforts may, in fact, do harm to our understanding of the meaning of life and human nature.

Niebuhr said that if «biblical thought seems to neglect the creative aspect of the extension of human powers in its prophecies of doom upon proud nations, this is due only to the fact that it is more certain than is Greek thought that, whatever the creative nature of human achievements, there is always a destructive element in human power.»

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Yet it stands head and shoulders above its nearest rival; its separateness inheres, not in theories of its origin and nature, but in the solid facts of its worth and of its impact upon human society in the way both of rebuke to the low and bestial and of exaltation of an impossible ideal, toward which, nonetheless, it has attracted and impelled.

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

The fact and effects of fallen human nature were then passed to subsequent generations by natural propagation.

in Our Knowledge of God [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939], p. 23, writes: «The doctrine of the imago dei has its basis in the fact that our existent human nature presents itself to us, not as a simply bad thing, but as a good thing spoiled.»