Sentences with phrase «for human failure»

Preoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure — from the individual and family right up to the national level.

Talk about provision for human failure, and I see Jesus stumbling up a wilderness trail with a cross on his back.

While I view table fellowship with God as the constant over the whole range, atoning for human failure is at least a part of what God provides for in sacrifice.

Not exact matches

The entrepreneur develops a business plan, acquires the human and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its success or failure.»

The human tendency to hope for the best and try to avoid failure at all costs gets in the way, and organizational hierarchies exacerbate it.

Manufacturing stoppages, delays, and disruptions — whether they're caused by equipment failure, human error, or a combination of the two — are a billion - dollar headache for manufacturers.

While Syria is equipped with a relatively sophisticated air defense system, a lack of training, command and control and other human factors are probably responsible for the failure of the system during the attack.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

Would that point to a mode of thinking which does not (for example) take feminist notions and human fatherly failures (or seeming successes) and press them back into the doctrine of God?

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

That is to say, irony can certainly recognize that the incongruities that throng human experience typically frustrate the quest for truth; but, having seen as much, irony is then impotent to do anything more than unveil failure and vanquish pretense.

Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) come to an end, or when human resources fall — in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in human failure — always, that is to say, exploiting human weakness or human boundaries.11

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

At the very least, the failure to generate more beings able to sustain values at the human level does not speak well for its beneficence or significance.

For it holds that all the evils of the human condition are, in the final analysis, traceable to the drastic human failure to acknowledge and experience the reality of his presence.

In order to settle this issue, our Creator, Jehovah God, has allowed mankind to be ruled by Satan (though most are unaware of it, 1 John 5:19) for over 6000 years of human history to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Satan's way of ruling is a miserable failure and while at the same time to see who will firmly support Jehovah God's rulership.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

And they even accentuate the failure of human community for those who do not «fit» the economic, educational, racial or sexual mold that the churches still project.

At best it has been regarded as a reluctant concession to human sin and frailty, a painful reminder of our failure to fulfill the exalted standards which God holds for marriage.

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

This is «redemption», not as if it were merely a rescue from human failure but as an indication of and an empowering for the «wholeness of life» (shalom, as the Hebrew has it) which God purposes for men and women both in their personal existence and in their social belonging.

Over the course of cultural evolution, due to an impotence at the heart of the will and to recurrent failures in ever - renewed struggles for ascendency, human will to power lost its good cheer and creatively turned against itself.

But for its members it will fulfill the demands of being human: giving a sense of ultimate meaning, offering release from personal failure, creating a noble identity of integrity, fostering the richness of a caring community, and upholding a standard of perfection which will both judge and inspire.

Christianity would be a sorry failure today if it kept itself aloof from the search for constructive solutions of human problems.

«20 God could not become a man without thereby abandoning his divinity (as in Altizer's Sabellianism), but he becomes fully human in intimately incorporating into his own being peculiarly human experiences and sensitivities, thus accepting an inexhaustible concern for human purposes, achievements, and failures.

If CCM is nothing more than a marketing tool for Christianity, then it will never allow for the full cultural expressions of human failure that true artistry demands.

For instance, Phillip Berryman writes in Commonweal, the liberal Catholic journal, about the human costs of the U.S. action, and why it may turn out to be a failure in the long term.

Again, in men's acts of worship, there is place for acknowledgment of human failure, for sin, for violation of the taboos which it is thought that the god has imposed.

Indeed, one of the failures in much contemporary explanation of human life — as, for example, by some of our modern secular sociologists — is precisely at this point.

These readings all picture human failures which make it impossible for the law to satisfy the demands we make of it.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

First, as all who have prayed seriously will agree, the cosmic Lover is enabled to use the human agent, despite that agent's failures and defects, for the good that he would establish.

The Inquisitor eventually comes to visit him in his cell, mocks him, berates him, denounces him for his failure and the failure of the ideas of love [167] and servanthood and the exaltation of human freedom that he brought.

Of course, for Biblical authors also human sexuality is one of the areas of life that should be in the service of God, and, to be sure, our failure to respond to this call is sinful.

It makes human beings with the deepest personal identity responsible for their actions, successes and failures, without denying the urgency of the struggle for social, economic, and political pre-requisites of righteousness, equality, and brotherhood.

The possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that self - fulfillment — all of this, of course, in relationship with others and not in any presumed human isolation of self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God in His consequent nature for the furthering of His purpose of good in the course of the process of creative advance.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

A weak moral structure will lead to individuals who act for themselves or with disregard to the needs of the society, resulting in internal conflict and the likely failure of the society if the members aren't capable of completely independent survival (and humans aren't).

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

These movements were criticized in the further development of theology for their naive identification of Christianity with a social programme and their failure to recognize the limits set by sin to any human accomplishment.

This lack of regard for the specific praxis that Jesus deliberately espouses, which may be said to lie in the consciousness that he embodied the dynamics of kingdom, stemmed from Banerjea's and Upadhyaya's failure to project the historical Jesus as the paradigm of human living.

Now I come close to the theme of this article: one writer, and I have found no other, in the early Middle Ages attacked classical theism head - on precisely on its two most vulnerable points — its affirmation of, or failure definitely to reject, unqualified theological determinism, and its commitment to endless posthumous careers for human persons, making them in that respect rivals to God.

With all its failures, Christianity provides a more realistic and hopeful basis for approaching the real issues of intercultural life today than does the Enlightenment way of affirming human dignity.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self - deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a matter of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind - cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

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if someone does nt respect or rather insults horribly a man who has worked 20 years for the same brand with full dedication, he is just a failure as a human being in my eyes!

There is a human element that can not be interpreted by a computer and there can be unintended consequences for a deliberate plan of short - term failure.